Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1897, Page 26

During this week the opera has attracted pables and the lovers of music, two of the theaters have done good ss beeause they presented plays that attractiv: Mr. Herne’s o the Shore Acres,” ts the best American play Gelighted large audiences, and the vas the Columbia, where Mr. Roland i his company furnished clean and wholesome fun, though of the farcical order, to people who filled the theater at every mance. ek two new to the city will be presented— erland ‘61" at the Lafayette, and “What Happened to Jones” at the National. The Columbia will z Present a new attraction in the representa- tion of the “Passion Play,” through the medium of the cinematograph, accompa- nied with a descriptive lecture by Prof. ey. This is the seeond city visited by this Phil inter liters repre Jelphi: st entation, the first having been . where it created the greatest sot only among students of biblical re and the religious community but with the public at large. generally, During the run of Cumberland, ‘61, at the Fourteenth Street Theater, New York, there was an ir cident not down on the pro- &ram. In the scene of the burning of the bridge and forest Edgar L. Davenport and Charles Craig have a hand-to-hand fight en the bridge. During the fight Mr. Daven- pert tries to throw the old Kentucky moun- taineer off the bridge and into the ravine below. but does not succeed. Davenport gave Craig a harder fight than usuai, aad actually threw him off the bridge and into the ravine. The spectators cheered, but Mr. Craig was not so enthusiastic. He re- celved a bad shaking up and numerous | bruises on his arms and legs. If man were “Judged by his works. Geo. H. Broadhurst would be a round and jovial individual, wreathed in perpetual smiles and to firing off witticisms y of a Gatling gun. But in given with the rapi point of fact, the real Broadhurst, the au- thor of happenings to “Jones” and the do- ings of “Mr. Wright,” is a rather solemn, | “ led individual, Intensely sensitive shy as a rural bric In point of fact, no public char- t of more frequent than a dramatic author. Hav- the product of his pen, the 1 with curiosity as to what ing individual the author | Some look upon an author with | atee of contempt, and others | with admiration, but they all agree in be- | ving him to be something different from | "4 rality of people; and it is remark- greedine they attend to jotes which they can pick | a real up concerning his life and conversation. He is, indeed, a kind of ideal being, of which people conceive very different nc ne he is supposed never “to garret,” as in the good o black coat. soiled | and essaric to be in per- - as well as niences in life, while others re- a creature superior to the r oi mortals and endowed with something more than re surprised to pear on. One party, therefore, is - him walk abroad and ap- i as other people; and appointed when it finds him and fill the “office of life” no other individual in this authors are aré aspect, at all like © might <uppese from their works. funereal, Du Souchet sphinx-like roudhurst coy and backward. we another is talk and a r than OPERA—The closing perform- ance of grand opera season at the La- syette Square Opera House iast night at- tracted the largest and most brilliant audf- ence of the week and in spots the interpre- tation of Gounod’s “Faust” was in keeping with the audience. “Faust” is wonderfully popular, for Goethe's charming story fs set to exquisite melody, which never palls upoa the ear. It affords opportunity for great lyric as well as dramatic ability, and calls for at least five artists of the first rank. One om hears that number in the cast of “Faust.” and last night only brought out three-fifths of the actual requirement, but those three were great in their respective GRAND the First, of course, was Melba, whose per- fect voice is eminently fitted for the bril- ut music of Marguerite’s role. Techni- is perfect in its tone, its purity, its nd its power. It is the most 3 piece of mechanism ever put in throat. There is no vocal em- s of which it is not | its volume soars clear and | chorus and orchestra in the | ges. Mme. a sympathetic dazzies and ers the lis nical ner bj fon, y any subtle | 1 magnetism. kind has been said in speaking of M been put so plainly, S$ well as her great ex- specially brought to mind consideration of last night's but | feelings athy or persor 1g Of thi before perform ace in * There never was t perfect Margue- i und that wai ne Nilsson. It seems that she w Uy created to give te lovers of highest interpre= of two parts pai jarly—Marguer- ad Mignon. True, she was great in in those two she great- who ever saw her Marguerite, rfection of vocalization, and its wer, will ever be satisfied with in perfec md this deficiency is, dim her acting. Only nal trio did she approach the exhi- fecling, and this number ex- atest enthusiasm of the even- &pplause tt The second trio of great artists heard | sht was Campanari, who sang Valenti This gentleman 1s satisfactory baritone now upon th ratic stage. There are those hb but none with an organ ¢ sre virile tone or one evider Itivation. His aria in the sec given with such artis- tie fin h magnetic effect that It the first spontaneous applause of the c, and he declined to take the encore asked for. His dramatic power eat, and his death scene in the givq with tragic force with- ng at all theatric. He and Krauss y the most popular members of mrosch-Ellis troupe. sque, the Mephistopheles, was a but he found favor from the 1 proved himself an artist. His is rich and flexible, cantante rather ofendo, and he acted the part in ex- nt style. Ibes, who made his debut in city @ tenor, was not an ideal .” considered either from the music- he dramatic point of view. His de- ery is uneven, and its upper register is weak, Judging from his habit of gliding in- to falsetto. His “Salve Dimora,” the piece de resistance of a lyric tenor, was given in &n unsatisfactory manner, but he had the Giscretion not to attempt the high C. Al- though Toronta was advertised as Seibel, third act out b were € the I Bo | ero: | ness it a new significance of the p: A 5 the part was sung by Matfeldt, who did the best h it in her power, which was not much. Viviani made an acceptable Wag- ner, and the chorus was good in some places and uncertain in others. The Ker- mess scene was never better done, but the great soldiers’ chorus was allowed to go by with hardly a hand because of the lack of precision with which it was sung. The crehestra was under the direction of Mr. Damrosch. LAFAYETTE SQUARE OPERA HOUSE. —Adreit stage management is involved in one episode of “Cumberland '61,” which will be presented at Lafayette Square Opera House for one week, commencing next Monday. The problem of presenting a sen- sational fire scene without subordinating emotional dramatic interest to the realism has been solved successfully by Mr. Pitou's handling of it. This episode starts with a picture by Homer Emmens that on dis- closure is applauded nightly. The view is along the windings of the gorge. In front and raised well above the stage is the bridge, with a roadway leading to the woods at left and right. Beyond are scat- tered and uneven tops of trees that root in the bottom of the chasm, and in perspec- tive are distant and more thickly wooded sides. The gray of moonlight softens all but the bridge and its approaches and makes indistinct for a moment the face of the old mountaineer, who, rifle in hand, awaits his enemy. On the hero's approach the rifle is leveled, but shooting an un- armed man is not, after all, to the moun- taineer’s notion, and he casts aside his weapon. The two men grapple. In their parley the glow of the fire is seen in the chasm beyond, and while they wrestle it increases and approaches until its smoke and glow envelopes them. At the moment that the younger man fells his opponent and reaches the other end of the bridge the heroine—the sweetheart of the one and the daughter of the other—begs that the old man be saved. So, amid an excellent coun- terfeit of consuming flames, the hero drags his antagonist off the doomed structure. Then the curtain falls and successive lift- ings of it disclose the structure in pro- gressive stages of consumption. NEW NATIONAL THEATER.—There is no name upon which more indignity has been heaped, nor any name that has been responsible for more that is bright, clever startling, and than the dulecet name of enough to hold all the in Washington, in which Theater will be taxed to its utmost with those who will learn “What Har d to Jone Mr. Broadhurst has constructed a farce which has run fer three months in New York. Farces such as “What Happened to Jones” rely largely upon the people there are in them. They must not only be good players, they must be farce players. This farce ha: | players who fulfill all requirements ad- mirat They are Geo. C. Boniface, jr., George Ober, Wm. Bernard, Reuben Fax, SW Ci pe, Cecil Kingston, Harry Rose, Anna Belmont, Kathryn Osterman, Mattie Ferguson, Florence Robinson, Mrs. E. A. and Rose Stuart. The particular represented in this farce seems to sess the Yankee versatility of being a drummer for playing cards, impersonating a bishop, and then exhibiting those touches of emction that are the zest of every far for the truest fun is, in fact, that whi dews every laugh with a tear. life's charm. po a Contrast is COLUMBIA THEATER.—The presenta tion of “Che Passion Play” for a brief sea- son at the Columbia Theater, beginning Monday evening next, !s awaited with the deepest interest, not only by the general | public, but by clergymen and others inter- ested in the teaching of Bible history and the promotion of religious education gen- erally. The impression somehow got proad that this most sacred of subjects Was to be presented in dramatic form in Washington by living persons, and as a result Mr. Metzerott has had hundreds of inquiries under this head during the past week. This story of “the world's sublimest tragedy” will not, it is needless to say, be presented by living persons, but it will be given by means of Lumiere’s enlarged and perfected cinematograph, or “moving pic- tures—the very next thing, perhaps, to witnessing the “Passion Play” enacted by the simple, devout peasants of Horitz, in the beautiful Bohemian forests. The ‘ab- sence of flesh and blood will only make the conception more spiritual, and it will certainly relieve it from any ‘toucn of ir- reverence. And still the play will be there, exactly as presented at Horitz, called “the Austrian Ober-Ammergau,” silently pass- ing before the audience, ‘and showing in minute detail, with every figure and ges- ture and muscular moveinent perfect, “the baptism of Chri: Christ blessing the children,” the “resurrection of Laz- is," “Christ's entry into Jerusalem,” “the Last Supper,” “Christ washing His dis as receiving the thirty feet,” | “Ju ‘hrist in the Garden of before Caiaphas,” “Peter “Christ before Pilate,” Herod,” “scourging and * “the way of the " and so on to the surrection, in many of these pictures from 100 to 400 figures are seen moving, cially in that showing “the way of the which will give to those who wit- fon of Christians. Over 80,000 of these pic- were necessary to make the perfect and they were only secured after ary waiting of years. Prof. Ernest , Well known to literary men, and a ripe scholar and educator, will come from Philadelphia to deliver a’ descriptive lec- ture, which is said to be a beautiful piece of word painting. A large pipe organ is being erected on the stage of the Colum- bia for the incidental music that will be played during the progress of the play. Afternoon presentations will be given Thur: and Saturday. The prices have been fixed as follows: Evenings, $1, 75 cents, 50 cents and 2 cents; afternoons, > cents and 50 cents. A distinguished gathering of Washingtonians, including many clergymen, will witness the first pre- sentation Monday evening. denying Christ, “Christ before he crucifixion, the ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—The Academy announces for its attraction the coming week the Rays in “A Hot Old Time.” The author of the comedy is Edgar Selden, who wrote MecKenna’s Flirtations, in which Barry and Fay starred for seven seasons, aiso had a run of over 300 nights in New York city. Mr. Selden’s treatment of his latest comedy, which is called his best, is exhilarating and humorous, yet refined. The ction is amazingly rapid and complications follow each other in such quick succession to cause continuous laughter. The sit- ions are massed together so as to en- hance the interest, and around them all is an atmosphere of fun that is contagious and decidedly comic. Each situation is so excellently contrived that the merriment is continuous. The Rays—Johnny and Emma —have parts that afford them ample scope for their peculiar gifts of character por- trayal which have given them their repu- ion. Nothing funnier in their line of rk has been seen. Johnny Ray as Larry Mooney, Mrs. Emnta Ray as Mrs. Gen. Stonewall Blazer, John C. Leach as Gen. Blazer, Bernard Dyllyn as Alkali Ike, Mar- shall and Nelson as the general's daugh- ters, in a cast of rare individual and col- lective strength, are leading players. The other parts are in capable hands. The comedy will be handsomely staged with new scenery, costumes and electrical and mechanical effects. GRAND OPERA HOUSE.—There is no stronger farce comedy on the road than “McCarthy's Mishaps,” rewritten and up to date in every particular, which will be teen at the Grand Opera House Christmas week, with Barney Ferguson and Sam. J. : en THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1897-26 PAGES, DON . Ryan in the stellar roles, with the best supporting company that has ever appeared in the piece. As a vehicle for the introduc- tion of a high class vaudeville performance, and the display of fascinating and grace- ful women, “McCarthy's Mishaps” takes a place in the front rank of farce comedies. Barney Ferguscn and Sam. J. Ryan, the comedians, whose reputation is so well known, whose antics of true comedy acting and witty sayings, evoke shrieks of laugh- ter; Chas. Eastwood, in songs and bur- lesque dances; Murphy and Mack, the ec- centric duo, in‘Skeezies on the fence;’ Lew Spencer, the famous negro dialect comedian and monologue artist, in melodies and dances; Harry Norman, baritone; Car- lisle sister; Cammilla Martin, the ‘sweet- yoiced soprano; Jas. W. Reagan, tenor; Steve Ferguson and others. Miss Cammilla Martin is one of the most winsome and at- tractive of vocalists, and has a repertoire of new ballads. The tenor singing of Mr. Jas. W. Reagan is said to excel any vocal- ist, mot only in vaudeville, but in light opera, today. KERNAN’S LYCEUM THEATER.—Sam Devere’s Own Company, one of the most Popular vaudeville organizations on the road, comes to the Lyceum Theater next week. The list of entertainers, which in- cludes a number of stars of the vaudeville world, is headed by Sam Devere, the or- iginal “Whistling Coon,” who always has something new, and the latest sensation from Paris, the beautiful Mildred Howard De Grey, in her famous “barefoot passion dance.” Other attractions are the Gles- sando3, grotesque musical clowns, from the Empire ‘Theater, London; Prof. Parker and his troupe of educated dogs, who have just finished a seven years’ engagement in Eu- rope; Johnscn and Dean, a “warm” pair of colored entertainers; Walter J. Talbot, the California tenor; Pearl Haight, known as the American Anna Held; Leonard and Bernard, a sketch team; Byron and Lang- don, a pair of up-to-date funmakers; Rice Brothers, in an original comic bar perform- ance; Catheryn Rowe Palmer, the best of all contortion dancers; and an original farce written by Sam Devere, entitled “Peep- o'-Day Club,” which is supposed to be the name of one of the extremely numerous social organizations of New York city. Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Xmas day. FANNY DAVENPORT.—Fanny Daven- pert will certainly be warmly welcomed 2t the National Theater, where she appears curing the week of Monday, December 27 in Sardou’s greatest efforts, “La Tosca ‘edora” and “Cleopatra.” ‘Her ambition lways bh n Jofty, pr zeal is untir- ing, her energy amazing and her audacity and her generosity in the matter of mak- ing productions commend her to all wi have the best interests of the stage heart. Miss Davenport's productions stand ccmparison with those made by Sir Henry Irving, and she has clearly demonstrated in more than one instance that she has the taste, the capacity, the ability and the wealth to out-do Paris. More than this Miss Davenport is a stage manager of rar skill, end she has not hesitated to attack ere she thought it weak, has actually improved over the they left the of the great ult has been a pé t well nigh reaches perfection ort will b Dowell and of seats December beurne merit. Sale morning, “SECRET SERVICE."’—“Secret Service,” which will be presented at the Lafayette Square New Year week by a company in- cluding its author, William Gillette, in the leading role, comes backed by a record of unequaled triumph, not only in New York and Beston, but in London, where every one who reads the dramatic news must krow it created a pcsitive sensation among all classes, from the Prince of Wales down. But Manager Charles Frohman fs too f millar with the independent and intensely American public of Washington to count on this fact alone to bring success to the play in this city. The play tells a story of Eravery and love and sacrifices. The story is based upon the intricate maneuvers and dering schemes of the men in the nerthern secret service. The love interest is centered about the romance of one of these men, with the daughter of a confei- erate general, and the climax of the play is said to be one of the strongest realiz: tions of the dilemma “twixt love and duty’ that has ever been, presented in fiction or drama. ‘“HUMANITY.”—At the Academy New Year week the great dramatic success, “Humanity,” with its elaborate scenic sur- roundings and thoroughbred horses and fox hounds, will be presented for the first time this season here. he play is one of great interest and strength, the comedy being particularly well developed, and the climaxes are most thrillingly worked out. The cast is exceptionally strong, being the same that appeared during the original production in Boston last season, where it ran for four weeks to crowded houses. It is sure to meet with large audiences dur- ing its engagement in this city. MISS VOCKEY'S RECITAL—The dra- matic and musical recital to be given by Miss Ellen Vockey at the National Rifles’ Hall next Tuesday evening will be an en- jJoyable affair. Miss Vockey is known as an elocutionist of decided ability, and she has lately returned from a successful pro- fessional tour abroad. Among the reci- tations she will give will be one which was especially written for her, “The Choice of Arms,” in which she will appear in fencing costume. Her work in this piece was high- ly c®nplimented by the London press when she recited it at the Queen's Hall. The musical portion will include the Tuxedo Mandolin Club, Prof. W. Huber, pianist; Master Hunt, Violinist; “Misses ' McDade, Fannie Washington and Katherine Wilson, vocalists. The proceeds will be devoted to the poor of the District, and on this ac- count also the attendance should be large. PRINCETON GLEE CLUB.—The con- cert to be given at National Rifles’ armory Thursday evening, December 23, by the Princeton University Glee, Banjo and Man- dolin Clubs promises to be one uf the mu- sical events of the season. The Princeton clubs have always enjoyed a high Teputa- tion for musical excellence, and the clubs this year are reported to be superior to any that have represented Princeton on the concert stage for years. James H. Caldwell of Titusville, Pa., leads the Man- dolin Club, which consists of seventeen in- struments. He has played in the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs ever since he has been in college, and has turned out a club this year which bids fair to surpass the fine recerd established by previous Mandolin Clubs. Among the best selections rendered by the club this year are a pot-pourri from the pepular opera, “The Geisha,” and the sextet from ucts di Lammermoor.” The Banjo Club, cOnsisting cf sixteen men, is one of the best that has ever represented the college. It is led by Clinton G. Wells of Galveston, Texas, who was elected to the position last spring, after playing in the club since his freshman year, A med- ley of the popular negro airs of the day and Rosey’s “Scorcher” are the favorite numbers played by the club. The business manager of the organization is Paul D. Stockly of Lakewood, N. J. Mr. Stockley also managed the freshman musical clubs in his freshman year. The assistant man- ager is Burrows Sloan of Philadelphia, a member of the junior class. rs MR. HAY’S LECTURE.—Mr. Edwin B. Hay will hold the boards at the Lafayette Square Opera House tonight with his lec- ture on “Switzerland and the Alps.” The lecture is to be given for the benefit of the new temple fund of the Knights Templar and under the auspices of Columbia Com- mandery, No. +2, thi lafter fact insuring at once an excelleice rattendanct. Mr. Hay is an entertain#ig talker, and will no doubt give many re® and interesiing ideas about this wonderfu®sceftery. The lecture is to be handsomely ‘illustrated witha fine series of stereoptican views. Prof. Leo Wheat, the well-ktown: pianist of ihts city, will give a piamo recital as a sort of introductory to the:dectire. = DR. STAFFORD ON: CITIZENSHIP.— Rey. D. J. StaffordD.D., the. best-known orator and lecturer i this vicinity, will de- liver ‘a lecture on the se@bject “The Prin- ciple of American Gitize#ship” at the Co- lumbia Theater tonterrow night. The lec- ture is given under the auspices and for the benefit of John B, Reynolds Post, No. 6, Grand Army of fhe Republic, and will attract general attention on account of Dr. Stafford’s well-Kmown ability as a lec- turer, the apprepriatencss of his subject at this time, and the fact that it is given for the benefit of a G. A. R. organization. This field in the lecture world is not new to Dr. Stafford, although he has confined a great deal of nis time to dealing with Shakespearean subjects, and his admirers will find much in his lecture to meet with the sinvere’praise that he always obtains. THE LYNDSAY COURSE.—The Lyndsay course of popular entertainments begins rext Monday evening, when the celebrated author, F. Marion Crawford, will deliver his new lecture, entitled ‘Leo XIII in the Vatican.” Mr. Crawford is so well known that he hardly needs an introduction. His works have made for him hosts of friends everywhere, and those in Washington who know him as a novelist will now have the opportunity to meet one who has enter- tained them by his pen. As a writer Mr, Crawford has a style that is interestin always original and with the ability to portray character in a vivid manner and in a ‘way that rivets the attention. of the reader, he stands today probably the fore- most American novelist. Central’ Hall, where the Lyndsay course is to be given, is situated over the 9th street wing of the Center market, with cars to the door, and it has been arranged in a most comfortable way for the patrons of this course. The sale of tickets for Mn Crawford's lecture opened yesterday with the indications that a large audience will greet the lecturer. Seats may be had at E. F. Droop & Sons’, 925 Pennsylvania avenue. ARRIED WOMAN'S ACT. Should Be Made Changes That to Secure Rights Both Ways. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The laws in force in the District of Co- lumbia are made up from nine separate and distinct sources. The need of revision has been frequently pointed out by The Star,.and no further argument is needed on that point. In some of the most vital con- cerns of daily life our laws are a hundred years or more behind the times. The common law estates of dower and curtesy have been abolished or modified in a majority of the states of the Union; but they still exist in the District of Columbia, briefly stated, dower being the life interest which a wife has in one-third of her hu band’s real estate, and curtesy the Ife in- terest which a husband has in his wife's al property under certain conditions. The “married woman's acts” of 1869 and 1896 purport to give a wife complete control of her property; but no one will take the deed of a married woman without her husband’s signature, nor is she generally accepted i surety on a bond. The act of June 1, 1896, accomplished nothing: for married women in this respect. Tramsferk of real estate may be hampered in®this way until dower and curte: aboltéhed. Until 1596 a fatherzcould, by will, provide that his infant chil@ be taken away trom its mother and give@ to a stranger. That barbarous law, which permitted the most cruel wrong which eould be inflicted on a Tcother, was enacted im 16W0 during the reign of the * Monarch,” Charl Under the law of 1896 the mother has rights with the father :in the matte guardianship; but the prevailing opinion is that the mother showld be preferred, espe- cially in case of sma&. children. To remedy some of theidefects in our an- cient patchwork of law I submit the fol- lowing proposed bill, which explains itself: A bill to abolish estates of curtesy and dow- erin the District of Columbia; to provide for the custody of the persons of children un- cer fourteen years of age; to regulate the descent and distribution of the estates: of inte and for other pur; es cted by the Senat Representatives of the United America in © Section 1. dower are her State an may conve h her property, or any in= terest therein, without the consent of her husband, and in the same manner as if 3 were unmarried. See. 3. Any married man ma vise or bequeath his prop terest thercin, without the « wife, and in the same manner a unmarried. Se, 4. The mother is the natural and proper guardian of the persons of her chil- dren under fourteen years of age, and her rights as guardian shall be preferred to those of the father and all other persons whatsoever; unless the mother is shown by competent evidence in open court to be a habitual criminal, person of open ant notorious evil life and vicious character, or a person of unsound mind, or unless said mother has been divorced from the father cf the children because of adultry commit- ted by he: Sec. 5. When any person having title to any estate, real or personal, not otherwis limited by marriage contract, dies without disposing of the same by will, said real and personal property is succeeded to and must be distributed, subject to the payment of debts, in the following manner: ist. If the intestate leave a husband or wife and issue surviving, one-third of the real and personal, shall go to the ing husband or wife in fee simple. residue of the real and personal property shall go to the surviving child or children, or descendants of deceased chil- dren, the children taking equal shares, and the descendants of a child taking col- lectively the share which their parent would have taking if living. 2d. If the intestate leave no husband or wife surviving, the entire estate, real and personal, shall descend and be distributed to the children surviving and the issue of deceased children, the children taking equal shares per capita and the issue of deceased children taking per stirpe: 3d. If the intestate leave a husband or wife surviving and no issue, then ot of the real and personal property s! to the iving husband or wife in fee simple, and the residue of the estate shall «0 to the next of kin in the order provided for in the follo paragraphs of this act. 4th. If the intestate leave no husband or wife and no issue, then the entire estate shal! go to the father antl mother of the intestate In equal shares; but if the or mother be dead, all of the estate go to the surviving parent of the intestate. 5th. If there be no issue, no husband or wife surviving, no father and no mother, the entire estate of the Intestate shall go to his or her surviving brothers and sisters in equal shares pet:capita, and to the descendants of brothers) and sisters who are deud, said destendants taking per stirpes. 6th. If there be no Husband or wife living, and if none of the relatives above enum. erated be living, the entire estate of the in- testate shall go to the{surviving grand- Parents and the deseendants of deceased grandparents; grandfaremts, male and fe- male, taking equal shates, and said de- scendants taking perstirpes. 7th. If none of the felatives above named be iiving and there ts no husband or wife surviving, then the entire estate of the in- testate shall go to his og her nearest sur- viving lineal ancestors amd to the descend- ants of those deceased, »ancestors of the same degree, male ari female, taking equal shares, and said descendunts taking per stirpes. ~ 8th. Relatives of the haif-blooa shall in- herit in the same manner as those of the whole blood in the same degree. Sec. 6. The provisions of this act shall ap- ply only to the District of Columbia. Sec. 7. All acts and parts of acts incon- sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. In drafting this bill I have made use of some of the best features of the statutes of the mest progressive states of the Union. No preference is given to males in the vill. It is hoped that residents of the Dis- trict of Columbia will give their favorable consideration to this or some si: bill. THOMAS Ww. Gib, ‘Washington, D. C., December 14, 1897. Indictments -Reportedi ‘The grand jury hae reported indictments y convey, de- y, or any ij ent of his s if he were against the following: John E. Reeves, Wm. | Chase, alias Charles Talbert, Frank L. Tal- bert and John Lee, alias William Thomas, all for larceny; George Wood and Henry Ridgeley, both for rape. Choral Society First Congregational Church, Cor. 1oth and G Sts. Annual Rendition of Handel's Masterwork, TRE MESSIAR, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1897, 8 O'CLOCK P.M. Assisted by ICSSON BUSHNELL, ). PORTER LAW UNDER THE DIRECTION OF Mr. Josef Kaspar. RESERVED SEATS. 50c., T5e. and $1. Now on Sale at JNO. F. ELLIS & CO., 937 PA. AVE. de18-9t St. PAUL. } WILLIAMS, TUESDA’ ‘Trinity Parish Hall, Over 100 views. Orchestra. Adm, 25ec. postponed from Tuesda: ency of weather. 5 Schubert’ B.—This lecture was + 14th, because of inclem. ite BAZAAR—DEC. 16 TO AT 9th and F sts. nw. ‘THIS EVENING a splendid Musical Program— ie May Bacon, pianist Gertrude Burnes, list; Miss Athalia Yenglin, cornet soloist! Miss Grace Homen, accompanist. Lunckeons served today, m, to2 p.m... 15 ets. Dinner served, O p.m. cts. Exhibition of Spirit Phenomena and sale of Christmas Goods. Dancing this evening. Exhibi- tion of fancy dancing Monday evening b; iss: Virginia Luckett’s pupils. de15-6t The Lyndsay | cots | Course Sag MosPAx, Dec.20. Season tickets now . gelling at Droop’s. F. Marion Prices, $1, $2.50, $3.50. Crawford Take Met, Blectre clure, cars to Door. “Leo XIII == in the Single Nights — Prices, 99 Te., Re- Vatican. del4-6t* GRAND DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL COSTUME ITAL, FOR THE BE! IT OF THE POOR, AT THD NATIONAL RIFLE TUESDA DECEMB! BY ELL Ameri: Assisted by the Tuxedo Chas. Huber, Master Hunt, Miss Fannie Washington, Miss Lulu MeDade and Miss Katherine Heron, Tickets, $1.00, and 25 cts., for sale at Droop’s, Brentano's and Thompsou"s drug store. dels-dt* RELICS OF AULD LANG SY Notes Insucd as Money by C. and P. Canal Company. An interesting bit of past history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company is brought to light over the recent resurrec- tion of a number of bank notes issued by the corporation in its early life, by its own authority, which were circulated quite free- ly for a while and accepted as money, but which were subsequently repudiated by the corporation and became worthless. The not are now valuele and are kept only as relics of by-gone days. The notes first made their appearance in 1840. Some were made payable in Frederick, Md., and others in Washington. All issues were payable on demand, and bore interest, no rate being named, ‘but six per cent being usually un- derstood. All of the notes were signed by Francis Thomas, then president of the corporation, and Thomas Turner, clerk, and were print- ed on but one side, a blank space betng Jett in cach, in which the name of the own- er of th 3 written. The note cculd be the owner or by any bearer, and indorsements were not neces- sary on the back. The notes were issued in the denomniations of $10, $%, $1, fifty "en! and twenty-five cents, and were all printed by Dunforth, Underwood & Co. of New York. The $10 note bore the engraving repre- senting a petition being presented to the legislature of Maryland by a committee, with a Roman head on each side of the same. On the right side, extending clear across the note, were the letters “Ten,” the background of each letter being a Ro- man bead surrounded with scroli work. On the upper left-hand corner the denomina- tion ot the note in figures was engraved, and below this was a pastoral engraving. The lettering on the note was as follows: “Frederick, Sept. 9, 1810. No. 457, B. Nine months after date the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company promises to pay on demand, at their office at Frederick, Md., to Jacob Markell, or bearer, ten dol- lars, with interest from date.” ‘The $5 note bore a sketch of a set of locks in the canal, viewed from a distance, with a figure representing agriculture in the foreground. The lettering was the same aa on the $10 note. On the central left end Was gn engraving representing a farmer driving cattle, and on the corresponding left side was a scene of a farmer loading a wagon with grain. The corners bore the denomination of the note in Roman letters and figures. The 50 cents and 25-cent notes had a picture representing an Indian in a canoe. Some years ago some of these notes were presented to the Georgetown office of the canal company to be redeemed. The clerks of the office never knew of such an issue of steck, and were surprised to see them. ‘They were willing to take the notes and frame them as relics, but were unwilling to redeem them at their face value. A dollar note at present, if paid, counting the in- terest, is worth’ about $4.4 foe WOOLLY WESTERNER BUNCOED, Experience With a Wagon Which Resembled a Prison Van, “What kind cf a town is this, anyway?” said a gentleman from the far west to a ar reporter today. “They get unsuspect- ing visitors who have not been doing any- thing in the way of breaking any laws, so far as is known, and start with them to the station house by a method of transporta- tion resembling that of street cars.” On being asked what he menat, the vis- iter told the following hair-raising story: “Well, say, that was the funniest bunco game I ever went up against, I was going up in the northwest section the other night, to visit a friend, and as I did not know-the way I asked somebody to tell me how to get there. I was told to take something— I forget the name of the durned thing—and that it would take me close to where I wanted to go on 16th street. It was a fun- ny name, one I had never heard before, put I think it was an alas for the Black Maria, patrol wagon, or prison van. I sized the thing up all right, and climbed in-the end. The door shut to as I took my seat. I had only had four or five drinks, and I know that much could not have affected me. “There was nobody in that thing but me. i sat there, and the wagon kept moving up the street. I called to the driver to let me out at the proper corner, but he knew his business and didn’t pay any attention to me. I began to think things were getting pretty warm around there, and concluded the best thing to do was to take a sneak. I tried to push the back door open, but they had provided for that all right. I couldn’t move it. This is where my early training came in, and I didn’t do a thing but bust the blamed doors open, and out I went on tie pr ete ear tr aero around the corner I went til I was way off from that place. “I managed to find my way back to my hotel, but I ain’t going to ride while J am in Washington. Walkin’ is good enough for me, I reckon, and you don’t run 80 many chances. I don’t take any street cars, either; there's no telling where they may land you.” The visitor said he had been buncoed once in Oshkosh, Wis., and he kept his eyes and ears open whenever he eame to large city. He was here in reference to some government claim, he said. os If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star, If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. Pe ' AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA THEATER Beginning Monday Next. Evenings at 8:15. Thuteday and Saturday after- toons at 3. TOUR OF THE WORLD. The Austrian Oberammergau Company Presents “the World's Sublimest Tragedy,” As Given*by the Devout ¥ emian } asants of Horitz, ests, in DESCRIPTIVE LECTURE BY PROF. ERNEST LACY. Prices: Evenings, 25c. to $1.00. Afternoons, 25c. and 50c. SOME OPINIONS OF THE PHILADELPHIA PRESS. here was something so extraordinary, 0 | nthly, 80 fascinati d only made the conception more spir- | itual, and relieved it from any touch of irrev- | erence.” —Ledxer. | most notable, and certainly the most use to whi t marvelous Invention — | put. * It was a demon- | ed, of the wonderful possi | life photography | which will re | orable in the recollections of all who wit- | nessed the realistic spectacle.'’—Record. “No words could bring before the mind with uracy the scenes depicted. rttraction of general interest, - foundly so to ehureh-goers of all denom| tions. ‘The most perfect moving — pict * *"* reproduce with remarkable acct and living realism the scenes of this depicted by these devout peasants. < “Extraordinarily Interesting and — impres- °° * The most eatensive nt development of the movin that has yet been accomplished. and im picture North “When the patient ure of the bound Christ broucht before Pilate, aud surrounded by a mena ing mob, appeared * * * — the of the mimie production of sublimest tragedy fell upon the ‘Telegraph. New National Theater. ALL : Wednesday and Saturday Matinees, GEO. H. BROADHURST’S ROARING SUCCESS, I laugh till the tears | HAPPENED © “Sueb plays are | N | godsends."” * | O) | — Ala Date | THE SAME COMPANY 113,460 PEOPLE IN . C. Boniface. 5} + Cope, Reube SLIGHTED Geo. Ober, Wm. Bernard, ax, Cecil Kingston, Harry , Anna’ Belmont, Kathryn Osterman,’ Mattie on, Mrs. E. A. Eberle, Florence Robinson, uart, Flora Hedden. o December27, FANNY DAVENPORT Supported by MELBOURNE MACDOWELL, in SARDOU'S TUESDAY, T. ” TR wcar, ‘Cleopatra. MONDAY and sla Tosca.”” SALE OF SEATS WEDNESDAY, “FEDORA.” THUR., FRI, THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 23, AT 8:30. Lafayette Sq. Opera House. © J. W. Albaugh, Manager. Nixon & Zimmerman, Directors. Commencing [onday, De- cember 20. Special Christmas Day Matinee. Regular Wednesday Matinee. AUGUSIUS PITOU'S PRODUCTION, “Cumberland, ’61” By Franklin Fyles. Presented with careful attention to detail. SER TSE sornnion onrcmat casr. THE PE Ts IC EFFECTS. Direct from New York after its run of fifty nights. The cast comprises John E. Keilerd, Rdgar L. Davenport, W. J. Ferguson, Frank Losee, Charles G. Craig, Liorel Barrymore, S$. K, Ches ter, Richard Malehien, Alvin Dreble, Richard Web- ster, Florence Rockw Amelia Summerville, Viola Black, Millie Sackett. RICES —Orchestra, cle, 25¢. 25e. to $1.50. Week of Dec. 27. Matinees Wednesday and CHARLES FROHMA: “SECRET SERVICE.” THE GREAT NEW YORK AND LONDON SUCCESS. Produced here with the entire original cast, Including: Wm. Gilletet. MATINEE 50c.; Family EVENING PRI 75e.; Balcony, as..‘‘Lewis Dumont” on sale Thursday, Dec. 23. it Seal NEW National THEATER. Every Evenlag and Saturday Matinee. JAMES AHERN IN HIS BEAUTIFUL PLay, SHORE ACRES. Xmas Week—Seats now selling, + What Happened to Jones, ACADEMY. Last Time in This City at Popular Prices, TWO LITTLE VAGRANTS. “ —Next_Week— - THE RAYS, IX “A HOF-OLD TIME.” FOPULAR PRICES. AMUSEMENTS. Ac ny ADENY POPULAR PRICES. CHRISTMAS WEEK. MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, THE BLAZING LIGHTS OF LAUGHTER, THE RAYS All-star cast: Johnny Ray, Emma Ray, Bernard Dsliyn, Frank Lalor, Marshall and | Jobn ©. Leach, | | | Josie Clafin, wore rle Alexander, Kale a UVULS Gilbert Girard ‘ RY And 16 others. 16 Largest and Costliest Farce Comedy of the Year rgeous Costumes. Entrameing Specialties, Magnificent | wn. Scene A. BRADY'S PRODUCTION, “HUMANITY DAY AND X Dec. 20. Popular Prices, THE COMEDIANS, SAM J. ARNEY FERCUSON RYAN In the Excruciatingly Comical Farce Comedy, McCARTHY’S MISHAPS, EVERYTHING W AND UP TO DATE. Supported by the HIGHEST SALARIED COMPANY OF VAUDEY VILLE 'S EVER SEEN IN ~OMEDY, a 2 Al ey rm ssf se Only Eight More Days ee es The Biograph WILLARD HALL. Christmas Day Positively the Last. del7-20d SPIRITUALISTS’ BAZAAR—DEC. 16 TO 22, ad Masonic Temple. 9th and F sts. nw THIS EV the one-act comedietta, ens titled “A’ Fair TOMORROW EV a splendid Musical Program—Aunie May Bacon, pianist; Mrs. Ger- tmde Burnes, list; Miss Athalia Yenglin, comet 0 ace Homen, a Luncheons served dail ors served dai Exhibition of Spirit Christmas Goods. 12 m. to 2 Y to 6:30 p.m. 25 ote, enomena and sale of Dancing every evening d15-68 ~ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Glee, Banjo and Mandolin~Ciub’s Concert, NATIONAL RIFLES’ ARMORY, THURSDAY, DEG. 28, AT 8:15 P.M. Be. ang Seats on sale at Droop’s, $25 Pa. ave., $1 del6-7t COLUMBIA. | Toland Reed, “with the strongest and the cleverest farce-comedy of hi lar career kept a large audience laug! for two hours and a half at the Colum! last night.—THE POST. Roland Reed, Accompanied by Miss ISADORE RUSH and Hig Excellent Compans, in “The Wrong ir. Wright,’* balmy and mirthful as the TONIGHT- LAST TIME, Next Week—The Wo: “THE PASSION PLAY.’ de13-6t Rev. D. J. Stafford, D. D., WILL LECTURE AT COLUMBIA THEATER SUNDAY EVENING, DEC. 19, 8 O'CLOCK, SUBJECT, THE PRINCIPLE OF AMERICAN-CITIZENSHIP, For the benefit of JOHN F. «.EYNOLDS POST, .NO. 6, Department of the Potomac, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, Admission, 50 cents, Reserved seats, 75 centd Or sale at the box offict GRAND OPERA HOL KEI N! & RIF »AY AND BI MATINEES W ATURDAX. Gi tN York § 5 ave aoe ard delighted THEGHERRY PICKERS y Joseph Art of “Flue Jeans,” Ehige Stang was good. The Cherry’ Pickers’ better.—New York Dress. See the Great Thrilling and Realistic “The great gun scene succeeds in an Scene, ing down, the hous: every evening.” Sun. A. Superb Production. ilar Prices, ext Week—McCARTHY'S MISH. del3-6t LYCEUM THEATER. All This Week. Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. A Glittering Aggregation of Beauty and Humoy VANITY FAIR BURLESQUERS. Next Week--SAM DEVERE’S OWN COMPANY, RNAN ————? EXCURSIONS, ETC. ELECTRIC TRAIN SERVICE, BLOCK SYSTEM, For Mount Vernon and “Arlington. tion, 13% et. and Penn. ave. For time table ove raiesad any detl-im.8 [Nortolk & W2shington Steamboat Co. — Every day in the year for Fortress Mouros, Norfolk, Newport News and all points south — by the superb powerful steel palace steamers — “Kewport News, “Nortalie” ‘and. "Washing: — ton” on the following schedule: Ly. Washi 7:00 p.m. Ly, Portsmouth Lv. Alexi 20 p.m. LLv.Norfolk. 300 a.m. Ar. Alexandria —= offices, 7th at. wharf. Wash'n, ‘750, Ge3-28d_" INO. CALLAHAN, General Manager. For Arlington, Fort fyer — and Falls Church--Take the F st. or Penna. ave. cars—and