Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1898, Page 24

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898—24 PAGES. Next week two more theaters—the Yonal and Academy of Music—wi!l open their doors f a on. The offerings af beth will be of the light order suitable to th of the year, when our wants are to b. ned an¢ a. The Columt s week “The Two Orphans, tendance has shown the wonderful vitality of that melodrama, the best, by the way, in many respects that was ever written. Next week the Columbia nt “The Hula Girl,” a bright bur- itten by the Harris Brothers, no doubt prove decidedly at- Girl from Paris” will be the first and “Tom the first play tional, be Kernan’s and aude- ademy ) present good sanguine of the Miss Alice Neil- » Fortune Tel or Herbert Harry Smith. In compo: . Herbert bas had Mi: in view, and has un- her vocai powers the be: has surround and From edly given opportu’ the opera in title it can readity there H be © opera opt for ex turesque eff. cts, bo:h of sce iume, and these will be cf to the fullest extent. Miss : for her wor! , and Mr. ger of the d great With the Per ana surr¢ of her own. Fl of his j nd her with a company has nt of the s his friends full: of Miss Ni ler Miss Marie Dre: ined admission in- trical field by her trim figure | girt in Baker Opera Com- | atural aptituc approbatic win ‘with tiracti mig pamect on aetaeesocis > fou do la m 80 do ma te BABE vainly trying to con- love lett solution ; stice, prevailed on Mr. Grey to come to his help. The time-hon_ ed old saw th charms to proved true ‘alous was dispelled a few » submitted on, and explained away the 's and players the rs fancy is to a larg dy element, and “r should cater to Ww of John J. Mc- own writers of Te now before the publi e desire of giving their patrons ¢ of the best, Messrs. Klaw & E ecting the t This com will be xt at the New Na- preted by the larg- e anizati krown in aa y of “A Reign of E as being excruciatingly f It deals with the adventures of two stowaways on a yacht, who in order to out- wit the designs of s as heirs to a fortt are in no manner « become ambi and tribulations are ludicrous in treme. The company which ts an exc wo large , includes, besides the Rogers Brothers, Georgia Cuine, George F. ne, Tegarding w nversant. ous, however, and their tri: They the the } will | taken | ndness } | | Sirs. | j waiian sit oped better than in an | Cleveland wiil Kingdom. For every 1,00) males, Irc It is written 1 with 1 females, a dis; d@ Wm. H. Harris and w need not make any Trish girl the le amateur and ranks next as a matri- ict. A will be monial ket as for every 1,00) men different ¢ ry per-| there ar ly G4 females to spare. Scot- land females for every 1,000 male: t be content to be shunned which will | cf m posed of your | othe to our shores are ers, and 1 the least promising as matrimonial hunting ever he maieur opera. | grounds; for no fewer than 1,126 females who wi in the | have to be apportioned among 1,000 males. Thes tdna | Throughout the United Kingdom there are Miss ott, 3 approximately 1,050 females to attract Mi nche Wood, Mrs. every 1,000 male fiarris, Dr. Ernest, Dr. The problem of the sexes assumes star- tling propertions when we consider that the McCarthy, | females in the United Kingdom alone, if stuteness | of her sex to | & riddles, ete., be um and trans- A.D. -known | crowded the Folies Dramatique, where “Hotel Topsy Turvy’ has been running under the title of “L'Auberge du Tohu Bohu.” ‘The authors are Marice Ordon- neau and Victor Roger. Mr. Ordonneau, it is said, has written one cf the most amus- ing books that has ever been given to mu- sical comedy. In dialogue and in lyrics there is a vein of irresistible humor which leads to climaxes, situations and incidents that are hilariously funny, besides being unconventional in treatment. The music, by Mr. Roger, has been very popular in France since the opening presentation, and is of that catchy kind that remains in one’s ‘mind in an impressive way. The Herald Square Theater management is making strong efforts for the success of “Hotel Topsy Turvy" in this country, and expects to have it remain in New York most of the year. The directors have gone to lavish expense in scenic effects and mountings, reproducing the scenes in France as perfect as SFtisls i make them, and wiih the poss.bilities that are given, magnificent stage pictures are promised. The ccstumes have been de- Marion, Maude Raymond, Ada Lewis, John ‘arr, Georgie Lawrence, Budd R signed from the original Paris dresses, and Petite Adelaide and Edith St. Clair Mme. M. L. Dowling, who has made all of Mr. Ben Teal as stage director. There is | the costumes for the Herald Square ‘Thea- an voraie display of scenic effects, | ter preductions, claims that “Hotel Topsy while the costumes are extreme Like interest- of Klaw & Erlanger’s pre- gn of Error” is assured reception. Turvy” will be'a revelation in ing. tage ire: ‘The independent standing of the play who will interpret the different char- s in the effervescent French couceit ‘s collectively an organization of su- perior talent, and as they have been elect- ed roles which are particularly suited to them, an interpretation of unusual excel- lence is assured. the list of characters, s who poriray them: Lebeau an acrobat, Mr. Edwin Foy; La- force, a strong man, Mr. Henry Norman; nephew to Moulinet, Mr. Frank ; Paul, art student friend of Louis, of The new quartet at the Synagogue, con- sting of Mrs. Wilson Shircliff, Mrs. Laura Zeh Johnson, Mr. Will McFarland and Mr. a ‘olan, under the direction of Mr. organist, is preparing to ren- of a very high order during the Is of the New Year and the Day of nent, both of which occur this montn. Night Mu: and j The Sunaz Club met Dean == Gambril A street southeast. | Mr. Aubrey Boucicault; Dremer, father of | Owing to the ence from the city of a | Cecile, Mr. Frank Smithson; Moulinet, who ority of the members, the only instru- | jikes quiet, Mr. Ed. Connelly; Je numbers were twe selections from | vant to Dremer, Mr. 2, a owki's Boabdill and two of his | proprietress of Cluny's colio panos Speeches sie Mende Re meres tion, Miss Marie Dressler; Mme. Malicoone, | Blas overture. 3 ‘ordel . Potts of | jandiady 5 rs s Baltimore, who is spending a fee teeks | landlady of the White ‘Horse Inn, Miss Carrie Perkins; Ceciie, daughter of Dremer, Miss n the suburbs of = some hington, kindly con- ‘alk; Miss Ma the club vocal music uses , governess to Cecile, Mme. Moulinet, wife iano and string quartet ac- culinet, Miss Emma Brer:nan; mem- riment. the selections being Keuck-| pers of the circus, Estelle, Miss Marie xpectation Song yer from Wag- ! 7 Rose, Miss Maud Mi Jennie, (Giorz: Miss Leor Gnito; Mariette, servant to with piano Batti,” from Don Gio- Moulinet, Miss Edna Aug. Besides the above noted artists, there will be a chorus of fifty voices and an aug- mented orchestra, cirected by Mr. Herman Prof. Anton Gloctzner has returned from Hee Paes om | Perlet. The Lafayette Square. Opera summer vacatio Sone Mr. C. B. Kefersteim at We Guten em att | House has been redecorated and newly Blue Ridge, a "soon res = painted, and many improvements have ; geGs uch atl s0ouircanme iia work: (Ie syaadeitor therconitart ge atavelenteres When the doors open Monday evening, Sep- tember an inviting temple of amuse- ment will be seen. KERNAN'S LYCEUM THEATER.—At Kernan’s Lyceum next week, commencing Monday matinee, burlesque in all array of female loveliness and numerous other attractions will hod Ji is the new ng organization, nd Bur- <, an amuse: rise replete Leavitt came home ton, where s ich-needed re s ever conce! Choral So: after a le enjoyed a st, and is as ng the coming though she ive a part in its s done in the past. k from Capon » where he had charge of the or- stra during the summer its a Hans F. Robert of this cit with new ideas, new and feat- iment member of “What § ures; a grand double show the like of Jones Co.,"" accompanied by which has never befcre been seen, a com- in New York stopping with plete organization without a peer, recog- i s M. Fields. nizing no equal and without a rival. A of pleas’ plethora peculiarly g pastimes TIONAL THE > ldw. E. nd gorgeous scen- ; alee canoe Go Pela ery, and effects, a clean, pure, open- | Wholesome and refined amusement enter- 1 sea-| prise without a line or a situation to of- |, which will take | fend the most fastidious. Among the ater has been any features presented are the European s for the o: acrobatic novelty, Nelson, Glinsercti and f the most con Demonio; Sephie Thorne, champion clox ainment in Amer ? neer of the world and hold- traction be ob- ce Gazette championship of gaiety than this t and Rose, the champion it weuld be diff- and Wil- sp etch Mile. two acts brim wire over with music, 1 , there i: od merri- ‘uban night- fon of s Quartet, Coates curtain fall. ood, in a no a > pro- chorean rove ng twenty 1 when it is known | white and fifteen Creole ladies. Elegant > produce “The | costume cone of the most com- ome forty or te organiz: that will appear this mem- eason. S organization, a time or another it American ac tion is prac ged BIJOU THEATE bill for the a, in a Curr s ind the Sou- da etail of 20 the Japanes lib- under the per- s; Howley gers and @anc- ers: Mis ner, th ite duetist muth. M rette, and the I of the predu which is ¥ of the celebr. ment of Alic Fletcher Rivers. ion of the ‘ as a con- | Teo Many Spinste mem- of last produ > and, promin * There, as in This ntry. From London Tit-B It mist be ting to those who con- arriage to be every woman's birth- how stealthily but surely her her disqui re the piec ef enormous the prev sider right to see chances of realizing destiny are di- minisking. The census of 1871 disclosed the fact that the wemen the United Kingdom out- numbere : males by no fewer than 8! 15. In 1881 this dep! - disparity in | numbers had grown to : and at the cen in 1891, the us females that under any fons woman could be considered redu numbered 1,112,512. Think of t y of females, who rimonial purposes must be deemed nt) Mar for 10t to be Arranged two abreast, ai in- of a yard, this fair column would appear in a new jcarry the tale of its grievances from Len- ieme,” and will be surrou right across the border beyond Car- and even there they would find no rearess, he census figures prove that in Ireland a woman's chances of findiug her mate other part of the Un Arthur cton and Frank pla in single file at intervals of a litt! will be several dances and | over six feet, could whisper a secret en- ced, and Prof. Mortimer | tirely round the earth at the equator. n giving instruc he females in England would form a and chorus, so t column twenty abreast, at intervals of a x F yard, long enough to reach from Lizard nature of a t Point to Berwick-on-Tweed. Similarly ar- hers, who have a larg. | ranged, at intervals of a few inches, more r of friends here who appreciate the | or Jess'than a yard, the fair army of Scot- rk they have done. Their opera |jsnd, five abreast, could link the Gram- ree Dukes,” which was presented pians with John o’Groat’s. ly fair army, is Trelaud’s equ four abreast, would stret | about three g0, was warmly prais Borel rag and In “The #uia | across the extreme length of their countr differen; sgheme and music is of 4| and the insular fair ones would form @ different character, ame evi- | column, two abreast, extending in a | of ability he airs straight line from Charing Cross to Wok- bright and catchy, easily retained a ing. become immediately popu: work is weil 1 r, while the arranged and har- It is hoped that the friends of j these talented young men will turn out in force and crowd the theater at every 2 ‘stood that a large | number of tickets have already been sold. ‘There are seventeen metals more valua- ble than gold, viz.: Iridium, valued at £60 per pound,’ troy; gallium, £ rho- dium, £85; osmium, £120; ruthenium, £20 palladium, about £216; barium, $280; didy- — mium, £00; cerium, ‘525; yttrium,” £630; ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—The patrons of | strontium, £670; calcium, £700; glucinum, the Academy of Music will no doubt take | £820: lithium, £1,080: zirconium, £1,115; ru. attr mes to this thea- | bidium, £1,400; venadiam, £1,725. | ter ne It is an American play, by - see = Blaney, and about the adven- F . | American workingman, pacts dk pith tot (Copyright, 1898 Life Publishing Company.) ‘The author deals with elec- mine accident ii tions at C shows the i in full 6 © rate of In this ac! contact with a liv 1 to bi rance and gold pple Creek. The s ior of an electric fon, dy evolutions pe 2 is apparently killed by wire, aud the effect is istic and startling. The d the plot is ad- 5 aining the @ra- t throughout the performance. Ki he Electrician,” Mr. ritten a ji . and 5 ing as to vy replete with hu- t the w dramatie at he will do next. every effort of this 3 = author-manager, and a jant and far-reaching career, if indica- S count, has only just begun. “HOTEL TOPSY TURVY.”—The Herald uare Theater attraction, “Hotel Topsy Turvy,” which Inaugurates the opening of the Lafayette Square Opera House Mon- day evening, September i. Is one of the most important offerings that will be pre- sented for the amusement of play-goers during the season of 1898-99. For two years this fascinating French novelty has been the deiight of Parisians, who have NEW YORK GOSSIP Views of a Man Who Does Not Like the Town. VISIT 70 A POPOLAR TABLE D'HOTE Gotham Would Like to Have the Bones of Columbus. POLICE COURT JUSTICE Speclal Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, September 9, 1808. When your New York friend begins to boast of the eating places of New York, it is then your cue to smile quizzically in his teeth. This wili induce him to beleve that you know a thing or two about restaurants yourself—as, no doubt, you do, it being presupposed that you are merely a visitor in New York, and not a resident hereof. Also, your skeptical smile will pique him into dragging you off forthwith to a typical New York restaurant. He'll “show you,” and he'll “prove to you,’ and so on. There- by, you gain a dinner. As, of course he will convoy you toa table d’hote, the percentage is about nine in ten against your getting a good dinner. Yet, .a-dinner 1s a dinner, and even if the dinner to which you are piloted by your New York friend proves to be a sloppy, tasteless, absurd conglom- eration of mysteries, you yet have the compensation of watching the New York man while he is engaged in the act of bun- coing himself into the belief that he is partaking of good food and drink, amid What he calls “bizarre” surroundings. One of the qualities of mind that the New Yorker does not possess (and the admis- sion may be ventured that there are others, is the sense of humor, and, therefore, if during the slow progress of the table d’hote to which he hales you in toc-previous triumph .he catches you in the act of smiling, he will attribute your sm les to the eestacy of the hour, and not to ycur innate sense of the ridiculous. For the chances are many to one that he will led you to a table d’hote away over on the west side, down town—as well say on Macdougal street, and be done with it—that is in the enjoyment of a huge vogue just now; and as you are not of New York, aid there- fore possessed of the sense of humor, there will be a laugh coming to you at this table d@hote. It in a quarter, thi in the purlieus ef which for as much as a week w ing the English language human being save the weary cop on the beat. You will hear Yiddish, and the ‘rench of St. Antoine, and Plattdeutsch, table @hote, with- ‘ou might hover hout ever hear- spoken by any and the patois of Corsica and the Sicllies, and the jargon here and there of the orient: but English speech, none. It is a composite neighborhood, and brawling lit- tle children, with few or no clothes, inter- cept you at every step, on your path to the table d'hote, anding backsheesh in all of the languages of Babylon. The building wherein the table d’hote is established is one of mary “brown-stone-front” affairs— for Macdougal strect, many years ago, be- longe to the quality. There iz no sign or ard or legend or dev e lor of the table d'hote to indic table d’hote. You are supp > know” and to be led thithe scheme, that,” ys your New nd, calling your attention to the of the table d'hote. “No cir- cusing of the place, y'see. Keeps the mob away. Only frequented by the right people, you know. Ordir run of table d’hoters not ‘next’ to it yet. To gain access to “the table d’hote you sneak in at the basement door, stumbli ver a filled ash can er so in the semi- aurkness of the areaway. Then you follow yur New York friend down a iong base- ment hallway, Cimmerian in its darknes As you approach the end of the hall, heat becomes as intolerable as the hea & man-of-war under Co ught, and, looking to your right and to your left, you perce lit- tered rooms, wherein and greasy French wome 1 of them in the fin tages of personal neglect, bend over bz ranges, cooking, or superin- tending ccoking. You gasp for air, and your New York friend, leading the’ w pens the rear door of the hi find yourself in the y The yi ou inqui 1, and you rd—the back yard. Surely, dinner is not the back yard? ‘Then, you look arou >u see a lot of wooden tables sc pout. A big awning, made of dirty vas, i d over the entire yar 1 or perty palms, palpably ofp: or some composition of that s supposed to ade sylv cen A spouting dirty water in a with benum -d-looking gold stands in the middle of the place.” > back end of the awning-covered y huge representation on huge © ur d’Afr! ke on a little knoll of act of lopping off the he Arabs who rush at him. ty, withered, i worked in appearance, ou can call dining al fresco for inquires your } York friend, ng to you with a proud look. ble your at at one of the tables loth, but a large red epkin is spread before you on the table), and look arou : pl there. The “right people,” your New York friend had said. Now he begins to enumer- e them for At the head of one of the long: table: istant district atto ney of the city of New York. A p: mantic actor, with a future behind him. medico-legal expert, whose fame is gres hereabouts during the progress of pois: ing c Three women who have writ- ten hooks that are tabooed in seminarte: ‘ou. an A dozen well-dressed, sharp-featured mea, for the magazines, and writes very well on nathing a yea An actri » Who is really eminent in her profession, but whos thirst after the cheap-and-tawdry “bi- is not to be assuaged. A couple of ians, always seen in company, who known to neglect good practices in or- muse themselves by digging out arre.”” A quantity of young men, with characterless countenances, who may be considered in bulk. A man who writes for the magazines and writes very well and who does not look amused. And so on. There are perhaps fifty persons in this back yard table d'hote. They all appear to know each other. They talk across the tables. They all appear to be on parade. They all appear to be saying unto them- selves, “Now, isn’t this boulevardish and zarre?”” They all essay witty speeches, and some of them occasionally drift into military school or semimary French, and get hopelessly entangled, and become red and flustered over ib’before they return to the terra firma of Emglis speech. At each long table there is ome man or woman who appears to be the leader,:the chairman, the bess, the idel of all the others, what’ you will. No matter how flat the speeches of this leader, the applnuse of the others at the table follows infallttly. “Brainy and clever lot, hey?” inquires your New York frizmi, lighting a cigarette while you are waiting fer the soup. He looks somewhat grieved/when you simply reply, “U-mm." When the soup arrivesiyou find it to be dishwatery to the l@st degre>, and after you taste it you look up with the expecta- tion of hearing him breaktinto an explosion of disgust over it. “Real thing, isn’t it?” he asks you. You are amazed, for in Wastington you have given him a good dinn2r-or two, which he appeared to enjoy. “Chef here’s got the knack of throwing the genuine article of soup together, hasn't he?” he asks you again, and you are com- pell2d to lie and tell him that it is too warm for soup—that you never take soup in warm weather. As is the soup, so is the rest of the back yard table d'hote dinner. The meats are disguised out of all taste semblance to meats. Th> pastry of the patties is soggy. The vegetables are soggy, and they are served swimming in a liquor that seems to be of the Dead sea. The waddling, greasy, 250-pound Frenchman who serves” your table leans over your New York friend's chair familiarly, and asks him if he ape proves. Your New York friend does ap- prove, and produces a coin for the “gar- con.” When the ragout is served, you get a pint bottle of Burgundy. It is contained in a French bottle, but it tastes mightily like the Burgundy that is sold in San Fran- visco for 18 cents a gallon. With the entree you get a pint bottle of “Sauterne.” It tastes like a degenerat> quality of diluted mvriatic acid. Of course, being a man with some degree of respect for your interior economy, you do not eat at this back yard table dhote, nor do you drink. Thereby you incur ths temporary disapproval of your New York friend. “What's got into you?” he asks, testily. ‘Have you forgotten how to appreciate a good thing when vou fall up against {t?” But the guilelessness of the New York man is incredible. He continues to sub- merge himself in the cochineal bath of red wine in the back-yard table d’hote, mingles in the general talk at the tables—the talk consists chiefly of a frenzied and tumul- tuous discussion of the decadent school of French fiction, of the prose of Paul Bour- get and the verses of Paul Verlaine, for must not French “atmosphere” be created within the confines of a back-yard French table d’hote?—and, making no more of an egregious blunderer of himself during this talk than do all of the others—he thinks he is having fun and enjoying himself. His only grief Is that you do not appear to be enjoying yourself. This is not a fanciful, but it isa quite literal, sketch of a table d’hote over which New York men, and women, too, who en- deavor to impress you with the belief that they know a very great deal, indeed, of this world and ef the good things thereof, have positively been raving ever since its vogue began a few months ago. When it was announced in a dispatch from Madrid the other day that the Span- ish members of the peace commission will probably request at the Paris conference that Spain be peimitted to remove the hones of Christopher Columbus from Ha- vana to the land whence he sailed to dis- cover America, the claim-everything class of New York newspapers were on hand, wsual. They said, with a good deal of truth, that there is not cue chance in a thousand that the American members of the peace corference will consent to any such a proposition; and they maintained also with truth, that any member of the Peace commission who would declare him- self in favor of the scheme to return the ashes of the great discoverer to thc coun- try that maltreated him and imprisoned him, would find himself mighty unpopular’ throughout the length and breadth of the United States. So far, so good. Put the claim-everything class of New York news- papers didn’t stop ut that. They declared flatfootedly that the ashes of Columbus ought by right to be brought to New York, to repose in a great mauso- jleum to be erected by popular subscription of the people of New York. This latter fea- ture of the suggestion, Le., the “popular subscription” end of it, makes fine printed talk, but there are people living in the “provinces” of this country who easily re- member the tremendous effort that Horace Porter and a number of other famous citi- zens of this town had to muster in order to get enough money together to finish the tomb for the reception of the body of so mighty and modern an American hero as Ulysses S. Grant. The facility with which New York newspapers suggest “popular subscriptions” at the hands of a populace, whose conception of the thing known as public spirit is manifested by a two or three-day whirl for all hands upon the 1 here of a body of sailors or soldiers, is rarely, if ever, collectively mani- ed in any other way, is diverting. None of the newspapers which advocate the re- moval of Columbus’ bones from Havana to New York specify any reason why New York should be entitled to the distinction of being the eternal resting place of the remains of America’s discoverer. As a matter of faci, no such reason exists. But, if there is to be any such a removal, every reason seems to exist why Washington, the capital of the nation, should have the body of the discoverer. The American members of the peace commission will prot have much difficulty in _ perceiving when the question of the disposition of C lumbus’ body comes up for settlement the conference. New York's claim to the honor of being the final resting place of the discoverer who is responsible for th tion 1s only mentioned here to indica’ unreasoning modesty of this town. the How long would a street car conductor of this sort last in Washington? An elderly man, accompanied by a_frail- locking young woman, boarded a Broad- y car at Barclay street the other day. course neither the elderly man nor his @avghter got 2 s One is tempted to imagine that the people one sees occupying seats on the Broadway cars must board them at dawn in the morning and hold them down out of sheer perversity until after midnight. The elderly man was too busily engaged in harging onto his strap and in looking cut for his daughter to hear the Cherry Hillite of a conducter when that rasp-voiced official walked along the foot- board and whispered in Bowery patois, “Any o' youse want transfers?” The elderly man wanted a transfer to Sth reet, and about a couple of minutes after se conductor had ‘passed along, whtsper- ing the transfer question, the elderly man beckoned to the conductor and asked him for two Sth street transfers. The con- ductor raked his hat back on his head } and glared at the elderly man. “W'y de h—1 didn't youse say so wen I ccme along here givin’ de transfer hol- 1 he bawled at the passenger. “Wot n’ of a ole geezer are youse, annyhow, an’ wot do youse tink T am? The old gentleman looked thunderstruck. “I shall report you, sir, to the directors of this road.” said he to the conductor. “Aw! the conductor. “Report me eye. tink de comp'ny ain't got notitn’ to do dan t’ listen to de spiels of ike youse? Here, t here’s where youse gi Then he hustled Who’'e been tellin’ youse?”” sneered Do youse better man the elderly man's daughter off the car, and the elderly ana all the rest of the each other and grin passengers looked at ed complatsantly. A couple of samples of the administration of police court justice in the American me- tropolis: The little nine-year-old daurhter of a stevedore was sent by the latter to a corner groggery w days azo to buy a pint bot- tle of whisky. On her return with the whis- the little girl opened the bottle out of y, smelt {t, and then took a swig of She took another and still another pull sky bottle, and a few moments later she was picked up in the strect by a member of the Gerry Society. The child w idly drunk. The member of the after placing the little girl unde treatment, had her father arrested on the charge of being an improp- er guardian for children. In the police court the stevedore was at first sharply Guestioned by the magistrate. It we “What do you mean, sir, by such scan- dalous conduct as sending a mere baby out after liquor,” and a similar strain of warm talk. The little girl, haggard from her whisky-imbibing experience—her life had been in jeopardy for hours—was in the court room, and everybody thought her father was in for a severe bit of puntsh- ment. Then a_ well-known politician stepped behind the judge’s desk and whispered a few words to the magistrate. It appeared that the stevedore was rather a power as a whipper-in among the ‘long- curl it. at the whi shoremen of the town. “Honorably discharged,” said the magts- trate, and the sodden stevedore walked out of the court room in triumph, leading hfS Iittle girl by the hand. A respectable-looking young married wo- man of the middle class, whose husband, a workingman, had been injured and was lying at the New York Hospital, was ar- rested a few evenings ago as an improper character. She was hurrying. after dark, to the bedside of her husband. She was unable to give bail, and she spent the night at the station house, weeping agonizedly. In the police court the next rrorning she was too overcome to say a word in her own defense at first. “What ails you, woman?” asked the mag- istrate. “Is this the sympathy dodge you are endeavoring to enact?” “I'm a respectable woman, and a mar- ried woman,” the prisoner managed to blurt out. “Too old, too old, that,” said the magis- trate. “You were walking the streets. Five doliars or ten days.” Then some of the woman's friends en- tered the court room end explained the case to the magistrate. “Don't you let me catch you here again, woman,” said the magistrate, and he dis- ckarged her. Not honorably, however, OEE —— The breaking of glass globes is very fre- quent, as all housekeepers know. Their durability may be greatly increased if they are tempered beforehand. This is done by putting them in a large pan, and covering them with celd water. The pan is then set on the range until the water boils. When that occurs it is removed fram the fire, and the globes are rilowed to remain in the water until it is perfectly cold again. ——- “+0. Especially His Late Comings. From Puck. Mrs. Talkington—“Ah! So you hare a new watch? No doubt you find it very use- ful in enabling you to husband your time.”” Mrs. Whoopler—“Yes; and to tlme my husband.” CONSERVATIVE CHINA. Her People Have Always Stood Faith- ful to Their Traditions. From the National Review. The Chinese as a race are the most con- servativ2 people on the globe, as their his- tery proves. They argue that their w: of life are the best possible ways, seeing that their chief concern lies in securing the happiness of the individual on earth and the welfare of the state. War is held in abhorrence by them, and they are more truly Christians in this respect, practical- ly and not theoretically, than the Chris- tians thems2lves. The Chinaman is a man of no ideals; that which he is taught to believe is right he practices, and remains faithful to it. We can see that people of other nations when they enter a foreign country gradu- ally assimilate their life, type, creed and lJanguage to those peculiar to that countr: and proportionally so to the length of their stay. On the other hand, onc? a Chinuman, always a Chinaman. In the course of their long history they have often lost their in never yet have they proved f: their national traditions Chin: sentially the same at the pres Was in the past, but where are thos ty invading nations who conqu one after the other? They have s unstable, becom> merged into the immuta- ble Chinese It is a triumph of passivity over activity. Rome could not resist the hordes of Alaric, because time had proved that the foundations of their empir> were built on the sands. The empire of China is built on the rock, and has we many storms as the present light house. Barbaric hordes hav2 arbarians, too, such w—but nevertheless China stands and where are they? The social . which find and hay> found ampie scope for developing their evil work on | healthy bodies, can find no hold on Chin: The country thrives, and its people muit ply in an extraordinary degr-e. They a overflowing into all contiguous countrie: and it is not too much to say, in spite of ali our native prejudice, that are ben fiUng those countries indirectly ing. Who can foretell which they will inhabit by sheer passive ins! ercy in, say, 20) or 300 years? And no ing will be able to stop them. For, in spite of the spasmodic activity of Eurasia, phibitions in spite of her navies, armies, pr and general fuss and bother, China stands, ard will stand. History prophesies so, for from the past we may judge the future. ——-2+____ BABYLON'S ENDLESS CHA 98 Rescued and the End Now in Sight. From the Boston Transcript. The endless chain started by Miss talie Schenck of Babylon, Long Is not yet ended, but the letters can now be carried in a box, instead of a barrel, letters marked “100” may be received be- fore many weeks have passed. No. 98 is eften received now, but with it comes 38, showing that in some places the chain has coiled its length more slowly than in others, Letters have come from every part of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Eu- rope and As‘a. Mis k w seize with a desire to help the soldier: a wro letters to four friends, requesting them to write four more. and when the hundredth letter was reached, to return it her and break the chain. The mail outgrew the house accommoda- tions, and a large carriage house was fitted up with a long, fine tabie, packing boxes, and the b " good earnest. Harper & Brother: young woman to get the addr came with any ‘etter. She worked for weeks and collected hundreds of thou Letter No. and of addres. Then other firms took the care of the chain, sending a representative who opened letters from morning until me a thoroughly sys- barrels of morning k, and night. It soon be tematized business. mail were brought in about 10 0’¢ the letters were at once sorted o by th young woman in charge and her assistants to see if other mail had been dropped in through mistake. Many letters for other n found, as it was impossi- t office officials to daily col. of letters for one person without other letters slipping in. As the letters were sorted they were placed in piles, face downward, ready for the openers, who were armed with the long and slender blades of the steel letter open- ers. Boxes stood near to receive money One-third of the amount re- amounting to hu dollars was received in stamps a box full of dimes and bills of inations, from $1 to $20. The dim cent pieces, ‘vere sent in every imagin- in silk, velvet, wool and cotton est care, wrapped in many of paper, incased in wax, soap, bre wadding. One 50-cent piece was imbedded in wedding cake All the letters that contained large bills or checks had mourning envelopes, telling sad stories of sorrowing hearts that had re- sponded quickly to the call for help for the oldiers who were comrades of some de st one. Many large amounts ed in checks and bills, the eing $4,000, Over $20,000 was cé and hundreds of soldiers were benefite helped by this wonderful endless chair The spelling of Miss Schenck’s nam: casioned much am and cons’ deciphering on the part of post offic cials. Passing through so many tric chirography, it appears written Sob Sewana, Sonk, Sant and various other nomers, people were of: ble for the 1 ¢ 1 nka, mis- AMUSEMENTS. National Theater. One Week, Commencing Monday Night, Edw. E. Rice’s Superb Spectacle, FROM PARIS. Magnificent Scenery, Gorgeous Costumes, Dainty Music, Excellent Cast, Large Chorus. Greatest Production of Many Seasons. Sept. 19, the Rogers Brothers in “A REIGN OF ERROR.” Natiowal, tt ssa Hal WEEK SEPT. 19, Ha! Hal Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger Present Hal Hal Ha! Haltal THE Hal Hat na! Rogers Bros, Ha! Hal Hal Hal Hal Hal Hal Error. Hal TO EXCITE LAUGHTER AND CONVULSIONS OF MERRI- Hal HaiHalHal Ha! Hal Hal Hal | Matinee BverlOr2;, 89; Bee ‘Bmoking Concerts. Matinee Ev: ¥. The T Minstrel Comedian, Ghoha THATCHER, assisted by Ed. Marble; The Flying Wolas, Twelve cther Big Vaudeville Acts. se5-6t | Shoot the ¢ AMUSEMENTS. BASE BALL TODAY. PHILADELPHIA WED. AND SAT. MATS GALA OPENING ATI Chas. E. Bila New American Comedy Iu TOW) EDSON The Electric: Presenting the Talented 4 t{<1s JOS. J. DOWLING MYRA GT And an All Star I Ai2, DAVIS, A Most Marvelous P A Wal betined 1 Two giantie dynames running at fell spec passing anything of the kind ev stage. A Mighty Produciiun. Sept. 19. 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ERY TEN MINUTE rival at West Chevy toue fa EMPTY CAR GOL Echo R. R.. thus securing ing crowd at “the circle.” > ectnects at West Chevy Chase wl car at 12:30. “Ericsson LineExcursions turning. last car Gien Echo aud-14tf ATTRACTIVE WATER KOUTE FROM BALTIMORE except To Philedelpbla (day boat) every day Sunday) at 7:3) a.m i To Philadelpbia (might steamers). --. To Philadelphia and return by rail... 20> To Caps May (from Philadelphia by rail). To Cape May and veturn (1en days) To Cape May and return \season) J To Atlantic City (from Philadetyita ‘by rail) To Atlantic City und return sien days)... ...-§3 To Atlantic City and return (season) $4.00 To Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, Long Branch $4.00 en irove, Jong Tran: return, season (from Philadelpyia by ra To New York (from Vbilade! la by veil) To New York and return (eleven days) Night steamers Sunda; f Light und Pratt streets, at 5 p.m. Write for di scriptire pamphlet and ‘fishing grounds at Bette ton. Tickets for sale at OFFICE ONLY. Also tick- ets to Albany, Troy, Saratoga Sprin N wport. Rn. 1; Fall River, New Haven, Bridgeport, Gopn.: Portland, Me., ‘and pointe north. ‘Lirkets to Phil- adelpbia on sale in Washbiagton at it. & 0. Ticket Offices, Pennsylvania avenue, and BR. & O. depot. CLARENCE SHRIVER, Agent, 204 Light st e80-32t Bat ig, momen & Asbury Park,Oc ore, Wastinten Steamboat Co. Every in the year for Fortzess Monroe, = Norfolk, Newport News and ali pointe south — 1 steel palsce steamers — “and “Washing- port Norfolie == ton’ on the following schedule: ron..6:30 pm, Ly. Portsmouth. .5:00 ria. 7:00 pm| Lv. Norfolk. 45 pn ‘Tickets on sale at 513, 619, 817, Penn, ave, B. and O. tlewet office, cor. 16th et. wad se ee ‘or farther informetion apply at genes offices, 7th st. wharf, Wasb., D. ‘Phove 759. 984" JNO. CALLAHAN. General Menager,