Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1885, Page 7

/ THE DAILY BEE-- ATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1835. [ ———ee Of Conrse ho Can't, an on a dollar & day t & popular play, gars and tobacso, pray? Hecm't. How can Charter a And purchase ant tile, out for a “smile” How can | Ask his ¢ And stab Heen't How can ha fro'ic with beiter fod friends Whenin cold pecepiration he's o his wit's cods 1t his hash-women_ after her half dollar sends? He can't. How can he bear to be called a ““poor cod, How can he deaes 10 a big, fancy plaid, His credit won's keop -1t 1 *fragranuy” bad? He can't. How buy perfumery, handkerchitfs, too, The adge« all stam: ed with a red kangaroo, And ch.nga linen cnffs every Sunday or two? H s can'e, How can he go out to ride with his ‘‘mash” When he hawn't the requisite cold-blooded cash? Why, that is his resson for not being rash— e cin't, How can ha claim his dearpirl's tlender hand, And circle her finger wi h ghttering band Whon his check book’s ko weak 1t scarcely oan atand? Ho can't, How can ha marry and furnish a wife With the many small comforts that sweeten this life? 3 ‘We must state the cold truth, tho'it cuts like o knifo He can't, [Crypr, in Life, o — A SYMPHONY IN MINOR. A STORY BY H. H. BOYESEN. Author of “Gunns,” “Tales from Two Hem's pheres,” “Idyla of Norway,” Etc, PART I1. [Copyrighted, 1884, by the Author. All rights Reserved. Catherine practised submission for a month, at the end of which time she con— cluded that submission did not agree with her. Mr. Romilly's company, which was liber: quate compensation for the loss of Mr Greifenstett s, Mr. Romilly, who, during the Gr.ifenstett period, had found her re- wmote, but animat d and adorable, found bestowed, did not seem an ade- her remote still, but with the accompany- ing att ibutes less radiantly predominant. The young man was not given to abstruse reasoning, or it would have occurred to him that it was perhaps the tition which had made her so supremely It was the stimulus of the composer’s stirring companionship which gave that strange afila us to her speech which made it ying through the depths of even a shallow soul. Now it 1ang no more, and Mr. Romilly, though he did not dis- continue his visits, found his old patron. est of compe- desirable. izing fecling returning; and he even s stractly contemplated the proposition who her a man with his advantages, social and intellectual, could not do better. Catherine would probably have admitted that he could. In her empty life his 1hin voice gave ® most distressing resonance, and only made her aware how great was the cmptiness. She had mever locked upon herself as a ro- mantic girl, far less ome given to fantastic speculation. But the idea occurred to her thav that her situation was llke that of Lazarus, after he had got a glimpse of the glory of eternity. How miserably tame and dreary this earthly life must have seemed to him after he had faced the radiance and the terror of the Infinite. She tco, had caught glimpses of a realm of glorious thought which lay infinitsly above the frivolous sphere 1n which her lot was cast. She began to ponder the problem ‘whether her father had the right to crip- ple her spirlt by his arbitrary dictum, and whether she would not be justified in rebelling againat his authority. She was 21 years old, and the law declared her to be her own master. She felt a sudden pang of pity for herself as she stood debating these questions before the mirror in her dressing room. She was soarcely awaro how much her face had charged. There was a new seriousness init, which seemed vut of accord with its former soft blonde loveliness. A breath of the spirit had subily altered the lines of her features and made them beautifully slguificant. Their modelling was somehow ennobled with a kind of plastic purity, which one sees moro rarely in Awmerican than 1 Eaglish women in the height of their bloom., A new idea began to kindle in Catha rine’s mind as she stood there gazing into the looking-glass without sceing the love- 1y sight which it refiected. Was conceal— ment deception? Had not a creature who was legally independent the right to con- ceal its actions from whosoever it chose? Were parents meant to be pe petural keeper ot theie children’s consciences? She had made a bold jaunch into that turbu- lent silence, logis, and there was know- ing to what unknown shores its tides and curren s might carcy he- Preliminarily they curied her only along the fammliar routs to Fiftaavenue, whe.e in her cager intentness upon her plan she forgot to Tec0), e Mr. Kowilly, who met her by acvident at three street cone s. He could not eseape ths cooclusion that she wished to snub him, bnt ste scemed by that very intention t» have scaled the unat-sinable height upon which she again looked rate and tantalizingly de-irable, Catharine entered a fine mansion be- longiog to the parents of a young lady who rejoiced in her friendship and the name of Pussy Kemp, She was an old visitor in the house and made h¥% way without ceremony into the back parlor, where she sat down, pickad up & book, and declared to the butler her intention to walt for Miss Puesy, Miss Pussy, it appeared. was at the present moment en- joyiog the blisy which way denfed her friend, She was haviog » musical tete- a-wta with Mr, Greifenstett. The state- Ly march of Beethoven's splendid chords was board in the next room, which wa seporated from the back parlor by closed foldng doors. Occusionally a loud out- ory a8 if someone was shot; then a tear- ing around the room, a crackling of wud German interjections despalring appeals t) haaven and s storm of andihilating objurgations. Cathwize knewso wel thase scenes; she knew how much they meant, But for all that she felt a pang of envy tha: Mr, should design to enact them any body but herself. She had a very tender feeling for him at that wmoment. His wild ways sud his hyperbolical language seemed charming to her, be- «ante they expre such mighty con- cern aboat thingy which in her Philistine world were supposed to be of no conse- quence. Theu—she new his touch at once—he dashed cff into a scherzs, which in epite of its rapui movement, seemed like a tutile, ever-renewed attempt to felgn reckloss joy amid hopeless sorrow. There was a subtle melancholy cadence in it which touched her. He seemed to be plaging upon her very heart-strings, Hor eyes fell accidentally upon the book whi h she was holding in her hand—it was Browning's “Men and Women''- and she read wonderingly: ialuppl! That was music! G grave and gay! T can slways leave off talking when T hear & master play, ’ Yes, a master indeed! When he danced away over the most insuperable technical d.fliculties as if they were mere child’s play—when he breathed the sweot offlatus of tenderestg emotion, or the passion of a fiercely wrestling soul, into the strangely intricate, vitality pul- sating texture of scund which he con- jured into momentary existence—it was impossible not to see and feel and listen with a breathless, sympathetic trium- phant interest. He Invested life with a nobler, loftier, meaning. Hesummoned all the gentle spirits that hover over the outskirts of cur lives, and by most lives are not even suspected, to come and dwell in secure and familiar communion with our souls. Catharine arose in irre- preesible agitation snd walked out into the adjoining conservatory. She clenched her fist more in excitement than In wrath and hurrled on witha rath- less disregard of tne gorgeons flywers. At the fountaln she came to a standstill, be- cauee she could gono farther ,Her thoughts welled up with indignant sweep and fervor. Who was her father that he should presume to debar her from all that made life worthy and beautiful. He who burrowed contentedly like a great financial mole among preenbacks and securitios, being at times annoyed, no doubt, by the molsture of watered stuck, tut easily comforted by a draught of the “‘water”—he to whom there was no besuty like that of a first mortgage trust deed—should she permit him to circumscribe her life as he had circum- scribed his own, and to shut her down in his narrow and unwholesome world? The music broke off abruptly, as if something had snapped,and her thoughts, which had grown bold under the shelter of the sound, shrank back as if at a sud- den exposure. They seemed to grow loud in the unextected stillnoss. “‘Wait & moment,” she heard Miss Kemp cry; ‘‘wait a moment, Mr. Greifen- stets. Inreturn for all the complimon- tary things you bave sald to me [ am going to give you a buttonhole bouguet.” A nervous little laugh tollowed this speech, and Catharlne wanted to rash forward and make her presence known. But ehe tcemed to be rivited to the apot. She saw botween the palm leaves Groi- fonetett’s dishevelled head and his hot blushing face. He never pessossed the conversational lightrcas which deftly parties a sarcasm. He only looked red and helpless, Miss Passey was half dragging hlm after her, and he was re- luctantly following. The gravel was already crunching under their feet when Catharine, with an effort, roused herself and took two aimless steps cnly as a sig— nal of her presence. As it happened she found herself euddenly face to face with Pussy at the corner when the tall, densely-blooming oleander cut off the view on elther side, “Oh, you korrid thing!” cried Miss Kemp, with her hysterical laugh; ‘‘how you did frighten me! I was just having a romantic little episode with Mr. Grei- fenstett, and 1 was going try to coax him to eay that I play well. And now you come and spoil everything.” She fell upon Catharine’s neck and kissed her, while Griefenstatt gezsd on awkwardly, and blushed like an embar- rassad turkey cock. ‘I vould neffer haf eald dat you play vell, Miss Kemp,” he sald, wlt{ engaging candor; 8o it vas vell dat Miss Van Tassell came now and ed you de trouble.” Just then the door bell rang and the butler presented the card of Mr. Archi- bald Romilly. *Ssy I am out,” sald Pusey, ‘‘or, rather, wait a minute., I suppose I had better aee him, poor thing! In the meanwhile you, Mr. Greifenstett, will entertaln Miss Van Tassell until Mr. Romilly releases me. You may pick al* the flowers you want.” Sbe kissed her finger-tips to Catharine and hurr ed away over the gravel like a vivacious fuiry, Cathatioe presently be- came absorbed in en oleander blossom, which possibly exhibited deviati-ns from the common ty pe. umental patience and regarded {without a throb of perturbation her curling hack hair and her exqu'site neck. “You were to entertain me, I be licve,” she said, with a fa nt approach at coquetry. “How can T enteatain you, Miss Van Tasell?” he anawered, wa mly, **without aplino’ You talk 8) much better than I do with your mouth. I can only talk with my fingers.” She fell again t2 examining the olean- der, which wafted its vagus perfume to her mnostrils, “You understand your powers,” she said to the oleander.” “I have never heard anyone in all my li'e who has been better worth listening to than you are,” The oleander assumed a decpar tinge of crim on on hearing this, but made no reply. ““I came here t5 ask you something,” she went on, “but T seare y know how 1o say it, Mr. Greifenstett.” She wheeled suddenly abous and fixed her fine blue eyes upon him; “I want you to resume your lesson with me,” “‘But—bnt your father has requesicd me to discontinue dem,”’ Greifenstelt ob jected, thrasting both hands into the depths of his pockete. “But I am of age and have the right to follow my own judgment,” she re- sponded gravely. A spider here detcended from one of the palms overhead and hung by one shining throad in front of Max's eyes; it fioally took refuge in his beard, from whence it had to be ejected. “‘Miss Van Tassell,” he began, when he had dispatched the intruder, *‘I vill do as you say. Bat I vill be frank with you. I aoiton my own acsount, not on youre.” ¢ ““Ab,"” she exclalmed, coloring a trifle in spite of herself; ‘‘that is very gratify- ing to hear from a man who is so little given to flattery.” “I haf u great work on hand,” he ejac- ulated, while something like an illomina- tion broke over his countenance, It s all I Lif for in dis world, Miss Van Tas- sell, If it dies, I die; It it Myes, I lif alvays.” It was wonderfal how handsome he suddenly grew; how his eyes kindled with a strange light; how his frame grew erect and commandiog. She felt & delic ious freshnees of sentiment wiihin her, and she felt too—vaguely and remotely— that it might, perbaps, some day all be hie, for the me It was the first time In her life that was conscious of this tender purtarbation, and ber only fear was lest she should in any way be- tray it, It secmed mo strange, so strange! *‘What s your great work, Mr, Grei- fonstett?” she asked with balf-averted foce. ‘d should ke so much to hear out it," “It is & eymphony," he said hesitatingly, ‘‘chlefly beoanse itis noth. ing elec that I can think of. T just called it ‘creation,’ then 1 ealled 1t' ,' then The Riddle of Life,’ and at last ‘The Riddie of Death.’” Now I haf no more any namse for it. Itis the dccpest I know and feel, and in briof, swift glimpses sometimes see. For tome s'range reaton vhen I gaf you lessons my brain was thronged with melodious thoughte, atd I hemd sweet marvelous strains pursuing me and clamoring to te embodied. I rushed home fall of wild bliss at tho great powers tha‘ dweit in me,, and 1 compoted morning,s nion and ni Since yeue facher's visit 1 haf been a8 one dead; and this great work — this great work”—he lifted his hand 1 runlime agitation—*it isa vid freak of fate, Miss Van Tassell-——but 1 cannot coraplete it vithout youn."” Catherine gazed at him for a moment in admi ing silenc She could not help smiling at his ardor, but it was a sweet, sympathetic smiie. “yr. Greifenstett,” she said, reaching him hee hand, ‘‘you flatter me greatly Only if the g 1 must have the privilege to heay it. us ask Miss Kemp if she will kindly give us the use of her piano for one hour daily mmediately after hoe own lesson, Max sto d with mon- |8 They T w 1l come here aid_you will initi- ate me into the cosmic riddles,™ ““1¢ shall be s, Miss Catharine: it shall be 80, he ¢ ied, pressing her hand enthu siastically; “L vill make you my fellow- conjurer, Ve vill summon the voices of the heights and of the depths. Ve vill listen to de songs of infiuities togedder,” A clandestine music lesson s a thing unheard of in poetry and romance. One might as well expect to hear of clandes- tine sermons. Nevertholess, it is not unlikely that if saermons conld in any wise be classed among forbidden pleasures, they would acquire a now and potent at- tractlon. As for the dentist's chair, 1 dare no: speak with certiinty. But as regards music leesons, I venture to as sert that they would become immensely popular, if they could be stealthily in dulged in, under circumstarcas necessi- tating risk and danger and ingeninus deceptions. Of course, Ustharine Van Taesell would never have admitted the correctnees of this theory; and she would have indignantly scouted the idea that her own pleasure was heightened by the delightful fartivences and romantic ze- pose, expressing the slow organic unfold- ing ot tremendous forces. He played on for a good while, like Lowell’s “musing otganist,” *“‘that builds # bridge from dresmland for his lay.” His fase expreseed a complots abandon- ment to the creative delight. He rocked to and fro, ocoasicnally, shook hls head in reprossed ecttacy, chuckled, gave vent to exprossive Germen interjecticns, and heaved great sighs, o if taking deop dranghts of happiness. Then suddenly he sprang up, looked at his watch, and made & dash for the door. It was not exactly what Catharine had expected, but she had come to learn that with him the unexpected was what was wost fikely to happen. She went to the window to got & last glimpso of him; her heart was swolling util it seemed too hig for her breast, She drew the curtain aside, and BAW her astonishment Mr., Romilly assending the front tt:ps just as Mr. Greifenstett was descending, Some words were exchangéd apparently, but she could not hear them. Then, swift as a flash, Romilly raised his hand and gave Greifenstett a sounding box on the ear The latter, with the utmoat cool- noss seized his assailant by the collar and proceeded to belabor his back with his cane. Romilly kicked, fought and struggled, but he was no match for a trained fencer and athlete like Max. He wriggled and twisted des perately, but ho was held with a_grif of iron, whi e 1he blows kept descending upon his back with slow and effective reg- ulatity, Tre pain made him nearly fian- tic and he yeled “Police!”” with all the power of his lungs. As it happened two «f those usefur functua ies were standing in pleasant conver.ation with a servaut maid in a basement, just around the cor- ner. and they hastened wi h raised clubs to the rescue. One of the offi ers endeavored to throw Max down, while the other met with more suc in his ef- for's to club hom, Mr. Romilly, after having hastily adjugted his garmen s, pre ferred s complaint, and the policeman, «normg v axs version of the incident, seized the “Dutchman”by both shou ders, and, being prepared for resistance, pulled and dragged him down the avenue, fol- lowed by a_gaping crowd. They were convine.d that they had captured a des- perate criminal. Catha ine, in her excitement, here opened the windaw and gazed aghast at the retreating proces- sion, “Look here, gen'lemen.” she heard crecy of her musical communings with Mr. Groifenstott. And yat she camo on tiptoe, though there was no earthly no- ceseity for it; she spoke in whizpers, as they do when plotting murders on the stage, and she touched the piano, as she sat down, moftly, carees- iogly, and made brief planissimo runs, like little burats of repressed butirrepres- sible felicity, Everything she did and said expressed a keen relish of the situa. tion, Greifenstett, in the mecanwhile, who only saw through his ears, eat calmly intent upon her performance and calmlv oblivious of herself. If he had beena musical automaton, wouad up with a keys, he could not have been more beau- tifully unconsclous of the fact that Miss Van Tassel was in love with him. Ho pralsed her now occasionally and clapped his hands eoftly, when she rendered a difficult patsage with preclsion and feel- ing. Bat he did not observe that she blushed even to the tips of her pretty ears whenever she had earned his appro- val. He stooped over her and struck with eplendid security a complex chord, which she had missed. His beard, for s moment, almost grazed her cheek. her breath seemed too narrow for the sigh that strove to escape, but he raised him- self again without the faintest accelera- tion of his Teutonic pulses, and resumed his measured promenade on the floor. “Now, Mr. Greifenstett,” she said, wheeling about on the piano stool, as the hour was at an end, *I insist upon your keeping your promisa, I want to hear some portions of your sym- phony.” He paused in front of her, and gazed at her with strange intentne “Do you mean dat?’ he said, solemnly. “*Yes, cf course I mean it.” “But you must not be astonished if you don't underatand.’ *‘You must remember I am an Amor- ican. Thero is nothing I cannot under- stand.” ‘‘We shall see.” He seated himself ou the piano stool, azad at his long white fingers, pushed back his cuffs, and struck a few tentative chords. “I amin tune,” he sald, sending her another searching gazs, *‘So is the piano and €0, I believe, are you. Have you ever tried to realize in thought the 1dea of infinite space?”’ he went on, letting his hands rest upon his knees. “It tsa shuddering, a sublime, a terrific idea. Those boundless realms of uninhabited space through which the great giobes roll in long luminous spheres bu! silently, silently, or with such faint resonance as the thiu ether is able to carry. This is what I have endeavored to express in the openlog allegro. He broke into a swift, strange piano movement the theme of which, recurring with & solemn monotony, euggested realms opening bevond realme, shudder- ing voids, disclosing shuddering voide, vaster and more terrible, Then there stole an icy suggestion as of mildness into the the wild, whirling monotony. Thespirit, aspiring to comprehend the incomprehensible, gradually lost its grasp, all definitness of conception ceased and the vast empty chasms of insanity yawned oefore the presumtious soul. A vague confusiod of imagery, dying away gradually into a sort of faint cosmic wail closed the performanee. For a long while not a word wasuttered. Oatharine sat with half-closed eyes; now and then a shudder ran thrgugh her frame, Max was scribbling away with a great ravidity on the back of a muslo sheet; he had got an idea which he was jotting down while it was yet throbbing with warm vitality “The allegro is the unive sal void,” he said, flinging the sheet triumphantly on |\ the pano. ‘I think I shall call it ‘De Concourse of de Infinities,” Now comes de andante, ‘De Song of Newborn Plan- ets.' Heie isafiery nebula, flung forth from the sun, straying yet in erratic ellipses through space. Then comes de slow cooling and de birth of land and water and air. Den I haf bor owed f om de Bible de spirit of God hoveirg over dc waters, For of course de spirit of God was dere, and has been dere ever since. And as a musical wotif, how gloious is dat ‘>pirit of God." Ah! it is sublime— de spi it of God hovering over de steam ing new-born waters,” He flung back his head with impalsive enthusiatn, gazed towa d the ceiling with devout rapture, aad struck two great ele mental chorde which vibrated through the room like organ tones. There was & sublime srrenity and peace in the gravi movement that followed—an exhaustles: energy slowly unfolding itself in chords, solemnly dlssolved, and its elemenis re. combining with greater complexity int more elaboiate harmonies. This funds mental thought of creative evolution wat most nobly repeated and varied by th ssme device, through changing keys anc bold trapsitions, There was, amid th peacefal solemnity, a lovely emillog re- Max remonetrated; ‘‘there is no need of violence on your part. 1 vill follow you of my own free vill.” But the policomen would not be por- susded that a man of such dangerous ap- pearance could be trusted iu his parole; ane they handled him more ronghly the farther they progressed. Mr. Romilly in tho meanwhilo was hobbling aleng on the other side of the street, only stopping now and then to attend to his disordered toilet, or to rub some aching spot. At the pclica court on Fifty-seventh street which was reached afler a humiliating march of fifteen minutes, the dapositions of both parties were taken. » And Max, for the want ot 500 bail, was locked up on the charge ¢f assault and battery. It was a clear and plausible table that Rom- illy narrated, and as it was confirmed in many particulars by the policomen, the judge had scarcely any choice but to punish the turbulent foretgner. That he denied the plaintiff'’s story, and claimed to ba the attacked party, could of courte, have no weight, as denial was the common resort with disrepute char- acters. [ro & coNTINUED.] —— The End of The Play. The play is done—the curtain drops Slowly falling to the promptor’s bell, A moment yet the actor stops, Ard looks around, to say furewell, Tt is an irksome woid and task; And, when he’s laughed and said his say, He shows. a3 he removes the mask, A faco that's anythiog but gay, Good night—I'd say the griefs, the joys Just hinted in the mimic psge, The trumpets and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age; 1'd eay your woes were not less keen, Your hopes more yain, than those of men— Your pangs or pleaesures of fifteen At forty-five p'ayed o'er again, Ardan the yorld, as in the school, 1'd say how fate my chance and shift— The priz . be somstimes with the fool, ‘The race not always to the swift; Tha trong may yieid, the good may fall, The great min be a vulgar clown, The kuave be lifted over all, The kind cast pililessly down, - Come wealth or want, coms good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, Aud bow betore the awful will, And bear it with au honest heart, ‘Who misses, or who wins the prize— Go, 1030 or conquer ay you canj But 1t you fail, or If you rise, Be cach, pray God, a geatleman, —— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIOC, Rora Coghlan is to star next feason ina new Eagiish play by Herman Merivale, Clara Louise Kellogg is rinzing in concerts under the management of Max Strakesch, Rossi is to appaar soon at the Residiyz the- atre, 13 rlis, in Kean, Othello, King Lefr and Moitj The new Standard theatre, New York, has bean opened, and “‘A Trip to Africa” is the e.tartainment, Agents of Girau have deposited £4,000 in Paris_as gusrantee to Mule, Judic for her American tour, Janisch lately published a card in Chicago contradi ting the reports that ehe had elan- dered Modjeska, Mile. Nevada and Mies Dakota already grace the Ameiicau stage calendar, with more territories to hear from, Herr Adelph Sonnenthal, of - the Tmperial Ring theatre, Vienna, will star in New York city as Hamlet March 9, Mr. Lawrence Barrett hrs opened a sesson at the Star theatre, New York, ia *Frar cosca da Rimini,” embeilished with Madriga boy Miss Kate Rolia, an American singer, de- but+d at the Teatro Carcano, Milan, in *‘Lio- da,” on New Year's night, with great success, Mr, and Mrs, George 8. Knight have pro- their latest comedy, **Oyer the Garden at Toney Pustor's theatre, New York, a on is to make a tour of Awerica a year from this winter, Con. tracts with the theatr.s ara now being made, Lotta Pinner, a young New York girl now sivgiug at_the Royal opera hoase, Berlin. 1 provouccad by the local prese to surpass Ger. tor 4s 8 vocalist, Mr, Henry Irving and Miss Terry have consented to sppear at the annual benefi he Chicago Theatrical Mechanics’ astociation to take place at McVicker's, Thursday, Janu- ary t0th, Georgia_ Cayvap, who plays the title role in “May Blossom,” has appsared in Ohicago 11 “Hazel Kirke” and one or two of Bartley Campb:1l's dramss, Her sister, who travels with ner, is known ss Agnes Carter. Rankin’s Third Avenue theatre, New York, is now the Appolo anu given up to Gernnan toeatricals, Lester Walla sk proposes to give Mr.and Mrs, Raokina benefit to ease up their bad luck, Miss Nettie Carpenter, the young American violnist, who has taken a prize at ths Paris Conseryatoire, has joined concert forces and sttractions with Siws Reeves, and the two in- end to make an extended tour of the Koglish proviaecs, A Turkish comlo opera, called ‘‘Chapgut,” ¥ his excellency Ahn Midhat Effendi, was 4.y produccd with great surcess at the new hesiro at Constentinople, The prima donna ¥&% b Arm lady, It in the oret attempt to introduce Turkish t’nnmomen ina theatrical piece, — "with Patti and Soalchi in the lesding r in Boston Friday night before tb st audience ever knosn during an opery seascn in that city. It i | estimated that from $10,000 to $12,000 was “Semirami taken at the box-office, Clara Louite Kellogg testifies fn cou't that fome singers can #ing After eatng and some o Noreof tt it diffioult to eat | romething afcer singing. This dfsposcs of the | popular belicf that sivgers requirs_nothing more #ubstintial than the afr. [ Wheelng Totellij c A late Caledonia, N, Y., exchange furnish es the following pleasant montion of 4 tiavel ing concert trowje: “The Tenneeso ans are in this, ection ag-in. We wish Miss Pinkeye Johosn and her dusky whooperaps would howl this way just Jong enough to pay us prin ing bill of three years' standing. Edwin Booth begins a forn woeks' engsgo men at the Fifth Avenue Thea'ra on January 18. Ho will be supported by the Boston Museum company. This will be Mr, Booth's only eneagement in Now York this seoson, and it is the first time that the Museum com: pany has evar appeared here, A featura of this engagement will bo reviva's of “The Iron Chest,” “The Apostats,” *'Ruy Bl and “Don Cwmsar do Bazan.” Liately at a holiday concert in Allegheny City., Pa., a number of the musicians failed to arrive, 50 three of the soloists privately agroed toentertain jthe audience by simultaneously playiog threo different tunes, An announce. ment was then made in front of the curtam that Wagner's Iate t and most complicated trio would be performed, and atits ciose the Isrge teutonic nssembly wildly applauded what it regarded s a great musical master- pieco. Fround's Weekly, publisted in New York, says: “‘Colonel Mapleeon s about to end his season hore and hopes for a good success in tha tour of the sta.es, and cspecially on the California const. A good many of the mis underatandings that have oc.urred with his dircctors conld have bern avoided on both sides, and it is decidedly to thy Colonel’s credit that he has hung on #o bravely and has completed his season in perfect harmomons mauner, Mme. Patti bas done not a little to help toward such & ‘desirable coneummation’ by being exceedingly reasomable, This is greatly to her credit, in order that no fiasco should diserace her last senson in America, —ii—— Fun on the Ice, See the merry skaters ahide Biump bump! Freely, fairly they slhide— Bump! Airy mazes they are trading Tt is flyine, awimwing, threading? Bump, bamp! Ttis very, very spreadiog Buinp! Fsan Pranci — 1MPIETIES, Mr. Mocody's intention, as reported, to found a Plumbers’ Christain Association in Chicago indicates that much success hus turned the evangelist’s head. A witty deacon puts it thus: “Now, breth- ren, let us get up a rupper and eat ourrelves rich. Buy your focd; aud then give it to the church; then go and buy it back again; then eat it up and your church debt is pad.” A San Franci who attended a recent seance of Ms. Souther, the alleged spiritual medium, caught the ghost and proved him, before the whola company, to be a certain Mr. Jackson, whom nearly all present knew. Tho Methodist church, at Upper Gay, New York, is in a b:d way g account of on organ. The 'instrament was_purchesed, but a cer- tain element objected to mscuine praise, and so one Sundsy morning recently the bellows were found to be cut, Everybody is mad. When Mark Twain was serving a8 private sceretary to Senator Jim Nye of Nevada, he repliad o a letter from some of the eenator’s constitusnts asking for a subseription to aid in buildiog & charch: “What you want is net a church, but a nice, new, largs, strong, new jail, Some felow who made the count saya ““music” is mentioned 165 times 1 _the Old Testament. He may scarch the Seriptures from Genes's to Revelations and fail to find any mention made of & young man learning to play the accordeon or a young lady prac- ticing on a p lano at 5 o'clock in ths morning The Salvation Army report for 1884 shows this organization to be at least to be on acred- itable military footing. It numbers 910 corps distributed over the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, In. dia, Sweden and Australia, The total list of officers includes 2,332 names, besides 188 ca- dets in bar:acks undergoing a course of train. ing, The result of their ‘‘villoga warfare” in Tngland has left them In regular posseesion of 308 villages. An important covtribution to their inzome of nearly 8375,000 secms to be the incoms derived from mercantile transac- vions, They bave agoodly ncome from the sale of “musical ivstruments, watctes special- ly desigoed to remind the koldier of his God ard his duty, wottoes and other articles for home use, all contrived with the same end in view; and now Jast of all, teasnd other things which catnot, except by covers and marke, have go direct a bearing on the propagation of the truth.” Yet for all this the treasur: empty and the martial spirit of the soldicrly salvat onists will now apparantly depend upon the appeal of their commander for funde. —— Never Grow Old to Mo, I looked at the tell-tale mirror, And saw the mark of care, The crow's fe-t and the wrinkles, And the gray in the dark-brown My wife lookc:d ovir my shoulder— Most heautifol was she— “Thou wilt never grow old to me, ““Never grow old £o me, sco Waap, she said, “For age is the chilling of heart, Aud thine, as mino can tell, Is a8 young and warm as when first we heard The gie st eoand of our bridal bellt” T turned amd kiseod her ripe red lips, “Let Time do his work on me, If in'‘mys ul. my love, my faith, 1 ever scem old to thee!” —[New York Star, —— RELIGIOUS, Cilinton Smith, nintsen years old has bean arrested for the murder of his father Ira Smith. G ov, Pattin n of Peunsylvanin hos fsmed a warrant fcr the hanging of Dr, Albert G, I Gioensen, the wife poisorcr, Thursday, March 5 The smellest Tutheran parish in the world is faid to be in the island of Grunsoe, a little island which lies north of Iceland, The winter in Girunsoe Jasts for six months, 8t. Andrew’s church, Fdinburg, the church that witnessed the fiery contests which pre- coaded the famous disruption of 1843, has just been celebrating the centenary of its opeving. The Campbellite church, the denomination to which Mr, (iarfield belonged has purchased 18,000 acres of land at §175 per scre, and taken up 20,000 ucres addiiional near Riding, Shasta county, Cal, on which they intend tc found & 'colony, The Campbellites of St Louis are the piime movers in the enterprise The Mexican papers spnounce that a son of Brigham Young, who bears his father's name. has come down from Utah with t#enty com papions, into the Mexicin atats of Sonora, for the avowed purpose of spying the land with the desien of founding a large Mormon ssttle ment thers, to be recruited both from Europe f | and from the Uuited States, The Methodists promise to win a success in Au tralia similar to that which they have won inth se United Statee. 1a Sydney they haye had & grand children’s demonstration in th old exhibition building. The Sydney district alona reports 52 ministers, 131 1 cal preachers 149 class leadere, 3,004 church members, 20, 570 worthippers, 93 Sunday schools, with 1,02 taachers and 10,035 scholars. A move- ment is on foot fora geveral union cn the part of the Primitives, Wesloyans and Bibl: Christians, Huogary boasts of a Unit rian church or panization, According to lately publisnec report the membe ounts Lo from fifty 1o sixty thousand. have & theologics faculty, at Koslovar, with thircy student The bdy generslly séeins to be makiog pr. gress, During the year two 1ew churche nave heen 'rlll?l, and three minis'ers bave beer ordained, of whom two hat studied in Eng land. Ooe of the new cburches is in Trens vania; and the report m kes epecial mertio of ths kindpess wrd a co uwo'atng spr shown by the Luthera s while the Unit.risu were wiihout & church of thoir own., ’ CHAS. 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