The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1901, Page 18

18 4THEATRICALIA P Homespun Drama on the Local Boards. Renewed Hope for an Endowed Playhouse. By L. DU PONT SYLE. distinguished as an actor, “there was one part in which he really excelled, and odd- 1y enough, it is one which Shakespeare is known to have played, and which was said to be ‘the top of his performance.” This was the ghost in Hamlet, which Mr. Phillips acted with a dignity so awful that he was positively called before the curtain—a distinction belleved to be in | this role unparalleled.” After leaving Mr. Benson’s company in HIS has been a week of what you might call homespun drama and fair drama at that. Of the two that 1 have seen—*Jed Prouty” and "‘Hu man Hearts"—the former is the bet- ter as a character study, the latter as a dramatically told story. Mr. Goiden has certainly hit off the New England village potentgte to the life, as any one who has lived in & commonwealth established of the Pilg recognize. He is more- over an actor, making his points | 1592 Mr. Phillips devoted himself to severe with that apparent unconsclousness that | study of poetical forms—a study that of comedy-effect. “Jed | pore fruit in the beautiful fragment of good a play as the a Christiad bpublished in 159, entitled ead” and Mr. Golden is as good an | “Christ in Hades.” This established his as Denman Thompson. If only he | repytation, which was enhanced by “Mar- bis play on in better shape|j;eeca and Other Poems” (1897) and by the reason why he should not be- | axquisite version of the “Paclo and Frar- come &s rich and as easy working 8s that | cesea” story, published in 1599, of fortune. If it be any comfort | yr Gosse's article was written before one may offer him this consola- | yne production of Mr. Phillips’ last play, ed in Addisonian phraseoloEY: | .jerod,” at Her Majesty’s Theater. In the following lines the critic foreshadows the exact fate that fell upon that un- lucky plece: “‘Our poor actors seem to imagine that the finest verse is that which it is most difficult to distinguish from prose. In Paris it is understood that the proper cadence of a line is as jmportant as a gesture or an attitude. Until that can be perceived and taught in London it seems almost vain for poets like Mr. Phillips, who is a learned and accom- + paying his respects | Plished metricist, If he is anything, to give als to command success, e more, my Golden, you've DL BLEY - York Life is one of the very s in the metropolis that speaks eed, has a mind tc topics. Depending | g and much on the | ar never and favor on.y due. In a recent issue its 1s the Beeraging influence | OUr ‘brave plush and velvet men' his o > i She s of | delicate verses to mangie.” S PR of hope 1 | he century finds Americas | ,_* Concerning the dead, let us say noth e d | ing but what is good,” :s a maxim found- B e N ihe|ed on the aesire that every honorabls | all means, the most | Combatant has to give his antagonist 1 ing patrons of the art dramatic. | faif chance: not to spcak evil of Those jons lavished on the stags | Who are not present to defend themselves, the great mass je | and least of all to speak evil of those ments in which ast | Whose absence must be eternal. asideration. In this| Yet this very propur feeling may, as far the most important—prac. | De Quincey has pointed out, be carried Je—tunction of the theater | t00 far: tenderness to the dead 1s some- The educational value of the | times cruel injustice to the living, who - neglected. What the |Surely have an equal claim to justice 1 ! to do for morals the | With the dead. It must have been some e might very easily be made to do for | Such counter-feeling as this which has were there some motive higher | caused Miss Clara Morris, in the January McClure's, to accuse the late August™n | Daly not only of being a llar himself but —to put it plainly—of irying to bully her into being a liar also. Her story ruusl that at the first rehearsal of “Man and Wife" she received the part of Blanche, but before the second rehearsal recelved from Mr. Daly the more important part of Anne. My Daly said: “*You will tell the people you were to ue of an actor rests than on his ability, we much in the way of artis of the niceties of life. y is bound to bring us ter. The country is rich he time is ripe. The Theatri- | has been of that much ses- | 2 has shown us that i | play Anne in the first place.’ trust so great an educational | * ‘But, Mr. Daly,’ 1 cried, ‘the whole , a purely mercenary interest. | company saw me recelve the part of ugh eincere lovers of the | Blanche." a ¥n America to make it sure that be- | *“‘He gnawed at the end of his mustache ¢ we shall have a theater where | in frowning thought. ing is not the supreme object. ‘One woman to whom it belongs re- prise is now under serious |fuses the part,’ he saii. ‘Another woman, America may yet show | who can't play it, demands it from me that the development of the | and T want to stop her mouth by making ere 1s not entirely a material | her believe the part was given to you be- art of money getting s not | fore I knew her desive for it. Do you the only one encouraged here.” | see?” That 1s indeed good news—not too good, * & ¢ “Yr Dak I said, ‘won't you let us hope, to be true. New York needs | please trust to m: scretion? I don't | an endowed theater as badly as does 8an | like lying even for my daily bread; but if Francisco and that is very badly indeed. |gilence is golden, a discreet silence is > e5e away above rubjes.’ In the January Century Edmund| <He struck his hand angrily on the desk Gosse has a little biography of Stephen | pefore him. ‘Miss Morris, when I give Phillips, the young poet, whose tragedies, | an order—" “Paolo and Francesca” and “Herod,” | “Up went my head. ‘Mr. Daly, I have give promise of raising him to a level [ nothing to do with your private affairs. higher than that occupled by any other | Amy business order— " living English poet Here the interview was interrupted by Mr. Phillips was born in 1868 and is con- | the arrival of the ladv who came to de- nected, on his mother's side, with the | mand the part, and Miss Morris fled while poet Wordsworth. He cared nothing for | the storm raged. poetry untll he was 15; at that age his R mother happened to read “Christabel” to| If Mr. Daly’s friends Geny the truth of m and this determined his vocation, as | this story, they must shoulder the heavy he thought. In 1885 he entered the Uni- | burden of attempting to prove universal versity of Cambridge, but he had been | negative; if the story is true, what a hum- there but a few months when Mr. Ben- | bug was the Greatest American Manager son's troupe came a-Shakespearing | —vet what a pity Miss Morris felt com- through the eastern counties and Mr. | pelled to show him up after instead of be- ( Phillips must go with them. He stayed | fore his death. It would have been most | with Mr. Benson six years, Though not | interesting to hear Mr. Daly’s reply. PERSONAL MENTION.|ANSWERS TO QUERIES, W. €. Stone, a cattle raiser of Modesto, WESTERN UNION STAMPS—L. E. F., 1s at the Russ. San Mateo, Cal. Dealers in stamps offer Captain G. E. 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Thompson, a Portland banker, is | which closed December 31, 1500; in the nineteenth, which closed December 3L, &t the Occidental. He has jusy returned | from a trip to Honolulu. 1300, and now in the twentieth. C. L. Cagiell, mensral et of the Dbl | 1o . X Ranis cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul lines in this city, started for Chicago last evening, ac- Cruz, Cal. For information in regard to schools in San Francisco that teach companied by his wife. They will be gone two or three weeks. | trades and for conditions of admission, A. G. Wells, geperal superintendent of communicate with the director of the Lick School of Mechanical Arts and the director of the Wiimeraing School. lo. the Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque, (i:all:h ‘::rggr:‘! be-cornies GF BiStents dnd arrived in the city last evening on a tour of inspection. He is stopping at the Pal- ®ce, as are also Edward Chambers, ge: eral freight agent, and John J. 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Thompson is at the Gas Consumers’ Association, 344 Post st., re. Guces gas bills from 20 to 40 per cent. Gas and electric meters tested. Electrical department. Bt Denis. All kinds of electric work promptly attended to.® From Stockton—H. V. J. Swaline is at D AT e DR, AMUSEMENTS, i e P GEPEPL Y Aleazar—‘"Nell Gwynne. Columbta—“Way Down East.”™ Tivoli—"Cinderella.” Central Thester— ‘Woman and Wine."” Californta—"A Breezy Time." Orphetim —Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—""A Virginia Courtship.” Alhambra—"A Stranger in a Strange Land.” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy - streets— Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Ficcher' s—Vaudeville, Metropolitan T Benefit for famil " Worka setibont, " Thus ies ;’t Glass Works Thursday, Metropolitan Temple—Lecture by Rev. Peter evening, February 7. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—J. D. Hugen is at the St. James. Mr. and Mrs. Fenm- more and H. R. Fennimore are at the Riges. All are of San Francisco. PRS- — A CHANCE TO SMILE. Eustacia—Edmund, what shall we give our clergyman? Edmund—Give our clergyman® Why, Eustacia, he gets five times the salary I @o! The delicate thing to do I8 to hang back and see what he gives us.—Puck. “No,” she said, emphatically, “I can- €. Yorke, Thursday California Jockey Club (Oakland)—Races to- ‘morrow. R 2| ™ vonor s You know what 50 the | 10k T an e Spaay Jeuary Mm%h— ‘J‘- Butter n.' 1 g - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 13. 1901. @all, . SUNDAY PUBLICATION OFFICE JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. 3 ........ «seees +. Market and Third, San Francisco 4 MUSIC ON TAP P Organ Recitals by the Janitor” May Follow in the Wake of Zolian Rolls. BY BLANCHE MONG the imminent musical possi- bilitles the ‘‘touch-the-button’ or- ganist is perhaps most interesting, as he will be most far reaching in _ portant tham would have been caused by the popping of a roasted chestnut. effect. The application of the aeol- NEEDS OF THE UNIVERSITY. T IS hoped that the Legislature will promptly respond to the necessities of the university. The enlargement of its revenues by the fees for issuing articles of incorporation and an inheritance tax is a plan that has the advantage of beginning to yield revenue at once, while an ordinary tax, made a part of the regular levy, will bring nothing in umtil taxes are paid, or a year or more from the date of the law. The p_eoplle should know that unless stething is done to enlarge, significantly, the in- come of the institution, a large part of its work must cease, or depend upon private benefaction for its continuance. The growth of the university has been so sudden, dating from which acted as a great impulse upon the older schools, that the pedple haye not appreciated it. It should be known that only by the most niggardly economy has the university been kept open this year, and next year a repetition of this economy will be quite impossible. We do not know of anything more injurious to the State than the crippling of the univer- sity. It would carry our discredit far abroad and unfavorably affect every interest of our people. In adding to its income the State will be putting more value i more profit into every business operation in California. The people are clear sighted to the relation between the university and their materialities. Should its proper support fail, the State would be inestimably weakened, and every Californian who goes beyond our borders would hang his head with a sense of inferiority. The enormous increase in attendance, reaching nearly 400 per cent in ten years, is evidence ¢ Let the concurrent increase of only 70 per cent in its income admonish the Legislature and the people that it is likely.to die of popular appreciation un- of popular appreciation of the university. less its strength be increased to an equality with its burden. Not only every graduate but every citizen should urge prompt that the State may escape the disgrace of an indigent university, pinc country schoolmaster. The measures proposed by the Council of Alumni are expected to yield an increase of $100,000 per annum, and every dollar of it is immediately required. In view of the constant and rapid increase in the student enrollment, and therefore in the work made larger. As the increase in the past has overtaken and passed the possibilities of the revenue, there is a certainty that the future enrollment will overtake this enhanced income. We have no statistics at hand to show what increase may be e of articles of incorporation and in the probating of estates. the increase will run with the accretion of population. increase in the population. So the Legislature need have no fear of being overgenerous to all legitimate addition to its income, and all that private wealth may NEW «WIRELESS” SUCCE HILE Marconi holds the leading place in the ranks of those who are fast making wire- less telegraphy a formidable rival to the existing system, he is by no means the only exper- imenter in the field who has achieved notable successes. In every civilized country able electricians are working at the problems, and in several instances hardly less important than those of Marconi himself. ‘An illustration of what is being done in Germany in the way of wireless telegraphy was re- cently given by the Berlin correspondent of the London Post. He describes a lecture and experi- ments made by Professor Slaby before the Emperor, at which it was sible to work several corresponding stations simultaneously by producing electric waves of vari- ous lengths and sending them through a transmitter invented by the professor. “A receiving instrument adjusted to the size of these waves will receive no other waves, all waves of a different size attracted to the receiving In order to prevent the weakening of emitted waves by buildings, chimneys and other obstacles, Professor Slaby employs a multiplicator of his own invention, which strengrhens the tension of the waves in an extraordinary way. Professor Slaby employed two receiving instruments, connected with the lightning conductor of ‘the lecture Two statinns_. one four and the other fourteen kilometers distant, were then called, and in a few seconds the lively telegraphic correspondence was proceeding, the two instruments working In describing the invention the report says: wire being ‘filtered’ through it to the ground. hall. quite independently of each other.” p It will be seen that the problems which perplex one inventor are being solved by another, and the development of the new telegraphy is progressing rapidly. It is almost time to begin speaking of this as “the wireless century.” THE NUCLEUS. T IS evident that Mr. Martin Kelly does not make a nucleus for h the House has made a strictly nucleus organization of that body. Passing over experience and fitness for legislation, Speaker Pendleton introduced a new method into legislative organization by confining his committee chairmanships closely to the mem- bers of the nucleus, and then he took pains to put a majority of the nucleus on important commit- tees. He has, in other words, ignored the fact that the majority of the House is Republican, and has made a new alignment, dividing the membership into the Nucleus and the Republican pa'rties. He treats the Republicans as a minority, the Nucleus as a majority party. It will be observed that the nucleus is organized for “biz,” as committees which will handle measures that have juice in them or that will have the power to pro- tect malfeasance in public trusts are all made up for a purpose. The Republicans of the State will feel the situation keenly, because they suppose they. had amajority in the House. To be so suddenly turned into a minority by cian, Martin Kelly, is enough to give a Republican “the vermes.” The Boston Transcript recently contained an advertisement to woman wanted for second girl, who sings and can teach piano to a boy a fair example of what constitutesthe “servant girl problem” in Boston, tellects of that city can solve it. The task of combining a second servant girl with a teacher of in- strumental music and a singer seems well nigh impossible; and should it be accomplished the com- bination would be worth more than $2 a week of anybody’s money. AT N e A South Carolina magistrate whose district contains a settlement of disorderly negrbes started the new year by requiring all adult negroes living there to get married. He said he has noticed that men do not fight over their wives so often as over their paramours, and ordered the marriages by way of maintaining the peace. The scheme has the attraction of novelty, but in this part of the country magistrates have been compelled at times dissolve marriages in order to keep the peace. ¥ SEEE N sl b o A Chicago Gran.d Jury is said to have closed the old year with a sensational report e which the Mayor and the police authorities were severely censured for the toleration of crime and vice, In each case it may be assumed that i But already the attendance at the uni- versity bears a larger proportion to the population than in many Eastern States. Therefore it may be expected that the percentage of increase in attendance will still keep ahead of the percentage of fan principle to church organs, ail but completed now by a company of or- gan bullders of Chicago, on the face of it seems destined to revolutlonize this im- pertant branch of the musical art. Aceording to account, a standard reper- tory of church music can be furnished in aeolian rolls at the small expense of two or three hundred dollars. A knowledge of registration, the ability to change the rolls and make requisite variations in tempas will constitute all the musical cap- ital required by the future church organ- Ist—or aeolianist—as he shall be more properly called. W. S. B. Matthews, ia the current number of Music, indulges In some amusing speculation concerning the possibilities of the invention. *“Organ re- citals by the janitor,” tne combination minister-organist, with a button attach- ment in the pulpit, are counted In among the possibilities. Mr. Matthews in the same article also ventflates some distinctly disrespectful views concerning the “king of Instru- ments,” incidental to a eriticism of a re- cent Clarence Eddy recital. Mr. Mat- thews apparently has no love for the or- gan, neither for the particular organist, which latter expression of opinion to some of us who had the audacity to criticize the muchly advertised musician’s per- formance on the occasion of his last re- citals here is no unwelcome hearing. As to the organ, its limitations, admittedly extraordinary, and its capabilities, sub- mittedly also extraordinary, Mr. Mat- thews will find fewer people to agree with him. Only ‘“less bad” than another is any organ recital, however good, according to Mr. Matthews, and necessarily so on ac- count of the Incapabilities of the instru- ment. “Do peonle really like organ re- citals? If so, why?’ he asks. Only as an accompaniment to conversation of the bridal apd funereal sort, he submits, is the instrument at all tolerable. Not even is tke Bach music grateful to him, but everything else is completely outside the pale of artistic consideration. Mr. Eddy’'s programme contained but one Bach num- ber, the remainder of the programme con- sisting of trivial movements, “neither fit- ted to exhibit the instrument tage nor to display any special art of technique that might be possessed by the player”—all of which hath a painful sound as one remembers the Eddy programmes in San Francisco. e In deflance of Mr. Matthews' diatribe, T must own to a liking for the organ re- cltal, and also acknowledge a hearty re- gret at being so seldom afforded oppor- tunity to indulge the liking tn San Fran- clsco. With the exception of Dr. H. J. Stewart, who has done yeoman service in this direction with his weekly half-hour recitals at Trinity Church, and an occa- sional recital by Wallace A. Sabin, F. C. 0., few or none of the organists are heard in aught save the regular church pro- grammes. Across the bay some eminently good work has been done by Miss Vir- ginie de Fremery and Willlam B. King, but any approach to the recitals which draw their weekly, sometimes daily, crowds in Eastern citles, has yet to be made. There are noon-hour recitals for working folk, Sunday afternoon recitals, free recitals, 10-cent recitals, popular and classical recitals, all kinds of recitals, on this instrument which, after the violin, seems to touch most closely the popular heart. We have the organs here, though the town is sadly lacking In a concert hall containing a good instrument, and we have the organists, but of any further than the before mentioned effort in the direction of the recital T am so far un- aware. If any such exist, I shall be happy to give space to the programmes in these columns and to announce time and place of recital. [} the foundation of Stanford, nto every acre of land and legislative action, to the end hed and starving like a poor required, this sum might be xpected annually in the issue the university. Tt will need be moved to bestow. SS. have accomplished marvels demonstrated that it is pos- ¢« s e A Russlan name on a musical pro- gramme has, of late years, been almost a synonymous term for something good, for a composition of high worth and distinct originality. The first hearing of the new Afanassieff string quartet, given by the Minetti Qdartet on Friday evening last, was a double disappointment therefore. ‘With the exception cf a mildly interesting slow movement, the composition is cheap. commonplace; lacking in melody, a thing of shreds and patches and meaningless, forced effects. It, however, acted as an excellent fofl for the beautiful Brahms quintet, whose hearing was the event of the evening. Eminently sane, dignified, is this Prahms composition, full of noble melody and of rich harmonies. It was played with admirable spirit and enthu- slasm by the members of the quintet, but the plano part dominated unpleasantly. With Mr. Minettl, Otto Bendix, who was the planist of the evening, gave the C minor Sohata of| Beethoven, and here again the plano was in unpleasant evi- dence. The part was overweighted, over- emphasized, overcolored. There was no balance between the parts, no sympathy between the players; it was a plano solo. with an_unimportant obligato by the violin. Mr. Bendix showed much more sympathy in the Brahms movement, but he is, emphatically, a soloist. Another Russian quartet is announced for the next concert on January 25, the sixth and last, also a repetition (by re- quest) of the delightful “Souvenir de Florence' of Tschaikowsky. S o e AL Pleasant hearing is the news of Peter C. Allen's return from Seattle to his former woerk in San Francisco. It had been un- derstood that Mr. Allen's exile to the north was a permanent affair, and his many friends will be glad to hear that the young composer and violinist has now definitely decided to remain in San Fran- cisco. is health. His Speaker of the push would say. The that eminent political magi- The interesting programme rendered by the puplls of Dr. H. J. Stewart at Sher- man-Clay Hall last evening was heard by a large and enthusiastic crowd of friends and admirers. The vocal interest consideribiy out- welghed that of the pianistic part of the entertainment, such well-known names as Grace Davis, Al Berglund, . Millie Flynn, Eva Tenney and Alice Ziska Jen- nfliings appearing on the programme. Among the plano numbers the Mozart- Grieg sonata, played by Miss Frances Stewart, with a second plano part done by Dr. Stewart, was most satisfactory in rendering. Miss Stewart has a clean, crisp technic, which qualities, indeed, characterize the work of all the students. Her work has, further, the color and in- terest which one finds a little lacking with the other planists, among whom ‘were Jessie R. Carr, Edith B. Mills, Wini, fred Jackson Leary and Jessie B. Lyon. Among the new voices heard were those of Jullet Greininger, Mae Rose, Florence M. Smith and Mrs. Wallace Wheaton Briges, puplls of whose work Dr. Stewart has every rea- . [ . this effect: “A neat young of ten; wages $2.”” If that be not even the enlightened in- to do the other thing and but as it is added that the report made no indictments, it is evident the sensation is hardly more im- k 5 The — It looks as if Clark of Montana would not have a walkover for the Senate after all. It is true there is no competitor against him, but the legislators seem inclined to advan- | PARTINGTON. editor, appearing in the eurrent number of Music, makes the following pregnant remarks, anent the familiar vocal vice, the tremolo. He says: “Tremolo of the volce Is a defect, and, as such, has no excuse for its existence, being the result of either one of the three following causes: Diseased vocal organs, old .age or defective breathing. “If vocal students, and consequently singers, would bear in mind the position of the lungs In relation to the larynx. they would possibly comprehend in a quicker way that the glottis is to be hermetically sealed one instant before the alr furnished from the lungs (consequent- Iy from below the larynx) strikes the vo- cal cords, which form the inner edges of the glottis. 3 “I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that two-thirds of the people suffer- ing from the tremolo bring it upon th selves by the lack of firmness in attac ing the note, thus allowing the air to fii- trate through the voecal cords before the slottls is hermetically closed. “LOUIS F. GOTTSCHALK."” . Quite the 1 Grau season Is from the New York Dram: echo of the recent ring, which, culled Mirror, also charmingly prov that we have here no “horrid monc of the wild and woolly rumor: “A rumor—interesting if true—says that the recent tour to California of Mr. Grau's grand opera company was made under the financial backing of the Southern Fa- cific Railroad Company. T a new form of railway enterpris as the allied companies present showing marked conside the matter of liberal term: tion to theatrical organizations. cheering to note this individual instance of reciprocity.” Another interesting vocal eutting from the pages of Harper's Bazar, wh Marchesi describes the ings of a first singing to Marchesi: “You are frightened, dear young lady!” | t alarmed; you will get upon the platform, please, and settle firm- Iy on both feet: do not hang your head, but keep it up naturaily. Hold up your head, I say. You stoop too much; put your arms behind your back, so that the chest may be free. Now, take breath. No, not so! That was but a half-breath. You must take a deep breath, and not e pel the breath too rapidly. No, that will not do. I will While taking breath I shall count ten: W holding it, five; while slowly expelling it, ten. Good, very good! W ope ur mouth. Why that grinning smile? s t e, and inasmuch voix Llanche—the white striking the soft palate. Open ur mouth naturally; the lower Jaw must be depressed, as the upper jaw is motionless. Good. Now attack the tome by drawing together the vocal co ke care that when you attack it no air comes forth; do not strike the tone so hard. That is an exaggerated coup de & 1 sounds harsh. Strike the tone onc That is rigl Now let us study U from one register to another. Try to sing the last tone of the chest-register as soft- ly as possible, so that the transition to the middle register be imperceptible, and do likewise in respect to the tramsition from the middle to the head regist It 18 not to be expected in the beginning that the registers be connected and made e N but attention must be directed to that which must eventually be attained through practice. Sing for me first two, then three, then four, then five tones. Good! That will suffice for to-day. Dur- ing the first month do not practice at home, so that I may keep watch of your breathing, your attack, and your passage from register to register; it is impossible that, In a single lesson, you should co prehend the method, and through misdi- rected study you might undo all I have taught you. Remain here, however, and “follow the instruction imparted to other pupils; you will learn much thereby and what Is strange to-day will become famil- jar, by lstening, to-morrow. The first hour's instruction 1s ended. You see, my dear young lady, it was not so very ter- rible. Now then, cheer up and do not catch cold. Au revoir, until day after to- B. KATSCHINSKI, PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO. 10 Third St., San Francisco. PRIGES GUT TO PIEGES! We are thoroughly in earnest and in- tend to dispose of all our broken lines before stock taking. This week Ladies’, Misses' and Children’s SPRING-HEEL BUTTON SHOES, cloth, kid and vest- ing tops, square and coin toes and tipe, viel kid and patent leather, will be sold cheaper than old ones could be re- Ppatred. Child’s sizes, § to 11. Misses’ sizés, 11% to Ladies’ sizes, 24 to cloti tops, t and square toes and The sale Terly sold from 4 8 to 5 We do not guarantee to fill country Nt of bargains will be sold mrnmmn.