The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER £3, 1908. _SEPTEMBER 23, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Address All Comm Proprictor. unications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. .Market and Third, 8. F. 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. PUBLICATION OFFIC EDITORIAL ROOMS. . Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (inciuding Sunday), one year. .88, DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 6 months, DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY CALL. One Year.... WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. $S.80 Per Year Extra .15 Per Year Extra . 1.00 Per Year Extra All postmasters nre authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. FOREIGN POSTAGE. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt corre liznce with thelr request. 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I | | the | rday afternoon the evil re- of crime have been brought to the people of San Francisco. of t he cutting of the telephone wires at Hall M An im- sequence e act was a long delay in | assistance from the Central Emergency | ddenly stricken with a se- obtained | e by telephoning through the private relief was who d done him no harm 1ld not have had even in the | as his any grudge whatever. ow becoming alarmingly | large extent our social organ- | the | The wires are made use | d people rely upon them | requires the prompt sum- h tals or of medical aid. of the operation of the wires therefore | its orderly working upon lephone ergency the police, ¢ danger to life in many instances, while inflict- | tance a gross degree of inconvenience prime necessit mmunity, and accordingly ment should be provided y be convicted of the offense g the wires or in any other way interfering severe and sum been provided methods | a number of new | ,and he has been The invention of r powerful explosives had no | le known to the general public than | of them with a reckless ma- Plans were laid for blow- ng with passengers were passing through f i with the discoveries of the terrible ei- ng buildings crowded way for the perpetration of t malignant atrocities known to the Thus the criminal has watched the | 1 only to see in what way he | lity to kill or to torture with impunity y careless who his victims | might be s The deper community upon telephones has put in of these malicious criminals a new mean society. By the comparatively | easy feat of cutting an important wire it is possible for a malicious man to expose many thousands to inconvenience and some to death itself, as happened in the c of the woman stricken with hemorrhage on Monday afternoon. The criminal has also the ; upon the fact that if a fire were gto break out while the wires are cut there might be " a further damage done to the city and possibly a good many lives might be lost as well as a great deal of property destroyed. The criminals who commit offenses of this kind are strictly of a malignant temper. They desire to work evil for its own sake. It is quite possible that the first thought of the criminal may be that of injuring the telephone company, but if he possess a particle of intelligence he soon perceives that the cutting of the wires of the company injures the company less than the public. To the really malignant mind, how- ever, it does not matter much who is injured so long as some one is injured. Hence when once the idea of interrupting the telephone service by cutting the wires is thought of as a feasible project, the crimi- nal carries it out reckless of the consequences. Confronted by a species of crime that makes use of the appliances of civilization to inflict harm with 2 malicious recklessness, society must set itself reso- lutely to the task of crushing out the evil by pur- suing the perpetrators with the utmost energy of the law. In this case the telephone company has offered a reward of $5000 for the arrest of the guilty party. The action is commendable, though no such in- ducement should be necessary to rouse both the police and the public to the task of detecting the perpetrator and bringing him to justice. It is to be borne in mind that no person is safe against such a criminal as this, for his malice runs at large against the community as a whole. He who has cut tele- phone wires will not need much in the way of an impulse to set him to cutting the fire alarm wires, or even to starting incendiary fires. Society, in fact, has a dangerous type of malignant to deal with, and should see to it that his career is short. delight oi medita { upon the last available inch of | acres and no more. THE IRRIGATION CONVENTION. UDGED by the reports, the recent irrigation J convention was the largest that has been held since the national organization was made twelve years ago. That it was the most useful may also be true, though its usefulnegs may have to be measured more by what it refused to do than what it did. There appears to have been a desire to bring the meeting out of the air and into the waters of irri- gation, which, however, only partially succeeded. The practical irrigators, and those who expect to be, desired to use the occasion for educational purposes. Under the Federal irrigation law the Government will spend many millions of dollars in water works. The users of this water must return the money to the Government, either in the price they will pay for their Jand or in the rent they will pay for water. In either case it will be no gift, and those who pay it cannot afford the time required to learn the capacity of their land and the proper application of water by experiment. - The duty of water in irrigation varies with the ab- sorbent quality of the soil, the rate of evaporation and the kind of crop to which it is applied. It is known that too much water, or water applied at the wrong time, destroys the fertility of some soils, which under proper and timely irrigation are fertile and profitable. The Agricultural Department has a corps of experienced scientific men working on these physical problems and identifying the different kinds of soil with the water service each requires for profit- able tillage, and in like manner establishing the measure of irrigation required by the staple crops. These useful investigators and the Government en- gineers engaged in the engineering problems were present in Ogden and on the programme with papers filled with information which practical men desired to hear. But there were also on the programme a few professional orators, who deal in words of the imagination and irrigate with wind, and when these got into action they so occupied the time of the con- vention that the modest men of science were crowded out entirely, as appears by the reports, and had to be content with leave to print their papers. The atmospheric irrigators seem likely to do the cause much injury by their habit of raising expecta- tions impossible of realization. For illustration, we | note that they persistently refer to irrigation as ap- plicable “to an empire of land in the arid States des- tined to be the home of eighty millions of people.” Indeed, one left enumeration entirely behind him, and, giving notice that his imagination was “stag- gered” by the prospect, proceeded to immediately settle “‘countless millions” in the same area. All of these perfervid social builders put the total acreage that can be touched by water and made hab- itable, when the Federal irrigation law has finished its work and put the last available drop of water land, at 100,000,000 The law under which this land is to be irri- gated permits a maximum to each settler of 160 Each one will have his maxi- mum, for most of the land lies on the high plateaus, where the variety of crops is limited by the short season, and a quarter section is little enough to keep a family. So when the whole hundred million acres acres. { is watered, sold and occupied, its 625,000 quarter sec- tions, with a family on each with the’average of five to a family, will support just 3,125,000 people, or less than the population of Illinois. Of course that addition to the rural population of the West is highly important and much to be desired, but it is a long way this side of the countless millions | which teem in the mouths of the imaginative para- sites who infest irrigation congresses. This imagina- tive quality seems to have slopped over into the | resolutions adopted by the congress, which in the most lush and sumptuous manner suggest that the ir- rigation of a hundred million acres on our cold | plateaus will plant there the results achieved in the Valley of the Po, the Indus and the Nile. Yes, this will happen when irrigation raises bananas in the open air at Cape Nome. The address of the Secretary of Agriculture was of the highest value, amounting to a text book on prac- tical irrigation, and those who appreciated it re- gretted that they were not permitted to hear the papers prepared by his fine corps of scientists who were present. The usual scrippers’ raid was made on the convention to get all land laws repealed by which the public domain may pass into private ownership, except by the location of land scrip, of which about 6,000,000 acres is held by corporations and syndicates. The repeal of the desert land, | homestead and timber and stone acts leaves scrip location the only possible means of acquiring public lands, and every settler that wants land must pay whatever price the scripper asks and then take all the risks of location. It was a pretty scheme, but was too raw, and the convention attacked it with a war whoop and smote it into a dry and dusty death. Other parts of the platform are open to criticism, for they seek to identify irrigation with an attack upon the fundamental principles of government, but perhaps they will stand as good examples to the next convention of what to avoid The Moors have emphatically announced their in- tention to expel all foreigners from Morocco. One is forced to wonder what character of conditions may exist in this land, physically and otherwise unfit, that any rational being would wait to be forced to leave it. M timist of our time has met the pretensions of those who sigh for “‘the good old days” and assert that our social and economic conditions are worse than they were forty years ago, but rarely has the refutation of the lament been more effectively made than by Chauncey Depew in a recent address on the changes that have occurred in the relations of labor and capital during his lifetime. The facts cited strikingly attest the steady advance of labor and the diminution in the percentage of profits obtained by the owners of invested capital. Speaking of matters within his own experience and knowledge Senator Depew said: “In 1866, when I began as an attorney with the railroad, the average pay per capita, including all classes on the pay roll, was less than $400 a year; in 1880 it was $520. In 1003 it was $633 per annum, an advance of over 20 per cent since 188 and 38 per cent since 1866. In 1880 capital received 8 per cent upon its investment in New York Central stock and 7 per cent upon its investments in the bonds. In 1903 the stockholder gets 5 and the bondholder 374 per cent. Of the earn- ings in the year ending June 3, 1902, capital received $6,000,000 from the stock and $20,600,000 from the bonds, or $26,600,000 in the aggregate, while labor received $20,003.400.” THEN AND NOW. ANY are the arguments. with which the op- it is a long time in the life of an individual, and con- sequently the changes recorded by Mr. Depew ap- pear to have taken place slowly, and yet they have been almost rapid enough to amount to something like a revolution. The investor who formerly ob- tained 8 per cent on his capital now obtains only 3%. During the same period the rate of average wages in- creased upward of 20 per cent. The figures of course relate only to a single railroad, but they may be taken as fairly representativg of the proportions of wages and profits now obtained by labor and by capital in all the great American industries. For a continuance of this steady progress in the right direction there needs nothing more than a maintenance of harmony between the two great ele- ments of the industrial world. As Senator Depew puts it: “The forces of capital and of labor have in the last year progressed in organization and in power beyond any previous twenty. As warring factions they are destructive of the comforts, of the peace and almost of the life of communities and of the country. They ought to dwell together in harmony and live under a perfect understanding or with methods by which disputes can be speedily settled before all out- side interests are involved.” The traffic maintained by white men in Chinese coolies in this city has already resulted in scandal to the Federal Government and dishonor and death to some of those who were pals in the dishonest trade. Time after time such scandals as these have affronted the public like the recurrent symptoms of intermit- tent fever, and as long as the palms of Federal un- derlings itch for dishonest money scandal and ex- posure will inevitably follow. GUATEMALA’'S EXPERIMENT. UATEMALA has suffered so much from the G lack of a sound currency and a stable mone- tary system that her Government has under- taken the rash experiment of trying to raise the rate of wages of plantation laborers by statute, with the avowed object of saving them in that way from the | wrong done by paying them in depreciated and still further depreciating paper money. Of old it was not unusual for governments to un- dertake to fix the rate of wages and the prices of food by statute, but of recent years the governments of civilized men have understood the folly of such attempts, consequently the announcement that the President of Guatemala has undertaken to rcvive! the old experiment and to fix wages by govern- | mental dictation comes as something of a surprise even to those who are most accustomed to the va- | garies of politics in Latin America. A defense of the acfion of the President has been recently published by way of reply to the many com- plaints made by the planters of interference with the labor market. So far as the defense consists of a statement of facts it seems to be valid, for there |can be no question that the instability of the currency and the steady decline in the purchasing power of money has been a serious imjury to the workingmen of the country. That sort of thing al- ways happens wherever an unsound and vicious monetary system prevails. It would have happened in the United States had either the greenback move- ment or the free silver crusade been successful. It is therefore worth while for the American people to give scme little heed to what is happening now to the plantation workers of Guatemala. In the course of his defense the advocate of the action of the Government says: “The difference in the value of paper money and of gold and silver has so altered the relation of prices to things that not | only foreign goods. which are paid for in gold, but domestic articles of food and other necessities of life have risen in value in proportion to the depreciation of paper money of the country. And it is not strange that the price of native products should be affected by this condition of the monetary system when it is seen that the producers must receive for them in 1 gold what they have to pay for goods which they need and do not produce.” For the purpose of protecting the workers of the plantations against the evils resulting from a system in which the worker is paid in paper but has to buy in gold the President decrees that the wages of plan- | tation hands shall be $1 50 a day, an amount which at the present value of Guatemala paper money is equivalent to about ten cents in gold. It is cer- tainly nothing extraordinary the way of high wages, and if the decree were based on anything like a rational foundation it would not be objection- able. Ample experience, however, has proven that a government cannot fix the rate of wages, nor can it keep an irredeemable paper currency at any kind of a fixed value. The decreed $1 50, which is worth ten cents in gold to-day and serves the plantation | worker as a means of obtaining the low subsistence that prevails among the Indians of that country, may be worth only five cents within a year. The only way in which the Government of Guatemala can effec- tively serve the interests of its people in this respect is that which has been adopted by Mexico. Let the currency be put upon a sound basis and labor will have no need for governmental regulation of wages. An interesting side light on the situation is thrown by a report from Guatemala that “the property- owners say they do not object to a payment of the wages fixed by the Government, for that within itself is a small matter, but that the law will so operate as to increase the already large amounts they have to pay to certain Government officials for their favors.” Perhaps the President and his Ministers may have had an idea of that effect of the law when they pro- mulgated it. in College students the world over have been per- mitted a freedom, a liberation from restraint, a frank for frolics and follies granted to no other com- munity of rational beings. They are allowed to frame their own laws within broad limitations and in a belief that their sense of right will protect them and those with whom they come in contact. But the Berkeley boy who carried vitriol into a crowd and wreaked a dastardly crime upon one of his fellows ought to preserve the memory of his action as a blight upon his own life While the Postoffice Department is engaged in the ungrateful task of cleaning its own .nest of the foul growths that have crept to an existence with it, de- partment officials should not forget that they have the reputation, well won, of being inplacable, pursuers of evildoers and that punishment has inevitably fol- lowed the commission of crimes against the postal service. An American who occupied the distinguished if obscure position of Consul in a town in the United States of Colombia has resigned his position and re- turned to his home in Oregon. The remaining mem- bers of our consular service in the southern republic Forty years is not much in the life of a nation, but | are still resigned in spirit if net in action. | violin and harp Interludes by Mr. GRAND OPERA AND SCHEEL CONCERT APPLAUDED BY LOVERS OF MUSIC il OVERS of grand opera were given a delightful treat in last night's presentation of ““La Traviata” by the Tivoli company. There were three distinguished artists in the cast—Tina de Spada, Gluseppe Agostino and Adamo Gregoretti—all of whom are possessed of superior vocal attainments. They were all in fine voice and at several stages in the performance excited a large audience of admirers to a high pitch of enthusiasm. Not only was the vocal part of the production of superlative merit, but the dramatic portion also received an artistic rendering. De Spada, as Violetta, sang the music allotted to her with splen- did effect. Seldom is it one's good fortune to hear joy and pathos displayed in a vocal organ such as De Spada owns. She rose to superior heights at all times and her final effort, when she expires in the arms of her lover, was positively a mas- terpiece of vocal art. She was rewarded with salvos of applause and bushels of flowers. Agostino, as Alfredo, threw his very soul into the number in which Verdi's genius appears tp have been concentrated. His top notes were given with a power that fairly thrilled his hearers and many were the bravos that resounded through- out the house at the conclusion of his singing. Gregorettl's magnificent barytone was more than equal to the exacting vocal re- quirements of the part of Germont and his scene with Violetta, in which he begs her to renounce her son, was given in forceful manner, both from a vocal and dramatic point of view. The concerted singing of the principals, assisted by Signors Napoleoni, Gullio, Cortes!, Quinto Zani and Grove Jacques, was delightful and the chorus was in all instances re- liable. Marie Walsh, as Flora, and Net- tle Deglow, as Anina, did well in small parts. Too much cannot be said of the orchestra, which, under the master hand of Paul Steindorff, is never found want- ing. Steindorff wields his baton in a com- manding way that compels obedience both from vocalists and instrumentalists. The and Mrs. John Marquardt were hugely en- Joyed. To-night we are to have the much-her- alded Marchesini as Carmen. e e The twenty-seventh season of the Lor- ing Club was opened auspiciously last evening with a concert in Native Sons’ Hall. In no respect has the club ever given a concert more replete with solid enjoyment or artistic merit. Assistance was given by Mrs. Birmingham; by B. Jaulus, F. Forde and Willlam von der Mehden, violinists; by J. Lewis, vio- la; F. Bracamonte, cello; S. Brown, bass; F. C. Zeh, flute; G. Schneider and Willlam Kleln, clarinets, and A. L. Tillman and O. Schlott, horns. Miss Ruth Lorin was at the plano, and right clever she was; and J. C. Fyfe was at the organ. With this aggregation of talent, under the able di- rection of David W. Loring, much was naturally expected. The outcome fully Jjustified” optimism. The programme ranged from a virile composition by H. Hofman, *“Hareld’'s Bridal Voyage,” in which Herbert K. Medley was the well selected soloist, to a final waltz song, with much interven- ing. o sum up, the following compositions were given in addition to the *“Bridal Voyag March and waltz for the strings, by Volkman; “The Long Day Closes by Arthur 8. Sullivan; ‘“‘Break, | Break,” by John Hyatt Brewer; ballads by Delibes, Reynalde Hahn and Clarence | Lucas—these three being sung by Mrs. Birmingham; a folk song by J. B. Zer- lett; a roundelay by Rheinberger; two songs, respectively by Nevin and Victor Harris, which were sung by Mrs. Birm- ingham, and the final waltz song by Vogel. With all this the large audience de- manded more. The string quintett had to repeat a waltz; Mrs. Birmingham was urged for additional songs and complied. The most effective, If not the most am- bitious number for the chorus, was the “Break, Break,” when the chorus had the combined assistance of the strings, wood, wind, brass, piano and organ. Of the chorus it may be sald that it is as well balanced as ever in the history of the club. It is sure in attack, under excellent control, certain in tone, sym- pathetic. Only once during the evening did the singers stray from the fold of tempo; never did they commit the cardin- al sin of singing out of tune. The only real trouble with the concert was that there was not more of it. The opening | of the season was an unqualified success. A musical audience completely filled the hall on invitation. e Daphne and Fred Pollard carried off most of the honors at the Grand Opera- house last night. It was the first time that the diminutive theatrical stars have | presented the musical comedy *Dorothy™ | in this city and the large audience which came to hear and witness went away more than pleased. The applause came frequently and generally with the em- phasis that indicates genuine apprecia- tion. The opera is rich in pleasing music and containg something of humor. The part of it all which pleases the audience most L g o+ T H E A TRICAL FAVORITES WHO WILL OPEN AT THE GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. % %2 James Neill to Appear at the Big Mission-Street Theater. AR 207 o 45 2 AMES NEILL, one of the most popular actors that has ever ap- peared In this city, will begin a| brief engagement at the Grand | Opera-house next Sunday matinee | in the romantic melodrama, “A Gentle- man of France,” a dramatization of Stanley Weyman's novel by Harriet Ford, | which proved an immense success in the East and which is described as a play of action and adventure. Mr. Neill's role is that of Gaston de| Marsac, whose adventures suggest the ex- citing scenes in which Dumas’ hero D’Artagnan participated. The great fea- ture of it is his single-handed combat with seven lusty adversaries on a great stair- case. This scene proved a veritable sen- sation not only in New York, but in Philadelphia and Boston as well. It car- ries the action to a sensational pitch and is sald to have scored from fifteen to twenty curtain calls nightly, even on blase Broadway. The play opens with Gaston de Marsac suing at the court of Henry of Navarre. Here the hero is flattered and ridiculed, but he wins the regard of Mile. de la Vire, the haughty court beauty, who gives him a rose. In the next scene Navarre and Baron Rosny come to Marsae’'s poor apartments to offer him the dangerous mission of rescuing Mile. de la Vire from the castle of Chize, whither Turenne, Navarre’s rival in the faver of the Huguenots, has contrived to banish her. De Marsac accepts the mission and makes the rescue. In the fourth scene Fresnoy asserts that De Marsac boasted of Mile. de la Vire's favor and convinces her that he, and not De Marsac, was deputed by Navarre to rescue her. In the end De Marsac accomplishes the pur- pose of Navarre, who by the death of Henry III is now King of France. The new leader loads him with riches and honors, and Mile. de la Vire, whose im- | perious love has been won against heavy | odds, gives him her heart and hand. Mr. Neill will be splendidly supported. Edythe Chapman will appear as the haughty court beauty, Mlle. de la Vire, and the other characters will be dis— tributed among Donald Bowles, Clifford Dempsey, George Bloomquest, Jean de Lacey, Reginald Travers, Robert Morris, | communicated —_—— HE Haydn simplicities taxed somewhat heavily the Scheel Sym- phony Orchestra in the symphony of yesterday afternoon (No. 5. L major). The symphony was given | with the usual small orchestra, that hard- | Iy seemed quite to lift to the occasion. Haydn and Mozart, here after all, is where the quality of an orchestra most surely tells. Not as in Brahms or Wagner, where a note or two from the profuse- ness of their wealth may be lost without great hurt, every note is here inalienably precious. In the lines of the work, few, pure and simple, the least uncertainty is apparent as in the light and subtle shad- | ing the smallest blur offends. Yesterday, though the symphony was gracefully enough given, its rendering lacked the es- sential purity of line and tone. It lacked also the spontaneous quality and some- thing of warmth and color. The finale perhaps went most successfully, the men by then beginning to waken to their task. But the symphony was among the least successful efforts of the season, as it is among the most essentially difficult things attempted. Yesterday afternoon saw the introduc- tion of an innovation in the shape of a soloist, Mr. Otto Spamer, who made quite a furor by his playing of the Allegro Pathetique from the Ernst violin con- certo in F sharp minor. Though Mr. Spamer is a skillful fidler, with a good, the extreme warmth of his reception the extreme warmth of his hreception is not quite explainable and his encore to the Ernst, a charming slow movement in which he made a telling gift of tone apparent, evidenced that the Ernst ban- alities had not drawn the best from him, and it is possible that in later numbers the violinist would have lived up to his enthuslastic greeting. But Mr. Spamer, while his school is evidently a good one, has not yet shown any particular distinc- tion or unusual magnetism. The afternoon was prolific of novelties, chief of them the Strauss Serenads for thirteen instruments. The number was productive of much interest, it being the first orchestral work of Richard Strau to be miven here. Those to whom the later Strauss gives large cause of offense in this early product of his pen—it is Op. T—professed to find much hope for the composer's future. Certainly it has none of the complexities of build and barshness of discords so freely ascribed to the later work. The influence of the older schools, as also that of Wagner, are quite apparent in the “Serenade,” as well as a peculiar piquancy that prom- ises what the later Strauss has become. To me the work is on first hearing rather curious than beautiful; its scoring— Strauss has taken the small orchestra and simply eliminated all the strings but one double bass—productive of problem- atic charm, its melody without imme- diate spell, its harmonies generally con- ventionally effective. But there Is, too, the aforementioned characteristic flavor, and it is quite possible the “Serenade” of longer acquaintance would find the ar- dent championship it has aroused where it is among the well known works. Mas- senet’s “La Vierge,” announced as a nov- elty, was very well given here at the Campanar! mphony concert in the spring, and yesterday was also charm- | ingly rendered under Mr. Scheel’s baton Thoroughly enjoyable was the Lustspiel overture by E. N. Reznicek, that closed the programme, It is a delightful com- position, picturesque in theme and treat- ment, full of humor and mirth. It was handsomely played. This, with the Bee- thoven Coriolanus overture that opened the afternoon, completed the programme. The attendancé was again encouragingly large, the applause generous, in Mr. Spa- mer’s solo boisterous. Next Tuesday’s programme includes the “Rustic Wedding” symphony of Gold- mark, and the music of “Montezuma’™ (music drama), by H. J. Stewart, for the first time. BLANCHE PARTINGTON. ———e—————— tes Church and State. PARIS, Sept. 22.—The Socialist Deputy Briand, whom the Parllamentary com- mittee before the summer vacation en- trusted with the proposition of a bill for | the separation of church and state, has completed his task. The principal points in the proposed measure, which will be to the committee im- mediately, are absolute respect for re- liglous liberty, the application of com- mon law to religious associations and the maintenance of the complete lalcization of the state. ———l s Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 716 Market st., above Call bidg. * —_——————————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by t Piess Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 C: fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 @ il @ Bloomquest, W. H. Harkness, Morris Cytron, Roy Davis, Robert Banks, Ed- ward Whitcomb, Lilllan Andrews, Edith Campbell, Ruth Hicksteln, Gertrude Keller and Dorothy Sidney. Particuar attention is called to the fact that there will be matinees Thursdagsy of course is the cleverness with which the little tots play the parts intended for artists of maturer years. A couple of topical songs are introduced to give tha performance a trifle more life than it would have otherwise, That popular “infant phenomenon™ Daphne did a great deal of the heavy work. In addition to rendering a long speaking part she did a song and dance turn which brought down the house. Fred Pollard sang “My Pauline” until he was nearly exhausted and then his hearers wanted some more of it. Alice Pollard had rather less than usual to do, but the audience was afforded an opportunity to enjoy the music of her voice a few times nevertheless. Irene Goulding and Ivy Pollard occupied important roles, which they filled in the most creditable manner. Both are splen. aid singers and both sing solos in this opera. Four other little damsels of the pinafore age who g0 nameless as etceteras on the programme made a hit with a witch song. They were attired in appropriate costumes and, as many young ladies remarked audibly, “looked too cute for anything."” The rest of the stellar ag- gregation contributed generously one and all to the luster of the finished produc- tion. “Dorothy” will be presented for the sec- ond and last time to-night. MISSION TO ABYSSINIA PROVOKES MUCH COMMENT German Newspapers Declare It Is Fresh Indication of American Ambition Abroad. BERLIN, Sept. 22.—The mission of Mr. Skinner, the United States Consul Gen- eral at Marseilles, to King Menelik of Abyssinia, is the subject of Ilvely com- ment here. Not one of the newspapers professes to understand what it means, but most of them aver that it is a “fresh indication of the United States’ ambition abroad.” Several papers while animadverting to the “imperialistic mood” of the United States regard it as natural that she should reach out for new influence. okl —_—— Farmers to Settle in Cuba, HAVANA.l Sept. 22.—Thomas J. Ander- son, general passenger agent of tl Southern Pacific Rallroad, lnnounc:l th: he has come to Cuba with the idea of ar. ranging for the immigration of American farmers to settle on Cuban soil. John W. Burton, Robert Siddle, Elme: Saturdays and Sundays. ADVERTISEMENTS. Any Color or Shape for $1.30 Don’t think that our $1.80 far from it—why you can get the in the following shapes: hat is any one particular style— hat in almost any style. It comes Derbys, Fedoras, Dunlap Crushers, Co- lumbias, Tourists, Three-in-Ones and Graecos. The soft hats are made with different colored bands We picture the pearl color Fedora. 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