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ROBBED IN HOME, DIES; POLICE TO INVESTIGATE Apoplexy Given as Cause of Death, but Husband Sus- pects Thieves. The polices of the Hamburg avenue po- lice atation, Brooklyn, are invest! 99) reach out after other cities to conquer. | in: There was a warm audience for the welcome by the old tones that our 4 fathers loved #o well and there could | Jerag, De No doubt that there was a grr Feven At the t denire to he pleased. Of the Indiv en ury performern Herbert Wateroum, as © aa See Arnheim, won chief honors. He fepeat "The Heart Bowed Down. But Michedl Balfe’s Old) ter Wheater waa not particu! Happy, either in vetca or in action, am | Molkmustc wettings fora amall orchestra that Dr. Dacnrosoh wa nonnce that no repeat nt Wal- | Would be sung at the end Tunes Still Maintain) traitors, aithours tie wan forced to] by Perey Aldridue Grainger. played by Their Power to Please—|*"* \". aa dem in "Phen You'll Remember Me," | members of the Symphony Soetety, The “When the Mair} fewt wae a Mock Morris Dance for 4 of Poland." Iv: Arline, It’s @ Pity That Regu- Land of Poland.” Ivy Scott was Ar! the Count’a daugnter, stolen by the strings, the aecond an Irish tune from County Derry, for atrings, and the lar Performances Have | «:-psics, itor anging of “1 Dream’d that | hind “Shepherd's Hey," @ Morrin dance to Serve as Rehearsals. By Sylvester Rawling. 1 Dwelt in Marble Halts” and “Come with the Gypsy Bride’ piraned the Jayne Herbert wan | Charming eftective as the Gypsy Queen, but Al-|ihere were two concertinas, in fact— fred Kaufman lacked gap as Devils audience greatly. tun@ for strings, flute, clarinet, horn and British concertina, Each was a @ third of the concertina— + | wae & decided novelty, astonishing too, latic use. wd be 4 toyeranted, but that an extra number larly; The second part consisted of three Peack- | lowed compoaitions by Jacques Lefevre, -| Adam de la Hale, Brahme end Palmeren, The three songs for wom- ¢n'e voices by Brahina were equisttely am thet lovely and inepiring “Noel | Th xd chotr, and one thet s einge with af fection, ® fonat: Frane Egenietf, @ baritone of much |artinte were at their best, and the aud- | { r a large audienc or of Col, Bavage’e Mr. Peed by Wolf, Loewe, Schumann, De-| with Buson!'s arrangement of the sey, charming bit of melody, but the prea-|— some mysterions occurrences with the death of M the Germar Years old, was etrinped of money and |e Jewels wille ele Butopsy being ordered a On Monday inet, the woman's tus. Monday. night, found her lying senseless on the) 1" floor of the kitchen. Te alarmed! neigh bors, who calied the police and am-! ena sadonna,” bulance, Toemlian Girl.” was presented Qt the Century Opera House last night thin a manner that carried no laurela for! MUSICAL ART the management. ‘The performance wan and Hfelom, Hoxpita cauee amateuris) death is given as apoplexy, but tha fact | Moepiiers that might that Mra, Ness, who was fortyetwe! Crudencss of consir i“ y uneonseious in " 1 | comaity for more rehearsals and for « ec mon , her fiat before removal to the hobpital | hrener artietic @ense in preparation of| Tat Of these, the Chriatmas concer has resulted tn an investigation and an | the Century Moris operas to which | pace at Carnegie Hall lagt might in the! ¢! 7 wars drewn in thie column on on of owded house. The choir presence of @ ere q Hefore tha end of the week| was in exceptionally fine voice and one| @My More cookies by Parcel Band. when he returned to his home at ome Hkely there wit! be great improve-| might not hope to hear more artictic I'm using Presto Self- ringing. The programme was divided: Raising Flour now. managers, can do was shown in| tnto three parts, Palestrina’s beautify! {their fine production of "The Jewels of | “Hodie Christus Natus Fat" led the Far better to main-|firat division, which included Melchior ment, What Milton and Sargent Aborn, cy OL, BALFE'S off-fashioned | hoof, and Frank Philips did not @rasp | in the demonstration of its arti P sonaste Fngliah peti 4 the character of Floremain. The chorus fans Leo ier, q @ang well and there was a ballet in the |an@ @ chorale on the eame melody by Bach, led the third part. Then fol- first act. Mr. Nicosia conducted, A “love Song” by SOCIETY GIVES; \ ITS CHRISTMAS CONCERT. Twice @ year the Musical Art Bootety, | # picked choir of seventy singers, under the direction of Dr. Frank Damrosch, gives concerta that detight the ears and minds and heart of music lovers. The Of the at- © hidden the beginning the twenty-first season, took | Post: | Dear Mother Smith :— Fred saye you needn't send Lovingly, covered that his wife’e gold watch and Which she usually carried bosom of her dregs, were mipsing. The door was unlocked amd any one might have entered the apartment while Mra, Ness lay unconscious, The hus- band is inclined to think Mrs, Nese may have been the victim of an assault; especially, ag up to the time he dis~ covered her senseless, she was in excel- lent health. Before she died in the hospital to- day, Mra. Ness was questioned but could only reply that she remem! nothing connected with her eeisure. _— ELOPERS ROUSE MINISTER ‘FOR MIDNIGHT WEDDING Bride’s Parents on Return Home Find Note Telling of Ro- mantic Flight. WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 17.—Mr. and Mrs, Charles Walser of Nutley, N. J., are registered here after a romantic love mateh and elopement which brought them at miinight Saturday to the heme of the Rev. WilMam Mathews of Nutley, whom they aroused and who performed Other away attending @ eocial function lest , Saturday night end Mise Page, who had all ber effects in readiness, escaped from the found a little note that told them of the runaway match. Young Walser is @ brother of the owner of the Hasieton (Pa) Sentinel, Dut has made his home in Nutley for eome time. He mot Miss Page iast eum- mer at Lake Hopatcong. //, chain, and a purse containing $130,| = in the} In the meantime Ness ate-| tain that standard in New York than to | Franck's “In Den Armen Dein,” Swee- dames McCreary & Co. 34th Street Sth Avenue Special Offerings ‘ i PRACTICAL HOLIDAY GIFTS. ON THURSDAY AN.) 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LEA:PERRINS' SAUCE ‘THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE atc, ea at An Appetizer Sold by Grocers Everywhere pin, Diset, Ki is Nally ‘“‘MinnelHed,”’ Mr, and Mrs, David Mannes gave the p! ‘he added number! piano sonata recitals at the Princess one o fthe favorites of the| gramme waa a’ sonata in @ major, op. 78; ta in A major, op. 10, and the D_ minor, op. 108, Roth era) t opinion of this Germany, gave w@ recital at] ience showed its knowledge of it. faith-cure business? Harold Henry, a young man from Ch!-| Pyker—Oh, it's all right. 1 tried gt "Parw'fal’ company.| cago, gave a plano recital in Aeolian |once and was completely cured Egenteff's programme inoiuded| Hall yesterday afternoon. He began renee udoun't say! Of what ™| Bach | you cu: Techalkowaky and Augusta| prelude and fugue in D major, made| Pyker—Of my faith in it. 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