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m, 4 THE ARGUS: SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1892. _ he Argus. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: Bunday Edition, do do Daily. wil do - do Semi-Weekly. do do - Weokly.....- ADVERTISENENTS: SandayEdition-Ten Conts per line solld Nonparel? Ravacion, the Parls dynamiter, stems possessed with a grim sense of humor. It is not often that a court, officers and audi- ence in acourt room, are terrified by an inoffensive banana, It is not best to play practical jokes upon a judge, however, until after sentence has been imposed. o-- «---+ Te political situation in the south con- tinues to excite much thought and per- turbation on the part of an. esteemed con- temporary, It is highly important, therefore, that the latest: expression of pinion should be obtained as soon as possible from the Lumpkin Independant, the Staunton Vindicator, the McXMinnvillo New Era and several other roprescatative reflectors of southern thought. m-. Momwoxtst is not decreasing in num- bers or lessening its influence in Utah by any means, 'The capstons of a great Mor- mon temple in Salt Lake City was laid last week, and the assemblage present at the cereinonies was estimated at 40,000 or 50,000. 'The temple is an impressive building, costing over $8,000,000, and is the result of thirty-nine years of Inbor, 'The interlor of the building will be deco. rated at an estimated cost of $150,000, and one devout and holy member of tho twelve apostles opened a subscription to do this work with an order for $10,000, Polygamy will: no doubt receive a fresh impetus from all this glory, and the work of breaking up peaceful homes and de- grading American womanhood by their proselyting methods will be pursued more zealously than ever by tho sanctified Mormon elders. Tux attitude of the Dominion govern- ment on the question of annexation is de- fined in the proceedings already taken to have Lfoutenant A. E. McDonald, of Toronto, removed from the military list for boving declared himself in favor of union with the United States. Ho is the Liberal candidate for a sent in the Ontario parliament upon an absolute annexation platform, hence the action of the govern- ment, 'The time when such declarations on the part of a Canadian could be re- garded as trensonable has long since past and the attempt to discipline him is an assumption of monarchical power that is, to say the least, inadvisable, 'The govern- ment may exertits power to better pur- pose by endeavoring to armnge the difficulties which exist with Newfound: land, This province fa exhibiting a spirit of independence which, in the light of the Dominion's attitude upon the McDonald affair, is highly treasonable. ---4»-- Ir is pretty generally conceded that Pierre Lot}, the recent addition to the French Academy is one of the most rarely gifted literary artists in the world. | Ho is & matchless painter in words. But since he hus been fucluded among. the Immor- *tels, ho has been. tempted into a contro- ' very with 3C, Zols. It{will bo remem- {bered that the great exponent of realism { coveted the electfon, and Loti, while feli- 'eltating himself, could not resist the temptation to score his unsuccessful rival. +Zoln resonts these attacks, and asks how, while professing never to have read such books, Lott has such an intimate nequaintance | with | tho | naturalistic school; reminds him that the | Aco demy - only - accepted - him | because 1s would not have Zola himself, and says that Loti's stories are not very edifying, {'We bave the keanest admiration of Loti's ppower as a stylist, But ho should not 'presume upon it. His are not the gifts | that fit one for controversy, and he might better stand beforos gatliog gun than' 'M. Zola, if the latter actually unmasks his batteries, and opensup with his wond- erful vocabulary, --__-a4z.__ Taz verdict of a coroner's Jury in Mel- bourne of wilful murder against Decming closes tho preliminary proceedings in this sensational eate, The evidence throughout was sufficient to connect the prisoner with 'the diabolical crimes committed at Rain- ihill, England, ond Windsor, Australis, but justice in this case, as in many others of a like nature, imay miscarry and the author of the fearful crimes escape punishment. | There seems to be no doubt now that the defence will be insanity and experts will be called to testify to the specificform of madness with which his counsel says he is afflicted. Themmethod pursued by Deeming in killing his | victims - and | their | number bars the ples of emotional fnssnity, but admits the defense of Homfcidal manta which it is said his counsel will interpose, Insanity is always scoffed at in marder trials as the last resort of a prisoners counsel but the lise to be adopted in Deemning's cass is altogether novel. Itis to prove that his nature hed received a Tnaliguant impress prior to his birth which bes Influenced and marked all his actions during life and lefé him. mentally fneapo- Heof overcoming bomicidal impulses with which he was afdicted; Infact that be was what the public described as a \morcl monstrosity.\ No specialist lns yetmade astudy of Deeming's case, but the idea that influences Ind enyibing to ds wil b‘xcfizqwog: spas (24313051 a werkplen whith toon Bard, gaodéesa‘ggfm joy. Setmet legel dexterty, or «logzence stoold not dfert Sorice from Ifleung The ponts merifhat Is cuversily eca to be Etsttei’ai’mtm‘faer. « romo MARQUESAN MELVILLE Ts is generally conceded that leading traits in the American-character are self esteem and assertiveness, Ono of the reasogs the race has ndvanced so rapidly and now holds such high place is because of its thorough belief aud conf dence in itself. 'We know that our fusti- tutions are admirable, and that our natural resources are unlimited, Wo are certain that our destiny is as grand as that of any- of the sons of man, Wo feel that our past stands in need of no apology. We nre tenacious of our re pute in the arts and sciences, and proclaim upon the housetops the undying fame of our writers. Thoro general facts standing. unchallenged, it is very peculiar thnt a single one of our master-minds should lack full recognition and appreciation in. his own country. And yet there nro muny instances of strange neglees, But a week or so ago there passed from carth a strong, virile and poctic mind that met nothing but con- tempt in America for years. It is truo that nt the last we were shamed into n tardy acceptance of the splendid. gifts of Walt Whitman by the generous encour agement of the English people, Without attempting to understand«the charm of Iris uiterances, wo admitted his genius and soothed his dying bed with sympathy. Thero were laid upon his bier some elo: quent tributes from. his countrymen, bub these were rather the outpourings of love and sympathy than critical appreciation, It was England that recognized tlint a strong and original singer had left the earthly choir. A. case very similar to this was that of Herman Melville, a man well known per- sonally in this vicinity, The difference between the two was that Melvilla had a measure of transient popularity during his carly productive period, while at his death he was almost completely forgotten, Els very name was unknown to the younger generation of American readers, and the rather perfunctory tributes in a fow newspapers, when ho died a number of months ago, were read with a mild interest not unmixed with aston ishment, Here, again, England lad an eye for genius when we were blind, Tt will surprise many here, even among those who would be critical, to Teatn that Robert Buchanan classes him as \'the one great imaginative writer fik to stand shoulder to shoulder with Whitman on that continent,\ and that Willism Morris, Theodore Watts, Robert Louis Stevenson aud W. Clark Russell, enroll themselves among the number of his: on- thusiastic admirers. I6 may be doubted whether the name of 'Melyille is included among those that figure in the handbooks of American literature, Tt is certain, at any rate, that he bas no following of readers here. Tt is not to our credit that the first crit- feal estimate of Melville should appear in England, and yet such is the case. Mr, Henry 8. Salt writes an appreciative, dis- criminating and sympathetic sketch of the writer ond the man in the Gentloman's Magazine. Ho makes no allusion to the fact that Belville: was so sadly Jacking in nppreciation from his own countrymen, and bis article has a ring of trltumphant admiration with no trace of apology nor pleading, It is impossible to sum- marize Mr. Salts: estimate, but we can quoto a few detached passages, He declares that Melville wasa genuine child of nature, n sort of nautical George Bor row, to whom he likens him moro than once. Of \Types his masterplece, ho says: \Alike in the calm beauty of its descriptive passages and in the intense vividness of its character sketches, 1t was, nod is, and must over be, a most powerful and fascinating work-Indeed, I think I speok within the mark in saying that nothing better of its kind is to bo found In English literature, so firm and clear 1s it in outline, yet so dreamily sugges- tive in tho dim, mystlo atmosphere which pervades it.\ Then turning to his liter work, Mr. Melville says: \As \Iypes' is the best production of the earlier and simpler phase of Melville's authorship, so undoubtedly is \\The Whale! the crown and glory of the later phase; less shapely and artistic than 'Typeo,/ it for surpasses itin fmmensity of scope and triumphant cncrgy of execu- tion,. It isfu 'The Whals' that we see Melville castiog to the winds all conven- tfonal restrictions, and rioting in the pro- digality of his imaginative vigor. Itis the supreme production of a master mind; letno one presume fo pass judgment on American literature until he has read, and re-read, and wonderiogly pondered the three mighty volumes of \The Whale\\ Ons more brief quofation may te per- mitted: \His natratives are as racy and vigorous as thoseof Defor, or Smollett, or Marryat; his chatacter sketches are such as only a man of keenfobscrvation and as keen a sense of humor could bave realized and depicted.\ The man was well nigh as fnferestiog asthe author. Herman Melville, who, by the way, was a relative of leading Albany families, resided for years in Pittsfield. Here be was the near neighbor and wann friend of Hawthorne, whose home was at Ezmox. Hssoon became a trancenden- ta list, und beliefs streugly colored. his writings. We have nowd tbove the change between bis carlier works, as ex- emplifed in \Types sod His later, as showa ir *The While\ As ibe mood grew upon him, bis style f Decomeaimoiiatecines. He would Co nothing to keep his natze bcieze Ge porq oil hs mot aie to reumee that which led Hongist Horno-to issue his grand eple \Orion\ nt a farthing, he lim- ited one of the most beautiful of. his Inter stories to twenty-five copics. Tt is pleasant to know. that the widow of the novelist lns just sold the copy» rights of her hnsband's works to an on terprising publisher, and that new editions of them all are to be brought cut in America and England. Au opportunity will be given us to atofo for our neglect of this genius, of whom Buchanan, in, his tribute to Whitman, wrote- * we Before whos irert bovietion\ ¥tnse honry-white upon tue deep, With an fu! sounds that «t red its sleop; Melville, whose magle drew Tyee, Radisnt as Vouus, from tho sya.\ 44-_-- THREE REASONS. These ato three out of many reasons why the people of Albany should be thankful. First: 'The city tax rate has heen re- duced over fifteen per cont in two years, viz: CITY TAX RATE-18s8... g21e «600 a 500 1889... 2.00 «600 660. at 18890... 1.90 se thar 1891... 1.74; Second: The tax budget has been de- creased about five per cent in one year, BUDGET-1891........$942,020,82 * 1892 ...... $01,400.87 Third: The city bonded debt has been reduced ten per cont in two years, viz: Not debt, 1890. .. $3,808,089 Net dobt, 1891. .... $258,610 Net debt, 1892 .. 2,079,007 -e». MBR, PALMER'S PAINTINGS. Albanians lave watched with great in- terest the artistic. career of Walter Lount Palmer, Nomtly all of his best picures have beon exhibited in this city, and steady progress has been noted with satis- Section. From the very first there was geen in Mr. Palmer's, work the delicacy and instinct of a true post, and the keen- est and most sympathetic love of nature. He started, too, with a technical skill most unusual in a young artist. His drawing has always been firm sad trug, and his gye for color effects has been discriminating, Ab first it scemed as if his field might be too cireumsoribed, but as his skill, has been perfected and his gifts have ripened, he has broadened in every way. The riot of glowing colors, the. pellucid atmosphere and the haze of romance and poesy in Venice first tempted his brush, Many of the matehless scenes ofthe Queen of the Adriatic wero transferred with moving power to his canvasses, and ever and anon ho turns egain to this field for a subject, Tho training was invaluable to him, especially as ho resisted the tempin- tion to spoil his band with un- due prodigality of color, Later he gave us exquisite snow scenes, Interpreted with a postic suggestiveness that as- tonished even his friends, In his last and crowning work he has turned, wo are proud to say, to a typical American scone, Of this painting, now in tho ex hibition of the National Academy of Design, the New York Herald says: The first Hallgarten prize for the bost plo- turin. ofl painted in the United States by an American citizen under thirty-five, should without doubt fall to Walter L. Falmor's superb large canvass, pleturin with groat truth and brilllancy of color, ane a startling verity of growing light and cool air, an ©Aututun Morning ontho Banks of tho Dolaware.\ Albanians can testify to the truth of this praise, for the splendid picture was on ox- hibition here at Auncsloy's, and its beau- tes called out most enthusiastic admira- tion, fr. Palmer las earned his success by earnest and consclontlous efforts nnd honest methods, The coveted Hallgarten prize could not be more worthily be- stowed. --<4a--_ Tare spirit which animates the Amer} can public In sporting events was shown in the interest with which the result of the famous Oxford and Cambridge 'bont race was awaited yeaterday, Both the light and the datk blue had their friends, but the prestige gnined by the twenty-five victories of the latter was suf- ficlent to urgo. caution in backing the Cambridge crew, | The raco rowed yester- day was the forty-ninth contest in which theso crews bave contested for rquatic honors. Oxford has won twenty-five of theso contests, | Cambridge | twenty-two and one race was a tio. | 'The first aco - was rowed dn 1820, and over a coutse two miles nnd G60 yards long, but the second race did not occur until 1826, and it was not until after 1856, that the contest became an annual one. . 'The present course Putuey to Mort lake, was then selected, being four miles and $00 yards long. One bundred and forty yards have since been added making the present course. . These ces, itis in- teresting to note, mark the development in racing gear and equipment, In 196 the Face was first towed in outriggers and it wos not until 1807 that either crew rowed in the present style of beats with- out keels, being also the first race rowed withround cars. The best time, prior to the phenomenal time of 19 min, 21 see. made yesterday over the preseat course was made in 1973 when Cambridgecame Ina winner by three and one-quarter Iengihsin the re- markably good tim of nineteen mlonies and thity-five secocds. Both crews io This meeused alidicg seats for the first time, and to the virtues of the tow seats wosattribated the good record. Sines then, howeves, the time has fallen to the seconds of 1977, when the Oxforl bow damaged his car and the taos became Ced beat Inst yor the fime was Iwenty-two minates. Tear Amy-Ye 3, Is ame my- “W' ameing 557.5qwmi. bet you might bave Bed fheCecenicy to Jef mms proposs. What will the girls think!-{J nége, memotable twenty-four minutes, eight [Faye TALK oP Th Tow», WO continents \have gone wild over \Taras Boom-de-ay,\ Never «has a topical song had such popu- larity. _ Even thestrango ad- ventures . of McGinty and Tus untimoly denth, or | the peregrin ations aout the dance hell of 'one Mc- Fadden,. as , chronfoled | by . + a. local: histor- fan, nevor roused. such wild, for-renching enthusiasm, London is delirious over the alr, i is bumined ond. whistled nud sung everywhere from morning tlll night, The following from a well-known 'soclety journal will give some iden of the way poople take it: Philosophers and fools unite, as men of common In hasvflnylz Tears Boom-deny, fera-zn Boom ay. It ceases nob the wholoight through; policemen - on thelr beak .- To: cheer thelr: splits In. the dark the awful phraso repeat, - And lllél'fllurs sottly whisper It, and revelers who stray Tun Into lampposts to the tuno of Tatars Boom-dony. 'The organ-grindor'sgot ibund plays it night and noon, Astlxoug.x' his burdy«zurdy could perform no other tune; Snlvationets nro after it; wo soon shall hear them pro Ta-ru-m'Alglmyn, Alleluia Boom-de-ay. B Baro a book ngent (he other doy: \I should think that the owners of big blocks would have the oames of tonants arranged In alphabetical order on the directories that they placo in their balls instead of having them printed opposite the number of the rooms that they occupy, If the directory is Intended to nccommodnto the public 4t would be much more useful arranged as 1 suggest Suppose I know the name of a man in some building and do not know the number of his office, yo want to call on him, In. ordor to find him I must read the names of the occu- pants of the offices of all the floors on the building, perhaps, and if 1 amin a-burry this is a great waste of time, 1 don't imagino that anybody will act on my suggestion, but I think all will agree with me that the change is desirable,\ as Tans aro many signs of spring just now' The frost has liberated the mud, the sun has made is dust and. tho wind. carries ib hither and thither until it blinds tho pedestrian aud makes him think that spring bas its drawbacks, too, and when thero isn't dust there's mud, | It's soring. Then feminine headgear is another sign of the gentle spring, Bonnets are very gay this season, | Bright colors and the most po- culiar combinations of them are all the go. It looks very strange, too, to see the long straamers of ribbon which fashlon. has de- creed shall dangle from the rear of the spring bonnot ond play pranks bohind the young ladies. But then this makes better business for the milliners, for how many more thousands of yards of ribbon 1t requires to make all the bonnets worn in Albany than It did last spring. Storm doors have beon disappearing all the week, Overcoatsand wrapsof a hoayy texture are being lold nway, | Light neckwoor is comiug in as well as light suits, Spring is cortaiuly hore, fl't ' Tiens is no surer way to noto tho flight of seasons than to keep note of what your boy is doing.. It is a surer way than to watch for the shadow of the bear on Candle- taas day, or to listen to the \honking\ of the wild geoso on the journey north or south, For instance, 1 was only a fow wooks ago that your boy, if you aro so fortunate as to have one, eato home with his pockets bulging out with marbles and his knuckles as airty as the fist of a blacksmith, Every: boy in town was thesame way, It camo upon thom as suddenly as tho dwn of a day, and next your at {nut about tho eamo time 16 will come again, and so on every yoar untll your boy ceases to bo a boy and grows out of your arms {nto the world, All at onco the mat- bles disappeared and. larger sphores with leather covers on thom, came Into view, aud went bouncing along the sidewalk, over Into Inwna or through a window as tho exalted orfs i!lled the alr, 'The ever nttractive ball gamo, though not participated in by over three in some eases and by as many as thirty In others, had. come as suddonly os the mar bles and, was merely a recurrence of what bapponed at tho same timo last yoar and a forerumner of what you may expoct is 1804 aud every succeeding year for a contury, ® «\s Witte base ball will remain all summer, you will notice many little Innovations that denote the progress of the season, and ths first thing you know you will stumble over a fist-pole, or get your feet tangled up in the Tino that the hopes will hold half-n-dozon tish before night. He doesn't know what kind of fish be will anglo for, bat bo. is pretty certain of catching some- thing if he can get whore thero is water. Then the boy all at once begins to whit- tleout wooden gons, cannons, swords and milltary accoutrements, and he forms him- self into compantes of marching soldiers. This bas hardly been going on more than a day or two before you hear the explosion of the firecracker and the fact dawns upon you that in about a week or two before the Fourth of July. By-md-Biy, too, will appear the peg-tops, and in their train will ran in pon your vision the troops of shouting little scarps with boops-all kings of hoops, from the nickel-pla steel to the wobbloy old citclo of rood hooked from tho chimes of a convenlentash barrel. 7 Riser along on tha heels of the hoops, and Jost when thomutomn begins to touch the bills. (1:05 filled with kites, and when you look fora pleca of string around the house you will find that the boy has beet thero abead sticks and torn paper will in a week or two find themselves wound around the efsctric wires or ladged in the tops of the trees, By that time Hailow eon bus put the mischief Tato the boys, ned the ticletacks will rattle ngainst your windows and. startle your wife and therirls, | After this follow the skates, leis, bobs and snow forts, all leading up to the time when the agates and ginssesshall agato sj ._ It. doesn't take n caleridar to tol the boy when thee seasons: shall comm. Heknowsit by an fnstiuct thatyou once But you, why yor sremofonzer in theimystionl cirela. | You lefbit wren you ceased to be a boy.\ +*% in the Inod and the \Footers\ bave began the to \root\ and the Rickersare kicking bard, There Is nothing bat words 6f praise for the new Albany team from them tho are bess ncquainted with the capabilities of the new c Altanians are meured of seeing many fife gomesthis season. 'The contests with Troy will be fer blood as usual, and fofe rs to dooginats tutl'rczafwfil‘lmtn the toreen as customary Jong: before the end of the seasog. Manager \Joe\ Gerbordt wil attend to thadetailsof Thislittls arrange- tent. llc Irresistible Immpulence. \Ciata-Is thesths ting youereryrs good tom 491° . , s Sack-¥es, Miss Clars. Is it to betas Iest -New Sock Herald, 4 will bo surprised. some day to see okey of you. Of course the strings abd wrecks of Anna. The base ballseason bas once more arrived | Sans THE NEW YORK LETTER ---&-_ NUMEROUS _- inTERESTING _ STAGE EVENTS OF THE WEEK ; move- Production of Cranc's Now Vohlclo ©The Amorionn Miniator® a Success -Mansfleld's Royival of Patt! Captures an Audience and Gets Anothor Dog-Other Events, --+ (Regular Correspondence.) 4 New. Your, < April | 0. -Mr. Wiliam H. Crgnu'a now play, ©The American Minister,\ which was prosented for the frst time on Monday evening last ab the Star: theatre is an improvement on \For Money,\ but not on a lino with \The. Senator.\ | In its mountings it is superior to anything in Mr. Crane's repertoire, the threo -iuterlors-por- tions 9! residences in Rome by Josoph Clare, Phil Schaeffor and Hoory Hoyt boing each & masterploce, Fhe author has taken. remarkable Iibortlcs with history, und as the time of action is only n fow months back, the chief incidents hiuging on the murder of. the Italians in the clty prison at Now Orleans, ft is not unlikely that some will; and with 'perfect propriaty, object to portions of it, . This is tho cast? Feujmn n Franklin Lawton... Wiliam H. Crans Tho ins Jefferson Lawton Quiney Adams.... . Tr. bncrre Coronder Major Pld.pot Ware Fletro di-worrara, c Gonerat Christoforo Colombe, Punxwute «+_, Flt-p Rugby Digby. Count Sehmappog katchtort Osman Imend! ., Gonoral Fanfaron. ¥rincess Leonora. Murchosn Co.ombo. Bolph no Carondelo Margaret Rteld , Mun Colombo, io Harry Brak un «Gus v. Do vere Charles Foster Wash Viltam Grows «B. Buphore William Smage .Huttlo Mussalt ugusto boster Anon. G'Noill rine Florence Gladys Wabds Ledy . Warren Conmtens S i , Eva Taylor Prince ty Carpenter The writer, Pou otter, can claim for the four act comedy nothing more than a combination of situations, mone of which is remarkable either for strength, orimnnlhly or humor, and a dialogue which, where it smacks of humor as nll, is too reminiscent to take high rank, . Crano's experlences while Journeying. in Italy is like a chapter from Mark, Twain's book or; the Dodgo club, and his alluslon to the congressman from Albany who had an opinion as to Troy whisky, and the Chicago man who knows so much that in comparison with him the proverblul ostrich isan incurable irnoramus, show that tho play was made for \the road\ as well as for New York city. In the first act we become acquainted with Dr, Corondolet, the retiving minister to the court of Humbert, | Mods awalting the arrl- val of his successor, Benjamin Law» ton, who comes from Kentucky, Corondelst is in a bad fix, Having, through extrava- gance oud zumbling, run desply tn dobt, he appropriated soventy thousand francs sent by the United States government to be paid to General Christoforo Colombo and his wife, who aro tho last of the descendants of the grent discoverer, | This all transpires in April, 1801, and strained relations exist be- tween this country and Italy on account of the massacre at Now Orleans. General and the Marchesa Colombo apporr nt the logation to collect the 70,000 francs which was appro- printed for their relict by congress whon.s dispatch which will determinc the question: \will there be war?\ arrives, | The prime minister of Italy, who as Pletro di Forrara is made up so that one recognizes in him both Earl Granvilto and Signor Crispl, hns sold stocks and wants war; knows that delet is a defaulter and asks him to steal or suppress the dispatches until midufght, till after the cablnot has mot, and in prymont ho will recolve enough money to ropay the Colombos and his other creditors and. lonve Rome an honest man, The now minister (Cranc} arrives at the legation, where his son Is an attacho; he knows of no trouble between his country and Italy, having boen on a journy whero hows- papers were not to be had, | Ho now hears of the New Orleans affair and that despatches bave arrived, | Corondolot has fu tho mean- time stolen thom and ho makes the most of a situation which polnts towards young Low- ton as tho thief, You can Imagine the rost of the play, Through tho good Kentucky tact of, tho American \minister . and tho sngacity of the American detective (Mr. Herbort), who comes on as a World's fair commissioner and is a living pleturo of Alnjor Moses Handy of Chlego, tho dis patches are found in timo, the young man's honor is saved, tho Italion prime minster is found to be a loader of the Mafia and is chas- tized by Lawton, poace between tho. two countrios is assured and overybody gets mar rled-oven tho ininfster, to whose lot the daughter of the diskonest minister (Delphine Corondelet) falls, There are parts In the play which make demands on Mr. Crano out of the ordinary but ho is fully equal to them, Thanks to his ugh-l acting. and the no loss clover work of Atr. Shannon, Allss Russell, Aliss O'Neill and Miss Willis, the play was voted asucesss and. will without doubt run to the end of the senson, | Buta play without an American minfater who is a down- right-fool, gambler and. thief and ono with- out an Itatina prime minister who fea knave, who uses State foformation for pamnni gain and is the leader of a band of assassins, a play without a secretary of legation who is another fool would please most people fully an well, ® L # Justas the sproad caglo, with asidere- marks on poker run. in the line of Crane, so does the partot the faitloss wife seem to be the Mansfeld typ would be slave to such as f l Tho Charls of .Miss 5; ia was good in its way bub smacked. cuff-331: of the; ami- tour stage, a quality which ber scones with Manalleld made more conspicuous, ® # J * Miss Sprague is a daughter of - Gov.: Sprague, of Rhode Island, and a,grand- danghter of Salmon P. Chase; - T hope sho will have a more brilliant career on the stogo than Maud Banks, the daughtor of Gen, N, P, Bonks. . - i Another greas man's 413“!th will shortly appear hero on the stage, in the person of its Olen Bull, daughter of the ronowned Norwifian violinist. who has joined the Julla Marlowe company, . - # 0.0% a » , The watrn' weather played 'the very mis- chef at the play houses this week ana the herole efforts of the managers to make bril= Hant the closing nights of some of the plays which are nearing thelr. ond - were but par- tlally successful, The concerts, of which there were a number of: good ones, were noe the less well patronized. because of the weather and mudiences. fully as largo ns those seam at the recent Paderewski concerts greeted Franz Rummet - in tho concert room ofthe Metropolitan Opera house, | Hispro- gratmime Included works of Moscholes, Hum- mel, Czerny, Schubert, and, Weber and his admirers recaived him on each occasion with marked onthusinsm, < And thon we had that other well known artist Eugene D'Albert, Ho has grown stonter since, his last visit to this.country and his muscnlar style in . his art is strongly in contrast with tho sentimanital, dreamy method of the Polish master who but recent» ly lefb us.. D'Albert comes. to .us also with Bis locks shorn. in good, sonsible style. In this ono particular: his distinguished Polish coufrere might do well to imitate him, Tt is said that the plano, more thin soy other instrument, reveals the temperament, the character of the player and in.somd in- stances the style in which 'tho heir is worn would giveone a clue before a note was touched as to how the artist would Interprot n composer, ' Taking Paderweski and D'Albert to illus- trate tho case, one. would natirally incline to believe in the truth of what is said. ... The former, with his recollections of pov- erty and want, his dear beloved, his crippled. son, fnclines to ideality, melancholy and son- timontality, and his unkempt shock of yellow bair is a 06 crown for the poetic heads The latter, of whom gossips say that he wa8 mar- ried to Mme, Carreno shortly before be cams here and immediately on her procuring a divorce from Sig. Taglispletra, is a mon of the world, in whose playing. thera is power, bumor, intensity, passion, and the style of bis hair is fo keoping with his nature and bis pinging. D'Albert devoted one whole recital to Boothoven, and though this work ad- dressed itealf to the more advanced and thor- ough musiclan and students of muslc, he attrnoted a largo audience, which never for in. moment lost interest in his masterful play- ing. p C Lak # Cow ®; The Metropolitan Opera House was balf empty at the last \Lohengrin\ performance; on the \Hamlet\ night there were still more empty seats, although the admirable Hamlet of Mons, Lassalle aud tho Ophelia of Mmo, Yan Zandt deserved bettor recognition. | 16 is a dificult thing for an artist to make a small audicnca enthusiastic, -but Lassalle did Is to such an extent thusSlq. Vianesi dropped hig baton to joln in the applause, Wednesday afternoon the air was less humid, the mereury stood lowor in the ther- momoter, and \Faust\ with the ideal cast was on the bill and the old time crush was witnessed at the opera house, and then after an intermission of a fow hours came the still gronter throng to her Pattl in \Lucia di Lam- mormoor,\ . 'The rocelpts for the two por- formances were a trifle over $17,000, Only a small portion of the audience know what a narrow escape there was from a post- ponement of \Lucla\ with all that such an event implies, - > M. Gulllo had boon cast for thopart of Edcinrd and fora wook bis namo had fig- ur conductor, and prices advanced to 'the out- of-sight notch, when suddonly, on the day of the event, Patil discovered that sho would not sing in \Lucia\ unless Valero sang Ed- | gardo. Manager Grau, with a soldout house on his hands, found Guille, excused him from servico-with pay-thon found. Valero, who hssumed the rolo which he had never sung, at one a'elock, and in which ho perfected himself bfi evening . without a reloorsal. This was tho cast finally agreod upon: Lucla Mino, Adclion Patti Ale. Bauermelater Ashton. Ignor Del Fuento itaimondo Mlithor Novara lgnor inaldint (roust Valero Under Arditis management and with a chrous remarkable for its ilt looks and worse singlog the programms was a good ons; Patti was it good. volce, the audience was In food humor and quick to recognize merit as Putti audience's always aro. - Valero sang and played his part with finish and boldnoss; tho sextette was artistlcally rendered; the mad scone aroused the most tumultuous ap- plauso; flowers fell on and towards the stage from all directions, erchostra and chorus Joined intho \bravas\ and Mma, Diaz, wife of president Diaz of Mexico sent a huge bou» Fuab of roses, togother with a richly cush- loned belaced and beribbored basket contain- tng a mite of a Mexican dog. Aud then, after kissing the little brute and handing him to Ar. Pattl {otherwise Nicolini) whostood in the wings she sang-of course- \'Home Sweet Homa.\ I beard one Indy say that she would havo enjoyod tha \Homo Bweet Home\ more bad she not seen the ringer kiss the dog so rap- tuously, and I doubt not, many shared her we Fl Adela Sandrock's specialty, On Wed- | vie nesday, after two tponoments sho a peared as Leonie andpoaszaln as in \Eva\ Alf; \The Clemenceau , Cass\ we see the wicked woman. | Coguettish, heartless, bad is Leonia and Fri. Sabdrock portrays ber cl in a mauner which called forth deserved ap- plauss from a large audience, but Herr Weiser really won tho Inurels playing the difcoltpartof the wronged husband who deeply loves the woman whom he finally kills Ho wasat his very bestand the part which requires strength as well as pathos was bandied artistically in every detail. z Alle Lied (The OM Sto domestle drama fo threoéets, uy Fous Phiipgh \\* Dr. Emest Gorneius..... Edward Ratden .. Here Wirth gr. w {nun Km llfllmrrm ran Nowa C wig. Frau - Erl. Gotfeid bm brise M .. H Bulds Drenoa.vann........ Minale Grabenhofer. Mansfield was seeu again this waek as \Nera.\ Theplay bas been rewritten insome fous sings last produced hero; it was Paged mopnificently and Ar, Hecehed trayed the moral monstrosity-which the writer makes Nero-with so mach force as to produce horror. . A ctaracter In which Tago, Rickard IIL and Nacteth are rolled foto one and with Mephistopheles thrown in as good mensuro would about eausl the Nero presinied by feld, and the play which comsistsof a Low incidents in the last Caysof his tyran- Teal reign seem to be presented. tostow his I vmfimybggx cracking“ his 11mg, Inck of any eqnobling guaity. Once, caly ence, mmwmfimb tbo loves Hes Gand before bim does Nerp cease to be ths monster j and the greatmass of the artice is stown in his strogele with the one spark of better pature which ends In the deccon's victory. nought bo ate: bow bo so Tight ho reps and with say Ing Birs in the face 15] clings tothe words dhoni rere Efe, col gfisik?” mumsgmm Sliter wil this wes portrayed a masher Be is too weak for tap pert, and no Nato a a # *, The Opera Houso stock-bolders bad their sunual mosting on Wednesday last and for the first tims in the history of the house there Is no deficis to carry over. Fear with Gerraan opera aod Wagner wind; with houses given over to long rousical cranks and professional dead heads the sea- son closed with a balance on the wrong side of the account and n largo assessment was the patural co uence; this year with real music, good. sts and business men as man- agers there is no assessment, but on the con- trary, a balance in the tressury, Lews, How TO COOK THE TRovz, Bolling With s Touch of Wine Vine- garis the Eplours's Way, There are thres excellent tnethods of cook» Sicx ing troot, viz., frylog, roasting in the ashes aln Thed Norrid, and steaming or boiling. Tofry trout well is a great art, and rarely understood. The fat, be it butter, olive ofl or lard, should. be sweet aod burning hot. As goon as browned, the fish should be lified ontiaed the fat allowed to drain off. A thin slicoof sait porkor even bacon will go well with the fish, but too much bacon may give them a smoky flavor, | Swall trout from six to eight Iocker arebest cooked in this manners - . Any sized fish may be roasted in the ashes, and tooy ers excelient thas war: but trous from a fourth to three-fe of give the best results, But, above all, give mes rood big trout boiled properiy, with s ittle white mre vicezar in the water, served bot with either exper oregg sauce, and a glass or two of white wins to wash them down. 1 thick a trout so cooked goes 0, with PattPs on tho bitls-with Arditl as | PEN, sCissofs AND PAstE. -+- .. ORIGINAL _ AND SELECTED GOSSIP STARTED ON ITS JOURNEY. Four Famous Duels That Were Fought in the Dark-A Bit of Blar« ney-Some Pointers on Leap Year -An Instance of Partl-Colored Ans goer-He Copld Spell. The Borrowe-Drayton scandal lins revived n keen Interest in duels and. dueling, - Four very remarkable encounters on tho field of honor took place in the dark. In 1875, while dining ab the \Etat and Garter,\ Pall Mall, witha Mr. Chatworth, a famous. duolish William (the fifth: Lord) Byron-gront uncle of the authbr of Childe Harold\-quarreled with his friend regarding the manner of pro- serving flung, and also concerning the game lows, and the two'rotired to an adjoining room and fought by tho light of a tallow candle. Byron entered the apartment first, and, as Chatworth was closing. the door, turning his. head round he bee held his antagonists sword half drawn and whipping his own weapon out ho made a quick lunge nt his opponent, and ran his award through Byron's waist cont, but, ss Chatworth thought, through the body. His lordship closed and shortening: his sword stabbed Chatworth in his stomach, making & wound fourteen fuches deep, from which Chatworth dled. next morning. Byron was arrested and tried before his peers In' West mlustor Hall. 'He read his defense, pleaded. Ails perago and escaped by his privilego with burafig fo the hand. It Is on interesting fact well authenticated that the post Byron foll desperately' iu love with Mary Chat- worth, the protty daughter of his uncle's an tagonist, who led him on to some extent and then married another, . The Hon, Henry Gratton and Isac Corry, members of the Irish parliament indulged in vehomen debate. in- 1800 over the question whothor Ireland was. to dwindle futo a pro- vince, or retain her hame among nations, dur» ing which Corry sald thas Gratton Instead of enjoying the confidence of his countrymen should be stending at the. criminal barto angwor for treagoud to which the great Irish orator replied, concluding as follows: \Had he dared to have sald or insinuated half as much elsewhere, the. Indignant spirit of an honest man would bave answered tho vile alandered with a blow,\ The party left tht house immediately with friends, although It was quite dark, ropmired to the nearest ducl«\ Ing ground and fought with pistols at twelve paces, Corry having his lefo arm shattered ab the first shot. ° -_ Aslote ns 1853, Captain Phillips, of the British army in garrison at Bombay, India, took offense at Lieutenant Shephard of the same garzlion, for trivial words, and tho twa officers indulged in -volumimious correspond- ence, which resulted in a hostile meeting at night, by the light of a single candle, hold by a native domestic in the service of Phillips who wis shot dead ut tho first fire, Shophar was court-martialed and dismisecd. from the ermy, and afterwards tried on the charge of murder ond convicted of manslaughter, Captain Ruthetlamd Surgeon Cabill of the British army-officors in. the same regl« mont on garrison duty in Scotland. in J811--- quit-relax;z over the tr’i’vinl matter of Cahill carrying a fileof London papers from the mess room to his quarters, which was really contrary to garrison regulnninns. One word brought~on another, when Rutherford, greatly enraged, chnllunged tho surgeon to mortal combat. That evening theprincipalt mob ab a quarry, accompanied by soconds, aod Rutherford received a mortal wound. The survivor was subsoquently tried and ao quicted. T6 would be interesting to know the procise color of the expression of anger or rage, Novelists have widely varying Ideas on the subject and a- modern author, with a high appreciation of the spice of variety, in m “Plifllo volumo represents anger by imany “39:23 18-\Agatha entered tho room her face ashen pole with anger,\ Pago 21-\Froderick did. not hesltato long at theso hwm'nlal but white with rage lefé his father's house,\ “P1136 Bello stood. with lips npark as bo addressed hor, speaking as no ono had ever before dazed to speak, hor face crimson with rago and hato as sho-\ Page U2-\It was not shame tlint made her face grow rod, but the raging spirit that was in hor, “Page 127--\BHe was black in tho face with m lik Ecru was but ono thing needed, the fol- lowing: \Albort boing of a rigolerlc 00m; ramont was so overcome with anger a fin Interference that his face immufinbely turned all colors of the rainbow, Courting fii Paddy's\ Land, 1. viber xtrrCd witbow. *Ab, the who is that thero tafkn't\ «Bure, It's only m» yo know, I was think nt wo d go walkin'...\ «Wor yo raly thfikin' so?\ > « yo seoun't bo so cruch An the thradgod this sven ralle=--\* \In it eruel, Michael, Jowel, Bure, Pin. dretsin' all the swhile,\ 11. mxpoug cortaon. \There now, that's mo cottage, Kitty,\ Mier ge, Hilty. ®¥ie; an' fon't It pritty®® like.\ (Nows'y't miuntot Michael, “Incl? «Sure, If you wor In it--\ ; * @Arrab, D'Ecterrs Keeilng. Men's hearts bave bard ened but in most of them theres a soft spot, still susceptible of wiles, says a writer, giving leap year points toayoung woman, You must not feal above littl coquettish arts, as some girle are apt to do. Roll up your eyes like a duck in a thunder storm. You may seem to yourself a perfect Idiot, bat the young man upon whom you havedesigns will like it, A slogle killing glance will do more toward making an impression upon him than ® dozen Grads quotations sccurately given. Flatter him.\ 'The more bareface and open your admiration the more is will tickls his vanity. Praise bis figure. No mau ever tived who did not secretly and away down in the bottom of his heart consider himself rather better looking than tho Apollo Bel- vedere, , Takehimout for a walk some dreamy winter twilight when everything inclines the mind to sentiment. Lead the thon posi Induce him to repent one of those humble started, efforts of his own. Qucs there wil: be no difficulty about his golng on. When you leave him athisown door later on press his band in sympathy, rurmurting'that when he took uparchitec~ ture hs made \ great roistaks. In losing him Americs has lost her Swinborne, her Mortis, That young man will dream of you allnight wilh a glowing seuss of bisown worthiness and yours. Aquack-doctor stood on his wagon at the street corner selling bis cureall. A group good \he oll dre to Hie gm-flgéfiinmaiw ank enmmusss mo a rmemamem a lue csi s.
