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2 THE COURIER JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1898 SEGTION THE HEATERS AT THE LOCAL HOUSES. Cleveland and Wilson At the Avenue. It not so long ago that the dramatic crit of the country were bewailing the pe of minstrelsy. There was not a of importance in the country ch did not drop a tear on the bier of black-faced comedian. It was told hat the day of bones and the tambo had gone never to return, and that America's solitary original to the gayety of nations had died a natural death.

Happily the writers On stage topics who said these things were all wrong. Minstrelsy is the livenest corpse that ever came to life, This season has opened with a minstrel boom that equals the best days of the art. Half a dozen companies are on the road, and so far the leaders have made money, One of the most ambitious of the new minstrel companies is the Cleveland-Wil. son Minstrels, W. S.

Cleveland and George Wilson have ranked high for years as manager and minstrel respectively. Cleveland started in the business so young. and got hold of a company so early in the game that he is looked upon as a veteran though only thirty-six years old. His stronghold is incessant activity, brilliance in conceiving novelties and the nerve of a plunger in carrying out his conceptions of the real thing in minstrelsy. George Wilson is an entertainer pure and simple, He is a minstrel genius and is funny without knowing why.

Wilson has MR. CHARLES A. SHAW. The new manager of the Avenue. Mr.

Shaw is an experienced theatrical man, having managed houses in Detroit, Toronto, Cincinnati and other cities. He is a quiet, modest gentleman and has already made many friends in Louisville. had a varied career. He was born in Washington, but when a lad went to China with his father, who had a consular His father died in the Flowery Kingdom, and Wilson was threwn on his own resources. At this time the Black Flag rebellion was in progress and Chinese Gordon had just gotten into the game as commander' of the imperial forces.

George Wilson enlisted and rose to be a Lieutenant in a few months. When the war was over he was given his passage to San Francisco, He landed without a cent and assist to a music hall and asked for an entan inent. He gave 8 private exhibition to the manager, who saw at once that he could make good. Wilson has never lacked for employment since. He has man.

aged big companies and he has starred in others. Cleveland and Wilson have been bitter rivals for years, but this season they combined their companies into the ClevelandWilson Minstrels, which will play at the Avenue on Thursday and Friday, August 25 and 26. The street parade, which represents an English hunt club, is double, while the stage performance is dual. Billy Emerson is with the company as a star. Emerson is a world-wide favorite.

His voice is said to be in perfect condition this year, and he and Wilson are doing the best work of their lives. E. M. Hall and John Queen, minstrels of International reputation, are alse with the company. In the second part Cleveland and Wilson have Calcedo as the star.

Calcedo is known as the king of the wire. Other people in the second part are rion and Pearl, Keno and Welch, Fred Anderton, the Troubadour Four, the Hogandableville Quartet and many others. The show is elaborately staged and costumed. The' prices at the Avenue will be raised during this engagement, as the company is too costly a proposition to play at the ordinary rates. THE FIRST NEW PLAYS.

of husband and wife. "THE COMMODORE." BOTHERN'S "A SHILLING'S WORTH." It is rather hard to tell from newspapers of Philadelphia what has happened to the play, but apparently Mr. Sothern has a success in Grace Livingstone Furness and Abby Sage Richardson's new comedy, "A Shilling's Worth," which, after a brief season there, goes direct to the Lyceum Theater, New York. The scenes of this comedy are laid in the picturesque period of 1776 in New York, when the best residences were near the Battery, The play has a romantic story of true love, and, although it is of the spring of 1776, it is not a war drama. It touches lightly on the Revolution, as all stories of that period must.

Mr. Southern appears as a gallant young American, Godfrey Remsen, who has spent some years in England and returned to New York to take possession of an inherited estate. By way of revenging himself upon the woman he had loved, and who, believing him to be poor, has thrown him over for a wealthy baron, he hastily marries a simple little country girl who has been brought up on a farm. She discovers that she has been married from pique, and naturally resents it. The plots of Godfrey's former love, who is now a widow, trying to separate him from his young wife, result in his arrest as a spy.

The story culminates happily in the reconcil- A little while before the first performance of "The Commodore" at the Lincoln Theater was given in Chicago, the supers who had been engaged to play the Spanish army struck, They did not strike for higher pay or for less work, but strictly from patriotic motives. They could not bring themselves to pull on the cursed crimson trousers of the Spaniard, his black blouse or his cap and march under the odious banner of blood and and gold they would not. So they went to the stage manager in a body and threw up their parts. That is why the Spanish forces were so. woefully small and exceptionally deficient in drill.

at both performances of "The Commodore" yesterday, says the Chicago Chronicle. The theater and stage attaches did their best to fill the Spanish uniforms at short notice, and were hissed and hooted at with great generosity for their pains. As to the play which William L. Roberts has written and called "The Commo. dore" we have no doubt after a week's knocking into shape it will be a very fective entertainment.

It is a better play that you'd expect when a good deal of stress is laid upon the perfect models of four-inch rifles used in the gun-deck scene, and the machinery of a steamship's engine-room in motion supports the frame of the last act. It is a good, clean story of the war, with likeable Americans, mostly sallors in it. beautiful Cuban senoritas, and a lovely assortment of sunburnt bewhiskered Spanish rascals. The plot of the play is only incidentally clear, but the dialogue is often bright, fresh and snappy. The way "Old Glory." helps out the tableaux is amazing.

The flag gets insulted about every ten minutes, and then some Spaniard has to bite the dust. By the time the play is over the Spaniards are in the condition of Cervera's ships. Which, when one comes to think of it, is the way we would have it happen. In the drama, even more than in actual life just now. a Spaniard to be tolerable to us must be dead--in fact, he is the only good Spaniard we acknowledge.

"HEROES OF $98." 'At Hopkins' Theater the Spanish villain had even a harder time than his brothers at the other house. That was mainly because while he was certainly despicable enough to merit all the kicks and curses he got, the audience down at Hopkins' Theater believe in letting out. their opinions fully and freely. There is twenty times more enthusiasm in the Hopkins gallery than there is in a highpriced theater from floor to ceiling. Great Caesar! how they did hiss that unfortunate Senor De Something-or-other, who is made to do all the dirty work of the drama, and how they cheered when stout lady of Cuban descent whom he had persecuted diabolically struck him once for luck in the last act with a machete.

Talk about American audiences being phlegmatic! Just go down to Hopkins' this evening and hear the audience simply smash Mr. highfalutin sentiments with shouts, hisses, howls and cat calls. John Crittenden Webb wrote "The Heroes of '98" and a partial survey of it convinced us that for popular purposes, that is to say, to tickle the public where it hungers for tickling just now, the play all right. The first two acts, which we did not see, are said to be the better of the four, which we can readily believe. A few desperately tragic incidents, such as the death of the Cuban boy patriot, played by a plump and pretty girl, who made her last entrance riding the most corpulent mule we ever saw, and the subsequent mourning of an abnormally healthy Cuban mother with a decided tendency toward embonpoint and a comic nose, might be omitted.

A slight noise might accompany the blowing up of the Maine: and the Cuban patriot Garcia might be deprived of some of those long speeches in act 3. The play is pictorial to an extent, and plainly the plot doesn't matter much. The comedy element is provided by Sam Morris, who plays an old Irish soldier full of reminiscences of the war of the rebellion very cheerfully. Cart Smith Searle is all right as the long-winded Cuban patriot, who ought to have been in the Junta's Washington lobby by rights. The play evidently pleased the people.

MISS BENNETT'S NEW ROLE. The first performance of Charles E. Blaney's new comedy, "A Female Drummer," was given at. Springfleld, last Monday. The comedy is a satire on the modern department store.

Johnstone Bennett as Hasa Bargain, the drummer, made a hit, it is said. The role is suited to her peculiar style of work. Bennett also introduced her clever sketch, "American Types," in which she was assisted by George Richards. Supporting Miss Bennett are Eugene Canfield and George Richards, as Buttons, an elevator boy, and Wood B. Smooth, of the dry goods firm of Smooth, Silk respectively; Willis P.

Sweatman, as Super, a superstitious negro, employed in the dry goods house, and Tony Williams, as Finas Silk: Ramie Austen, as Mrs. Smooth; Helena Salinger, as Florence Silk; Lizzie Melrose, as Carrie Cash, and Oscar Figman, as Corset Stave. COULISSE CHAT. interests. REBUFF FOR RUSSELL.

MISS ARTHUR'S MANAGER. A. H. Canby will manage Julia Arthur's starring tour this season. Contracts to that effect were signed last week, There have been rumors in theatrical circles for some time that Arthur Lewis, Miss Arthur's brother, who directed her tour last winter, would not be associated with her again this year, and it has even been whispered that the relations between the two had become somewhat strained, says a New York dispatch.

This latter report, however, is most emphatIcally dented by every one concerned, and it is announced that Mr. Lewis' only reason for retiring from the management of his sister is that he is interested in another enterprise that will require his undivided attention. Mr. Canby has long been a personal friend of Miss Arthur, and, although he already has his hands full as the manager of the Garden Theater and of "Little Miss Nobody," he has consented, after some persuasion, to look after the actress' business interests. Miss Arthur, besides playing "A Lady of Quality" again this season, will also appear in "As You Like It" and "Ingomar." The news of the change In management will be learned with regret by many of Miss Arthur's friends.

Mr. Lewis was untiring in his intelligent and tactful efforts to aid in his sister's success, and it will be difficult for her to find a manager 80 popular himself and so devoted to her The always overrated and now passee Lillian Russell is evidently appreciated at her true worth in London. For many years New York has clung fondly to its faith in her supremacy in comic opera, With much trumpeting she set sail for Europe this year to show London, Berlin and perhaps Vienna and Paris what a real live prima donna is. The result is shown in the following cablegram to the New York Telegraph: "It looks as though there was going to be a pretty kettle of fish around the Comedy Theater very shortly. Lillian Russell, whom you, call the 'Queen of Song' on your effort of the water, is making every side possible to cancel her Berlin engagement in order to appear first in London.

George Edwardes, however, who not only negotiated with Miss Russell, but secured an option on her services, provided she could effect an amicable aroffered her the very small part in 'The has rangement with the Berlin people, Greek Slave' heretofore played by Miss Moody. The role is not only secondary to that assumed by Marie Tempest, but, incidentally, is virtually one that might be assumed creditably by a chorus girl. of course, the fair Lillian declined to act or sing such a role, and her plans for the future are very much unsettled." They seem to think in London that pretty voice must have other adjuncts than -bovine beauty and stolid ignorance of acting before its owner pose unquestioned as a "Queen of can OUTLOOK FOR THE AVENUE. The Avenue's preliminary season will end with the engagement of Wilson Cleveland's United Minstrel Aggregation Thursday and Friday nights, The regular season commences Sunday, August 28, with Jule Watters' sensational play, "How Hopper Was Sidetracked." Below will be found a partial list of the attractions to follow at this favorite family theater: Ward Vokes. Kelly Mason.

Murray Mack. Hanlon's "Superba." Caldio's of Steel" and "Span of Life." "Held by the Enemy." Blaney's 'Boy Wanted" and "The Electrician." "Hogan's Alley." White Slave." "Finnegan's Ball." Martin's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Company. Cuba's Vow." Black Patti's Katie Rooney. Clifford Isham's Nate's "Octoroons. big company.

"Gettysburg." "Guilty Mother." "Two Little Vagrants." Fennessy's "'Cheerful Idiot." "Bad Boy" company. "What Happened to Jones." "Contented "Town Topics." And others that negotiations with have not been fully completed, that will be announced as the season grows older, "MY SWEETHEART REVIVED John R. Rogers has decided to revive "My Sweetheart" in this country during the coming season, with Mamie Gilroy in the role formerly played by Minnie Palmer. Miss Gilroy, writes Leander Richardson, used to bear a very marked resemblance to Miss Palmer before the latter changed the color of her hair, and probably this fact had something to do with her selection for the part. "My Sweetheart" has during the past eight years been presented with profit in Europe, Australia and even South Africa, and Mr.

Rogers figures that if the rather heavy soubrettes whom the theater-goers of the countries named seem to stand for could score in the piece, Miss Gilroy should certainly achieve distinction in Miss Palmer's old part. "My Sweetheart" has only been presented in fourteen American theaters," said Mr. Rogers you will note that there is quite' a wide field to work upon." John H. Haverly, the theatrical manager, fled a petition of bankruptey, with liabilities of $327,749, and assets nominally $16,100, says a New York dispatch. The assets consist of old debts due him, 900; one share of stock of the Haverly company, $100, and one share of the J.

H. Haverly American and European Minstrel Company, The labilities are to several hundred creditors, scattered all over the United States, and are for claims dating from 1880 up to the present time. They are principally for borrowed money, clothing, jewelry, furniture, hotel bills, attorney's livery, rent, salaries for services, damages for non-appearance of companies, printing bills, losses in speculation and grain deals. Haverly is evidently taking advantage of the new law to avoid embarrassment by old debts during his future ventures, GILLETTE AS SHERLOCK HOLMES. It seems that before deciding that Will-.

tam Gillette was the proper man to play the part of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Conan Doyle had considerable difficuity in securing a manager who would agree to produce the play according to the novelist's Ideas. When the subject of the dramatization of the Sherlock Holmes sketches was broached. Dr. Doyle prepared rough draft, which was scanned by 'several leading actor-managers.

But each insisted on the necessity of an adaptation suited to his peculiar style, personality and theater. In this way the hope of ever satisfying any one gradually became more and more faint, but the advent of William Gillette revived Dr. Doyle's interest, The possibilities of the scheme were recognized by Charles Frohman, who prevailed upon Gillette to steep himself in "The Adventures." After a short interval the latter returned with the intelligence that he "saw himself" in the part. Now the matter has been brought to a satisfactory issue; author and actor have exchanged views upon the particular story that is to form the basis of a play which will be their joint work, while all rights have been secured by Mr. Frohman, who will produce the piece in America next autumn and In London during the spring of 1899.

"THE GADFLY" DRAMATIZED. Mrs. Voynich is to dramatize her successful novel, "The Gadfly," about whose merits there is much difference of opinton. The book has enjoyed an exceptionally large sale. Its curious admixture of psychology, sociology and melodrama, with its lack of form, 'logic and truth, have created wide discussion among the novelreading public.

In electing to make the stage version herself Mrs. Voynich would seem to be unnecessarily adding to its perils, says the Dramatic Mirror. She confesses to having had no experience in writing for the theater. But where so many other literary folk have met disaster the author of "The Gadfly," who has a profound contempt for all things conventional, expects to triumph. The theatricisms of the story may help it to a place on the boards.

It contains the elements for a sugar-coated melodrama. Everybody suggests Richard Mansfield for the chief character, for no special reason that I can perceive, except that "The Gadfly" is creepy, deformed and vicious-tongued-a choice blend of sinister and redeeming qualities, with alternate denotements of cruel villainy and brilliant heroism. Mr. Mansfleld appears to be identified in the public mind with the variety of dramatis personae decorated with moral or physical humps. LUDOVIC HALEVY DYING.

Ludovic Halevy, the French dramatist, is reported to be dying in Paris. He was born in 1834, and is a nephew of the composer, Halevy, and a son of the playwright, Leon Halevy. He began his career as a librettist to Offenbach, for whom he wrote "Bata-clan" in 1856, and subsequently the librettos of "Chanson de Fortunio," "Pont. des Soupirs," and "Orphee aux Enters." In 1860 he formed a literary partnership with Henri Meilhac, and conjointly they furnished Offenbach with the librettos of Belle Helene" (1864), "Barbe-bleu" (1866), and "La Vie (1866), "La Grande Duchesse" (1867), "La Perichole" (1868), "La Boulangere a des ecus" (1875), and others. They also furnished the librettos of "Carmen" and "Le Petit Duc." The plays on which they collaborated include "Fanny "Frou-Frou," "Samuel Brohi" and "Le Mari de la Debutante." About ten years ago M.

Halevy wrote a novel called "L'Abbe Constantin," which reached one hundred and fifty editions, and the dramatization of which by Creinieux and Decourcelle was very successful on the French stage, but was less successful when adapted for American theatergoers. He received the decoration of the Legion d'Honneur in 1864, and was a member of the 0 French Academy. M. Meilhac died in July, 1897. MASCAGNI'S NEW OPERA.

JOHN H. HAVERLY BANKRUPT. Although Mascagni's new Japanese opera "Iris" will be included in the Scala repertory this winter, its first performance will take place on or about October 14 at the Teatro Contanzi, Rome, the theater in which "Cavalleria Rusticana" and others of Mascagni's operas first saw the footlights. Some time ago Mascagni was undecided as to the manner in which he would make Iris, the heroine, die. He has settled upon it at last.

Iris is to die by throwing herself from a window. The action of the opera is, briefly, as follows: In the first act Iris, a young Japanese girl. who lives with her blind father, is carried off by Osaka, a rake, who directs a troupe of wandering mountebanks. In the second act Iris is seen, abandoned by Osaka, in a maison verte, where she is forced to show herself. Among the spectators is her father, who recognizes her by her voice, and, cursing her, throws at her a handful of mud.

In the third act Iris, in despair, throws herself from the window. She does not die on the spot, however, and in her agony recounts her sad fate. In the distance the voices of her father and of Osaka are heard, replying to her. This last scene, it is said; reaches dramatic and musical heights of great elevation. FOOTLIGHT NOTES.

-Charlotte Crane has been engaged for -Maud Adams is to make a trial of Jullet next spring. I -The Liliputians have a new comedy called "Bob and -Barton Hill is playing in a Milton No. bles farce in the continuous performance theaters. -Richard Mansfield is nightly playing (with) Richard age two troit Free Press. -Hoyt McKee have invaded the Daly fold and captured Grace Rutter, who can both act and sing.

-Julia Marlowe's newest play is called "Because She Loved Him So." It is a Gillette adaptation of -Joe Buckley, manager of Otis Skinner for several years, goes with Andrew Mack in "The Ragged Earl" this year. -Edwin Foy will have the principal comedy. part in "Hotel Topsy Turvy," the Herald Square Theater's new burlesqueoperetta, -Charles Bowser, of this city, has been engaged by Mordaunt Block for their Columbus Theater Stock Company, in New York. -Frank Lane is "inaking book" on the race track at Chicago. He will, of course, return to the stage for the regular theatrical season.

-The Theatrical Guide, started by the late John R. Botto, will reappear this season under the direction of its founder's son Will, who is meeting with gratifying success with the publication. -Materna has retired permanently from the stage. The Emperor of Austria recently decorated her with one of the medals for art and science. She now possesses these distinctions from four monarchs: -Barry Johnstone, last season leading man with Louis James, has been engaged for leading business with the James-Kidder-Warde combination.

The veteran actor, H. A. Langdon, also bei prominent in the same company, -Ethel Marlowe, a daughter of the oncefamous actor, Owen Marlowe, who died in Boston more than twenty years ago, will make her professional debut in Viola Allen's company this season, playing Polly Love in "'The -Clarisse Agnew's opinion of the AngloAmerican alliance would be interesting just now. She went to London a fortnight ago and gave a specialty at one of the big music halls Monday evening. Wednesday she sailed for home.

-Mile: de Lussan, after concluding her engagement with Maurice Grau at Cov. ent Garden, decided not to sing again in opera until she accompanies Mme. Melba to New York, when she will become a member of Mme. Melba's opera company, -The Paris Grand Opera has an an. nual subsidy of $100,000, besides a free house and light, value in all of about $250,000 a year.

Nevertheless, the recent report of the Minister of Fine Arts shows that there was a loss on last year's performances. -Instead of intrusting his new produc. tong and the running New York play to a stage manager, Mr. Hoyt will himselt this season fill that position, The first play which will be produced under his porsonal supervision is "A Day and A Night," which he will put on at the Gar. rick Theater.

-Marcus Mayer has just disposed of the English rights to the libretto of Francis Wilson's comic opera, "The Merry Monarch," to D'Oyley Carte, who intends to give it a big production in the fall at the Savoy. The music is not Included in the transaction, as a new score is to be fur. nished by Ivan Caryll. -'On and Off" is the name given by Charles Frohman to Alexander Bisson's farce, "Le Controlleur des which is to be played at the Madison Square Theater by a stock company aft. er the engagement of the Strand Comedy Company, from London, which is to appear there in "A Brace of -It was bound to come! "Miss Ida K.

Dewey, of 147 Montague avenue, Brooklyn, a cousin of Admiral Dewey, and daughter of the Rev. Edward F. Dewey, of Walton, N. has been engaged by Charles Leonard Fletcher to play character roles in his 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde's company." Unknown relatives of Schley, Hobson and Wheeler will soon be heard from through press agents. Only the Alger, Shafter, Duffield and other Michigan families are safe. -Miss Karra Kenwyn, the wife of Clay Clement, has made her appearance in the Frawley stock company in San Francisco in the title role of "Trilby." A telegram to the Naw York Clipper on Monday last runs as follows: "At the Columbia Theater the Frawley stock company last night departed from Its usual programme by appearing in which was presented here last evening with Ignacio Martinetti as Zou Zou, Alfred Hickman as Little Bil. lee and Theodore Roberts as Svengali. Trilby was impersonated by Mrs.

Clay Clement, who made a distinct success of the role." -Some years ago Mr. E. J. Faure, of New Orleans, came to Louisville and for. several months was prominent in club, social and amateur theatrical circles.

Business matters caused him to leave Louisville suddenly and many acquaintances who would have been glad to hear from him have been Ignorant of his learn whereabouts. It will interest them to that on. August 5 he took part in the first production of- "The Military Maid," a musical comedy in three acts, by local talent, presented for the first time on any stage at the St. Charles Theater in New Orleans. -The name of the opera in which Jett De Angells is to appear has been changed from "The Musketeers" to "The Jolly Musketeer, Vanrensselater, Wheeler, Harry MacDonough, J.

K. Blake, Bertha Waltzinger, Maude Hollins and Helena Fredericks will be in the cast. The last named is the young singer who took Alice Nellson's role with the Bostonians after Miss Neilson concluded that she would not associate with Mr. Barnabee, Mr. MacDonald and Miss Davis.

"The Jolly Musketeer," which is by Strange and Edwards, will be given its first production on September 26, at Springfield, Mass. -At last the question as to who is to play "Cyrano de Bergarac" in London has been settled. Charles Wyndham has bought the English rights from Sir Henry Irving and turned the manuscript over to Louis N. Parker, to translate into English. Irving has contended that the play would not And favor with an English audience, but it was thought that after the immense success achieved by Coquelin in London he might change his mind.

The fact that he hr disposed of the play to Wyndham would seem to indicate that he still has his doubts as to whether it will prove a success when presented in York Telegraph. which Henry Irving will produce next season, has not been seen on the London stage for forty says the Detroit Free Press. It was last years, given at a regular performance on March 12, 1857, by Charles was one of the most splendid revivals he made, and much of the play was sacrificed to the spectacular features of the performance. There were interpolations, and the mostpronounced of these was the introduction between the third and fourth acts of an "historical representing the ar. rival in London of Bolingbroke, followed by the deposed king.

One-third of the lines were sacrificed in order to make time for the spectacular features of the production. -It is claimed that the new farce, "The Marquis of which is to be seen here early in the season, is a departure from the lines of conventional light comedy. Although it was written to exploit the type of German-American which Sam Bernard has made SO absurd, this character will only be incidental to the main story. Among the other characters in the play, there is one which will be in the hands of the well-known comedian, Dan Collyer, that of a sentimental burglar called "Leaky Loomis," who becomes very lachrymose at the slightest demands upon his sympathy. Maud Haslam, who is Sam Bernard's leading support, will have the role of a female lawyer, and she is expected to make one of the biggest hits of her career.

-Irma Grammatica, who played the leading role, that of Lea, the actress, in "'The Blue Rose," lately given in Bologna, seems to have undertaken a task beyond her powers. In the fourth act the hissing was strong and continued so long that the action of the drama was Interrupted. One scene is quoted as characteristic of the play. The heroine is an actress with a lover for whom she has little affection. He threatens to kill himself because she does not reciprocate his love.

"Well, if it must be," says the actress, "put a bullet through your head. But do me the favor to leave a letter behind you which distinctly says that you did it on my account." He asks why she wishes him to do that. "Only think," is her answer, "what an advertisement it would be for me. All Italy would talk about me, and my do art would find acknowledgment. Will you me this favor for your love?" lover writes the letter, and with a pistol goes into his room.

In acute suspense the heroine awaits the shot. She hears no sound. "The coward," cries in disgust. "He will not kill himself. Such are men." But the shot followed her outburst, and the actress' reputation 1s LONGEVITY OF THE NOSE.

The Last Feature To Yield To the Attacks of Time. York Mail and Exprezs.) Bone and cartilage enter so largely into the structure of the nose and determine its characteristics that It undergoes little perceptible change, as a rule, with the lapse of years. The brow becomes wrinkled, and crows' feet gather around the eyes, which themselves gradually grow dim as time rolls on; cheeks lose the bloom which cosmetics can not replace, and the lips their fullness and color. The chin, dimpled in youth, develops angularities or giobularities, as the case may be, and the eyebrows become heavy with the crop of many years' growth. The nose shows no mark comparable co these familiar facial indications of the approach of old age, and practically enjoys immunity from the ravages which time makes on the other features of the face.

Next to the nose probably the ears as a rule show the fewest and least obvious signs of old age. $2.45 Indianapolis and Four Route." Account Grand Encampment Knights of Pythias. Tickets on sale August 20, 21 and 22. Big Four is the official route. Particulars at city ticket, office, 218 Fourth avenue, DUMMER CATARRH Catarrh of the bowels, because it is most prevalent in the summer months, is called summer catarrh.

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owe my life to Pe-ru-na, and shall always recommend it to those suffering as I was." Mr. John Edgarton, 1020 Third Altoona, says: "I suffered from dysentery for three years I took Peru-na and am now well." COMPLICATIONS ARISE. HORNET'S NEST INTERFERES WITH CONTRACT. Indiana Soldier Cleans Out a Sneering Crowd In a New York Restaurant. The nest of hornets which George Lynch, a Jeffersonville contractor, flushed In the spire of the Wall-street church, in that city, may result in legal complications.

The church people want the spire finished and Mr. Lynch wants to finish it, but he wants the hornets routed first. After he was run out of the steeple by the insects, he decided to smoke them out. Sulphur was placed in a pan, and two men. carefully ascended the steeple, wearing masks over their faces.

The hornets paid no attention to the sulphur, and Lynch and his assistants were again routed. In the scramble of the two men to get down without plunging headlong to the bottom, which they his men fought fire and the hornets tosome fire in the spire. Then Lynch and narrowly escaped doing, they dropped gether. The flames were finally extinguished. Mr.

Lynch said he would not finish painting the spire until the hornets were removed. He does not care to renew the attack, and no one else, has been found with sufficient nerve to tackle the nest. Taught New Yorkers a Lesson. Edward Kelso, of Battery Seventh United States heavy artillery, now stationed at Ft. Totten, N.

writes to his father in New Albany of an amusing incident that happened a few days ago to a member of his command in New York city. The young soldier, who is from Indiana, was in a restaurant in that city. On entering, a half dozen New Yorkers, who were sitting there, noticed the "7" on his cap and believing him a member of the Seventh New York National Guard, a command whose refusal to enter the service at the beginning of the war caused so much unfavorable comment remarked audibly about the "tin soldier." The young Hoosier, stalwart and brave, became incensed at the remarks, and, seizing chair, cleared out the room. He was arrested by a ready patrolman and, on being presented before the POlice Justice, was fined $10. The Justice remarked that he was justifiable and while the law compelled him to assess the fine it also gave him the right to suspend it, which he did, and the young soldier returned to his command.

Got Rich In Alaska. Roy McIntyre, who formerly worked at the steel plant at Howard's ship yard, in Jeffersonville and boarded at the Falls City Hotel, has written a letter to Morris Cohen, of that city, saying that he had just returned from the Klondike, and that he had $68,000 in gold with him. He said that he did not care to return to the Klondike. His object in writing the letter was to ascertain the whereabouts of his friend, Harry Fox. He left Jeffersonville about a year ago to seek his fortune, NEW ALBANY.

-Harry Collins and Miss Montana W. Duncan were granted marriage license yesterday. -Martin Hutsler, son of Mrs. Mollie Hutsler, died of dropsy yesterday at the family residence, 648 East Fifth street. -Judge Thomas L.

Smith returned yesterday from Philadelphia, where he had been visiting relatives for the past ten days. -John F. Wyzard and Miss Elizabeth A. McRae were married last evening at the home of the bride, 816 Water street, by the Rev. O.

A. Palmer. -Capt. Andrew Fite, of this city, was re-elected President of the Sixty-sixth Indiana Veteran Association at the meeting held in Salem last Friday. -Henry H.

Stemmla, of Louisville, and Miss Tena Green to be married next Wednesday evening at the home of the bride in Greenville township. -David Ashby, colored, aged fiftynine years, dropped dead while from work- heart disease yesterday morning ing in Henry Kraft's slaughter-house, on Cherry street. -The case the State against Alonzo Elkins for assaulting Andrew Blair with intent to kill has been set for August 29 in Magistrate Richards' court, Elkins is now in jail, in default of bond of $1,000. -The case of the State of Indiana against Albert Bunch for kill cutting has Hen. been derson West with intent to Richards' transferred from Magistrate court to that of Magistrate Huckeby on motion of the defendant, and the preliminary hearing will be held Saturday, August 27.

-Miss Mamie Grossman, aged nineteen years, died of typhoid malaria yesterday at the home of her brother, near New Middletown, Harrison county. Four weeks ago the mother of the deceased died of the same malady. Miss Crossman lived in this city for several DRY GOODS. For Children's Wrappers. 98 Muslin For Underwear.

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Estimates furnished. Catalogue, years and had a large circle of friends here. -The Odd Fellows of Indiana will begin holding district meetings in all the counties of the State this month. The first meeting will be held in this county at Georgetown the last Saturday night in August, and on the last Saturday in the succeeding months at Galena, Greenville and New Albany in the order mentioned. -Edward H.

Hartley qualified yesterday as administrator of the estate of William J. Cearns, deceased. Mr. Cearns was the Air Line engineer killed in the collision on the road near Georgetown the night of July 18. It is probable that the administrator will institute a suit to recover damages shortly.

Col. P. A. Bonebrake, who was recently appointed to the superintendency of the Indianapolis division of the C. C.

left yesterday for Columbus, his headquarters, Mrs. Bonebrake will leave for Columbus tomorrow. Until then she will be the guest of Mrs. N. B.

Boilvin, East Main street, near Thirteenth. Mrs. Mary Hulen, aged sixty-one years, resident of this city all her life, died Friday night at the Central Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis, where she was under treatment. She leaves two children, John and Miss Sal. lie: Hulen.

The remains arrived here yesterday at noon and the funeral will be this afternoon from the family residence on West Second street. -Yesterday Mrs. John Daniels sold to Mrs. Rapp, of Louisville, eleven acres of land one mile east of the city for The land is covered with the original growth of beech trees and is one of the most beautiful sites in Floyd county for residence purposes. Mrs.

Daniels inherited the land from her father, one of the pioneer ministers of Southern Indiana, and it is a part of the old Beharrell farm. -Frank A. Sweeney, of this city, and his brother. Pat Sweeney, of Louisville, who had been arranging to go to the Philippines this month, have altered their plans and they will probably go to Porto Rico within a few weeks to prospect for a business location. Charles Euston, a popular young man of this city, also has the Porto Rican fever, and declares that he will be a citizen of that island before the year closes.

-The thirty members of the New Albany Company, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, will leave to-morrow morning for Indianapolis to attend the annual convention. They will take part in the street parade in that city next Tuesday, but have decided not to enter the competitive drill because a number of the best men are absent from the city; some in the army, several in the Klondike and others in distant cities. -City Engineer S. T. Mann and County Surveyor Edward Coolman have been instructed to prepare estimates of the cost of improving Silver street from the Charleston road to the track of the C.

and St. L. railway, a distance of one mile, with a macadamized roadway of twenty feet wide, 'the cost to be met ty the city, the township and the Silver Grove suburb. The estimates will be ready within a few days. -Conductor Jenkins, of the Air Line, was arrested in Harrison county on a charge of having assaulted Dr.

P. Lafollette, of that county, with intent to kill. Dr. Lafollette was put off a train several days ago, Conductor Jenkins claiming that he had no right to ride on the ticket he held. Conductor Jenkins was released on bond.

He claims that he did not use more force than was necessary to eject Dr. Lafollette from the train. JEFFERSONVILLE. -Willis B. R.

Bird sued R. O. Gathright Co. for $1.35, Bird had the costs to pay. valuable horse belonging to Chris Ettel A was found dead in its stall yesterday.

Lockjaw had killed it. -Jockey Jesse Everett was summoned from Washington Park, Chicago, to Scottsburg, to attend the funeral of a relative. -Ike's ball team will play the Brotherhood Club, a colored organization from Louisville, at Athletic Park this afternoon. -The police are looking for Edward Sanderson, colored. He has been living in Cherry alley with his wife, of whom he is jealous.

Late Friday night he engaged in a quarrel with her, and shot at her. -At the Presbyterian church this morning Mrs. Ida Grifting will discuss the purposes of the Jeffersonville Infirmary. This evening at 7:30 o'clock Dr. Hearst will preach on "God Over -The failure of Charles DePauw, New Albany's former millionaire, involves several people in this Bank city.

He owed the Citizens' National 000, the First National Bank two notes of $5,000 each, and George Pfau, 000. Melson, whose father formerly lived here but, is at present in the Ohio penitentiary for counterfeiting, has arrived in Jefferson ville to serve an indefinite sentence for committing a theft at Fort Wayne. Sam Burke, his "pal'! was also received. -Dr. Terry Townsend was brought AY VENUE THEATER AND THURSDAY FRIDAY, ONLY AUG.

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home last evening over the Pennsylvania railroad from Camp Thoroughfare, suffering from an attack of fever. His condition is not serious. Dr. Townsend is hospital steward of the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment. -Millie White aroused the inhabitants of Wall street's dingy section yesterday.

She said Sarah Owens had stabbed her. and her screams that she had been murdered attracted the police. three blocks away. Her injury was scratch on the arm inflicted with a butcher knife. -To-morrow is the last day on which Spring-street property owners can take advantage of the Barrett law, which provides ten years' time for the payment of the reconstruction of streets.

Nearly all have informed Clerk Hassan of their desire to settle for the improvement as the Barrett law directs. -George Van Campen received word yesterday that his niece, Mrs. Cicily Harlan, aged thirty-four years, had died at Henryville, of consumption of the stomach. Mrs. Harlan leaves a daughter and a son.

He is in the regular army, and was in the battle before Santiago. Mrs. Harlan was a niece of the late Dr. H. H.

Ferguson. The interment of the remains will be at Mt. Zion cemetery this morning. -Nicholas Murphy must answer in the Circuit Court for threatening to cut his divorced wife with a razor. Justice Ware, in the City Court yesterday, fixed his bond at $500.

Murphy could not furnish it. Several months ago he was sued for a divorce, and since then he has been drinking excessively. When Mrs. Murphy refused to become his wife again he drew a razor on her in her store, at 236 Spring street. William Jacobs thereupon struck Murphy on the head with a weight.

THE ISLE OF CUBA. the Fulton County (Ky.) Guard, August 19.J (The following beautiful and pathetic po. em was written in 1856 by Virginius Hutch. en, who now lives at Henderson, Ky. Mr.

Hutchen lived in Trenton, at that time, and many years afterward moved with his family to Fulton. He is well and favorably known here, and will be remembered by many of our readers in connection with the editorial work done on the old Fultonian during the days that paper was owned by Fulton's first Mayor, the Hon. Ed. C. Starks.) oft, oft in my dreams at the still midnight, This warm, sunny isle looms up in my sight, While Fancy, a wandering truant roves Through its spicy vales and its citron groves- Or loiters amidst its aye-green bowers Culling its broad magnolia flowers; Oh, Cuba's sweet Isle's the lovellest one (The pride of the South) in the "Land of the Sun." With hue like the Sun when he sinks to rest, This bright isle reposes on Ocean's breast, And Eden that blooms in the Southern the sun-bright "Gem of the Antilles." Over its surface of tropical bloom The Spirit of Light has unfolded his plume; 0.

Cuba! the realm of the Poet's song, For treedom yearns -and to. U. S. should belong. How long shall the grasp of the Spaniard hoid This "picture of silver with apple of gold?" Castile's strong fetters are.

poisonous onesHer rapier is red with blood of her sons! Columbia's Eagle is wroth at the sightIs poised on the wing, and eager for flightHe lists for command from Liberty's Mars To wave over Cuba "the Stripes and the Stars." God grant her release at some early hour From graves of a tyrant's soul-with'ring pow'rAnd soon may the sun of Columbia smile O'er freedom achieved by this glorious isle. Old Morro will then like a sentry stand, The guard of the gate to the South of our land; And, guarded all round, no foe 'scape our eye, Unless he could drop like a bird from the sky. And then to the Mexican Gulf, all can see, Havana is surely now holding the key; Let's get it from the Spaniards, the bloodthirsty elves, And lock up the door (when we choose to) ourselves. Big Excursion To Indianapolis. The Pennsyivania railroad will have three trains out this morning to accommodate the Suabian excursionists to Indianapolis.

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BISMARCK AND THE FRENCH. Over His Grave Clemencenu's Pen Drips Vitriol Evoked By Bitter Memories. M. Clemenceau sends from 'Austria his views on Prince Bismarck's life and work. He is a severe judge.

He writes: 'When I die, the world will say, were Napoleon's words in anticipation of His death is dead, and not a sigh of relief has been called forth by his end. Why? Because he has been so long dead. When he was at the summit of his giddy, ascent, the master who was his pupil, the man for whom he had saturated the Continent with blood and crushed millions of human creatures without pity, kicked him aside into the abyss. He fell; never to rise, and the abyss took no pride in its prey. The penance of the former crusher of humanity was to outlive himself and to see him whom he taught to revolt against his father, the mild Frederick, applying the lessons he received against the preceptor.

The unruly disciple decided to govern without a mentor, and to show Germany that the providential man was a miserable wreck that lay across his path and must be got rid of. But the example would not have been complete 1f the living corpse had taken refuge in silence. He aid not understand the dignity of holding his tongue. His vain recriminations and angry complaints only enhanced the triumph of the ungrateful master. "Now all is over.

That incarnation of tumult, of furious brutality, and of eraft, that Bismarck, is swallowed up in the night of the tomb. There will be a little more noise and chatter over the event, and then the name, and what is called fame, of Bismarck will be relegated to the justice of history. We have seen him--a brazen -falsify documents to force on a war by a cowardly trick; we have seen him gloat over massacre that he willed, and manifest savage joy at the sight; we have seen him tread under foot every human sentiment, let loose pillage and incendiarism, insult the vanquished, shoot the intrepid heroes whose only crime was to defend their mother country. During the heavy orgies that Busch describes, the ogre cracked jokes at the nameless sufferings of a great capital. In the riotousness of his bestial domination one finds argumentative reason and the vile calculation and greed of a usurer, who is determined that every pound of flesh shall be worth its weight in gold.

The upshot of the drama, in Hanover, the robbery of the Guelph fund; at Versailles, 200,000,000 squeezed as an afterthought on the stairs out of Jules Favre, and then the dismemberment and the five milliards which he expected would exhaust the blood of France drop by drop. He regretted that he did not extract ten millards when six months later he saw we began to revive. And his ferocious jokes, Jules Favre said to him: The men still bear up well, but famine tells on the women and 'Is it exclaimed Bismarck, 'that there are any children left? I thought you must have eaten them all long "Such 'are the recollections that the news of Bismarck's death evokes. There are still others. In the Palace of Louis within tweive miles of besieged Paris, the German Kings gave themselves a Caesar.

The German people, in arms, which had trodden us under foot, lay down on the blood-stained earth to let the Caesar walk on them. Destiny has been since at work. After the intoxication comes the awaking and reaction. The German people thought themselves masters of Europe. They are not masters of themselves.

The cult of violence begins to turn against themselves, They exalted iniquity in boasting of those mountains of gold they tore from France. The millions that did not share in the plunder now clamor as Socialists for a fair division of wealth. Justice and liberty were discarded. They have now in their place the Emperor- the Emperor and his nobility, the Emperor and his army, and they hear the Emperor declare himself in the face of the world the delegate of God. If the Emperor orders son to shoot down father and mother he is bound to obey.

Would he obey if put to the test? The question alone is an outrage on the whole people. Nevertheless this doctrine of obedience in offcially preached and accepted. Such is the Germany created by Bismarck in the Palace of Versailles.".