Beworrai atian
Bellefonte, Pa., November 14, 1902.
THE MASQUERADE OF LIFE.
M. V. Tuomas.
Come, wipe away those tears, dear ;
Hide all these signs of pain.
What if your heart is aching ?
Pretend you are happy again.
Let your smile seem glad, dear,
And make your eyes look bright
While you are treading a measure
In the masquerade to-night.
Your grief is hard to bear, now,
That throbbing heart, so sad.
Bat if you want to triumph
Just pretend that you are glad.
Your sorrow will seem less real
And your heart get almost light ;
While you are treading a measure
In the masquerade to-night.
Think not you are the only one
Whose lot is hard to bear.
Time has tempered many a pain,
Eased many a load of care.
The smiling people that yon meet
But hide the signs of strife
While they are treading a measure,
In the masquerade of life.
Since man went forth from Paradise
Life has been a masquerade
All have joined in the measure
And pain is the price they’ve paid.
But they keep time to the music
Until almost out of breath—
They drop out and remove their mask
As they enter the gates of death.
THE DRAMATIC SOPRANO.
Nearly hall the little salon was taken up
by the grand piano. Above it, and along
one side of the room, hung laurel wreaths
tied with ribbons lettered in gold or black,
setting forth the date of the performance
and her name, Madame Eugenie Tauben.
The ribbons were bright in the sunshine,
though the latest of the dates was a decade
ago. Since that time, her farewell to the
boards of the Enzisweiler Court Theatre,
where, for twenty years she had sung as
first dramatic soprano, the favorite seat of
Madame 1'auben had been one facing this
wreath-bedecked wall.
To-day, in the wintry sunshine, the
silvery leaves touched by the miracle of
the lester she held in her hand, seemed to
grow fresh and green again—so fresh and
green, indeed, that when she closed her
eyes for an instant she could almost hear
the whir through the air and the soft swish
with which the wreaths bad fallen on the
hoards. Her memories of the writer, her
former colleague, the tenor, Herr Strieger,
were among the earliest of them, and this
letter to-day from him had set all the past
into motion.
He had not heard her sing for thirty
years, not since they sang Elsa and Lo-
hengrin together the first year of her life-
engagement of the ducal theatre, and he
had then regarded her withan admiration
independent of the one expressed for her
voice. But ambition had won. She mar-
ried Count Thern the next season. After
a brief but episode-yielding experience she
was widowed.
In the busy years that had followed, she
bad thought of young Strieger oftener than
she had read of him, and had allowed her-
self at such moments to think of him with
Tre than the passing kindness of friend-
ship.
To-day she had the first direct word from
him. He had formed the plan of an Amer-
ican Bayreuth. He would give Wagner on
a soale unequallel even at Bayreuth itself.
His call came to her like a trumpet sound !
‘Will you come to America to sing at
my Bayreuth? I remember your Elsa;
none has approached it in all the years
since I heard yon. Now, with the growth
of time and experience you have learned
the Brunnhilde and Isolde. Ah, how I
long to hear you in the second act, or, bet-
ter yet, to sing the Tristan in it with youn!
‘If your voice is not so fresh as it once
was, neither is mine. Bat you have the
God-given spark,and that with the routine,
the tradition, with your art and your pres-
ence, which I can so well imagine, will
more than make amends. I beg you to
come. I feel that to sing with you again
would renew my own youth in art.’’
There was much besides; great plans,
vague as to detail, but to her indicating
the greatness of his project sufficiently to
make her long to go.
‘I shall not put them into immediate
execation,’”” he went on, ‘‘these grand
plans, but I have written to them all. My
name stands for much in Germany, and
they will come. Ifeel that I need you in
the final perfecting of things, and should
be glad if you would sail at once, or as early
as you can. I feel that this is the crown-
ing point in my career, and I hope that
you will consent to sabare it with me, for
that (dare I say it to you and risk the loss
of your artistic companionship?) wonld
mean more to me than all the ress.”’
Half av hour later she descended the
three flights of stairs to the street, appear-
ing a noble figure in a gown of black vel-
vet that she wore when summoned, now
on rare occasions, to sing before His Grace
at the Palace. Her little maid had called
a cab which she entered alone and drove to
the artist’s entrance to the opera.
- Is was with a feeling of satisfaction that
she recognized that things had remained
unchanged in the ten years of her retire-
ment. Ina moment the Herr Intendant,
hearing her voice, had joined them.
‘I came to see whether I still can sing,’
she began, her voice a little tremulous,
partly from the strain of a moment bring-
ing so many recollections, and partly from
the import of her mission.
“My dear, my dear,’ he cried, ‘‘how
can you ask it? Only last month at the
palace His Grace—’'
“Yes, I know. It was kind of him. I
did sing well that morning. But it is
about singing before people who are more
‘difficult to please that I came to ask you.
I want to go to America.”’
The final words were uttered in a tone
that inferred the awe with which the un-
dertaking impressed her.
“To America? My dear, my dear ! But |
think of His Grace ! Your life contract !’
‘“You forget, I am pensioned now. At
the worst I risk only that. My contract
is ended.”’
Yesterday she would have said : ‘My
career is ended.’ To-day it was different.
“This is so unlike you,’’ he began, ‘‘so—
what shall I say? So thoughtless. Amer-
ica ‘is so far,’” he echoed with weakened
" refionstrance.
Ai AT did not come to ask you about the
on putting her hand on his arm :
-agk you to tell.me frankly candidly, wheth-
distance,” she answered smiling into his
«face, “‘but to ask yeu to hear me sing
again.!! » Then, with sudden Sinesness
‘To
er can’ riskegoing. Do not hesitate. I
will 46 ‘jast'as you say. But I hope—I'
hope that my voice will allow it,” * :
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South Philipsburg boro 54 46, 28; 3{| 48; 24/| 50, 231 | 500 24} 50{ 23! 56 511 20! 21 | 50 28 | 51 23 | 510 23 | 47 28{| 51] 491 26] 22 | 50f bY,
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Unionville borough...... 44 44{ 32| 10{ | 48| 28) | 49] 27|| 48] 28 | 41] 35 | 47 49 28 o7i | 56{ 26 | 52/1 28! | 50 33 | 47] 33! | 55 85 29] 27/| 48) 51
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Northern precinct...| 55 42f 22| Li 411 23 | 42] 221) 40] 24) | 35 29{| 39 4n| 25 23] | 36/ 20| | 42| 23] | 43] 22! | 40 23 | 7] 40 25] 27 | 41] 40
Boggs township, < Eastern preciunct.. ... 59 49| 37. 1 | 49 37] | 49 37] | 49} 37 48) 38{| 49 49] x7; 371 | 45) 41 48) 371 | 48) 38 | 49] 37 | 47 47] 38! 38 | 48] 48
Western precinct.....| 158 124] 74] 4] | 124) 72 | 123] 71] | 127] 69) { 118] 76) | 119 116] 78] 7 | 1:8] s2{ | 128! 71] | 127] 72! | 120] 7Oi | 126; 124] 72] 75| | 126] 12%
Burnside township. 54 430 21... 431 21} | 42] 22) 43] 21 41; 23(| 43] 43] 214 = 43) 21} | 43] 21|| 43] 21} | 42} 21 | 39| 42 19] 27/| 43] 43
College township . 169 145) 90 7) | 147| 87] | 149] 85] 152| 82) | 146] 90 | 145) 139 90 93: | 149] 91] | 162{ 76| | 142] 97, | 149]. 85 | 132 142] WO} 83 | 146] 150
Curtin township... | 56 60] 38|.cee. 61l 37, 61) 37) 62| 36! | 53] 44] | 60| ©0| 30] 37|| 45] 53{ | e0| 3s | sa 38! | 61 371 | cel 54 39) 36/| 611 60
F on township { Eastern preeinct..! 70 81) 135] 4] | 82] 135 | 82| 135 { 831 135{ | 735] 143} | 58 58| 136] 176 | 84 134| | 90] 128] | 4] 156; | 82] 134 | co] 128] 135] 97/1; 80! 80
ergus nshipq Western precinet.| 99 7 | 82 50f | 82| 49) | 82] 49(| 83] 49] | 75] 74] 51 co | 85 46/| 89 44/ | 70| 62] | 83] 49{| 80 1oz{ 45 32 | 83! 83
Northern precinct.....;| 8 5 76|.ee.. 5| 76 5 76 5] 76 4 mM 8 6 7 73 6! 75 5 175 4. 75 5 75) 5 7 73] 175 Bf
Gregg township< Eastern precinct....... 33 29{ 102] 2|| 30] 101) | 28] 103} | ¢8] 105 | 29 104; | 28] 30] 105 102 | 25| 108) | 45 87|| 30! 108) | 411 92 | 26] 30] 107] 103] | 37] 30
‘Western precinct...... 64 56 136) 4 | 58) 135{ | 59] 13% | 59) 133) | 56] 137] | A71 63] 132 127 | 53; 1n 68) 127 | 66 131) | 65; 130 | 62) 69] 126) 130] | 75 63
Haines townshi Eastern precinct... 41 3! 99} .e nes 36! 99 36| 99 37] 98 37] 98 36] 36/ 93% 99 36) 99 36, 99 36 99 a6) 97 36] 36] 93] 97 35] 36
: P | Western precinct...| 70 61] 119] 2|| 62 118} | 63] 117| | 65) 117| | 60] 120] | 65 65] 116; 116] | 63] 117 | 65) 115| | 64] 117] | 65] 116] | 64] 66] 116! 116 | cal 65
Halfmoon township.. 98 97| 32| 3{| 103] 26f | 103] 26} | 105] 26( | 102] 30} | 105 106] 25 27| | 106| 26 | 110] 23 | 102 2| 109] 24f | 102) 110] 3¢| 23} | 107! 107
Harris township.... 80 72] 12¢] 1} | 74{ 121] | 75) 117{ | 75| 116] | 73] 119] | 64] 75] 116] 123; | 92] 103! | 89] 105] | 75] 116; | 77 116! | s0| 60] 153] 79! 1 76! 76
Howard township. 91 81} 7 1 | 81 72f| 81 Tl | 82f T1|| 93] 57| | 82| 82 71 63 | 75 81; | 81} 69|| 83 71 801 Tl | 01 70 G4 67, | 81] 79
Huston township. 92 87| 61f 6 | 93] 56/| 98 55 | o4f 54 | 06] 54 | 95 91 56 56| | 95] 57/| 95/ 56| | 94f s6il or) 52{| 97] 93] 57; 54 | 04] od
Liberty township ........ccceeininiininiinenie 151 142) 66] 8] | 144] 63] | 143] 03] | 143] 63%] | 133] 72 | 142] 141] 63] 67] | 143] 65| | 141] 63] | 144] 61! 142] 65] | 150! 140] 65] 63] | 140] 144
Marion township.........ccocveernnense 51 42| 74] 2|| 44] 72) | 43] 73) | 43] 73 | 42| 74{| 41 43} 75) 72{| 40| 77 | 47) 69! | 44] 73 | 48] 74 | 41] 45 6 71 | 46] 43
Eastern precine 22 18] 67]... 19| e6| | 16] 67 | 18] 67) | 14 70 | 15] 16] 68] 65 | 15 69] | 12| 72; | 15 68 | 18 e6|| 18; 16| 68 66 [ 19! 17
Miles township< Middle precinct. 11 43| 149] 5] | 43) 147] | 44| 146 | 44| 146] | 45) 146 | 43| 46] 147) 145| | 43] 148) | 33| 161] | 44] 149] | 44] 147] | 4A] 44| 149] 145 | 44] 42
Western precine 17 14/63] 1} | 15 62 | 14] 621 | 14} 62 | 12] 65 | 13} 13| 63] 63 | 17| 60 | 13] e4/ | 15 e2|| 13] 63] ] 16 15 61 61|| 14 15
Patton toWnSNiP.....cmersessersesnse 142 Jdage| c75) 20] 132) 71] | 134] 69 | 138] 67! |.127| 78! | 135] 130] 67 75{ | 137| 69] | 136] 69] | 128) 7e| | 136! os] 135 132] 74] 69; | 135] 129
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Northern precinct...| 27 ool-a10! 1f | 23] 107) | 22| 108) | 22) 108 | 22] 108 | 23] 30| 105 102 | 22] 108' i 25| 104| | 23 107] | 22|.108! |" 20! 24] 107] doz] | 95 92
Potter township < Southern precinct..! 78 “47)..99| 2|| 50} 98|| Sul 98/1 B0| 90 | 51) 96/1 49 58] 97] 91) | 50| 99] | 51 oof | 51] 9s{| 52| 98 | 51} 48) 103; gs | 52! 51
Western precinct............ 151.107] 2{ | 16] 107| | 16| 108) | 16! 108 | 17{ 107 | 17| 20 107) 104} | 21| 102 | 16] 105 | 16] 106! | 16 106] | 15| 19] 107| 106 | 16{ 16
Rush township { Nortliern precinct.....| 115 103| so 10 | 106] 76| | 112] 0] | 111] 71} | 105. 77} | 121] 103] 65, 71 | 104] 84] | 110{ 75| | 110| 70|1 104] 79] | 112| log} TT 80|| 110] 110
8) P | Southern precinct. ..... 147 14¢| 71] 5| | 145{ eof | 146] 69] | 149] 66} | 149] 67 | 130] 142 84] 72! | 141] 78| | 146] 67] | 145] 71] | 142] 74} | 153] 135! 81] 64] | 147] 147
Siow Shoe T'w Eastern precinct.....| 170 139] 115] 2{ | 140] 109] | 140| 109] | 149] 106{ | 127] 123} | 138| 142| 106 108 | 137| 118] | 141] 112{ | 144] 103| | 134] 115] | 148] 82| 100] 174] | 144] 144
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orthern precinct...| 89 ool 79] 31| 94; 77] 94 741 98 173] | 82| 90[| 82] 86] 9n| 83} 101} 7 o7| 75|| 92| ei | 94] 78 | 100] s9! 81] 72 | 971 93
Spring township< Southern precinct... 134 125 120] 5) | 126] 117} | 127| 117| | 130] 117] | 106] 143] | 119] 126] 131} 120{ | 138] 111] } 135] 113{ | 122} 125] | 125] I19| | 153 120] 11L{ 100 | 135 130
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Taylor township......ccseriineescne 98 780 2H... 80 19{| 79 191 | si 189i 77{ 230| 77] 77] 21 23|| 73; 27{| 81] 18/| 70 21{| 79] 20{| 82 75| 24] 18 | 80 80
Union township... 92| 45! 12] | 92| 45] 92 45 | 93| 45 | 93| 45 | 93| 93| 46] 44] | 96] 44] | 94] 47|| 93| 47 | 93 47 | 95 93] 43| 47] | 95 94
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‘Is it concert or opera ?’’ he asked quick-
ly, professional interest thrusting ous oth-
er emotions.
‘Opera,’ she answered ; ‘‘great Wag-
nerian performances. Isolde, the Brunm-
hilde.”’
‘‘Eungenie, tell me, who directs this great
plan! I should have read of it.”
‘‘Herr Strieger, the tenor ; surely you
remember him ?”’
‘Remember him? Yes, and with more
pleasure than many others since. He could
ging. So he isa manager hLimself now,
and in America. I tell you, Eugenie,
Enzisweiler may be a small place, but its
stamp of approval goes the world over.”’
Herr Strumpke, the accompanist, was
summoned to his post, and even reached
it, before Madame Tauben finished vague-
ly the outline of Herr Strilger’s projected
undertaking.
To both manager and accompanist she
was a familiar figure, dear as a tradition
of all the dramatic soprano should be, held
up as an example daily by both of them,
and now after a decade come back to pass
the test of their opinion, like any young
aspirant. They could scarcely believe it
until the past—the beautiful, well-remem-
bered past—came back to them hoth as,
standing there, she gave the opening
phrases of Isolde’s Liebestod.
As she sang, only once did the Herr In-
tendant change his position, and it was to
put ws hand before his face to hide the
tears following each other from his eyes.
When she had finished she looked from one
to the other in wistful anxiety, her heart
stirred by the music and by the knowledge
of her friends’ agitation.
‘Eugenie, Eugenie, we need yon here.
Do not go to America. You said you want-
ed to retire in your zenith. You should
have waited ; to me yon are only in that
now. Your traditions—your art, my child.
None of them-—none of them—can approach
you.”’
He seemed quite unnerved,and Strampke,
always so placid, even when people are
quite out of tune, appeared strangely
stirred. To both of them the beautiful
pass—youth, enthusiasm, and memories
on memories—had crowded into the room
with the sound of her voice, go intimately
and so dearly associated with them all.
Their emotion affected her only with a
sense of triumph. She felt herself about
to begin life afresh, after having set ‘it
aside.
It was of the voice that she had been un-
certain. And now they had given her the
answer. She left them smiling and
trinmphant, and from that moment scarce-
ly realized the routine of preparation for a
journey in itself so unusual to the quiet
of her life. She had her eyes always fixed
on the future, with which the past, in me-
mories of Herr Strieger, seemed strangely
commingled.
Her little collection of keepsakes and
tokens she divided among her friends, and
of these she had many. But the wreaths
she sent to the opera to the Herr Inten-
dant. Thoseshe could not give up. When
she came back she would have them again.
Her good-byes were not said without
tears, and arguments had to be met, but
through it all that strange elation and the
thought of Herr Strieger supported her.
His letter she carried always with her un-
der the folds that crossed the bosom of her
gown. The pressure of her fingers against
it seemed to give her an inspiration in an-
swering the arguments of those friends who
would dissuade her from going.
Even His Grace was impressed with the
change in her manner and the gentleness
that tempered her usnal command of bear-
ivg. He made a little speech to her when
he gave her an audience, telling her that
the pension was hers when she chose to
come back to it, and tkat if she brought
someone else to share it' she would not be
the first prima donna who had played that
role. Then he pinned a ducal decoration
on her gown, the Order of the Pink Eagle,
third class. Even this failed to disturb the
one absorbing thought of America, as she
dropped it into her meagerly-filled jewel-
case, the last thing in packing.
* * * oR *
The rush at New York in landing wae
bastened more than usual for it was snow-
ing hard, and of the few p#ssengers she
was soon the only one remaining. She
eagerly scanned the last expectant face
turned upwards from the pier, and again
cross-questioned the steward, but no one
corresponding to her vague description of
Herr Strieger was seen. Her tremulous
anticipation and half dread of a meeting
that would show so many changes to both
were lost in the emotion of uncertainty
and terror that assailed her.
She had written to him a full account of
her plans, and the date of sailing. The
time had been too short for a reply. If her
letter had not miscarried, he was ill, or,
perhaps, called suddenly away by some
issue of his Bayreuth arrangements:
The German steward, who had aided in
her disappointed search, saw her things
through the custome and helped her, trem-
bling with apprehension and anxiety, intoa
cab. When she reached the number in
East Eighteenth street from which Herr
Strieger’s letter was directed she could
scarcely mount the stairs for trembling;
anticipation, uncertainty, everything
thrusting forward in this final moment af-
ter years of change and separation.
‘‘He is ill,”” said the German woman
who met her. *‘I am glad one of his friends
has come,’’ she said simply, as Madame
Tauben uncertainly took a seat. ‘‘Poor
man, he is very bad. He is not always
right in his head. He bad great dreams,
always writing, writing, until his table
and the floor were full of papers. And al-
ways wonderful things were to come to
them. This week, as it grew towards the
time for the German steamer, he got worse,
more feverish, more incoherrent. He said
some one, an old friead, was coming, and
that when she got here everything would
| come right. I thought it part of his wan-
i derings, but I am glad it was not. You
are the friend, madame ?”’
“Yes, I am the one,” she answered
| trembling very much as she rose. Steady-
! ing herself against the table she stood, with
ber black draperies falling about her, as
she stood in the Liebested, in Isolde.
He was lying with his face towards the
wall when she entered later. When he
heard his name softly called he turned un-
certainly and, resting on one arm, half
raised himself, looking searchingly into her
face. Then he dropped back on the pil-
lows, closing his eyes. His hair bad turn-
ed a yellow white. Deep furrows,showing
privation as well as age, crossed his fore-
head and ran downwards from the corners
of his nose.
Could she wonder that he failed to recog-
nize her? Would she have known him
had not Fate managed this moment with
such harrowing certainty ? Sitting down
by the bed she remained silent. For a
long time her thoughts were too tumultu-
ous for her again to attempt speech.
Towards dusk he opened his eyes and
agair rose on his arm; this time he looked
at her long and searchingly as she sat there,
quite still, her hands clasped in her lap,
-and withont courage to look up.
‘‘Eugenie, Eugenie I’ he called.
She put out her hands and he caught
them. For the first time through it all
the tears rained from her eyes. After that,
he always knew her, but his mind con-
stantly wavered.
Finding that any allusion he made to his
Bayreuth plans led up to excitement which
left him usterly exhausted, she tried to
avoid it by talking always of the past, un-
til, after a few days, he began to live in it
instead of the present.
When she left him for a little while, she
would. tax her memory for every small
event of the Enzisweiler days of thirty
years before, and go back with some fresh
item to hold his interest.
At the end of a week, she was called up-
on to faze the fact that his means were
gone, and had been for some time,and that
the small sum which she had brought
with her was very much smaller af-
ter she had paid his arrears ‘of debt
and their board for the week in ad-
vance to the landlady. All the afternoon
she sat by his bedside and thought.
The next morning, while he slept, she
started out, wearing the velvet gown, her
fur mantle of a 2ut of twelve years before,
and a grand air that made the little Ger-
man woman of the house, who accompa-
nied her, instinctively drop a courtesy.
Her destination was the opera. There,
after a long wait which followed the deliv-
ery of the card bearing the words, ‘‘Mme.
Eongehie Tanben, Chamber Singer to His
Grace the Duke of Enzisweiler,”” she was
shown to the manager’s office. He was
busy and in a hurry to leave to keep an
engagement from which he bad already
been detained.
With her artistic susceptibility to sur-
roundings, the air of the place chilled her
faculties as she entered. Its vulgar pros-
perity and financial distinction were a long
way from the dust-covered ideality of En-
zisweiler. =
He held the card and, without rising,
motioned her to a seat, gazing indifferent-
ly at her and with no sign of recognition
of her place in the art world which she had
gained through twenty years of service at
the Enzisweiler opera. He did recall in a
vague way, presently, of reading of her
performances as ‘‘guest’’ at other con-
tinental opera houses a long time ago—
quite a long time ago, in fact. But would
she excuse him and state her desires as
briefly as possible? She would have to
excuse his haste, as he had many calls up-
on his time, and wae. now overdue at an
important meeting. After this, the sound |
“I would like an engagement at the
Opera.”
There was only a suspicion of a smile on
his face but her quick eves caught it.
“I will sing that yon may see what I
can do,”” was her answer with a simple
dignity.
He finally agreed to listen, though not
with very good grace. and, as she sang, sat
absently twirling ber card and looking out
of the window. She had chosen the Liebe-
stod, but it sounded oddly different, even
to her, from the way she had sung it to the
Herr Intendant and Strumpke, the ac-
companist at the Enzisweiler opera. When
she was only just begun, he stopped her
with more than a suspicion of impatience
in his tone.
“Really. I must ask you to excuse me.
I am already very late. It would be im-
possible to offer you an engagement. My
artists are already engaged for the season.
There it absolutely nothing, unless’’—and
looking at her, his curt, business direct-
ness wavered—‘‘anless—?’
“‘Unless what ?”’ she asked.
‘Unless you take a place in the chorus.’
The anxiety in her tone bad proved his
suspicions.
Her face grew suddenly scarlet, then very
white.
“I will take it,”’ she answered.
The rest of the arrangement was made
with a secretary.
It did not take long for her to learn
what was expected of her and that her
salary wag to be fifteen dollass a week.
*
Three days later, when Herr Strieger
was told that she must sing that night at
the Opera, he took it as a natural thing.
On her return he was still awake and
questioned her eagerly on her success.
As she sat at the side of his bed, trying
to choke down the crusts of the sandwich
that had been put by because she had left
supperless for her first night’s ordeal, ehe
conjured up recollections of the old Enzis-
weiler days, knowing how bappy they
made him. The Duke, the audience, how
things looked, what numbers were encored,
how his Grace had sent for her to come to
the ducal box after the Patria Mia, and
what fine voice she was in, were detailed
and elaborated to suit his pleased ques-
tionings.
At the end of the second week in the
chorus, when she came home, the German
doctor, who called sometimes to see Herr
Strieger, opened the door. ‘‘He is not so
well,”’ he said; but he needs no medicine,
only—youn.”’
The next day, which was Sunday, and
her free day to he with him, he was much
stronger, and when she had propped bim
up with pillows he began to sing the Lo-
hengrin music in the beginning of the first
act. She caught up the duet and followed
his worn voice softly, until, in the middle
of a phrase, he said chokingly : ‘‘On open
scene-—my voice—my——"'' And his white
head fell on her breast. It was ended.
Some reporters came to the house, and
to them, one and all, the German woman
told of the glories of Madame Tauben, and
of her devotion to Herr Strieger. Then all
the town knew of it. Many came to East
Eighteenth sireet,some through sympathy,
others thromgh motives equally humane.
The German Consul himself called.
Clad in her black velvet gown, very
quiet and with a grand air of dignity,
Madame Tauben received them. Her man-
ner prevented them from mentioning the
funeral beyond accepting her invitation to
be present. :
A day later, after a long call from a fair-
haired, corpulent gentleman, who left her
presence with a flushed face and moist
eyes, she agreed, with great dignity, to ac-
cept a benefit concert offered her by cer-
tain musical societies.
On Saturday of the succeeding week she
sailed for Enzisweiler. When she reached
home she sent at once to the opera for her
wreaths. These she hung along one side
of the salon, and in the midst of them
placed a faded photograph of Herr Strieger
as Lohengrin.—W. Armstrong, in MeCall’s
Magazine. ;
. DuBois Woman Missing.
Mrs. Jennie Fugate left her home which
is a few miles from DuBois to go to that
place Thursday to do some ahopping and
bas not heen seen or heard of since. Sheis
the wife of J. L. Fugate, a school teacher.
When she started for DuBois she left ber
child in the care of a neighhor, saying she
would-be back soon. She if of slender
build, has light hair and eyes and ‘was
dressed in a blue and gray turban, a black
dress and black cape. No cause can be as-
signed for her strange disappearance and if
is thought she may have met with foul
play.
of her own voice seemed strange when she
said : :
American 25,000 Years Old.
His Skeleton was Recently Unearthed from Kan-
sas Soil.
By the merest chance there has been dis-
covered beneath the soil near Lansing,
Kan., on the banks of the Missouri River,
the skeleton of a man of the lower stages,
who, scientists declare, lived at the time
of the glacial period, about 30,000 years
ago.
Careful examination of the skull, which
was found mn nearly a complete state,
shows that this individual bad no degree
of intelligence to compare with that of the
present day. In fact. it is considered more
than probable that the being whose bones
were discovered in the Western excavation
belonged to the theoretical class, whose
remains have never before been discovered
—Darwin’s “missing link’’ between the
monkey and the man.
This theory of the discovery, while not
advanced hy the scientists who helped dig
the bones from the earth, and who declare
that they had been for 300 centuries in
the spot where they were found, is sup-
i ported by many statements which these
i geologists and paleontologists make re-
garding the skeleton.
Certain it is that the remains are those
of a human being of a much lower order of
intelligence than the Aztecs or the Ameri-
can Indian, the only inhabitants of the
Western Continent heretofore known to
have existed.
Although the hones were discovered
several months ago, it was not until re
cently that they were scientifically ex-
amined. They were dug from a hillside
on the farm of John Concannon, about
three miles from Lansing, and within a
few yards of the channel of the river.
Several prominent scientists became in-
terested, and Prof. Erasmus Haworth,
geologist of the State University of Law-
rence. Kan., Prof. S. W. Williston, form-
erly of the Kansas University, but now of
the chair of paleontology of the Chicago
University; Prof. Warren Upham, of the
Minnesota Historical Society, and Prof.
N. H. Winchell, State Geologist of Min-
nesota, met in Kansas City for the purpose
of going to Lausing.
Speaking of the discovery, Prof. Erasmus
Haworth, one of the party, said :
‘In my mind bere is not the slighest
doubt regarding the genuineness of the
discovery. I examined the skeleton and
paid particular attention to the matrix ad-
bering to the bones. iy
‘‘It is probable that this skeleton is from
21,000 years old, to 30,000 years old
25,000 being an approximate mean. The
one point which I wish to emphasize from
my own ‘observations is that its age
must be the equivalent of the age of
the beginning of loess accumulation
along the Missouri River. With this
point definitely fixed every one may draw
his ow; conclusions as to how long ago it
was. :
Pushed Rival into River.
Legal Technicality Saves @irl Who Confesed
from Punishment,
The grand jury at Wheeling, W. Va,,
recently acquitted Miss Rodella Bain of
the charge of muidering her rival, Miss
Gay Smith, because she would not give
up Henry, Nolan, whom both girls loved
and to whom Miss Bain asserted a prior
right.
The jury held tbat there was no incrim-
inating evidence outside of Miss Bain’s |
confescion that she pushed Miss Smith in-
to the river, and her confession could not
be introduced under the statutes until the
crime was first established by other proof.
Miss Bain, who tried to commit suicide
previous to her confession which cleared
up the mystery of her rival’s death, is still
in a hospital suffering from nervous pros-
tration, and it is feared ber reason is gone.
She has become a shadow of her former
self in six weeks. The dead girl’s father is
indignant at the failure of the jury to in-
diet Miss Bain.
Nolan heard the news without interest.
Valentine which Cost =a
Woman a Legacy.
A Comle
James Becket, a farmer who had lived
near Camptown, Bradford County, for
many years, died recently, worth $15,000,
and left his daughter nothing but a comic
valentine which caused the grudge, Hall
a century ago Becket received it through
the mail. He always accused his daughter
of sending the thing to him, and as time
| The Bubonic Plague a Real Peril.
The spread of the bubonic plague in
California is increasing and causing consid-
erable alarm. The health hoards of the
country in conference at New Haven have
urged the Government to prompt measures
to stamp out the disease completely. The
number of cases in California is increasing
rapidly. Since February there have been
2,230 deaths from the plague in San Fran-
cisco, every case reported having proved
fatal.
The plague was brought'to San Francisco
from the Philippines on Government trans-
ports. The public health and marine
hospital services describe the disease as be-
ing more than ever dapgerous in the United
States because of the rapid means of transis
and the habit of the Americans to travel, It
ie but three days from San Francisco to New
Orleans or Chicago, and in this time a travel-
er could carry the germ of the disease in his
clothes or baggage. from one city to the
other. It is not likely that an exposed or
infected case could carry disease in this way,
for the disease works so rapidly that death
often follows in forty-eight hours. It is
said that the business men of San Francisco
have used their influence to keep their
health authorities from publishing the facts
in regard to the cases that have occurred,
and have in this way aided in thespread of
the disease. It is now believed that the
time has come for the general Government
to act. It is astonishing that this condi-
tion of affairs could have existed in San
Francisco with out creating alarm through
out the country; but the fact ie that little
is known of the plague in this country. The
reports of its ravages in India and other
parts of the East are far distant. and create
no alarm in the United States, supposed to
be insolated. The facts are that it is a
very contagious and most deadly disease.
In the Philippines and in China the death
rate has reached 75 per cent, which mor-
tality is much greater than that of the
most frightful batties in the history of the
world. The Chinese colonies in American
cities, so difficult of sanitary regulation,
plague that shows a general peril in the
spread of the terrible disease. An epi-
demic of the plague, even in asingle Amer-
ican city, would add materially to the
frightful cost in life and treasure that the
country has paid for the Philippines.—
Pittsburg Post.
Cheap Colt Lands a Winner.
Cost $100 and his Owner Quickly Cleared up Nearly
$8,000.
When Tribes Hill won the first race at
Aqueduct N. Y., Election-Day Jack McGin-
nis, the well-known betting commissioner,
was happy. The colt, who is a three-year-
old son of Clifford-Garoga, was once the
property of S. Sanford & Sons, But during
the recent Morris Park meeting he was put
up at auction. In spite of William Eas-
ton’s earnest request for bids nobody seemed
to want Tribes Hill, so he was led out of
the ring. Somebody offered $25 for him,
but it was refused. Then McGinnis put in
a $50 offer, but that was turned down.
*I’11 give $100 for him rather than see
him go back to the farm at Amsterdam,’’
said McGinnis, and Tribes Hill became his
property. When McGinnis decided to start
the cols Tnesday he also concluded to bes
on him. A commissioner was sent into the
ring with $325, instructed to bet $75 straight
and $250 to show. He had no trouble in
getting the money down, securing sixty to
one straight and twelve to one third. or
$4,500 to $75 and $3,000 to $250. Scott,
the stable hoy, had the mount and he rode
a fine race. Tribes Hill won by a head and
McGinnis pocketed $7,000 in addition to
$780, which ‘was his share of the parse, and
all with a $100 colt. In the days of Gut-
tenberg. McGinnis was struggling along in
a precaiious way, but in recent years he
has amassed guite asnug fortune. He won
a barrel of money at Brighton Beach with
his colt Reformer, when the latter came
home with forty to one against him.
Woman as a Repeater.
Arrested in Denver as She Was About to Cast Her
Third Vote.
For the first time in the history of Cole-
rado politics a woman was arrested in
Denver Saturday on the charge of repeat-
ing. When booked at the city jail she
gave the name of Jennnie Savderson, but
riet Hibbard, a widow, fifty years old.
She was neatly dressed and bad the appear-
ance of refinement. It is alleged thatshe was
passed on his antipathy to her increased.
. He died the othe day and his legacy to
his daughter consisted of a small parcel,
——Sabseribe for the WATCHMAN.
wrapped up in paper. She opened it and
found ‘the valentine. i
casting her third ballot when arested. She
admitted her guilt and said she could give
no reason for her acts, except her desire ‘to
make some ‘extra money. She told ithe
police she was a Republican. ,
afford field and scope for the bubonic
was subsequently identified as Mrs. Har-