TfPipi HE PITTSBURG T)ISPATCH. PITTSBURG- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 189L -aaragaia-m-a """""F""r""""""""'" fWP, '"PfPfyf " ' " y"PII4,l'7""3""p . T PAGES 9 TO 20. 1 H ; h . r sJ( . i SECOND PART. AT WAGNER'S SHRINE Mark Twain's Experience Among the Music-Mad. Pilsxims to Bayreutli. HAS A GEEAT GKIEYAXCE. The KenownedComposerShould Haye Eliminated the Singing. HIS ORCHESTRA TARTS ALL EIGHT. imericans An Advised to Bnn; Dinner Tails Alonp. Their TANXHAUSER TDT AGAINST PARSIFAL ITTEITTES FOE Tift DISPATCH. 1 It iras at "Sureniberg that we Btruck the inundation of music-mad strangers that was rolling down upon Bajreuth. It had been long since we had seen such multitudes of excited and struggling people. It took a good hall hour to pack them and pair them into the train and it was the lonsest train we have yet seen in Europe. Nuremberg had been witnessing this sort of experience a couple oT times a day for about two weeks. It gives one an impressive sense of the magnitude of this biennial pilgrimage. For n pilgrimage is what it is. The devotees come from the very ends of the earth to worship their prophet in his own Kaaba in his own "Mecca. If you are livinjj in "Sew York or San Francisco or Pittsburg or anywhere else in America, and you conclude, by the middle of May, that you would like to attend the Bayreuth opera two months and a half later, you must use the cable and fjet about it immediately, or you will get no seats, and you must cable for lodgings, too. Then if you are lucky you will get seats in the lat row and lodgings in the fringe of the town. If you stop to write you will get nothing. There were plenty of people in Nuremberg when we passed through who had come on pilgrimage without first secur ing seats and lodgings. V alked the Streets All "Sight. They had found neither in Bayreuth; they had walked Bayreuth streets a while in sor row, then pone to ICuremberg and fourtd neither bed nor standing room, and had walked those quaint streets all night wait ing for the hotels to open and empty their guests into the trains, and so make room for these, their defeated brethren aud Bisters in the faith. They had endured from SO to 40 hours railroading on the continent ot Europe with all -which, that implies of worry, fatigue and financial impoverish ment and all they had got and all they were to get for it vias handiness and ac curacy in kicking theinselt es, acquired by practice in the back streets of the two towns when other people were in bed; for back they must go cner that unspeakable journey with their pious mission unfulfilled. These humiliated outcasts had the frowsy end unbrushed and apologetic look ot wet cats,and their eyes were glazed with drowsi ness, their bodies were odroop from crown to sole, and all kind-hearted people re frained from asking them if they had been to Bayreuth and failed to connect, as know ing they would lie. Mark's Party "Were TTUe. We reached here (Bayreuth) about mid- afternoon of a rainv Saturdav. "We were of the wise, and had secured lodgings and opera seats months in advance. I am not a musical critic, and did not come here to write essays about the operas and deliver Judgment upon their merits. The little children of Bavreuth could do that with a finer sympathy and a broader intelligence than I. I only care to bring four or five pilgrimB to the operas, pilgrims able to appreciate them and enjoy them. "What I might write about the performances to put In my odd time would be offered to the pub lic as merely a cat's view of a king, and not of didactic value. Xeit day, which was Sunday, we left for the Opera House that is to sav, the "Wag ner temple a little after the middle of the afternoon. The great building stands all by itself, grand and lovely, on high ground outside the town. "We were warned that if we arrived after 4 o'clock we should be obliged to pay 52 50 apiece extra by way of fine. "We saved that; and it may be re marked here thatthis is the only opportun ity Europe offers cf saving money. If either Ssex in Ei ening Dress. There was a big crowd in the grounds about the building, and the ladies' dresses toot the sun with great effect I do not mean to intimate that the ladies were in full dress, for that was not so. The dresses were pretty, but neither sex was in evening dress. The interior of the building is sim ple severely so; but there is no occasion for color and decoration, since the people it in the dark. The auditorium has the shape of a keystone, with the stage at the narrow end. There is an aisle on each side, but no aisle in the body of the house. Each row cf seats extends in an unbroken curve from one side of the house to the other. There arc seven entrance doors on each side of the theater and four at the butt end 18 doors to admit and emit 1,650 persons. The number of the particular door by which you are to enter the houEe or leave it is printed on vour ticket, and you can use no door but that one. Thu, crowding and confusion are impossible. .Not so manv as a hundred people use any one door. This is better than having the usual (and use less) elaborate fireproof arrangements. It is the model theater of the world. It can be emptied while the second hand of a watch makes its circuit It would be en- j tlrelv safe even if it were built of lucifer matches. All Stand Tilt the House Is Filled. If your scat is near the center of a row and you enter late, you must work your way along a rank of about 25 ladies and gentle men to get to it Yet this causes no trouble, for everybody stands up until all the seats are full, and the filling is accomplished in a very few minutes. Then all sit down, and you have a solid mass of 1,500 heads mak ing a steep cellardoor slant from the rear of the house down to the stage. All the lightB were turned low, so low that the congregation sat in a deep and sol emn gloom. The funereal rustling of dresses and the low buzz of conversation began to die swiftly down, and presently not the ghost of a sound was left This profound and increasing impressive stillness con tinued yet during sometime the best prep aration for music, spectacle or speech con ceivable. I should think our show people would have invented or imported that simple and impressive device lor securing and solidifying the attention of an audience long ago; instead of which tbev continue to this day to open a performance ngainst a deadly competition m the form of noise, confusion and a scattered interest Wagner Back From His Grave Finally, out of darkness and distance and mystery soft rich notes rose upon the still ness, and from his grave the dtad magician began to weave his spells upon his disciples and steep their souls in his enchantments. There was something strangely impressive in the fancy which kept intruding itself that the composer was conscious in his grave of what was going on here, and that these divine sounds were the clothing of thoughts v hich were at this moment pass ing through his brain, not recognized and familiar ones which had issued from it at some former time. The entire overture, long as it was, was played to a dark house with the curtain down. It was exquisite, it was delicious. But straightway thereafter, of course, came the singing, and it docs seem to me that nothing can make a Wagner opera abso lutely perfect and satisfactory to the untu tored but to leave cit the vocal parts. I wish I conld see a Wagner opera done in pantomime once. Then one would have the lovely orchestration unvexed to listen to and bathe his spirit in, and the bewilder- ingly beautiful scenery to intoxicate his eyes with, and the dumb acting couldn't mar these pleasures, because there isn't often anything in the Wagner opera that one would call by Euch a violent name as acting; as a rule all you would see would be a couple of silent people, one of them stand ing still, the other catching flies. Of course I do not really mean that he would be catch ing flies, I only mean that the usual operatic gestures, which consist in reaching first one hand out into the air and then the other, might suggest the sport I speak of if the Operator attended strictly to business and uttered no sound. Ed joyed in Spite of the Sincing. This present opera was "Parsifak" Mme. Wagner does not permit its representation anywhere but in Bayreuth. The first act of the three occupied two hours, and I enjoyed that in spite ot the singing. I trust that I know as well as anybody that singing is one of the most entrancing and bewitching and moving and eloquent of ail me vemcies invented Dy man lor the "conveying of feeling; but it seems to me that a chief virtue in song is melody, air, tune, rhythm, or what you please to cali it, and that when this feature is absent what remains is a picture with the color left out I was not able to detect in the vocal parts of "Parsifal" anything that might with confidence be called rhythm or tune or mel ody; one person performed at a time and a long time, too often in a noble and always in a high-priced voice; out he only pulled out long notes, then some short ones, then another long one, then a sharp, qu.ck peremptory bark or two and so on and so on; and when he was done rou saw that the information which he had conveyed had not compensated for the disturbance, if ot always, but pretty often. If two of them would be put in a duet occasionally and blend the voices; but no, they don't do that The great master, who knew so well how to make 100 instru ments rejoice in unison and pour out their souls in mingled and melodious tides of de licious sound, deals only in barren solos when he puts in the vocal parts. It may be that he was deep, and only adds the singing to his operas lor the sake ot the contrast it would make with the music. Calls It Vocal Gymnastic . Singing! It does seem the wrong name to apply to it Strictly described, it is a practicing of difficult and unpleasant inter vals, mainly. An ignorant person gets tired of listening to gymnastic intervals in the long run, no matter how pleasant they may be. In "Parsifal" there is a hermit named Gumemtmz who stands on the stage and prac tices by the hour, while firt one and then another character of the cast endures what he can of it and retires to die. During the evening there was an inter mission of three-quarters of an hour after the first act and one an hour long after the second. In both instances the theater was totally emptied. People who had previ ously engaged tables in the one sole eating house were able to put in their time very satisfactorily; the other thousand went hungry. The opera was concluded at 10 in the evening or a little later. When we reached home we had been gone more than seven hours. Seven hours at 55 a ticket is almost too much for the money. While browsing about the front yard among the crowd between the acts I en countered 12 or 15 friends from different parts of America, and those of them who were most familiar with Wagner said that "Jfarsilal" seldom pleased at first, but that after one had heard it several times it was almost sure to become the favorite. It seemed impossible, but it was true, lor the statement came lrom people whose word was not to be doubted. Coming to an Understanding. And I gathered some further information. On the ground I found part of a German musical magazine, and in it a letter written by TJhlic S3 yeaTs ago, in which he defends the scorned and abused Wagner against people like me, who found fault with the comprehensive absence of what our kind regards as singing. TJhlic says Wagner de spised "jene plapperude mnsik," and there fore "runs, trills, and schnorkel are dis carded by him." I don't know what a schnorkel is, but now that I -know it has been left out of these operas I never have missed anything so much in my life. And TJhlic further says that Wagner's song is win ys true song; that it is "simply emphasized in toned speech." That certainly describes it in "Parsifal" and some of the other operas; and, if I understand Uhlic's elabo rate German, he apologizes for the beautiful airs in "Tannhauser." Very well; now that Wagner and I understand each other, perhaps we shall get; along better, and I shall stop calling him Waggner, on the American plan, and here after call him Voggner, as per German custom, for I feel entirely friendly now. The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right .' Of conrse, I came home wondering why people should come from all the corners of America to near tnese operas, wnen we have lately had a seison or two of them in 2"ew York with these same singers in the Eeven.1 parts, and possibly this same orchestra. I resolved to think that out at all hazard'. Golnsrto ITear Tannhnnsrr. Tuesday Yesterday they played the only operatic favorite I have ever had an opera which his always driven me mad with iinorant delight whenever I have heard it '"Tannhauser." I heard it first when I was a youth, I heard it las in the last German season in Xew York. I was busy yesterday and Iuid not intend togo, knowing Ishould have another "Tannhauser" opportunity in a few days; but after 5 o'clock I found my self free and walked out to the Opera House and arrived about the beginning of the sec ond act My opera ticket admitted me to the grounds in front, past the policeman and the chain, and I thought I would taken rest on a bench for an honr or two and wait for the third act. In a moment or so the first bugles blew, and the multitude began to crumble apart and melt into the theater. I will explain that this bugle call is one of the pretty features here. You see, the theater is empty, and hundreds of the audience are a good way off in the feeding house; the first bugle call is blown about a quarter of an hour before time for the curtain to rise. This company of buglers, in uniform, march out with military step and send out over the landscape a few bars of the theme of the approaching act, piercing the distances with the gracious notes, then they march to the other entrance and repeat Presently they do this over again. Yesterday only about 200 people were still in front of the house when the second call was blown; in another halt minute they would have beenin the house, but then a thing happened which de layed them the one solitary thing in this world which could be relied on with cer tainty to accomplish it, I suppose an im perial Princess appeared in the balcony above them. Gazlnc: at a Keal Princess. They stopped dead in their tracks, and be gan to gaze, m a stupor of gratitude and satisfaction. The lady'presently saw that she must disappear or" the doors would be closed upon these worshipers, so she re turned to her box. This daughter-in-law of the Emperor was pretty; she had a kind face; she was without airs; she is known to be full of common human sympathies. There are many kinds of princes, but this kind is the most harmful of all, lor wherever they go they reconcile people to monarchy and set back the clock of progress. The valuable princes, the desirable princes, are the Czars and their sort By their mere dumb presence in the world they cover with derision every argument that can be invent ed in favor of royalty by the most ingenious casuist. In his "time the husband of this Princess was valuable. He led a degraded life, he ended it with his own hand in cir cumstances and surroundings of a hideous sort, aud was buried like a god. In the Opera House" there is a long loft back of the audience, a kind of open gal lery, in which princes are displayed. It is sacred to them, it is the holy of holies. As soon as the filling of the house is about com plete, the standing multitude turn and fix their eyes upon the princely layout, and gaze mutely and longingly and regretfully ESENSIBL Buy THIS SIDEBOARD $15 $15 $15 Cash or Credit I ! fejffizSjjTJl ill lljipMN rtfll ! "5 v 7 7 I If 1 j -HH- -KH- I M Ir ' ! ;' ; J, i! V 'Iff V .j-y l' Sfl UtTM0!,?!' Pest assorted and lowest price BOOK SHELF $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 m """""""ST1 6 . - iij 9 HI IEW1 "TW3 UUlUU 1 1 . - -z-z :. i 1 "'g,, j " Fi'f ' I IfflMWi ilfW" i fnftHL WHIM tvm ""''.I 1 J Pi,. ?H II mi tef mLM m mm W -K 111 I L- ..vfc-s.."-. 3 .v . j . 1 --j- s-. -.' .. . ... jij- . . a. - . .iith . & t, . jt j&.-w-'-w. .-. , A? c . .. . ; j, , J&jk 5.tAJ j. . -"i ii rtfirfiiai'ift,ik"-iT r,??cmmimrfr'ftsrzMrfr i-Ttit ,r " tin-nft "-a3rft- H" rn- ir-l"i1Tffi'ti-nirj--frr rv:rri-ar7rrf-.'7Wif-rs&iw "Tifv-N' -v r wtom -vtV" 25'i2,f-jS6-aifa'"s';Ji - i!asi&-atwcfi-.ft.jt.'3r.ir1-s? r.-iiua'vJtfLLfta... . ". - sf-.'asK,, .- , i. r taja-Mr-hf irwrr- - ' mtmi like sinners looking into heaven. They be come wrapt, unconscious, steeped in wor ship. There is no spectacle anywhere that is more pathetic than this. It is worth crossing many oceans to see. It is some how not the same gaze that people rivet upon a Victor Hugo, or Niagara, or the bones of the mastodon, or the guillotine of the revolution, or the great pyramid, or distant Vesuvius smoking in the skv, or any man long celebrated to you by his genius and achievements, or thing long celebrated to you by the praises of books and pictures no, that gaze is only the gaze of intense curiosity, interest, wonder, engaged in drinking delicious deep draughts that taste good all the way down, and appease and satisfy the thirst of a lifetime. Satisfy it that is the word. "Hugo and the mastodon will still have a degree of interest thereafter when encountered, but never anything ap proaching the ecslacy of that first view. Interest a live Prince Excites. The interestof a Prince is different. It may be envy, it may be worship, doubtless it is a mixture of both and it does not sat isfy its thirst with one view, or even no ticeably diminish it. Perhaps the essence of the thing is the value which men attach to a valuable something which has come by luck and not been earned. A dollar picked (.-X33 feorN 1 . INt I ROYAL B) r- work ne yiSC , Wrote wpr M CHhNCfc 1 - ..J.' I YYUrr in-' -- sffZE24,r'rP2) up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way. A Prince picks up grandeur, power and a permanent holiday and gratis support by a pure accident, the" accident of birth, and he stands always before the grieved eye of poverty and obscurity a monumental rep resentative of luck. And then supremest value of all his is the only high fortune on the earth which is secure. The commercial millionaire may become a beggar, the illus trious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illustri ous General can lose a decisive battle and with it the consideration of men; but once a Prince always a Prince, that is to say, an imitation god, aud neither bard fortune nor infamous character nor an addled brain, nor the speech of an ass can undeify him. By common consent of all the nations and all the ages, the most valuable thing in this now while the stock is THIS ROCKER $3-5o $3-5o $3-5o MAKES HOME COMFORTABLE. PRICE S3.5Q 53,51 To see it is to buy it o7 CHANCE" BY " i-Gll - la V n MiH3sgB'ssSssaIyy"iftj ar . hi world is the homage of men, whether de served or undeserved. It follows without doubt or question, then, that the most desir able position possible is that of a Prince, And I think it also follows that the so called usurpations with which history is littered are the most excusable misdemean ors which men have committed. , To usurp a usurpation that is all it amounts to, isn't it? In Europe It Crows on One. A prince is not to us what he is to a Eu ropean, of course. We have not been taught to regard him as a god. and so one good look at him is likely to so nearly ap pease our curiosity as to make him an ob ject of no great interest next time. We want a fresh one. But it is not so with the European, lam quite sure of it The same old one will answer; he never stales. Eighteen years ago I was in London, and I called at an Englishman's house on a bleak and foggy and dismal December afternoon to visit his wife and married daughter, by appointment I waited half an hour, and then they arrived, frozen. They explained that they had been delayed by an unlooked for circumstance; while passing in the neighborhood of Marlborough House they saw a crowd gathering, and were told that the Prince of Wales was about to drive out, so they stopped to get a sight of him. They had waited a half hour on the sidewalk, freezing with the crowd, but were disap pointed at lastA-the Prince had changed his mind. I said, with a good deal of surprise: "Is it possible that you two have lived in London all your lives and have never seen the Prince of Wales?". Apparently it. was their turn to be stir prised, for they exclaimed: "What an ideal Why, we have ieen him hundreds of times." They had seen him hundreds of times, yet they had waited half an hour in the gloom and the bitter cold, in the midst of a jam of patients from the same asylum on the chance of seeing him again. It was a stupe fying statement, but one is obliged to be lieve the English, even -when they say a thing like that I fumbled around for a remark, and got out this one: "I can't understand it at alk If J had never seen General Grant I doubt if I would do that even to get a sight of him," with a slight emphasis on the last word. Comparing Grant and Tummy. Their blank faces showed that they won dered where the parallel came in. Then they said blandly: "Of course not. He is only a Presi dent." It is doubtless a fact that a prince is a permanent interest, an interest not subject to deterioration. The General who was never defeated, the General who never held a council of war, the only General who ever commanded a connected battle front 1,200 miles long, the smith who welded together the broken parts of a great Eepublic, and re-established it where it is quite likely to outlast all the monarchies present and to come, was really a person of no serious con sequence to these people. To them, with their training, my General was only a man after all, while their prince was clearly much more than that, a being of a wholly unsimilar construction and constitution, a being of no more blood and kindship with men than are the serene eternal lights of the firmament with the poor dull tallow candles ot commerce that sputter and die and leave nothing behind but a pinch of ashes and a stink. I saw the last act of "Tannhauser." I sat in the gloom and deep stillness, waiting one minute, two minutes. I do not know exactly how long then the soft music of the hidden orchestra began to breathe its rich, long sighs out from under the distant stage, and by and by the drop curtain parted in the middle and was drawn slowly aside, disclosing a tnrilighted woods and a wayside shrine, with a white-robed girl praying and a man standing near. Present ly that noble chorus of men's voices was heard approaching, and from that moment until the closing of the enrtain it was ESENTS complete. 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I suppose a double team is necessary; doubtless a single team would die of exhaustion in a week, for all the plays last from tour in the afternoon till ten at night Nearly all the labor falb up on the half dozen head singers, and ap parently they are required tolurniih all the noise they can for the money. If they feel a soft, whispcry, mysterous feeling, they are required to open out and let the public know it Operas are given only on Sun days, Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with three days of ostensible rest per week, and two teams to do the four operas; but ostensible rest is devoted largely to rehears ing from some time in the morning till ten at night Are there two orchestras also? It is quite likely, since there are a hundred and ten names in the orchestra list. Yesterday the opera was "Tristan and Isolde." I have seen all sorts of audiences at theaters, operas, concerts, lectures, ser mons, funerals but none which was twin to FOR SENSIBLE aside for Christmas delivery. 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Youknowthat they are being stirred to their profoundest depths; that there are times when they want to rise and wave handkerchiefs and shout their approbation, and times when tears are running down their faces and it would be a relief to free their pent emotions in sobs and screams; yet yon hear not one utterance till the curtain swings to gether and the closing strains have slowly faded out and died; then the dead rise with one impulse and shake the building with their applause. Every seat is full in the first act, there is not a vacant one in the last If" a man would like to be conspicu ous, let him come here and retire from the opera house in the midst of an act. It would make him celebrated. This audience reminds me of nothing I have ever seen, and of nothing I have read about except the city in the Arabian tale where all the inhabitants have been turned to brass, and the traveler finds them after centuries ,mnte, motionless, and still re taining thi attitudes which they last knew PLUSH ROCKERS 12.50 -$2.50 $2.50 rockers in the THIS OAK STAND 98c 98c 98c 98c PEOPLE- PLUSH ROCKER $6 $6 $6 M S31--- --i n n s2 ; 7T PfiL JhV in life. Here the Wagner audience dress as they please, and sit in the dark and worship in silence. At the Metropolitan in New" York they git in a glare, they wear their showiest harness, they hum heirs, they" squeak fans, they titter, and they gabble all the time. In some of the boxes the convert sation and laughter are eo loud as to divide the attention of the house with the stage. In large measure the Metropolitan is showcase of rich fashionables who are no trained in Wagnerian music, 3nd have no) reverence for it, but who like to-promoti art and show their clothes. An Explanation ot the Pihjrimage. Can that be an agreeable atmosphere t" persons in whom this musio produces a sori of divine ecstasy, and to whom its creator is a very deity, his stage a temple, the) works of his "brain and hands consecrated things, and the partaking of them with eve) and ear a sacred solemnity? Manifestl'y. no. Then, perhaps, the temporary expatria tion, the tedious traversing of seas and eon- tinents, the pilgrimage to Bayreuth, standi explained. These devotees wonld worship in an atmosphere of devotion. It is onl here that they can find it without fleck or" blemish or any worldly pollution. In thij remote village there are no sights to seef there is no newspaper to intrude the worries of the distant world, there is nothing goinjj on, it is always Sunday. The pilgrim wenda to his temple out ot town, sits out his moving service, returns to his bed with his heart and his soul and his body exhausted by long hours of tremendous emotion, and ne Is in no nt condition to do anything buft lie torpid and slowly gather back life and strength for the next service. This opera of "Tristan and Isolde" last night broke tha hearts of all witnesses who were of tho faith, and I know of some and have heard oC many who could not sleep after it, bat cried the night away. I feel strongly out of place here. Sometimes I feel like" the one sane person in a community of the mad; sometimes I ieel like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and alway, during service, I feel like a heretic ia heaven. But by no means do I ever overlook or minify the fact that this is one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life. I have never seen anything like this before. I have never seen anything so great and fine and real as this devotion. mark's Snre Thins on. Art. FridayYesterday's opera was "Parsi fal" again. The others went and they show marked advance in appreciation; but I went hunting for relics and reminders of tho Margravine Wilhelmina, she ot the im perishable "Memoirs." I am properly grateful to her for her (unconscious) satire) upon monarchy and nobility, and therefora nothing which her hand touched, or her eyo looked upon, is indifferent to me. Ia'm her pilgrim; the rest of this multitude hero are Wagner's. Tuesday I have seen my last two operas, my season is ended, and we cross over into Bohemia this afternoon. I was supposing that my musical regeneration was accom plished and perfected, because I enjoyed both of these operas, singing and all, and, moreover, one of them was "Parsifal;" but , the experts have disenchanted me. They sav: "Singing! 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