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AN IMAGINATIVE MAN."
A State of Maatal Deraugouwat.
Robert B. Hlchen. who achieved
Mm r.m. aYiii much notoriety toy his
authorship of "The Green Carnation."
a book regarded b Max Nordau and
certain others aa forming a quite un
surpassed example of our literary ace
end degeneracy, has challenged criti
cism by issuing a seconu novei, nwrw
ambitious than the first, and embody
i .vn more unblushing, albeit
perhaps mors flnely elaborated, gospel
of mingled cynicism, pessimism ana
palled sensualism. This novel (New
vnrir. Tv Annictou Co.! for sale In
Scranton by M. Norton) Is called "An
Imaginative Manr hut a mors appro
priate title, aa we shall see. would be,
If we may coin the word, "A Psycho
maniac," for the them thereof la noth
ing less than a portrayal of the gradual
processes of an insidious form of men
tal and moral decay, which to the lay
man seems about equatly poised be
tween acquired neurosis ana an out
cropping of some hereditary taint.
I. -The Psyehemaalse.
The Imaginative Mam Is named
Henry Denlson, a "tall, thin man of
about thirty-eight," whose "eyes were
dark brown, bright and restless," and
who combined a waxed moustache with
a Mephlstophellan beard and smiled
cynically.' At Eton Denlson was
deemed odd. He "was a man who con
sidered It almost criminal to be what
men call a thorough good fellow." But
he was uncommonly gifted; and that
carried him through. We are intro
duced to Denlson three months after
his marriage. In a bedroom where his
wife Is praying:
"I wonder why she Is praying." Denl
son thought, looking at his wife, an 1
drawing his brows together In a slight
frown. "Is It because he believes in a
God. or because she wishes to sound me?
I wonder what she Is praying about T"
He moved a step forward as If to go
softly out of the room, then paused again.
"I wonder whether she Is a Pharisee?"
he thought, "and for a pretense makes
long prayers. Or perhaps she fancies that
I have gone down stairs. She cannot see;
her eyes are blinded by her hands. These
private prayer are fascinating. Every
thing that is strictly private is fascinat
ing. Only when one has made It strictly
public does the bloom vanish from the
peach. The Bluebeard's chamber of the
soul Is. after all. the only room worth
looking Into. But the worst of it Is that
one can generally And the mean of en
trance to It much too easily, and often It
turns out to be only a barely furnished
and respectable attic after all the sort of
room a Christian mistress gives to a
Christian maid. I have not quite got ln'o
Enid's Bluebeard chamber yet. I wonder
If there are headless creatures there
bitarrt monuments of her mental crimes."
II.-Tlio Woman of It.
Enid, the wife, an inoffensive, thor
oughly feminine, and, as the author hat
"drawn her. a not overly Individualised
woman, strikes the keynote to Denl
ton' failing when, in ithe scene from
which we have Just quoted, she replies
to iom. of his pert epigrams about
prayer, soul myiterles, etc., by saying,
wi:h a curious Bily pathos;
"Tou are always reasoning, Harry. I
sometimes fancy "
She paused and heslltated.
"Yes, dear?" said her husband, twist
ing his clgar-cas round In his hand a
little Impatiently.
"I sometimes fancy that It you loved me
a little more you would reason about me
a little less."
"Such an Idea Is In direct opposition to
all my theories.
"But Harry, I wish sometimes you
were not so dreadfully clever. Cleverness
Seems to me a sort of disease."
Her dark eyes met his rather anxiously.
"You mean that the stupid are healthy,
and that the Intelligent ought to be doc
tored, dosed with denseness, plastered
with Ignorance? Would you put genius In
splints. Enid, and feed talent with the
water gruel of mediocrity?"
"Not that, of course, Harry, "till "
"Still, something ought to be don for
the poor, sick thing. I am not sure that
you are not right, A clever mind la rather
like a dog with the distemper. The worst
of It Is that the dog may get over the dis
temper; but the mind never quite gets over
Its cleverness." .
"Now you are being sarcastic," she said,
drawing her hand back Into the bed again.
"I dart say I am silly."
"No; you are wiser than you think.
There Is truth in what you say. But you
must confess, Enid, that there are not too
many dogs going about with the distem
per." in.-Th Crass Interrogatory.
The next scene necessary to an un
derstanding of our friend, the psycho
' maniac, follows close after, 'H e):s In
Ms den, rmoklng. His "restless brown
eyes" rove over the broad mantelpiece,
on which stand. In an unbroken row,
the cabinet photographs of number
of women.
"My enigmas," he thought on, with a
slight pursing of the lips that met each
other firmly, some said cynically, over his
Urge, white teeth. "Mr enigmas! The
riddles I have pussled over, the acrostics I
once fancied It Impossible to solve. I have
guessed them all."
His eyes lingered on one photograph of
a little, dark woman, with delicately-cut
features and great, Imaginative eyes, that
peered out beneath black, ourvlng brows
with th wistful expression of a plaintive
dreamer, . It was th photograph of his
Wife.
"I have married you to guess you," he
said to the photograph. "That was car
rylng the pastime rather far. Wasn't it?
Don't let me guess you Just yet."
He sighed.
' "People prate so much about being able
to bav faith," be thought, "a If It were
beautiful. . They talk of th pleasure of
reading a soul Ilk an open book. No
open book la worth reading. If only men
and women were more incomprehensible
, than they are. I have never yet met with
a human being whom I could not thor
oughly understand after a certain period
ef study and detective duty, Tet I have
married Enid. That was rash. But I do
not quit understand tier yet. What a
mercy that Is. Misunderstanding keeps
' love alive."
, He struck the ash oS hi olgar with
meditative little linger, .and again ran
ills eyes over th photograph. .
"To think that all these people really
pussled me In their time! I would like to
Invite them In a bunch to dinner now, and
sit aa boat, among th rules ot my Car
thage) drink a health, to th mysterlts
that are gone, and make a neat speech of
farewell to vanished misunderstanding.
Tt they fascinated m strangely, once.
Shall I fall with Enid? Sometimes
lately I have feared so. She interested m
more six weeks ago than th do now.
Tet she .Interest me still I bare studied
her among Reman rains, and on Venetian
lagoon while I have kissed- her? whan I
have quarreled with gar. As sbe slept by
my side I haV pursued her dreams. I
have waked myself deliberately in order
" wak la the atoning and hear
what fear first words wuld be, i bay
i-L. .
i rn?
drawn, her on at night with arguments.
and strange statements, of anything out
fart, to reveal herself fully to m In th
excitement that the dark hour often
bring In their train. Yet (he I still, to
soms extent, a riddle. If could know
what she prays for, I could know what
she Is. Our secret desire are our souls.
Nevertheless, I have an Instinct that tells
me some day the soul of Enid will be laid
quit bare to me. I shall understand her.
It Is only a question of time. Ah! what
would It be to me to discover a being with a
soul that I could never understand! How
I. bored and cold, and modern as I am,
could love It."
For a moment his eyes glittered with a
fire of excitement He got up restlessly,
threw hi cigar Into the tire, and turned
th staring photographs with their faces
to the wall.
"You tire me." he said wearily, "very
much."
He paused in front ot the flame, with one
foot resting on the fender edge.
"Shall I ever get rid of thi absurd ten
dency of mine toward the follies brought
about by the workings of the Imagina
tion?" he thought. "If the world knew of
my desires, of my hidden sensations,
surely It would caltjne a child Instead ot
a cynic, a child or possibly, being a kind
ly speaking world a madman. Why am
I really so detached from people, so swift
ly moved, at moments, by Inanimate
things, by a sound, a scent, the patter ot
a shower among slippery laurel leaves,
the pose of a figure In an old picture?
Sometimes I have funcied that I shall fall
In love with an echo, or be enthralled
by an orchid with a history In It lus
trous, spotted petals. Sometimes I have
dreamed that .1 shall beat out my life
against a stone personality, that will con
jure up fancies, and own' no vole with
which to dispel them."
IV.-ovlously a Degenerate.
A coal falling Into the grate snapped
the thread of Denlaon'a meditation.
"Riddles!" he murmured. "Riddles!"
Those who are dumb ran never tell their
secrets. And we. In society, do everything
with a view to what we call conversation.
What a masquerade of maniacs It all la!
Yet, If a sane man got a card for the mas
querade, made the dancers unmask and
showed to them their real faces, th ball
would break up In confusion, and the
hostess, Sirs. Orumty, would deny to him
the sacred name of 'gentleman.' And,
stripped of that name, one I but a con
vict a mere number."
' He lit bta candle and turned out the
lamp.
"It Is absurd to have an aim In life, I,
suppose," he sa!4 to himself. 'But If I
had one It should be to send Mrs. Orundy
Into hysterics in the midst of the prepos
terous puppyts whom she calls her
guests,"
V. Curiosity Quenched.
Enid and Denlson, or more truthfully
speaking, plaything and owner, sail for
Egypt, and when we find them there,
the author tells us; ' ' '
Mrs. Denlson had never succeeded In
losing the fear of her husband' smiling
cynicism, which she at the same time con
sidered Godlike and most alarming. But,
then, she was one of thosi) women who
think that a dlety must have a good deal
of the bogey about him. and who vaguely
confuse Providence with the personality
oi ine scare-crow, frightening- Human
sparrows away from sin by dint of an
Immovable ugliness that Implies Illimit
able power. Her secret fear of her hus
band had spurred within her the actress
Instinct that lives, although perhaps dor
mant. In every female bosom, and she
had, almost unconsciously, kept his cu
riosity about her at bay by the use of little
subtleties of insincerity, defending her
self against the scrutiny of hi Incessant
cross-examination with an ability which
had fanned the flame of his curious affec
tion for her. She was very lovely, and he
had not yet succeeded in fully under
standing her. Nature had gifted her with
mysteriously dark eye and a pretty trick
of vagueness. The beauty and the vague
ness caught Denlson, and he appropri
ated them eventually at the altar. The
beauty appealed certainly to his artistic
sense, and to the body .which he believed
himself to despise. But It was the vague
ness which hooked that wayward fish, hit
mind. In It he found a riddle. He spent
his time In trying to guest It, no doubt
because the guessing of It would, as he
knew, slay what he chose to call his affec
tion for Enid.
Hit mistake lay in supposing that there
was a riddle to guess. Mrs. Denlson't
eyes were much deeper than was her
soul. She did not correspond, mentally,
to her physique. Many of us do not, and
that is probably why the ugly word
"hypocrite" originally came Into use. The
face I as often the shutter of the soul ss
th window, and the visible sometimes
rudely gives the lie to th Invisible.
What wat visible of Mr. Denlson fre
quently contradicted what wa Invisible
of her, but the world had no time to heed
the squabble. Mr. Denlson had time, but
at present the cotton-wool of novelty
filled his ears and rendered him partially
deaf.
The cotton-wool, however, was
doomed soon to come out. The disillu
sionment occurred In this wise, one day
beside th lake: .
''Harry," she began, with a gentle ab
ruptness, that was rather epileptic, "there
can never be perfect lov without perfect
frankness, can there T '
"Many people say so, Enid."
"1 wanted to say that I ertsh our love
to be quite perfect." ".
"And It It not tor
"Not quite, yet. You see perfect love
casteth out fear, and I am a we bit
afraid of you, Harry." :
He smiled Indulgently, a thing he had
scarcely ever done In his life before. It
wa a new experience to him.
"Are you going to catt you fear away.
this morning?" he said.
Enid was delighted.
"How quick you are at guesting." she
remarked with happy haste. "That Is
Just whafl want to do. I think I am
afraid of you because you didn't quite un
derstand me. You are always watching
and observing. It has made me. a little
nervous of you, afraid to be quite my
self." A light of Interest had flashed Into Denl
son't bright brown eyes.
'You suspicious parson," he said. "And
to you want me to understand you fully?"
yet, Harry dear. I want you so much
to understand me." she said at lensth.
toweling her eyes. "But I don't know
how to ma you."
'I am beginning to think that nerhaDS I
do understand you. Your wish to be un
derstood Is a key to unlock the mystery."
an lat ner pretty head fall ubob his
thouldsr and murmured: , ,
'I have wanted to tell you for so Ions
a tune, especially sines th night you saw
me praying. You wondered what I was
praying tor,' ,
"Yes.". . VI ,.;
Her face flushed as ahs said;
"I was praying that you might alv un
studying me, and have snore tune left to
love me in." . -t - . ,
Hi face eentreeted. but she did not sse
It, and he bent down and kissed her.
"Thar Is so-little In m to study." Shs
aid. v v-r- 1
Ana so muck in yon to love." h an-
wared. "From this moment I shall give
up studying yon. and sink the detective
In the husband."
Bnld pressed his arm. and .looked Ma lata
hit face with her beautiful dark eyes.
1 thought you were going to say th
lover?"
"I will say so," be replied. .
And he did so,
But all the time he felt Inclined to a!as
Enid by her sort white throat and cry:
. "You fool, why have you allowed me to
understand your'
VI.-ANew Riddle.
Having made th disappointing dis
covery that his wife la Jusb a mentally
plain, sane woman, und not a freak,
Denlson. although deferential and affec
tionate 'o far as appearances go.
promptly dismisses Enid from his
thoughts and sets out for pastures
fresh. IA new study la opportunely
presented In the cuae of a tall boy of
about twenty, by name Guy Alntree,
whose "dead white face, glittering
dark eyes end frightful . emaciation"
bespoke Indulgence In numerous vice,
culminating In she menace of a con
sumptive' death. "Among th many
curious problem over which Denlson
had pondered In the long hours of
thought in which alone he felt himself
to be really and fully living." we are
told that "one often recurred, partly,
perhaps, because It was morbid, the
problem of what direction the average
mind wouhl turn In when full In sight
of death of death not Immediate, and
whose approach hat not yet drawn all
power of action from the 'body. Would
the average mind 'become paralyzed as
the raibblt ibefore the snake, and mere
ly remain motionless? Would It, on the
contrary, proceed quietly on Its wual
wuyT Or would It execute violent
turn, and If so, toward what?" To
gain light on these points, Denlson
gains the lad's acquaintance-, concili
ates his mother, a handsome woman
of forty, of whom Enid, by the way, In
a thoroughly feminine mood, becomes
cordltlly jealous, and pursue with
young Alntree a hectio career ot wild
and varied debauchery, through no In
terest In the debauchery itself, but sim
ply to be near to the consumptive and
to note the manner in which he recog
nised the slow but sure, approach of
death.
v VII.-A Night In Cairo. -
In one of their debauches, Denlson
and Alntree made the rounds of Cuiro.
This Is a deticrifMon of the Impression
it made on the former:
The whole world seemed pulsing with
beaten torn toma, and the air was alive
with the weird voloes of antique Instru
ments as a field of clover in summer time
Is alive with the hum ot bees. Th con
tinuous thrill music, the everlasting and
regular thud of th torn toms, that came
to th ear a th beating of a heart when
you listen against a human breast; the
eternal hum of the shifting crowd, th Il
luminated rooms, filled with smiling and
posturing girls, clad In as many differing
bright colors as a great garden contains
In the time of flowers, shifting, shifting
by, as beads shift on a breviary all these
things wrapped a veil about Denlson's
brain and aent him far away. He had a
sense of moving through a noisy dream.
In which voices called to him that he
could not . answer, hands clutched him
which he could not repulse, delights were
offered to him which he had no power
either to accept or refute. It was a maze
with no clue, a prlsmatlo hell In which nil
the 'demons smiled and seemed to re
joice. But It was nevertheless an utter
most hell. The mouths ever whispering
at his side told him that. In every sen
tence they spoke he heard reiterated again
and again:
"This is hell! This Is hell!"
The words shone In letters of fire over
each gaping door. They walled In the
pipes and shivered through the clash of
the cymbals. They were Inscribed even
upon the lumlndus arch of the' sky. Wo
men smiled them. Children lisped them.
The hell of a dream, vague, whispering,
heaving wMh bodies or the lost, humming
with their cries, their laughter, their Im
ploring, their tears. Even the thin, white
face of Ouy was a long way oft, a sinister
mask, hollow and hungry with sorrow and
the Impatient desires of life) That, too,
was a face of hell.
VIII. la a Cairo Danes House.
Perhaps the strongest single scene In
the book Is a description of the Interior
of a Cairo dance house:
At last the bedroom door opened wide,
and the Nubian girl glided In, followed by
two companions. Her flnerey was gone
ana ner costume consisted of a thin,
spangled robe, bracelets, rings and beads.
As the stood before them motionless for
an Instant she looked like a statue a
statue with Wicked eyes full of exnresslon.
of allurement, fine wat not more than
sixteen years old, but In those eyet sat
the tint of centuries, laughing at their
own blackness. A slow smile ran over her
race as a pen runs over paper writing
wondrous words. A slight, almost Im
perceptible trembling pulsed In her slim
body, rising gradually from .heals to hoad.
Behind her, her companions, even younger
than herself. Imitated her with a sort of
feverish sympathy; an Instinctive seis
ing on and reproduction of her mood of
body and mind. The trembling. that stole
through the bodies of the girls Increased
very gradually, until they wavered like
thin flames In a draught of wind. As If
the draught grew steadily stronger, these
human flames swayed In longer move
ments. An ever deepening excitement
possessed them. The arms began to be
drawn oftly down and thrust up, first
descending to a level with the shoulders;
men iney were Drought forward. The
hands fell In front of the smiling faces
and nearly touched the eyes, which
gleamed through a lattice-work of little
brown finger. Softly and rhythmically th
feet began to damp on the rose on th
carpet. The gilt clock did not tick with
a more perfect regularity than those six
feet upon the woven roues. Denlson was
conscious of a certain fascination that be
gan to grip him.
An abandonment began to be annarent
In everybody In th room. It twppt over
them all. The mirrors reflected It, cre
ating by their thrown-bark reflections an
apparent crowd of dancers and lookers-
on a multitude of weird, white figure,
sinuous arms, smiling, evil facet, bodies
bending forward In attitude of eager at
tention. Tom torn were beaten In these
mirrors, pipes were played, and Denlson
had a fancy that the sound was multiplied
many times In volume by the shining
sheets of glass, Th noise that crowded
his ears could not com from th effort
of those two men full In hi view. Thing
seemed beaten and blown behind his htad,
all around him, as happen In th darkness
of a spiritualistic aeene. Th air was
heavy with noise, thick with a veritable
tumult. The dancers swayed more wide
ly. Their arm movsd faster, but always
with the ssms monotonous regularity.
They began to wriggle their limbs, to in
volve, to char (lowly and with a
smooth and gliding step along the carpet
from point to point. This seductive
double Monotony of sound and motion ran
over Denlson and drew him down Into a
world dens and luminous a a world un
der th sea, ever moving, ever moaning,
yet curiously at rest bong ago and far
away everything seemed, even th beat
ing and melodies In his ears, even the
willowy and wandering dance In hi eye.
Long ago and far away, full of a faded
wlcksdness and Infinitely ad. Tears stole
Into his eyes and sighs fluttered upon hi
Hps. As figures wind through a weary land,
seeking distant water-springs, thee naked
girls wound on and on before him. There
was a dust about them that slightly veiled
their forms giving to them a dun at.1
shadowy beauty, a ghostly grace. Mow
distant they were st last; floating Image
In th air, scarcely relieved against a
background of clouds, floating, floating
fading- -
A hot hand . was laid upon his and
grasped It tightly, damp and clinging.
Hot breath fanned his face. The, spell
was broken. Th das cert were close to
him and he wss able to note the utter
abandonment of their violent movements.
All pretence of languor was thrown aside.
A complete vigor transformed them."'
Denlson. turning, looked at Ouy. whose
thin hand clutched hla. But th boy had
gripped him unconsciously, prompted to
a physical demonstration by the frightful
excitement that was waking In him. And
as Denlson regarded hla with a strange,
mournful Interest, a fit of coughing sud
denly tore him. He fell back, pressing his
hands to his side. The cough sank In his
throat and a red rush of Mood passed
from his lips over th garish yellow
couch, and dripped to the floor, mingling
with th woven red of the rosea.
But the musicians played on and the
dancers sprang and glided. They, too,
war under the spell of the monotony
they themselves created. Thrr had lost
the power of listening and watching. In
tent only on being heard and watched.
And even Denlson sat for a moment,
gating stupidly at th whit boy, lying
back with gradually closing eyes, and at
the red stream flowing from hia mouth.
He seemed but a ghostly central figure In
a picture, posed, by a master ot th art of
creating horrors, In th midst ot a group
of demons.
IX A Foregone Conclusion.
One day Denlson gates on the Sphinx:
and the whole passion of riddle-solving,
which had gathered force day by day
until It had dominated every other In
stinct of his 'being, went out tcythe
great, stone Image, which his abnormal
imagination soon clothed with the at
tributes of divinity. The rational sav
age of primeval age worshipped the
rude carving which did service as his
Idol; and our Irrational degenerate,
whose veins burned with the poison of
fin de slecle cynicism and misdirected
culture, made of this staring symbol
of antiquity a mistress and a God. Odd
as It may seem, almost ludicrous at It
would be In the hands of an artist less
sure In his grouping ot the lights and
hades and colors, Denlson "fell In love
with that stone mystery of the sand
and the old years, with that everlasting
wonder of which men have chattered
through the ages," and the reader of Mr.
Hlohens' book accepts the situation
with scarcely a murmur of protest.
Night after night Denlson crept out
Into the desert, "to be alone with' that
stone incarnation In which a wonder
ful soul had surely taken up Its abode."
Repeatedly, by artful trick and even
by physical violence to his wondering
wife, he postpones th day of their de
parture from the vicinity. In order that
he might remain near to his newly-discovered
shrine. And In a climax which,
however absurd It may seem apart
from the book's remarkably woven
spell, appears In Its sequence almost
natural and certainly not unexpected,
Denlson finally, In dead of night, rushes
out upon the massive column and, we
are to suppose, lays down his life there
as a supreme offering to It.
Words have seldom been used with
greater skill and more palpable po
tency than In "An Imaginative (Man."
Yet the whole atmosphere of the book
Is stifling and perfervld. The normal
reader reads of abnormality under at
least silent protest. Most laymen shun
the sights of the dissecting room and
the clinic. No doubt these sights have
their fitting place In the development
of science and In the progress of hu
manity; but they are not welcome
sights, and the average human has no
wish to be a party to them.. The work
ings of disease are not more pleasant
In the mind than In the body. One
wishes that Mr. Hlchens might utilise
his undeniable talents to more whole
some purpose than In picturing the
vagaries of mental derangement or In
lifting the veil which fortunately. In
real life, usually screens- the Inner rot
tenness of mental and moral perverts.
Art can be art without of necessity be
ing noxious. L. 8. R,
II II II
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In a park about a mile from the home of
th late James Russell Lowell. Is to b re-
christened Lowell Pond. V
"Elisabeth Hasting," the author of that
clever satire, "An Experiment In Al
truism," turns out to t,e Miss Msrgarot
Sherwood,' a young Instructor In Welles
ley college.
Professor Caesar Lombroso. th emi
nent Italian crlmlneloglit, has summed
up "The Most Noteworthy Result that
Have Been Achieved In Criminology" for
a future Forum.
Th first of a series of new Eehda stories
by Anthony Hope, author of "The Pris
oner of Zends," will appear In th August
number of MoClure' Magaalne. There
will be six of these stories, each complete
In Itself, but all having to do with, th
charming Princes of Bends, Osra, and
publlahad under th general title of "Th
Heart of the Princess Osra." A nw
Jungle story by Rudyard Kipling will de
scribe a very remarkable etrstagem prac
ticed by Mowgll and the wit python Kaa
against th merciless Red Dogs of ths
Dekksn, and an all-night fight, wherein
the Red Dogl were vanquished by Mowfell
and th Free People the wolves.
R, D. Blackmor, th novelUC ' Who
new volume is to be the book of poems
entitled "rrlagllte," which Mr, Matthews
la to publish, made up his mind originally
to storm fate aa a poet, and not aa a
novelist HI first five book were all
poem;. HlsaoveL 'Olara Vaughan," did
not come out until tie bad bean publish
ing for tea years. Mr. Blackmor la not,
as Is popularly supposed, a West-Country-
nn, nw was mrs at Mnaworial in
Berkshire, and his connection with De
vonshire began whtn h was. sent' to
Blundell' famous school at Tlvsrton, frees
Which he proceeded to Exeter oUeara. os
fordThe Literary Digest
Gathered in the,
World 'of Melody.
One of th finest parties that has ever
left this city will accompany the choir
of the First Presbyterian church to
Lake .Ariel next Wednesday evening.
The Invited guests, to the number ot
about 200, will be taken over In special
coaches provided by the Brie and Wy
oming Valley railroad, leaving Scranton
at 6:10, and will return about 11 o'clock.
The cottage people at the lake have pre
pared e. royal reception for the guests,
upwards of $100 having been subscribed
for fireworks alone. The company, on
arriving at the lake, will be taken on
the steamers over to; Hotel Pines, where
the entire grounds will be most brill
iantly lighted with Chinese lanterns.
Every boat on the lake, numbering
over 100, will be beautifully decorated
and ready for the carnival. At 8 o'clock
the choir and the Young Men's Chris
tian association glee club will be taken
In the barge to the center of the lake,
and until 9 o'clock a most pleasing
concert will be given. At 9 o'clock all
the boats will be ordered Into line, and
the whole number will be towed by the
steamers for over an hour around the
lake. During this time there will be A
gorgeous display of fireworks and sev
eral paper balloons will be sent up Into
the clouds. The return special will
leave for Scranton about 10:43, and
street oars will be In waiting at the
Erie and Wyoming Valley station to
take the party to their homes In various
parte of the city.
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It la understood that several small
parties, with chaperones, have already
been arranged, though th services of
a chaperone is hardly necessary, as the
entire party will be all together, and
there will be no boats given out except
those In line at the carnival. The only
cost, attached will be the regular rail
road, fare ot fl, and tickets can be pro
cured only upon delivery of an Invita
tion card. Besides being a musical suc
cess, the choir of the First Prebyterlan
church la alro a social success, and
from the time of Its organttatlon, nearly
two years ego, it has kept together
and made for Itself a reputation for
rendering the finest of music. The oft
repeated statement that a chorus choir
could not be made a success in this city
has been fully disproved, for this choir
has never failed In attending rehears
als, and the members ore In their places
very Sunday. After the Lake Ariel
concert the choir will have a well de
served vacation of one month.
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The Washburn street Presbyterian
church has a most excellent quartette,
composed of Mrs. B. T. Jayne, soprano;
Miss Annie Rose, alto; Edwin Bowen,
tenor, and Alfred J. Harber, basso. Mrs.
Jayne Is the director,. and Miss Edith
Swingle Is the organist. It la announced
that In September a chorus choir "of
forty voices will be formed, with Tallle
Morgan as teacher.
" II II II
Joseph fiummerhlll, the welt known
eornetlHt, has been engaged to play at
the First Presbyterian church through
August, during the choir's vacation,
Miss Richmond will be the organist.
tMIss Elsie Van 'WrVoort, of New
York, who is announced to sing In the
Elm Park church, Is a most charming
contralto. For the past year she has
sang noon and evening In the Metro
politan evangelical meeting on Four
teenth street, iNew York, betides hold
ing a good church position. tShe Is a
great favorite with all who know her,
and we trutt that she wilt become a
resident of this olty.
W. C. Weedenv of the Second Presby
terian church, iwith his sister, Miss
Mattle Weeden, will spend the summer
at Preston park. .
Professor Rockwell's engagement at
organist of the Second Presbyterian
church terminates In October, and we
unders'tand that there Is a strong desire
to get him back to the Elm Park
church. During the year air. Rock
well was organist and director of that
church they had the best muilo In the
city, ami there never was the lestt
trouble In the choir. The Elm Park
church could not do a better or wiser
act than to re-engage Mr. Rockwell at
once,
Oeorge B. Carter, organist ot the Elm
Park church, has accepted a similar po
sition in Beecher'i church in Eltnlra.
Mr. Carter It a good organist, a talent
ed pianist, and on who ha a habit of
telling just what he thinks about other
musicians. The latter (fact has been the
means of making Mr. Carter not as
popular among musicians as he other
wise would have 'been. But taking it
all together we are glad that Mr. Car
ter haa been here, for he ctrtalnly ha
advanced musical Interest In the city.
He has brought here tome of the finest
vocalists ot the nation, and our people
have many things to thank him for.
W hops that he will like hit now home
and that hs will meet with th success
that his talent and genius deserve.
The movement for !band and chorut
stand for open air concerts has to far
progressed that succctt is now assured.
The musicians of the city generally ap
prove of the matter, and the music lov
ing public may look for some fine muslo
In the near future. Mr. Bauer say
that his hand will give a conert every
alternate Friday evening. John T.
Watklns has promised a few concerts
by his Choral union, which did such
splendid work at Wilkes-Barre. The
Cawrence band will undoubtedly give
nimYbor of concerts and there art
other musical organisations that will do
the tame. Secretary At her ton, or the
board of trade, has succeeded In get
ting ground for the stand near the Ho
tel Terrace, and plans are already com
pleted for th structure. The only
thing necessary now It the atsurano
from the musicians that concerts will
he given, and the stand iwlll be erected
within oae week.
Tallle 'Morgan Is at work preparing
for the formation of a ladies' chorus to
number not less than 100 select voice,
Brandies of ths choir will t located In
Canbondale. WllkeaJRarre. Pittin
with poesliblyiStroudshurg and Factory-
vine, une renearsat a week will be
held In each place, alt branch rehears
att being held on afternoon, and thr
will he two or three general rehearsals
with the main branch of the chorus In
this city. Th purpose Is to give a
ladles' musical festival one a year In
this city. Enough member ar Al
ready enrolled to assure th success of
the undertaking, and other applications
will fee receolved until th middle of
flepUmber.
".'.
If "Holland" to correotly Inform!
- ) .' -N ,
Interesting Notes About Famous
Musicians at Home and Abroad.
private ietlsr received ra New Tork
few days ago gives In some detail the
contract which Calve has made wtbh
Mr. Abbey for the opce season of next
winter. It Indicates that Mr. Abbey
has forgotten 'his Indignation over the
quarrel which Calve gave public evi
dence of when she tefused to go before
the curtain with Mrs. Eamw-Story.
Then Mr. Abbey said thai While he had
no Interest In the private quarrels or
friendships of the members of his com
pany, he did propose to Insist that these
mai liters should be kept from the pub
lic, and that he would not engage a
linger who would insult an audlenc
as Calve did. Therefore, he did not
re-engaga her for last season. Perhaps
Mr. Abbey discovered that the public
did not feel so greatly outraged as he
thought It did. At nil events he has
made a contract with Calve for next
season, which, with th exception of
PattU involves probably the largest
amount of money ever guaranteed to
an opera singer for an operatic season.
Calve writes that she Is to sing at least
shoty itlmes, and maybe a hundred, and
that fcr this she to guaranteed $100,000
or at least 11,000 a performance. As
she ie not likely to sing as many as a
hundred times, her salary will probably
be as much aa $1,200 for each perform
ance. Besides that, ahe is to receive
a certain percentage upon the receipts
after a figure which she does not name
has been reached.
II II II
This would indicate that Calve has
mad9 a better contract than Jen de
Reske. HI) earnings last season were
m the neighborhood of $100,000. There
were occasions when he received as
much as $16,000 for a single performance.
He was guaranteed 12,500 per week,
and his percentage brought his earn
ings up to a little over $3,000. Oreaa aa
thet figures are they do not compare
with the earnings of Pattt, who In one
season at least received a check for
15,000 just before she went upon the
stage, and upon every such occasion.
They do not equal the earnings of Pad
erewskl tor the last season when he
was m the United States, which aggre
gated $2(0,000; but It should be remem
bered that Paderewskl took practically
all of the receipts and Pattl waa sup
ported by Inexpensive singers and by a
company vtlhicht artistically wan be
neath contempt, and was therefor very
cheap,
II II II
Mr. Abbey waswtlHhg to pay Rubin
stein $250,000 for a, series of 100 concerts.
end ako to produce one of Rubinstein's
operas, an offer which was perhaps) the
greater temptation to thait genius. For
a -little while Rubensteln wavered, but
at last he declined the offer. . Mr. Abbey
once said that he would have gladly
guaranteed Llsst $500,000, or even more,
if even in hie old age he had been will
ing to come tto the United States and
give concerts, only in a half a dozen of
the greater cities. The rewards which
these conspicuous singers received can
be compared only with the earnings of
Dickens upon the platform In this coun
try. Thackeray's earnings here were
not nearly so large, although he told
Mr. Fields after his second trip to the
United States that he had earned here
enough to give him a permanent Income
of $4,000 and a house, and he thought
that was doing pretty welt.
II II II
SHARPS AND FLATS:
A monument Is to be erected to Donl
settl In Ms native town of Bergamo.
The well-known lennr Ita l.nMi
Ing on a three-act opera entitled "O Bella
Zeldenrust, a Dutch pianist, Is consid
ered the equal, If not th superior, of
PaderewskU
"Fleur de Lys" ha been selected aa the
title of the opera In which Delia Fox will
be seen this year.
It I said that Damrosch hat secured
Klaffske, the leading German prima don
no. for next aeason.
Eugene D' Albert has accepted the post
vi urai conductor, ai in welhar opera
rendered vacant by th death of Eduard
Lassen.
Maestro Vanto, the celebrated Milan
musical director, has finished a new onero.
"Ahasver." The words ar by the Mar-
qui or ivrea.
Mascagnt haa founded a Journal at
Cerlgnola, Sclensa Dtletto, In which he
publishes a series of articles on libretti,
librettists and music critics.
Mascagnl Is writing the music for a
new ballet, to be called "Dresden China.
all the dancers being dressed to Imitate
Dresden china statuettes.
Front Suppe ha left an opera, which
he finished shortly before hit death. It'a
title It "Die Brautjagd." It ia to be given
next year In Germany.
Mm. Calv I to ring in "La Navar-
ralse" at the Pari Opera Comlqu after
ail; the performance will be In October,
just before she sail for America.
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Kffeot Monday, June R UN. .
Trains leave Scranton aa follow: ESa
Dress for New Tork and all points Bast.
I.t7lta, 1.11, 109 and I.U am.: U.tt and IH
p.m.
Express for Easton, Trenton, Phtlad
js ana to soutn. aia, as ana . am
asa s.st p.m.
Washington and way stations, IB p.na
Tobyhanna accommodation, 110 p.m.
Express for Blnghamten, Oswego, EU
mlra. Corning. Bath. Dansvlll. Mount
Morrt and Buffalo, 11 W, lat am., and l.xl
p.m., making close connections at Buf
falo to alf points la th West , Northwest
ana Boumwesi.
Bath accommodation. 9
Slnghamton and way stations, lf.fi p.nt
leaelson accommodation, at 4 p. m. and
110 p. m..
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p.m.
Express for Cortland, Syracuse, Oawt
Uttca and Klohfteld Bpringa, 1 am. and
VtnaSi, I and Bath 9 a.m. aad l.tl s ow
for Northumberland, Plttaton, Wilkes
Barr. Plymouth, Bloomsburg and Daa
vlTle, making close connections at North
umberland for Wllliamsport, Harris burfl,
Baltimore, Wathlngtoa and th South.
Northumberland and Intermedial tas
Dona. 100. t.M am. and l.M and LOT D.I
Nantleoke and Intermediate itetlooa
1.01 and n.fO a.m. Plymouth and Intes
mediate stations. S.40 and I.U p.m.
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Erie and Wyoming Valley.
Train leave Scranton for New Trk
and Intermediate points oa the Erie rail
road at T.M a. m. and 1M p. m. Alto (or
Honasdalt, Hawlcy and local points at
T.OO. 9.40 a m. aad 124 p. m.
All th a bore are through trains to and
from Honetdal.
Train for Lake Ariel 5.10 p. m.
Train lavo for Wllkes-Barr at IM ss
m. and $.41 p. m.
May IX MC.
Train leave Sarantoa for Philadelphia
aad New Tork via D. A H. R. B. at fa
tm.Jta, 1.90, t.tt and 11 M p. m.. via D..
IW.R.H, .0, lot, 1110 a. m.. and LM
p. m.
Lea v Scranton for Plttaton and Wllks
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a tn.. 1(0. lot, LSI p. m.
Leave Scranton for White Haven, Ra
ileton, Pottsvtlle and all points on the
Beaver Meadow and Potttville branchaa,
via B. W. V. R. R., 140 am., via D. A H.
R. R. at T.tt a m., 12.06, I SO. IB, 4.00 p. nv.
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LtO, ISO p. m.
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Reading, Harrlsburg and all Intermediate
Print via D. A H. R. R., 7.41 am., U0S.
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wands, Elmira. ltaaea, ueneva ana
intermediate points via v. m n. n. ti.,
am., 12.06 and 11.B p.m., via D., L.
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Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago and all
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Via p. A H. R. R., 146 a.m, 12.04, 101 p.m.,
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