The Scranton tribune. (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, May 27, 1896, Page 11, Image 11
THE SCRANTON TBIBITNE- WEDNESDAY llOBNING, MAY 27, 1896. 11 i QUEEN ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE VICTORIAN AGE Events Which Make Memorable the Reign of England's Queen. LONGEST ONE IN ENGLISH HISTORY On lite 30th of Next Month Victoria Will Enter I'pon the Sixtieth Year of Her Sovereignty, anil tho Fact Duggeiit a Review of the Record England Hat Made I'ndcr Her way. Apropos of Queen Victoria's seventy seventh birthday, on Sunday last, the Chicago Times-Herald says: On June 30 she will enter on the six tieth year of her reign, a reign the longest in the whole period of English history, the most remarkable of any age for material progress, and, as one cynic remarks caustically, for ."Intel lectual mediocrity." The criticism is riot true. No Shakespeare has arisen, but when one considers that There are but tlva. That the cenluriPS do survive. the lack of a Shakespeare is scarcely enough to condemn the Victorian age to mediocrity. As to the lesser stars that lit the court of the great Eliza beth, they can well be matched. The special point to be made is that the two greatest periods of English history will be distinguished by the names of two women. No king by the force of his own personality or the ac cident of falling upon a fortunate time has fixed his name indelibly upon an epoch. Elizabeth had the elements of greatness with the power of personal rule; Victoria's virtues are mainly nega tive, with a capacity of adaptation to progressive democracy that amounts to genius. Her non-reiistance and the material achievements of her time are sufficient to fasten her name on an age that otherwise would lack a dis tinguishing nomenclature. For the rest, she has established and main talned probably the only virtuous court England eve knew, and raised the whole moral tone of society throughout the civilized world. In 18S7 Carlyle, standing in Hyde Park, lifted his hat to the maiden queen In her carriage he who took off his hat to none other but Father Mathew and Elizabeth Fry saying: "Like France in her extremity, wo have got a maid. May she work a miracle!" Fifty-nine years ago today the Prin cess Alexandria Victoria of Kent was living In almost convent seclusion with her mother at Kensington Palace. Her eighteenth birthday was unheralded: she had not appeared at the court of her uncle. Willium IV., because In the opinion of the Duchess of Kent it was unfit for a young girl. Five weeks later William IV. was dead at Windsor Castle, and messengers hurried off at 3 o'clock In the morning to summon Ills successor. She came down in her dressing gown and slippers und night cap, with her long blonde hair In school girl braids down her back. There were tears In her eyes, but she was perfectly self-possessed, simple and dignified. At 11 she met the council at Windsor and presided over it as If she had been in the habit of doing It all her life. She Is described as small of nature. With no pretense to beauty, but of great charm of manner and graceful, gracious bearing. Her austerity and Innocence Immediately regenerated a court cor rupt through eight regimes. The mi racle was worked. For sixty years now Iondon arlBtocracy has worn a virtuous front. Irregularities and scandals have not been tolerated by he court. Her Influence In this regard is all the more remarkable because with William IV. ended the reign of personal government. With no patronage to bestow or polit ical power, she has been absolute in the octal world. ENGLAND'S RISE. For other progress she has had noth ing whatever to do. The Englishman was on the rise. In two generations lie has dominated the earth In numbers. In enterprise, In finance, In politics. In science, in invention. When the queen ascended the throne in 18:17 there were 26.U0O.O0O people In Great Britain. There are now 39,500.000. In addition to the Increase at home. Great llritain sub dued Behind In '43, the Punjab in '-18, Oudh In "66, and later Upper Burmah and the Shan states. Two hundred and seventy-five thousand square miles have thus been added to the Indian possessions. They have occupied Aden and the Suez, created Hong Kong and taken over territory In Siam and adja cent Islands, aggregating 80,000 square miles; 300,000 square miles have been acquired in Africa, and 1,000,000 more are administered by the charter com panies. The government occupies Egypt and Cyprus, and Is advancing on the Soudan and the Transvaal. Australia and Canada comprise 6,500, 000 square miles. Canada has Increased from 1,000,000 to 6,000,000 inhabitants, and has been transformed from a dis integrated number of rebellious colon ies to a compact, loyal dominion. Aus tralia In 18S7 had 176,000 white inhablt- ants, of whom a third were transport td convicts. It now has 4,600,000, a pop ulation nearly equal to that of the Uni VICTOR ted States at the beginning of the cen tury. The Hi-Hull Empire thus com prises lo,000,0K) square miles of land, with riO.000,000 people. One squnre mile out of nine on the face of the globe ac knowledges the rule of Britannia, and one person out of every four owes al legiance to her majesty. All this has been made possible by the remarkable Inventions of the age. The vcar of her birth. 1S19. It was literally 'true that "man could travel no faster than the Pharaohs," says an editorial writer In the Edinburgh Uevlew. The first of the great Trunk lines from London to Birmingham was not com pleted until the yeur after she ascended the throne. In lSuS the Great Western and the Sli lus crossed the Atlantic, and in 1S40 a steamer made the passage of the Red ecu. The trip across the At lantic occupied eighteen days, and the one to Bombay thirty-eight. These journeys are now made in five and four teen days. The tonnage of the whole commercial navy of the empire was less than 3,000,000 tons. It Is now 900,000,- In 1851 a telegraphic cable was laid under the channel, and our civil war -o un.ie.i before the Atlantic cable was successfully laid. Now a network of lines on land and cables under water connects every part of the empire, so that a disturbance is felt in uonaon almost as quickly as a nerve communi cates with the brain In the human body SOCIAL CONDITIONS. It has been contended, with some show of truth, nil these great Inventions and the substitution of machinery for hand labor has made the rich richer and the poor poorer. In England this Is not true. The vast improvements in communication and transportation have lniured land onwers and the agri cultural classes by bringing to London the products of the world. Rents are lower and tho profits of labor less Much land has been abandoned and the time Is not far distant when land will be used for residence purposes; where Its productiveness will have nothing to do with its value. Capital will go Into commerce and the agriculturist will em igrate to the colonies. It Is this constant stream of emigre tlon from the farms and the overcrowd ed cities that has reduced pauperism In Great Britain. When Victoria came to the throne one person out of every doz er was a pauper. Now one out of forty five Is supported by the public. The condition of the poor was horrible. In the cities they lived In cellars, and sanitation was unknown. Graveyards of the towns. The streets were un- llghted; after a rain the accumulated filth of the streets drained off Into the cellnr dwellings of the poor. The mor tality of the poor was frightful, espe cially among children. Until 1850 children under 8 years of age worked n the factories ton and twelve hours a day. Human beings for tho first time were competing with ma chinery, and for twenty yean human beings were the cheapest. The vicious conditions of their lives made for crime. A man In working clothes could not enter a nark. There were no free li braries, free schools, people's Institutes bath or wash houses. The public-house was the only refuge of the poor from the sweatshops uml cellars. The puup era numbered l.duo.UUU, the crimlnuls 50,000. In IMC, with the population In creused 50 per cent., crime wus re duced S7 per cent. The laboring man Is now enfranchis ed, the children taken from Industrial life and put in schools, sanitation and factory sale-guurds are compulsory agriculture is largely abandoned for manufacture and commerce. Water and sewer systems are universal, the parks and libraries are open, and the slums are rapidly being demolished by wholesome end wholesale condemna tlon laws. Wages uie actually higher than sixty years ago and the purchas ing power of money greater, owing to rapid transportation and tho removal of duties. ' The luborlng voter Is large ly in the majority over all voters, so much so that the lords are threatened. The demand for universal franchise dates with the demand for free schools. Two years after Victoria came to the throne parliament made the first ap propriation for popular education of the sum of HO.OOO. Now the annual npropriution Is 9.000.000. The univer sities are now open to all classes (Mr. Hardy denies this In "Jude the Ob scure"), the purchase of commissions In the army has been stopped and places In the civil service are open to those who pass the examination. FAMOUS NOVELISTS. In all these three Improvements nov elists, a practically unknown class of authors before the Victorian age, have taken a prominent part. 'Dickens was Instrumental In rehabilitating the pri vate schools, In abolishing the Impris onment for debt, correcting the abuses and delays of chancery court; Walter Besant's "All Sorts and Conditions of Men" hurried tho people's palaces, museums and schools of science Into existence; Mrs. Browning released the factory children; Tom Hood called at tention to sweating by his "Song of the Shirt"; Klngsley and Charles Reade each helped in the regeneration of the age, and Carlyle was the prophet of altruism as opposed to the abomin able political' economical ' system of Adam smith: This sentiment' pervades ' English (lolltlcs, The law interferes to protect labor In its life, safety and wages; the model employer; the. "living wage" the issue or the day. .Factories must be sanitary, the dwellings on 1 estates must be healthful, the home of the lord Is no more the castle than Is that of the humblest laborer. Readers of Mrs. Humphrey Ward are Informed that there la still pauperism and game laws, overcrowding In the cities, sweating, defective tenements, too long hours of labor and no place but the workhouse for the aged poor. But w'thout doubt the standard of comfort is higher and the opportunities Immeasurably extended for bettering thler condition. There has been a great leveling up. The poor man is higher, and if the rich are no lower they still seem to be not so high, because the dif ference Is less. That is the reason the ago Is subjected to the churge of med iocrity. The number who on do things well is increased and the contrast is but so sharp. It is more and more diffi cult for a man of intellect to make his mark; he has a wider audience, if a less discriminating one. and mere to rival his pretensions. The mistake we make Is that we have not adjusted our estimates to new conditions. Genius is catering to the delight of the people of leisure and learning produced nothiug of Intrinsic use. Shakespeare's genius was purely of the Imagination; Herbert Spencer's of deduction and Industry: Galileo delved in pure science; George Steven son In applied science. In this age ev erything Is utilitarian. But for ad that and because of that, we lose sight of the -tremendous advances made. Geology Is a reconstructed science, biology a new one; medicine has but Just boon raised to one. Power is in a now field, government and political enconomy work from an opposite bas is; all life is seen from a new and high er standard. Science has strung the beds of oceans and spanned continents and brought the east and west togeth er. It Is paltry to say that England Is dying at the top because a Reynolds Is not painting portraits, a eumgion winning buttles, or a Shakespeare writing plays. Histories ure being written for the first time not "sad tales of the death of kings," but his tories uf peoples, civilization, analysis. psychological studies that make times Instructive. AN AGE OF TALENT. It is doubtful, too. if any other age cau show such an array of high talent. Among Victorian poets Wordsworth at least had genius; Keats and Shelly und Tennyson came near It. Browning will be judged by another age. Beginning with Scott, there are a half dozen nov elists who will live beyond their gen eration. Carlyle wao the greatest re ligious reformer since Wycliffe. Booth the greatest evangelist since Wesley. As a statesman Gladstone Would be difficult to match In the past. For a hero there is Gordon at Khartoum. Whether the creators of poetry and art will live only posterity can decide, in the main the genius of the age has ex pended itself in material things. Tne typical emblem of the Victorian age will, perhaps, be a Roentgen ray, pene trating an opaque body and bringing to light what had before her time been concealed. LITERARY CHAT. Professor Brvce's work on the "Ameri can Commonwealth" has been before the English and American public for several years, out it nas not nunerio ocen sue leeted to a thoroueh-Koing criticism. Tak Inic the latest edition as a text. Professor James undertakes to crltise the author's views in a new American Academy of Political and Social Science monoKrann. "A Review of Bryce's American Com monwealth." The paper Is not merely a review of the book, but Is an elaborate Jls cussion of certain of the fundamental orinclules of American constitutional law in regard to which, In the critic's view, Mr. Bryce's exposition Is Incorrect. The author's nresentatlon of the relation be. tween the federal government and tho states: or tne nature or tne reaerai judici ary; of the responsibility of officials to me people in tne unitca otaies; or tne i.nn i;ia or constitutional interpretation of t!ie basis of distribution of powers be tweent stale and nation, are treated at Icr.clh. while in manv minor Dolnts. sueh an the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, the location of ul timate sovereignty In our body politic, tho effect of the eighteenth amendment on the rlKht to vote, the results of the civil rights act etc., the views of Mr. Bryce are care- tuny reviewed anu correcteu. In one of Stevenson's latest letters be. fore hts death he declared himself to t3 revolving In his mind the plot of a romance or "l'rlnce Charlie. Andrew Lamr. nis companion and compatriot, is now writing a work called "Pickle, the Spy," a chapter In the secret history of Prince Charles Kuwara Detween i,4u ana i.ds. it is touna ed on the state papers, manuscripts in the British Museum, and the archives o! the French Foreian Cilice. Pickle, it should be explained, was the assumed name of a great Highland enter. Mr. L.ang nas Deen for years at work on the book, whlcjh brlnifs out the complicity of Frederick tho Great in Jacobite Intrigues, and also throws light on the adventures In exile of Prince Charles. The circumstances In which Harold Frederic's new novel, "The Damnation of Theron Ware," came to have one title here and another in England (as was the case with Hawthorne. "Marble Faun ) are set forth In the London Chronicle. A curious accident was the cauae. The writ. lug of the book was extended over rive years, and a copy of the first hair was sent to this country a. long ago as 1WH. For purpose of I'lentillcatlon It bcre the 'Immnaticn" title, which was one of many then under consideration. jr;er i lie tinai choice of "Illumination" hud been made, no one remembered until It was loo late, that the American publisher had not been iniormect or tne decision. Ex-PreslJent Harrison's articles have proved such an enormous success with The l.auici' Home Journal, adding over lov.tiUi) to the circulation or the magazine, taut the series will be extended beond the ciliiinul num. I lie ex-preaideiil lia-s now leached the treatment of "The President's :iii:lal Family In his series, describing the lelultoii whleli earn cabinet mem her holds to the president. Then he will show "How Ihe Semite Works and "How Con gress Legislates" each in a separate ur tide. ,l,.)in Davidson tins written a book of Ehcd t stories culled "Alias Armstrong a ar.il Other Circumstances." which will fhcrl.y be published by Stone & Kim ball. Renders of "Pierre and His People" will be glad to know that Stone & Kimball ura about to publish a new volume of short stories by Gilbert Parker under the title of "An Adventurer of the North," belnn the further and nnal adventures of Pierre and his people. "Tho Purp'.e East," that little volume nf poems which cost William Watson the Laurlatshlp, Is nt last to be Issued by fitone & jvimcnu. ii is a tiny volume. Its size being quite out of proportion to Its importance. TheBeyteryourFood The Better vosjr Health ai.. - w use Tho Cottotcn. tmde murk are "(fcfniiiu" ttor i .Mad in cMfa-ptenlm(A cn ettrrtla. TUB H. K. FAIRBAHK COMPANY. CUufei ' Ink, MUxUlyhU, fltUstirt. AN INTERESTING BIT OF CHURCH HISTORY The Forty-fourth Aaaiverury of the Wyoming Methodist Coafcreace. YEARS OF TRULY NOTABLE GROWTH Forty-four tears Ago tho First Coa ference Mas Held in Carbondalc With Bishop Scott PresidingSome of the Chaugea That Have Occurred ia Local Sleihodisai Since. On July 7 the Wyoming conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will be forty-four years of age, says the Wilkes-Earre Leader, for ou July T. 18S2. at Carbondale, Pa.. Its rim con ference was held with Blahon Scott presiding od N. Rounds secretary. At tta nnenlnsr session sixty-two inein- Ke rMimniipd to the roll call. Ji these there aro yet living Revs. O. M. Peck, H. R. Clark, C. V. Arnold. Asa Brooks and G. W. Leach. : At that conference Y. C. Smith was received on trial, while C. L. Rice and singled cut the Methodist church as ll Jasper V. Hewitt were admitted into j lustratlve. the sami holds true of full connection. Three districts con- I others. Religion Is not on the decline, stltuted the conference Newark, Sus- as that rcligi6n stands for Christianity. quehanna and Wyoming. Wyoming , t-nnst s irutn is mnrenmg on anu nnu ,iitt,.i..t r.nti..icto,i r-.t . treentv-fnnr Ing Its noblest supporters by life and charges and embraced a territory ex-1 tending from Newport on the south to i Beech Pond and Pleasant Mount on the ! north, and from Lackawaxen on the east to Skinner's Eddy on the west, being territory now belonging to the Wyoming, Honesdule and Owego dis tricts. The presiding elder of this, then territorially great, district was Rev. 1). A. Khepard. and his salary was Sad. Uf this amount Wtlkes-Buire (whose preacher was N. Rounds) paid 148. and Honesdale (W. Wyatt, pastor) M8. No- other churges In the confer ence equulled these amounts. There was no Scranton forty-four years ago that Is, as Scranton. Prov ldence.no w a part of Scranton, had an existence in Methodism. Henry Brownscombe was the pastor of its church. Ills sal ary was $357 and parsonage and the amount paid by this church to the pre siding elder's salnry was $.4, while Its missionary collection amounted to $4(1.8.. Wllkes-Barre paid its one pas tor a salary of $550. that being the largest salary paid any pastor In the whole conference, the next highest be ing $500 paid by the First church of Blnghamton, N. Y. For necessitous cases and superannuates. Wllkes- Barre again leads, paying for all $27.08. Carbondale being next with $24.15. The amount paid by the entire confer ence for these stated causes was only $398.87. Wllkes-Barre's missionary collection was $143.22. The entire membership of the conference, includ ing members, probationers and local preachers was 12,790. Of these Wllkes Barre was reported as having 370 members, 6 probationers and 2 local preachers; Providence 126 members, 15 probationers and 2 local preachers. OLD-TIME SALARIES. As no statistics of the value of church property were, for some years, record ed, we can give no statement concern mg church edifices at that time. Par sonages are given In total as 32 and their value $28,050. The conference was re-districted at this time and four dis tricts were made, "The Honesdale" being cut out of Wyoming, and the fol lowing were now the districts and their presiding ciders, with the amount of salary paid each: District. Presiding Elder. Salary. Wyoming D. A. Sliepard $"!) Oswego W. H. Pearne WV Blnghamton. ...K. Paddock 5M Honesdale Nelcon Rounds M At the second session of the confer ence held at Brooklyn, Pa., Bishop Waugh presiding, on July 27, 1853. Prov idence had two pastors appointed to service Charles Perkins and 8. 8. Kennedy (now the Bible society agent). The combined salary was to be $582 to Perkins $407 and to Kennedy $129.90, while WKlies-Barre, whose pastor was Dr. George Peck, reported a salary of $650, and all paid. At the third session of the confer ence, held June 21, 1854, at Waverly, N. Y., Bishop Janes presiding. Scranton appears In the list of appointments, headed as "Scranton and Hyde Park Mission," A. H. Schoonmaker, pastor. At the close of the year he reports, sal ary, $400; parsonage, $200; presiding elder, $20; missions, $5.50, and super anuates $3.50. Its membership was: Full membership, 83; probationers, 25; local preachers, 3. In this report Providence shows the dismissal of Scranton from her parish in that her membership has declined to 66 full members. Wllkes-Barre this year has William Wyatt for pastor; his salary smiu, cai bondale, Canaan and Bingham ton being the only other charges pay ing from $500 to $550. Until 1858 the salary of Wllhos-Barre continued the same. That year another charge is re corded In the minutes an belonging to t iiKes-narrc. namely woodviiie. A?a Brook?, pastor. Th? fcllowlng year the salnry is recorded ns Wllkes-Barre, $4"0,Woo(1 Hie J40. making $'!0 for the city. Wilkes-Barre was the first charge to psy a salary of $l,0u0 to a minister. which occurred In 1865, the pastor being ur. v. c. smith. Tire following year the salary was raised to $1,200. VVIIkes- Barrt v..s Ihe first o pay a salavy of -',IXiU. In the minutes of 1&70. confer ence ut Wilkis-Ka: re, piv-Miled over by uisnup Janes, April n if. tlits city re ports: Pnstor, T. M. Ketse; sulary, 2,tHW. Woodviiie is now called Uosh street, pastor, U ('. r loyd. salary $l,0f0, members 276 und 170 respectively. In 1873 Wllkes-Barre had three churches, named Kiunklin street, Ross stiv-t and Mission, which Is now North Wllkes Barre. In 187-1 Parrish street Is added, with Henry UrcwnseomVe as pastor. In 1SS7 Ftanklln etveet church commenced paying a salary of $3,000, A. H. Tntt'e being the pastor, Rcss stre?t paid $2,000, G. W. Ml'ler, pnstor. Pnrrinh street $700, J. Underwood parter. Tho membership was respectively Wl, 4S5 and 100, combined with 1R1 probationer, with a church property valued nt $123, Cn6. The Welsh mlrrlon was added In 1859 with M members and a property valued at $3,000 the Dtrr Memorial in 1892, which in 1895 had a property val ued at $20,000, with a membership of 1G0. In the forty-four years of the past Methodism has Increased from one smull church to five strong ones, from 375 members and probationers to 2,035 members and probationers, from church property valued at $11,000 to property valued at $182,000. These things are certainly Indicative of Wllkes-Barre's prosperity In temporal lines, for they speak of electric railroads, asphalted streets, magnificent storc-B, newspapers on the front line of Journalism, fine bridges and the best of school build ings. CHANGES IN SCRANTON. While these things are so of Wllkes Barre, what of Scranton? Following 1864 Methodism begins to be a factor In Scranton life. As stated, A. H. Schoonmaker was its first appointed pastor, salary $400. In 1855 the salary paid was $400, and membership was 108. In 1858 Dr. George Peck was pastor, salary $650, membership 142, church property valued at $3,200. In 1863 Hyde Park was organized. W. J. Judd was pastor and his salary $400. The preach er's salary in 1864 for Scranton was yet but $600, membership 210, church prop erty worth $l,400. The next year the salary was raised to $800, John A, Wood being pastor. In 1868 Scranton In creased Its salary to $1,000, Its member ship. being 266, and Its church property valued ut $20,000. In 1875 Ito salary was $1,600, membership 424, Church prop erty valued at ?35.ooo. Following this Scranton reaches out I and takes In surrounding boroughs, m that the next report gives us under the heading Bcranton "First church, Hyde Park. Providence and Park Place." The salary paid was as follows: First church (now Elm Park)....l.00 Hyde Park (now Simpson) 1.200 Providence , 1.000 Park Place (now Court street).... 400 Total $,200 In 18S5 Green Ridge church, now As bury, became a sepo rate society, rever ing from the Park Piaco. In 1SS3 appears Hampton street charged, a r. su.t of purehusa ty t e Hyde Park society. In lsai Cedar ave nue, a mission growth from the First church, was made a separate charge, making now In the city of Scranton seven Methodist Eolscopul churches with a nourishing mission church con nected with Kim Park, so that from the feeblest beginnings In 1854 to the pres ent day we have a wonderful growth from property valued at W.200 to prop erty valued at $47y.t'0; from a member ship of U'6 to a itfccmbershlp of 3.171; from a salary of $400 to salaries amounttr? to $11,925. So what we have said of Wilkes-Barrewe repeat of Scran ton, with the additional statement that with greater bounds she has marched forward earning for herself the titla cf "The Electric City " These figures are worth studying. They are object lessons or growin, ana wnue we nave giving In our cities of Wilkes-Jorre and Scranton. In this line we have much to be thankful for. People of wealth give of their wealth In the name of Christ and his church, that the poor and needy, the wretched, depraved and outcasts might find practical demon strations of piety. People cf Intelli gence give of their intellectual powers to teach truth concerning the crucified Redeemer. Long may these cities de velop In Christ ways to make more possible yet greater church growth in all denominations. DRAMATIC GOSSIP. Rose Coghlan Is to shortly appear In Varmen." "The Passion Play" is to be produced in Chicago. "Kleotra" Is the title of a burlesque by Klchard stahi. Librettist Cheever Goodwin was former ly a baso ball Ditcher. Next season Rose Coghlan will produce Max U Hell s "Heart s Kase. Belle Archer will play the widow in "A Milk White Flag" next season. John Drew will produce next season a dramatization of Weyman's "I'nder the Red Kobe." Osoir Hammersteln has decided to hereafter use only newspapers as adver tising mediums. "An American Beauty," by Oustave Ker. ker and Hugh Morton, will be produced by Lillian Russell next season. For the first three or four weeks of next season Evans and Hoey will be seen to cether in "A Parlor Match." Wilton Laekaye has accepted a southern Eastoral comedy from the pen of Robert irouet, entitled "Colonel Bob." John R. Rogers says Marie Studholme will next season be the leading lady in the "Strange Adventures of Miss Brown. Henry E. Dlxey's real name Is Dixon, and his uncle, William Dixon, is the pres ent stage manager of the Hollis Street theater, Boston. The living pictures are now dressmaking or dancing the ballet. Their occupation is gone, their glory Is faded, their curves are eclipsed, their popularity Is a twice told tale. Two new theaters are now being built In New York, und before long the erection of a music hall will be begun at Pll'ty ninth street, between tho Boulevard and Eighth avenue. De Koven and Smith's "The Mandarin' Will be Chinese both as to libretto and music. The scenario and nlot are both cast in China; every character will be thoroughly Chmcee. George W. Lederer, fired by the big profits of the all-star "Rivals" company, ha a scheme which embraces the appear, ance In some opera, not yet decided uuon, of Lillian Russell, Camllle D'Arville, Del la Fox, Marie Dressier, Francis Wilson, Jen ergon ue Angets and r rnng uamcis. Alexander Salvlnl is showing the res! dents of Boston what he can do In panto- mime. "Rohan thu .Silent, a one-act Slay wrltttn for the actor by Evelyn reenleaf Sutherland and Emma Sheridan Frye, two most Imposing names, is a one. act pantomime In which the hero does not speak a word until the very end. Comedian Seabrooke has replaced Henry E. Dlxey In 'Thoroughbred." Dlxey, who earned HW a week, demanded I'm. Mr. Dlxey informed the Dramtlo News last week that he was seriously considering a proposition to travel with Herrmann next season, with a view to regularly entering the field of legerdemain a year later. Monday, June 1, will be a gala night at tne Chestnut street upera House, r-hllu delphla, when for the fiftieth time "Miss Philadelphia," with all her odd ways and characteristics will be presented at that theater. One of the many features that have made ".Miss fhlladelphla " the oopu lar favorite she is. Is the marvelouslv strong company that portrays its various parts, including Jonn u. Hensnaw, Nancy Mcintosh, Florence Wicks, Inez Media, ker, Frank Cuhman, Charles Bigelow, Will Armstrong, and a well-trained chorus of forty. Miss Camllle d'Arvllle has signed a con. tract with Oscar HammersU-hi to head the organization to be known as tne Olym pla Comic Opera company. He has de cided to organize a comic opera company i,nil make productions cf his own m fha theater of Olyinpia next season. Besld"S Mis d'Arvllle he Is negotiating with the hope to secure a number of other weli known comic oprra f Inters, such rs lltss Pauline Hall, ills Delia Fox and Tho-.iias Q. Sabrooke. Tie season will open with the production of an opera by Mr. Him n;er:tsfln himself, entiled "Santa Maria." "There Is no doubt about it, the blcyclo craze has hurt. the theatrical butineK In no small degree," said H. Urattau Don nelly. "The reason for It doesn't lie d';p. ly mud. n. cm iiuimy moonlight nights u young swain and Us lasale, who are de votees of tiie wheel, find great onjoy inent In a spin on their me.elilnes as In go. ing to th average play. Then, it's cheap, er. Perhaps the ycung man la paying for Ills 'bike' o:i the Installment system, and It behooves him to save the price to two tickets to the fcho'. but he gets the !o irtety of his girl, all the same, und keeps the cuth." The successes of this year's armisemeiit season, rays the New York Sun, have be.-n garnered In almc: every case by women who are thin! The record of this years teaton shows three stars of the first rank and magnitude Sarah Bernhardt, Gleu nora Puce and Kllen Terry. Nor haa this peculiarity been observable this sea. son only amens actresses from foreign countries. Mlrs P.ehnn, the leading laciy of whnt is new In seniority of establish ment the ol.le't stork company In New York, wos as thin r.s Mirs Terry, and whin at both the beginning and end of tho present season Daly's theater was sur rendered to a traveling attraction, the star fenture of that company was Mrs. Cora putter, willowy and graceful. I pre sume that this list would not be complete without the further addition of the namn of John Drew's leading lady, Miss Maud Adams. Mails you? iim ('ill Have you a feel- l$A I M 'S f weight in 3 the Stomach 1 vTtVm uloalln3 afuri eating Belch ing of wlcd Vuraitingof food i Waterbrash t Heartburn Bad Taste in tbe Mouth, la the Mornlni I'alnitalion of the , Heart, due to Di mension of Stomach Cankered Mouib Gos la the liowelo i Loss of Flesh Fickle Appetite' Depressed, Irritable Condition of tbe I Mind Dizziness Headache Con stipation or UiurrL'cca? Tlieu you have ' DYSPEPSIA Is me f Iti flanjf formi. 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