Mexia Evening Ledger (Newspaper) - September 26, 1899, Mexia, Texas MEXIA EVENING LEDGER VOL 5 NO 146 MEXIA TEXAS TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 1899 N P HOUX ED AND PUB IN FRANCE'S FAMOUS OPERA HOUSE The Free Shows Generally Result in a Riotous of the Crowd So magnificent a palace is the Par's Opera that the Parisians long ago ceased to consider whether other tions have good music or good artists It is a temple for music so surpassing all others such troops of tal all decorated With the bon of the Legion of Honor with such throngs of woi snipers in diamonds silks and black dress coats that good old favorites like Faust and Les Huguenots suffice it It is true that lately they taken up Wagner so that the tourists of the summer may hear such novelties as and The but this must be taken as an innovation The Paris Opera is for Fiench com- And as French composers just now are not making great successes the repertoire is made up from the good old ordinary Owned and patronized by the government the Paris Opera ib administered on well-considered civil sen ice principles No disloyal may mar its decent regularity No unripe enterprise disturbs its mild It is content to bring out two new failures year and say that all is The public of the Opera would not have it otherwise The orchestra and chairs to men in evening dress make calm digesting stools for clubmen the known arias comfort them and aid their calculations for tomorrow's races and baccarat Between the acts you stand up put on your hat ad- just your opera glasses and stare upon the ladies in the boxes with prolonged and familial ity Tiens Mme X Her diamonds are tions The belle Mme G Quello decolletage Why does she keep her gaze lowered They talk aloud now having through the act To do otherwise is to show that you have no ances around you and to be alone in the orchestra indicates that you are an outsider A la bonne heure as they say in riench a great change comes over the scene on the of a free Really these free at government playhouses the Opera Opera Comique the Theater Fiancais and the Odeon present one o the most remarkable spectacles of to-date Paris They take place rer i- laily on the various grand fete days o the year and cost heavily in and cleaning up They are no than the idea of socialism An- cient Rome offered free spectacles a th Colosseum to its citizens just as i m ide gratuitous distributions of P nem et was the and The people pay a good part of the taxes and the sub- playhouses of Paris take a ood slice of the public revenue fore it is just It is an attractive sight sec the riff-raff tumbling into the great monument of the Third empire's greatest of every age and both sexes of all conditions with their bottles and their bundles eager to enjoy for a few hours the splendors and the luxury belonging to their betters Some of them sit all night upon the steps and all the of the day itself to be in time to occupy the royal or the logia of the Jockey Club Then they throw orange peel upon the floor The character of the crowd depends much on the er If the long waiting must be done in the tramps will abound poor devils with enough of the ideal still in them to save half their brandj bottle to at- tune their nerves to the sweet strains cf Samson et lila and fire their imaginations to the heights of the ballet If the day is fine the will be of a mort definite social situation clerks and all the But the head the string will always be com- posed of ing loafers with no music in their souls They arc theie to sell their places for three francs or even two francs A mother and three daughters coming or so before the opening of the squeeze their way into the place of one of them It Is the custom and nobody protests But such customers are rare the speculators threatened with the sadly slip away to pick up pennies elsewhere The crowd is good-natured singing eating di inking chaffing four deep all around the opera house hedged in by ropes Now and then a faints or a child gets an arm broken but the general cheerfulness is irrepressible When the doors open the great NAMES OF SOME FLATS Do the Characters of Those Who Dwell for ventured the man with the wooden head I can't indorse your views You lay claim that our as given expression in Chicago is too airy too exalted too fanciful On the contrary it is not the one nor the other nor the last of these say Here a man lives m the Santa Maiia He comes home with a Saturday night tolerance of feeling for all men He is willing to sleep on the grass in the in- GOODS MEN DETECTIVE POSES AS A REUBE TO CAPTURE THEM Scheme Was Well Played His Fart but When He Showed His Hand His Men Were Planned v RAQ TIME DOOMED Evidence That Popularity THE RUSH OF THE PEOPLE UP GRAND STAIRWAY push rolls into the aristocratic hule and up the magnificent like a tidal wave Out of thoughtful delicacy the entrance to the cheapest seats of the Paris is bv way of the gieat stairway There is no side entrance for the gods Well such is the force of habit that a great pai t of the always starts to rush up those four flights when the best seats of the orchestra are for them The ordinary odor of a Paris Op- era night is that of femininity and fumes But when the populace has gamed possession the smell is of ham oranges and peppermint who get into the boxes and there are many boxes at the spread their table A quart bottle of red wine for each individual plenty of cold ham and chicken with bread and cheese and thought to be a model lunch The constant change in bi- cycles Is easy of tion For every time the wheels go round There is a tion SCENE A circus man must ba a fool he been doing he actually wants MS to pay money to watch animals eat ner court He is even to indorse the of the carry the white man's burden for the ng of our social system Then you ay into what unhappy contempt does 10 bi ing a name conveying such lei ness as does Santa My con- tention is that is all wrong with the of the man and all right with he name of the apai The you say Great can a man live up to that Can le dwell always upon UIP pinnacles of while stuffing cheese and beer n a little back Can he live up to the idea of duelling in the of fatted knights who rescue maidens when at his daily Business he has to haggle over the sale price of a pair of pants and to figure with the gnl who brings him his lunch upon the relative of corned beef hash and chicken wing puree with While you aie right in part you are in most All of us admit that the sentimental atmosphere a man for much in his daily conduct I say that it makes for everything If I live in the ington don't you perceive I am going to a higher decanter cleaner more devoted citizen than I would be if I lived in the Aaron Burr There is a standard set for me if I am half est to my environment I must try to attain it Don't you suppose that a resident of the John B flats will pay more taxes m the end than the dweller in Bacchante Wouldn't your chest expansion be greater on the twelfth floor of the Mastodon than in the parlor suite of the Little Some names of course are ill chosen and ly meaningless I do not myself like to see a twenty-foot front bit of brick and mortar called the nor a nest amid a world of downtown stories called the Plaza del Mesa del but gen- speaking there is a good deal in a name in a flat name notwithstanding Now would yon piefer to live In the Otis or the Aguinaldo asked one of the carpers Lest I Incriminate said the original speaker I decline to answer Come up with me to the House of David and I will see what can be done to remove this dust Chronicle England has one flock of The United States secret service has been working for weeks to capture some swindlers who have been operating during the summer in New York As a result of a planned ruse to entrap them Johi Whitaker one of the detectives almost lost his life The green goods men escaped Whitaker has been posing as a come on to one gang and as a come back to a rival gang A come back is a hayseed who has been fleeced and receiving a second cular has determined to be revenged on those who swindled him aker in the role of a come was placed by the rival gang in cation with the other This is one of the tricks of the business to crush a competitor Made up as a Whitaker went to kill Landing m accordance with in- and there was met by the steerer of a gang he hoped to capture Whitaker had been followed by three Other secret service men The steerer took Whitaker to Mount Vernon the others following After leaving the station Whitaker and the steerer jumped on a trolley car Whitaker supposed the others were also on the car but by some accident they had lost track of the detective and the steerer The steerer escorted him to a small hotel on Pelham Heights and took him into a room where a desk with a panel furnished means for turning a guy Two other men were there Chinny McGuire and Jimmie Mc- Vickar They introduced him to a Mr Floyd who is said to be Tommie thews The latter had the goods Whitaker dickered for worth for Floyd counted out when Whitaker seized the pile and pulling out his revolver thrust it into Floyd's lace telling him he was his prisoner and yelling ifor his comrades whom he supposed to be in the hall outside Quick as a wink one of the ether men knocked Whitaker's pistol from his hand with a loaded hilly while the third man knocked him down stunned When he came to one of the men was kneeling on him and holding the muzzle of his own re- volver to his head Still supposing him to be a countryman the goods men virtuously indignant cursed Whitaker and told him to go home and they would ship the goods C 0 D went but when he returned with his comrades the goods operators had fled 111 the Philadelphia That trick of music known to the professional as syncopation and to the public as is responsible for evil of no un- certain character In this city the on- slaught of The Camp ing brought about the resignation of the president of one of our greatest financial institutions The gentleman could stand the turmoil of the worst day on but he refused to countenance an impromptu walk every time that a hurdy-gurdy stopped in front of the building and struck up the popular melody Now we note that the tenement dwellers la New York have been driven from their usual pleasure places on the piers by the orders issued to the bands to play nothing but popular airs Popular airs to a band master means thing and that is tag time trick of rag time is an old one re- vived with great success by modem music writers and for the most part the resurrection is to be regretted For every single composition in that rhythm that is good there are a dred or more that have to foe borne with and whose sins have to be for- given It is the easiest form of sical expression to write and when all things are considered it really ex- nothing In its place tion has a high musical value but when a whole composition is based upon it alone to give it a catchy value it becomes a musical crime The human ear and Uie human heart de- sire something more than a suspended accent to give it lasting pleasure Rag time is doomed to pass away in the very near future or all signs lie When the public begins to tire of a style of music and keeps away from a pleasure place because that class of music is played there to the exclusion of all else the end cannot be very far away TERROR OF THE ALPS New and Fatal Disease to Which the iss Are Subject Travelers recently from Switzerland give their Chicago friends interesting accounts of their Alpine experiences Among other things they speak of a new disease that has been developed there They state that riso and Gargallo two villages of a tle over inhabitants each ing on the top of one of the most picturesque and smiling points of the Alps near Novara have been attacked by this mysterious and fatal disease which the doctors have not yet been able to explain or alleviate but to which travelers have thus far been immune The illness begins with ver which lasts about forty-eight hours accompanied by shivering di- lation of the pupils of the eyes low temperature hemorrhage under the skin nose bleeding blood spitting in- of the glands and death in two or three days The disease pears to be contagious and the est care has been taken to isolate those The terror of the peasants is however so great that they cannot be induced to help the authorities in any way and so the mayor the parish priest and the doctor are obliged to carry the patients pn litters to the pital The ignorance of the peasants is almost incredible The for instance who has really given proof of the greatest courage and tion has to be protected every moment by carabiniers so great is the fury of the people who declare that he has been ordered by the government to poison all who are attacked by the illness At first it was thought that the epidemic was a kind of buncle but after study the idea was abandoned Then it was supposed that it might be a variation of the plague as one of the two villages is a great center for tanning leather and manufacturing boots so much so that it is called the village of the and most of the skins come from India However even this ond hypothesis no mation and the doctors are still ing in the Chronicle Extending the Telegraph in The will be extended miles south Qf Khartoum by the end HE WAS A LIAR However That Wan When Ho Saw His Mistake This may be an old story but to the majority it will be new from its very age At the outbreak of the war a Kansas gambler raised a regiment of wild and wooly ters and soon gained a reputation for deviltry and daring by his bloody raids across the border into Missouri Once he raided Independence piled every bit of merchandise out into the square and what he and his men could not carry away they burned It was shortly after this that Col Jennison and a company of men rode farther down into the state pausing one afternoon at a tle cabin in Cracker Neck The ers were not in uniform and the old settler who came to the door made sure that they were bers of That's a nice rifle you have up there over the remarked Jennison as he en- tered the cabin exclaimed the Missourian It air one of the trustiest in the land the coat I've laid low with there rifle Pshaw I've picked em off like rels until I jes got tired of killin em Just then the rear guard all in blue uniforms came galloping up Take this man out and shoot coldly ordered Jennison He's been picking off bluecoats like squirrels so he tella me The old farmer slowly scratched his head an expression of extreme stealing over his face Then he edged up to Col Jennison and softly tugged at his coat sleeve Say he said I've lived in these here parts for fifty years an you can go to any of my neighbors an they'll tell you thet I'm the damnedest old liar thet ever breathed Jennison was compelled to laugh and ing the old man over the head with his rough fist mounted and rode away City Independent Japan of Today The bettet class of Japanese do not live m the treaty ports of Japan they frequented by the Life in these towns is so different from life of Japan that it is sible to get an of the them Formerly when a man went to a hotel he was charged a small for his food just enough to cover the cost He was not charged for his room but on arriving made a of money to the house and another to the servants the size of the present ing determined by his wealth and cial standing A large sum good rooms and excellent When he left there were no tips to pay Practically the same idea prevalent today The foreigner can most always count on being justly treated by Japanese shopkeeper Except in tain industrial concerns in the ports owned by there la ly to executive to a business Qf the of the Philippine islands who never of Spain and
