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5 THE BBOOKXYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, DECEMBEK 23, 1900. COMING EVENTS. ROM LONDON JULIAN RALPH'S LETTER astonishment may be imagined when the hotel keeper inquired if he "wouldn't cut a shine fer th' folks." Sol Smith Russell is considered an inimitable yarn spinner, though I am unaware if his reputation extends beyond the limit of MET STRIKERS' DEMANDS. Pittston, December 22 The strike of 1,700 mine workers employed by the Pennsylvania Coal Company, which began on Tuesday, to day came to an end.

Superintendent Williams of the company granted the demands ot the workers, employing extra help tor the dump men. Eruptions Dry, moist, scaly tetter, all forms of eczema pr.salt rheum, pimples and other. cu taneous eruptions proceed from humors', either inherited or acquired through defective digestion and asslmila'tion. To treat these eruptions with drying medU cines Is dangerous. The thing to do is to help the system, to discharge the humors and to strengthen tho digestive and assimilative functions against their return.

Hood's Sarsaparilla Frequent Recurrence of Red, White and Blue in Flags of Other Nations Suggests the Need of a Distinctive Badge for AmericansThe Englishman's Cuffs Are Pocket and Note Book Lord Roberts Not Too Lenient in Dealing With the Boers, Points of um. The blessed season is upon us, as it bas a way of being just when cash is shortest and the largest number ot bills Is outstanding. People who cannot afford to give things to people who do not need rake and scrape and go short on beer, tobacco and other necessaries in order to provide them With books which they do not read, cigars which tbey dare not house Jackets that are too narrow across the shoulders, handkerchief boxes that require a locksmith to open and shut, sleds that won't run, toys that von't work and a whole lot of other things. Yet, who would have it otherwise? Christmas is not a penitential season by any means. The very hardships it imposes on cemmen folks are borne with more than a martyr's resignation; they are assumed with cheerfulness.

People are even anxious to endure them. It is at least once in a year that you may count on the average man to fte generous to others than himself. Needless to say anything of the average woman. Her constant fault, is generosity. Possibly If we sift this matter to the botom we find a certain selfishness in it, and discover that the average person is good to others because he wants to enjoy that rare sensation of being approved by his own conscience.

That is the reason why people give pennies to sore eyed bums on the street when they know that the money will be Immediately spent on the worst whisky that is made. The act of mistaken charity thu3 encourages the beggar to beg, and the barkeeper to keep, and the distiller of Myrtle avenue whisky to distill and the maker of fusel oil to make it. and the results make the police ugly and cause the Justice to give lectures. Never mind. The citizen who has done all this with 10 cents says to himself, or to witnesses: "Of course, I think the fellow is a fraud, still, there is alwayB the chance that some of these battered wrecks with gin breaths and bugs may be younger sons of earls and dukes and may really need the money.

So It Is better that one innocent man should not escape from charity than that a hundred old soaks should fail to get a drink." This is a low view to take of Christmas, and I don't take it. I merely suggest the possibility of taking it. Nor do I believe that the winter holidays are a season for a grand swap, and that those who give expect tc receive. There may be a human being here or there who is selfish enough for that, but I do cot believe it of the majority. They are really and truly at their best at Christmas.

They give because they want to express regard and love, and because there is no greater pleasure or more wholesome pleasure than that ot giving pleasure. It leaves no stomache and headache next morning, though there m.y be a dreadful pain in one's pocket. You nay have noticed that a human being is a curious invention. It is more curious, I think, than any other. It is, to a greater degree than is any so called brute, a creature of associates and and has les3 will and liberty of its own.

Christmas proves that there is in every one of us a seed of good, which, rightly tended, will flower into something fine. Yet. it it is not tended in youth it is the easiest thing to blight, and in place of it are liable to spring up all the immoral weeds in the district. Heredity and environment may be of less consequence than the students of those matters insist, yet we have daily exhibitions of what we can be without them. For example, I get myself born in a slum, where I hear profanity and obscenity all the time, and where I find that loafing and pilfering are normal occupations, and is it a wonder if I grow up to be anything but a slum citizen myself a corner Jdler, a tobacco chejw er, an ogler of women, a hindrance to sidewalk traffic, a thief of any small matters, a bully and ruffler, a hard drinker, a gamester, an alderman? There is nothing surprising about ibis.

Indeed, the surprise is that the tenement produces anything else. But. if instead of getting myself born in Manhattan I get myself born in Brooklyn, or some other place where the people have morals, what is the result? Why, if you listen, you can hear my wings grow as I trot about feeding the hungry, giving cocktails ti the thirsty and voting for reform candidates. Environment counts, and you can never get away from environment, for if you leave one kind ycu have another. The ideal environment is probably that of the angels.

Iri December we train to be angels, so that wc shall one day be able to see for ourselves how that environment operates. A large damp cloud and a quantity of starlight is the orthodcx environment for angels, and it is reasonably certain that such surroundings can never make sinners. Since, therefore, we are victims of environment and training, it is society's own fault if it does not surround and train its victims rightly, so that Christmas shall be all the year. You can rely on a cat. or dog.

or horse, or canary bird. It will behave just as well in the Fifth avenue parlor as in the Baxter street tenement, so that there is no need to try to reform animals; but as the newcomer into the world will behave according to his teachings and what he sees and hears, it is due to him on the part of the society that adopts him and of which he will soon be part, to make the way to virtue easy. I don't quite know how this Is to be done in some cases, without first knocking his parents on NOOK IN PROSPECT it as Is be It as us is the profession. Edwin Booth was known as a good story teller among actors, although casual acquaintance found him cold and reserved. Many such instances might be cited.

Another indisputable and unfortunate char acteristic of the average actor is bis Impracticability. Theatrical salaries, it Is true, have decreased with alarming steadiness of late, though some years ago a very generous recompense was the actor's reward for bis services. It Is nevertheless a fact that few actors acquired wealth, and those who have done so are looked upon by the rest of their profession with a wonder that Is ludicrously close to awe. It is worth noting also that the most difficult performance of charity is that which has to do in any relation with the actor. He is sensitive and his pride lasts long after his art has become a mere dream specter.

The organizers of a recent plan for the establishment of an actors' home in New York will find their task by no means light. Their resources of tact and diplomacy will be drawn upon very largely if thty would achieve the success of their worthy scheme. It is the writer's suggestion that they consider the peculiar, though excellent rules which have been adopted by the board of governors of the Edwin Forrest Home. The delicate consideration shown to the members of the household at Sprlngbrook is a shining commentary upon the possibilities of organized charity. It will be seen that the actors' eccentricities are the natural outcome of inheritance and environment.

The child of the old player falls heir to them, the fledgling amateur adopts them affectedly. Much of the laugb Ing criticism called forth by the actor's too serious regard of himself and his calling has seemed unkind. It is a sale assertion that the stage would ot profit were it otherwise. His self esteem if not a salutary is at least an unimportant trait, but there are other characteristics which he must develop beyond their present nebulous state if he would better his condition ever so little. Greatest, or rather more dangerous, of these la hio child like submission to the yoke of applied authority, be it just or unjust.

American theatricals are suffering from a monarchical system which must be modified ere the actor can hope to enjoy the eelf respect which is due to the follower of an honorable calling. This can be effected by omo showing of the spirit '76, which he is at present engaged in portraying with admirable bravado on the boards, only to shed it each evening, alas! with his stage makeup and uniform. He will theorize and theorize again upon what ought to be done, but he will not organize and take action and until he does so he need not expect to cut much ol a figure in the "strenuous life." ANNA MARBLE. EMPLOYES NOT FORGOTTEN. Each, of Braun worth, Munn Barber's Workers Receives Special Copy of "Alice of Old Vincennes." At this season of Christmas giving and general good will to all, it is pleasant to feel and know that those whose work in life is to produce the articles which are largely purchased for presents, are not wholly forgotten.

One of Brooklyn's large manufacturing industries is the printing and binding of books, and Braunworth, Munc Barber, having the largest capacity for book binding in the United States, employ hundreds of people, who are cheerfully working under a most perfect system and management, proving the truth of the ecrlpture that "Of making many books thure is no end." One is forcibly reminded, however, of the "Rhymes of the Ancient Mariner, for there are books, books, everywhere, but not one book to read, and, while the employes are familiar with the titles of all the works of standard authors, can give without hesitation the names of scientific works and their writers, the different editions of Bible, prayer books and hymnals, know by name all the best text books used In our public schools of which they make and handle more than a million a year, and are the first to hear of the latest popular works, such as "Alice of Old Vincennes," "Black Rock," "The Master Christian." "The Redemption of Darid Corson," "Quisante" and "When Knighthood Was in Flower." it is seldom they have the opportunity to read or to possess these most attractive and widely read volumes. In recognition of the cheerful and efficient services et the employes, a special edition of 500 copies of Maurice Thompson's popular and (successful American novel. "Alice of Old Vincennes," was prepared last week, on the handsome cover ot which was stamped in gold: Christmas Oreetlr.ss of Tlic Author Tii Bowen Jierrill Company Braunwot th. Munn Barber and last evening a copy was given to each and every one of the many employes. It was a most pleasant surprise and cin cerely appreciated by all the recipients.

Unfortunately, in the busy strife for success and under kaen competition, those who so largely contribute tbclr labor are often en tirely overicoKea ana it is certainly com A WILD Among the little thing; one notices here is IheTHE ENGLISH habit which have of wearing their" IN LI UUrro handkerchiefs tucked InyERY USEFUL one cuff usually the cuff of the left sleeve of their shirts. Another custom that is peculiar to the English is that of the majority of well bred men who habitually write their memoranda on their cuffs. If you give a gentleman your house address or tell him of a good book to read or suggest an investment in a certain stock ho is nearly certain to take out his pencil and write upon his left cuff a note ot what you have said. At the recent trial of a soldier accused of pilfering small silver from the funds ot the military canteen at his barracks one officer testified of another that he noticed that his fellow officer's clothes were in some disorder that Is to say, he explained, that the officer had his handkerchief in his coat pock et instead of up his sleeve, as it is the rule in the army for handkerchiefs to be worn. This rule is established in order that officers may avoid spoiling the shapes of their coats by putting their handkerchiefs in their pock ets.

This, then, Is the explanation of one custom, and I do not doubt that the habit of writing memoranda upon one's linen is explained In precisely the same way, since the carrying of note books would also bulge out the officers' coats. But the moral is that what British officers do for good reasons the rest of the English gentlemen do merely to copy the officers. In this, as in a thousand ways, one sees how inextricably the army and the best society are connected and how gigantic an upheaval of society would be caused by that thorough reform of the British army which is seriously needed, but which we are not to see begun next year, as we had hoped. While we are upon the subject of clothing, may I very lightly touch upon the astonishing news that tens and hundreds of thou WOMEN ADOPT A MASCULINE GARMENT. sands of English women have permanently adopted that garment which up till perhaps only a year ago was man's distinguishing garb.

Manhood's last bulwark has been stormed and taken. I am most credibly informed, and to day that grotesque question which a much advertising clothier used to print and distribute among New York men and women alike would at last be answered in the affirmative. You remember the question? It was: "Do you wear pants?" It seems that this bifurcated garment which we used to think had a gender of Its own was surreptitiously, and most modestly, stolen from the sterner sex to be hidden be neath the shortened shirts of those of the fair moiety of mankind who lightly pursued the flying front wheel of the bicycle. Alas, for us and our once proud possession, it seems that the garment has stayed where it was put, shortened to the knees as it Is and buckled there, but made of manly cloths and corduroys as it was when the predatory sex filched it from us. Thus practically all young school girls, I am told, most ot the millions of young, unmarried ladles and practically all ladles of whatever age and' condition who either lead or follow the smartest fashion.

Ah, me! it was a delicate subject which the stern duty of a chronicler thus forced upon my pen and I thank the kindly gods that they have enabled me to dash through it and away without a single false step or cause for regret. Robert Barr has been in Scotland finishing another novel and is now either in Italy or on his way there for the winter. He swung through London the other day with all that wonted energy and spirit which makes him seem to the average Englishman like an electric dynamo In a suit of men's clothes. Hugh Hastings, the historian of New York State, has been in London only long enough to make us wish he might never go away, but is now in Rome, sightseeing. Ralph de Blumenfeld, long connected with the New York Herald, is now connected with the Daily Mail and is rumored to be in receipt of what is here considered an extraordinarily high salary Moreover, he seems to be making it apparent that his good fortune is well earned.

He is on the editorial staff from which S. J. Pryor, who was for years with Chester Lord in the Sun, has resigned. JULIAN RALPH. Barmaid," in which the entire strength of the company be seen; there will be .1 sailor's hornpipe danced by the anaemic girl, the performance to conclude with the company's recital of a vastly humorous epi can be confidently relied upon to do this i is positively unequaled.

Tho medicine for all humors. Hood's Pills cure constipation. Price S3 cents' the head, because they will curely train him a beggar or a thief, and parental Influence' stronger than that of missionaries. Yet the attitude of society toward itself at this season is hopeful. The extent of Christm'asi giving shows that most of society wishes good.

This disproves the notion that considerable part of society can be w(ckedr is also 3een that beneficent influences are working with the same potency in the in Fifth avenue. Therefore, It is all an earnest of the coming day, when universal brotherhood shall be. Indeed, the celebration of Christ's birthday stands for that brotherhood. It implies a universal father and a universal fate. Let merely pray that it need never Imply universal companionship.

That is what makes the schemes communism terrible. idea of being shut up here in this little world, unable to get away from it, and having1' ta rub elbows and ideas with every Thomas, Richard and Henry, and take orders from every man or multitude, and demand your food and clothes ot every other la awful. One can be a brother to the race without having the race come in and occiipy the best bed, and fill it with entomological collections. The best of the benefactions of this season Is that they are free and willing benefactions, and that they are not compelled by any such obligations as would be laid upon us if we were enforced associates. If we had no liberty to get away from one another, when so disposed, the only present that would be popular among the senders would be the daggers and dynamite.

Freedom is a part of happiness, and generosity a growth from freedom. We can afford to be happy because the new century promises advances in liberty, and when at last we have read the burial service over the last, lawmaker, lawyer, judge and policeman, it will be the merriest Christmas that ever was. For the greatest gift that the people, can give to themselves is liberty. C. M.

S. IN THE ORIGINAL DANISH. Draohmann's "Evergreen Hope" to Be Produced for the First Time in" Brooklyn. Holger Drachmann, the Danish npet, who" in 189S made his first visit to the United States, and after his return to Denmark last spring wrote a series of enthusiastic articles about this country in one of the leading papers of Copenhagen, will leturn to New York this summer. During Drachmann's stay here, he wrote two plays, a historic "Gurre," which last fall was produced at the National Theater in Christiania, Norway, where it met with Immense success, and a comedy, "The Evergreen Hope," full of Tattling fun.

"The Evergreen Hope" will, for the first time anywhere, be produced in Brooklyn in March, most likely at the Park, by Danish amateurs in the Danish language, the net proceeds to go to a charitable Institution in Brooklyn. At present Mr. Drach maun is in London, where the other night he was entertained at dinner by a company of of letters and painters in the Carlton Hotel. Edmund Gosse. presiding, paid a high tribute to Drachmann, saying: "He is Denmark's greatest living poet, the most representative of her sons, the most vivid and striking par sonality which she can offer to the gaze of Europe in this last year of the nineteenth century.

Our kinship to the Danes is very close. We have much to learn from the culture of this admirable little country, much from its material and industrial experiments, much from its educational and social systems, much from that graceful pyramid of its at talnments on the top of which, like a flals, there waves to day the beautiful, abundant, romantic talent of Holger Drachmann." FOOLED THE The sophomore class of Polytechnic Institute stole a march on the freshmen Friday evening by holding their annual Christmas dinner at a place unannounced. The recent troubles between the two classes led to a very earnest desire on the part of the freshmen to break up, if possible, the sophomore dinner. Forestalling them in this, the second year men supposedly postponed the feast, but in reality the appointed time Was kept. Covers for twenty four were laid.

Henry PV Journeay Was toastmaster. The following responded to toasts: "The Class," A. F. Seeker; "The Institute," W. S.

Rapelje; "The 'Slug Ruggers'," G. D. Pirle; "The Flag," F. W. Wurster, "The C.

P. Ferguson; "The Study," M. C. Tompkins. Those present were: Class H.

P. president; G. L. Pirle, vice president; W. S.

Rapelje, secretary; C. P. Ferguson, treasurer; A. F. Seeker, editor; C.

D. Bailey, B. Baker, W. J. Berry, E.

W. Boughton, G. Denison, 3d; H. W. Glssel, F.

L. Godinez, A. C. Gundrum. A.

Helwig, W. D. Ilsley, J. B. Ives, H.

T. Lees, H. McCotter, G. T. Moon, R.

2. Schcels, F. W. Scott, H. I.

Snyder, M. Tompkins and F. W. Wurster, jr. PARK.

ONDON, December 13 The fact that ours is the oldest national flag In Christendom is not an unmixed bless ing. Its three colors have. In a little more than a century, come to be the colors of many other nations, so that to day red, white and blue is one of the commonest combinations there iB. It is American, It is English, it is French, it is Dutch, it is Norwegian, Servian and Russian, and it is the combination on the flags of Costa Rica, San Salvador, Peru (or Paraguay) and Korea. The French tricolor, as it is called, when reduced for personal decoration, cannot always be distinguished from the ribbons of red, white and blue which we wear In our buttonhole and hang as drapery upon our walls.

Nor is there any difference whatsoever between ours and the red, white and blue over here in England, where the red stands for the army, the white for the navy and the blue for the militia. When I go to an English election meeting or attend an official or military dinner, I find precisely the same ribbon on my boutonniere or In a bow knot for my buttonhole that would be given to me at a similar function at home. Disappointing this is at first, and apt to grow tiresome in time. I do not care for the chagrin of those American tourists who come over here with shrieking decorations of our colors in order to thrust their nationality upon every one's attention. The English are apt to think them English and in France and Holland they may quite naturally be mistaken for effusive patriots of native manufacture.

But they deserve little sympathy, because their motive Is either the immodest one of parading their nationality as no other people parade theirs or else they are so weak as to desire to avoid insults intended for English folk, though the nations of continental Europe love the United. States no whit better than they love England. But I do deeply regret that when we Americans meet around our Thanksgiving turkey or at our Fourth of AMERICAN BADGE IS NEEDED July ce'ebration, or in our little coteries abroad, we cannot wear a distinctive badge of our own, but might as well be wearing the ribbons that were sold in the London streets on C. I. V.

Day, on Mafeking Day or at any other English festal time. It is so easy for us to make a peculiar and distinctive ribbon badge. All that we need to do is to cease to separate our stripe from our stars, then we shall have our beloved red, white and blue and enjoy it in a form which we may be sure that no other people can adopt. Will not some one kindly make us some genuine and undoubtable American ribbon? And send me a little for use when I am away from home, please. As a penalty for his real greatness.

Lord Roberts is now pursued by a rising tide of that fault finding which no hero can expect to escape. The people of England, upon learning that he Is coming home and that he 1b leaving his stern and severe lieutenant. Kitchener, in command of the forces In South Africa, are now whispering that he was too lenient and magnanimous toward the Boers. They say that because of this he never could have finished the war, but that the flinty Kitchener will do It up and brown it on both sides, like a pancake, in no time whatever. This criticism is all carried on in an undertone, for Lord Roberts is so much beloved that nobody quite likes to find fault with him out loud.

For my part, I think he was too lenient up to the taking of Bloemfonteln, and perhaps later, but he got over this fault, and I am not at all sure that he was at any time responsible" for the mistake. Everybody was lenient to a milk and water degree; everybody was magnanimous and mushy. Nobody was playing the game of war except the Boers. It did not matter whether you talked to Sir Alfred Milner in Capetown, to Methuen, stalled at Magersfontein, or to Buller In Natal, all told you that the British had to live with the Boers for all time to come and the Boers must be made to have a very high opinion of their future fellow citizens. I took it to be the case that the policy of leniency was laid down by the imperial government, and the generals had no choice but to follow it.

I am quite sure Lord Roberts can never have been so weak and watery when he was fighting a brave, aggressive and offensive enemy such as, he had to deal with on the Indian frontier. 1 ACTORS' ECCENTRICITIES Are 1 LARGELY HEREDITARY. 5 Plaver folk, as a class and individually, have ever excited the curious Interest of those whose view point of the stage is obtained with the aid of an opera glass. It is nrobable that In the earlier his tory of the theater, when the strolling was named by law a rogue and vugabond, the same curiosity regarding him was entertained by a public much smaller in number and appreciation than that which supports the playhouse of to day. The fiftieth anniversary entertainment and reception or Independent Lodee, F.

and A. will be hId (at the Lexington Avenue Opera House, Manhattan, on Thursday cvonlne next. The Christmas celebration of St. John's M. E.

Church will take place on Wednesday evening at the church, corner or Bedford avenue and Wilson street. An entertainment called a magic extravaganza be slvcn at St. Mark's Sunday school, Adelpiil Btrect, near DeKalb avenue, on Thursday evening. A hogmany concert will be given at Caledonian Hall, S46 Seventh avonue, Manhattan, on Monday evening, December 31. Among those who will participate In the programme are Miss Amy Murray, Slgnor Vltale.

Walter Bruce, Master Vincent Fa nelll and Miss Eleanor Bennett, all Brooklyn artists. Santiago Squadron No. 2, Port of Brooklyn, U. S. Veteran Navy, will hold Its nrst annual smoker ana dog watch at Its rooms, 315 Washington street, on Saturday evening next.

A regular meeting of the Central Board of Education will ba held at the Board rooms, Park avenue and Fifty ninth street, Manhattan, on Wednesday evening. The charity ball of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society will take place at the Academy of Music on the evening of January 23. The annual ball of the Steel and Copper Plate Engravers') League will be held at the Lexington Avenue Opera House, Manhattan, on Saturday evening, jinuary 19. The Pafcnee Athletic Club of the Park Slope will bold its second annual ball the evening of January M. at the Farmhouse in Prospect Park.

Stages jplll meet the members and guests at the Plaza JBotel. The chairman or the committee of arranfcments is Leroy See, the president of the clu JFPABIS FASHIONS UP TO DA1E. Prom the Eagle Farts Bureau, 53 Rue Carabon, through the courtesy ot Abraham Straus, Black serge tailor sown, trimmed with rows of machine stitching; collar and re vers of white cloth, stitched with black. ANDERSON CASKEY. The marriage of Miss Mary E.

Caskey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd W. Caskey, and Joseph E. Anderson, was celebrated on Wednesday, at the home of the bride, the Rev.

C. W. King officiating The house was prettily decorated and there was a large gathering of friends of the young couple. After congratulations had been bestowed Mr. and Mrs.

Anderson left on a short tour and on their return they will reside in Brooklyn. A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL. The Christmas festival of the free kindergarten of the Church of the Incarnation Settlement was held yesterday afternoon at the parish house. The little ones did their part of the programme admirably, with carol singing and kindergarten exercises, while one little tot gave a Christmas solo with much spirit, and sweetness. There were addresses by the Rev.

Dr. Bacchus, the Rev. Mr. Wellwood and Dr. Arnold W.

Cat lin. Then a well stocked tree was unvailed, and found to contain a bountiful supply of dolls, games, candies, fruit and other Christmas tree products. The free kindergarten is under the charge of the Church Settlement Club of the Incarnation. PRINCE ATJERSPERG A GUEST. Will Visit the Hungarian Ball on New Year's Eve Some Liberal Donations.

Prince Francis Auersperg, who is in New will attend the Hungarian ball at the Grand Central Palace on New Year's eve. He has ent a liberal check to be placed to the credit of the charity fund of the society. Other checks have been received from Justice Blschoff and from the banking house of Henry Bisnhoft from Judge Benjamin Hoffman, Alderman Bmll Neufeld, Tammany Leader Martin Engel, Commissioner of Charities John V. Keller, Police Commissioner John B. Sexton and Jake Hess, Theatrical Managers George W.

Lederer, Henry B. Sire, Charles E. Evans, William Brady and Harry Mann of the Knickerbocker Theater. Jefferson le Angelis, Peter Dailey and Joseph Hart have also contributed. The dance Csardas will be given in all its splendor by the most graceful dancers to be found in this country or Hungary, and who have been engaged on both sides of the ocean for the occasion.

The marriage mart and the divorce mill will be intensified by the introduction ot new matrimonial games, which, according to Hungarian or Magyar lore. rre only permitted In welcoming a new century. The Hungarian Literary Society intends to ee that the twentieth century is received with open arms. LES AMIS INTIMES. French Society Will Hold Its Annual Masked Ball at Sulzer's Music Hall.

At Sulzer's Music Hall, One Hundred and Twenty seventh street and Second avenue, Manhattan, on New Year's Eve. Les Amis Intimes, a prominent French society, will hold its annual ball masque. F. H. Gradt, scenic artist, and Eugene CRM, electrician, both of the Harlem Opera House, have been engaged in preparing novel tableaux and effects for the French quadrille Au Mouln Rouge, which will be danced by twenty four of the best ballet dancers procurable, on the stroke of 12, the hour for unmasking.

The new year will be ushered in by a grand spectacular tableau, representing the Infant year. A 5 year old girl dressed to represent the new year will be seen waving her hand to old Father Tline" as be disappears In the distance. Another feature will be the Grand Rose Ballet and Battle of Flowers, arranged and directed by Professor de Bouchamp and led by three French premiers from the Metropolitan Opera House. Several members of the French Embassy have Blgnifled their intention of being present. HAVANA CUSTOMS RECEIPTS.

Washington, December 22 The division of Insular affairs. War Department, to day issued a statement of the transactions at the Havana Custom House for the month of November last. During the month 261 vessels entered at the port. A total of 242 vessels cleared from Havana. A total of 3,995 passengers landed at Havana during No vcber, while 886 persons left Havana for foreign ports.

Llvo stock to the number of 17,033 came into Havana, mostly from Mexico. The total amount of duties liquidated at the port was $970,658. FF.F 3B Palms and Flowers for wedding decorations, receptions, teas, ic, arranged by BKIU.ED Artists. Send tor plan and estimate to J. Cokdok, HoitTicuirniiiST, 784 Fifth Ave, Sill tp, 313 Twonty fourth St, Fort Hamilton Partway, Gravescnd Are.

34 greenhouses. Telephone 27 South. Fun garments altered or repaired, in a faultless manner, long experience and practical methods In my work room insure good work. Many handsome articles in furs on sale. F.

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City. Dr. L. J. Hoyt, Dentist, 455 Fulton st, near Jay Beautiful artificial teeth, $6, $8, $10 a set, extracting included.

Teeth extracted without pain. Teeth flIR $1. All work guaranteed. Liberal Loans made on watches, diamonds, jewelry, at old established house of 8. Goodstetn Son.

279 Bridge St. near Johnson. Private thoroughfare. Fobs. B.

Senholzi, 39 Flatbush av, oppd slte, Livingston st. manufacturing furrier: remodeling and redyelng a specialty; furs stored. ENGAGED. TONER CONE Mrs. Mary C.

Cone announces the engagement of her daughter, GERTRUJ5E to Mr. EUGENE TONER of Baltimore, Md. HARRIED. SMITH SMITH On Saturday, December 22, 1900. at Baltimore, Miss LAURA BLANCHK SMITH to WM.

NICHOLLS SMITH of Brooklyn. DIED. BALL On December 21, THOS. BALL, at his residence, 308 Albany tav, youngest son of Henry A. and Margaret, In the Sth year of his age.

Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery on December 24, at 2:30 P. M. BAMBEB On Saturday, December 22, Mrs. A. VICTORIA BAMBER, widow ot Roger Bam ber.

Funeral services at lier late residence. 441 "Wav erly av, Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. COLEMAN On Friday, December 21, MART, widow of John Coleman, aged 87 years. Funeral from her late home, 13 Pineapple st, Sunday, December 23. at 7:30 P.

M. Interment at convenience of family. COULTER On December 20, PHOEBE wife of John H. Coulter. Funeral from the residence her busband, 153 Lexington av, Brooklyn, Sunday, at 2:30.

21 2 COYKENDALL On Friday. December 21, 1300, SARAH widow of Ellis A. and daughter of William L. and Ann C. Titus, in her 62d year.

Funeral services Sunday, half past 3. at Friends' Meeting House, Rutherford place and Fifteenth st, Manhattan. Interment Monday at Canterbury. N. Y.

22 2 DOUGHERTY On Thursday. December 20, 1900, NELLIE beloved daughter of the late Cornelius and Ann Dougherty. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, S6 Hoyt st, on Monday, December 24, at thence to St. Charles Borromeo's Church. 22 2 ELDERTOn Wednesday, December 19, CATHERINE wife of John R.

Eldert. Funeral from her late residence, corner ot Jamaica av and Dresden st, oiv Sunday, December 23, at 2 P. M. Relatives and friends invited. 21 2 ESSEX On Saturday, December 22, JULIA A.

KELLY, wife of John W. Essex. Funeral Monday morning, 10 o'clock, from ber late residence, 6S3 Bedford av; thence to the Church of the Transfiguration, Marcy av and Hooper st. Relatives and friends invited. EVANS At Saratoga, N.

on Thursday. De comber 20, 1900. ELOISE FRANCES, wife of William Evans, of Brooklyn. Funeral services will be held from the residence of Francis H. Wilson, 3,259 Pacldc st, between Bedford and Nostrand avs, Brooklyn, on Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock.

Interment in Greenwood Monday. 21 3 FIELDS On Friday, December 21. EMMA wife of Francis Fields, and eldest daughter of Isaac and Cornelia De Groft, in her 2lBt year. Funeral from her late residence, 268 Seventeeenth St. or.

Sunday, 23d at 2 P. M. HAUS3MANN On Sunday, December 16, 1900, MARIE the beloved wife ot Charles Hauss mann. Funeral services at her late residence, 271 De graw st. Sunday, the 23d, at 2:30 P.

M. 21 2 HENNESSY Suddenly, on Friday, December 21, CHARLES F. HENNESSY. aged 3S years. Funeral from his late residence, 723 Gates av, Brooklyn, Monday, December 24, at 10 A.

M. thence to the Church of Our Lady of Victory, Throop av and McDonough st. KIRSCHBAUM On Friday, December 21, at his residence, 2S1 Fifty fourth st, Brooklyn, LOUIS N. KIRSCHBAUM, after a lingering illness. Funeral from above address Monday.

December 24. at 10 A. M. LAW On December 21, 1900, REBECCA LAW, aged 19 years. Funeral from the residence of her parents, 409 Shepherd av, Sunday, December 23, at 3 P.

M. Relatives and friends Invited. LUDDEN On Thursday, December 20, 1S00. ADELAIDE LUDDEN, wife of Julius E. Funeral services at her late residence, 120 West Forty eighth st, New York, on Sunday, December 23, at 4:30 P.

M. MAY Suddenly, on Saturday, December 22, 1900, ANTONIE, beloved wife of Jacob May. Funeral services at her late residence, 909 Lafayette av, on Sunday. December 23, 1900, at 4 o'clock P. M.

Interment at convenience of family. 22 2 McFARLANE On Friday. December 21, 1900, at 251 Decatur st. Brooklyn, N. ISABEL, beloved daughter of Charles D.

and the late Enu McFarlane. Funeral services at residence Sunday, the 23d, 4:30 P. M. (Jamaica W. papers please copy.) 22 2 McSHANE On Friday, December 21.

at her residence. 305 Schermerhorn st, TERESA McSHANE. Requiem mass at St. Augustine's Church. Sixth av and Sterling place, on Monday morning, at 10 o'clock.

NES.MITH On Friday. December 21. at her residence. 256 Henry st, Brooklyn. SARAH FRANCES, widow of James I.

Nesmlth. Funeral services at her late residence, Monday. lX ct mber 24, at 2 P. M. It is requested that no flowers be sent.

22 2 ORTON On Saturday, December 22. CORNELIUS T. ORTON, at his residence. 49S Putnam av. In his 74th year.

Funeral private. PENCHOEN On Saturday. December 22. LILLIAN NAIRNE. beloved wife ot John H.

Penchoen, at her residence, 53 Park st, West neld. N. J. Intimate friends invited to attend servloes on Monday, December 24, at 11 A. M.

Please omit flowers. (Denver. San Francisco and Liverpool, England, papers please copy.) PICKUP On December 17, 1900, MARY HANNAH PICKUP, aged 54 years, beloved wife of F. Pickup ot Ozone Park. L.

I. Interred December 20. ROWLAND Quite suddenly. CATHERINE E. ROWLAND, widow of Wm.

H. Howlaml, In hor 39th year. Funeral service at her late residence, Brooklyn Hills, L. Monday evening SINDLE On December 21, at 11:30 r. at his residence, 1.340 Herkimer at, Brooklyn, OEOROE W.

SINDLE. aged 63. Funeral Monday, December 22, at 2 P. M. STOFFEL At Dr.

Jewett's Sanitarium, on Wednesday, December 19, 1800, MARGBRETH C. STOFFEL, aged 3S years 4 months 9 days. Funeral from the residence of her mother, H7 lllrarod st, on Sunday, December 23, at 2 P. M. to which Amanda Lodge No.

1.281, K. and of H. Mt. Olive Rebecca Lodge No. 117.

o. O. and friends are rospcctfully invited. 20 3 STRATTON JANE LECLERE STRATTON, aged $8 years. Funeral services to be held at 1,453 Pacific st, near Brooklyn av, Monday, December 34, at 2 o'clock, to which friends are invited.

Interment, Cypress Hills. EDWIN BAYHA, UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMBR, US Atlantic av. Telephone. J.SJ9 Main. logue, and the singing of a patriotic song! i mendabie that the author, the publishers and This comprehensive entertainment is given i the makers should hove joined bands in this i unique attention, welch carries with it an for two nights, after wh.c.i tn nttle baa I carlJest of frieD(Jiv sympathy and co ooera of player folk having left most ct the pro t)on is worthy of emulation and has the ceeds with the landlord, wends its way to true ring of the Christmas spirit, another town, where it will be i Oue can picture a small American country er callings are nis mneritancc anu.

a.a: town of sixty years ago with its primitive ho sometimes bis undoing. tel. a group of idle country folk, a gaping he The blooii of the strolling player is in his fore the doorway, where stands a canvas cov veins, the highly developed imauRtiou, the ered wagon, such as in those days was used love of excitement which must be fed by ac in traveling Westward Ho! Out steps around tion or acilng. His subjugatlcn to extremes faced person, clean shaven and a trifle stout, of temperament, from high spirits to abject He turns again to the vehicle and extends a despondency, from one to the other of which helping hand to his wife, who is small and he Is plunged by nn occurrence which would received with re fcraeior.r.ucv? perhays with less. If you would find a tragedy read the life of one of the parly players, la it.

ycu will 'i learn of the cruel, halt Iir.lf humor i i ous experiences which wore tho nucleus of the formation of the actor's character. In other words, the actor of to day is a sort or composite resultant of his forbears' experi ence, and the peculiarities of temprramcut which mark him as distinct from men of oth I seem absurdly slight to have provoked such a result; his excitability, explainable by the high pitch to which his nerves are constantly strung; his want of self control, owing to the fact that he expends a larger amount of analytic thought upon the characters In his repertoire than upon his own; his ready sympathy, developed through character study and the necessity of being in touch with all phases of life are the outcome also of an inherited sensitiveness to externals. The actor is clannish and his friends usually belong to his profession, a statement that will call forth Immediate refutation from some sources I am aware. Nevertheless, I maintain the point and reassert that the sympathy of understanding which produces friendship will rarely be found in the actor's case outside of tho theater. It Is a tact that actors seldom talk shop to nonprofessionals, who are often surprised and disappointed thereat.

Herein lies the explanation of the fact that so many brilliant players are poor company in private life. It was Sol Smith Russell, I believe, who told the story of the country hotel proprietor whose guest he was. The boniface, upon ascertaining that Sol was a noted funny man, asked him to step into the parlor, where were assembled the members of the host's family, all smiling expectantly. The actor's pale, and not too well clad and who in her arms a fat and heavy Infant. Her spouse after assisting her to alight with a dignity that seems to overlap the occasion, enters the hostelry with a wave of his hand to the other players, who step forth from the wagon and follow him.

They are eight in all, including the manager and his wife, who Is the leading woman, a tall, eyed young man, who plays the lovers; a short, stout Individual with retrousse nose whom one recognizes as the comedian; an anaemic girl or 17, who acts boys' parts and seconds to the manager's wife; these with a few non descript utility people make up a representative troupe players as our great grandfathers saw them. The straggling crowd of idlers disappears as the door closes upon the players. Inside the hotel, the manager Is arranging with the landlord for a theater in which to play. Perhaps the latter will allow them the use of his barn or' a large loft? Ah, yes, they are delighted. They will remain for two nights ana will perform "Tho Merry Wives of Windsor." The fat comedian will appear as Falstaff.

(It is his quaint pride that Nature has enabled him to play the part without padding.) The manager's pale consort will be seen as Sweet Mistress Page. The play will be followed JL by a merry farce entitled "The Butler and i.