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HIGH PRICES FOR SONGS 1 ■EARNING of famous singers in THE PAST AND PRESENT. Small Prices First—Fifteen Thousand Dollars Received by a Singer for Ono Performance. A common complaint among musical managers on the Continent is that the compensation of the great singers of the day is beyond all reasonable proportion to their service. That for tho single performance of a role in an opera, or for a song or two in a concert even, a Patti should command thousands of dollars, is regarded as an abuse which is becoming ruinous to the reputation of the musical art. The wide gap between the rewards of the best three or four and the ten or eleven next best is described as the re¬ sult of musical caprice or popular in¬ ability to correctly estimate relative merits. “The favorites,” said a Con tinental critic recently, “are the cancers of the modern opera.” When Catherina Gabriclli went to St. Petersberg in the latter part of the last century she demanded 20,000 roubles salary. “Twenty thousand roubles!” cried Katharine II. “For that I could support two Field Marshals. ” “Very well,” answered the singer, “your Majesty may then have them to sing for you.” Complaints of the extravagance of the demands of musical,artists have au an¬ cient history. Early in the sixteenth century the citizens of Wurtemberg pro¬ tested that the expenditures of their so¬ vereign for musicians were ruining the land. In 1516 Duke Ulrich gave his lords the assurance that their complaints had been heeded, and that in the future , he would cut down as low as possible his budget for singers and trumpeters. His Duke was guilty of the wild extravagance of engaging several new singers at salaries of from $15 to $25 each for the season. Generally in those old times the salaries of singers were in figures which seem ridiculously small. The Italian Pergamin received at the end of the sixteenth cen¬ tury from Landgrave Moritz, in Cassell, about $150 annually and his board and lodgings. His salary was, however, equal to that of a high Minister of State. Under Duke Ebcrhard Ludwig (1677- 1733), three singers in Stutgart were paid by the court. Magdalena Sybilla Beck got $450 annually, and was re¬ garded as unreasonably high-priced. In Dresden, under Johann George III., who died in 1691, the most famous song¬ stresses in central Europe, Marguerite Salicola and Rosana Santinelli, had an¬ nual salaries of $1100 each. Charles YL, in Vienna, early in the eighteenth $2400 cen¬ tury, paid each of several soloists a year. The more the Italian opera, with its Virtuosos, spread to the Northern courts and thence to the Northern audiences the larger became the rewards of the great artists. England is supposed to have been responsible for the enormous and sudden increase of salaries which grad ually raised prices on the Continent, as America is supposed to have caused the corresponding phenomenon in the 1725, oper¬ atic world of to-day. Cuzzcni, in refused the offer of $48,000 for a Con¬ tinental tour from an Italian impressario because she could do better in England. She died, however, in the most abject misery after having squandered a dozen or more fortunes. Gertrude Elizabeth Mara, whose maiden name was Schmeling, was for some time content with $2200 annually as court singer of Frederick the Great-in Berlin. In 1780 she received an offer of $8000 and $12,500 travelling expenses for half a dozen concerts in England. The great Hohenzollern, an¬ gered by this foreign competition, re¬ fused to grant her a leave of absence, so she simply broke her contract and hur¬ ried off to London, where for many years she gotten times the income which the German stage could give her. After Catalani had sung twice before Napoleon I, she wa3 rewarded with $1000 cash, a life pension of $2400 annually, and two benefits which brought her $10,000 more. Nevertheless, she was not satisfied. After hearing her in St. Cloud, the Emperor went to her dressing room and inquired - “Where do you go from here, madam?” “To London, sire.” “Remain in Paris and I will give you $20,000 and two months’ leave of ab¬ sence annually. Catalina bowed and went to London, where she got $50,000 from an engage¬ ment and $50,000 from concerts during her leave of absence. She sang “God Save the King” at receptions for $1000 a time, and she was worshiped there as no singer before her and few since. Her parsimony was abnormal, and rendered her the subject of innumerable curious anecdotes. -Among the “divine An¬ gelica’s” most fervent admirers was the Marquis of Buckingham. He enter¬ tained the singer and her husband, M. do Yalabregue, at his country place for several weeks. Numerous receptions were given therein her honor, and at each she responded to the urgent requests of the guests by singing one song. At the end of the visit Mi. de Valabregue, in bid¬ ding the Marquis good-bye, pressed in his host’s hand a paper bearing the bill of Catalina —“for singing seventeen songs, 1700 sovereigns.” The Marquis looked at it, wrote out his oheck for 1700 sovereigns for seventeen “working days” of Mme. Catalina, and remarked dryly. “I regret exceedingly that I did not before know that M. de Yalabreque •was the cashier of the Catalina firm. ” Thi« incident injured Catalina greatly In England, as it had injured Mara in Ber¬ lin. that she refused to sing at a benefit for widows and orphans, in 1803, unless one-half of tho proceeds were assured her. Although all great singers of to¬ day are not quite free from such eccen¬ tricities, few persons acquainted with their histories will deny that, as a class, they are open-handed and soft-hearted to a degree altogether unknown to their predecessors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 1827 Virginia Blasis, who, in “Don Juan” took with equal ability the roles of Donna Anna and Zerlina, was engaged for the Paris opera with a lifelong salary of $7200 annually. Eleven years later she died of inflammation of the lungs. Gloslop, a singer, whose name and fame seem to have died with her, had a similar contiact for $5000 annually in the Paris opera. In three years she appeared but once, thus by oue evening’s perforiuauce earning $15,000, about the highest price ever paid to a singer for a single appear¬ ance. Henriette Sontag’s highest com¬ pensation for an evening was $10,000, received by her from a benefit in Lon¬ don. Her earnings for the London season of 1849, were $100,000. Mtvlibran received in Paris $15,000 salary, a benefit, and a leave ot absence which brought her in fully as much as her salary. In 1833 she was engaged for the Drury Lane Theatre in London for $10,000 and two benefits with a guaran $28,000 teed profit of $12,000, or, altogether, for ten weeks’ work. In 1834 she made a tour of Italy. 3he appeared during it 185 times and received $144, 000 . Shortly before her death she signed which an engagement for another tour, for her compensation was to be $ 120 , 000 . Russia is the country in which great artists get pecuniary rewards nearest to the English and American standard. This fact is due not only to the immense wealth of the nobility and royalty in that country, but also to the profligate generosity of high bred Russians and their cosmopolitan enthusiasm for tho fine arts. Toward the end of the forties Viardot earned there $38,000 for an en¬ gagement of a few months. She got, moreover, an $8000 benefit, and was overwhelmed with diamonds, tiaras, won derlul bracelets, and many other similar presents. Rubini took in from a single concert in th« Russian capital $37,500. —New York'Sun. WISE WORDS. A lie never stops to put on its hat. Many good sawlogs have knots on them. People like to travel in cheerful com¬ pany. The only real giver is the cheerful giver. No wealth is real that can be taken from us. There is no virtue in doing what you have to do. No man can go straight ahead who looks backward. It takes a good many trials to make some folks faithful. The only heavy burdens are those we try to carry ourselves. No one can suffer in any good cause without being a gainer. Faith fears nothing. Faith and trial are the best of friends. The poorest man on earth is the one who has the fewest trials. The flax has to be broken before its real strength can be known. There is a brick in every clod, but it takes a hot fire to tell it so. It is better to kill a snake in a clumsy way than not to kill it at all. Great victories can be enjoyed by those who fight great battles. The man who is true to the best h« knows will do to trust anywhere. The roots of a tree are of more conse¬ quence than its highest branches. The only people who are discontented are those who are not doing their whole duty. The hardest thing to do is to get peo¬ ple to think of the things that concern them most. The poorest man is not the one who has the least, but the one who has the most wants. There is nothing for which a man has to pay so dear as he does for the privi¬ lege of being stingy. The only reason why sliding down hill is so nice is because it is such hard work to pull the sled up .—Indianapolis ( Ind .) Ram's Horn. Progress in Dentistry. One of the great discomforts of artifi¬ cial dentures where all the teeth have been lost and much absorption of the gums has taken place is the constant tendency for them to slip forward. To overcome this difficulty a Scotch dentist has developed a method of fixing den¬ tures by means of two or more gold pins attached to the under surface, which eater holes either made by drilling tha jawbone or left after the extraction of a tooth. In other words, when necessary, an artifical tooth can be riveted to tha jawbone. This method of treatment has been adopted with great success.— New York Commercial Advertiser. The influenza has broken out in Cairo, EgJPtj is especially fatal to the na¬ tives. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Sleeves are very long. Loose-fitting gloves are the latest. Many chamois gauntlet gloves are sold to travelers. Copper bronze is to be the fashionable shade of hair this season. Artificial birds for trimming hats and dresses are made to cater to people who are so very humane. For ladies in mourning, the black enameled bracelet with a pansy having a diamond centre in front, has found favor. Women are now allowed to become notaries public in New Jersey in accor¬ dance with the privilege granted by the Senate. Children’s hats have no wire, no fac¬ ing, no binding, nothing but a half wreath of flowers, a crown lining and a rubber. Queeu Victoria of England delights in water color sketching and playing ducts with her favorite daughter, Princess Beatrice. A wide field for selection is afforded in table cutlery, which is now furnished with handles of china, ivory, pearl, silver, stag, etc. Ribbons to hold fans are fastened to the shoulders with a bow, and are long enough to fall nearly to the grouud, the fan being carried in the hand. The first woman honored with equal position and pay with men professors is Harriet Cook, of Cornell, who holds the chair of history in that university. For dress lining there is no better ma¬ terial than linen. It is cheap and durable, does not cling or split and makes a bet¬ ter foundation for a skirt than silk. The gentle wife of the Crown Prince of England is fond of tine needlework, dressmaking, playing the zithern, pho¬ tography, and has a pretty talent for oil painting. A woman was recently summoned as a juror in St. Louis. She took the matter philosophically and attended court, only to receive the apologies of all concerned in the blunder. Last October nine women were ap¬ pointed station agents on the elevated railways of Brooklyn, N. Y. v BO been so successful® that t B will appoint more. Mrs. Pemberton-Hincks, of New Or¬ leans, is at present the prima donna most the “rage” in London society. She is a creole of remarkable beauty, as well as the fortunate possessor of a magnificent voice. The most fashionable garment of the season is the long cape or “camail,” per¬ fectly square at the bottom, reaching considerably below the waist, high on the shoulders, and studded with jet cabuchons. Flounces placed at the foot of a skirt ihould be narrowed in front and wide at the back, in order to not detract from the height of the wearer. Ruffled pip¬ ings area new form of decoration, effec¬ tive in silk. The widowed Countess Lovsenhaupt, ex-Secretary Bayard’s daughter, is re¬ siding in the Wilmington (Del.) home provided for her prior to her marriage. She inherits $75,000 presented to her husband by his father. A Honesdale (Penn.) lady has a full set of carpenter’s tools, which she uses with remarkable skill in making useful and ornamental articles for her home, a full set of chairs being among the pro¬ ductions of her mechanical genius. Mrs. Marianne Stokes, the clever Eng¬ lish artist, is said to have begun paint¬ ing when hardly more than an infant, and if she was ever without a pencil or a box of paints she would squeeze flowers on a .sheet of paper until they gave up their colors. Some of the well-connected nursegirls who frequent Central Park, New York City, wear smart little kangaroo bag3 slung over she left shoulder, a la tourist, containing a flask of sweet milk and a supply of Graham crackers for the tod¬ dler’s lunch. The London “lady florists,” Mrs. Ar¬ thur Wellesley and Mrs. Herbert Smith, were employed to decorate Lord Bea consfield’s statue for the celebration of the founding of the Primrose League. The decorations were said to be particu¬ larly successful. A daughter of Congressman Breckin¬ ridge, of Kentucky, having graduated with honors at Wellesley several years ago, has now taken up the study of law in her father’s office, having in the meantime taught geometry and algebra in a Washington school. Annie Louise Carey, at one time con¬ sidered among the greatest of contraltos, is a large blonde woman in whose hand¬ some countenance beams the benevolence of her heart. Domestic affairs and char¬ ity work now engage the greater share of her daily time and attention. It is but a few years since sewing was introduced into the Philadelphia public schools, but in that time great progress has been made, and already hundreds of girls, besides the usual accomplishments, are qualified to cut and make garments for themselves, so that they are practical dressmakers. The hangings of Mrs. Andrew Car¬ negie drawing-room, in New York City, are old rose with gold. The hardwood floor is nearly covered with Persian rugs. The mantle is of onyx and gold with an onvx-tiled hearth. A beautiful Dresden vase has a niche all to itself between the front windows. The United States Navy. Only about twenty-five United States ships, exclusive of the revenue cutters and the training squadron, are now in commission, but it is estimated that five years hence there will lie forty-uiuo ships available for active service, and tirni of these only three or four will be of the antiquated types that now make up the bulk of tlie navy. Before that time ar¬ rives, however, there will be squad¬ a vast change iu the Asiaticsquadion makeup of various particular rons. The iu will have got itself a new ou fit. Sev¬ eral of the vessels ou that station have been kept there for years past chiefly because they were unfit for the voyage home across the Pacific. - A Simple Form of Government. School Boy—“The teacher wants us to explain how this couutry is governed by Father—“That the people.” is simple enough. Mc Groggin, a private citizen who keeps the big saloon down town, governs the boss of that ward; that ward boss governs the city boss; the city boss governs the legislature, and so on up. Any child can understand it.”—Street & Smith’s Good News. The first snow flake of winter how significant—and the first white hair! For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and Stomach disorders, use Brown’s Iron Bitters. The Best Tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans tho Blood and strengthens the muscles- A splen¬ did tonic for weak and debilitated persons. A man’s opinion of people is as much a test of his character as peoples’ opinion of him. Van Winkle Gin and Machinery Co.. Atlan¬ ta, Ga., manufacture Cotton Gins, Feeders, Ice Condensers, Presses, Cotton-Seed Oil Mills, Machinery, Shafting, Pulleys, Tanks, Pumps, Wind-Mills, Etc. Write for prices and disc’ts. Ifnfflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬ son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at25c per bottle. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Marvelous Restorer. No Treatise Fits after and first $1 day’s trial use. fettle cures. free. Dr. Kline. 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Strifes a <8 is® 1 0 ONE KINTJOY® Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly eyi the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys¬ tem effectually, dispels colds, head¬ aches and fevers and cures habitual only constipation. Syrup kind of Figs is tho duced, remedy pleasing of its the ever and pro¬ to taste ac¬ ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial fc its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular Syrup remedy of Figs known. is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles oy all leading drug¬ wbo gists. Any reliable hand druggist will may not have it on pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. 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It’s a healthy movement, The too —a natural one. organs are not forced into activity one day, to sink back into a worse state the regulated—mild¬ next. They’re cleansed and ly and quietly, without wrench¬ ing or griping. One tiny, sugar-coated Pellet is all that’s needed as a gentle laxative; three to four act as a cathar¬ tic. They’re the smallest, take. cheapest, the easiest to Sick Headache, Bilious Head¬ ache, Bilious Constipation, Indigestion, Attacks, and all de¬ rangements of the Liver, Stomach at d Bowels are promptly relieved and cured. OP] <x %\ ■H ! l ■v % ■A miJ .1 /£■ m To the Indian Territory we have shipped a good many of our watches. It is a fact that the people out there know a good thing when they see it—and wherever one of our watches goes, it makes such a reputation for itself that other orders are sure to follow. In this way the demand for the “Steven Watch” comes from every part simplest,,»-£i of tho soutl, .and west, they are the strongest, mf* 8t accurate quality, watches in the raarke) j, an( i considering the lowest "• - the Stevens W at eh before buy;,, > j. p. Stevens & Bro., il Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. Send for catalogue. Smith’s Worm Oil For Worms IS A SAFE AND SURE REMEDY. Sold Everywhere. S3 Cents. kk RED EYE” No mtSESL HEARTBURN HEADACHE. « Ulilfly Sweet Send CHEW. 10 cents in Stamps fora SAM¬ nor PLE. if your dealer does not KEEP IT. TA if. YJLOJR BROS., Manufacturers, Winston, N. COURSES. Tlttrtnww, TdsrmH Writing, Short-hand, Type-writr*, Telegra¬ *0 PRACTICAL phy, Lad lea *nd Gen¬ tlemen Dny and Night Session*. Snithdeal'B COLLEGE, Book-keeping,73,4 6 ntnu Weak, Nervous, Wretched mortals get welt and keep well. HeaUh Helper UlUn tells how. B0 eta. a year. Sample Y. copy free. Dr. J. U. D YE. Editor , Buffalo. N. m Q— WASHINGTON, JOSEPH II. HUNTER, D.,C. - A. N. 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