Show CONCERTS IN LONDON all london has gone wild over music professionals the public pays high for second rate entertainment A glance at the many journals special correspondence LONDON aug 30 all london has gone wild over music this eason every singing fiddling tooting artist that has ever had a hearing in any section of the earth and I 1 really believe auxiliary crop let down from some of the higher planets has combined to swoop upon the great metropolis and drain it vampire like of its financial life blood there is the italian opera with the de brothers and kilie de lusson and albani and nordica there are the eichter concerts at st james hall devoted entirely to the production of Wagner 8 compositions with the ori che of more than instruments and a choir of female voices there are the patti concerts held at the royal albert hall the Sara aate concerts lonc erts he who is at present the wor shipped god that whips the tune from the violin the oratorios and the symphony recitals all of which are constantly hustling one another into less conspicuous prominence last week there was thirty great concerts and yet when night came round again and tha ng of dr hans eichter ased his baton on the farat strain of fhe of wagner he as greeted by a shout of enthus sm but london is a good place to aate enthusiasm and to swindle peo e and when you bear the absurdly ah prices second and third rate artists k aud get herrejon will be amused american musicians in america can t and never could command such ures as are willingly paid to them in upland A guinea is the usual large for the same class of entertain aut eliat brings in america if e world of london ig willing to be oled why should not the knave keep s tongue in one cheek and bocket the chipta artists who are controlled by manager ara farmed out at iry rates and often clear for them ivea or 1500 at a morning inbert giving perhaps only four piano ilos or half a dozen violin arias A ir sample of this sudden rise in fame balth and appreciation is the case of adame sterling if she had in america she would never lave risen above the dearly beloved warbler of a new england church choir lut she comes to london and what lappens she gets a place for her big voice is oratorios masses and sacred and classic concerts cheis heard in combination with orchestras 1 ralso pieces and her name goes all over the world while she industriously lumps up the british guineas with the eal garden rake but while musical artists are overpaid literary workers are offered a mere pittance two collais and a half per column is considered a fair average price and there is no difficulty in find lup an overstock of mediocre writers to supply matter promptly at these low aratea it is a rare occurrence for a contributor tri butor to receive 5 for a column from weekly journals devoted to fashion and fiction and when it is dona it is only in order to secure the services of the higher grade men and women whose name and pen are already familiar to the world of readers the acme class of work commands three times as much in america newspapers and periodicals an london are numerous and many oi them devoted to novel objects new ones are springing lip every week ana each of these undertakings declares thai it is to smack in the eye all tonne anc similar ones and this enterprise has grown into certain prosperity think 0 it there ia newspapers in the inheres of the bicycle billiards dogs horses cows yachts butchers carpenters j tailors and of course for the pulpit bar stage fashion education finance medicine surgery botany agriculture etiquette eti quete and the court although it must be admitted that the english newspapers are not as sensational as those or the united states more careful in statement and less disposed to personalities chev have abot the game enterprise that we have then the nature and habits are as different as the nature and habits of the two countries the london times for instance is more or the model for all british papers not only in the manner of its leaders but in its contour the times is the well preserved secret of the profession it is the sphinx of journals it never boasts it is never betrayed into a confidence nor a piece of ill temper however it may be burned in effigy and denounced in the clubs no word or complaint is ever seen in its columna of these foolish displays indeed private pique is never noticed in a reputable british caper they may be bold lied defiant at times but always polished and courteous hence such things as slang offensive allusions to by name and intrusion into private life are rare among the better class of in this kingdom to lo 10 don society the daily journal is a reality but the journalist scarcely a camp the conductor in chief of any newspaper scarcely ever figures as a personage in society numbers of women are employed emp loye on all the papers dally and weekly who report the social doines everywhere in the empire and these ladies are to be seen at every gathering of note whether it be the oneena drawing room or alie derby or ascot or sandown they do sharp work for little pay and their name never boea beyond the bound of the journal which they represent and the circle which is represented by them A IF miners etcor washington aug 30 special act ing secretary wharton has received a telegram from guatemala dated the dinst as follows 1 went again to in salvador onofrid ay iy with three of the diplomatic corps 1 met ahe provisional president with several hundred leading men 0 the republic the basis of peace waa explained slightly modified accepted and signed by general ezeta I 1 returned here when guatemala also accepted and signed both parties haye been officially notified to retire their armies in forty eight hours and to reduce them to a peace footing in eight days this peace in oen iral america ANXIOUS FOB A special session of the asked for by citizens of north N D aug 30 special thomas mayor of this city was made chairman of the legislative committee for north dakota at the arri gation convention recently held at aber deen he is now at wo rk drafting a memorial to governor miller asking him to call aap ecial session of the legislature thia memorial will be circulated throughout the state for adigna turea it is the intention to secure an expression of sentiment on the question from every county and make the request I 1 strong enough so that the governor will feel justified in issuing the call he has the power under the constitution to convene the legislature in special session on extraordinary sione and as the irrigation question has become of vital jinter eat to ayery citizen of the Sta is held that the object is to secure the passage of a t which will enable counties to bon i r irrigation purposes the is 10 have each county sink about thirty which it shall own and dantoc man toc charging customers a reasonable price for the use of the water the maximum amount jor which bonds are to be issued should not in ahe opinion of the committee exceed in each county but alie theory contemplates the sinking of additional as fast as the famines from the original thirty will permit there is no doubt whatever as to the ability of the various counties to float a 7 per cent bond issued for gome practicably method of irrigation Shaki peare aug 30 special A theater is to take the place of the ast 1st regiment armory building on jackson street near michigan Michi ean evenue and the plaines plaints to erect upon this site of a play bouse to be modeled upon the architectural scheme of the famous shakespeare Shake peare memorial theater at Strai tord on avon theater to be the home of a high class block company the idea embodied in the new enterprise was conceived by mr jonn stapleton for leveral yeara dramatic director of the chicago conservatory not only does his plan contemplate the reproduction or the theater itself but also the memorial hall which is to be made by the collection from every poa aible source of relics curious souvenirs books and engravings commemorative of the poet and his works and tery sort of procurable object associated with the character or fame of the avon among other features there may ba an of costumes armor imph menta of warfare heraldic devices and cfall the shakespearean pearean plays arranged in their chronological order OTTAWA ont Aa eastO special 4 eighteen years ago there lived with his wife and family within a few miles of on the read now leading to the postal village of randolph canadian named old ehilt was missing it was thought be bad wandered off into the woodda thorough an i systematic search was kept up for several days but no trace of the child could be discovered it wes feared that a bear had carried off the boy and his parents mourned him as dead acara away and nothing more was seen or heard of the lost child and the parents moved away that part of the province and went back to near montreal not long since a priest who had charge of a mission in the northwest was told liy an old indian on his death bed that he had eighteen years before a little child from its home near the priest communicated with bev father Li bourean about ahn matter father La bourean made inquires heard the story of child communicated munica ted with the parents and this week the old couple are in hanitan on the way to sault ste marie to meet their son lost to them as a mere babe borrowed for aa one dead and to be restored to them when they are old and he is a man grown bankers marry 2 DUBLIN aug 30 special it is reported in financial circled today to day that all the banking institutions in the country are to follow the example set by the provincial bank of ireland and prohibit clerks in their employ whose salaries are less than a year from getting married the discussion in the newspapers on this subject has taken a wide range the sentiment of the country is decidedly against the banking rule which forbids the marriage of ill paid clerks the catholic priests too are opposed to it mr president Pre aident of the provincial bank writing to the freeman in defense of the rule says that it is not intended to be enforced against a clerk who ia fortunate to marry a girl with means genoah artists will paint BERLIN aug 29 special the well known artists edward and his aister josephine left for england today to day to paint the portraits of several members of the royal family and suicide ill a saloon SAK FRANCISCO aug 29 special this evening during a dispute about a debt john M chenowith Cheo with proprietor of the peerless saloon of this city shot and killed richard T can oil a well known wholesale liquor dealer and then committed suicide the topeka kas sept 1 special the university of topeka which has been built by the methodist church of kansas is approaching completion and arrangements range ments are being made for dedicating it the building is three stories high and coet |