The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-03-11
The Elder Booth.

at the ewing" with Jefferson. The lat
Ter was playing Sampson, and Booth,
Of course, his great part Of Sir Ed
ward. While they were thus standing,
Booth, who was waiting for his "cue,
said to jefferson:
by the way, Joseph, / notice that
Won don't sing the song in this part of
Sampson. Why don't you do it
IN theway your grandfather used to doP"
"Well, Mr.. Booth" replied the
Young man, think it must be for
lie reason that / don't know how. |
never knew there was q song sung in the
part
ooh, yes, replied Booth, at once as
suming the air and facial expression Of a
comedian, "your grandfather used to do
It caritally. This is the way the song
ran and Booth went on with won
derfully droll expression on his face, and
sang ditty beginning:
traveller stopped at the Widows gate
Suddenly, and while he was in the
midst Of this performance, the "cueo
was given for his appearance on the
stage. In an instant he dropped the
comedy part which he had for the mo-
ment assumed, rushed before the foot
lights, had his great scene with Wilfred,
and coming off again, met Jefferson and
at once resumed the expression of Samp-
son with all naturalness, and with
out d thought Of affectation, went on to
describe how the young mans grand
father sang the comic song "a trav-
eler stopped Mt the widows gate.
frbn nlJop Rp1flSa Y,,a111T,, xxroe anita
as remarkable as were some Of his other
characteristics. During Encouragement
with Jefferson he and the company went
from Charleston to Augusta trip
which Booth had not made for many
years Yet, at every station at which he
stopped he stopped he was able not tonly
to recall the names of the principal
planters who had formerly lived there,
but with the utmost exactness told the
number Of bales ofcotton they had made
in certain year, the number Of slaves
they had owned and other details of the
same minute character.
During this engagement Mr.. Jefferson
played continuously with Booth, assum-
ing such parts as Sampson, the
Gravo Digger, in Hamlet" and the
Lord Mayor, in Richard Ill,
which latter part for some hiddenreason
is always thrown to the lot of the come
dian. Ills impressions Of Booth and
Macready arc that the one was in every
sense a born actor, while the latter was
the greatest example Of what can be ac-
complished by close application, keen
Intelligence and untiring study. The
latter won, according to Mr.. Jefferson's
views, by art; Booth succeeded by nat.
rual instinct. No man, according to
Mr., Jefferson, has ever appeared upon
the stage who threw more intensity.
soul and passion into his performance
than did Booth when he was at his best.
Cracking Wheat Into Flour.
Minnesota millers no longer "grind''
wheat into flour. They ''cracl1" it, and
the people Of the Northwest claim that
the new process makes their hitherto in
terlor wheat the most valuable in the
world. Burr stones are things OF the
past and Hungarian steel rollers have
taken their place. These rollers are
about thirty inches long and eight inches
In diameter. it takes five sets Of steel
rollers to finish the -four. Each set Of
rollers run closer than the preceding.
After the wheat passes each set Of rollers
It's bolted or sifted through course cloth
This cloth lets the disintergrated par
hcles Of wheat through and passes of
the bulky and larger pieces, which are
run through another and o closer Sc
OF rollers and cracked again. The las
rollers have little else but wheat hull
and waxy germs Of wheat, which do no
crack up, but smash down like piec,
OF wax. The germ Of kernel of whea
L not good food. 1t makes flour black
by the old milestone process this wax.
germ was ground up with the starch,
portion and bolted through with tn
nour. BY the new system of cracking
the kernel instead Of grinding it thi
germ is not ground, but hattened on
and slfted or bolted out, while the starch,
portions Of the wheat are crushed int
powdered wheat or flour. All the bi
mills Of Minneapolis now manufacture b
the new process.
Pottery in the United States.
There are now 800 potteries in tn,
United States, the total products o
Mnich supply 80 per cent. OF the ware
annually consumed, the chief centers o
Inc industry being Trenton, the capita
Ohio.
The former city offered peculiar at
fractions to the potter, both from it
railways and canals connecting it wit
the great cities of the Union, and it
nearness to mines of the raw material
West and southwest lie the coal, kaolir
spar and quartz mines of Pennsylvania
delaware and Maryland, and eastwar
tne iire and white clays of New Jersey
The elays of Ohio, Missouri and Ind
ana; and abundance of fuel, have bui
up East Liverpool, making it the cerI
mic center of the West. For thirt
years 1t has been engaged in the mani
lacture of the ordinary Rockingham an
yellow wares, furnishing the greater po
uon OF the $2,000,000 worth annual
produced in this country. II was nj
until 1878 that white wareof any descri
uon engaged the attention of the Live
pool pOtters to-day white granite