The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-08-01
Characteristics of Augusfin Daily.

The personality of the man who has ac~
complished so much is not we'll known even
in the dramatic profession, proof of which
is the legendary lore already blooming
about his name, writes John Talbot Smith
in Donahoe's Magazine. A thousand stOr-
les are told of DAILY for which no legitimate
parentage can be found. The critics praise
and abuse him by turns, his actors are
either mildly laudatory or grimly silent,
playwrights seem to fight shy of him, and
his brother-managers being for the most
part his imitators, and not infrequently
>poachers on his preserves, are as discreet
in speaking of him as he is silent about
them.
To meet him for the first time after form
ing mental picture of him from his pro-
fession and his achievements, means a
rather pleasant surprise. He looks like the
ideal poet, rather than the successful man
ager: tall, slender, well-proportioned
graceful and nervous in movement, self
possessed in repose; face delicate in out
line, thoughtful and serious in expression; I;
hard as flint in business moments, hex-
ible, mischieyous, humorous in social mo-
ments; dreamy and sad in repose, indicating
the rare combination of business ability
and poetic power Almost sixty, he looks
no older than scholarly man of forty, and
the average acute observer would take him
for college professor of the most intellect
ual sort. He is undoubtedly ambitious;
his energy has been proved, and he is prob
ably impatient and irritable in the imne-
diate labor Of reaching goal, as one most
ly finds the brainy and energetic: His
love Of retirement is as much the result Of
his methods OF work as Of his temperament,
but the latter is, largely determining cause.
In the early days, when a large display Of
his personality might have been adyanta-
geous, he remained steadily in the back
ground: and at this moment he finds it
quite difficult to control his nerves when
called upon to address an audience from bis
own stage, in response to enthusiastic greet
ings.
Adversely in mis- early career and deep
domestic sorrow in the days of his triumph
have thoroughly chastened his great sue
cess in life. No capable and thoughtful
man but is all the better for both adyersity
and grief, which in Aug,lStin Days ca6e
have not lessened his activity, and have
perhaps elevated his standard of thought
and labor. As can be suspected, it is much
easier to deal with him as a neighbpr than
as a manager; and this accounts, perhaps,
for the diversity of opinion about~hlln.
SPEEDY JUSTICE IN OKLAHOMA.
y .sWhenever a man is shot by al. vfticer
Of the law in our country, he is in1nedi-
ately described by the newspaper as a
member Of one Of the several gangs Of
:desperadoes supposed to infest that 4. sec e;
.tjcn.'' said Charles B. Adams, Of Guthrie
Oklahoma Ar. Adams was clerk of the
Federal Court from the opening Of the
country until last July. and is running
home from a trip to Washington on busi-
mess connecte;, with that cftice. '..1As$ q
matte Of fact, criminals are apprehena,d7z: her, q:
ed, convicted and punished in Oklahoma
much quicker in proportion to the poppla-
ton, than in older communities. Owing to
the scattered and light settlement of the
country, it is easy to 5apprahsnd 2 criminal,
and the border lawlessness that marks The
opening Of a new country IS followed hy#a
strcng deterntnation to suppress, and
3eradieat te such d condition. There Is np
sentiment among those q drawn toget ther;eo
try al cr !; and frequently 81 verdict
,fsset aside to its severit s'--ze MI
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