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it possible that l might be able to secure
him. l went to the theater that night
and saw him on the stage. He struck me
as a careless, awkward sort of man, with
little or no pretensions to stage style. 1t
took three acts for me to see wherein his
peculiar charm lay, but having once come
under its effect became more and more
attracted by it every time he came upon
the stage. Anc after L had solved the
problem of his appearance, his wonderful
versatility and expression as an actor i'm
pressed me. l eng aged him on a ten
weeks contract and we came TO San
Francisco, where his first appearance was
a tremendous success. At the end or ten
weeks l thought him the best leading
man in this country, and l think him
that to-day-a conviction which is coming
to be shared by good many OF the man
ayers, from a number of whom he has
lately received some very tempting
OFFERS
Not the least remarka BILE feature of Mr..
Worthing's career is the circum stance
that he began it not more than seven or
eight years ago. After serving a few
months as assistant prompter i'll an OBJ
scure stock company in an English
province he was one night given minor
part 10 play on the stage. From that he
drifted into other and more important
parts, finally assuming leading roles
Quite by chance the attention of Sarah
Thorne, whose stock company in those
days was famous in high theatrical cir
cles, was attra cted to him, with the result
that he was induced to join her company.
ID
stage celebrities he gradually rose 10 the
top as he had done in the company of
lesser lights. He remained with Sarah
Thorne eighteen months, playing leading
man for several months preceding his re-
tirement from the company, which oc-
CURED in 1890
He left Sarah Thorne to go with Pat
Campbell, with whom he played the OPEN
ing matinee Of his engagement as ORLANDO,
in Gas You Like It." 1t was at this matt
nee that Mrs. Pat Campbell made her first
appearance. Mr.. Worthing left Camp
BELLS com pany TO take the place of Charles
Coghlan as Mrs. Langtrys leading man,
in which pos tion he appeared successively
as Anthony, Lord Clancarty. Charles Sur
face, Claude Melnotte and Orlando.
After PLAYING with Mrs. Langtry six
months in England, he >igned contract
to play in an American tour of the same
length of time, but sudden illness con.
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.Mrs. Culbertson2 She is very poorly
TO-DAY and I think had not better see any
one. What can 10 for your
.Iu?" / said, looking woe1lily sur
,r;se9 T know. l had almost forgotten
that these courageous spirits were Kept In
frail bodies.
The Young lady raised he- eyes sadly.
"She is failing slowly" she said, speaking
very low. Come in-l WILL 'aiA "t'i'
YOU"
1 followed her into the COOL please ant
silting-room.
SIT was of Mrs. Culbertson's WORK
All! wish she could tell you herseiI' pu'
she ought not, truly Every one knows ner'
though. and loves her. She has saved SO
many Chinese girls and had great deai
of trouble in doing so. The Chinese nave
hated her and made things as unpleasant
as they could. 1t has been hard strug-
gle, but she has, in the main, conquereu'
and with so little help"
"Nour church helps, doesn't it?'
asked.
Yes" she said, "of course. But it's
this way. Mrs. Hull. or Mrs. Culbertson,
or Mrs. Lake, or Mrs. Vrooman will be
Of the work that is being done, and the
request will be something like TINS:
please tell US something of your wonder
full work, but-well. don't say anything
about the bad places or the slave women,
orwell, you understand. There are some
in the congregation who are somewhat
iastidious and it may not be best for the
young people to hear about it Just as
though they wouldn't hear of it any way
and in ways much worse than that
And then we both laughed. Her speech
was exactly like some staid, nervous old
deacon, bent almost double with the
weight of the respectability of his own
congregation.
"And Mrs Vrooman?' asked. "What
work does she do?"
"Helps everybody" exclaimed this en-
thusastic young lady. "She was born in
China-is wee part Chinese and speaks
their language, so. of course. she can do
much more than those who do not un-
derstand that tongue. She goes about so
quietly, too, that l think most people
scarcely realize that'shc does anything at
all, but with all her quietness she is
never idle. She knits or sews when she
has TO travel anywhere, ana she never
sees a Chinese girl or woman without
going to her and making friends and help
ing her if she needs it. Don't you think
it is wonderfulI'
/ confessed l did and pondered over it
all the way while l searched for Mrs.
Vrooman.
| found her at one of the missions,
busily in attendance on a weak, fright
ened woman, who had lately been brought
in. She was too busy to talk OF herself-I
think she had forgotten all about her own
personality, and she did not know that l
stared somewhat. l had never seen any
one do that before.
But another lady kindly told me of her.
''She is wonderful" she said. "She
goes day after day into the family houses
where the common people live, and into
the houses of the merchants, 100.
Were you to visit the homes of
the Chinese you might trace her
footsteps by the change in the ways
of living there. Where she visits
the living-rooms are cleaner and the in
habitants are neater in dress and person.
Not only that, but you will see BITS of
pretty decoration appearing from time to
time and plants beginning to bloom in
the windows. Then Mrs. Vrooman will
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"People seem TO me to have become
towards. They are afraid. They will get
hard up, and so put by all the money
they can get Pretty soon they find them.
selves without the chance to make any
more, and in little while more we have
an army OF nnem mployed. and I might also
say an army OF slaves. at any rate these
men have not the independence of men in
the old days when P. T. and Travelled all
over the country. People are sfraid TO
spend money. and actually believe that
II the greatest show on earth were to start
out again tomorrow we would not nav
expenses"
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A DISTINGUISHED ACTOR
Who Has Ben Leading Man to Lillian Langtry, ADD
Reha n, Olga Nehersole, Sarah Thorne
and Other Famous Stars.

went out ere the cigarette had ignited.
"Ah!" said Mr.. Worthing calmly, as he
leaned back in his chair, Get me match,
Handy" Handy had to cross the stage
with the deliberate tread BETTING his
station, and in the entire operation of
going and coming, picking up the
mat ches, separating one from the others.
striking it and holding it while his master
languidly drew in the, fame to his cigaf-
cite he consumed an amount of time tn at
would have been extremely aggravating
at that interesting stage of the proceed
ings had not the attention of the audience
been arrested and held by Mr.. Worthing
as he sat silently in his chair and gazed
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to work and paint them all over again.
had to mako a fat woman, snake charmer
and glass eater. And think 1 also had
to make two-headed calf, but 1 am not
sure.
81 don't know what has come over the
world since then. Our people will not
spend their money. Consequently times
are hard. Everybody boards and is look
ing out Tor a chance to get some that
somebody else is boarding. 1t is spend
ing money that makes good times-not
saving it. A Thousand dollars in circula.
ton in Pescadero is good deal better for
the town than $10, 900 in the bank.
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$250O. and they do not see what right /
have to interfere with them. Still, they
are afraid of the laws of this country and
they dare not touch me-"
"And how do you get the girl away?'
| asked, as visions of all sorts OF wild
plots and schemes hurried through my in
teres:ed brain.
"If l can once get hold of girls hand
she is mine," she declared. 81 do not
know why it is but the touch Of her hand
always brings back my de esertlng courage,
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1t wasn't exactly clear TO me just how it
altered the fact of her courage, that
another woman had courage, too, but then
the lines came to me from well-known
poem of Farquhar's:
Courage-an independent sport from heavens
bright throne,
BY which the soul stands raised, triumphant
high, alone.
Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
1t was strange, the amount of poetry
that this woman was calling forth, and yet
| knew that truth in others calls forth the
same in US, and poetry is the soul of truth.
And so / was glad when found the car
full of Christian Endeavorers. What
bright. glad faces they had and how their
voices rang out with There is sunshine in
my soulp' Even the conductor forget to
be i'm patient and spoke the names of the
streets distinctly, thereby making me mis-
a ruminating smile and forgot and
stopped in the middle of a block and
waited patiently for frail, weak woman
to bundle her four children into the Car.
The world seemed new and strange.
and | stopped on the side hill to nnd
that the wind was tossing my hair in
a thousand directions, and | WAS in par
ticularly steep place. toiling upward, and
withal had been singing, too. Certainly
it is mild intoxication, and yet one that
slim ulates heart ani brain.
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AS Cha rles Surface, With Mrs. Langtry
bell. Ada Rehan, Sarah Thorne, these are
among the best known of the ladies to
whom he has been a Romeo, a Charles
Surface, Lord Clancarthy, an Or lando,
or Claude Com bined with the strong
and charming element OF interest which
these distinguished associations con fer,
are personal attractiveness and popu-
larity which no associations, however
charming or distinguished, could enhance,
but which they might and do adorn with
a touch of romance and flavor of rich
past experience.
The gentleman is Frank Worthing, now
leading man of he Frawley Company, at
present playing ten weeks engagement
in this City. Few of those who have seen
him in any of that com pany's more i'm
portans leading roles Will be disposed to
admit that his past achievements could
add anything to their admiration for him
as an ACTOR or distinguished and charm
ing gentleman. His personality rises above
everything else. Indeed, ii may be said that
his stage presence" or that mysterious
quality OF appearance which, requiring no
absolute Ingredient of beauty or regularity
of feature, still commands the closest at
tentIon and most serious consideration, is
matched by that OF no other actor in this
country. With his back to the footlights
and without saying a word Worthing can
hold his audience enrapt By mere
pause, prolonged to any length of time,
he can inspire the liYeliest anticipation
and afford the genilest satisfaction by
simply his own attitude as the sequence
OF the pause, without reference to the play
at all.
The other evening, while the company
was presenting "Tne Social Highway
man" and while Handy, the servant, was
in the act of lighting his masters cigar
ette with taper, the light accidentally
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But the next day." she laughed. "Why
we have regular siege at the Methodist
Mission Home sometimes. We have 10
lock the girls up and keep watch on
them as though they were prisoners. The
willy Chinese wander all through the house
and glide about and are out again be lore
you can touch them. 1t is really aggra
waiting to see them stroll about apparently
absolutely uninterested, when every one
who knows the Chinese can always tell
the extent of their ill-doing by the degree
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of innocence they assume-the most inno-
cenl-looklng always being the most viii
famous.
full when you win their friendship. They
can't do enough for you nor care enough
for you, and they are as simple as chill
dren. l have been workin- among them
this way for years, and have grown to
love them and to love to help them. What
risk there is is nothing compared with
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what is gained, and really it is nothing,
anyway.
"You must not think" she said. as we
rose and l thanked her for the glimpse
she had given me OF her life work-''you
must not think that / have to do this
Mrs. Culbertson of the Presbyterian mis-
sion has been in the work longer than l !;
she came here before the Chinese got used
to being interfered with or learned to be
afraid of the laws, and she opened the
way for other workers"
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their spell, but this is so sorrowfulIy diff
ferent.
$50 you see," she said, laughing, II am
not so brave"
She did not remember that it is not the
fear itself, but the show of fear that makes
the coward.
The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational,
But he whose noble soul the fear subdues
And bravely dares the dangers nature shrinks
from.
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One section of the fishing laws of
Florida provides that "whoever fishe for
shad between sundown on Saturday after
noon and sunrise on Monday morning of
every week shall be punished by fine not
exceeding $40 and by contiscation of boat
and fishing tackle used in such unlawful
acts"
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aostractedly at nothing in particular.
That was but one of innumerable in
stances wherein his extraordinary per-
sonal magnetism more than anything else
has carried him through situations which
in other hands would have turned out un-
successfully and in many cases absurdly.
when was in New York looking for
an addition TO my company" said Mr..
Frawley, in recent conversation, "some
gentlemen at one of the clubs advised me
to go and see Worthing, who, according
to report, was not entirely satisfied with
his engagement with Daily. They thought
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There is now playing at one of the lead
ing theaters in San Francisco an actor
who has probably been leading man" to
more OF the famous actresses of the world
within the past six years than has any
other mem ber of his profession. Lillian
Langtry, Olga Nethersole. Mrs. Pat lamp
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-26
KEEP THEM OUT
OF RED LAKE.
Protest Against Allowing the Taking
of Fish in Those Waters.
Bishop Whipple Says 1t Will Destroy Indian Fish
eries-Action Threatened Against the
Baltimore Packing Company.

The bill introduced by Senator Green
a few days ago to authorize the state
game ard fish commission to issue
license for the use of pound nets on all
waters in the state having an area Of
over 1O8 square miles, is going to pre-
cipitate hard fight, if the present
indications are not deceptive 1t has
been gOssiped around the capitol ever
since the bill was introduced that the
bill was being pushed by e. T. LIE
Clair, the Minneapolis representative
of the Baltimore Packing company.
VINO has extensive leases on other
northern waters, and who is said to be
coVetous OF rights on the Red lake,
which is the only sheet of water. ex-
cept Mile Lacs, open to leases by the
new bill. 1t has also been charged
that LIE Claire is behind the bill which
aims at the abolition Of the present
game and fish commission and the ap-
pointment of three separate officers to
look after varying phases of the game
law enforcement
Senator Greer, who introduced the
Red lake bill. does not deny that it
has suspicious look, but he explains
his connection with it by saying that
1t was going around begging for some
Cne to introduce it, and ne fathered it
for reasons Of his own which he re
Vealed to the G | o b e in confidence.
The bill, if passed, will give the
Baltimore company the right to lease
shore line on the big lake, outside Of
the portion that is in the Indian reser-
walton. but, it is charged now that the
company, or its representatives, have
had two pound nets in the lake since
early last summer, and Executive
Agent Fullerton, of the state game and
fish commission, said last evening that
suit would be brought against LIE Clair
to recover for the illegal use of the
nets.
Bishop Whtpple, of the EPISCOPAL
church, who has taken a great deal
of interest in the Indians, has tele-
graphed his friends in this city as fol-
lows:
Bill authorizing seine Red lake will
destroy Indian fisheries''
While the proposed law does not au-
thOrlze the use of the seine in the
strict sense Of the word, it still men
aces the Indian fisheries, and some
opposition will, no doubt, develop from
this cause, also.
At present the Indians on the reser-
walton are the only ones allowed to
fish In the lake, SO far as the extern
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Fourthly: Turkey or Greece should,
when required, persistently refuse to with
draw their military and navel forces from
the island, the powers should impose their
decision by force upon the state 50 refusing.
The premier called special attention
to the words when required" adding
that it did not follow In the case Of
Turkey that her troops should be with
drawn Immediately. On the other hand,
he explained, the withdrawal of the
Turkish troops was a necessary con-
dftion Of autonomy Therefore they
would have to withdraw except so far
as they had been kept in the cases
of the island of Samoa and Servia,
simply as an indication Of sovereignty.
For all effective purposes and in re-
Spect Of all influences upon the govern
ment and daily life of the inhabitants
the Turkish troops would evidently
have to be Withdrawn when autonomy
was established.
The Greek troops. the premier i'm
agined, would be required by the pow
ers to withdraw at an earlier date He
believed this was the course the DOW
ers desired to pursue. but he could not
go further into detail, believing that
this is all that could properly be said
at this time in view of the powers act
ing in concert.
dispatch to the Chronicle from
Athens says: During the interview
WIN 1AiilS3 ISOIBS, ODIdlI6U Dy your
correspondent, the king said: II cannot
but express my profound astonishment
and grief upon learning that the rep
resentatives Of the great Christian pow
ers not only permitted Turkish forces
to employ as a military base a sphere
they had taken under their protection
in order to impose upon it neutrality
and peace, but also positively caused
their cannon to be fired upon Christian
people driven by outrage and massacre
to struggle for life, liberty and religion.
Nothing in the world until these
events occurred would have induced me
to believe in the possibility of such an
act.
II utterly fail to comprehend why
Europe, instead of following historic
precedents in Italy and elsewhere, al
lowing to Cretans to declare by plebis-
cite what suzerainty they should de-
sire, should attempt to force upon
them a regime alien to their feelings
and inevitably destined to result in
further complications"
The Chronicle publishes an editorial
styling the sultan "An arch cut-throat
sitting enthroned with British baycnets
at his call" The Chronicle also urges
Greece to declare war and so "end the
infamV"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-26
Funds for NeU Capitol.
BILL PASSES COMMITTEE

The state capitol bill, which was re-
Gently prepared by the Ramsey mem
bers, was presented in both the house
and senate yesterday, and late yester-
day afternoon the house committee
On appropriations put upon it the seal
Of its approval so that it will be re-
ported out this morning with favorable
recommendation.
The bill, which is brief enough, pro-
vides that the capitol commission may
anticipate $500,000 of the money pro-
vided by the statutory tax under the
acts of 1898 and 1895. 1t is provided
that the commission may issue certiil-
Gates bearing interest at the rate Of
not less than 4 per cent per annum,
and for no more than $500,000 in the
aggregate payable out of the fund re-
ferred to. These certificates are to be
issued for not less than $1,000 each
and at such time as the actual work
of construction progresses, and it is
provided that they shall mature to the
amount of 100000 July 1 annually. be-
ginning in 1900. 1t is expressly provid-
ed in the bill that nothing contained in
it shall be construed as providing for
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sive taking of fish is concerned, and
while they have been taking out
great deal more, it is believed than
are necessary for their own consump-
ton, the proceeds Of the sales are said
to be none too much to keep the wolf
from the door of many of them.
Edward T. LIE Clair, manager Of the
Baltimore Packing and Cold Storage
company, was seen by a reporter fol
the G e about the matter hereto.
fore referred to by Mr.. Fullerton.
Il saw Fullerton this afternoon" he
stated, "but he did not say anything tn
me Of the matter I do not believe
there is anything in the statement, as
| give the members of the fish and
game commission credit for having
more sense. But if they want to have
good lively fight they had better be.
GIN
The facts with reference to the al
legged illegal fishing, as given by MIR
LIE Clair, are as follows: About Sep.
tember last he called Mr.. FullerUo1
over the phone from his Minneapolis
office, and stated that his company
was desirOuS Of doing some fishing in
Red lake for the purpose Of finding OUt
what, if any, fish were to be caught i'll
Red lake, and whether it would be
profitable to do a general fishing busi.
ness there. The fishing Of the Balti.
done principally in the waters of Lake
Of the Woods, but the company ara
now desirous of extending it's basis o.
operations. In asking the fish and
game commission for permission tt
fish in the waters of Red lake. ther5
was no consideration whatever, and ii
was understood that the commission
was granting the company a courtesy.
The fish were to be caught with nets
but. after examination, were to be
put back into the lake The purpose
was then to have a report prepared
OF the different kinds of fish, theiI
size, etc, to be found in Red lake
Two men, Rogers and Burns, were
employed to make the tests. They
did not ship fish to the packing houses,
with the exception of 1,700 pounds
And these, it is claimed, were caught
upon the Indian reservation, which
extends along Red lake nearly the
whole Of its sixty-fve miles of length.
II the fish were caught on waters Of
the United States. he claimed, the
state commission would have no auL
thority to interfere
Mr.. LeClatr admitted that he had
had trouble with the fish and game
commission ever since the establish
ment of his packing house, and he was
now ready to fight it to a finish, if
necessary.