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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

prize offered by the New York Wort,
for the best original American plav and
which she subsequently sold for "a oon
This was followed by "Geoffrev Ma
dleton. Gentleman" produced by The pi
tou stock company. Since then she ba,
written Brother John.""IIis Wifa's Fa a'
Their" and "A Fool OF Fortune" for yvu
liam II. Crane. "A Bachelors d.
nance" for Sol Smith Russell ana ~,
other play for prominent I,o,Sn.
manager. Her royalties from the a..
two Crane plays aggregated more tban
$4,000. ''an
a new name added to the LIST NJ W.,
men dramatists who have "arrivedu l.,
that OF Mrs. Evelyn Greenleaf suther1
land of Boston, who colaborated v,i,.
Captain Charles King in writing ..Fos.
Frayne." Her "Mas'r Van" is a one w..
play of southern life and "Robon ~
Silent and "Chatterton" are beconir,
well known. "Rohan' was written ~,
Alexander Salvini. and its hero wac H.
last character created by the pi,tas
Italian. She is n society woman WIZ
took up dramatic writing out of love ~,
1t, the emolument being only a seconds
ry consideration.
ROBERT w. WILCOX.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07
WOMEN AS
PLAYWR|GHTS.
Latest Success Of Margue-
rite MeringtOn- Work Of
Miss Morton and
Mrs. Ryley.
NOTABLE FEMININE TRIO.

The hit scored at the Fifth Avenue
theater. New York. by Minnie Madden
Fiske in Marguerite Merington's latest
play, Love Finds the Way" has serv-
ed to bring the charming young author
ess prominently before the public once
more. The story of the career of her
former comedy. Captain Lettarblair."
should also serve as an incentive TO as
plring dramat!sts to persist in their
work when tempted by repeated dis
couragements to abandon hope.
Among many literary productions, in
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

a farcical comedy. with its scenes laid
during the time OF the Seven Years
war In Alsace. The hero. who is n
ne'er do well, becomes a soldier OF for
tune after his uncle has disinherited
him. On the death OF this uncle the es-
tates are offered to either his niece or
her cousin. whom he has disowned. The
news reaches the niece first. and she
starts to claim the estate. meeting ON
her way the cousin. who Is also hurry
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

ing to arrive there first and estaolisa,
his right. The two meet, and the ~,
Is helped to the castle by her rivai; ~
succeeds by trick In gaining adun.
sion first. but subsequently surreha'''
to her cousin. \.
James Doei. now "a years II age y,
believed to be the Oldest living ACTOR ~
England. He was n general utility n ,sa,
and acted in minor parts with the e'us'
kean.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

based on ''The Light That Failed" by
Courtenay Thorpe. Miss Nethersole
says that Rudyard Kipling has author
lied her to use the novel and given per-
mission to nobody else. The sketch re-
Gently given in London was acted sew
eral years ago in this country.
sol smith Russell. II is said, will soon
bring out a new play by Clyde Fitch.
The swashbuckler," which Louis N.
Parker has written for L. S. Willard, is
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07
THE STAGE FOLK.

orace Ffslns, remembered as the
DAushter In shore Acres" intends TO
star II possible next season.
ous skinner is to discontinue his
career as star and play next season
Win Joseph Jefferson in "The Rivals"
Nne,her or not Wilton Laokaye will be
member of that company is said to
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

travel. Thus instead OF shipping an
entire company from city to city the
star. male or female. viii travel in soil
tary state and reflect on the money
saved in railway fares.
Mark Twain will prepare severalplays
for performances in this country. includ-
ing Bartel Turaser' and I'm Purga-
tory"
Olga Nethersole has been excited to
protest by the performance OF a sketch
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

Ringers" new play by Sutton Vane,
occurs in church belfry, where the
murderer. by reason OF his trade. is
compelled to toll the funeral knell OF
his victim.
Plans are being made for the forma-
ton OF stock company in New York
city with the novel features of travelling
stars. Branch companies are to be or
ganized in other cities. making a sort
OF. circuit over which the stars will
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

depend on the fate Of his drama made
from Levers novel Charles o'Maliey."
Miss Viola Allen is to begin her tour
next october under the management
Of the Liebler company, probably In n
dramati2ation OF THE Courtshlp Of
Miles standish."
The chief incident OF "The Bell
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
A Popular Flower.

The dahlia, named after the famous
Swedish botanist Dahl, appeared early
in this century, and was as popular in
the flower garden as were the camellias
and fuchsias in the greenhouse and still
holds it's own. This plant, which is a
rative of Mexico, was practically intro
duced into England by Lady Holland
in 1904, as it had been lost since it's first
appearance some Is years previously,
when Lady Butte imported it from Spain.
During the first 40 years of its populari-
ty double dahlias were all the fashion,
and since then the single varieties have
had their day, while at the present time
the new cactus kind hold the foremost
place. A florist writing about 1880 COM
pared the fashion for dahlias, which was
then at it's height, to the tulip mania two
centuries earlier, and, although the com.
parison is hardly correct, it shows the
dahlia craze must have been very
marked to have even suggested it,
Longman's Magazine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Military Compliment.-Lieutenant
Good evening, miss! You look like
regiment of rosebuds tonight.
Fliegende Blaetter.
-Stokes-"Is your son fond of golf?"
Pogis-"Fond of it? / should say he
was. Why, the young rascal actually
plays it."-Boston Transcript.
Cruel Man.-The Wife-"I think the
baby's teeth are troubling him." The
Husband-"Good! I hate to think of
the poor little fellow crying for moth
ing."-Life.
-'How did you first know that there
was such a man as your husband, Mrs.
Thriftly?" Il happened to see his
financial standing in the commercial re-
ports. s."-Detroit Free Press.
--latest from the Intelligence Office.
-"Oh, Bridget! l told you to notice
when the apples boiled over" "Sure
mum. 1t was a quarter past eleven."-
l did, mum. 1t was a quarter past
eleven" ."-Brooklyn Life.
Making Himself Solid.-"Your lit
tie Jim seems to be popular with the
other small boys" Popular? The
other day he asked if he could give each
of his boy friends an apple, and when
l came downstairs the es,tire barrelful
was gone."-Detroit Free Press.
What Did He Mean?-Neighbor-
Good morning, Mr.. Blank" Blank
"Good morning, sir" Neighbor-"How
is Mrs. Blank this morning?" Blank
''The doctor tells me she is at deaths
door and I'm afraid he won't be able
TO pull her through" Chicago News.
-"And," were the concluding words
of the professors lecture to the medi-
cal students, 'do not promise too much.
I knew physician of real ability who
promised patient, whose legs he had
just amputated, that he would have him
OH his feet within two weeks. Tit
Bits.
The Last Dividend.-First Klondike
Miner-"Our claim is plumb worked out
now, and all the gold cleaned up, pard !;
yer couldn't fad another cents worth
NV gold in it with magnifying glass"
Second Klondike Miner (sadly)-"Yes;
there hain't nothing left fer to do now
but capitalize it."-Puck.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
A Maine Woman's Pie Crust.

Take butter, lard, cottolene, pork
frying or beef drippings, either mix
ture or any one, as convenient. Allow
one heaped tablespoonful of shorten
ing to three-fourths of cup or whole
cup of boiling water. Set the mixture
on the stove and boil it. If fresh, add
salt and little more than half as much
soda as for an equal quantity OF sour
milk. Pour this, while boiling hot. into
-four, mix aud mold into loaf. Cut eff
one piece 1t time, roll, and cover your
plates. It is worked with great ease
and rapidity. If you wish fiaky crust
on covered pies; after placing the upper
crust, spread it with some soft short
ening, sift little -four evenly over it.
then, holding the plate slightly inclined
over your sink, pour cold water over it
ill the -four is wet, then bake. This
rule has been practiced BY cooks for
more than so years.- Housekeeper.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL.

The sculptor Luigi Amici, who pro-
duced the tomb of Gregory XIV. in St.
Peters, died recently at the age of "a
in utter destitution in a hospital at
Rome.
The Dutch privy council has de-
cided that cycling is undignified and
unsafe for prospective queen, and ac-
cordingly Wilhelmina must content her
self with Shetland pony.
H. 4. Lewis, of Greensboro, Ca,
has been appointed a judge of the SUI
preme court of the state, to succeed
Judge Spencer r. Atkinson, who re-
signed to accept place on the Georgia
state railroad commission.
For many years the exact burial
place of James Otis, one of the revolu-
tionary leaders. has been shrouded in
mystery. 1t has now been discovered
that he was inferred in the old Granary
burial grounds in Boston.
M. Casimir-Perier, the predecessor
Of Felix Faure, who resigned from the
presidency of France, is credited with
a desire to reenter public life. He is
preparing to contest again his old seat,
which became vacant on his election to
the presidency.
SO great was the interest taken in
the memorial services to the late Sen
ator Isham G. Harris, held in Memphis
OH a recent Sunday, that practically
every church in the city was closed in
order that the ministers and congrega.
tions could attend the services in the
Auditorium
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
HOW HE MADE A START.
The DrugHist's Wife Was a Schemes
from the Ground Up.

The Druggist's Wife Was a Schemer
from the Ground Up.
ut doesn't seem to me that the young
doctors have the get up and 60 that
had when l started in," declared the
old practitioner who had just been re-
quested to take a chair in the faculty
of a new college of medicine. II started
in little town without money or
friends, and was not long in getting
all the business in my line that was to
be done.
'How did manage? Well, it won't
harm no one to tell now. First bought
horse, saddle and bride on time and
established line of credit with the
druggist to whom gave certain per-
centage of what made from the Gus
toners he sent me. He had an enter
prising little wife who went a good
deal into society and it wasn't long
till she had 1ne one or more patients
in each of the best families. All she
had to do was to tell this friend that
she looked run down and needed lit
tie toning up, or that one how her COM
rlexion would be improved by judi
cious treatment of the blood. l can
cay honestly that l was not party
TO her speculative methods, but must ad.
nit that was not better. When things
looked particularly blue to me would
rush to the stable, act as my own
groom, mount the venerable steed and
go plunging through the principal
| street and out into the country as
though on a cavalry charge. The drug
gist's wife found five-year-old paper
telling of an epidemic of smallpox in an
adjacent town and quietly got the clip
ping into circulation. vaccinated peo-
pie for 4s hours straight and then won
fame by curing a case of measles that
fortunately broke out at the time, and
leaving no marks. Between the drug
gest, his wife, the horse and myself
things went SO well that l was very
comfortably off and sufficiently cele-
brated to get into the city. Young
doctors now seem to lack vim."-Detroit
Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
NO. 48.
PRUNE DAlNTIES.
Various Palatable Dishez Made with
the Fruit.


The prune is one of the cheapest dried
fruits we have, and offers wholesome
acid among winter food when acids are
valuable. The new stock of prunes is
sent to market in the fall, and it is de-
srable to secure supply of this fruit
at this season if one can be certain of
securing the new plums. BY the guam
tity they ought not to cost over eight
cents pound, and possibly less.
Prunes make excellent pies and good
puddings. If properly stewed they are
excellent for supper or tea, and cheap
er than most preserves, even though
put up at home. Soak prunes over
night, after washing them. Boil them
slowly for three or four hours in the
water they were soaked in.
To make prune pie, line a pieplate
with pastry and fill it with rice. Cover
with crisscross strips of pastry. Then
when done lift off the crisscross cover
of pastry and empty out the rice. Fill
the pieplate with chopped stewed
prunes. Be sure to take out the stones.
Put back the cover and bake for few
minutes longer. This pie is very de-
licious if eaten with whipped cream.
1t is also excellent made with me-
ringue. Omit the crisscross strips OF
pastry and bake the piecrust shell with
a filling of rice. Remove the rice when
the crust is done. Fill the she'll with
prunes as before and cover it with
meringue made of the whites of three
eggs beaten to stiff froth, with three
heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar, and
seasoned with the juice of half lemon.
Use the grated yellow peel of half
lemon to season the prunes used to fill
the pie. Spread the meringue over the
pie and bake it ten minutes in an oven
that will just color it in that time. A
meringue of two eggs makes very
good cover if the pie is small. Season
and sweeten it in proportion.
Stewed prunes are very nice folded
in layers with blanc mango, and served
when cold as a pudding, with soft
custard sauce.
Another prune pudding calls for a
meringue of five eggs and half cup OF
powdered sugar sifted first with an even
saltspoonful of cream of tartar. Just
before putting the pudding in the
oven, add half cup of prunes which
have been drained, stoned and chopped
fine. Whip them into the meringue and
| pour the pudding into an earthen puds
ding dish buttered lightly. Bake it 20
minutes in moderate oven. Serve it
with soft custard made of the yolks
of three of the eggs and pint of milk
with sugar and seasoning.-N. Y. Trib-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
SHOPS NOT FOR SALE.
Chinese Merchants Discourage 1h'
Patronage of Americans.

Chinese MCFCn0ntS discourage inc
Patronage of Americans.
The worst statesmen in New York are
the Chinese whose shops are in Dovers
and Mott streets, whose windows are
filled with Chinese handiwork as bid
for the curious to enter. When 4 would
be purchaser once gets inside shop the
proprietor treats hiE as an intruder.
Most of these shops are modelled on the
same plan. Near the door is little box
like office, and from this extends coun-
ter half the length of the store. The
back Of the store is shut off by board
partition, and if the visitor is curious
and pokes his head around it a China
man is very likely to appear from the
darkness and gently push him toward
the front of the room. If the store
keeper chooses to entertain a few friends
back there it is no ones business, and he
doesn't propose to have intruders get
any idea of what sort of entertainment
he may be furnishing. The dull, heavy
odors that fills most of these little shops
makes it possible to guess pretty accu-
rately as to what is going on behind the
partition. Each shop has about the
same collection of wares. Chinese edi-
bles fill the shelves, and in the windows
are brightly colored Chinese vases,
bowls, fans, children's toys, and occa-
sionally piece of carved ivory. There
isn't much demand for carved ivory in
Chinatown, and the small dealers say
that it is too expensive to carry in stock.
An American customer who enters one
of these shops is greeted by the pro-
prietor with an Indifferent Hello" and
a perfectly expressionless face. The
proprietor stands behind the counter,
but he isn't anxious to sell his goods.
"Have you any carved ivory?" asks
the customer.
ciously and answers
mo. No ivly. No got"
There are three pieces in the case be-
hind him, and the customer points them
out. The Chinaman turns and looks at
them as if he had never seen them be-
fore.
'Let me see them?" asks the customer.
want to buy?" says the Chinaman,
| still without interest.
The customer mods, and the shop
keeper goes over to talk to Chinaman
who has just come in. Incidentally he
looks at the customers shoes to see if
they are the heavy soles and the square
cut toes which stamp the wardman. If
his conversation with the other China
man proves uninteresting he will come
back to his customer and eye him suspici.
ously. He may even be persuaded to take
the ivories out of the case and tell their
prices. He shows no interest in it and it
apparently doesn't occur to him that
it is his business to sell his wares.-N. Y
Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
IRON HORSE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Great Strides in Railway Building the
Past Few Years.

Railway activity in South Africa is of
comparatively modern origin, but in the
course of few years it has been pushed
on with almost feverish haste, SO that
at the present time the iron horse has
actually entered Bulawayo, and there
is serious talk of extending the system
to the once mysterious Zambesi. AL
though we finally succeeded the Dutch
as rulers in the Cape Colony in 1906, it
was not till 1850 that the first railway
was commenced, and extensions went
on slowly till the discovery of diamonds
in Griqualand West gave an impetus to
trade and traffic in South Africa. Even
then the railway halted for years at a
sleepy town on the edge of the silent
karroo known as Beaufort West, and
thence the journey had to be made to
Kimberley, according to the means or
tastes of the passengers, by post cart,
with drivers reckless of life and limb;
the numbering stagecoach or 'prairie
schooner" drawn by vicious mules or
slumberous oxen.
There are many prosperous city men
and even millionaires-still in the
prime of life who well remember that
awful journey across the veldt from
Beaufort West-the glaring heat by
day, the cold by night, the lurching
vehicles, the whirling sand as it came
adown the breeze, the scanty provi.
sions, the miserable "outspans," and at
last the sounds of distant dynamite ex.
plosions which bespoke the nearness
of the city of dust and diamonds. The
military operations in Bechuanaland
led to the continuation of the line, with
the active assistance of the home gov.
ernment, right up to Kimberley.
Meantime the agricultural districts
of the Cape Colony had been opened up
thanks mainly to the pressure which
the farmers brought to bear on the gov
ernment of the day, and in 1890 the gold
discoveries in the Transvaal led to an
other squirt in railway building. Som.
of the short lines at the cape pass
through very beautiful scenery, sucf
us those which run through the pine
clad slopes of Wynberg, and away il
the other direction to Sea Point-th,
Brighton of the cape but for grandeur
few in the world can compare with th'
railway which climbs the barrier rang,
of the Hex River mountains. The lin,
ascends by wonderful curves and zig
gags, giving the passengers fearsom'
views of the depths below, with tn
nesting farms and vineyards of the fer
tile valley. Capped with snow, the sur
rounding mountain peaks, some o
them 5000 feet high, present gran'
appearance; and engineering skill ha
pierced through perpendicular rock
by means of cuttings and tunnels. TIL
history of railway extension in Soutl
Africa is assuredly romance of rea
life.-London Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
Practical.

"That's the instructor in cookery"
"Ah! Is she practical COOKE"
practical? Well, guess! She
could cook in hotel if she chose. Why,
she knows "a distinct names for bread
pudding!"-Puck.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
He wouldn't Miss the Money.

"You are charging me most horrible
prices" complained the prospective
Klondiker.
at is just this way" said the Seattle
merchant. You either strike it rich
or freeze to death; SO, either way, you
won't miss the money you are leaving
behind."- ."-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-01-27
An Elective Remedy,

Mrs. Hoyle-How can keep my hus-
band in nights?
Mrs. Doyle-Go out yourself.-TowS
Topics.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-01-22
A GEORGIA HEN cooP.
IT was sure Proof Against the threads OF
Outsiders.


There isn't a more faithful being ON
earth, said Georgia business man to
reporter, ethan one of our Georgia
aarkies Neither is there one more So
perstitious, nor yet again is there one
who loves better the products Of the
hen coop. And Gainesville ism i any diff
ferent from any one Of a hundred south
ern towns. When | was down there
some time ago, a customer of mine who
had fancy for chickens and who had
always had more or less trouble IN
maintaining ownership of them told me
he had a remedy and asked me to go
around with him and see it | wanted
him to tell me what il was, but he in
sisted on my seeing it first, so went
along with him. and in few minutes
was standing in his back yard before
what was to me the oldest chicken
coop ever saw 1t was constructed of
large timbers and there were dozen
places in its walls where hand conld
be run in and everything cleaned out
within reach. Then there was no fas-
tening ON the door, nor was there any
kind of protection to the fowls.
couldn't understand how such an in
yiting snap could be of any use to the
owner and said as much
"'The charm is in the timber, said
he
"'No, said l.
Fact, just the same, said he. You
don't see il on the outside and you don I
know it, but the darkies around here
do, and they won't come within 100
yards Of that coop if they can help it.
don't care how full Of chickens it is,
Cause why? 1t is built of the timbers
of gallows on which a man was hung
about three months ago in another coun-
ty. 1t cost me something extra to get it,
but it has more than paid for itself
since l have had it. and ! am in the
market now to buy all the secondhand
scaffolds III Georgia. If You run across
sheriff any place with one for sale. let
me know by next mail, won't you,
pleased?
1t was a true bill, concluded the
travelling man, for | saw darby
tried on it, and he refused big silver
dollar to 60 down to the coop to get a
chicken for breakfast. - Washington
Star.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-01-22
News and Notes.

Poor hay is greatly in evidence with
comparative scarcity Of choice to fan
cy.
1t is believed that good sound seed po-
tatoes will be high priced by the time
the planting season arrives.
In northern Arizona the wild horses
have become nuisance to stockmen.
They not only eat the food that should
go to the cattle, but also chase the cat.
tie off the range.
Professor Bangs of Denmark is said
to have separated the germ that causes
certain forms Of abortion in cattle.
The Marsden company, which is ex-
plotting corn pith in a large way, to be
used in industrial capacity, is reported
to be erecting number Of new facto-
ries in the west and southwest.
The winter wheat situation is report
ed as being more hopeful
The old way of cutting ice with a
crosscut saw is sure, but rather slow, and
makes hard work Of it. The ice plow is
now in general favor.
1t is told that the beet sugar boom
is taking on big proportions, especial
ly in western New York, Ohio, the
western states and on the Pacific coast.