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The herald., 1898-12-13
BAKER g. Hamilton
Bicycles, models of grace, sure and feet

w. r. Shilling, M. E., a mining man of
Acton, is in the city on business.
The herald., 1898-12-13

Beard Of police commissioners
meets-1O a. m.
Academy of Sciences, Friday Morn
ing club rooms, Owens blocks p. m.
The herald., 1898-12-13

Among the Los Angeles citizens in San
Francisco on Sunday were H. W. Patton,
G. +. Taylor, A. b. Hughes, Mrs. Hughes,
Miss Agnes Hughes, Mr.. and, Mrs. +. j.
Stevens
The herald., 1898-12-13

All prices of wall paper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom, 324 South Spring street,
The herald., 1898-12-13

Wall paper, late styles. low prices, at A.
A. Eckstron. s24 South Spring street.
The herald., 1898-12-13

Maximum temperature, 67.
Minimum temperature, AZ.
Forecast
For Southern California: Fair Tuesday;
light, variable wind; killing frosts to-
night.
The herald., 1898-12-13
THE WEATHER

TEMPERATURE-R of observations
taken at Los Angeles Dec. 18th. The
barometer Is reduced TO sea level.
The herald., 1898-12-13

Time Ear ih'r X. II wind Vel. Weather
ba IN 50 II IS Il NJ $ Clear
bp. III. 90 IL 5S A. w 6 Clear
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-03-05

classics and can read Fielding and
Sterne by the hour and laugh over
them. Everything considered, one
cannot greatly blame William Win
ter. 1t must mean a great deal to a
man who has spent his life i'm thank
less labor in vineyard where the
fairest blossoms fade short of fruition
because the roots do not 90 deem
enough to at last find penetrating
and discriminating intelligence like
Miss Rehan's
One cannot leave the performance
without a passing regret for poor old
William Wycherley, one of the first of
the countless playwrights who have
adapted French plots to English man.
ners, and it was not wholly his fault
that the manners were bad. Match
him against FRANCHISE Villon aad
there you have the history of the vice
of two nations i'm nutshell: VillOn at
his worst was picturesque. Wycherley
at his best was disgusting. 4 pot
house brawler, the rival of a dissolute
king in the affections of dissolute
woman. a scholar who gave himself
over to folly, poet who shrivelled his
fancy at unhallOwed fires, a genius
who poured out his treasure into the
filth of London street and trampled
upon it, calling for the world to look
and laugh. forever strangling with
bloody hands the creative spirit that
would not die. He ended on dung
heap-a better playwright, construct
lively, than MOnsieurs Paul Potter &
Co.. will ever be.
In New York went to see Modjeska
i'm MARY Stuart; l had not seen
her for six years and / was almost
afraid to gO-afraid that she might
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-03-05

made ridiculous. With what awful
apprehension must Miss Rehan look
forward to those rhythmic notices in
the Tribune at which her good sense
must revolt. Next to having written
a play the greatest misfortune which
can befall an actress is to own a
critic.
''The Country Girl is. of course.
just doughty old Wycherley's 'COun-
try Wife," expurgated first by David
Garrick and sterilized ana refined by
Augustin Daily. Now from the nature
of William Winters vOluminOus COM
mentaries upon Miss Rehan's inter-
probation of the leading part ex-
pected to see proper and discreet
and very ''iady-like" Peggy Thrift, a
Peggy who might have come into town
from the green hills of Vermont. l
found instead broad and adequately
vital piece of comedy work treated
with absolute freedom and fearless
ness. Mr.. DAILY has toned down and
refined to his hearts content, but
Miss Rehan has not. 1t was Wycher-
ley's Peggy Thrift that l saw, a hoy
denish young romp without many fine
sensibilities, quite i'm harmony with
vrrobarlar.s f;poa op1 ooupfrv And
yet i'm playing this broad conception
the actress was never coarse. l think
it is because of her very fearlessnesS
that she never offendS. Divest old
English comedy of its Objectionable
language, and it is not 50 bad.
One can not help wondering at Miss
Rehan i'm boys apparel. What a
sturdy, manly, full-bloOded chap she
makes. how different from the poetic
languOrous youths of Julia Marlowe!
And how eager for life and thirsty for
experiences is this clumsy Peggy
Thrift, this Peggy who is not afraid
to sprawl ungracefully upon a sofa or
to call things by their good old En-
glish names, or to jOyOusly remark
how different are the kisses of Lon
don gallant from those Of her grOuchy
old guardian. l still laugh inconti-
nently at the memory of this Peggys
first experience of the divine flame,
which Wycherley did not think divine.
1t was so entirely without sugar
coating, and yet so utterly inOffensive.
Next day when l was making the ac-
quaintance of that criminally happy,
Boston-banned bacchante Of McMon-
MES at the Metropolitan museum, l
bethought me of this gleeful Peggy
Thrift i'm her lOve-making scene.
Miss Rehan really gave the part
that vigorous, spirited realism that
robustness which is the saving grace
of old English comedy. The lady
gives one the impression of very
high and independent intelligence, of
flexible and wholesome tempera-
ment. Ill warrant she has personal
fOndness for the stout old English
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-03-05
The Passing Show.
To excel them al IN love;
we'd read no books
VILLA GATHER.

10 excel them all IN love;
we'd read no books
That were not tales of love!"
Why, those lines were written for
SOthern! What other speech ever gave
such golden opportunities for lowering
and languishing. OF course he never
gets much further than lowering and
suffering: his leading ladies have to
he content with that.
/ have seen Virginia Harmed do
some very clever and charming work
in Anthony Hopes new play Lady
Ursula" but i'm the cottage scene of
the Lady of Lyons must say she is
Disappointing. Her faults of elocu-
tion outnumber those of Margaret
Mather in that lady's palmy days.
She does not understand the first
principles Of reading blank verse. She
rasps out the lines i'm a harsh, jagged.
incOherent fashion, and her scream is
like nothing so much as the squeal of
an Infatuated kitten. l prefer to see
a lady remain lady even when she is
angry and thereby lift the vulgar pas
sion of rage to righteous indigna-
tion. But Miss Harmed behaves very
much like cook who has just re-
ceived her two weeks notice. l should
think Melnotte would have had dark
fOrebodings of the future. fear me
that / do not appreciate Miss Har-
ned's beauty. wish she would go to
a boarding school and learn to hold
her shoulders up, and hope that the
first thing Claude did after he finally
got the willowy Lady of Lyons was to
get her pair of braces.
NJ. Sothern, however, quite Outdoes
himself i'm the cottage scene. l did
not believe that any human being
could make those hackneyed remarks
on pride impressive, but he did. After
Pauline had finished her screeching
and screaming and had bowed her
head on the table. he turned little
away from her, his face quivering
with emotion. his eyes looking their
wOnted woe at the furniture, and
murmured slowly, to himself rather
than to her:
pauline, by pride
Angels have fallen ere their time!'
That line was a triumph.
The ending of the fourth act was
splendidly worked up. When Claude.
despite the protests of the fair Pau
line, accepts commission i'm the
army. the Marseillaise is heard out
side. the soldiers go marching by with
the tri-cOlor, and he tears himself
from his clinging bride and rushes
out to join them. A perfectly absurd
and improbable thing of course. but
he does il well.
1, for one, quite forgot that THE
Lady of Lyons" was an old and a fiOrid
play. so near to our own time and
feeling does this intense young man
bring it. Caramel heroics, do you say?
Very we'll: for the time being l am
quite willing to declare that all the
worlds candy shop, men and women
but cOnfectiOners. and that caramels
are the best that life has to give.
Surely the grayest sin William
Winter has to answer for is the man.
ner in which he has prejudiced people
against Ada Rehan. For ten years
or more the dramatic columns of the
Tribune have been devoted to tri-
nmnhal naeanS ON this ladY'S art. and
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-03-05

Country Girl" produced at Days
theatre in New York, and l begin to
wonder why managers put on pieces
like 1.-The Tree of knowledge" and
1.-The Conquerors
Now ''The Lady of Lyons" is not a
great play; Bulwer was not a great
man. But it certainly discounts half
the stuff that is put on the boards to-
day. The chief difficulty about pre-
senting such piece is the fact that it
has become hackneyed. weighted down
with traditions and laden with men,
cries of the fair lady stars who have
ranted through the cottage scene. The
mere fact that Mr.. Sothern himself
occupies the centre Of the stage in
this particular production gives it a
touch Of variety. The piece has been
preempted and dominated and tramp
ed upon by the fair Pauline long
enough; it is only fair that Claude
should have chance.
Mr.. Sothern has broken away from
the old traditions of the piece almost
entirely. In the first place his very
personality makes his MelnOtte essen
italy different from those of the
great men who have played it before
him. For the lofty and semi-tragic
conception of the part which has be-
come traditional. he has substituted
an ardent, fervidly romantic one. Bull
wer was not a sincere man, and the
greatest fault Of his plays is that they
bear openly the mark of theatric in
sincerity. Mr.. Sothern's forte is that
in the most impossible situations he
can make you believe i'm his sincerity.
Nature has endowed him with pair
Of soulful eyes which are capable of
looking unspeakable anguish for hours
together. and would deceive the elect
themselves. He takes his caramel
heroics and his amOrOus woes so serl-
ously that you have nothing left but
to do likewise. He goes at the anti
quated Lady of Lyons as if it were
an altogether new play and one of
vital importance. and for the time
being il becomes such.
The most remarkable thing about
his Claude is the absolute freshness
and firmness which he gives those
well-known lines. His reading is really
remarkable in its originality. In
that famous speech about the palace
nv Lake Como he absolutely breaks
away from every tradition, and the
more pedantic critics have strenu-
ousiy objected to it. But be that as
it may. his is the only probable or pos
sible reading / have ever heard of
those lines He does not roll their
long syllables about as sweet mOrsel
under his tongue: he does not expand
with pride at his own eloquence, he
shuns the very appearance OF declama-
ton. This Melnotte is no orator, but
a poet signing to his lady. He sits a
little behind Pauline, lowering over
her. How that man can hover. He
is mast master in the art. He begins
to speak in a low tone, watching her
face as she leans back. He reads the
lines almost brokenly, stopping short
at times to look forward into his lady's
eyes, watching only her face, caring
only for the effect of his words on her,
half forgetting himself that he is
lying to her, selling with all his yearn
ing soul the opportunity to pour out
all the impassiOned dreams Of his
fancy to the woman who is mistress of
them.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1898-03-05

Surely the grayest sin William
Winter has to answer for is the man
ner i'm which he has prejudiced people
against Ada Rehan. For ten years
or more the dramatic columns of the
Tribune have been devoted to tri-
umphal paeans on this lady's art, and
the language has been drained dry of
eulogistic adjectives to describe her
beauty and charm. The object Of such
unmitigated alteration is necessarily
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

The election returns OF Hand couu.
ty SHOWS that the average plurality
OF fu sion state candidates was 81.
tn it was the political complexion
o this county on Tuesday Two
years from now, with Mckinley
heading the ticket Hand county will
60 republican by upwards of 100
majority. Why? Because in 1892
the populist wave carried this coun-
ty by AZ, and in 1894 it had died out
and republicans carried the county
by 56. In 1898 the silver wave is
dead, and populists, democrats and
silver republicans Ill com bined were
only able to hold 81 majority--a
small matter OF 10 votes changed
would give the county to the repub-
leans. So 1T is very reasonable, that
with populism, silverism, etc, dead
throughout the west, and this state
back in the republican column, Hand
county will in 1900 record her vote
in harmony with the state and ma
ton. We believe this is thoroughly
demonstrated by a careful study OF
past and present conditions, and
every republican in Hand county
should make up his mind right now,
that this is reasonably sure. and work
to that end.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

While the PRESS with other repub.
licans would have enjoved electing
our candidates on the county ticket,
yet it is evident that the republican
candidates, did remarkably well, all
things considered. Hand county in
1896 was populist on governor by
about 1871, and this year by about
20, and yet two OF our candid ates
are elected, and all other populist
candidates are reduced below the ma
iorities oi two years ago.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

The new ballot caused many mis-
takes. In Miller precinct oqlt of 40
votes 13 votes on governor We're
thrown out by the judges because oi
irregularities. A number were also
wrongly marked on congressman,
and Il few were nearly all blank
The same thing is noted in other
precincts.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

The election OF 1898 is numbered
with the past. The wise man accepts
the result, smiles, and dismisses it
from his mind. Nosingle individual.
victor or vanquished, had every
thing just as he wished it. But it is
vain and idle to brood over why
this or that was not different. The
sun comes up each morning and thu
world goes on just he same -and It's
the best world we've got.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

Gov. Lee carried Hand County in
1896 by 1877 majority, and this yeal
it is reduced over so. Republicans
elected just the same officers, Supt.
and Judge, but all other candidates
on the republican ticket cut the pop
u'ist majorities down great deal
from that OF two years ago. Chair
man Thomson put up a good cam
paign.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10
Hand County Vote
Fusionists Garry the County
by Reduced Majority,

Tuesdays election in Hand coun-
ty for state and county officers drew
out light vote, general apathy be-
ing the rule, except where local can
didates had friends who took an in
terest in their success.
The whole number of votes cast
for governor was 1852, as against
1921 in 1S96-during the big snow,
and against 1926 in 1894. A cor
rect poll OF the county shows about
1850 voters.
The tickets were scratc he'd great
deal on both sides. For instance, in
Miller precinct there were 40 votes
cast and only Is straight republican
to 5 straight populist, on the county
ticket.
While the republicans lost the
county theV are Pleaseu aO '"'p'ns
great DIG CHUNK ou' u 'n0 Pop"
| iisV hih!oii'!' l."
list, had 1877 majority over Rings
| rud republican. This year Lee has
u"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10
\ HOLMAN,
CITY DRAY LINE.

Hauling of all kinds promptly attendedto
Have an experience of many years IN mana
ling breakable goods, and guarantee every
thing carefully moved. Leave ofdets Oh
slate at Vanderbilt hotel.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

Released prisoners at MANILA
claim that Gen. Weyler, who used to
he governor general OF the Phillip
pines, robbed the Spanish govern
ment OF 81 100000.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

Hand County did nobly on tn
vote for Congressman, by wiping out
n populist majority of 116. That X
no small thing in u vote OF about
1000.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10


above vote with that of two years
ago that the republicans gained all
along the line. On Senator in 1896
the populists had 81 majority, and
on one representative 1873 majority !;
on treasurer 213 majority and on
Sheriff 233, the two latter being in
the lead because of running for a
second term. When republicans
examine these figures it will be evil
dent what had to be overcome, and
they did remarkably well.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

The Nicaragua canal commission
is about ready to make it's report.
An estimate is maize OF $125, 900
600 to complete the canal,
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

And Real Estate Agent Collections ana
insurance Taxes paid for non-rcsldent h h.p
south Dakota.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

Miller increased ner republi 'anma
jority on governor from 8 in lS96t0
% in 1893. and on Congressman
from Z IL 1926 To 81 III 1895.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10

The state OF New York was carried
by Col Roosevelt and the republicans
by 10000 majority.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10
IL Sweeps over the Entire Country,
East and West.
A Republican Congress Elected, Both in the House
and Senate.
SoutE Dakota Comes Back Safely to the Republicans
For Governor And all Officers.


PCONGRESSMEN GAMBLE 6 BURKE WAY AHEAD.
Election from the country show big republican
victory both houses of Congress being republican, and west
ha carried off by the silver two
back republican column with hurrah for Mckinley
and republican prosperity.
Dakota the republicans elect the whole ticket by good
naortes Governor which close and doubt but
that the is republican politically is certain
LArEsr late dispatch Phillips republican, surely carries
the state, and makes it a clean sweep.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10
pUsEY & BALDWIN,
LAWYERS.

Practice before all the courts OF South ia
kuta, Office In Morrill, brick block. doors
porth OF post Office Miller. South Dakota.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-11-10
MILLER LAUNDRY.
w. S. MORROW, PROP.

Ihave started a new Laundry in Miller,
and am prepared to do the best OF work.
Send in YOUR good shirts collars and Guns
from all parts of Hand county and have
them nicely done up. Particular attention
will also be given to family washing.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-10-14
GENERAL LEVEL OF PRICES
HIGER.

The index number deduced from the
prices Of 100 commodities on October
l was 7O.5, against .6.s on September
Ia falling off due chiefly to the de
cline of crude rubber On January |,
1898, the index was 74.2. The pre-
sent range of prices is, therefore, not
unfavorable, in spite of the fall in bread
stuGs and provisions How favorable
it is may be judged by considering
that the index October ! +, 1896, was
56.S. On January l, 1897, it was 69.3.
There have been recent advances in
the general level of prices, owing to re-
newed enterprise and quickened dc
mand, but we are still behind October
l, lS90,when the price index was 1859.
The law of progress promises decline
of prices as invention improves pro-
cesses and eheapens production. That
is what science and the patent office
are for. We cannot hope to see steel
sell at 800 a ton, as it did before
Bessemer's invention. But evidently
there is still room for considerable
variations. The Sun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-10-14
CLOSE TO WAR.

Reports which have been received at the
Navy Department from our naval attache
abroad throw much light on the attitude
assumed by Germany during the trouble
at the Philippine Islands, and they also
indicate that war between that country
and the United States was only averted by
narrowest margin. The strained rela-
tions between Admirals Dewey and Won
Diedrich became so acute at one period
that a slight move on the part of any OF
our officers would have been the signal
for the discharge of German gun at the
Stars and Stripes. At one time German
warship, the Kaiserin Augusta, was cleared
for action, and every gun on her was
trained on Admiral Dewey's flagship.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-10-14
NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED,

The reports from Paris state that
the American and Spanish peace COM
missioners adjourned after a fourth
session without having reached final
conclusion as to any point in the pro-
tocol.
1t is believed that the Spanish have
asked to have the Cuban debt assumed
by the United States, urging that the
debt should pass with the sovereignty.
This debt covers the expenses of the
ten years instruction, the recent, in
surrection, and the war with the United
States, so far as Spain's outlay in the
war can be classified against Cuba.
This claim, or, at least the major
portion of it has, doubtless, been dis
puted.
II is, however, further reported that
no disposition has been developed on
either side to delay the ultimate con.
illusions, and for this reason a satisfac-
tory agreement may be reached in due
time.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-10-14
BRAVE MEN,
POOR GENERALS.

Count Won Goetzen's report of the Cuban
war operations, which is in the hands of
the ministry of war of Germany, has been
carefully read by the Emperor.
Won Goetzen first made a verbal report
to the Emperor, who especially inquired
as to the morals of the Americans, the diff
ference between the regulars and the vol
unteers, the commissariat and medical ar
rangernents and the relative courage and
spirit of the Americans. Since that time
he has put many personal questions to the
Count. Won Goetzen, in the main, re-
ported favorably, dwelling particularly on
the dash and valor of the Americans, the
superiority of the Mauser rifle and the poor
generalship displayed on both sides. The
Count also condemned General Torals
surrender of Santiago as unnecessary.
DR.. Won Holleben, the German ambas-
sador to the United States, supped with
the Emperor recently and dilated upon
the patriotism and war fever of the Amer
lean people. The Emperor repeatedly ex-
pressed his establishment.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-10-14
EXPANSION DANGEROUS.

In the recent number of Harper
Magazine, Hon. John G. Carlisle makes
strong argument against the acqui,
sition of new possessions by the gov
eminent. He argues that our politi-
cal institutions were not designed and
consequently, are not suited for the
government Of dependent colonies and
provinces. The Philippine islands, for
instance, with a population of eight OF
ten millions, must, unless we violate
the organic law of the land and hold
and govern them perpetually as con-
quered provinces, be erected within a
reasonable time into several states
each with two senators, and altogether
thirty or forty representatives. But
the policy Of imperialism will not stop
here, Mr.. Carlisle thinks ave will
almost certainly go on" says he, un-
less checked by the armed opposition
of other powers, until We have fasten-
ed upon the United States black and
yellow horde of conscript citizens to
debauch the suffrage and sap the foun-
dations of our free institutions"
We are certainly at turning point
to our national policy and it will re-
quire the exercise of broad statesman
ship and wise conservatism to save
the country from entangling alliances
and perilous predicaments