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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

She was tempted. but finally resolved
tosaccept the offer made her by Charles
Frohman.
The cover of last weeks Mirror con-
tanned handsome picture of Sarah
Truax.
Marie Janson and Pauline Hall Will
both be in travelling vaudeville COM
panies next season.
Sir Henry Irving's American tour will
begin in October. the play being his
present success, 'Robespierre.
John Drew is to appear in THE Ty-
ranny of Tears in which Charles
Wyndham has made success in Lon
don.
Thirty-seven dogs, the property of
Mr.. William Faversham. will accom-
pany their master on a trip to Eng
land.
Mrs. Leslie Carriers season closed at
the Garrick theatre last night. She
will open again in "Zaza' at the same
theatre on Sept. 4.
Duse is to give a single performance
of Camille in Paris the proceeds to
go towards the memorial to its author,
Alexander Dumas, jr.
Julian Story and his wife, Emma
Eames. will spend the summer at their
Paris home, where Marion Crawford
will be their guest for time.
The souvenir given for the one hun
dred and fiftieth performance of ''Zaza'
consisted of prettily illustrated books
containing scenes from the play.
Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott
made a personal success in London,
but their play, THE Lady and the
Cowboy" failed to please the critics.
a march and two-step. entitled THE
Lowell" dedicated to the class of 80
of that school, has been composed by
Harold Orlob. 1t is published by the
Coalter Music company.
1t is said that an ingenious German
has invented an automatic applauder.
The idea is to do away with the paid
claque and do that part of the man
agement's work automatically.
At an annual meeting of the trustees
of Shakespeare's birthplace it was re-
ported that over $4,000 people. repre-
senting thirty-five nationalities, had
paid admission to the poets house.
Blanche Walsh has bought the jew
els of the late Fanny Davenport for
SO, 900. Miss Davenport's estate has
been greatly overestimated. When she
died it was thought her jewels would
be found worth at least 100000.
Sarah Bernhard says that Hamlet
is the greatest tragedy ever written. 1t
is expected that some testimonial Will
be given the actress for her acuteness
in making this remarkable discovery.
and her generosity in sharing it with
the world at large, says the Baltimore
American.
1.-The Turtle" which comes to the
Salt Lake theatre on next Saturday
evening, recently celebrated its 200th
performance in New York City at the
Manhattan theatre, and is now touring
the country. When THE Turtle" ap-
pears in this city it will be given with
exactly the same cast as is now pre-
senting the play in the metropolis. The
principal artists in the company are
Isabelle Evesson, Jennie Reiffarth. Ada
Deaves, Marion BallOu. Lillian Cole
man, Signor Perugini, George Holland
Louis Imhous. Hudson Liston, Uric B.
Collins and Ross O'Neal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

The cover of last weeks Mirror con-
tanned a handsome picture of Sarah
TruaX.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

Sir Henry Irving's American tour will
begin in October. the play being his
present success, "Robespierre.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

a march and two-step. entitled The
Lowell" dedicated to the class of '99
of that school, has been composed by
Harold Orlob. 1t is published by the
Coalter Music company.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

At an annual meeting of the trustees
of Shakespeare birthplace it was re-
ported that over $4,000 people, repre-
senting thirty-fiVe nationalities, had
paid admission to the poets house.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

1t is said that an ingenious German
has invented an automatic applauder.
The idea is to do away with the paid
claque and do that part of the man
agements work automatically.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

John Drew is to appear in THE Ty-
ranny of Tears in which Charles
Wyndham has made a success in Lon
don.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

Blanche Walsh has bought the jew
els of the late Fanny Davenport for
$4,000. Miss Davenport's estate has
been greatly overestimated. When she
died it was thought her jewels would
be found worth at least 100000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

She was tempted, but finally resolved
tosaccept the offer made her by Charles
Frohman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
Do YOU KNOW

the the following questions? They just the
kind that naturally suggest themselves to intelligent
they all answered in the Century Dictionary
and Cyclopeda. In reference work
half of them be answered.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

Sarah Bernhard says that Hamlet"
is the greatest tragedy ever written. 1t
is expected that some testimonial Will
be given the actress for her acuteness
in making this remarkable discovery,
and her generosity in sharing it with
the world at large, says the Baltimore
American.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

ih yp e injury q al lie h o OF hers
Wild or aeg equipped it Is hras
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

equal to the sugar cane syrups which
are i'm demand at better prices than
those made from sorghum. Even be-
fore the season closed the former were
mentioned in commercial reports as
none in first hands. .'INorthern dealers
and brokers' buy them up, ship them
a thousand miles or more, and sell
them at higher prices than the
sorghums bring, yet the latter are
capable Of making a syrup equally
good or even better, but of course
methods must be considerably i'm
proved for properly purifying the sor-
ghum juice before the best results are
attainablo When this Is accomplish
ed there will be little i'm the way of the
farmer himself making good grades of
sugar for home use. In both sugar
and syrup making the problem is the
same, l. e.: to remove certain undesire-
able elements from the juice, which
should need no complicated apparatus.
"In Kansas it requires no special or
unusual treatment to raise sorghum
cane, the juice of which will average
about II per cent of crystalizable
sugar, and 1t is doubtful if saccharine
matter can be produced at so small
cost elsewhere, either i'm sorghum
sugar cane or beets.
at is surely unfortunate that the
government has abandoned persistent
investigation along the lines of eX-
tracing and refining the saccharine
contents of the wonderful sorghum
plant when we are so certain that
there are not only millions i'm it,, but
that millions can be cotton out of it
This does not imply that there
should be any sorghum boom, but a
proper appreciation Of plant already
demonstrated as having extraordinary
value.
at is not at all fashionable to say so
nowadays, but am confident that in
her improved sorghum Kansas possess
ses undreamed of sugar possibilities.
That we are not constantly making
both effort and progress toward ma
terial and tangible results from them
is scarcely creditable.
If controlled the states expert
ment station there would be no inter.
mission i'm work along tins line
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29
PROGRESS OF TIE SOrTH.

Manufacturers Record: Thirty years
ago the South was crippled and pow
erty stricken Its natural resources
for wealth were unsurpassed. But it
was without strength or opportunity
to develop them. Imperfect means of
transportation and communication
disorganized labor system, the ranks
of the mort vigorous element in the
population depleted, practically no
ready money and the absence of the
outside helping hand were enough to
appal most sturdy people. But from
wreck and ruin the South has emerged
energetic, progressive, sanguiue. To.
day it has billion dollars invested in
manufacturing, with an annual out.
put valued at u billion dollars and
paying $50 million dollars i'm wages.
Its cotton mills, with . million
spindles, representing an investment
of l25 million dollars, already consume
yearly 400 600 bales of cotton. 1t is
producing about p million tons of pig
iron Il year, 40 million tons of coal.
from 10 million to II million bales of
cotton, probably 10 billion feet of lum-
ber and 100 million bushels of grain,
and its railroads, steadily improving
and increasing in length, have already
a $4,000 mileage.
The South has accomplished much
has much more to do before its full
growth shall have been attained
That it will be equal to its mighty
task is proved by its present lusti-
ness.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29
TOUGH ON TOPEKA.

/
One of the books of the month is Il
novel by Brander Matthews entitled
IA confident Tomorrow The hero
of it is a young Topeka journalist,
Sartain by name, who goes to New
York and is conducted by the dis
cerning and sympathetic author
through long series of experiences,
through all of which he remained Il
consistent and unlearning ass, loutish
in dress, boorish i'm manner, and un-
able after long years of city life to
speak when spoken to without blush
ing and stammering after the manner
of a country boy away from home for
the first time.
The book itselfis tough enough on
Topeka. But here comes the critic of
the BOOkman, Mr.. Harry Thurston
Peck, and takes MIR. Matthews to task
for thus misrepresenting the culture
of the West. And this is the way he
does it: "Of course Il certain amount
of gaucherie is quite in keeping with
what one would expect of a young
Topekan, but Mr.. Matthews has so
stressed Sartain's greenness and his
awkwardness and his general inca
pacity for doing the right thing at the
right time as to make of him an un-
sympathetic figure"
Now in the language of the free and
mtrammeled and bully West
wouldn't that jar you? "A certain
amount of gaucherie is to be expected
of young Topekan! Why Sartainly!
How absurd to suppose for one
moment that a young man fresh from
the wilds of Topeka should be any
other than awkward and embarrassed
in the presence of the superior culture
of New York. The utmost to be
hoped is that after many years of
close contact he might absorb some
of the grace of manner and the readi-
ness OF speech (which distinguish the
New Yorker in every court i'm Christ
endom. That he might ever acquire
the delightful provincial snobbery,
the sweet assumption of superiority,
the simple hearted conviction of per-
sonal impeccability, which combine
to render the manners of New Workers
as seen through the literature made
by Mr.. Brander Matthews and criti-
cised by Mr.. Thurston Peck, so de-
lightful and refreshing, is of course
too much to he even hoped.
He halls from Topeka and therefore
"a certain amount of gaucherie is to
he expected :" Hats Off to Mr.. Harry
Thurston Peck. He is a rare con.
tributor to the worlds mirth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29
KANSAS SIGAR.

Topeka CapitaE I'm spite of the back
sets it has received and the present
distressingjy depressed position il
occupies, the secretary of the Kansas
board of agriculture is an unswerving
believer that sooner or later ways and
means are to be found whereby Kan
sas will proftably produce her own
sugar and more, in quality Ithe equal
of any, from the sorghum plant.
"Kansas, as has been demonstrated
on hundreds of thousands of acres fol
more than quarter of century"
said Secretary CObun to a reporter
for the Capital recently, produces the
sorghums in their greatest perfection
both AS to yield of cane per acre and
of sorghum content, and from which
many tons OF high grade sugar and
thousands of tierces of syrups have
been made. From misfortunes of one
sort and another the establishments
doing this have been abandoned as
Improbable largely, no doubt, be-
cause their managers lacked either
skill, experience or business sagacity,
or possibly all three.
aside, however, from the question
of fine sugars" Mr.. Coburn continued,
"there are surely unlimited opporttini-
ties for syrup production from
sorghum. 1t is easily demonstrated
that ten tons or more of cane can be
produced per acre, at cost when
ready to harvest of twenty to twenty
five cents per ton, yielding with
proper apparatus, twenty gallons of
first class table syrup. AS to the
commercial demand for such goods
the Commissioners of Agriculture of
Louisiana lin a recent address said:
THE supply is wholly inadequate to
the demand. There is :the amplest
field for this product, as the deficiency
throughout the Union is filled by
syrups adulterated with glucose,
and with reboiled molasses which has
been bleached by chemical processes.
That pure, well made cane syrup
drives out adulterated syrups, goes
without saying
"More attention should be given to
making the sorghum syrup fully
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

The extent to which the English
misjudged the size of their task in
the Transvaal may be judged by tht
following paragraph from an editorial
in the Glasgow (Scotland) Citizen o
recent date:
Sir Redvers Butler, when he does move
forward, will probably do so in full force.
There are now In lower Natal 1000 men OF
all arms, including the local garrisons, and
contingents, and as Sir George White has
at Ladysmith some 10000 troops there is
surely strength enough to deal eHectually
with the Beers Conf iecture localises the
probable crucial struggle of this field OF
operations at Colenso, on the Tugela River
But It may be questioned whether Joubert
will risk an engagement, which, in the
event of defeat, would almost of necessity
involve his army In destruction.
And yet within two weeks after
this was written. it is Sir Redvers
Butler, and not Joubert, who does not
risk an engagement, and the English
War Office is wondering whether
200. 900 men will be enough to do the
work which this sanguine writer
thought would be an easy task for
27 600.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

III is evident enough at last that
New York has ceased to he the whole
thing i'm the finances of the country.
For two or three days past New York
has been i'm the widest kind of a
furry. Stocks have tumbled, banks
have broken, and call money that
usually goes at two or three per cent
has been bid up to a hundred and
twenty-five. But out here i'm Kansas
there hasn't been even ripple. 1t is
the difference between being bor-
rover Of money and having money to
lend.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

If every road overseer in the coun-
ty would make up his mind now to
spend all the money and work at his
command in making permanent
road in his district as far as it would
go, if it only went rod, and the pre-
cedent should be followed next year,
in the course OF fifty or sixty years we
would have good roads in this county.
That is good while to wait, but it is
not near as long while as we will
have to wait if things go as they have
for the past forty years.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

FRED FLEMING, of Paola, who was
mustered out out of the Twentieth
Kansas to enlist i'm the Thirty-siXth
volunteers, writes home to the follow
ing effect: 81 thought ithe Twentieth
Kansas was fighting regiment, but
| believe Bells Suicide Club, as they
call us, is away ahead of them. Our
colonel is such fighter that General
Macarthur has put ten mile limit
on him. lie is not allowed to
take us out scouting further than ten
miles. We have killed more in
surgents and captured more guns
than any other two regiments
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

Topeka Capital When Avery
Turner commenced work for the Santa
Fe twenty-five years ago he was rod
man. Nudge was water carrier.
Look at them now; Stick your toe
nails in the sand and keep ON hump
ng yourself. Nudge and Turner got
there by humping. No one else will
do your humping for yon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

X. C. Journal If 1t had been Funs-
ton instead of Lawton who was killed
while at the head of his troops all the
Pop papers in Kansas would have de-
clared that it served him right for
trying to play to the grand stand.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

GEN. WOODS welcome to Havana
was without parallel in the history
of the Island. All the people Joined in
cheering the man whom they know
will give them an administration of
good sense, of sound policy and OF
equal and exact Justice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

Ing, guiding them, an inspiration,
an illumination, an anchor sure and
steadfast, the star of Hope, the
Light of the World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

WHAT Tot of rot the Senate will
have. to plow through before it gets its
table cleared of all the Philippine res.
lutions that have been piled upon it
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

ENOUGH of the gentlemen invited
to speak at the Kansas Day Club have
accepted the invitation to assure one
of the most interesting programs In
the history of the Climb.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

If you would rather see fai
weather than foul at this time of the
year, it is a sign you are growing old.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

BY the way, has anybody heard
anything about the Trego county gold
mines lately?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

Have you cold ? A dose of BAL
LARD'S HOREHOUND SYRUP at
bedtime will remove 1t. Price 25cts.
and so cts. Evans Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

GEO. A. BOWLUS, President.
MRS. w, M. HARTMAN, Vice-PrG
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-12
Not Sunerstftieus

Whose umbrella is that?' yelled the
conductor as he entered the smoking
car of suburban train.
The timid little man started and was
preparing to apologize for owning the
cause Of the trouble when the conductor
again yelled almost in the same breath.
"Put it downr
The timid little man grasped the
dripping umbrella, which be had
spread in order to allow it the quicker
to dry, and as he closed it with nervous
haste the conductor continued:
"Don you know enough not to open
an umbrella in a house--in a car,
mean? Do you want TO hoodoo this
train? Well. it's mighty lucky you
didn't run across a conductor that was
superstitious. with that mbrella. or he
might have put you off.
The timid lit ie man slowed the drip
ping umbrella under the seat, watched
the conductor punch his ticket, replaced
it in pocket where he wouldn't think
to look for it in the morning and
breathed a sigh of relief as the car door
slammed after the presiding genius oi
the train. = Chicago journal
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-12


There are great number Of curious
superstitions as to the time of day when
a dying person is most likely to draw
his last breath, and the tide, moon aud
the wind have all been supposed to have
some share in the matter According to
The British Medical Journal Raseri,
who has analysed 25, 474 cases of death
and 36.5l5 of birth. where the exact
time of day was noted. finds that the
maximum number Of deaths occur in
the early afternoon t2:07 p. m ) ana
the minimum in the last hours before
midnight. while the maximum number
of births occur i'll the early hours Of the
morning. and the minimum in the
early hours sf the afternoon
AS regards the cause Of this be points
out the hours Of the maSimum number
Of deaths are precisely those whom the
pulse rate and the temperature are at
their highest IL health, and when there
is febrile exacef bation IN illness.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-12

tA-O CAN Va a AOuR 6tEuE-
gle. Mrs Matilda Carse. who originated
the project, was persistent in her efforts
to prevent such a catastrophe, but all
her labors were in vain, and the inn
mense building which she intended as
memorial of Miss Willard and as a
great center of temperance and reform
is now lost to the union Hopeful till
the last, she interested men of wealth
in her project. but liabilities incurred
in connection with the rearing of the
structure and the annual charge for rent
of the ground were too great to be more
than partially relieved by private be-
nevolence, and the pet project of Mrs.
Carse's life was for some time past re-
garded by some Of her friends as fore
doomed to failure.
The facts in connection with the
building of the temple are most inter
esting and reflect the highest possible
credit upon Mrs. Carse for her exeeu-
tive ability, enterprise and her persist
ence in the face of enormous difficulties.
For years the Womens Christian
union Of Chicago had been without a
suitable place Of meeting. Finally the
hall which they had used was no longer
available. Mrs. Carse became fired with
the ambition Of erecting a building
thai would be a home fer the union.
Tho thought took root and appealed to
the popular sympathies Through the
energetic canyassing Of Mrs. Carse a
number of prominent business men in
Chicago became interested in the prof
ect. Stock was subscribed to the amount
of 5000, 600, with the stipulation that
. it could be bought back at par within
19 years by the payment Of per cent
for the use of the money. An organiza-
tion was incorporated under the name
of the Women's Temperance Building
association. 1t was capitalized for $500,
600 and bonded for an equal amount.
Mrs. Carse and her associates, feeling
assured that their plan would succeed,
threw themselves heart and soul into
the project. They secured the lease of a
desirable building site from Marshall
Field in the business center of Chicago,
and proceeded at once with the erection
OF the uulH1lng. 1t was constructed on
great scale Of magniticence aud COM
pleted in 1890 at cost Of 81, ,250. 600.
The ground on which the temple stands
is valued at 81 900. 600, and the annual
charge for rent alone amounts to $40,
600. Competent critics have pronounced
the building one Of the finest for offices
in the country. and the rental of these.
it was estimated, would equal sl0O, 600
year.
The amount to be paid for ground
rent and the interest of money expend-
ed for erecting and furnishing the tenn
pie was q heavy burden to be borne by
the board Of trustees, and though Mrs.
Carse and her coworkers bore up brave
ly against their fnancial difficulties,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-12


many prominent members of the w. O.
T. U. regarded the struggle as hopeless
and were in favor Of abandoning the
enterprise.
When the convention met, Mrs. Carse
claimed to have s420, 600 in cash and
bonds to report for the temple fund and
was prepared to outline what she re-
garded as feasible method of gradual
Iy removing the entire Indebtedness of
the building. She found it impossible.
however, to imbue the delegates with
her enthusiasm or inspire them with
her hope in the enterprise. The major
ity concluded that ii would not be pos
sible to raise the 81, 250, GOO necessary
to pay the debts Of the temple, which
even then would stand on leased ground,
so they decided against her. Notwith-
standing this action of the convention
Mrs. CaTse, it is stated, is not going to
abandon her darling project. She claims
that the rank and file of the W. @. 7.
U. are with her, and she hopes to save
the building for the purposes for which
it was originally intended.
Next in Importance to abandoning
the temple enterprise was the action of
the convention in electing Mrs. Lillian
M. n. Stevens as presidento Of the union.
After the death of Miss Frances +. Will
lard last winter Mrs. Stevens, who was
then vice president Of the organiza-
tion, succeeded to the presidency by
virtue of her Office.
MILDRED MERRIAM.