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Evening star., 1901-11-16


Here are two capital theatrical stories.
The first is connected with a theater now
but memory, which was managed by a
clever, merry lady whose occupation of the
house was attended with almost unvarying
success. One of the subordinate members
of her company was young man who had
ambitions out of all proportion to his abiIi-
ty. 1t was his first season at the house,
and he felt sure that the next year, instead
of announcing the big ones of the drama
he would be imperSonating them himself.
At the close of the season the manageress
said to him-"Mr Blank, I'm afraid we
shall not be together next season." The
young actor, who was as bright as he was
impudent, instantly replied, with a show of
great interest and concern-"What, are
you going to leave us, Miss - What
answer the manageress gave is not re-
corded.
house situated in the gardens of a once
sort in the north of London There the pro-
prietori who played comedy parts. gave
an actor, also a funny man. notice of
dismissal. The latter, putting on an air OF
indignation, inquired why he was dis
charged We'll, you see Jones'" replied
the proprietor bluntly, you're a bad
comedian" ''Eh, what?" exclaimde Jones
IF I'm bad comedian, so are you-a very
bad comediani" "Ah." rejoined the pro-
prietor, that's what it Is Jones! The audi
ence won't stand two bad comedians, SO
one of us has to go, and I'm dead sure that
one isn't me-"
Evening star., 1901-11-16
Doctors and Druggists.

From the Druggists Circular
The newspapers of Milwaukee have been
devoting a good deal of valuable (?) space
to the old and threadbare subject of the
relations between physicians and pharma-
cists. 1t seems that some of the physi-
clans Of that city have begun the dispens-
Ing of their own medicines, and say that
they have been driven to 1t by the dishon-
esty of the substituting druggist Some of
the druggists retort by saying that the ply
sicians simply want to get two fees-the
prescrfber's and the dispenser's-instead of
one; and so the merry war goes on much
to the amusement of the editors, no doubt
not to mention the CONSERVATION of the
sick All of which reminds one of the
simile of a doctor. now dead, who was
known more widely as an author and wit
than as physician-Oliver Wendell
Holmes. The genial "Autocrat" said that
newspaper controversy was like the cof-
fee in a pot-it rose as high in the spout
as it did in the body of the vessel The
fellow who was wrong was on a perfect
level with the one who was right.
Evening star., 1901-11-16
Strauss in Russia.


When Johann Strauss took his orchestra
TO Russia he had some unusual experiences
not generally youchsafed to those who live
outside an autocratic government
One day he received the czarina,s COM
mands TO play before her at her summer
resort. and was told on arriving there that
he would have to rehearse his program
three times before the performance. He
begged to know the reason for that but
no explanation was given him. These were
her maJesty's orders, and he could only
comply Still his astonishment grew when
ne saw, during the three rehearsals an
empty court carriage drawn by a pair of
horses slowly going back and forth in front
of his orchestra.
Throughout the final performance the
mysterious act was explained. The en-
press, having sharp attack of grout was
oDlged to recltne in the carriage her foot
on cushion, while the concert took place
and the object of rehearsal had been to ac-
custom the horses to a full string band
lest they should take fright and bolt with
their mistress
At the end Of the performance an exalted
dlgnItary OF the court bade Strauss follow
him to a splendid grand piano. saying:
NOW De good enough to play me all the
newest Vienna music"
Although ne was pretty fatigued by his
three rehearSalS and state performance
Strauss thought 1t expedient to comply
put after he had played continuously for
over an hour he stopped, saying:
presume that will be sufficient"
i am not at all tired" coolIy responded
his exceIIency.
But / ami said Strauss and rose from
the instrument
Evening star., 1901-11-16
WHEN YOU DON'T LIKE A SHOW.
Lawful and Polite Signs of Disap-
prOval Discussed.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
The Old PIaygoers' Club devoted several
hours to the consideration of the rights OF
the playgoer to express his appreciation or
disapprobatior.
Mr. Alfred F. Robbins. who opened the
debate, contended that both traditionaliy
and legally the man who sat In front oil
the curtain had an absolute right to eX-
press his opinion upon a play From the
earliest times of the British drama every
leading author had in one form or another
confessed the right of the public to protest
against a bad play, and in years gone by
the audience Missed with an ardor Wnlcn
was now quite unknown. The legal right
rested on the authority of Lord Mansfield,
and had never been upset, but this ex-
pressly laid down that there should be no
organized opposition. In order tnat the
right of disapprobaton should be effective
It was necessary that it should be saved
for an occasion when the audience strongly
felt that play should be protested against:
He had seen a play which was a disgrace
to the examiner of plays who passed IT, d
shame to the manager who produced it anG
credit to the audience who missed It,
What was doing most to damage TINS rlgnt
of the playgoer was the practice OF lie"
who on every first night used the strong
est methods of criticism in booing when
silence would he better. The most effective
comment on d bad play was silence, but 1t
was no good keeping silence If the friends
of the management were loudly enthusfaS-
tic. Unless in the case of actual indecency
there ought not to be any interruption dur
ing the performance. There was one actor
who said that he preferred absolute silence
during the play, but he had been dead two
centuries, and he had no successors While
the actor and manager should do nothing to
provoke the audience, they on their side
should keep their expressions of disap-
proval within due limits
Mr.. Carl Hentschel believed that kissing
or booing was only indulged in by the pay
ing public when there was too much friend
ly applause. He thought that dramatic
criticism would be far more effective and
reliable if the back row of the gallery were
reserved for critics on the first night.
Considerable discussion followed, In which
there was very little difference of opinion
as to the rights of the playgoer. though
there was some to the method by which
their disapproval should be signified.
Evening star., 1901-11-16
Can You Reads
From the Woman's Home Companion.

From the Womans Home Companion.
Not long ago heard man declare that
In spite of public schools and all the op-
portunities for education the majority of
the people cannot read.
OF course. his assertion was met with all
sorts of protestations. and then he explatn-
ed that they did not read understandingiy,
nor did they select their reading with care
ana discretion; they read simply to be
amused and entertained, and failed to make
the reading part of their education. He
claimed that this was especially true of
women; that when they read the newspaper
they SKINNED the portions devoted to light
gossip and passed by the questions of the
hour, which were of Importance, and never
thought Of reading editorials and reviews.
That was too sweeping a statement to be
passed by without further investigation. the
result OF which has been to force the con-
clusion that In the main 1t had a basis of
truth. but that under the influence Of
women's clubs and current topics classes
the situation to use military express
sion, Is improving, and that women are
reading more systematically and more In
telligently.
Evening star., 1901-11-16
LECTURES.

LECTURE BY LIEUT., J. II. FORD, U.S.A ON
The Philippines and Filipinos,' at the Metropol
itan NJ. E. Church. FRIDAY, November D. at s
pm. Admission. 25 cents. it,
Evening star., 1901-11-16
The Stage In Relation to Society.
Mrs. Kendall in the London Queen

Inc StaSc IN feiatlOn TO society.
Mrs Kendall in the London Queen.
When the society woman adopts the
stage as profession her example in con-
duct dress and manners ought logically
to be of inestimable value to ner new asso-
ciates. In the majority Of cases, however
II Is not so. Whether an actress views her
profession as a profession sensibly or not
and behaves in 1t sensibly or not usually
just marks the difference between the wo-
man born and bred to her work and the
woman who has been used to another
sphere in life and has gone on the stage
In later years. 1t is a hard thing and a
regrettable thing to say, but the stage has
more often than not a demoraliZing effect
upon the woman who takes to it when her
girlhood is past. and who has had no prac-
tical acquaintance with it beforehand. BY
"demoraliZing effect" mean certain de-
generacy into meretriciousness of dress
speech and manner, apparent want of
self-respect that may easily belle the wo-
mans true inclinations 1 know an in
stance of charming woman used to the
highest and best society who the moment
she obtained an engagement with a theatrt-
cal company flung off every convention
and every restraint short of actual n1iscon-
duct When demonstrated with her aston
ishment was genuine and great She ex-
planned with tears in her eyes that she
thought she could be Bohemian" with i'm
punity.
Evening star., 1901-11-16
Sir Henry and His Cabs.

EIOhi the London Sketch.
The following story is credited to the
weil-known English actor: Going home
from the Lyceum in a four-wheele, ia a
perfectly comfortable process. unless the
bottom drops out almost as suddenly az n
II were gold mine That accident, by the
way, did happen to a friend of mine whose
professional business compelled him IN
make quick dress in the cab As II was a
light summer evening, the passersby were
astonfshed to see a pair of white legs run
ming under the vehicle and not apparently
connected with the horse" Incidentally ii
may be mentioned that the worthy knight
mas no special cabby on his nightly transit
from theater to freside-the first man wit n
In call gets the job, and. 1t may be. a ticke,
Ior the pit on some future occasion. One
OF these occasional cabbies to whom a pass
hao oeen given was asked by Sir Henry
now ne liked the play. The man hestated
anu tnen, choosing what seemed to be the
most grateful words to express his pleas
aie, answered: well. sir, 1 didn't GO"
You You didn't go? Why not?"
ell, sir, you see there's the missus
ana she preferred the wax works"
Evening star., 1901-11-16

Manager-''Yes, there are a few vacancies
in my company Have you been on the
stage long?''
Lady-"About ten years."
'Ah! then you have had a good deal Of
experience"
'N-no, can't say that have"
But you acted?'
No; there was never anything for me to
do"
.Ah, l see. You have been in the COM
pany OF great actress who wrote the plays
herself York Weekly
Miiionaire-"The count and are not on
good terms. once mistook him for a bar-
Der who used to shave me-"
Friend-"Did you apologize?"
Miiitonaire-"No. I'd be glad to apolo-
gize, but ! don't know where the barber is
now."-Tit Bits.
Evening star., 1901-11-16
The Hamlet of Edwin Booth.

From the Atlantic Monthly.
Through this Hamlet Edwin Booth made
upon the whole, his deepest and surest i'm
preston. In his performance of the part
there was retained to the last, consciously
and deliberately, more of the old-fash-
ioned formality and precision of style than
he permitted himself in other fmpersona-
items, and the effect was sometimes that of
artiffce. But Mr.. Booth elected to repre-
sent Hamlet in a style far less familiar and
far more remote from ordinary life than he
used for any other character in his large
repertOry- 1t was not that his Hamlet was
all in one key; that it's moods were not
many and diverse; that the actor did not
finely discriminate between the son, the
prince, the courtier, the friend the lover
the artist and the wit. The contrary was
true. 1t was full of delicate and just
differences as one could wish. But, through
its prevailing quality, made constantly
prominent by the tragedian's methods GER
tain definite and necessary results were
reached Hamlet differs from Shake
Spedres S other tragic heroes both in his
supernatural experience and in his unique
spiritual constitution. To Hamlet.
by the conditions of his life and his soul,
Is given the largest opportunity for choice
and the smallest power of choosing .
After all, there is a fine fitness in that
closeness of association between Edwin
Booth and Hamlet the Dane which is to
abide as long as the man and his art and
his life are remembered. In his Iargeness
and sweetness, his rare delicacy and sensi-
b1lty. he was nobly human to the core
after the pattern of the most human of all
the creations of the poet. Like the melan-
choly prince, he was required to drink the
bitter water of afhiction, and to hold his
pace when his heart was almost breaking:
and, in its extraordinary depth and reserve
MS soul, even as Hamlet's and as Milton s,
Was like star and dweIt apart.
Evening star., 1901-11-16

From Puck.

Casey-"Costigan got his life insured for
tin cintS."
Conroy-'How wuz that?'
Casey-"He borrowed tin cints av th'
foreman, and the foreman won't putt him
an dangerous job as long as he owes him
tin cintsw
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-19
fruits, cane and grass.


It is curious to look back a hun
dred years and see how civilization has
marched in the footprints Of savagery.
First came the Indians, single file, 81
lently marching one behind the other.
Then came the traders, with their pack
horses, following the paths Of the In
dians and selling them rum and pelfry
for skins and furs. Then came the
white settlers, with their families.
When the settlers came the paths or
trails were widened, to admit wheels.
Then came the stage coach. Then the
steam engine, plunging, plowing and
bursting wide open the hidden treas
ures Of stream and forest. 1t is a fact
that the railroads are built, for the
most part, along the lines Of the old
stage routes, so that in looking back
ward we see that the Indians surveyed
many Of the lines now covered by steel
rails, telegraph and telephone wires.
To my mind, the romance all clings
to the days Of stages. There Is fas-
cination about that mode Of travel that
nothing else can touch. Whether 1t Is
the painted coach, the prancing horses.
the winding horn, the social intercourse
or what not, it savors Of a mystery
and romance that nothing else has sup
piled. What a part 1t plays in the writ
ings of Dickens, and Thackeray! The
tallyho Is but yearning after the old
days of stage coach travel.-Mrs. T. M.
Green, Of Washington, Ga, in Atlanta
Journal.
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#iseellaneous Reading.
THE OLD RAIL FENCE.

In the merry days Of boyhood when we
never knew a care
Greater than the mumps or measles or
a mothers cut Of hair.
When the sore toe was a treasure and
q stone bruise on the heel
Filled the other boys with envy which
they tried not to conceal,
There were many treasured objects on
the farm we held most dear,
Orchard, fields, the creek we swan In,
and the old spring cold and clear;
Over there the woods of hickry and Of
oaks so deep and dense,
Looming up behind the outlines Of the
old rail fence.
On it's rails the quail would whistle in
the early summer morn,
Calling to their hiding fellows in the
field of waving corn,
And the meadow larks and robins on
the stakes would sit and sing
Till the forest shades behind them with
their melody would ring.
There the catbird and the jaybird sat
and called each other names,
And the squirrels and the chipmunks
played chase-and-catch-me games.
And the garter snake was often in un-
pleasant evidence
In the grasses in the corners of the
old rail fence.
AS we grew to early manhood when
we thought the country girls
In the diadem of beauty were the very
fairest pearls
Oft from spellin' school or meetin' or
the jolly shuckin' bee
Down the old lane we would wander
with a merry little ."she."
On the plea Of being tired Gust the
country lover lie),
On a grassy seat we'd linger In the
moonlight, she and I,
And we'd paint future picture touch
ed with colors most intense
AS we sat there in the corner Of the
old rail fence.
There one night in happy dreaming we
were sitting hand in hand,
Up so near the gates of heaven we
could almost hear the band,
When she heard a declaration whisp-
cred in her lis'ning ear
One she often since has told me she
was mighty glad to hear,
On my head there's now a desert
fringed with foliage of gray,
And there's many a thread of silver In
in her dear old head today,
Yet the flame of love is burning in our
bosoms as intense
AS 1t burned in the corner OF that
old rail fence. Denver Post.
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THE BOXER UPRISING.
Sir Claude Mcdonald Gives Some
Reasons For the Trouble.

Sir Claude Mcdonald Gives Some
Reasons For the Trouble.
In speaking Of the recent troubles IN
China and the causes that brought on
the boxer uprising, Sir Claude McDon-
aid, British minister to Japan, but for
merly minister to China during the
siege Of Pekin, said at San Francisco,
the other day:
"I have been away from China since
last October and do not know just what
amount has been decided upon, but
whatever the sum may be 1t Is quite
impossible to say If China can meet the
demand. Whether they can be called
on to pay e15O,OOO,OOO or twice that
amount is problematical. China pub
fishes no financial budget, and one fig
ures in the dark when 1t comes to COM
putting what the government raises by
taxation and import duties"
Sir Claude Macdonald Is Of the opin-
ion that there will be many causes for
the boxer uprising.
"It was not due alone to the anti
missionary feeling" he said. 1.-The ac-
QUESTION of territory by the powers
was one Of the chief causes. 1t inf1am-
ed the minds Of the officials of China
and the masses of the people followed
them. Chinese are a peaceful and in
dustrious race and do not look for
trouble, but they are dominated by the
mandarins in every thought.
"In Northern China a drought had
existed for two years before the boxer
uprising and many people were starv-
ing and desperate. 1t but needed a
spark to infiame their minds against
the foreign missions. The missionaries
have done many things to earn the Ill
will of the people. They are earnest In
their cause Of civilization and religion,
but many Of them interfered in legal
and domestic affairs of the Chinese peo-
pie in their districts.
1.-THE boxer uprising was mainly due
to the absence of good officials In the
province of Shan 81. The notorious Yu
Hsien was governor Of that province
and was appointed despite the protests
of the foreign ministers. Yu Hsien was
formerly governor of Shan Tung prov
ince and his hostile attitude to foreign
ers was so pronounced that the entire
diplomatic corps asked for his removal.
The empress and her advisers placed
him in charge Of Shan 81 province,
where the majority Of the missionaries
were located. No foreigner is allowed
in the interior Of China outside the
missionaries. They alone are allowed
to go there, treaties providing for their
presence. I could not go into the inte-
rior Of China. A good officials in Shan
81 could have stopped the boxer upris-
ing at the start"
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Some of Them Seem to Have Been
Diyinely Inspired.

Some Of Them Seem to Have Been
Divinely Inspired.
The circumstances that inspired some
of our great devotional hymns must
deepen the interest in both the song
and the singer and reveal that mighty
kinship of human souls, that divine
sympathy, that confers deathless fame
on a few simple verses, soul biographies
living in song.
Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me-" This
greatest of hymns was written in l715
by Rev. Augustus Toplady, a very
learned English divine, who died at the
early age of 3S. The hymn has the
rare. wondrous spiritual ecstacy he re-
yealed in his daily life. In his last ILL
ness he said: II cannot tell the COM
forts that I feel in my soul; they are
past expression. 1t will not be long
before God takes me; for no mortal
man can live after the glories which
God has manifested to my soul. The
marble tablet over his grave says: He
wrote, Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me-
Mrs. Vanalstyne, better known as
Fanny Crosby, the blind poet, wrote
the hymn Safe in the Arms of Jesus,
for music in 90 minutes, but into it was
put her whole life of faith. Miss Cros-
bv, after a days jostling through the
city streets, guided by some loving
hand. returns to her little room and
pours forth her soul in song.
OF the many hymns written by Mrs
Sarah Flower Adams, the only one that
has survived is the hymn, Nearer My
Cod to Thee" based on the Bible story
of Jacobs vision at Bethel the imagery
of which narrative it follows most
faithfully.
one day Charles Wesley was sitting
bv an open window, looking over the
beautiful fields, when he saw little
bird pursued by hawk. The poor
thing, weak and frightened. in seeking
to escape from it's enemy, flew into the
room and found refuge in Wesley's bo-
som. AS the poet was then In great
trouble and needed the safety of ref
uge. the consolation Of help from a
higher power than his own, the Incl
dent seemed to him q divine message,
and thus inspired, he wrote the famous
HYMN. Jesus, Lover Of My Soul. =
Villa m George Jordan, in May Ledger
Monthly.
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PIEDMONT REGION.
ORIGIN of the Name Involved In
More or Less Doubt.


More or Less Doubt.
We all have a vague sort Of idea that
that we live in the great Piedmont
Region" but exactly what that means,
what it's boundaries are, or why so
called, not one of us can tell. There Is
no Piedmont river nor mountain nor
Indian tradition upon which to found
the name. In fact, it is not an Indian
name, but French.
We hear people in Virginia and North
Carolina say they live in the Piedmont
Region" We hear South Carolinians
and Alabamians say the same thing,
and as for Georgians, you would think
the whole state ought to be called Pied
mont, since people from every corner
claim to inhabit that mysterious region
whose center is nowhere and whose
boundaries everywhere.
It puzzled me long time. I used to
ask common mortals, like myself, about
It; but they could not tell. Then ask
ed those who were authority on nomen-
clature, with the same result. Then
I watched for some mention Uf 1t In all
the southern histories that I read, and
only once did I find anything like
clew. That was in Logan's History or
South Carolina, a book, by the way, as
rare and as valuable as Governor Gill
mans Georgians. Here I saw it stated
that upper South Carolina-around Alb
beville-was settled in part by Pied
montese. This seemed clue, but was
not satisfactory, for the region called
Piedmont extends from the Chesapeake
bay to central Alabama.
In the life of Alexander Stephens, oy
Richard Malcom Johnston, mention Is
made that Mr.. Stephens, on one occa-
sion, away back in the forties, went
over to Washington, Ca, to take the
Piedmont stage line," and this SEN
tence, coupled with local traditions, ex-
plains the whole thing. The Piedmont
region Is simply the region traversed
by a line of stage coaches run by
Frenchnian of the name of Piedmont.
The line originally ran from Richmond,
Va, to Columbus, Ga, but later was
extended to Montgomery, Ala. Possibly
it changed horses at Marthasville, and
for that reason Atlanta claims to be
the head center of the Piedmont region.
Whether the Frenchman's name was
Piedmont or whether he was a refugee
from the province of that name in Italy,
I cannot say; but he and his stage
coaches gave the name to the region
through which they passed. The line
followed the Indian trails and the In
dian trails followed the natural wealth
of the country. The Indians selected
those places for building their villages
most favored by nature. They sought
pure water to drink, good streams to
fish in and good forests to hunt In.
The best hunting ground was always
where vegetation was the most luxu-
RANT, for wild animals fed on nuts,