The age-herald., 1901-10-29
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
An Example of Determination.

Ao'1 anu liie rouse was insisting that the country would go without any tariff act unless the Senate were prepared to fore go Its own schedules and adopt those of the House, relates the St. Louis Repub- lie.
 Tn my younger days out West" said MT. Vest, T went into a variety theatre one night.
 Tt was one of those primitive shows where the stage manager comes before the footlights without coat and waist coat and with his shirt sleeves rolled up to the elbows to announce the next num- Der on the programme.
 Miss Bertie Allendale' remarked the stage manager, appearing in one of the interludes, who has entranced two hemi- spheres with her wonderful vocal pow CTS, will now render, in her own inimita- ble style, that exquisite vocal selection entitled Down in the Valley
 "A gentleman in red flannel shirt rose in the midst of the audience and ex- claimed in an impressive bass voice: oh, thunderl Miss Allenda1e can't sing for green apples!'
 The manager, who had started to leave the stage, halted and turned. An ugly light flashed from the eye which swept the audience and finally rested on the face of the interrupter. Raising one shoulder higher than the other, and let ting one hand adrift significantly toward his hippocket, and thrusting his neither jaw forward in savage way, he observ- ed with deliberateness which empha- sized every syllable:
 !" Nevertheless and notwithstanding, Miss Bertie Allendale will sing Down in the valley."'
 And she did. So, likewise, neverthe- less and notwithstanding the Senate schedule will stand"
 Where Silver was Preferred.
 An interesting feature of the dramatic season that is just ending has been the rival presentations of ''L LAiglon" "-one by the delightful American actress, Miss Maude Adams; slight. dainty low-voiced; and the other by the great French ac- tress, Madame Bernhardt, a woman full of fire and virility, and with a miracle of voice that can range through every phase of feeling and passion. says the Saturday Evening Post.
 Miss Adams, who has won her greatest fame in another wholesome play, "The Little Minister" has been on the stage since childhood, and is still In the twen- ties She was born in Utah, and her real name Is more 'stagy" and romantic than the name that she has assumed for the stage-for she is really Miss Maude Kiskadden. Miss Adams is of quiet, home-loving tastes, dislikes to meet curi- osity-seelSing strangers, Is an enthusias- tic golf player and horsewoman. and has an intense love for flowers. She is a hard and methodical worker, a close stu- dent, and possesses a winsome and charming personality.
 That gold statue of her that was ex- hibited at Paris was pretty fine" ex- claimed an enthusiastic admirer, 'but I'd give s10O,0O0 more for the silver of her voicei'
 How a Political Boom was Launched.
 Assemblyman Adler, representative of De Ate" Assembly District of New York, chairman of the committee on pub lie institutions, and father of White Wings legislation, has decided that he
  figs of politics until he Is the Governor of the State of New York. MT. Adler launched his boom inadvertently the other day in the executive chamber, relates the New York Tribune. He was waiting to see the Governor on some bill on which fate had been frowning unkindly, and was idly contemplating the red carpet and the big fireplace which adorn the room.
 By chance his eye was raised to the portraits that line the walls of the cham Der. He glanced from one face to an- other, and then asked his friend, who was sitting near:
 Have all these fellows been Govern ors?'
 That's what they have,' was the an- swer.
 T wonder what's the limit?' said the assemblyman, meditatively. ''Limit?' queried his friend. What do you mean? These Governors were not poker players. were theyY Limit to the picture. I mean". ex- plained the member from Forsyth street, without noticing the Aggression of his friend. ''You see, if they keep putting them in for Roosevelt Odell and all the rest of them to come, they won't Here the legislator paused moment and then said: They won't have room for me-" Your exclaimed his friend. whose as- tonishment could only express itself in one word.
 Why certainly" continued the mem Der from the Eighth. Its possible, ain't 1t? I think my face would match this red carpet all right"
 The Senator Saw the Joke. canator Mark Hanna looked very wise