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chairman's young candidate for office
and the daughter of the opposing nom
inee caught the fancy of the women.
and the comic peculiarities of the viii
layers, shown in a rapid but never
Overcome succession of incidents. ap-
pealed TO men and women equally. AIDE
IS the only one Of our newspaDer hui
morists who has developed skill as a.
playwright and most of them. from
Artemus Ward to Bin Nye, tried their
hands at the work which looks easy
after it is well done
It is not in plan or scope that AIDE has
eXcelled. His gathering of rusticS at
q village store contains no new type
his grove meeting with am amateur
band making the music is an old idea.
his law Office with its complicated cli-
ents and dime novel-reading boy is uI.-
original as a means Of getting the va
ricus persons together. and his final
roundup of an concerned 10 hear the
returns on election night has been used
before. And surely there is nothing
fresh in the involvement OF the prin-
ciDal lovers in the rancorous excite
ments of political campaign. The
success comes solely from AIDES genius
at transferring efectually to the stage
things which he has shrewdly and
closely observed in real life.
When a rural play comes to town
always wonder where the actors have
been obtained. Seldom is one of the
eccentric types Of character poorly. per-
formed. OF the twenty-five in "The
County Chairman" none is sufferer
through imperfect representation Their
naturaluess Is SO complete that YOU
feel as though YOU were among realities
instead Of limitations Yet the ONLY
names in the cast well known I'm New
York are those of Macklyn Arbuckie
and Willis p. SWeatnam.
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SECTION TWO

pounds more. and my gun something
like forty. Tt viii be seen thar / was
carrying quite a load. As / contem-
plated the vast expanse OF swamp be-
tween me and firm ground i felt
tempted 10 lie down. But there was no
place TO lie down in, and so. somehow.
i staggered out. 1t was tough, but il
was sport"
Long after dark we reached the
cabin. OF course the cabin was cold:
il was always cold We started FIRE
hung up our wet things and conEratu-
lated one another on what a fine out
ing we were having. supper tasted
mighty good. I don't remember what
we had, but it might have been pine
chips. Anything would have tasted
good. An hour after supper we uu-
folded our blankets on some damp hay
the driver had brought from some
where and went 10 sleep. Good tfme2
Of course we had a good time. Any
body can see from this story that we
had the best time ever-but If they
get me to so again they'll have TO laeso
and chlOroform me first.
The other days and nights were much
like the first what's the use of re-
peating the horrible detaus2 Monday
night, the night before we left, we ran
out Of water. You know the water i'm
the Salt Greek swamp is Undrinkable.
cltAA lNu 4AtAhE ~ NcAAAN water III LlDLll
Deweyville. have never cared very
much for Water-inWaTdly-bu that
night I would have traded everything
owned in the camp for one long glass
Of Parley's, bacilH and all. Strange
how thirsty you get when you know
YOU haven't any water We melted
some snow and made shift not to suf-
fer much. but snow water isn't very
satisfying and it takes a lot of work to
get it.
Monday night the weather turned
cold and Tuesday morning the road TO
Deweyville was frozen hard. cannot
think OF that ride without a shudder.
Our wagon was guiltless Of springs and
we had 20 catch a train. Figure out
that combination, add TO IT the bitter
cold and you have some idea Of the
joys OF our return drive. Nothing I
have ever seen looked better to me than
the Short Line train as il drew into the
DeweyvilIe station. Tuesday at noon
we reached salt Lake. Tuesday after
noon, in order to keep from being ar
rested as a public nuisance on account
Of my cough. / went to bed.
The doctor kept his ear on my chest
a long time. Then he made me turn
over while he listened to my back ac-
ton THE only reason YOU haven't
pneumonia" he said, els that you didn't
happen TO have the pneumonia bug IN
YOU"
And that viii be about an the salt
Greek swamp duck hunting for me.
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enough. Anyway. / took no thought for
my footsteps. Suddenly I wished I had.
A muskrat had been along there some
time before. Muskrats have "a pleasant
htue habit OF burrowing under the
ground in swampy places. I located
the place where this particular war
mint had burrOWed. With my foot I
located it, The hole was deep. Before
I knew what was happening / was car
rying enough water in each boot TO ir-
rigate forty-acre field throughout a
long dry spell. Then anger Overcame
me. Darn it, I said just like that
only worse. Darn 1t, I'm going to get
that duck, anyway" on I went. Ig
looked like seventy yards when I start
ed. 1t was seven miles by the time i
arrived. The duck turned out TO be a
mud hen, and ! said Darn it," again,
only worse.
Still / was not discouraged; at least
not SO awfully discouraged. ] made
my way back to the cabin. IL you
never went sloshing along for a mile
or so with your boots fun of water YOU
don't know how TO appreciate my SEN
satiOns. Before ] reached the cabin
the water had warmed up so 1 hated
TO let il go. OF course there was no
FIRE in the little sheet iron stove. I got
one started and changed my clothes,
setting my boots by the stove under
the fatuCuS impression that they
would speedily dry. They didn't.
Hades isn't hot enough to dry a wet
pair Of hip boots. After so long a
time the other hunters came in. Their
experiences had been much like mine,
but their hopes for the afternoon ran
high.
after a hasty luncheon we started
out again. I was getting used to wet
feet by this time and rather liked
them TIE only objection was that
they made me cough loud enough 10
scare every duck within a half-mile
radius. That afternoon I went way
out i'm the swamp. There were places
where the water wasn't more than an
inch or two deep. 1t looked fine, but
when I stepped into 1t j found a pecu-
liarly clinging quality Of gumbo mud
a foot and a half thick. 1t WASH
pleasant. About a mile out in the
swamp ] selected a place for a blind.
The water was two feet deep, but
didn't mind that as much as I minded
the fact that every time 1 crouched
] wetted almost the only dry spot
on me.
That afternoon I killed six ducks
Every time I killed one Z wished it
had gotten away, because every time
went after q dead duck 7 got a little
wetter. Toward night the breeze grew
chillier. Ny cough sounded like an
automatic gun in action The six
I ducks weighed eighty-four pounds
each. my shells weighed 200 pounds
my wet clothes and my full boots 5O'
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ro's human bonfres Mantell is an ac-
cOmplished actor, but he is making his
present appeal for favor in an off
Broadway theatre, where robust activ-
ity tells and quiet subtlety doesn't
count at all. and where he responds
with no sign of unwillingnese. to the
demand for noisy force. But he is not
vOciferous all the time. He has a Won
derful stage wihsper-which I had for
gotten when I heard il again, like an
echo from the past-and as of before
time he sent each sibilated word of his
confidential communications to the ears
Of the furthermost boy I'm the gallery.
These whispered passages express his
secret thoughts concerning the evil per
sons who. taking advantage Of the
reign of terror in France. stole away
his bride-elect and drove him to deeds
or desperation to recover her. No
doubt Mantell would rather use his ex-
ceDtional ability in a Shakespearean
play. But he knows that Nat Goodwin
has just had rejected by the public, in
Guiding those who cry habitually for a
Shakespearean elevation OF the stage.
the cOstliest and most beautiful repre-
sentation ever made Of "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" It is abandoned at
loss Of $4,000.
Two actresses who have come 10 the
weeks front are Alice Fischer and
Paula Edwards. as different from each
other as both are from Miss Tempest.
Especially American is Miss Fischer in
all her aspects, personal and profess
sional; and, like such natives as Crane.
Edison and Goodwin. she has 10 choose
characters from our own land for de-
piction She couldn't typify any kind
Qf foreigner and knows better than 10
try. She is the successor Of Viola AL
len as president Of the Twelfth Night
CLUB, the membership Of which is re-
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stricted to actresses unsmirched by
scandal. She is known for the same
candOr and vim which she imparts to
her music women. Thus she appears in
What's the Matter With Susan?" as
an old maid. who after some miscon-
ceptiOns and MISUNDERSTANDING an
swers the titles query by sweetening
the little that is acid in her disposition.
and saving the rest Of her life from
the vinegar Of cehbacy by putting into
il the honey of Wedlock. The part is a
true and hearty creation. comic, sen
timental and racily American.
The Americanism in THE County
Chairman IS racy with native humor
that is touched by homely sentiment
j would rather have the fame and
money that viii come to George AIDE
through that play than all that the
other new ones of the week viii earn
for their authors Two-dollar people
are reluctant 10 buy rustic shows in
Broadway. and slow to like them when
bought. The Old Homestead" and I'm
Old Kentucky" which ] suppose 70 be
the most prosperous two in that class.
were priced at a dollar per best seat
at outlying theatres during their first
long seasons in this city. and have new
or been placed in our great thorough
fare STILL "A top-uotch Broadway au-
u4til1e eAtlut- Al-eAA 10 Lue ENJOY lletL
OF this latest transcript from rural life.
Perhaps the s,SaIlow-tailed apprecia-
ton and kid-gloved approval were won
partly by the political theme. New
Workers found il easy to get next and
sit close 70 the characters who figured
in a midwest election canvass. The
tricks of county chairman to beat his
personal enemy at the polls tickled the
mer 10 the fashionable Assem- bla &c
nightly. while an engagingly simple
and hearty love affair between the
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SECTION TWO
STORY OF DUCK HUNT ON SALT CREEK <
n a westerly, southwesterly direction

TN westerly, southwesterly direction
from the lovely hamlet Of Dewey
vile. Utah, lies the great salt
s-Creek swamp. AS a usual thing any
wen regulated swamp has at least a
dry spot here and there where a wev-
lafer may rest and take comfort. The
Ealt creek swamp has nothing Of the
sort. AS far as the eye can see. as far
as the tired legs can CAREY their OW-
neI. there is nothing but water and
mud and tules. tules and water AMI
bud, mud and tules and water
A duck approaches YOU and you
crouch. At once something tells YOU
you shouldn't have ch0uched. chill
mas communicated itself TO your per-
son. You are wet where you would like
20 be dry. BY this time you have shot
at the duck. Maybe YOU killed it. II
you did YOU viii be sorry. If you didn't
you VIII also be sorry. It is better 70
miss a duck than TO kill it in the Salt
Creek swamp.
Now YOU are pricking up your ears.
You are saying. What does the fool
mean? Why is it better to miss a
duck than 90 kill one in the Salt Greek
swamp III you are a duck hunter You
VIII read on until the question is an
sWered. If you are not a duck hunter
now, but arc contemplating a ducN
hunt, especially a hunt In the Salt
cen country YOU IlQ neFleE read on
or YOU win miss something to your
advantage. II you are neither a hunter
nor a prospective hunter stop right
now. You are too wise to learn any
thing from this poor little story
Greater wisdom hath no man than the
one who doesn't bob up like al don't
Know what-and accept the first invi-
tation ne gets To go duck hunting. T
cid. Therefore the story. and If my eX-
perieuce shall serve as a warning and
pm example 60 some less idiotic indiv-
1dual il win not have been written IN
vain.
one OF my superior officers was part
" responsible. He went on duck hunt
and killed quite a mess of them When
he came back to work he was the most
enthusiastic man YOU ever saw. Just
couldn't talk about anything but the
ducks he had killed. The place hs
hunted from was the Bear River Duck
club. where I am reliably informed Ii
bad form 60 go hunting in anything
feSs elegant than a frock coat and a
silk hat, accompanied by the usual
trimmings. Far be il from me to hurt
anybodys feelings. more especially the
feelings Of the man who signs the
Checks. but 7 hereby charge that the
ducks around the Bear River club are
found i'm lunches with their heads
neatly tied together and an you have
% do Is TO direct the RentiemanIv guide
70 lift them into the boat with an oar.
ON Thursday afternoon not long ago
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lew PLAYS That ARE PLEASING NEW YORK Tt1EATREd0EKS

Anew YORK. Dec. 4-Aarie Tenn
~ pest gives two object lessons in
"The Marriage Of Kitty" to wo-
Ihea who wish 20 be modish. At the
start of the new play Kitty is a visi-
f0r at the law Office OF her godfather.
She wants him to tell her how to earn
q living as the death of her father
fas left her in poverty She is femi-
ninety whimsical and objects 70 one
after another Of the employmenis
which he proposes. At length she re-
marks that he has overlooked the avo-
cation which strikes her as most con-
g nial-that Of matrimony. stimuli
taneously there calls on the lawyer for
aGyice "a young Sir Reggie. heir to
big fortune-with the ''if' that before
the probate Of the viii he marries a
woman who is not a Peruvian nor a
widow. That prOviso is meant 20 bar
q Nine Semiano, an adventures, who
IS betrothed to him. The lawyer
scratches the hair over his puzzled
lEain and fetches out "a trick to de-
1eat the testator and prosper both his
Clients. Reggie shall wed Kitty. le-
sally but not Connuhially. and thereby
qualify himself 60 get the estate. aft
or which their unreal wedlock shall be
terminated by divorce leaving him
Eree 90 marry the Peruvian widow. and
providing Kitty with an assured in
come for life. But Nine. Semiano is
distrustful. and Kittys device to dis
4rm her jealousy is TO show herself
only as an unattractively styleless
creature. which she rs not. Here the
destruction I'm Uodishness is Impaired
practically The process of making
smart woman out Of dowdy Is re-
versed in the exhibit just as YOU have
seen the bathers in a moving picture
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show spring from the water back to
the diving platform. Kitty draws her
hair smoothly into a single braid loOs-
ems her belt till her waist line disaD-
years, turns her skirt hindside to the
fore, and changes the frontal curves
Of her torso from those Of the pres
ent 10 those of the past. The trans
formation effected in three minutes is
comic and complete. The graceful
belle becomes an awkward pumpkin.
The other instructive illustration Of
smart aspect and action is startling
10 people who sickle for convention
atty I'm the dear sex's behavior. Kitty
smokes an after dinner cigarette. while
Two men, her guests. enjoy cigars
VOW we are accustomed TO regard a
cigarette, between the lips Of a woman
pa a play, as a symbol Of viCe-the
t1B-mark OF an 2dventuress And YOU
must have observed TOO, that the ac-
tress who has TO smoke usually does
d. with an apologize air. as III to say
that she practices no such thing in
private life-being too much Of a lady.
YOU understand. Kitty is above re-
proach I'm morals and assumedly Do
lite I'm department. yet she smokes as
matter Of course. and the actress
makes no show Of excuse to the audi
ence. bur sends out full and feecv
clouds Of real tobacco smoke as though.
personally, she enjoyed the professional
service keenly. This is a public recor-
milton Of what has come TO be a pos
tive fact-that many women I'm So
Getty arc habitual smokers. The prac-
tee SIS now usual really. in our smart
SET ar we may expect to see il
spread from that source to the gen
eral feminine population. Regrettable7
Wei. that question is aside from my
theatrical subject All I say is that
the stages imitation OF the modish
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On Christmas
Preparations.

80 = AN glad I'm not superstitious. said the Idiot,
as he glanced the little calendar in the
front OF his pocket memorandum book. Il
see that Christmas comes Friday this year.
II 1 were supcrsttious, think I'd sell my pros
poets for the Yule for seven dollars"
Il thought YOU were supersttous," put in the Bib
homaniac II noticed the other day when the painters
Fwere doing up the front door vestbule you left
house by way OF the basement rather than
their ladder"
THAT wasn't superstition-that was common sense"
retorted the Idiot I'd just come into possession
winter Overcoat and didn't to have quart
liquid frescOing trickle down over the back
served that few dabs. many dabs. Of paint inn
prove the appearance Of winter Overcoa didn't
choose to chance the accident
You told you considered thirteen a very un-
lucky number said Mr.. Brief. That's superstition
of the worst sort
II know 1 did but that was when I asked your
dollars settle on basis of 30 cents on
the dollar" said the Idiot
You advised me to settle for that amount and I
wei YOU were in luck to get the thirteen said
Az. Brief.
e"Oh-was -" said the Idiot well I'm glad Won
told me. for I never would have known it, You
forget that you charged me fifteen dollars for the
advice If 1 hadn't taken it I'd have been two dol
You cant expect me to work for nothing" said
the Lawyer, cOmDlacently
'I never squealeo SAID the Idiot 'for really that
iuJeen was well invested after all If you'd charged
dne ten I'd have kept going you for advice and
would have sooner or later squandered millions OF
dollars upon you As il was got my solar plexus In
-the first round and realized at the very beginning
tkat you belonged among the Injuries. I have Won
ON my list of things can't afford like canvasbsck
ducks, spats grand opera, diamond shirt studs and
automobiles, and at the small cost Of fifteen smo-
Icons. I think. however that you lawyers ought to
have printed price list for your services SO that
when chap goes to you for advice he'll know in adj
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lady is follower and exemplar-even
70 some extent a leader and guide-in
matters of fashionable usage. and that
MISS Tempest. as a smoker, gives evil
dence that tobacco has been accepted
by London women some centuries aft
er Sir Walter Raleigh gave it TO Lon
don men.
The source OF The Marriage Of Kit
ty IS the French Of Ciresac and Crois-
set, and it was very wicked tim ex-
puFgated IN the English version The
original point Of the plot was that the
French law fOrbids marriage between
divorced person and the correspond
emit until after there has been an inter-
mediate period of WedlOck with some
man or woman not party TO the case
IN court, Nine, SemianO was the vice
ious ono IN this instance. and her sub
Sequent conduct was very bad. indeed.
while that Of Reggie and Kitty was
none zoo good. Marie Tempegl.s hus-
band. Cosmos Gordon Lennox-tvho
tries TO live up to the social level of his
name-rewrote the play for his wife's
use, and his device of the conditional
inheritance cleans up much that was
toul The piece. as we get it from Lon
don, IS q witty comedy. barely yet safe
~ avoiding indecency, yet piquant and
az times auoaciOus with cloee ap-
prosches 10 salaciousness. Its charac-
Iers, numbering only seven. are played
naWlessly By an English company. Miss
tempest known here hitherto az a
comic opera singer. Is a delightful COM
edienne. with methods and mannerisms
resembling those Of Minnie Madden
Fiske. our pretentioue people have ac-
eepted her and the play with a merry
laugh
Robert Mantell has been exiled from
NeM -LorE q dozen uaare LIZ go.
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said to myself. Every duck is a HE"
TO hunter. you know. "TU wait until
ne sWims a little closer" SO I waited.
The duck didn't manifest any disposi-
ton 20 make my acquaintance: that
-. not enough disposition 10 notice.
Finally ] concluded to take a long pot
shot at him. At the crack of my gun
he keeled right over and Law ON The
surface OF the water perfectly dead.
Honestly, 7 thought I was a wonder.
When my chest had sUbsided trife 7
started after the duck Maybe I was
IN too big a hurry, though I needn't
have been, for the duck was dead
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pursuit seized every one Of us. Feet
were stamped into hip boots. hunting
coats were dug out of the debris and
put on, shells were unpacked. guns IN
limbered. At 10 O'Clock we we're in the
swamp marcy little duck came fly
ms by me and ] killed il, More by good
luck than good management I found
that duck. picked it up and carried IL
safely to the blind I had found i'm the
tuies. Then ] waited for more. ] wait
cd n long, long time.
= last j saw q duck swimming cheer
lly about in some open water seventy
yards away. He is too far aWay.-'
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the breakfast at Deweyville had ceased
10 comfort US when we reached the de-
serted cabin which was 20 be our home
toI three days and as many rights The
cabin didn't look particularly good TO
me. The glass was out Of the windows
and the doors were of the self-oDening
variety. There were two Z )oms. One
was the dirtiest I ever saw, and the
other was dirtier than that
We packed our plunder into the
shack. set up sheet iron camp stove
and threw the cooking utensils on the
floor. Then somebody saw duck fly
inC a long way of and a mania for
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Robert Mantell has been exiled from
New York dozen years. He comes
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8 = AM glad I'm not superstitious said the Idiot
as he glanced over the little calendar in the
front OF his POCKET memorandum book. Il
see thar Christmas comes on Friday this year.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-01
on THE Vanderbilt FARM.
Young Folks OF Newport Have . Dinner
Dance at . House warming

NEWPORT X, J.. Aug. 3l.-Most Of the
younger set Of Newport society went, to-
night, to Sandy Point Farm, In Portsmouth,
where Mr. and Mrs. II c. Vanderbilt gave
their first large entertainment Of the sum
mer The affair was house warming
party In the form of dinner dance, where
all the decorations were suggestive OF farm
ing and farm life. Alfred g. Vanderbilt
and Miss Ruth Twombly each drove Il
coach load Of guests to Sandy Point.
The broad veranda which surrounds the
house was inclosed and here the tables
were laid The ceiling and sides of the
enclosure were covered with foliage, giving
the appearance Of an outdoor scene In one
corner stood well and old oaken bucket
la another were some sheaves VI wheat
aud placed around at different points were
miniature haystacks. rakes. pitchforks,
ploughs and other agricultural implements
Even the table decorations were made to
represent farm life. Each table bore a
miniature green field, IN which cows and
sheep seemed to Craze. while fuzzy little
yellow chicks were sprinkled over the
table The ices were moulded into chick
ems, COVE BOOSTERS and sheep