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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24
/: A Diamond Set in a Bracelet
of Brass.
!: A Bowery Actress Who would
: Adorn Broadway.


That settled Amelia Bingham's future.
She then and there began a career that
has brought her fame and a place among
the notable play producers.
aMiss Viola Aliens determination to appear
next season in Twelfth Night" may result
in her making the production on her own
account. Her contract with Liebler & Co.
expired on May 1, but she had a supplement
tary contract for one year calling for her
appearance in THE External City, or in
the Palace of the King" under that firm
enhancement. Miss Allen, however, is said
10 have made up her mini that If she could
not play Viola she would not play anything
else. Just what success awaits her is a
serious problem. During the five years Miss
Allen has risen from a comparatively
mesger salary under Charles Frohman to
a weekly income of at least $500.
In this time she has been able to save
enough money until now her check is good
Tor at least $5o,oo0. OF course much Of this
vas due to her own ability and her strong
personal following, but equally much was
due to the careful management that has al
ways surrounded her.
Miss Aliens relatives did not feel that
she was getting as much return for her
eRorts as she was entitled to. their
constant advice has been to break away
"a manage herself.
Her father and brother have been asso.
rl.ted with her for several years. and Il
~ pavD for the production out OF her owl
800 u p quite probable that FRANK WI
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

or simple dinner gowns of null, and trig
straw turbans or fiat Powered covered
"sun" hats.
There is nothing Miss Bingham dislikes as
much as the regulation summer resort and
nothing she breads as much as the daily
round of the average summer society
woman"
The only fashionable summer" weakness
Miss Bingham pleads to is a liking for
smart turnouts. Not of the basket phae-
ton or Victoria variety, but spick and span
tandem dog carts. mail phaetons or drags.
The actress does not care to lounge. She
prefers to handle the reins over mettlesome
horses and can tool a drag as easily along
/ a crowded city street as in the quiet lanes
of the country side.
Beauty. Handsome and Little 'Coxey are
the three horses Miss Bingham drives when
she has her own team out. These three to
Miss Bingham's mind are the finest speci-
mems of horse flesh In the East. And she
knows they are wiser than most horses; in
deed. than many men.
| Each horse has his own speciality aside
from his regular performances. One shakes
! hands, raising an awkward hoof to beat the
air persistently until someone shakes. An
other kisses. rubbing a soft, white nose
against an offered cheek. with an impatient
snif when the sugar Is not forthcoming.
And the third. Little Coxey it is, talks. so
| Miss Bingham insists.
Talk. Coxey: talk!' she says, with
Coxey's great head against her shoulder.
And Coxey not to be outdone. whinn!es.
soft at first. then louder and outrageously
loud when there is no sugar in sight. Miss
Bingham never goes out to her carriage
without her three Jumps of sugar.
And before the drive begins a set pro-
gramme must be gone through with. Each
horse must be patted. must perform and be
applauded and fed. There is a good deal
of talk on Miss Bingham's part and much
crowding and nosing on the part Of the
horses.
1t is only natural that each horse should
want first attention. They are jealous of
their mistress. and consequently Miss Bing-
ham Is forced to divide the honors. taking
turns round according to the days or drives.
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can't tell ne that a perfect lady would go
visiting and gossipinS with servants ana
~janitors and making free with them III
they got impudent If ever you dared 10 call
them down about anything.
Not that l would say a word ABOUT tne
De BranScOmbes, although they nW "ofh
me for a good thing.
Amy de Branscombe and 1 had II not
and heavy Yesterday afternoon she cane
I'D to kiss me and / said. i said 10 :s:'
Let us be friends and part! For the wst
you've handed out the raps about me 10
nv friends we can be O~nthingemore to each
other.
And she had the impudence to say to
me: How can you say them cruel words.
I'd do anything in the world for you. Lulu.
I'd give YOU the shirt waist of my back.
and you know l would. too!
and ] says to her: Yes. you'd give ne
the shirt waist off your back. but how about
one Just out o fthe laundry
That was u sting for her? Because when
I was out on the road with The Midewed
Monarch comic opera company. Irene. the
colored maid. and. say. she is a lady II she
is a dinGy. Irene. told me how Amy had
worn everything of mine that could be worn
and then sent 'em out to wash. and there
was a bill waiting for me for S.75 for clear
starchins. Talk about nerve!
And now what do you think? They go
around and talk about me and tell how l
held them up for board when / lived with
them. and Amy's mother said she requested
me to leave because 1 might injure Amy
social standing. What do you think OF
that2
why. l never even knew what peroxide
was till / saw Amy de Branscombe using
it.
No. won't go around and make any
trouble about It. But I know somebody
who's going to make me a present of an
automobile IL the stock market goes bright,
and. say. won't I 20 up and down their
street in front o ftheir cheap fiat in my
buzz wagon till they choke on the gasoline?
..What2'
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-24

Written for The Sunday Republic.
Amelia Bingham will spend the summer
months on the PACIFIC Coast.
Not In Il jaunt through the Yellowstone
Park or in a camping trip among the Cali
fornia redwoods. but in the city of San
Francisco, where she will play a five weeks
season at the Columbia Theater, present
ing 1.-The Climbers "a Modern Magdalen''
and 1.-The Friskv Mrs. Johnson"
From a business standpoint, and now that
Miss Bingham is a manager as we'll as an
actress, everything must be considered from
the commercial view-the tour is much to
be desired, but she has to keep in mind its
material advantages to obliterate thoughts
of the delights of the summer season at
her cottage near S%eabright. N. j.
The actress-manager looks forward to the
resulting benefits to be derived from this
supplementary season: the woman signs re-
gretfully as she thinks Of her horses,
Beauty, Handsome and Coxey. spinning
along the country lanes and the catboat
scudding before the breezes Of the Atlantic,
for Miss Bingham has generously turned
over her house. horses and boats to a party
Of Intimate friends, feeling that If she her
self could not experience the delights of a
summer at the sea shore. there was no need
to deprive others of SO great a pleasure.
Miss Bingham Is a lover Of the outdoor
world and all its sports. She is an ardent
golfer, an expert with the tennis racquet
or croquet mallet, a clever whip. an angler
of no mean prowess and as keen a sailor
as could be found in the summer resorts of
the Atlantic Coast. Not that she Is in any
sense a summer resort woman.
Far from 1t. A summer in the country
to her does not spell a daily and nightly
dress parade along the piazzas Of crowded
hotels.
Miss Bingham, for forty weeks in the
year, changes her clothes from four to five
times a night, or as many times as the ac-
ton Of a play requires. So summer means
for her trim wash dresses Of duck or linen.
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stach will accompany her as her business
manager.

manager.
When he throws aside the burdens of his
winter season, Richard Mansfield makes his
summer home on the shores of Long Island
Sound, just outside the western limits of the
little city of New London, Conn. There
he and Mrs. Mansfield and George Gibbs
Mansfield. their little 4-year-old son, enjoy
their reunion.
The home is roomy without sacrificing
coziness, 1t is surrounded by an extensive
lawn, and the summer colony say that there
are no hosts on the sound whose hospitality
is coveted like that of the Mansfield home.
The coming season will witness the adj
vent of Eleanor Robson as a star. A con-
tract has already been entered into with
Edwin Arden, who has been engaged as
her leading male support, and the two
plays intended for her use have been de-
cided upon.
One of them is La VALERIE" a play
written by Henri Battaile, the famous Par
isian adapter of Resurrection" especially
for Miss Robson.
The play centers about the affections of
the artless Louise for Louis XIV, a de-
votion pure. constant and unwavering. and
one in which self-interest had no voice.
when honor and her love called for self
sacrifice.
The other play accepted for Miss Robson
ID " SAl AsSNS SSRSSAoH VI 49,
Mrs. Humphry Ward and MIR. Louis n.
Paker, and this has already advanced suf-
ficiently to encourage the hope that it will
| prove a play of marvellous strength. 1t is
entitled Agatha"
Arrangements have been made by Miss
| Galland's manager to have Paul kester
dramatize Charles Majors latest novel.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall" This is
the first book written by Mr.. Major since
he penned when Knighthood Was IN
Flower
Mr.. Kester, who is the author of mile.
Mars" having just finished and produced
that play for Mrs. Langtry. has gone to
| his home In Virginia, where he is now at
work on the manuscript of Dorothy Yer
non
Williams Levers has been engaged for
the part of Sir John banners. Mr.. Levers
is at present a member of Miss Julia
Marlowe's company, and was to have ap-
peared next season with Mrs. Langtry as
her leading man
She has agreed to release him at the re-
quest of both the author and the dramatist,
who are anxious to have Mr.. Levers play
this part. Frank Losee is to be seen as
Sir George Vernon, Dorothy's father.
ss
James o'Nein would play Edmond Dantes
in London. The actor was in a particularly
happy mood when seen in New York the
other day. He had just arrived from New
I London. Conn, where he forgets the at
fairs of the stage in looking after consider
l able of his property, which is located there
VI have rented every one of my cottages
for the summer" he said, "and II l had q
dozen more / could have let those, too.
Now that this is on my hands ! an
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6pNET DE GRET
Ar4R G%RRzH.

RWhen Amelia Bingham was a student at
be Wesleyan Univei sity of Ohio she
howed a talent for sketching in black
ND white, painting in oils and wood cary
Dg, and had planned for herself an ar
Hstic career along those lines. Later came
&bent oward literature that received much
encouragement from the acceptance of sew
&al short stories and bits of verse by the
magazines.
III showed a disinclination to appear in,
the plays presented by the students AT the
time Of her marriage her husband, now a
Wall street operator. was the manager of
a theatrical company.
An appearance on the stage as the lead
ing lady of the organization had never been
contemplated by Mrs. Bingham.
In fact, her husband, like many other
men interested in the business of the the
alter, had a rooted aversion to his wife's
becoming an actress.
The company was producing a play,
Passions Slave" at the Peoples Theater
on the Bowery, New York. On the opening
night the actress to whom the leading
part was intrusted became very Ill just as
the curtain was about to be raised. Mrs.
Bingham, who was in the audience, OWNED
that some mishap had occurred. Learning
OF the difficulty, she offered to tax the
sick girls place. Mrs. Bingham had been
Intending the rehearsals, and, being &C
S1stomed to school recitations, had uncon-
$kiously committed the lines of the play
memory as though they had been a
Massage from history or grammar.
Eft was allow his wife to play the part or
postpone the plays production, thus for
hitting the receipts represented by a we'll
Aled house. Bingham reluctantly con-
&nted.
at was a part full of pathos; Lucielle
they called her. Amelia Bingham. to he,
and the c~ompany's amazement, moi
only succeeded in moving her audience tc
tbars. but her associates as well. One OF
Few York's best-known critics had, ou'
ofatdle curiosity, wandered into the theater
Next day. In the headlines of the paper ht
represented, appeared:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-23
H. L. FREEMAN g. SON, Owners
A Happy Wedding.

Mr.. Oscar Olson and Miss Esther
Anderson were married at the home
of the bride, Mr.. A. NJ. Anderson,
near Villas, last Wednesday evening,
Rev. Largerqiest officiating. The
ceremony was simple and impress
sive. Only relatives of the family
we're present. Many very valuable
presents were received. After the
ceremony all sat down to an elegant
supper prepared by the bride
Rev. Lagerquist read a very
appropriate poem prepared for the
occasion. Mr.. Oieson is prosper
Gus intelligent young Swede and
Mrs. Oleson is the handsome, earn
est and affable daughter of A. NJ
Anderson, one of the best citizens
of Wilson county. The young couple
will live with Mr.. Anderson til
spring when they will take charge
of the farm. Congratulations and
best wishes to Mr.. and Mrs. Oleson.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-23
Good Entertainment.

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights Of next week, A. Blom, a
man who has travelled around the
world twice and sought out every odd
nook and corner thereof, will deliver
a series of lectures on what he has
seen illustrating his lectures by means
of moving picture scenes. Proceeds
for benefit of the Swedish church.
These lectures are said to be very fine.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-23
HOME Abouf People
llOl l l. and Things
WV - In Chanute
INT. w y and Vicinity

The Beech land is now being pros
pected.
1. It. Light is building new house
Just south Of his residence.
A full line of carriages and buggies
at Heminger & Montague's.
John Buchanan failed to recover
commission on the Sweeney sale.
WE. CUTLER, DENTIST. Office
over Brown Pharmacy. Phone Alb,
BRICKLER BROS. have some good
farm bargains listed, also ranches and
pasture lands.
For SALE-About 200 feet of 10
inch drain tile. Inquire at the First
National Bank.
Mrs. Carlson, sister Of the bride,
from Kinsley. Kans., attended the
Oleson- Anderson wedding.
DR.. Cragg. the veterinary. Is
offioing now in basement OF
old Bailey bank building. tt
DR.. Norman l.. Roberts, Dentist
Office over First National bank. Office
hours a. IN. TO p. m. Phone W..
1t is not probable that anything
more will be done on the street paw
ing proposition till the backbone of
winter is surely broken.
Mr.. W. r Proctor of Big Creek was
IN the city Wednesday. Mr.. Proctor
Is a stockman who recently bought a
big stock farm on the east side of Big
Creek, near the Brown bridge.
Archie Harris became tired of life
in Texas and has come back to Cha
mute and resumed his old job. Arch
lie IS glad to get back and we know at
least one fair haired damsel that is
glad to have him back.
Bailey & Hardesty have bought the
old Slack property on Highland Ave.
and will move the old buildings off
and erect thereon brick building for
their mantle factory. Mr.. Slack
bought Mrs. Ball's residence on the
same street. Consideration for the
Slack property $25O0, for the Ball prop
erty $4,000
The Elk City Exchange Oil and Gas
company completed its organization
Saturday by electing G. B. Amyx
president and w. E. McAndrews Sec
rotary and full board Of directors,
Mr.. Amyx organized this company.
He secured the leases and agrees to
drill two prospect holes on the hold
ipgs.
Hon. J. M. Nation has introduced a
bill providing for division OF this
judicial district. The bill provides
for two districts to be made out of the
one. Allen and Woodson to cOnsti-
tute one, and Neosho and Wilson an
other. This strikes US as very prop
err move. Allen and Neosho counties
are growing so rapidly that it has be-
come impossible for one judge to find
time necessary to carefully consider
every legal question that arises, with
out doing good deal Of overtime.
We hope the motion will prevail, and
do not see how there can be any OBJ
lection to it from any quarter.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-23

Elk. Judge ROseberry was IN Chanute
Monday pouring the oleagnous com
pound on the somewhat perturbed
waters. The Judge is exceedingly
smooth and Erie has not another man
who can uniformity stroke the fur In
the right direction as he can. He is
a splendid man and fine diplomat.
He inspires you with confidence from
the start and almost seems to be on
your side of the question from startto
finish. After a good long visit in
which the Judge has made himself
very agreeable and you have discussed
the burning question at length, all at
once it dawns upon you that the Judge
has talked generalities all the time
and you have told him just what he
wanted to know and with many smiles
and very pleasant farewell, he bows
himself out with merry, "see You
later" But we don't.
The city council had business Mon.
day night. The valuation for sewer
purposes was discussed with several
individuals and few little apparent
inequalities ironed out. An arrange
ment was made to have water works
extention petition circulated. 1t is
proposed to call bond election just
as soon as it can be done. The cleo
trio light plant was discussed and
arrangements made for its Install
ment are being pushed as rapidly as
possible. The city clerks report
showed the total receipts for the
quarter just closed to have been
S11125.29. Total expenditures 45S3 81.
We call the especial attention Of
our readers to the big 20 per cent dis
count sale of Mr.. Joe Gothelf's. Joe
is the kind OF man that means what
he SAYS In his ads. When he says he
is giving discount of 20 percent that
means that he is selling his goods for
Just four.fifths of the regular price.
Try him and see.
A lire 10 an upstairs room OF the
Frewert building, Wednesday night
created quitea sensation for short
time. The ire seemed to be in a
dresser In one of the rooms. 1t was
put out with but little damage to the
building.
Rev. Lagerquist is holding pro
tracted meeting at the Colfax Baptist
church. He also breaches at Wenners-
burg occasionally in addition to his
regular work at home.
We are prepared to sell Chanute
property at good bargains, either va
can't lots or houses. Call on US In
Williams theatre building.-BRICK-
LER BROS.
Yes, we will now have tank fac
tory. Messrs. Beeson & Beals are at
work getting ready to put in one down
by the old stone mill site.
Boschert g. Williams seem to be in
the oil business. Notice the oil well
in their window,
Col. O'Neill brought in another good
gas we'll on the Baird land, east Of
town.
List your realestate with BRICKLER
BROS. They will push your business.
WANTED-A good girl for general
house work. Inquire at this office.
JAS, E. SHOEMAKER. dentist,
Office in Tutcher & Alexander bldg.
Mrs. John Shepard visited in Erie
Monday.
Money to loan.-D. M. Kennedy.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-23
ADVERTISED LETTER LIST.

The following is list OF letters that
remain uncalled for in the postofiice
at Chanute, Kansas, and will be sent
to the dead letter office il not called
for I'm two weeks from this the 23rd
dav of January. 1903.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-23
NFW MILLINERY@&~

1 have opened up new millinery
store in carleton, where l carry a
full line OF new and up to date
goods. 1 have had years of expert
ence in the bushes sand shall DC
my best to please. Give me a call
MRS. S. B0NWELL, carlton. Kan.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-01-23
RU7$

The walking sick, what
a crowd of them there are;
Persons who are thin and
weak but not sick enough
to 60 to bed.
"ChrOniC cases" that's
what the doctors call them,
which in common English
means-long sickness.
To stop the continued
loss of flesh they need
SCOTS Emulsion. For the
feeling of weakness they
need SCOTS Emulsion.
1t makes new flesh and
gives new life to the weak
system.
SCOTS Emulsion gets
thin and weak persons out
of the rut. 1t makes new,
rich blood, strengthens the
nerves and gives appetite
for ordinary food.
SCOTS Emulsion can be
taken as long as sickness
lasts and do good all the
time.
There's new strength
and flesh in every dose.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-25
KNOCKERS

KNOCKERS People who dc not
AND nave the confidence IN
MOSSBACkS. their own city to IN
vest in manuta cturlna
enterprises need not expect outsiders
tc do SO, and the city which stands on
mat kind Of bottom will never nave
very large bottom to stand on.
Many a small city which had bright
future has been killed by lust suca
policy 1t is not necessary to pus
up bonuses to get manufactures, ana
legitimate manufacturing concerns
have ceased to ask bonuses, but they
do require that local people invest a
portion of the capital and no city has
ever attained any magnitude as
manufacturing city that did not fral
invite manufactures by investing in
them. After a city has reached
point that it is known as a manufa.-
turing center, other manufacturers
come without solicitation. because II
is regarded as a good place for man.
ufacturlng concerns. Or course, there
IS always a few mOSSbackS and knock
ers in every city who are not only
rever willing to DO anything them
selves to build up the city upon when
they are dependent for support ct
their own Investments. but exert then
influence toward keeping others from
dong anything. Unfortunately, a feW
knockers and mosSbacks can do more
toward checking the growth and IN
portance of a city than double the
nunber of enterprising citizens can
10 to build it up.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-25

losses this wear exceeding yl2,VUU.
bach time the fair has been all tnat
could have been desired. but it re-
quires such an outlay Of money to p"o
duce it that it IS doubtful II there is
city in the state, except LouisviIie.
that can make ii pay expenses.
what is mere written is not II
slu1lt OF knocking" the local TAR as
scoiation. which has just had another
;air with discouraging financial re,
suits; for il the Graphic had any ae'
sire whatever to knock" the asSocia-
tlon it would have undertaken it :,!s1
tr1ore the fair opened and kept It up
after it had opened. The Graphic
wishes that the fair may be made a
success, as it stimulates the raising
OF better stock and crops, where the
Incentives can be made sufficiently
important to create interest, but ex.
pcrience has demonstrated that 1t Is
doubtful if that can be done without
loss to those who sustain the fair.
The race course has succeeded the
county tair nearly everywhere, and as
racing appeals only to those OF spor-
tive tendencies, the profitable racing
events are confined to the larger
cities, where there is sufficient num-
Der OF people who take interest IN
sports to afford an attendance which
will insure the racing ASSOCIATION
against financial loss
The Grapnl Will also add that THIS
article was written after those who
have been mainly instrumental III
maintaining the fair had announced
that they were done.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-25

fhe American Bankers association
has Endorsed Secretary Shaw's elastic
currency scheme. Now that the bank
ers have turned POpulists it is tine
for them to quite patronlzlng the bar
berS and mix few hayseedS in then
WhiskerS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-25

Hanna for the Republicans, and some
extraordinary stunts are Delng given
in both tents. Both are DustlnS
bronchOs" so as to have them per-
forming we'll on elec,lon day, at when
time both circuses i'll open up IN
all their stupendousness for the grand
finale before going into winter quar-
ters.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-25

An article entitled The Ideal Edl-
tor is making the ,steenth round OF
the newspapers, but it misses the
mark widely. The ideal editor is the
fellow who is not really editing n
newspaper, but is continuously tell
ing how newspapers ought to be Ell
tied.