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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
was making ready to receive the ex-

was making ready to receive the eX-
pected call from the committee.
No one showed up, however. The
minutes dragged away, and it finally
came nine o'clock and she knew that
Mr. Bowser was safe. He didn't hap
pen to be, however. He had been in
ing politics with the druggist and
seeming quite elated over something,
and he had just begun to tell a funny
story when the door opened and in
comrades. They were the committee.
''Ah, there, Colonel!' exclaimed the
old vet, as he came forward and ex-
tended the hand of comradeship. 1--WE
house Comrade Jones, this is Colonel
Bowser. Comrade jenkins, the brave
Colonel Bowser.
The druggist was looking straight at
Mr.. Bowser with wide-open eyes and
a. puzzled look on his face, and the vic
tim squirmed and wriggled about and
wished he had never heard of the war
which came near disrupting the Union
'Well, Colonel" continued the vet
cram 81 was telling the boys about
you, and it was decided to have you
address us on Friday evening. VIII
that be convenient for you? We shall
look forward to something extra good.
Comrades, the Colonel was wounded
three times during the war, and some
of the charges he made at the head or
his regiment have gone down in his
tory" ,o,,a,,o 1.oan ,aot,,re be-
fore your post" stammered Mr.. Bow
ser, with face as red as a boiled lob
ster, and a burning desire to kill the
grinning druggist on the spot
ooh, but you must-you surely
must declared the other two vet
Grams in chorus. you have aroused
our interest, and you must not disap-
point us. What battle did you say you
were in?"
'sv-Valley Forge and-and Lexing-
toni" replied the colonel in his con-
fusion.
s'And Bunker Hill, tool roared the
druggist, as he slapped his leg and
danced around.
"I-I don't understand said the
spokesman of the committee, after a
pause so painful that it could have
been chopped with an ak. Colonel
Bowser are you not mistaken in
Colonel Bowser!" whooped the
druggist as he pounded his leg some
more.
eyes, sir. I said Colonel Bowser.''
Colonel Of what? Why. he couldn't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
THE STORY TELLERS.
Jokes and Sayings of the Players Told
OFF the Stage.


When Richard Mansfield tells a story
it generally is worth retelling. One of
those he delights in, according to his
secretary, relates an experience Joseph
jefferson had some years ago.
1t seems Mr.. Jefferson during his long
career had never been associated with
any one showing undue familiarity with
him save one individual, a man named
Bagley, who some years ago was pro-
perty man in the Comedians company.
This Bagley annoyed Mr.. Jefferson
very much by his somewhat offensive
manners, but owing to valuable SER
vices rendered by him, Mr.. Jefferson had
always been loath to take measures
more severe than reprimand. But fin
ally the familiarity of the property man
increased to an extent impossible to en-
dure, so he was summarily discharged
This dismissal occurred just before the
opening of Mr.. JeffersOn'S enga cement
in Baltimore.
That night Bagley got exceedingly
drunk. Paying his way into the theater,
he repaired to the gallery, there to see
his old employer enact Ran Van Win
kle."
The angry Gretchen had just driven
poor destitute Rip from the cottage,
when Rip returns, and, with a world of
pathoS, asks: Den hat no interest in
der house?" The theater was deathly
still, the audience half in tears, when
Bagley's cracked voice was heard in
only so per cent, Joe, old boy. only
so per cent
Harry Brown of Henry w. Savage'S
Peggy From Paris company. when in
a little town in Mississippi recently met
a darby of the antebellum days who is
a character in his way and has more
than his share of native wit. Brown en-
gagged him in conversation.
Uncle Ephrain, what do you do for
a living?" asked the comedian.
Il breaches an raises punkins,
boss
(which pays you the better?"
"Well, O. cose, I gifts mo- money out'n
de punkins, but I gifts huff distinction
out'n de preachin' to make up de diff
ference"
Charles Hawtrey is responsible for
this story. He was talking with
friend of his about peculiar names and
initials, when he quietly observed:
by the way, I have friend who is
in most unfortunate position He act
ually has no initials"
mo initials?" queried the friend in
amazement why, how can that be?
Hasn't he got any name?''
'Oh, yes" replied Mr.. Hawtrey with
a twinkle in his eye; but you see his
initials happen to be H. H, and being
an Englishmen, he always drops his
his"
Arthur Dunn, staring successfully in
THE Runaways," tells an amusing
story on a German cornist, who is one
Of the seven men carried with the COM
pany to augment the orchestras of the
aters visited. This Teuton was lodged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
ORIGIN OF UNCLE TOMS CABIN
Kentucky House Where Mrs. Stowe
Collected Material for Plot.

Mr.. and Mrs: James Marshall of
Washington, Mason county, Kentucky,
live in the house in which Harriet
Beecher Stowe stayed a week or more
while gathering material for her
Uncle Toms Cabin"
1--WE have owned the house. which
was built 100 years ago, about thirty
years." said Mr.. Marshall. "It is a
brick house of two stories and a high
attic. Recently all the photographers
have found the house and no collec-
ton of photographs is complete with
out a view of the place in which Har-
riet Beecher Stowe lived during her
stay in Mason county. Her visit pre-
coded the first publication of her story
several years. cannot give the date.
At that time it was owned by Colonel
Key, clerk of the court, whose guest
she was.
1.-THE rooms are large and although
the house was built over a hundred
years ago there is not a crack in its
walls.
'She occupied the guest chamber.
That same room has been occupied by
them Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.
cat the time of Mrs. Stoves visit
the principal families of the town were
named Beatty, Ward, Duke, McClung
and Marshall. General Albert Sidney
Johnston of the confederate army
lived there as a. boy.
Colonel Key, as clerk of the court.
was in a position to aid her greatly in
material. benjamin 9dTTyt
now so years old, was a deputy clerk
and under the instruction of Colonel
Key took her to many places. 1t was
with Parry as her escort that she saw
a negro logged at a whipping post.
She saw negro traders, who came to
Washington to buy negroes. On the
other hand, she saw that slavery in
Kentucky was not the revolving insti-
tuition that it was in states further
south, and she found the Kentucky
people sympathetic and tender heart
ed. She portrays the Buford family
as one typical of Kentucky, compass
sionate and indulgent to their slaves
she saw a sale of negroes on the
auction block. They were sold under
an execution, taken for a debt. The
law was that personal property should
be levied on before real estate, that
real estate could not be attached until
personal property was exhausted, and
slaves were personal property.
LAS it was nearly sixty years ago
that Mrs. Stowe paid her visit to
there are few now alive
who remember seeing her. The only
one I can think of who was there is
Mr. Parry, and the subject of that
visit is not a pleasant one to him, as
for many years after the appearance
of Uncle Toms Cabin he was plagued
by all the local jokers because of his
having been the escort of the novelist
whose portrayal of slave life was not
agreeable to KentucAians.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

had been surprisingly like that accorded
recently to Franz Won Veesey, who is to
visit us soon. It was reported at the time,
correctly, that '.he made tremendous
sensation in Vienna and other foreign cit
les. The Emperor of Austria made him a
present of valuable violin. Brahms call
specially for the way he had played his
concerto Divirak declared him a very
great artist; Ambrose Thomas, "a true
born musician Only genius can play
like that, said Rubinstein. and Joachim.
the greatest living violinist, said of him
that L never in my life came across such
a musical genius
Two French composers led at the Grand
opera in Paris last year-Gounod with 40
performances, Saint-Saens with A. Wag-
ner followed with Al.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

on the third floor of a, small hotel in
Minneapolis. On the morning of his Sec
ond day there another roomer complain
ed to the boniface: II can't stand that
Dutchman next to me. He footed his
blooming cornet all night, though kept
rapping on the wall for him to stop"
Somewhat later the cornist appeared,
his face beaming.
Fine appreciationer Won musk you
get next to me- he said. "Au night long
efery time played a. tune he knocked
on de vail for an encore. I played Fiery
Morn Bring Thee Violets to him IA
times and still he wasn't satisfied"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
COLONEL" BOWsER.
He Is Invited to Lecture Before a
G. A. p.

That Mr.. Bowser had something on
his mind as he came home the other
evening was apparent even to the fam
lily cat, and for an hour Mrs. Bowser
was wondering whether he had invest
ed in an oil well or taken stock in Keely
cure. She refrained from asking any
questions to draw him out, and at
length he could stand it no longer, and
said:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

ga few days ago, while there were
several men in the office, the subject
of the war in the east came up. and
two or three of the men began to talk
about their adventures in our civil
war. I won't know what gave them
the impression, but they took it that
was an ex-soIdier. and called me
colonel. I liked the sound of the title,
and did not deny 1T. In fact
"In fact, you strengthened the i'm
preston ?'' she said, as he stammered
around.
Eyes. I suppose did. That is I
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
MUSICAL NOTES.

A scholarly German critic recently con-
fessed he could find nothing in the works
Of Richard Strauss beyond completely of
details and rocco extravaganza. What
German music wants. he said lis to go
to sleep for a hundred years. and he was
right. The greatest composers of the time
are not in Germany; they are in Norway,
France, Poland and America; their aim is
to create new melodies, not to make new
noises by heaping Pelion on Ossa- There
is a passage in DR.. Riemanns "Catechism
ton has just appeared in Leipsic), which
Strauss-whos Domestic SYMPHONY uses
extra military nstruments-would do well
method of Berlioz, List and Wagner of
multiplying the wind instrumen leads to
an unwarranted assimilation of the sym
phony orchestra to the military band. which
signifies a decay of artistic taste.''
At the English musical festivals some
great singers and players are usually en-
gagged, yet, as a London journalist re-
marks, the large majority of the festi-
vals patrons are there, without doubt to
hear the choir. That is the star which
guides. They do not mind much about
about the band, or even about the solo
lists, They go to hear the. choir, as they
used to go to hear Patti Lablache,
whatever the opera might be or the char
acter of the ensemble"
An interesting opinion regarding the
work of Stanford (who is a, much greater
composer than Elgar, and whose ''Shamus
O'Brien'' is the best opera ever written in
Sir Charles Stanford was fortunate in
getting the unrival1ed Kreisler to present
his Violin Concerto to the world. 1t was
truly an amazing performance, as remark
able in its way as had been the great vio-
linist's playing. on previous day, of Bra
hams Concerto. Stanford's work is very
Characteristic of what, without meaning
any disrespect, I may call his second best
manner. For maintain that it is in
4'Shamus" and the Songs, and Much
ADO and the Irish Symphony, that we
get the real Stanford. We get a vivid
glimpse of it in the Sea Songs''-which
as sung by Mr.. Greene, must surely gain
all the popularity they so thoroughly de-
serve-in which Stanford has, by the light
touch of a really artistic hand, trans
formed that which is common into some
thing which is altogether uncommon The
Concerto is clear daylight when it
is looked into, though I confess I did not
think so at the first hearing; it is very
well bred music, but it did not strike me
as being really beautiful. Readers of Jane
Austen surely prefer Emma to Jane Fair
fax. Well, the Concerto is to me as the
elegant Jane, but l like Stanford better
when he is in Emma mood than when
he is in a Jane mood.
What has become of the Rronislaw HUI
hermann, who in the days of SeidI came
to this country for a tour? He was then
Il years old. and his reception in Europe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
al Friehtened Horse.

Running like mad down the street
dumping the occupants, or hundred 9TH
accidents, are every day occurrences.
1t behooves everybody to have reliable
salve handy and there's none good as
BuckIen.s Arn1ca SaIve. Burns, cuts, sores,
eczema and piles disappear quickly under
its soothing effect. Soc at Arnold Drug Co.,
81 N. Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
End of Nine. Janauschek's Bril-
liant Yet Pitiabls Career.
Lost Fortune and Prestige by
Following Her Foreign Ideas.
AGREAT TRANSFORMER
Played In Mining Towns, in
Halls and Warehouses.
Last Appearance in "The Great
Diamond Robbery"

!: Those to whom she opened new
: doors of mental life remember her
/: with gratitude and admiration.
{: and in their Utmost souls keep
{: her memory green
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
THEATRICAL NOTES.

Although Mary Mannering will start her
season Immediately after the holidays, she
will have to play on the road until April,
as she can not find an open date at any
of the New York theaters until that time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Robert Lorraine was on the point of SAIL
ing for London to keep an appointment
with George Bernard Shaw when he was
Virginia Harmed and accepted Miss Har-
ned stars in Jane Shore" the play that
has not been seen in this country for many
years Ada Cavendish and Genevieve
Ward were the last actresses to bring it
forward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

T. D. Stair and George Nicolai are
shortly to give Stella Mayhem a different
play from the one in which she is now
appearing. Flo Flo is to be withdrawn,
and Miss Mayhem will probably be put
forward in an elaborate production of
1.-The Show Girl" the musical comedy
that scored success in New York sew
era1 seasons ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Contracts have been signed whereby
with Blanche Bates, becomes a star I'M
der the management of w. NJ. Wilkinson
early in the new year. The play selected
is new romantic comedy, entitled ''Once
Upon Time written for him by his
wife, Genevieve G. Haines, author of
stHeartS AAamen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Not over a day INTERVIEWED between the
time that Mr.. Chas. Frohman made the
announcement that he was going to pre-
sent E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe in
London than four leading English actor
managers were out with notices of Shake
spearian REVEALS next spring. This sit
uation may boom instead of hurt the
gagcment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Henrietta Crosman and DAVID Belasco
will part company at the end of this sea-
son, and Maurice Campbell, who is Miss
CroSman's husband, will look after her
engagements hereafter. Sweet Kitty
Bellairs' will be played by another act
resS next season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Two Episcopal c1ergymen of London
named Andrews and Pressey, resolving to
use musical comedy for moral ends, have
written and composed 1.-The Shahs New
Suit" which will soon be produced in the
English metropolis. 1t is founded on An
derson's fairy tales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Jess Dandy employs a masseur to travel
with him in 1.-THE Prince of Pilsen' COM
pany. After being ducked in the fountain
scene he has to play for ten minutes in
wet clothes and takes q vigorous rubbing
precaution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Andrew Mack and his manager have
signed a contract by which the Irish
comedian is to make 20 weeks tour of
Australia. Mr.. Mack on March is will
sail with his entire company for Sydney.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

KIaw and Erlanger will make a very
elaborate production next season of a new
musical comedy by. Hugh Morton and
Gustav Kerker, called THE Butterflies of
Fashion" Mr.. Mortons latest work in
this line was THE Belle of New York"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Mrs. Haddon Chambers, wife of the well
known English playwright died in Lon
don last Saturday. Mrs. Chambers was a
native of Australia and had visited Amer
lea once or twice with her husband, to
whom she was married ten years ago.
She was never identified with the stage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

George Edwardes, manager of the Ly-
ceum theater, in London, who will present
his Lyric Theater company in THE Ouch
ess of Dantzic,'' in New York the middle
of January, has especially engaged Lem
prier Pringle for the part of Lefebre.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

John ]. McNallys new comedy, which
Klaw and Erlanger's comedy company
will present in New York, has been named
Life in Newport Cole and Johnson
have contributed the music and rehearsals
are now in progress. The principal parts
will be played by Fay Templeton and Pc
ter f. Daley. --tn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Edwin Terry, who opens his American
in THE House of Burnside has engaged
Cynthia Brooke as his leading woman.
Miss Brooke played opposite roles to Julia
Marlowe last season in Fools of Nature"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-10-27
Cause ~ofIocEJaw.

Lockjaw, or tetanus, is caused
by e bacillus or germ which exists
plentifully in street DIRT. 1t is in
active SO long as exposed to the
air, but when carried beneath the
skin, as in the wounds caused by
percussion caps or by rusty nails,
and when the air is excluded the
germ is reused to activity and pro-
duces the most virulent poison
known. These germs may be de-
stroyed and all danger of lockjay
avoided by applying Chamberlain's
Pain Balm freely as soon as the
injury is received. Pain Balm is
an antiseptic and causes cuts,
bruises and like injuries to heal
without maturation and in one
third the time required by the u.s.
ual treatment. It is for sale by
all druggists.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-10-27
PARKER REBUKRD
Democratic Newspaper Raps the "Blath-
erskites'' of Its Party.
them for two years more

rssnoeratic Newspaper Raps the "Biath-
erskites'' of Its Party.
The hardest slap yet administered
10 Parker was from the hand of an
ultra-Democratic editor. There is in
the southland no more rabidly Demo
cratic newspaper than the Memphis
Commercial Appeal. yet an editorial
leader in that paper reads:
Those Distinguished hlatherskites
who have been a~blathering about Fill
Pine independence and corollary imam
ties claim 10 be helping TO elect Judge
Parker.
Governor Wright. who is on the
ground and who knows, informed this
government that all these declarations
were being translated and published in
Iagal newspapers and that they were
having a deludins and deleIerious eff
feet on the natives.
Now comes the report that the old
asitators and professional patriots who
have been in enforced retirement and
b henchnlen are the head hunters
and bandits from the mountains. and
the bolc men from the bamboo thickets
in the valley have come forth ana pur-
pose holding public independence
meetings in Manila
If these fiery exhorters arouse their
half-tamed fellows TO disorder au,l
rapine by their n~erfervid utrerances,
and If the task OF governing the ISL
ands is rendered mere difficult aud ex-
peasiye. cur hola-bre4l Tacal-Ameri-
cars viii ind that they are support
ing Judge Parker with q knife.
This country is engaged in thu solu-
ton Of one Of the most difficult prob
lens that eyer confronted 4 civilized
people and il Is bending every energy
10 solve il wisely. Every word uttered
calculated 10 embarrass il Will te ~
scented by The spirit OF the nation
which stands Eor-rEgh1 or wrong. our
country.
In the Democrats platform and in
Parkar's lerter OF acceptance VIII ne
found thar -a~bsa1aeEtBg aiBozt Filipino
independence and czs-7GE4rE fnanFt5r
Of which the memphis appeal sc-3-
plains. Ar- Parker emphasized his de-
sire 10 hare i known that Il demands
the giving Of an immediate Ert5-4a q
Independence 10 The FzEya
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-10-27

The provision made in our state
constitution permitting the county
Judge and clerk of courts to hold
their Offices indefinitely while the
terms of other county officers is IL
mited to four years is a recognition
of the tact that in those Offices
more than any others, experience
is the essential qualification. The
present incumbents of those offices
in Bon Homme County, Messrs.
Wicks and Fish, have given eff
cient service for several years and
no mistake will be made by retain.
ing them for two years more.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-10-27
Avoid the Cheap and "Big Can" Bak-
ing Powders.

Avoid the Cheap and "Big CAM Bak-
ing Powders.
The cheap baking powders have but
one recommendation: they certainly
give the purchaser plenty Of powder
Tor his money. These powders are so
carelessly made from inferior materials
That they will not make light, whole
some food. Further, these cheap bak-
ing powders have a very small percen-
tage OF leavening gas; therefore it takes
from two to three times as much of
such powder to raise the cake or his
calt as it does of Calumet Baking Pow
der. Therefore, in the long run, the
actual cost to the consumer Of sncb
powders is more than Calumet would
De. Cheap baking powders leave the
bread sometimes bleached and acid.
sometimes yellow and alkaline, and al
ways unpalatable. They are never of
uniform strength and quality.
Why not buy a perfectly wholesome
baking powder like Calumet, that is at
the same time moderate in price, and
one which can be relied upon2 Calu.
mel Is always the same, keeps indefin-
iteiy and gives the cook the least trou-
BILE.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-10-27

The question has been asked
In what way are Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets supe-
rior to the ordinary catbartic and
liver pills? Our answer is-They
are easier and more pleasant to
take and their effect is so gentle
and so agreeable that one hardly
realizes that il is produced by med.
iclue. Then they not only move
the bowels hut improve the appe-
lite and aid the digestion. For
sale at 25c per bottle BY ali drug
gisss-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-10-27

I 10 have gone faster than we ]
! nave already gone iii giving the ?
I Islanders a constantly increasing !
! measureof self-goyernnlentwould I
I have been disastrous. At the ]
] present moment to give political
7 independence to the islands would J
! result in the immediate loss of !
T clF1i rights, personal liberty and !
puDilc order as regards the mass I
I OF The fiiipinos, for the majority !
I OF the islanders have been given
: great boOns by us, and ONLY !
/ Keep them because we y%icilantly ;
I safeguard and guarantee them. !
10 withdraw our government :
I from the islands at this time !
would mean to the average ma :
I uVe the loss of his barely won /
/ ciVll freedom. We have estab- Z
{ iashed in the islands a govern !
ment by Americans assisted by 7
{ flllplnos. We are steadily striy- !
I ing to transform this into self 7
{ government by the Filipinos as !
! sisted by Observation-Disclosures 7
Roosevelt. I
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