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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25
HIS CURTAIN SPEECH.
From HaInlin Garland's Novel. seThe
Light of the Starr

She met him, radiant with excitement
My brave boy! You have won your vic
tory. They are calling for you" He pro-
tested She insisted: mo, no! Tt is you
I've been out. Hear them; they want the
author. Gomez"
Dazed and wordless, weak from stage
fright he permitted himself to be led
forth into the terrifying glare of the foot
| light world There his guide left him
| abandoned him, pitifully exposed to a
thousand eyes, helpless and awkward
He turned to fee, to follow her but the
roguish smile on her face, as she Kissed
her fingers toward him, somehow reused
his pride and gave him courage to face
the tumult. As he squared Himself an
aWesome silence settled over the house
q silence that inspired as well as appalled,
Friends. I thank. you" the pale and
resolute author weakly began. II didn t
teeth ebafteTe5 aso was SO scared my
| ripple of laughter which followed this
remark really gave him time to think
last face to face with an audience that
knows my wOrk-that is ready to support
serious attempt at playwriting. claim
thaL play may do something more than
a1nuse--lt may interest. There is a, wide
| difference, you will see. To be an
| stage to the level of Punch and Judy
| show I am sorry for tired men and
weary women, but a dramatist cans
afford to take their troubles into account.
I am writing for those who are mentally
alert and willing to support plays that
have at least the dignity of Intention
which lies in our best novels. This does
not mean gloomy plays or problem plays,
but 1t does mean conscientious study of
American life. If you like me as well az
/ ter the close of the play''-he made dra-
matte pause-''well. I shall not be able to
| sleep tonight. sincerely thank you You
| have given me a fair hearing-that is ali
can ashland / am very grateful
This little speech seemed to please his
auditors, but his real reward came when
Helen met him at the wings and caught
/ his arm to her side in an ecstatic little
/ hug. You did beautifully" she said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

Miss Maude FeaIey, who was with Dill
bingham and Perley last season, viii De
Henry Irving's leading woman next sea-
son.
David BeIasco is authority for the state
rnent that Mrs Leslie Carter will play an
engagement in London next summer
Wright Lorimer will make some altera-
tons in THE Shepherd KING ana pTlng
six cities will be visited.
Notwithstanding that Mrs. Gilbert
rounds out her so years on the stage next
season, she will go out as a. star in Clyde
Fitch's play, Grandma.
Jules s. Murray has engaged Max Fig
man to play the part OF S1r Keg,linaId Bel BEL,
size in 1.-THE Marriage of Kitty, and viii
star him jointly in the piece with Bettina
t1irard.
The final papers divorcing John T. sulli-
New York last week by Judge Glider.
sleeve. Miss Coghlan was given the right
to resume her maiden name
vaudeville for several years, has been
trying out new comedy en1fit Leo Inc
season under the management of George
W. Lederer.
Chicago tonight and will reopen in New
York August 20. The pieces success in
the New York engagement.
The announcement has been made that
Beatrice Gilbert, member OF The VIZ
ard of o. company, now playing IN Chi
cago, was married last week in that city
to Guy BOStW1ck, a. Harvard graduate,
whose parents live in Boston.
Viola Allen closed her season last Sat
urday night and on Wednesday sailed
from New York for London and Paris
Her next season starts the first of Sep
TENDER and only one play will be present
ed, ''Sha kespeare's "A Winters Tale"
Kitty Cheatham, once q member of Au-
gustin Days company, IS the latest re-
cruit to vaudeville. Miss Cheatham mar
ried several years ago and retired, but
in recent years has been doing g. mon
ologue for private parties around New
York and Boston
Beerbohrn Tree has again fallen back
on Clyde Fitch's THE Last of the Dan
dies in London and doing well. This
play has never been presented in New
York, but will probably come forward
next season with Henry Z. Dixey in the
principal role.
Daniel Frohman cables from London
that the opening play for his new stock
company at the Lyceum theater. New
York, is now being written by Mr.. Pinero
and will be brought out about the first of
the year. Margaret Ellington (A1rs. Dan
| lei Frohman) will be the leading woman
of the organization.
Fay Templeton viii be starred next
season by Klaw and Erlanger, supported
| by her own company of comedians. The
piece will be written by John J. McNaIly
and Miss Templeton will be the central
/ figure of the plot She will be seen in
/ only four cities, New York Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

Nothing seemed to daunt her. 1t is
no wonder the war artist fell in love
with her. He couldn't help it. They
were married a few days ago.
He is Lester Ralph, the son of the
famous war correspondent, whose war
pictures are known throughout the
world; she was Elsie Reasoner. Her
graphic pen pictures of the American
campaign in Cuba-made when she was
only 19-illumined the pages of the
magazines
Elsie Reasoner was reared in the
atmosphere of the editorial room. Her
father, the Hon. Calvin Reasoner, now
retired from active work. was for
many years one Of the most fOrceful
writers of the west She was reared
in Leavenworth, Kansas. and later
went to sch DOL in Washington, d. G.
When she was graduated she be-
gan the serious work of life. under
the tutelage of her father, upon a
newspaper in Salt Lake City. Miss
Reasoner began by writing art criti-
cisms. Art criticisms are not very ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25
Headaches Can Be Avoided.

after attending an operate or theatrical
performance. This IS due largely to the
ular breeding places of rnicrobiaI dis
eases. But there is another reason, to
which an Englishman, Mr., Simeon Smell,
seer's headache he quotes the expression
of lady who always suffered from Sc
we're headache after visiting the theater
when she had occupied a seat in the pit,
but was free from such disturbance when
she sat in the dress circle. In the first
position, It is pointed out, sustained ac-
ton of the elevator muscles Of the eye~
balls is required u order to see the stage
and this is exactly the action which is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

Rossini, whose Barber of Seville was
Tecentl- given with, great eclat at the
Berlin Royal opera house, once paid the
following tribute to Mozart: The Ger
mans have always been great in har-
mony, we Italians in melody: however,
since they have produced a. Mozart in the
north, We southerners are better on our
own ground, for this man rises above
both nations, combining the magic of the
Italian cantilena with the depth of the
German 'Gemuth.i If there ever comes a.
time when Mozart is no longer considered
beautiful, then we old ones, who are still
left, can shuttle Off this mortal coil. In
paradise however-of that am sure
Mozart and his hearers will find each
other again After the great success OF
The Barber of Seville Rossini was re-
preached for having borrowed from Mo-
Fart. At this the genial master replied :
Mozart is rich; he can afford to lend
without impoXerishing himself,,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

Miss Reasoner had seen the young art
lists pictures of the war. They were
more than mere sketches to her; back of
them she could discern the suffering, the
tell
Two of the pictures drawn by Ralph
appealed to her with particular emphasis.
One OF them presented a trooper kmeeliug
horse, apparently, was dying. and with
the affection that only a soldier knows,
the trooper was pouring the last drop of
water from a canteen into its parched
mouth.
The little war correspondent was able
TO appreciate the sentiment in that
sketch Another picture Illustrated "A.
charge by an English regiment up a
and firing down One Of the English sol
diers had been wounded, and a cha plain
in a hail Of bullets, stood reading the BIZ
BILE to him. Miss Reasoner had seen SOL
and il touched a tender chord
Ralph, too, knew all about Elsie Reas-
oner; he had read and admired her stories
Of the Cuban war They meant to him
precisely what his pictures meant to her,
and so when the two met at a studio par
ty in Paris they had plenty TO talk
At the time the exposition in St Louis
Ralph father of the young war artist,
was put in charge Of the bureau of pub
lefty. It is a curious commentary upon
the devious methods of fate that Elsie
Reasoner. already in love with the son of
Mr.. Ralph-and he with her-shouid
have been fixed upon as his assistant
But she Was-rhlS in spite of the fact
she had never even seen the elder Ralph.
And so the courtship- begun in Paris, was
continued I'm America
And now the only girl war correspon-
dent and the young war artist are on
their honeymoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

Deep tearing or wrenching pains, coca
stoned by getting wet through. worse
when at rest, or on first moving the limbs
and in cold or damp weather, is cured
cured quickly by Billiards. Snow Lini-
ment. oscar OIeson, Gibson City, H.
writes Feb Is, 1902: "A year ago was
troubled with a Pain IN my back. It soon
got so bad I could not bend over. One
bottle OF Billiards. Snow Linimeut cured
me- Csc, SO. S1-00 at RoWley g. Snow s
and w S. Ailler's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

required in studying a collection of pic
lures, and more especially in looking at
those which are hung above the line.
The same experiences has been noted by
Mr.. Smell in the case of cyclists, partieu-
larly of those who lean over the handle
bars with the head lowered, and who,
therefore, in looking ahead keep up a
strain on the muscles which turn the eye
balls upwards. There can be no doubt OF
the physiological fact that lateral move
ment OF the eyeballs is much more easy
and requires less muscular effort than
moYement IN a vertical plane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

couldn't possibly do it.
After all the others. / went to Nc
Clures. A whole lot of correspond
ents were held up at Key West at that
time waiting for a chance to go to
Cuba. The outlook was not promising
for my getting there, I must confess
but l was bound to go. When 1 saw
Mr. Mcclure and made my proposition
to him he refused point blank to send
me.
Why. it's foolish he said. You
can't get through, and even if you
should you might not come back
alive. I won't take the responsibility.
But if you do go I'll be glad to take
whatever you write.
IT thought long and hard over the
situation, and made up my mind that
the chance of getting to Cuba by way
of Jamaica was better than Florida
SO I took steamship for Kingston
that very day. On landing, I hurried
by rail to Port Antonio, and by great
good tuck, the Red Cross steamer State
of Texas came into the harbor that
very night.
IT was well supplied with letters of
introduction from influential public
men. I had one to General Miles. one
to General Shafter. and several to
officers of the fleet.
Il went aboard the Red Cross ship,
and was introduced to Miss Clara
Barton, who received me very cor
daily. When 1 told her of my mis-
sion and my letters, she permitted me
to go with the ship to Siboney. was
thus able to land in Cuba eight days
after leaving New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25


begun. As the foremost war CORE
spondent, Julian Ralph went to the
front for Harpers and Black and
White and the Daily Mail of London.
1t was a curious turn of fate.
Lester Ralph was educated IN Paris
as an artist, and the war in the Trans
Vaal was by no means his first cam
paign. He was present, with his
| father, at the fiasco between Greece
and Turkey, and the little action he
| witnessed there only whetted his APP
petite for more.
/ One day a small British expedition
was sent out from Bloemfontein to
post proclamations, and young Ralph,
! looking for pictures, went along. In
this way he witnessed the first san
culinary battle Of the war-the am
4 buscade at SannaS pOst-When the
Beers caught Colonel BroadwoOds
| little column in a gulch and killed or
captured half of it.
Ralph, creeping through the lines,
escaped to Bloemfontein, but his
/ father, who, with other correspond
! ents, hurried to the scene, was thrown
from his horse and received injuries
which eventually caused his death.
Following the ambuscade at San
mas post, young Ralph was stricken
4 with the fever, and among the friends
who assisted in nursing him back to
health was Rudyard Kipling.
When Methuen fought his disas-
trous battles along the Modder river
I Ralph was there, drawing pictures of
I them; he Witnessed the capture OF
4 Kronje and he was with Roberts
when Pretoria fell. And all the while
1 his sketches, published in America
of the great campaign as graphically
as were his fathers written words.
Then when it was all over Lester
Ralph returned to Paris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

1.-THE battle Of San Juan Hill had
just been fought when / reached SibO-
ney, and wounded men We're being
brought back to the hospitals from the
front. I did what I could to help the
Red Cross nurses by cooking Cruel and
carrying ice, but the first chance I got
I pushed on inland on queer little
Cuban horse.
ION the way visited a dozen or
more Of hospitals and took many pic
lures. Here is one nova snapshot of
a poor felloW-one of the regularity
ing on an improvised cot. He was shot
through the thighs. But look at the
smile on his face. Just as I snapped
he caught sight of me- He was so
weak that he could not raise himself or
scarcely speak, but his face beamed
when he saw me.
. Sister has one of those kodsks,' he
said to me, and how much you remind
me Of her. He died. think.
Il was present at number Of Skin
naishes; near enough to the firing line
to hear the music of the Mausers and
the crack of the rifles our boys carried.
Indeed, I got just as close to the fir
ing line as the commanding officers
would permit me to go.
Here is a picture 1 took of a Span
lard lying dead on the field. He was
a sharpshooter, and from his perch in a
of Koosevelt's men. big negro cav
alryman finally located him and
brought him down, badly wounded.
There he is, just as he lay when pass
ed the place.
II saw funny things, too. I saw a
Cuban sell a horse for half of a pine
apple and a. piece of tobacco. saw
six-f0oteFs of the Michigan volunteers
who had fought Spaniards almost hand
to hand, run like deer from understood
land crabs; and saw General Chatter
$40 odd pounds-riding a diminutiye
Cuban horse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

Zone thing made a lasting impression
on me. 1t was the wonderful cheerful
ness Of our soldiers amid great hard
ships and suffering"
Miss Reasoner wrote many interest
ing articles about what she saw amid
the flying bullets on the battlefield
and McClure's Magazine and the other
magazines were glad to print all that
they could get from her.
When the war was over she went &c
Paris as correspondent for the Asso-
ciated Press, and then on to Holland.
where she was the only American Wo-
man to witness the coronation OF
Queen With elmina. And all the while
she was adding to her fame as cor
respondent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-25

De Wolf Hopper had a slight cold the
other night, and in a curtain speech he
referred to it in this fashion:
Il went to my DOCTOR he declared,
land the doctor said had been eating
too much indigenous food and must
stop it and eat farinaceous food Since
then I haven't been able to eat at all,
for I don't know what either word
means
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-28
SUING FOR HER HUSBAND.
Woman Lawyer Counsel in Case in
Which She Was Prime Mover.

From the New York Tribune.
The Supreme Court in this city wit
messed a few days ago the possibly
unique incident of woman lawyer
acting as counsel for her husband, and
the fact was generally commented up
on by the legal profession. The lawyer
was Mrs. Florence D. Potter and she
appeared in a suit brought by her hus-
band, Alexander Potter, and William
B. Tuteur against Clinton L. Rossiter.
They asked an accounting under an
agreement made in 1891 assigning GER
tain water power concessions in Mex
leo.
Few, if any, of the people about the
court ROOM except the principals, knew
that Mrs. Potter's connection with the
case went back further than her being
retained as counsel. 1t seems that it
was entirely due to her energy and
business foresight that the concessions
in dispute were secured from the Next
can government in the first place.
Mrs Potter is a graduate of Cornell
University, and after her marriage
with Mr.. Potter who is an engineer,
she decided to continue her law stud
les.
"You have your profession, she said
mine? Certainly our interests Will
never conflict"
There was no answer to her question
| and she went to work on Blackstone
and the codes She was admitted to
practice and has since appeared in a
number of cases. She was right in her
prediction that the professions would
not conflict. The present legal case
shows how the one has been able to
help the other.
A few years ago Mrs. Potter went
| to Mexico to recover from a serious ILL
ness. She eventually found herself at
Toluca, the capital of the state of Mex
leo. where she spent a month. She
| had been there only a short time when
she learned of "a series of waterfalls
some twenty miles south of the capital.
At the same time she heard the BUSH
ness men of Toluca, one of the rapid
ly growing Mexican cities. complaining
about the cost of light and power ow-
! ing to the shortage Of wood and the
great cost Of coal. The idea of utiliz-
| ing the falls came to her at once.
81 would like to visit those falls Of
which you speak" she said to Gov.
| Villada. How can ! get to them?"
II don't believe you can get to them
! the Governor replied. 1T is a tWen-
| ty mile ride over the toughest sort
Of country. A Mexican woman might
| do Il. but l don't think you can.
II am strong now and won't mind the
hardship" Mrs. Potter returned.
what Mexican woman can do, 1
| can"
Her energy and assurance pleased
the Governor and he readily furnished
an escort Of rurales, as the Mexican
mounted police are called. The trip
was attended with some hardship, but
/ Mrs. Potter never faltered. She ex-
'amined the chain OF falls and inquir-
/ ed into the sources from which they
| drew their water. They told her the now
/ now was never-ceasing because OF Won
| derful springs from which the water
! dubbed even In the dryest seasons.
On her return she went 60 the Gov
ernOr and asked for an option on tho
water right Of those falls. He named
a satisfactory figure and the plpers
] were drawn up, Then Mrs. Potter
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-28

Hard 10 Approach. Oook-
ng for nm apartmen) I'D Ike 10 see
the janltor. please" Assist0nt-"Did
yer have an appointment wild him
Brooklyn Life.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-28
EXECUTION OF A CREEK
INDIAN BY HIS FRIEND.
From the New York Sun.

Within the stone fence enclosing the
old Greek council house at Okmulgee,
1. T.. stand several trees under which
a number of Indians have been whip
ped or put to death under sentence
of the Indian Courts. The last execu-
ton in the Creek Nation occurred in
the council house yard nine years ago,
and the tree. tall sycamore, stand
ing within few feet of the wall, is
pointed out to visitors as the one to
which the prisoner was tied while a
captain of the light horse guard put
him to death with a rifle ball.
The prisoner was Timothy Jack and
he was sentenced by the Greek Court
at Okmulgee for stabbing another In
dian to death at dance. He was SEN
fenced to be executed and, according
to the old Creek custom, was allowed
to name the person who should fire
the fatal bullet into his body
Duke Berryhill. for many years a
captain of the light horse guard Of
the Creek nation, was selected by Jack
as his executioner. 1t was a common
practice among Indian criminals about
to be put to death to choose one of
their best friends to do the work Jack
had at one time been an officer in the
light horse guard under BerryhiI and
entertained a high regard for the cap
tain. Berryhill performed his task we'll,
although it was a painful one for him
Capt. Berryhill, who is now clerking
in a store within view of the scene Of
the execution, pointed out the tree to a
visitor the other day.
IF you go over there and examine
that sycamore in the corner of the
yard" he said, you can still see the
hole in the trunk where the bullet en-
tered, although it is almost closed by
the new fiber of the tree.
We strapped the prisoner to the
tree in a standing position with his
breast exposed. Then we pinned a
round piece of paper over his heart
to serve as a target, and 1 fired at
that.
II regretted the necessity of execut-
ing Jack. but it was his, wish and he
would have scarcely forgiven me IL I
had allowed any other person to fire
the shot.
Shooting was the legal form OF ex-
ecution among the Greeks. Hanging
was considered disgraceful, but to be
shot was more like the death of a SOL
der, hence more honorable. II was
the usual custom to allow the prisoner
to select two men to execute him. Tho
executioners preferred this as there
was always a doubt as to who was re-
sponsible for the fatal shot.
There Is an old Indian burying
ground within the limits OF Okmulgee
which has been the scene OF several
Indian executions. When such a. place
was chosen the prisoner was tied 10 a
tree near the open grave which had
been prepared 10 receive his body The
Indian seldom II ever showed signs OF
fear on the eve OF his execution, as
even in the last moments OF his NE
ho 90 not wish 10 seem "a coward ID
his fellows
There are several trees In the coun-
eli house yard which were used for