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none the less a survival of the Baal
beacon which blazed on this same
night in ages immemorial. Nova
DAYS the fire is blessed with prayer,
and the acolyte carries the cross as
the priest sprinkles holy water; but
the dance which follows has a touch
still of the ancient SUMMARIZE, and
there is a refrain half heather in the
litanies they sing.
All lonely pools are haunted by
the Korrigans, who dance at mid
night. They are tiny fair-haired
maidens who vanish at the sound of
a church-bell, the wraiths of heather
princesses who disdained Christian
ity. Then there are the Morgana,
sea-nymphs who steal children and
carry them out to sea; and the
dwarfs, the Gwazigans, who built the
menhirs. They dance about them on
starry nights, singing a song which
runs, Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday, Friday" and then
always comes to an end, for Saturday
and Sunday are holy-days Saturday
is dedicated to the Virgin in Brit
tany); and SO the gnomes can never
finish their rune.
The Devil, the Lonb GtiHou, as
they call him, hides by lonely wood
land paths and chants vespers so
drearily that the passing wayfarer
yawns himself to death. In sea-coast
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the image OF the patron SAINT OF the
parish and of Saint Peter, the fisher
mans friend. The acolytes in red
come first, then the priest in his cope
of golden silk, cleaning in the June
sunlight, and the chanters hoarsely
intoning the hymn "AJe Maris
Stella, while the bearers stagger un-
der the weight of the great gorgeous
ly embroidered banners overhead.
At the quay the luggers are waiting,
bobbing up and down in the flood
tide, freshly painted and newly
rugged
Monsieur lie Cure boards the lar
gest, and at once her tawny sails are
spread, and the fleet sets out for the
open sea, every boat crowded to the
gunwale, and the white caps of the
women massed in the crimson shadow
of the sails As the blunt green
prows dip in the violet water, the
banners sway, and the good priest
stands and solemnly blesses the sea,
that the catch, herring and mackerel
and sole, may be plentiful this year,
and that the storms may keep away,
far out in the Atlantic. The women
moan an amen of passionate entrcaty,
and the luggers come dipping home
again, dark against the sky. Softly
far out at sea the singing seems
reechoed as from the mysterious shore
of Avalon.
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hearty sound with too much bass in it to ind-
cate a Confederate charge 1t proved to
be the coming of General Hooker his staff and
escort. They riding along the rear of our
lines of battle and inspecting situation and prep
aration for action General Sickes, in his report,
notices this visit of the commanding general: 1t
pressble enthusiasm of the troops for Major
General Hooker. 1t was evinced in hearty and pro-
longed cheers as he rode along the lines of the
Twelfth, Third and Eleventh Corps"
With my staff l joined the cavalcade. Hooker
noticed our breastworks and such trenches we
had and while we passed along from regiment to
regiment referring protecting logs and bitches
he said: How strongl How strongl" Colonel
Comstock, Hookers engineer, observed the extern
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milestone surely retreatng-rnany observers
said.
At twelve midday, Sickles received orders from
ward cautiously. This he did two miles and more
By two in the afternoon, l concluded that a battle
had there begun, because there active musketrv
firing, which quickly followed by a more pro-
nounced cannOnade. | sent this to my division
commanders with instructions to be ready for
action. The enemy still reported to be in full
retreat. Sckless operations, and particularly the
pushing out of Berdan's sharp-shooters, which
ceeded in capturing almost entire regiment
appeared to have determined Rockers mind, and
he telegraphed to Sedgwick &" Lee is in full
retreat" 1t was just then that Captain Moore, of
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sion of my command and saw the frequent breaks
in the lines where there were no troops, and said
close in those spaces!' l answered inquiringly:
Why, Comstock? The woods are thick and entan-
gled. Could anybody come through there?" He
replied Oh, they might l took pains to follow
his hints
Later in the f~renoon, Sick1es and l observed the
movement at the Furnace after Hooker had returned
to his headquarters. From the turn that the
Confederate column made the Furnace, every
body said Lee is pushing toward Orange court
house" We forwarded every vestige of information
obtained to Hooker's headquarters Hooker thought
as others did He claimed chat he OWNED Lees
purpose; but he was in error. Lee caught between
us and Sedgwick as between upper and neither
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creature in white mantle who can fling the strong
est man into the quicksand. The sign of the cross
cannot avail against him; for is not the sacred
symbol stamped in red upon his shoulder?
Ballads which rehearse the perfidy of the Tenn
plar and the iniquties practsed by him in his com
manderies, whose ruins crumbe by their deserted
holy wells, still sung by hearth fires everywhere
but there are other favorte folk songs which tell of
gayer things, the adventures of Arthur and his
knights It is a moot question whether the Arthur
ian myth originated in Brittany; but be that as it
may, the towers of Lancelot's chateau of Joyous
Gdrde is still to be seen and the rocky iset where
Tristan hid from his wicked stepmother and the
forest OF Broceliande where Merlin lies bound in
enchantment. The constellation of the Dipper is
called Arthur's Chariot. The misty figures of his
legion fit through the passes of the Montagnes
Nores, and fervent and old-fashioned Celts believe
that Arthur will one day return and do away with
the hated Franl<ish rule. But he bides his time
meanwhile, asleep in the Island of Avalon, the Isle
of Golden Apples, far out in the Channel, guarded
by lines of spouting reefs from trespassers other
than sea-gus, and watched by the spirits of Breton
maidens in cap and Golf.
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with those weird monuments of forgotten faith the
Druid stones, it is not strange that the vivid Celtic
fancy should incline, in the shadow of the incompre
hensble to gloomy portents and traditions. You ind
them everywhere, those vast dolnens and menhirs;
serred ranks of rude pillars stretch for miles
nonoIth rises from field of poisoning barley
where the bees hum.
Naturally, folks whose ancestors have dwelt for
generations in the matched hamlets close at hand
attribute mystic virtues these occult affairs which
have outlived their memory. Curious
rites are practised moonless nights at some of
the stones-rites of which Monsieur lie Cure by no
means approves People gather mysterously,
tramping cautiously in the dimness of the deep
lanes some carry children desperately sick; others
have broken heads broken hearts which seem
past healing: with each it forlorn hope, the last
appeal. They shuttle along in silence; for the
Church has forbidden this tampering with the
powers of darkness but the belief in the Druid stone
is in their blood. the belief that the touch of it's
lichened face will cure the incurable shame and
sorrow and despair.
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The Moon as Our Lady "

OTHER vestges linger of the old nature worship;
~ the farmer digging in his onion-held salutes the
new moon reverently as Our Lady" and adjures
her, "As you find well, SO leave well" and
the sardine-fsher drifting seward at nghtall pulls
off his rough cap when the planet Venus rises above
the foam of his wake. On Midsummer Eve every
markell place and headland has its leaping bonfire
now piously christened the Fire of Saint John but
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y M airy AS h hurst Vie1e

chapels gather when their husbands at
sea and blow the dust from the choir floor in the
direction from which a favorng wind should come.
loaf of bread is never cut without making the
sign of the cross with the knife, and a mother
always crosses her infant before feeding it Off the
coast of Finistere there hes a submerged city whose
church chimes can be heard family on Easter
morning.
Many superstitions. some of them touching and
beautiful, are connected with death. On the
of All-SOus Day table is spread in the great living
of the farmhouse close to the chimney corner
There a white CLOTH bunch of late flowers,
bread and cheese and cider. A prayer is said
solemnly, and the family go to bed. They believe
that at midnight when only faint glow shines
from the embers the dead will back to the old
home and eat and drink once more.
When man is sick in of the moOrand ham
lets his friends listen in terror for the approaching
wheels of the cart of death. One hears it coming
from far away joting in the deep ruts of the lane
wrapped in shroud. Three times the rumble of its
wheels shall be heard, for when dies he must be
followed by another and yet another Of his kin 4
strike three times before rest says Death.
Watching in the Graveyard
A NEW-MADE grave is watched for several nights
lest it be disturbed by demons, and strangers who
hnger curiously in graveyard always suspected
of affecting the departed with the Evil Eye Bees
are told OF death in the house as was once usual
in some parts of this country; and at the sight of
falling star should cross himself in gratitude
that soul has been released from Purgatory.
Fisherfolk believe that on foggy nights strange
ship may be seen from lonely cliffs black ship with
a white sail. Her deck is crowded with melancholy
figures which look back weeping toward the shore,
and the sound of sobs is blown inland. The belated
fisherman shudders and hides his eyes; for he has
seen the Ship of Death freighted with lost souls
But it is the specter of the Templar, the Red
Monk, as the Bretons call him, which haunts the
countryside most persistently. Hated is the
memory of the Templar all over France, it is so
especially in Brittany He is seen on solitary roads
riding swiftly, black and frghtfu bulk against the
setting moon. His eyes glare with fire. and he
urges his horse skeleton hung with funeral trap
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pings, upon his quest
for unguarded chill
dren whom he carries
away to his internal
lair. Or he is met by
kelp-gatherers wan
dering on the beach
in the half light of
dawn, a raVening
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Blessing the Fleet

ON that same enchanted coast where the rivers
~ run seward from the heart of FARMLAND, where
every cliff and copse has some memory of the
romantic past, sanity hermit and chvalrous knight
dragon and witch princess, Crusader and King
there is in each fishing village the beautiful
ceremony, every midsummers day. of blessing
the fleet procession leaves the church. escorting
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Vast Dolmen
at Carnac

THE Breton peas
ant of to-day
clings as closely
to his ancient supersti-
tons as to his quaint
costume, and as Brit
tanv is a land marked
from the Bay of Bis
cav to the Channel
The Washington times., 1906-10-07
'OminOus Headshaklngs at First

tfrom the New York Evening Journal)
Lo. great good hath come out OF Chi
cagO Prof William Vaughn Moody. OF
the University of Chicago. is the in
strument. ], was Prof Moody's new
play. The Great Divide, which took
the house by storm last evening at the
Princess Theater, and bore Margaret
Anglin and Henry Miller so far alOft on
"a wave of approval that for a time after
the final curtain IL was a question
whether the audience would allow them
to descend 10 change into their street
clothes and get home before the milk
wagons began TO rattle.
Dual satisfaction was derived from the
appearance Of Prof Moody in response
To insistent clamOT. II was agreeable
Doth to look at Prof Moody as a sam
pie of tae more altitudinous intellect pf
Chicago and as the author OF q play
Broadway has had set before II in sea-
sons.
When the first act was ended there
were OminOus hesdshakIngs all over the
theateT- II started out TOO we'll Fore
second aCt-the fatal second, where
usually the skinny skeleton begins To
show. and the raw art OF the untried
dramatist so frequently comes crop
per. But the second act was better than
It's predecessor. while the third vas the
equal of either. II was superior IN
The Washington times., 1906-10-07
"Not a Melodrama.s

From the New York Evening SUM-
What a treat 1t is 70 see an audience
leaning forward IN their seats, tense
and silent ike so many mice waiting
for the advent OF the cat whom they
know 10 be Just around the corner!
That's the way the audience looked and
acted at the Princess Theater last night
when Mr.. Miller and Miss Anglin pro-
duoad william Vaughn Moody's drama,
''T'he Great Divide" Here, splendidiy
acted. Is a big American play, so vivid.
virile and void of artidciality that II
makes You sit up and take notice from
the moment that the curtain rises until
It's final fall. Don't let anyone run
away with the idea that this Is a melO-
drama: it is drama of the purest form
Ia describing the play some OF its Incl
dents may sound melodramatic; but
since. when did thrills belong 20 melo-
drama aloneg And this play does thrill
YOU. There's no getting away from
that fact. On the other hand. II pre-
seuts an absorbngly interesting prob
lem. the battle between two tempefa-
ments. the woman an Eastern Puritan
saddled with the ughtest type OF he"
England conscience, the man, q west
erner crude. uncuuth. untrammeled. a
brute whom the woman tames uneon-
sciouslV until he becomes Tar more
noble figure than herself
It's A great Victory for the West. THIS
play, for though Ruth Jordan sets out
with all the virtuous and honorable ac-
which belong % a stage
heroine. before the play Is halt over tHt
sympathv has switched completely ru
the man. who. stLTtinR out as an un-
mitigated scoundrel. plays the game
so well and CALAMITY that he becomes
the dramas s most Imposing ugure-
Originally the play was called The
Sabine Woman" That title describes
The Washington times., 1906-10-07
AN Unmistakable Verdict"
From the New York P-ess.)

tFr0m the New York P-ess)
Last thought not least among the sea-
sons openings IN point OF interest and
measure Of success achieved was that
Of the Princess Theater last evening,
when Margaret Anglin and Henry NIL
Ter reappeared in Broadway and pre-
sented The Great Divide" Not only
did the audience give unqualified ap-
proval TO the play and the stars" but
several other members of the evenly
balanced cast received most gratifying
recognition.
Five minutes after the first curtain
rose there seemed TO be little doubt OF
the outcome. and when the velvet drop
feu upon the closing scene OF the sec
ond act any misgivings were entirely
dispeled. for the verdict rang out in
handclaps and cries OF enthusiastic ap-
proVal For many minutes thereafter
the unseen man at the sw1rch was kept
busy raising and lowering the curtain In
response 10 the renewed VOlleys Of ap-
plause. and Miss Anglin. Mr.. Miller and
William Vaughn Moody. the author.
were occupied in bowling their aCknOwl-
edgments. Only after a brief speech
from each of the men did the cyclOnic
reception cease.
Although 1.-THE Great Divide" lacks
The Washington times., 1906-10-07
''Drama, Not MeIodrama."

(Fr0m the New York SUM-
William Vaughn Moody's new Ameri-
can drama, The Great Divide" which
Henry Miller and Margaret Auslin pre-
sented last night at the Princess, is
so bold and vital i'm theme, so subtly
veraciuus and unaffectcdIy strong in the
writing that il is very hard in the few
moments left by a tsrdy. II excellent.
performance to speak Of it in terms at
once of justice and of moderation.
Yet IL is abundantly clear that no
play OF the present seasonal season
unusually rich-has equaled IL either in
caliber or IN execution, except only
plnero's His House "a Order" And
even this strikes less true and deep
into the wells of human impulse and
passion.
To say that it is the best product
OF the American drama thus far would
doubtless be eXtravagant; yet the fact
remains that it is inspired by precisely
that fullness and whOlesomeness Of feel
ing and accomplished with precisely
that technical nrmness. the lack OF
which has thus Tar proved the car
diuaI defects OF our most vivaciOus and
amusing playwrights.
The fact is that Mr.. Moody, who has
already placed himself at the head of
modern American poets, has not ceased
to be a poet in essaying the stage
though his play is written IN the sim
plest and most unaffected prose. And
he has, furthermore, applied the hnesse
and precision essential m the true
poetic craft to tho no less rigid and
requiring task of the dTamatist. With
the lesser order OF writers it has been
the Iamcntable custom 20 deal lightly
i'm and inslncereIy with the theater.
Mr. Moody respects his new medium.
copes with il courageOusly and with
manfuI adherence to the simple truth
of life, and masters it.
His theme is unusual-seIsatloual, if
you will But it is unusual and sensa-
tional in Jhe manner not Of melOdrams,
but of true and original drama. The
great divide of his title is the barrier
which exists between the ri6Or and dry
formallty of old civilization and the
larger and freer, If more brutal, i'm
pulses of the frontier.
The Washington times., 1906-10-07
THEATRICAL NEWS AND CHAT OF THE WEEK.

il absolutely. but under any name this
drama would lift the man who wrote IL
into the front rank OF contemporary
dramatists.
The dialogue Is simple, direct, and yet
full Of poetry; the plot. daring as 1t un-
quesuonably is is handled so simply. SO
outspokenly that while It startles II
never really offends. Mr. Moody has
handled a big theme in big way. He
wins by his own daring. Only once does
he bow 10 conventionaltty, and that one
concession marks the plays weak spot
II was not there originally. but owing 10
the shocked tone OF some OF the out-of-
town notices the episode ia which the
woman falls into the hands of the hree
drunken men ia the first act has been
toned down until # gives the heroine nc
reasonable motive for her subsequent
Conduct
The Washington times., 1906-10-07

as a singer OF Wagnerian opera almost
without an equal.
In 1893 Miss Jansen was called TO
Paris by the famous Conductor Lamou-
reuX 20 sing Isolde i'm the performances
Of Tristan and Isolde" that he was
giving at the NOuVeau Theater. She
met with success in this role. which IS
considered the heaviest and most DIM
cult in the Wagnerian repertory. After
creating the role In French at Paris
she sang il with equal success at
Lyons, where the enthusiastic PUBIC
with whom she was "a favorite ac-
clair ed her the 'operatic tTagedlenne
of her day Miss Jansen also includes
in her repertory the Marguerite OF Ber-
lioz's ''DamnatiOn of Faust. ana has
distinguished herself as an Interpreter
of German and Danish heder with
her great talent, her musical erudihon
and superb voice, it is predicted that
the American public viii welcome Miss
Janssen and that she viii prove an
ACQUISITION of great worth 10 the mu-
sical season.
The Washington times., 1906-10-07

terpTetatiOns she proved herself a
singer of incompatible merit as we'll
ns a marvellous actress. Endowed with
soprano voice that charmed by it's
purity and power, she realized in every
Interpretation the dramatic possibilities
or The roles.
She was member of the Paris Grand
Opera during the season Of 1S94-96, but
was recalled 10 Lyons, where she has
been "a fixture since the season OF 1896,
she became the most popular artist
OF the company, being always received
with enthusiasm by a public that is
lfutoriously difficult 10 please. In lS04.
when the municipality OF Lyons or
eauized a series of performances OF
W8guer's Teualogy, Eloise Jansen was
selected to sing Siegliude in Die Wal
Ilure." and Bruuuhilde In Die Gotter-
dammerung. The success OF the fes-
tival was largely due 10 her efforts
and her fame was even acknowledged
by the foreign press. The Berliner Tag
liatt referred to her performances in
the most glowing terms, describing her
The Washington times., 1906-10-07
"a Good. Old-fashioned MelOdrama.' .
From the New York Herald)

tFrUm the New York Hculd)
Rarely If ever. have Miss Margaret
AugIu and Mr.. Henry Miller appeared
TO better advantage ON the stage than
in the roles they acted last night at the
Princess Theater. when The Great Di-
vide" was given its frst New York pro-
duction, The play was written by Mr..
William Vaughn Moody, until now un-
known 10 fame as a dramatist.
Nj, Moody's play has elements Of
originality and crude strength. It
deals with the uupolished form OF
American life as found on the Arizona
desert, and the author Las allowed
himself free swing. He has rushed in
where the hardened playwright would
fear 10 tread and created scenes and
situations which not only bring a thrill,
bat possibly a blush, 10 some who grasp
the fun meaning of the story.
In fact. "The Great Divide is an out
and out melodrama of the good. old
fashioned claptrap brand, but so we'll
acted and so we'll staged that not for
one moment do you think yourself on
the Bowery. The Broadway gliding
saves YOU from any such error.
The Washington times., 1906-10-07
New YOrk's Verdict on 1.-THE Great Divide.

in praise of a play such as this, where
in the drama lies in spiritual issues
The production was made with excel
lent judgment The setting of the sec
end act on the SUBMITS of the Catali-
ma Mountains was exceptionally we'll
done. Miss Anglin, as Ruth, was re-
strained and impressive In Ghent Mr.
Miller has one of the most interesting
characters he has ever oSsayed. Miss
Laura Hope Crews, in a winsome char
acter, with plenty of suappy speeches,
and Mrs. Whinen. as Mrs Jordan. de-
serve a word o. praise. although the
entire company. with two exceptions.
werf excellent
The Washington times., 1906-10-07

- o much discussion was aroused
in Washington over the produc-
ton of William Vaughn Moody g
new play, THE Great Divide.
which opened the season at the Belas-
60 TheaJer three weeks aso, that the
New York verdict has considerable To-
cal interest.
From Washington The Great d.
vide" went 10 PittsburE, where every
critic but one scored ii ON moral
grounds II must be confessed that
Pittsbmss moral pose is somewhat
amusing 10 the country at large, which
has been Sickened by the inside stories
recently published of domestic life in
the smoky City.
The Great Divide opened at the
Princess Theater i'm New York city last
Wednesday night and made an instant
hit
Following are comprehensive extracts
from criticisms published i'm the leading
morning and afternoon papers next
day In each case the story of the play
has been omitted as unnecessary. 1t
viii be noted that the Herald is the
only paper shocked by the play
immortality"
The Washington times., 1906-10-07

some Of the realistic sBectacularity of
"The Girl OF the Golden West" and
some Of the teRderer moments OF "The
Squaw Man" it has all the genuiaeness
OF breezy atmosphere and true ring OF
a romance of the primitive West. Like
them. too, il may be classed as a melo-
drama. and, again like them, in the
hands Of less capable group OF play
ers might easily have been a hopeless
EFFORT II is crowded with strong dra-
matte situations that give Miss Anglin.
especially, perhaps the best opDortuni-
ties of her career. Her work. as was
Miller's. was marked by iine restraint
and intelligence in scenes with which
only players of their artistry could cone
Their triumph was complete.