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New-York tribune., 1906-10-26

made in behalf of certain foreign capitalists for n
large block Of the stock OF the Micmac Gold Min,nr
Company. The exact identity OF these interests
cannot be ascertained but it Is understood that the
tender was made on account OF more or less
prominent copper mining company. control OF
which is held abroad. The offer was refused. The
stock OF the Portland Mining Company. OF wyo-
ming will be listed
New-York tribune., 1906-10-26
SECURITIES VALUES SAG.
PRICES DECLINE ON RELATIVELY LIGHT BUSINESS.
READING Weak Deangs-Time Money Firm Wle Call FUNDS
IRE Comparatively Easy-Lttle De mand for the Latter

posis increased 90 10000 francs: general deposits
Increased 3S $4,000 francs; gold hand decreased
100000 francs; silver hand decreased 6'ouOVVo
francs: bills discounted increased 6075O0o francs
advances increased S.975.00O francs.
Berlin Oct. 25.-The weekly return of the I'M
perial Bank of Germany shows the following
changes Cash on hand increased o2;ttooUo MARKS;
treasury increased $4,000 marks; other Sc
curites decreased s. 900 marks; notes in crcua-
ton decreased S.. 10000 marks.
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FOREIGN GOVERNMENT AND MuNlS'r"'
BONDS.
CReported by zimmerman & F'orshay. Nos ana -
srset)
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Closing prices of active bonds dealt in, with
net changes, follow:
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unlisted. TEX dividend.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
The Drama Revlvlne.
ON the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail.
zone great play" Mrs Fiske thinks,
may serve to save the theatre" The
question. them is simply to get the play
or rather the series OF great plays. 1t
may be that the time Is drawing nearer
when our theatres may cease to be show
houses" and become theatres again. Every
element exists for the renaissance of Sig
nificant drama-except the drama itself.
Costly playhouses are multiplied, the the
atre-going audiences are increasing In
number and a new strain of discriminate
ing criticism has appeared In the public.
A unique reputation is to be won In play
writing. The Greek drama borrowed from
epic and lyric poetry, and superseded
them. The modern prose novel has bor-
rowed from every form of literary effort,
including the drama. Most of all 1t has
borrowed the services of the literary
craftsmen whose activities in other ages
would have expended themselves In play
writing, poetry. autobiography, even
tract-writing. The prospect for a revival
of the drama lies In the fact that men
who use prose fiction as the vehicle of
their message are firing OF 1t and turning
to the drama. The stage is getting the
contributions of novelties at first hand
instead OF second hand, through the
dramatization of some story of adventure
or of manners. AS Brander Matthews says
in the North American Review. "Mr.
James himself has tried 1t, and Mn.
Howells and Mark Twain also And now,
in the opening years of the twentieth CEN
fury. we see Mr.. Barrie in London and
Mr.. Heryieu In Paris abandoning the
novel in which they have triumphed for
the far more precarlous drama"
What has caused such drift as has yet
appeared away from the novel and back
to the drama? According to Mr.. Matthews
1t is because the novel is too easy and
unexacting a form of expression. 1t Is
too much In the omnibus line; ut is a
loose form of hybrid ancestry; 1t may
he of any length; and 1t may be told in
any mannerAn letters. an autobiography
or as a narrative" "a true artist" Mr..
Matthews urges, cannot but tire of a
form that Is too facile." He adds, 1.-The
art of the dramatist is not yet at its
richest but 1t bristles with difficulties
such as a strong man joys in overcom-
Ing"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
Chicago Talks of Corn Carnival.

From the Chicago Tribune
The project to establish an annual corn
festival in Chicago, df carried through,
will be another move toward clinching the
city's right to the title of 'tthe central
market" The establishing of some such
annual function is the logical result of
Chicago's position as the purchasing point
for the merchants of the middle west.
AT present, with no especial attempts
made to bring merchants here in crowds,
the hotels are often comfortably filed
during the fall purchasing season. An an
nual festival In this season will bring
many more buyers Chicagoward.
But it is not merely the fact that busi-
ness will be greatly benefited by corn
festival that makes the project commend
ably Other fall festivals might bring
crowds and money to the city. But for
Chicago 1t should never be anything but
"oorn festival" Chicago is great enough
and generous enough to give credit where
credit belongs, and to the corn Is the
credit due for the prosperity that makes
possible the assembling of great crowds
of buyers in the city, and for tho gen.
eral welfare and happiness of the mid
die west as 1T now exists. The far west
has its gold, later the other minerals ano
tdILlo ufl6 IiOfbti HAS Tile SOuIl
cotton; but the states of this region have
their corn Better than the wealth OF
mines or timber, or any other gift that
nature may bestow on land, it has yield
ed to the stz.ies where 1t grows best
riches almost beyond belief, and except
where the avariciousness of man has
overreached his good senses 1t has taken
but little from the land where 1t has
grown. Since the beginning 1t has been
the foundation upon which the empire OF
the middle west has been built 1t will
continue to be the foundation indefn-
itely. 1t is this regions source of pros
per1ty
The natural center of all the great corn
states is Chicago. Chicago owes much to
corn From its field 1t has drawn wealth
and prosperity. Corn and Chicago are In
dissolubly linked. The naming of the city s
annual commercial festival after 1t Is a
fitting tribute. Tt testifies we'll to the
Chicago merchants sense of the Fitness
of things as well as to their business
perspicuity.
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hair four times and alter her makeup
for almost every gown.
For instance" explains Miss Williams
who plays at the jefferson this week,
I'm my second scene, where Schmaltz
(Sam Bernard) brings me to the theatre
to get a position wear a delicate gray
gown, which by contrast with the gay
costumes of the others on the stage car
ries out the idea that l am an innocent
country girl amid strange surroundings.
Then the manager gives me a chance
and 1 don red gown in which to sing
my coon song.
'It is apparently a simple change. but
1t means five minutes OF the hardest sort
of work. During the short interval al
lowed me to doff the gray and don the
red my maid and are working for dear
life. While l am unbottoning my gray
gown she is fairly tearing off shoes and
stockings and replacing them with red
ones. Talk about your team play We
have rehearsed every little detail Of those
quick changes hundreds of times.
There isn't time for interference or
misunderstanding for a second. Every
thing is planned down to the smallest
detail. Just so many buttons of each
waist belong to me to attend to. while
the rest are hers to look after It Is a
continual race for time, and between us
we have 1t down now think. to the saw
ing of the very last second. ] am giving
an added wave to my hair; she is fitting
on the skirt I am adding a dash of red
to my makeup In order not to be paled
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by the red dress. and she IS fastening
the last hook of the waist. Even the po-
sition of the body in DOMINIC and doffing
clothes has been studied-all with only
one idea in view-the economy of time.
THE hardest change of all is from
the light colored house gown In the sec
ond act to the euirassier's uniform, with
its-er-boots and things, and its heavy
breastplate and helmet. This is about
the most complete change that could pos
sibly be made, and the last view 1 get
of my dressing room when l rush forth
in my uniform is of my poor little maid
trying to make order of the sartorial
chaos left behind.
After an experience OF more than
seven months now my maid and 1 have
arranged a schedule of what I call The
Rolliclxing Girl Flyer, that is as infiex-
ible as the laws of the Modes and Per-
slams, to the extent that we must never
be a second behind the time table.
"On the other hand, however, we are
always trying to beat the schedule"
Here Is Miss Williams schedule for
every evening in the week;
7:00-Leave hotel for theatre.
7:10-Leisurely change street attire for
peasants dress.
s05-On the stage.
8:1S-Dash to dressing room.
B:20-Reappear In gray street gown.
S:40-Red coon song costume.
846-Dressing room.
8:50-Dressing room.
S54-Spanish costume.
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NO, BOUQUETS FOR DEAD.
Where the Reading Matter on Tomb
stones ls Brief.


There Is curious settlement in short
grass county of Kansas, according to one
who was in that part of the country
looking after claims.
1.-THE population" said the returned col
lector, lis a SORT of mixture of Quakers
and populists. OF the latter this nest is
about the only one left in the state
1.-THE cemetery near the town is an in
dex to the character of the place. The
few tombstones contain only the names
of the departed with the date of death
and sometimes the age. Not a line of
sentiment is carved upon single stone.
9 Twas curious to- know why. A patrf-
arch undertook to enlighten me.
!" This town. he said, s no Hall Of
Fame. Leastwise not yet. The commu-
nifty has been fooled so often that we
don't take up with anything new at first
sight. A.
I'VE got wise after trbulation 1
doubt IL you could find man In the
town who IL he told you the truth, has
not eaten into something hollow since he
has been here. For a while 1t seemed
as IL this was the camping place of every
fraud and skin game on the road.
After long run of this sort of thing
the community finally got suspicious of
itself. Then few of the leaders organ
lied a sort of testing committee. One of
the tenets of this committee was to say
nothing about mans virtues, IL he had
any. until he had been dead over year.
Several men who had cut a consider
able figure in their lives died and received
lot OF notices about what they had
done. We found out later that they had
been morally rotten and rascally on the
sly.
Now, when a man dies In this COM
munity, especially one who posed to the
good, the committee meets and the ques-
ton is asked. Was the deceased what
he cracked himself up to be?'' If any one
present can prove that he was we SIM
ply record that he died and then wait a
year to see II anything turns up against
him. II he rings out all right we hold
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DREssERs g. wAsHsTANDs

Extra Dresser and Washstand
in all grades and prices. We
will sell any dresser or wash
stand out of any suit in the
house Just to please you. So do
not feel embarrassed to ask us.
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Where He Got 1t.

From Harper's Weekly.
A number of politicians in washington
known political speaker invariably to al
lude to his partys success as having been
directed by the hand of Providence"
ITS most extraordinary" said Repre-
sentative John Sharp Williams, but he
really seems sincere in that conviction.
At the same time. gentlemen. while I
haven't the least objection TO the senator's
having an ace up his sleeve occasionally.
I do wish he would not always insist that
Providence put 1t therel''
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another meeting and the deceased gets
what is coming to any good man.
BY that time the monument fever
has cooled down and one good dead man
is on a level with another. Besides, this
sort of thing saves money.
If the dead mans family wants to
put up a monument and smear it over
with a lot of Scripture that's their bush
ness. But there isn't a monument of that
kind in our graveyard. II we learn any
thing against the deceased after he has
been buried a year we say nothing, but
we are very particular in any business
transactions we may have with his imme-
date kin forever after
IT asked the old man II he believed
that the community was any better for
this sort of caution.
Perhaps not, he replied. except that
1t makes tombstones cheaper. The more
you put on a tombstone the more 1t costs
1.-THE old man seemed SO sincere in his
Views that l did not care to have my
faith in him weakened by asking his
neighbors how they regarded him."
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HATTIE WILLIAMS
A RAPID DRESSER
Makes Ten Changes of Cos
tune in "RoIIicking Girp
EVERY SECOND COUNTS
Miss Williams and Her Maid Have the
Task Of Changing Clothes Quick
Iy Down to a Fine Art
Her Schedule.
EVERY SECOND COUNTS

Mylady dons a dainty. easy fitting
wrapper for breakfast, is fitted by her
maid into long skirt and boots for her
morning ride in the park, slips into walk
ing dress for shopping and finally is laced
and buttoned into creation of lace and
fiounce for dinner and the theatre, and
when the day is over my lady is fatgued
by the demands of society and of dress.
But what would my lady think il instead
of three or four changes she had to make,
as Miss williams does in THE Rollick-
ing Girl every evening, ten changes and
on matinee days twenty changes between
the time of rising in the morning until
the time of retiring?
1t would probably be physically impos-
sible for any one to change dress more
completely and more frequently within
the given time than must Miss Williams.
The author of 1.-The Rollicling Girl" has
spun story that, slender as 1t is, leads
the heroine through many scenes and
strange adventures. The cruel author
tears Ilona, the Hungarian country belle.
from the very arms of her betrothed.
sends her forth to the great city of Vi
emma; then with apparently ingenious
crulty, carries her to the very pinnacle
of theatrical success, only to drop her
back into oblivion of country life again.
1t is apparent cruelty only, for nona's
story ends happily amid the pealing of
wedding bells and of course she lives
happily ever after" But throughout this
nretty little love story for every kaledo-
scopie change of condition there is a
change of costume, and If tho heroine is
apparently kept pretty busy on the stage
she is really buster within the privacy of
her dressing room.
Some idea of the task involved may be
gathered from the statement that during
each performance Miss Williams makes
hine complete changes In costumes. And
that to meet these changes of outer raj
ment and still carry out the artistic eff
feet she has to change the dress of her
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
The Darwinan Theory.

From the New York Tribune.
Miss Agnes Mahony. missionary to
Liberia, was visiting Philadelphia with
two African slave girls that she had
bought for SIS apiece. Miss Mahony's pic
lures of Liberia were somber. She re-
lieved the gloom OF her narrative with
an anecdote of an African coast pilot.
"This pilot" said Miss Mahony, was
once bringing a ship northward. Tho cap
tain, toward sunset, bade him to go be-
low and help himself ITO a glass of cold
tea. ~ la iDtt 4,
After taldng the tea the pilot pro-
ceeded to MUNICH a biscuit.
Now, the captain owned large mon
key, and this creature sat browsing in a
dark corner of tho gloomy cabin. The
pilot said:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
CLUMSY BILLIARD
PLAYER ADVANCED
The Remarkable Rise of Calvin
Genarest
HE Is CLASSED WITH HOPPE
Chicago Critics Expect Him to Prove
a Second Boy Wonder-Besan
Two Years Ago to Play
the Game.

Chicago-Since the death of Frank Ives
there has never been an American bill
lizard player who could take equal rank
with Wizard Jake Schaefer when 1t
came to real championship billiards. The
rapid development of Willie Hoppe indi-
Gates that he will succeed to the crown
still worn by Sehaefer but, aside from
Hoppe. there has been no youth of cham
ponship caliber developed in the last dec
AIDE.
rival to Hoppe has now appeared in
this city. In Calvin Demarest, a youth
full expert, experienced cue wielders be-
lieve they are bringing to the front a boy
who will soon be able to class with
Schaefer and Hoppe. He is a youngster
not yet out of his teens, but he has de-
feated the, best amateurs of Chicago and
is still improving.
Began Two Years Ago.
Demarest was unaware of his ability
until he went through a course of in
struction. Less than two years ago he
could not handle a cue. He first at
tracted attention by his awkwardness at
the table, He began to haunt a Chicago
billiard room, and was taken in hand by
Lanson w. Perkins, billiard instruc-
tor.
Tie gave the most awful exhibition
ever saw" said Perkins In telling of the
incident. HE had not the slightest idea
of how to hold a cue, but he was SO
earnest I gave him lessons at his own
terms. He soon began to improve at a
great rate.
"Then Mussey arranged a straight ball
tournament for nine of my best pupils
and Demarest went into 1t. He won all
of the prizes His average was six and
his grand average AZ. He made a high
run of A. Then for d time | had to stop
him from playing for he was learning
the game too rapidly and was developing
come bad points, One of these-too much
driving-he still shows traces of.
Defeated conklIn.
1.-THE most remarkable thing about the
boy Is the fact that from that tournament
he Immediately jumped into class A, with
the champion of America, Conklin, as an
opponent. The straight rail tournament
was decided about seven months ago,
and two months ago he had two matches
with Conklin as tryout and lost both
of them. Conklin played him 1900 to 1000.
and the boy averaged around eight. Then
he got into the handicap that was decid-
ed a short time ago and was scratch at
800 points with Conlxlin. In this tourna-
ment he did not lose a game, beating
Conklin In hard game and closing with
an average of one inning worse than ten.
This is truly remarkable and will entitle
the boy to consideration with the best
of them
In seven innings of recent balk line
practice match he scored 335 points. The
innings were not consecutive but taken
out of score OF a 500-point match. The
shows an average of close to forty-eight.
The young cue expert closed the game
with an average a trife short of twenty.
This indicates the speed he is capable of.
Demarest will be considered as a cam
didate in class A for the championship
OF America at the Chicago Athletic assoc
citation in March. =
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/ "A gusty day. sir and the monkey
shrugged dts shoulders.
The pilot with affable gruffness went
on:
bow now, STR
There was no answer.
But the pilot was persistent. He con-
tinued:
Wen be over the bar. sir, In an
hour.
Failing TO get a reply even to this
pleasant information, the pilot went Up on
deck again. and. taking his old pla "a
beside the captain on the bridge said.
What quiet chap your father Ia =
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p PARTICULAR.
From Harper's Weekly.


ANY man with sense of humor," once
observed Frank Daniels, the comedian,
"can always find something to his enter
tainment IL he will stand near the box
office window of the opry-house' in any
small town and listen to the Rubes as
they make known their wants to the man
who peddles the tickets
"Out In Ohio one afternoon was stand
ing near the box office window few min
utes before the beginning of a matinee
given by friends combination. A fine
old boy from the country-one of the kind
that sees about one show In two years
approached the window, his roll in hand,
and delivered himself OF the following:
Say. young feller!' On voice loud
enough to be heard a block away) Gin
me a good seat! want 1t right down the
middle lane and close up to the exer-
cisesr
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s:59-Dressing room.
9:02-Spangled goddess costume.
9;08-Dressing room Slight rest be-
tween aets)
Clubhouse gown.
9:45-Uniform.
Embarrassing room.
10:22-Dueling gown.
10.45-Dressing ROOM
10:51-Bridal dress.
Ii addressing room (rest.)
il ;50-On way to hotel.
And this only half of the work on a
matinee day.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-18

European branches, The methods that
are applied here are used abroad. In
Korea, for the first time In that nation 5
history. the men are being taught the
value of physical training. with the re-
suit that the Korean man IS fast losing
his desire to possess long finger nails and
hands that are soft and feminine. For q
Korean to sweat is no longer TO be dis
graoed
All this and more the American branch
of the Y. NJ. G. A has accomplished
since 1851, the year of its founding in
Montreal and Boeton. \ little incident
OF the Y. NJ c. A. work with the Japan
ese army in Manchuria may perhaps give
an insight into the methods by which the
organization has won such Wide favor
One Of tho secretaries thoughtfuly In
cluded In his equipment Yankee hair
clipper. He offered to bare the long, un-
attended polls Of as many Japs as cared
to undergo the operation. From tho day
OF this declaration he was I'm high favor:
on one day he clipped the heads of nlnc-
ty soldiers; and II Is Il peculiar fact that
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-18
By G v. Thomas,

British in origin. tho real home Of tho
Y. NJ c. A is now North America, as
represented by this country and cana
da- Its membership, property and IDEAS
the 7. NJ. c. A OF North America is
acknowledged by the other branches TO
lead the world, and its methods are being
go steadily adopted elsewhere that the
time does not seem TO be far distant when
the international organization VIII be
thoroughly Americanized.
The American Y, VI. c. a has 5'5,0ol
members; all tho rest Of the world
1900 less. The American membership
is sufficient TO mako city the size OF
Cleveland. the seventh in population I'm
this country 1T would make seven
Peorias. or a Pttsourgs with enough
young men left over for savannah.
Ga Let each man stretch out his arms
70 their full length, and have his fingers
touching the tips OF other fingers on
other side OF him. and the line thus made
would reach from New York to Buffalo,
OF almost to P1ttsburg. or a hundred miles
past Portland. Me, or eighty miles 10 the
south OF Richmond, Va.
Last years expenditures In North
America were SUFFICIENT to make sew
enty persons each worth the comfort
able fortune of $4,000 II its property
were to be distributed In one hundred
thousand dollar lots, there would be por-
tions for 800 persons
-One-fourth OF the 500 associations are
IN North America. Tho combined IL
brnries OF these 1000 associations would
make two libraries az large as the ISle
and Cornell libraries, whlcn combined top
5000 volumes
The number OF students in Yale Har-
ward. Cornell, Pennsylvania Chicago Lc-
land Stanford, Michigan. Princeton and
Columbia is 30. 52S In the evening Cduca-
tional classes of our Y NJ. c. A. are near
ly $1,000 men-a Johnstown. Pa, In num-
bers.
Its 10000 men and boys in its 500 odd
gymnasiGms constitute the largest ath-
letic organization in the world. Tho
sgmnastic feature originated I'm this coUn-
try. Sc did the Idea OF tho railroad Y
NJ. c. A. the soldiers and sailors J. NJ.
g. A, the Country and Town y. NJ. c. A.
the Students Y. NJ. c. A.. the Industrial
=, M c. A While the organization abroad
has stuck more less closely by the
original Idea of the society's founder
that OF Bible study and mission work
among young men that they might grow
spiritually-the home Y. NJ. G. A. looks
after the mind, spirit and body. believing
that all are indissolubly bound TO gether,
all go TO make tho man. and TO neglect
any ono OF these three constituents Is to
neglect the others also This is the ,,nc
great Idea that the American Y. NJ - a
has given TO the whole organization and
the world at large, and within recent
years the foreign branches have been