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lIEW CORPORATION
s$,pOSED OE \ NUMBER OF
 &orAI. CAPITALISTS OR M GANIIED HERE.
southern Engineering and Com traction Company File Articles
 of Incorporation

leaked out Monday morning T new corporation had been
 0nized in Pine Bluff and that ar l6s of incorporation had been fil- Eh Little Rock Saturday. lnyes- Sfion confirmed the information. 3he Southern Engineering and Struction company is the style 8he new corporation and ii was &nized here last Thursday night. \ matter had been under consid- Non for some time. but a definite Gusion was not arrived at until
 fsday night.
 me general nature Of business 0osed in the articles of incor- Stion Is to construct. oWn, Oper- Mand build waterworls. lighting fts, sewers and drainage sys- $.
 Ehe company is organized and in- Iprated under the laws Of Ar Sas with capital stock of S5.- @diyided into two hundred shares 525 each, and the corporators N directors are Adam J. Robin James Gould. Ben Robinson, I. Wilson. ]. E. White, W. IT. Lang [ NJ. NJ. Bruce. Irving Reinber- he officers of the new corpora are Adam ]. Robinson, presi- k; James Gould. vice president . Wilson, secretary; Ben Robin treasurer.
 h. company has already secur- Ehe contract to build waterworks sMorrilton, Ark. the contract e being s40,000, and will take lhe work at an early day rhile nothing definite could be he'd to tuat effect. it is believed the company was organized for )r purposes than those specifical kamed in the articles of incor- ltion and the fact that the or (zation was perfected on the eve
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<&S -a gss9 s7-.zs s--r-yT~ sF .s9
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-20
His Good Resol lion.

The missionary gased pityingly
through the bars at the convict in his
striped suit.
My good man." the visitor said, Gin
this prolonged solitude that lies before
you improve the time by making good
resolutions to be carried out on your
release"
I'm goin' to learn to run an auto
mobile, for one thing" said the pris.
oner.
The missionary smiled radiant ap-
proval.
"A truly laudable desire. he said. ito
master pleasant and lucrative bust.
ness"
YES" said the other, IF had learn
ed before, I'd have got away all right
in the machine what I was sent I'D
here for swipin'."
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and American chivalry. The brutal
treatment of this lady, who was but
acting within her rights, seems to me
to be outrageous and indefensible.
The American congress ought not to
permit the matter to rest without the
most thorough and searching investi-
cation. 1t involves the most sacred
element of American life, the respect
and reverence which every true Amer
lean citizen accords the American wo-
man and especially the American
mother. When the president of the
United States, with all the glamour of
his great Office, steps into the pres
ence of an American mother he is in
the presence of his superior"
The facts are these: A woman
whose name we are happy to have for
gotten, went to the white house and
demanded an audience with the presi-
dent. Replying to Assistant Secretary
Barnes, she said she wished to see him
about reinstating her husband, who
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had been discharged from one of the
departments. Mr.. Barnes told her that
the president could not grant an in
terview respecting an individual case
of that nature and suggested that she
call upon the head of the department
Whereupon she planked herself down
upon chair with an emphatic thud
and vowed that she would see the
president and would not leave until
she had. Mr.. Barnes tried to persuade
her to go, but she wouldn't bulge
Finally he told her that If she persist
ed it would be necessary to have her
removed by force. Then she got mad
and screamed, and the attendant po-
licemen took her away shrieking like
all possessed.
That is the American mother to
whose rescue the gallant Texan
springs. Unfortunately for the estab-
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United States, despite the 81, .

United States, despite the 81,
his great Office? 1t is timely Inquiry
and should be included in the resolu-
ton. Otherwise the president will
never know whether he must appear
when called by any one of seventy mil
lions or of only twenty millions of la
dies who have relatives to look after
We commend this phase of the subject
to the careful consideration of the
happily named Sheppard. Meanwhile
he needn't worry. A great many of us,
including the president himself and
even the awful Barnes, have had
American mothers, and will see to it
that they have adequate protection
while the congressional investigation
proceeds. That is, we will divide the
work. The rest of us will look after
the American mothers who stay at
home and darn socks and spank the
babies If the flower of Texan chivalry
will attend to those who go yawping
around the white house.-Harper's.
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lishment of principle of executive ad-
ministration by act Of congress, the
resolution is less explicit than we
should like. What does the congress
man mean by American" Would he
restrict the privilege of interruption to
United States mothers, or take in Ca
nadians, Mexicans, Venezuelans, Por-
to-Ricans, Filipinos and colored man.
mics, so they brought with them evil
dence of their distaste for race suicide?
And need they be mothers of their dis
taste for race suicide? And need they
be mothers at all? How about old
maids and married maidens who have
only hopes? Everybody will agree
with the congressman that 1t is wrong
to violate every sentiment that glori-
fies American manhood and American
chivalry and upset the most sacred
element Of American life. But where,
If anywhere, shall we draw the line?
Are all or only part of our females
the superiors of the president of the
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-20
THE WHITE HOUSE INCIDENT.

A representative from Texas of the
name of Sheppard made a leap to the
grandstand of fame last week by offer
ing a resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of committee of the house
to investigate the recent violent ex-
pulsion of an American mother from
the white house offices and grounds by
executive officials and employees while
she was seeking an audience with the
president of the United States" Mr.
Sheppard made the following state
ment concerning the resolution:
ct introduce this resolution in the
name of American motherhood and
American womanhood. The occur
renee which is the cause of this reso-
luton was a violation of every senti-
ment that glorifies American manhood
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-20
HeaIthIest.

Man is a g--umbling animal. 1t mat
tiers not whether he Is rich or poor
busy or idle, young or old, griev-
ance is a necessity Of life. Philoso-
pliers of every school are agreed that
the condition of poverty Is healthier
for imperfect man than the condition
of wealth.-Bank Notes.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-20
Immigrants for Cuba.

Nearly 10000 Spanish immigrants
entered Cuba during the first three
months of the present year. The Gu
ban consuls in Spain are instructed to
act as immigration agents, and to set
forth the opportunities for independ-
ence and wealth in the island republic.
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Cant Lose Them.

Although representation
May be the thief of line,
Fair Bet : won't bell Q It;
She'd fain condone the crime.
For Betty's years are 30
Too many, Betty feels
And tits in vain she's hunted
To find a thief who steals.
-McLandburgh Wilson.
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A Golden Opportunity.

She-"I bought you a shaving set to-
day-razor, strop, mug and everything
such a bargain!"
He-"But, my dear, don't shave
myself"
She-"Well, can't you learn?"
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-20
Wise Uncle Eben.

Oars too much advice" said Uncle
Eben. Oars too many people dat
kin tell you jes' how to sharpen or
ak, an not enough chopin wood
Washington Star.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-20
shanuhaI's Population.

Shanghai, It is estimated, will. in
ten years, have population of 1.600,-
600. At present it is 100000,
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SECRETARY ROOT FOR PRESI-
DENT.


presidential candidate and gives its
reasons for so thinking as follows:
Every day that passes increases
the anxiety of politicians with regard
to the outcome of the general election
in November of the current year. 1t
is the general impression at the south,
Roosevelt were to be a candidate for
the presidency next autumn it would
be useless to put up any one against
him. But 1908 is two years farther
off and nobody doubts the sincerity of
Mr.. Roosevelt's declaration that I'M
der no circumstances will he then be
q candidate to succeed himself. In
the ancient and medieval world it
seldom happened that a great man or
wonderfully successful man was able
to transmit undiminished his power
to desired successor. The so-called
"Diadochi," or successors of Alexan-
der, are the classic examples of deca-
dence and disintegration. The death
of julius Caesar was followed by an
archy, and many years elapsed before
his grandnephew and adopted son Au-
gustus managed to succeed him. Char
lemagne's descendants disgraced their
ancestors. For some ninety years, on
the other hand, the Roman empire
prospered under the working of the
adaptive system, which began when
Nerva adopted Trajan, and ended
with the death of Marcus Aurelius.
We have witnessed the operation of
a similar adaptive process in the
United States. Jefferson adopted
Madison. Madison adopted Monroe,
and Jackson adopted Van Buren,. Will
the great influence acquired by Mr..
Roosevelt prove equally irresistible in
1908?
"The answer to this question de-
ponds largely, though not solely, on
the outcome of next autumn's election
in the state of New York. Mr.. Roose'
velt's favorite for the succession is
believed to be Secretary Root, and
those who know the ability and char
acter of the latter statesman are glad
to think that this Is the case. Should
however, a Democrat be chosen gov
ernor of New York next November
Mr.. Roots opponents in the Republi.
can national convention would, oil
course, allege that he could not carry
his own state. This would not neces
sarily be the case, for, although a
Democrat was governor of New York
in 1888 and Democrat was elected
governor of the same state In thai
year, General Harrison carried the
empire commonwealth by plurality
of $4,000. It should also be remem
bered that, however uncertain might
be the outcome of the presidential
election in 1908, there Is no doubt
about the presidents ability to control
the New York delegation to the Re
publican national convention held in
the spring or summer of that year. 1t
should therefore be far easier for him
to give the Republican nomination to
Mr.. Root or any other favorite than II
was for Mr.. Cleveland's friends to Sc
cure for him the Democratic nomina.
ton in 1892, which, IL all the facts be
considered, was the most astonishing
feat ever recorded in American politi,
cal history. 1t should also be kept In
view that the state of New York is no
longer indispensable to the success OF
a Republican candidate. Mr.. Root, II
he can inherit Mr.. Roosevelt's hold
upon the people-and 1t will not be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-25
The Great American Play and Its Authors
BY EDWIN MILTON RoYLE AUTHOR OF "THE soUAw MAN"
n the New York;

if THE Squaw Man" has caught the
glory of the dying day and kept it for
a moment from the encroaching dark
ness And / am especially happy over
its success because it will encourage
our managers to forget for the moment
the dramatic fashions of Piccadilly and
the boulevards, and give the American
author a hearing.
THE Squaw Man" lives because IL
had production at the Lambs club,
and through that became the talk of
the RialtO. A white man married to
an Indian womanI I have had num-
bers of the managers tell me il was an
impoSsibility even after IL had been
successfully done.
] think our American dramatists are
inferior to our foreign brethren I'm one
respect, and perhaps only one, the ca
pacity for taking pains. In my boy
hood / sometimes spent my vacations
on the Uintah Indian agency, and
made up my mind that l would in The
Squaw Man put the real Indian on the
stage. / don't hesitate to say that I
have done so, and that l am the only
mination involved an infinite tenacity
of purpose, but il was worth it. / was
near absolute failure over and over
again, but I never gave il up; but, as
Kipling says, that is another story. II
gives me great joy to believe that "The
Squaw Man" will open the door to
many rejected or neglected manu-
script
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tistic nature, \ caller is announced.
and enters. She wears charming
though pronounced costume, and seats
herself on one of the slender chairs
The result is a clash of coIors that is
like a blow in the face of the hostess
The call becomes a torture, all the
more intense because it must be un-
suspected.
But on the stage it is all so different
and so delightful.
You are going to ell on me in the
first act, my dear Miss M says the
star - one of her society friends
What are you going to wear?'
j have just the sweetest thing. a
pale blue tailOr-made brOadcloth, with
picture hat 10 match answers Miss
NJ, eagerly
I am so sorry, dear replies the
lady whose name appears in big type
on the bills. but it won't do at all. I
am going to wear red chiffon, and you
know we drink tea together, side by
side
The result is that when the caller
is announced she is gowned in a pale
gray that harmonizes with anything"
And there was no time left for Miss
Walsh to explain how the other woman
in the case regarded the matter.
The leading man of the tank drama
ndu the HOOr- We were rendering
Under the Polar Star in a little ONE
horse town i'm Montana" he related
and as the opera house did not boast
a regular staff of employees, we en-
gaged a young German farmer to shift
the scenery the night we played there
Hans, as we called him, was hastily
Tehearsed I'm the art of shifting the big
ice cakes that we're prominent in our
play. and above all he was warned to
keep quiet under all circumstances.
No matter what happens, eau
toned the stage manager. don't you
speak loud so the audience can hear
you
Hans promised, and we thought no
more of him until the great ice scene
Then. when you could have heard the
prOverbial pin drop, his fowsy head and
dripping. florid face suddenly popped
out from under a huge ice cake and he
beloved in a voice that could be heard
a block:
Tam such a shobl Here 1 was nit
all dis ice under, nearly suffocated nit
der heat. I quit!
And, wriggling out from his cramped
quarters, he had the audacity to strut
right out to the center of the stage
with peTspiration running off him like
a shower bath"
Sam Bernard the star of THE RuIlick-
ing Girl" and w. 3. Watson. a we'll
known German comedian. had a singing
contest in Chicago several weeks ago.
Tt was an imprOmptu meeting at the
College Inn, and among others who were
present were Blanche Ring, John Siavfn
and Mabel BarrisOn.
A discussion arose as to which of the
comedians could sing the higher note
Watson struck note that sounded like
flat Bernard went him two better.
and it looked as though he had won the
contest but Watson insisted on another
try. He opened his mouth, and the au-
ditors heard a sound that was at least
half an octave higher than the famous
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-25

The American play? To write it is
the secret dream Of every American
dramatist. Has it been written? Will
1t ever be written? Would we know
II If we saw it? Would any two of Us
agree as to its essentials Has the
American picture been painted. or the
American novel been published, or the
American song sung Is any one man
big enough and broad enough to do
THE American thing?
1t will be glory enough for any man
If he has been true to any one phase
of our manifold life. / would like ~
think that I had done for the west IA
drama what Fred Remington F<as done
for it I'm art. The great American pub
lie has its arms wide open for any hon
est word about themselves, and the
great successes have always been
American plays and always will be
though they may be as far apart as
'Davy Crockett" and THE Old Home
stead
Comparisons are idiotic. There Is
room for all, north, east, south, west.
There has been some little controversy
over another western play now i'm the
city. Success to it! If every Ameri-
can dramatist wrote western pIav
they could all be different, all true, and
all welcome.
II is a big west / hoped TO write a
big play and / chose the fast dis
appearing frontier, where the noun
tains arc big. the streams big, the men
big, the passions big. I shall be happy
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PROMISE OF THE THEATRES.

Direct from the satisfactory verdict
Of San Francisco theatre-gOers Flor
ence Roberts. the noted emotional act
ress- viii return with the production
Of The Strength Of the Weak" de-
scribed as new modern play IN four
acts by Alice NJ. Smith at the Salt
Lake theatre, the enga cement being for
three nights and matinee, beginning
Monday
As VIII doubtless he remembe red by
theatTe-gOers. Miss Roberts has inter
preted many satisfactory parts with
much success. but her work in the ia ST
has been confined to roles made IA
nous by other actresses. This season
Miss Roberts enters uDOn a new re-
gime Of her career. as bv the terms of
her contract with John COrt, she is to
produce at least one new part each
season for the next five years Since
her advent on the stage Miss Roberts
has steadily demonstrated her ability.
advancing each wear to more serious
work until finally by common consent
she is placed among the leading fem
mine stars OF the country In 1.-THE
Strength of the Weak" Miss Roberts
has q role which. ii IS promised. will
reveal the popular emotional actress
in an atmosphere entirely different
from any thing she has ever before at
tempted. Coupled with this are the
facts that she has crea ted the part and
at the same time produced the plav for
the first time in the west Tt is '~~~4-
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oDETTE TYLER SWINGS.

Odette Tyler, who is one of a galaxy
Of beautiful southern women to make
fame on the stage, is particularly hap
by in the part of Maryland, in the re-
vival of David Belasco's picturesque
drama, THE Heart of Maryland" She
has the soft southern accent which is
so aIluring, and she loves Maryland
with all the ardOr of one born in Dixie
Although very young, Miss Tyler is an
experienced actress, and she throws
herself into the emotional scenes that
fall to her in this wonderfully thrilling
play with all her heart and soul. Ii
was happy suggestion that induced
Mr.. BelascO TO select her for the part.
But, then, David BelascO seldom makes
a mistake in his estimate of human
abilities when casting a play.
1t will be remembered that in THE
Heart of Maryland" there is a scene
wherein the young southern girl climbs
to belfry and hangs on a big bell to
prevent its ringing the signal which
will mean the death of her lover at
the hands OF the villain, who intends
to have him shot when the bell rings
Mr.. BelascO told Miss Odette Tyler
who is the heroine, that he would have
a substitute, a female acrobat, swing
on the bell. if she liked. because the
feat really is a perilous one. But Miss
Tyler would not listen To it.
1T is Maryland who is supposed to
swing on the bell. is it not, Mr.. Be
lasco?" she asked.
Yes"
Then Maryland viii swing" was her
positive dictum-
And Maryland does swing. 1t is the
business" of her part, and Miss Tyler
holds that an actress should do what
is set down for her-at least when ID
is humanity possible.
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FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN

Here are two little stores which Lew
Fields manager brings over from New
York. Both are infantile and the first
concerns Mr.. Fields Oldest son Joseph,
a boy of - years;
Joseph" said MS school teacher one
morning. Il want YOU to give me a
sentence in which the word foregoing
nay be properly used"
Joseph thought a moment ard chen
said:
Last Saturday afternoon I went t.
the Grand opera house where papa
was playing. My Uncle Charlie was
standing at the door at the time. Three
newspaper men spoke to him for d
little while, and pretty soon | saw the
four going into the cafe across the
street"
Mr. Fields youngest son. Herbert,
said to his mother the other afternoon:
Mamma, is it true that every day is
Sunday in heaven and that nobody in
heaven has any work to do or lessons
to IeaTn?'
YES. darling, every day is Sunday in
heaven" she answered.
Then, mamma, / want to go to
heaven quick so that I can see the
funny colored supplements every
morning when l wake up"
Mime. Bernhard probably took many
interesting impressions away from New
York. If she keeps a scrapbook there
will be found i'm it the comment in
verse of Wallace Irwin, following the
dinner rendered her By MI Hyde. r.
win wrote:
O Sarah. great. o Sarah b,
O do you know the gent
And is il true as true that you
Have been and gone and went2
81
That you, the dramas pride.
Have been both dined and tead and wined
By Hr Hazen Hyde?
Divine Camille, pray don't you feel
Remorseful when you know
The very bread on which you fed
was Equitable dough?
And goodness sake, how you would quake
If told TO give your views,
A terse report, before the court,
OF Prosecutor Hughes!
The queen of youth. the queen of truth.
The queen of wig and gown.
Alas for her, she said VIC were
A second story town.
And scarcely had she marked our sad
Condition of affairs.
Than the second story man" had en-
Tertained her unawares.
Between the acts of THE Woman in
the Case" at the Grand opera house.
Miss Blanche Walsh chatted about
things theatrical TO the New York
Telegram man
ut is the players mission 10 hold the
mirror ND TO nature" she said. Some
one else has said that it is a door rule
that does not work both ways. IL the
la tier assertion be correct, why should
not nature initiate the stage OCCASION
ally? In many ways it seems TO me
that this would be desirable. For in
stance, a woman furnishes her draw
ing room with taste and care There
is no discordant note to mar the per-
feet harmony so necessary TO her ar
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Womans Version Oby the late Miss
Rose Eytinge- Published in the New
York Dramatic Mirror)
All the worlds a stage,
And all the women are merely players:
They have LheiT exits and their entrances.
And one woman in her time plays many
yaTts-
Her acts being seven ages. At first. the
Holding her mewIing. puking brother in
her arms.
Then the merry schoolgirl with her
Satchel
And shining morning face. flying like
Most willingly to school; and then the
maiden.
With love first budding in her heart.
lnciung sonnets to her hero's eyebrow.
umphs.
Dressing like a queen.
Jealous of rivals, quick to fall in love.
Seeking the god of love in every cOuT-
tiers phrase
And then the mother. with buxom
Waist and eyes of tender care
With words Of counsel and with loving
heart
Full OF wise saws and modern instances;
And so she plays her part
The sixth age shifts into the slow and
slippered step
With spectacles on nose and poke on side
Her youths gay gowns a world too fine,
Saved for her girls, and her rich, full
Weaker than they were. but still breath
ing love.
Turning forward her past. she tells
Her tale of youthful triumphs to her girl
Last scene Of all that ends this strange
eVentful history
Is utter loneliness. but not oblivion;
Sans child sans cheer, sans joy, sans
everything.