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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-10-24
PAvING put inabout ten years
in the theatrical business,
aud during that time met

Ill tue tuoutitOoi "uossASs
aud during that time met
and associated more or less
with some of the leading lights OF
the stage, will relate few facts
concerning the personal, as we'll as
the professional side of several OF
the most advertised, but at the
same time, the least known people
personally speaking-in any pro-
fession at the present time. L will
not take up any unnecessary time
by going into detail regarding the
present-day stars or their sue
cesses, as all of my readers are no
doubt we'll acquainted with them
thru the many articles appearing
IN nearly every magazine now ID
sued. 80
The late Richard Mansfield WAS,
venture to say, the most abused.
person, especially by dramatic
critics and newspapers in general,
of anyone who has appeared before
the public in recent years; and |
might add, that of the many harsh
things said of him, not half OF
them were true. Some of the stO-
ries were no doubt true, to q GER
tain extent, especially the ones in
regard to his cratic disposition
when on the stage, either at re-
hearsal or during regular per-
Torrance; if the least noise was
made behind the scenes by either
the actors, or stage employees of
the theatre at which he was play
ing, it meant trouble for some one
and quickly, too; but it is safe
to say that there are number OF
actors who are now near the top
rung Of the ladder of fame and
prosperity who look back and are
thankful that they were one time
members of Mr.. Manstield's COM
pany, and will admit that it was
his severe discipline that brought
ont all the talent that was in them.
Mr. Mansfield was without doubt
the greatest character actor of his
time and it IS hard to think of any
one who can take his place sue
cessfully, at the present time. l
don't know but what it is mis-
take to class him as a character
actor, for as the we'll known author,
Clyde Fitch said: "Altho mag
nificent character actor, he was too
complex to be limited to any such
definition, for he was as great in
tragic power. His Richard Ill
WAS the finest | have ever seen.
No mere character actor could have
done his Peer Gynt.''
The writer of this article has
had the good fortune to have seen
most all of Mr.. Mansfield's more
notable successes, and of them all
/ think the following were his
best, or at least they seemed so to
me: Orchard III ""Dr. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde" Beau Brummel,"
"Cyrsno De Bergerac," peer
Gynt," and last but not least, ga
Partisan Romance" Mr.. Mans
fields death at this time is sad
blow to dramatic art, especially so
AS it came at the height of his the
atrical career and when he was in
the prime of life. He was credit
ed with being model husband
and father, and this statement has
been amply snbstsntiated by his
host of friends and their tribute to
his memory since his illness and
death. He was very fond of chill
dren, and I have seen him many
time stop aud talk with some
small boy or girl, or lot Of news.
boys, while on his way to and from
fhe theatre.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-10-24

The Voyage of the Bon Homme.
(Continued from page one.) f..sg
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the evening star against the twilight sky. In height medium. girlish. but with figure maturely modelled, charmingly full and rounded, yet by very perfection of proportion escaping suggestion of "plumpness." The head. surrounded and crowned with wealth of dark golden hair, rested on a neck that would have seemed short had its slender column sprung less graciously from the lovely lines of the breast and shoulders beneath. It was on the face. however. and finally on the eyes that ones glances inevitably fingered the face rose-tinted, with dimples in either of the full cheeks, entering laughing protest against the sad droop that brought slightly down the corners of a mouth too large perhaps for beauty, if the coral curve of the lips had been less exquisitely perfect. The straight, thin-nostriled nose, the broaG. forehead. the square, full jaw almost as low at the points where they come beneath the ears as at the chin, sug. gested dignity and high resolve cou- pied with a power of purpose, rare in woman. The combination of forehead, jaw. and nose was seldom seen. Had
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It is hardly necessary for me to explain who Randolph & Randolph are. For more than SO years the name has spoken. for itself in every part of the world where dollar-making ma chimes are installed. No railroad is financed. no great industrial" pro- jected. without by force of habit, hat in-handing a by-your-leave of Ran dolph & Randolph, and every nation when entering the market for loans, knows that the favor of the foremost American bankers is something which must be reckoned with. I pride my self that at 42, at the end of ten years I have had the helm of Ran dolph & Randolph. I have done noth- ing to mar the great name my fa- ther and uncle created, but something to add to its sterling reputation for honest dealing, fearless, old-fashioned methods, and all-round integrity. Bradstreets and other mercantile agencies say in reporting Randolph & Randolph: Worth fifty millions and upward, credit unlimited" can take but small praise for this, for the report was about the same the day left college and came to- the office to learn the business.' But, as the survivor of my great father and uncle. can say, my Maker as my witness, that Randolph & Randolph have never loaned a dollar of their millions at over legal rates, six per cent. per annum; have never added to their hoard by any but fair. square business methods; and that blight of blights. frenzied finance. has yet to find a lodging place beneath the old blaek-and-gold sign that father and uncle nailed up with their own hands over the entrance.
 Nineteen years ago vas graduated from Harvard. My classmate and chum. Bob Brownley. of Richmond, Va. was graduated with me. He was class poet. L yard marshal We had been four years together at St Paurs previous to entering Harvard. No girl and lover were fonder than we oi each other.
 My people had money and te spare and with 1t a hard-headed. northern horse sense The Brownleys were poor ss church mice. but they had the brilliant. virile blood of the old southern olIgarehy and the romantic -salaamtonooner Dixfe-Iand pride of beforethevar days. when southern prodigaIity and hospitality were found wherever women were fair and nenl Ei<<1< iz tss h1ttaz of thzir tnisc
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him close scrutiny and saw the look of which I of all men best knew the meaning. The big brown eyes were set on space; the outer corners of the handsome mouth were drawn hard and tense as though weighted. As I had my wife with me it was impossible to follow him, but when I got home I called up his house and his clubs, intending to ask him to run up and smoke cigar with me, but could locate him nowhere. I tried again in the morning without success, but when just before noon the tape began to jump and flash and snarl, I remembered Bob's ugly mood, and all 1t portended.
 Fred Brownley was Bob's youngest brother, 12 years his junior. He had been with Randolph & Randolph from the day he left college, and for over a year had been our most trusted stock exchange man. Bob Brown ley, when himself, was as fond of his baby brother" as he called him, as his beautiful southern mother was of both; but when the devil had posses sion of Bob-and his option during the past five years had been exercised many time-mother and brother had to take their place with all the rest of the world, for then Bob knew no kindred, no friends. All the wide world was to him during those pe- riods a jungle peopled with savage animals and reptiles to hunt and fight and tear and kill.
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about this matter, and want to do everything possible for this girl. No need of my telling you how sacred we have got to keep what she has just let me into. You'll see as I go along that 1t is sacred. and know you will look at 1t as I do. Miss Sands must be helped out of her trouble.
 Judge Lee Sands, her father, is the head of the old Sands family of Vir- ginia. The Virginia Sands don't take of their bonnets to another family in this country, or elsewhere, for that matter. for anything that really counts.i They have had brains. learning. money and fixed position since Virginia was first. settled. They are the best peo- pie of our state. It is cross-road say ing in Virginia that a Sands of Sands Landing can go to the bench, the United States senate, the house. or the governors chair for the starting, and nearly all of the men folks have held one or all of these honors for genera. tions. The present judge has held them all. I don't know him personally. although my people and his have been thick from away back. Sands Landing on the James is some 50 miles above
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Chapter |.

Chapter 1.
 Friday, the 18th; l thought as much, if Bob has started, there will Joe hell, but will see what can do. "
 The sound of my voice as l drop ped the receiver seemed to part the mists of five years and usher me into the world of Then as though it had never passed on.
 1 had been sitting in my office, let fing the tape slide through my fingers while its every yard spelled panic" lin a constantly rising voice, when they told me that Brownley on the floor of the exchange wanted me at the phone, and quick" Brownley was bur junior partner and floor man. He talked with rush. Stock exchange floor men in panics never let their tspeech hobble.
 MT. Randolph, it's sizzling over here, and it's getting hotter every sec Iond. It's Bob-that is evident to all rf he keeps up this pace for 20 min utes longer, the sulphur will overflow Esthe street and get into the banks and into the country, and no man can tell how much territory will be burned over by tomorrow. The boys have begged me to ask you to throw your- self into the breach and stay him. They agree you are the only hope now"
 ] Are you sure, Fred, that this is Bob's work?" I asked. Have you seen him?"
 "Yes, I have just come from his
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one of his trips back from New York, though be had more land and slaves than he could use. stake his land and slaves-yes. and grandmother's too on card game. and-lose, and change the whole face of the Brownley des- tiny-those same gambling microbes are in my blood. and when they begin to claw and gnaw I want to do some thing; and, Jim and the big brown eyes suddenly shot sparks-"if those microbes ever get unleashed, there1I be mischief to pay on the foOr-sure there will"
 Bob's handsome head was thrown back; his thin nostrils dilated as though there was in them the breath of conflict. The lips were drawn across the white teeth with just part enough to show their edges. and ia the depths of the eyes was a dark-red blaze that somehow gave the impres- sion one gets in looking down some long avenue of black at the instant a locomotive headlight rounds curve at night
 Twice before. way back in our col lese days. I had had a peep at this gambling tempter of Bob'A Once in a poker game in our rooms. when a crovd of New York classmates tried to run him out of a hand by the sheer weight Of coin And again at the Peouot house at New Londo1 on the eve of a varsity boat race. when a Yale crowd shook a big vad of money and taunts st Bob unfn vfth yell he lsft his usually vslllszded feet and frightened me. vhoss allowance was ccl.zrs i'd -Bcb'G ceutk e 1e Ezn tctsl
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and languidly let others mist them selves together. that gave it its luscious penetration - however that may be, it was the most no-yesterday- no-tomorrow voice had ever heard. Before I grew fully conscious of the exquisite beauty of the girl. this voice of hers spelled its way into my brain like the breath of some bewitching oriental essence. Nature. environ ment, the security of a perfect mar riage have ever combined to consti- tute me loyal to my chosen one. yet as stood silent. like one dumb, ab- sorbing the details of the loyeliness of this young stranger who had so sud denly swept into my ofice, it came over me that here was a woman in tended 10 enlighten men who could not understand that shaft which Ia all ages has without warning pierced mems hearts and souIs-love at 1rst sight Had there not been Katherine Blair, wife and mother-Katherine Blair Randolph. who filled my love world as the monday August sun hlls the old-fashioned well with nestilng warmth and restfuI shade-after this Interval. looking back al the past. dare ask the question-vho knows but that too might have drifted from the secure anchorage Of my slow Ysu- kee blood and noated into the deep vatersy
 Beauty. the eynic's scor. s ia the ere of the beholder. or in an angle of visio1-ners product Of linsIight. point of viev. dssire-but Beuish ssnsF vas bsaufy beyond czvfl. sa- 1gig to sl1 snsiyriS n seeziis ss
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of the bet cards he signed before hs cleared the room of Yale money and came to with white face streaming with cold precipitation. These events had passed out of my memory as the ordinary student breaks that any hot blooded youth is liable to make in like circumstances. As looked at Bob ! that day, while he tried to tell me that the business of Randolph & Randolph would not be safe in his keeping I had to admit to myself that was puzzled. had regarded my old college chum not only as the best mentally har- messed man had ever met, but knew him as the soul of honor, that honor of the old story-books, and I could not credit his being tempted to jeopardize unfairly the rights of property of an other. But it was habit with me to let Bob have his way, and did not press him to come into our firm as a full partner.
 | Five years later, during which time affairs, business and social, had been slipping along as we'll as either Bob or could have asked, was preparing I for another sit-down to show my chum that the time had now come for him | to help me in earnest, when a queer thing happened-one of those unac- countable incidents that God some times sees fit to drop across the life paths of His children, paths heretofore as straight and far-ahead visible as 1 highways along which one has never | to look twice to see where he is trav- cling; one of those events that, looked at retrospectively, are beyond all hu. man understanding.
 It was beautiful July Saturday noon and Bob and had just packed up for the day preparatory to joining Mrs. Randolph on my yacht for run down to our place at Newport. As we ! stepped out of his office one of the clerks announced that lady had come in and had particularly asked to see MT. Brownley.
 Who the deuce can she be, coming in at this time on Saturday, just when all alive men are in a rush to shake the heat and dirt of business for food and the good air Of all outdoors ?" growled Bob. Then he said, Show her in.'
 Another minute and he had his an swer.
 A lady entered.
 "Mr. Brownley?" She waited an in. stant to make sure he was the vir- ginian.
 1 Bob bowed.
 T am Beulah Sands, of Sands Land. ing. Virginia. Your people know our people, MT. Brownley, probably we'll enough for you to place me-" "Of the Judge Lee Sands'?" asked Bob, as he held out his hand. T am Judge Lee Sands oldest daughter" said the sweetest voice I had ever heard, one of those mellow. rippling voices that start the imagina- tion on chase for mocking bird, only to bring it up at the pool be- meath the brook-fall in quest of the harp of moss and watercresses that sends bubbling cadence into its eddies and swirls. Perhaps 1t was the southern accent that nibbled oil the , corners and edges of certain words
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pfice, and glad I was to get out. He's on the war-path, MT. Randolph uglier than I ever saw him. The last time he broke loose was child's play to his mood to-day. Mother sent me word this morning that she saw last night the spell was coming. He had been up to see her and sisters. and mother thought from his tone he was about to disappear again. When she told me of his mood, and I re- membered the day. was afraid he might seek his vent here. Also heard of his being about town till long after midnight. The minute opened his office door he flew at me like a panther. told him l had only dropped in on my rounds for an or der. as they were running of right smart, and didn't know but he might like to pick up some bargains. Bar gains,' he roared. don't you know the day? Don't you know it is Friday. the 18th? Go back to that hell-pit and sell, sell Sell what and how much?' I asked Anything, every thing. Give the thieves every share they will take, and when they won't take any more, ram as much again down their crops until they spit up all they have been buying for the last three months.' Going out I met Jim Holiday and Frank Swan rush. ing in. They are evidently executing .Bob's orders, and have been pouring Anti-PeopIe's out for an hour They will be on the floor again in a few minutes. so I thought 1t safer to call you before started to sell. Mir. Randolph, they cannot take much more of anything in here. and if I begin to throw stocks over, 1t will bring the gayel inside of ten minutes. and that will be to announce a dozen failures It's yet 20 minutes to one, 'and God only knows what will hap pen before three. It's up to you. Mr. Randolph. to do something. and un- Jess I am on a bad slant. you haven't many minutes to lose
 II vas then I dropped the receiver with T thought as much,- As I had been lingering the tape. watching five and ten millions crumbling from price values every few minutes. was sure this was the work of Bob Brown lsy. No one else in Wall street had the power. the nerve. and the devil ish cruelty to rip things as they had been ripped during the last 90 min utes. The night before I had pass ed RaA la ths thestas laaAx- Il sara
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WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT FRIDAY AUGUST 1s 1907

at college. and had his hands full oi business 300 days in the year. Be sides Randolph 6 Randolph's choicest commissions, he had the confidential orders of two of the heavy plunging cliques,
 had just passed my thirty-second birthday when my kind old dad sud. denly died. For the previous six years had been getting ready for such an event; that is, had grown accustomed to hearing my father say; Jim, ton't let any grass grow in getting the lang of every branch of our business. so that when anything happens to me there will be no disturbance in the Street in regard to Randolph & Ran dolph's affairs. I want to let the world know as soon as possible that after am gone our business will run as it al ways has. So will work you into my directorships in those companies where we have interests and gradually put you into my different trusteeships."
 Thus at fathers death there was not a ripple in our affairs and none of the stocks known as "The Randolph's" futtered point because of that, to the financial world, momentous event. I inherited all of fathers fortune other than four millions, which he divided up among relatives and charities, and took command of business that gave me an income of two millions and a half year.
 Once more I begged Bob to come into the firm.
 Not yet, Jim," he replied. I've got my seat and about hundred thousand capital, and I want to feel that I'm free to kick my heels until I have raked together an even million all of my own making; then I'll settle down with you, old man, and hold my handle of the blow, and if some good girl hap pens along about that time-well, then 1t will be An ivy-colored cot for mine."
 He laughed, and laughed, too Bob was looked upon by all his friends as a bad case of woman-shy. No woman, young or old, who had in any way crossed Bob's orbit but had felt that fascination, delicious to all women, in the presence of:
 A soul by honor schooled,
 A heart by passion ruled
 but he never seemed to see it. As my wife-for I had been three years mar ,ried and had two little Randolphs to show that both Katherine Blair and I knew what marriage was for-never tired of saying. Poor Bob He's woman-blind, and it looks as though he would never get his sight in that direction"
 ''Then again, Jim," he continued in tone of great seriousness, there's a little secret have never let even you into. The truth is am not safe yet not safe to speak for the old house of Randolph & Randolph. Yes. you may laugh-you who are, and always have Len, as staunch and steady as the old bronze John Harvard in the yard, you who know Monday mornings just what you are going to do Saturday nights and all the days and nights in be- tween. and who always do it. Jim, I have found since have been over on the floor that the southern gambling blood that made by grandfather, on
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-05-11
FLORIDA BACK-PEDALS.

The amendment Go the Constitu-
ton OF Florida providing that only
white men shall Doe permitted To- vote
has been defeated in the lower
branch OF the legislature OF That
State hy a vote OF a. to14. To was
intended 90 test the validity OF the
Thirteenth. Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth Amendments 60 the Consti-
tuition of the United states. This
was regarded as q dangerous ex-
pertinent and Be- is evident that the
leaders OF the National Democratic
Party made strenuous efforts to bring
about this result.
il would nave handicapped and
embarrassed the Democratic leaders
in the North. AS the matter now
stands, 60 will Doe a valuable cam
pa.sn issue for the Republicans.
That 10 passed one branch of the
legislature is q significant fact. For
p part. We regret that Senator
Boards resolution was defeated. He
mc.nt it in one way, but it would
have operated another. IL would
have brought forth a decision that
wo have vainly eudeayored TO OBJ
tain along other lines
The far-seeing members of the
Democratic Party were not slow TO
see This and as q result the day we
have Irayed for IS for of in TIC fu-
ture. But it viii an come around
bye and bye and men viii yet realize.
that great principles will assert them
selves in this or in some other era
of the nations existence.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-05-11

Measure Confers Little Self-Govern.
uc.r. l-nnr leland

Measure Confcrs Little Seif-GoVern.
merit Upon Ireland.
London llay S-Tbe government
presented fits long-awaited Irish bill %
the house OF commons and the coun.
try. This bin IS desi gnei 90 meet the
demands for Irish home rule. It was
presented by the chief secretary for
Ireland. ,-r. Birrei TO "a crowded
house.
Compared with the home rule bills
az 1856 and 1905. the measure coufers
little self-governmeut upon Ireland.
merely giving to the council control OF
the eisht departments now managed
by government boards. The council Is
TO be appointed bv the crown. and
while the lord lieutenant Of Ireland is
given power 10 nullify fits measures.
the crown retains control OF five OF the
eight DEPARTMENTS. Including the con
stabulary. Tho control OF this branch
always hes been q thorn in the flesh
Of the Irish pc pie.
To prevent t.c Cr-t reading Of the
bin being deferred. o~d whue Walter
Hnne Long WAS rtu speaking. Mr..
B'vvoll moved tha c.e-Ire. Then amid
81 grc-t u1.rrt opl protests and shou, "a
% "rsr the closure was carried by
117 votes GO 1-1 and the h.U passed
its first reading hv t15 votes To 1cl.