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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

ishment." Naturally, the fame of the
book exceeds that of its author outside
of their EStiS2 Russia, as the one is
easy to discuss by name, while the 9TH
er requires lingual bravery to pro-
nounce. Did the word Dostoieffski in
cite Sothern to an elongated title for
the play? The dramatist, Henry Irv-
ing's son, Laurence, named it THE In
heritance of the Meek" because in his
stage version an humble girl converts
an assertive Agnostic TO Christianity
Sothern desired to change the title to
"The Fool Hath Said in His Heart,
There Is No God, p" because the girl
quotes that sentence from the Bible,
and when he telegraphed the suggestion
to Irving i'm London, the reply by wire
was: Il say yes, to save cable tolls"
Perhaps SOthern. with that cue for alb
breViation, took account of space in
the posters, for he cut the name down
to THE Fool Hath Said in His Heart"
BROOKLYN used to be nicknamed the
City of Churches; yet Sothern seems to
have reasoned that it knows less than
Chicago of what it was the fool said
in his heart, for on bringing the play
to our Brooklyn borough. he calls it
"The Fool Hath Said, There Is No
Cod
The novel OF Crime and Punishment
is a masterful study in Russian socio-
criminOlogy. Rodion Raskolnikoff, a
St. Petersburg student in predicament
of extreme poverty. kills and robs a
sordid wretch of a woman, and how he
is not suspected of the crime, but let's
his fears conjure up dangers of expos
ure until he confesses his guilt, is the
substance of the narration. The trans
lation of a French dramatization for
Mansfield did not alter the story, or
its ethical purpOrt, which is the pOten-
cy of conscience to force self-conviction
i'm a neurasthenic murderer. Laurence
Irving, i'm evolving a play for Sothern
from the book, makes the Christian re-
ligion its dominant theme. His Rodion
is an Agnostic, who believes it is right
to kill any man who is not fit to live.
Such a man, ne thinks, is Cromoff, jan
itOr of the house in which ne and Sonia
Martinova lodge; for Gromoff would
turn Sonia into the street upon her re-
fusal to be corrupted. As Rodion has
no money with which 10 save her from
eviction he deems it a duty to murder
and plumber the british janitor.
x X
BY characterizing the gentle, meek,
childish Sonia as a Christian, obdurate
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to leave her with tse stf~nger, first ar
ranging with her male pal TO dope the
victim. Haven't / read, or heard, Of
something like that happening here in
New York? Four centuries ago, in
Jeddo, however. knockout drops were
made to kill. The masculine tragedian
of this company, Mr.. Sat0. equals Mrs.
Hanako as a dramatic artist. That is
no Joke They are grotesquely violent
in al they do, but none of it is bad
SatO's cOntortions of visage, and with
ings Of body, accompanied by gasps,
chokes and outcries of agony. may well
be a study of death from some particu-
larly painful japanese poison When
he ceases his expiring witches and
tremOTs. Marasah steals his money
and sneaks out. and the other byron
girl snealxs in. This Otyo pities San
"a. and gives him an antidOte for the
poison. Now we get a positive novelty
in tragedy-the return of a dead man
TO life-a reversal of the phenomena OF
his demise; for Sanza, starting where
he Left OF. goes backward through
every tremor. twitch. contortion and
cutlery until he is as well as ever-or
better, as he is left sober.
The next incident is Murasakrs muir
der by Otyo for having saved Sanza's
life. The two girls fight with knives
until Otyo lies dead; and she stays so.
Soon Sanza returns in quest of his
money, and encounters Dampe just as
he and Murasaki are quitting the jash
wara. A savage combat with long
swords stretches Dampe lifeless. Mura-
saki has no cure for mortal sword
| thrusts. and she throws herself wall
| ing on her dead lover. Sanza picks her
up and slowly kills her. Here the star
actress of the company gets a chance
to show the tOrtuTes of death by
| strangulatiOn. Sanza is a six-fOot man.
which is gigantic for a japanese. and
have given the diminutive dimensions
of Murasaki- He holds her with one
! hand while adjusting the moose of a
cord with the other around her neck.
Her fright is pitiful; the cord is tight
ened, her cries for mercy lower into 81
lence and she begins to struggle for
breath; but her strength is weakness
compared with that of the maddened
man. who prOtracts the process Of
strangUlaticn terribly. Ostensibly to
show the feroCity of his vengeance, but
really to let Mrs. Fanako give a new
demonstration of japanese dramatic
art. The audience shivers.
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envy" and every one of the subsequent
writer's of war plays, 50 far as | know,
has turned his plot on love between an
army officer from the north and a rebel
girl in the south. The same thing is
done again by DeMille. But what other
than the old Romeo and Juliet compli-
cation can be devised for the heart in
terest of an American civil war drama?
If you have a new and good idea, ad-
vertise ii in the theatrical weeklies for
sale to a playwright, and don't sell 1t
cheap. 1 think it hypercritical to berate
DeMille for unoriginality.
Once a year it comes in my way to
brag that New York has the biggest
theatre in the world. Why it was
named the Hippodrome must be
guessed at, as no horse race ever was
run in it, nor any horse show given.
The magnitude of the theatrical bust
ness in this city is betokened by the
fact that only once a year, when an
entirely new play is placed on its
stage. is much published about the
Hippodrome; yet twice every day eX-
cept Sunday, it holds an audience that
often fills all its $500 chairs: and STILL
while it is one of the city's sights to
tourists, 1t is no longer any wonder to
residents. It's new play, THE Auto
Race" is not conversational; the words
essential to an understanding of its
story at the outset are spoken through
a sightseeing car conductors mega
phone to make them heard in the far
corners of the houses acre: the soioists
among the singers have been chosen
for their sonorous voices; and. al
though one sixty-horse-pOwer motor
car is big and noisy enough to domi-
nate a stage of ordinary size, three
racing machines four pleasure autos
and a huge passenger vehicle don't so
crowd the stage but that 200 TO 300 per-
sons are shown as spectators afoOt.
This scene represents at a Long Island
village the start and finish of an auto
mobile race for the Vanderbilt cup, and
the spaciousness of it may be realized
when l tell you that the back drop
the painted canvas that crosses the
rear and comes part way forward at
the sides, is 200 feet in length. That is
why such an assemblage of motor cars
and people have room to produce d
SURPRISING effect of realism.
The action begins with the arrival of
spectators on foot and in rustic
wagons; and right after them come a
squad of twenty mounted policemen,
who clear the way for the automobiles
first those bringing sightseers, and
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next the megaphone man on the loaded
rubber-neck auto. to tell~the audience,
so loudly as TO be heard above the tur-
moil OF excitement, that Mrs. Gay
Spanker is due with a party of friends.
Their arrival and unloading make a
fine exhibit of beaus and bellies. Last
ly, the autos that are to race roll rapid
ly down to the fOotlights. one after an
other, each chauffeur trying to outdo
the other in a speed that has to be
stopped suddenly within a few feet of
the stages front. On the third even
ing a car went over the edge and no
one would believe it wasn't done for
advertising purposes, but that three
musicians were knocked over and Wis
IDLY bruised.
The second section of 1.-The Auto
Race" is a garden party on the lawn
of Mrs. Gay Spanker's. country house.
with songs and choruses. sports vary
ing from diabolo (the new game that is
played by tossing and catching a
grooved ball on a cord attached to
sticks held in the hands,, to gymnastic
exercise by three trOupes at once, one
of them composed of women who do
mems feats. There is nearly an hour
of lawr circus, with a ring of imita-
ton turf instead of sawdust, climaxing
with fourteen big fool elephants, who
do stunts like little dogs, instead of
turning to in their might and swiping
their keepers.
To be sure, hundreds of girls are
trained to equal subservience, but they
get more than hay meals and straw
beds for recompense. The extrava-
ganza element is sufficient to outfit
twenty shows of ordinary proportions,
and its rows of hundred smiles each,
with four hundred fiinging arms and
cavOrting legs, sWOop forward like an
army of AmazOns. Mrs. Gay Spanker' S
lawn has a wide bed of white and yell
low daisies, which seem to have grown
to gigantic size in an effort at harmo-
ny. The flowers are turned to the
front. and some of them move lit
tie. as though stirred by a breeze. Not
many of the spectators, though, see
that each daisy is a hat on the head
of girl until Marceline, the Hippo
drome's clown, rolls and tumbles down
a terrace among the squatted dancers
Then they spring to their feet. face the
footlights and stTaighten out their
kinked muscles in a ballet.
A scenic ballet of the London Christ
mas pantOmime type, with the I'M
promising title of THE Four Sea sons. "
is the final third of The Auto Race, -
and, of course, the seasOnable shifts of
foliage, flowers and other phenomena
! of a years round of temperature, don't
raise expectation of novelty; and for
awhile the enormous quantity of ma
terials is more noteworthy than the
quality. Aerial women make the flights
that are no longer odd, though the ex-
ira height and distances give new in
terest to them. The water of the
famed pool under the stage is uncov-
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cred to make a sylvan lake, with the
surrounding trees reflected in its water,
from which rise allegorical objects,
while ballet disports on the shore be-
yond. This enormous extension of tank
drama is not the marvel that ii was at
first, three years ago. and the spec
tator is beginning to be cynical with
the thought that. having utilized the
tank one year with the plunging horses
of cavalry battle, and another year
with the mystifyingi antics of mer
maids, all its possibilities of strange
ness have been exhausted, when sud-
denly ii presents a new puzzle in the
winter carnival. What seems to be
the surface of the water, where foun-
tains played and swans fiOated a little
while before, now is a glare of ice. The
woods beyond are ieafless and the
ground is snowy. A polar sort of bal
let occupies the shore briefly. Then the
frozen lake is possessed by a sportive
throng of sliders, skaters, curriers' and
snowballers, in and out among whom
lazy ladies' are propelled in chairs on
runners. That is the climax of the
show.
Lately l gave an account of Mrs. Ha-
mako in an imitation of Japanese sui
eide by hari-kari. Now l will describe
and will do it rather fully, because you
won't see the japanese company she
| belongs to, as it goes home without
| touring the United States. The death
rate is so high in THE Jashwara' that,
at the end of forty minutes three of its
four characters lie dead, and the sur
vivor has come to life after seemingly
| having been killed. This tragedy S
place and time are Jeddo 400 years
ago; but its matter is neither foreign
nor obsolete right here in New York.
/ The program says that Murasaki is an
| byron girl in a EASTWARD. which. as her
conduct showed, is worse than being a
geisna girl. As embodied by Mrs. Ha-
mako, she is not an inch more than five
! feet in height. and prOportionately
| thin, to guess how much there is of her
swaddled in a voluminous kimono. She
/ is visited by her lover, Mampe. and
| they drink kohl smoke opium and chat
socially until SanZa, a cavalier, comes
/ in quest of a EASTWARD he once met in
| this house. She has gone away, and
| in her absence he is entertained by the
dancing of Dampe and girl Otyo; also
! by Murasaki's singing; and he empties
many cups of koli with them.
X
The Jap. lingo. as spoken rapidly by
| these players, sounds like the inarticu-
! late gibbering of apes; there is no ca
dence, infection or emphasis to aid a
surmse as to its meaning; but the
| grimaces and gestures are so graphic
! that the eyes. if not the ears, easily
| follow the story of 1.-THE EASTWARD"
| to leave her with the stranger, first, ar
! certains that he carries much money,
and tells the other girl and the lover
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16

the other of our great parties. Until
this is remedied the American export
er will always be under a handicap as
compared to his German or English
competitor The consuls of these
countries are trained men who are
sent out in the interests of the COM
mercial welfare of their countries.
With a change in the consular de-
partment, putting it in condition to
best aid the business interests of the
country, besides building up an Amer
lean merchant marine to carry Am
erican goods by the aid of ship sub
sidy, we believe the country will be
UNNECESSARILY benefited. Our foreign
markets will be greatly amplified and
will afford increased consumption for
our constantly increasing manufac-
tured and agricultural products. I'm
der these conditions we can not be
otherwise than in favor of a ship sub
sidy. AS to what kind of a ship sub
sidy, in what manner it will be paid
and on what basis, much time and
much thought will be required to de-
termine a satisfactory answer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
PENN. SAYS NOTHING,

Following the policy long since ad-
opted, when questions in which the
road is directly interested are con-
cerned and when adverse action is
contemplated, the Pennsylvania is
saying nothing in regard to the
freight interchange in this city. The
Pennsylvania has until December 1 to
either comply with the ruling of the
Indiana railroad commission or APP
peal from the decision of that body
Local officials cannot be induced to
part with information as to what &C
ton the big corporation will take on
the matter, simply stating that the
whole proposition is mp to the general
officers in Pittsburg. Probably the
visit of the many moguls of the Penn
syivania system to Richmond Monday.
may aid in the early compliance with
the railroad commissions ruling. 1t
is not thought locally that the com
missions decisions will in any way be
changed by either of the higher
courts.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
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THROUGH THE BLOOD
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Are you losing your sense of smell or
taste? Is there a dropping in the
throat? Do you have a ringing in the
ears? Is there constant bad taste
In the mouth? Do you have hack.
ing cough? If so, you have catarrh.
Catarrh is not only dangerous in this
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to general debility, idiocy and insanity
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
STATIONS ARE PUT
ON 8-ROUR BASIS
Recent Act of the State Legis-
Iature Is Being Com
piled With.
SCHOOL is ESTABLISHED.
BUSINESS FOR THE HoMEsEEk-
ERS' EXCURSION WAS NOT
HEAVY HERE-OTHER NEWS OF
THE RAILROADS.

Several stations along the Rich
mond and other divisions of the Penn
sylvania have been put on the eight
hour basis as provided for in q re-
cent act of the state legislature max
ing it obligatory upon the railroads
that all telegraph operators work but
eight hours out of the tWenty-fOur
or course the law does not go into
effect until March /. 1908, of next
year, but since it is impossible to
make changes all at once owing to the
great Increase in the working force
made necessary by the shorter shifts
it has been the policy of the roads to
bring the new condition about gradu-
ally
The Pennsylvania has already es-
tablished a school for the express pur-
pose of instructing men in the mys-
teries of the craft in order that when
the time comes when the increase
must be made there will be no dearth
of material. The school has been put
under the charge of competent tele-
graphers and the graduates will be
able to take positions on the road and
perform the duties devolving upon
them as readily as the ones that have
learned the business by several years
study and practice.
The idea the lawmakers had in
shortening the working hours to eight
was that the men would be more cap
able Of giving the wor! their best eff
forts than If, as at present is the
case, they were compelled to spend
twelve hours in the Office.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
TAGGART TO RETIRE.

indianapolis, Oct. 16-One of Ma
tional Chairman Taggart's most init
mate friends made the statement here
today that before the first of next
year Mr.. Taggart will publicly an
nounce his retirement as the leader
of the Democratic party in Indiana.
He will not retire from politics, but
will take his place in the ranks, &C
cording to the declaration Of his
friend. He said that Mr.. Taggart' S
mind is fully made up and that he has
no intention whatever of being a car
didate for reelection as national com,
mittee man.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
GROVER BOWMAN INJURED.

Grover Bowman, passenger fireman
on the c., c. C L. was injured badly
about the leg near Amboy while max
ing run from Cincinnati to Peru.
1t is considered a miracle that Bow
man was not killed, according to the
stories of the affair reaching this city.
The train on which he was working
was going about twenty-five miles an
hour through Amboy, when Bowman
stepped into the gangway to pick up
something. In STOPPING over one of
his legs struck a cattle guard with
terrible force, only by a miracle leav-
ing him in the engine. An investiga-
ton proved that bad cash several
inches long had been cut in his ,eg
and the ankle badly sprained.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
LYDIA E. PINKHAM

No rrnedici in
No med u o
hosts OF
Inflammation and Uceration and consequent Spinal
thas more
Debility quickly
all
feeling don't and
blues These
endica of
Backac
anything rewarded hundred
all substitutes
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16

The Canaques of New Guinea prefer
for defense clubs made of hard wood,
highly polished, and ending in curious
or artistic forms Sometimes these
bludgeons are made of stone strength
ened with wood in an ingenious Way.
A hole is drilled in a stone shaft and
through it is pushed a small branch
of a growing banyan tree. In year
or two this branch is cut off. By this
time the wood has grown until it is a
tight fit for its stone case, and the club
has become a formidable head break
err
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
OUTSIDE THE CORPORATION.

A few days ago the Pennsylvania
railroad received a note stating that
an early order for 1908 delivered rails
would be appreciated. A secret is
made no longer of the fact that the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad has been re-
ceiving figures from railmakers out
side the corporation which sent the
letter and while the Pennsylvania Of
ficers deny that they ere even consid-
ering a possibility OF changing rail
makers the fact remains that outside
interests are submitting figures
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
MADE ANOTHER RECORD,

The Pennsylvania people say their
New York limited made another rec
ord last Sunday, when the train
reached Altoona thirty-five minutes
late and the time was made up be-
tween that city and Pittsburg. When
it is considered that the average
speed of the limited is the fastest of
any train on the road, it is evident
that when it starts. to make up time
it goes some. The trainmen state
that it was the fastest ride they ever
experienced over that road, a speed
of eighty-five miles an hour being
reached for some distance.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
WORKING FOR BARNARD.

Charley Christopher, with his big
white hat, that makes him resemble a
Western sheriff, is in town. Mr.,
Christopher used to be sheriff of Hen
ry county. Now he is county chair
man and his one mission in life is to
make w. o. Barnard, Of New Castle, a
member of Congress from the Sixth
district.
ITO be sure" said Mr.. Christopher,
zone can not tell what will happen in
politics, but to me it looks as if Barn
ard will get the nomination. Every
one over our way is working mighty
hard to that end."-Blodgett in Ind
annapolis News.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16

Illustrating the strange power of the
imagination. E. F. Benson. author Ct
"Dodo'' tells this incident: A doctor he
knew had found it necessary to give q
patient for many evenings an injec-
ton of morphia to enable him to get
some sleep. After a while the doctor
thought it advisable to stop the NOR
phia, and for two nights his patient
was unable to sleep, owing to great
pain. On the third night the doctor
being still unwilling to administer
morphia, injected plain water instead
The man slept perfectly and awoke in
the morning with what is known as
morphine mouth.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-16
Political Gossip.
PUTS UP PRETTY FIGHT.
(Blodgett in the News.)

The Rev Thomas H. Kuhn, of Rich
ming the congressional race against
James e. Watson, has already been in
dorsed by the Democrats of the Sixth
district and it putting up a pretty
fight for the nomination. 1t is cur
rently reported that Tom Taggart aud
his friends will short-circuit Brother
Kuhn, but there is nothing that points
that way yet.