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The Washington times., 1908-03-08

chances for the star. and therefore, il
VIII serve as his popular vehicle for
some time. It tells a good story rather
Well-and TO repeat, II would be like
telling you the ending Of a book YOU
We're reading. 1t is worth seeing. lie
leading woman, Miss Goodrich. is mis-
cast. having an emotional part TO
Wnlch her sweet stdtuesqueneSs and
pronounced susary charm are not
adapted. The other women. eXsepting
Lucille lie Verne, are awful. The play
is good enough TO merit a Iirst-rate,
capable cast. The people employed ia
me present production may be high
STARRED professionals, but thew do not
MI the requirements.
William II. Crane. the standby of us
all IS now in his true element at the
I'm I-l9ipi.Tr re AIDES play, Father
Dustin Farnum is playing al the 6iiou
IN byron Ongley's absurd atteuDt I'D
poetic. idVlllc drama, '"Tbe Rarto, =
GdFcen' which only serves 10 einDha..
SIZE the tutilitv Of anyone irving 80
write a play without having the Slight
est conception of dramatic values Ssr-
uuu once wrote an intensely exciting
comedy about the Whereabouts of a
scrap of Daper-but the dramatic in
'efest hung upon the Fundamental hT-
Ilah force OF human JEALOUSY. There
ISn a human force in this pIsv AT tbs
take IL seriously. ~
Another aboTtiVe trial al fla. 4t,..,t .f,.-l
production was made al the Garden
VIII NJ. Cressy and Blanche T1aI,ne
NaudeVille artists, elongated a ffteen-
llIilhule sketch into a four-act horror.
ne less said about that the better aIeo
the Schuberts put ID on
The Washington times., 1908-03-08
NATIONAL THEATER
Grand Public Concert
OF THE
WASHINGTON SAEaGERBUHD

Sunday Evening. March i. at S o'clock
Assisted by
NINE. MARY HISSEM DE MOSS.
The Distinguished soprano Of New York.
MR.. EDOUARD DETHIER
The Eminent Belgian Violin VirtuosO
And an ORCHESTRA OF 40 MUSICIANS
CHORUSES OF 20 MALE VOICES.
MR. HENRY XANDER. Musical Director.
Admission Gallery. soc: reserved seats Or
chestra and balcony, 81; boxes s. and s..
Members may secure reserved seats upon pre-
senting membership cards ami payment Of
Is cents each. Tickets now on sale at A. F.
Jonas Ticket Agency In Topham's, 1913 F
81
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BY A. H. BALLARD.
NEW YORK N

NEW YORK. March Z.
r. HEY let out peal Of bifurcated
consonsnts, the other night al
4 the Daiy's Theater. that may ba
heard around the world. If a
/ match had been touched TO the CON.
Nersation in the lobby. between the acts
u would have some Off like a dynamite
bomb
The occasion was the first appearance
IN America of the Russian actress
Madame Vera Komisarzhevslzv. Tho
performance was given I'm the veritable
FoiaF-DeaT language, and the disting-
uished stars resident compatriots had
gathered in large numbers to celebrate
her reception Fierce boards and -be
Russian vernscular pervaded the rIace
The play was Ibsen's "A Dolls House.
and, although entirely unfamiliar with
the Russian tongue. 1 know thar the
splendid company got much more out
OF that play than anyone else did whom
have seen heretofore.
The stage arrangements were crude
and unusuEi, and the scenery common
piece TO a degTee-that was the only
noticeable delinquency Of the evening.
Vera komisarzhevslly is one OF the
earth's great artists.
can only describe the effect she made
upon me. To judge or the way she suits
the action TO the word. TO measure her
attachments as to mentality and tech
nique. taking this performance as an
illustration would involve my thorough
understanding Of the language in which
she spoke. L have not that But 10
any practice1 eve and ear the eyida,ca
was bouudless that she deserves her rem.
uIalion as the MOST DISTINGUISHED lc.
IItss or Russia, a wonderful crea tire
win wonderful power and wonderful at
talnmenJS. She Is slight of build nos
TAN, not short She has a soulful face
she Is spiritual. She has a temDers-
menJ that instantaueously responds IN
every shade of feeling; a techuf0ue in
leF art that includes a marvellous rangs [
Of eveT-varying gesture. nose ,-oie. /
The Washington times., 1908-03-08
SKATIRe RlNR. c0NVENTI0N RALL

Thursday night, March IL,
Mr.. Preston Porter s. Jack yyoodworth,
two OF the fastest skaters Il the Is,
viii race Tor the championship.
This viii be the race OF the year.
Admission and Skates, Csc.
The Washington times., 1908-03-08
Sunday Amusements.

The Belasco Theater will be The scene
or another concert tonight, with a pro-
gram of illustrated ballads. several
vaudeville acts, and the aptly described.
The world through q lens" The sub
lects, selected by the MANAGEMENT.
hTing the comic or dramatic DlayIet.
travel views, and important present-dav
events before an audience in d realistic
manner. The travel subject for tonight
VIII be journey through Ireland.
The program selected for the concert
al the Academy tonight consists of more
than two hours of moving pictures. A
pleasant concert IS provided by the con
cert orchestra during the exhibition of
me, pictures. music appropriate TO the
action being selected for each subject
td Allen, with his comic songs and
illustrated ballads, Will be heard be-
tween each reel of pictures.
Adams and White will present their
unique musical act entitled. "Flm in 2
Musical Farm Yard, 80 at tonight's CON
cert at the Majestic. They make music
on almost everything Imaginable from
a model of a full-sized cow 10 a dog
kennel Clark Brothers will present .
Whlstllng specially other vaudeville
acts are also on the bill. including UIus-
trated songs and pictures.
The Washington times., 1908-03-08
GRIP VAN WRINKLE" HERE
AT MAJESTIC THIS WEEK

Rip Van Winkle" is without doubt
one OF the most popular characters the
dramatic stage has. given as, and the
majestic promises treat this week as
II Is portrayed by George ODER and COM
pany. Since Joseph Jefferson's death
several have tried to play this quaint
character. with varying success. George
Oher is said TO have succeeded admir-
ABLY. His comedy scenes, It is said
are each and all carried off with a
suave finish and in the powerful mo-
meI'ts he is said to be appealing and ne
cuiiarly interesting. He departs from
the orthodox treatment of Rip. aiming
20 invest new interest in the role
An excellent supporting company IS
PiOIHIsSu' together with a scenic equip
ment that was copied from me acfI5sI
scenes. The costuming is appropriate
10 the characters and time of the story.
The Washington times., 1908-03-08
vanity Fair" at Gavetv.

Bob Manohester's Vanity Fair Big
ENtravaganza Company comes TO the
Gayety Theater tomorrow evening.
capable comedians. pretty women.
rhd a good vaudeville UliO are the three
essential points promised by the man
astnlent- In the vaudeville o1io the fol-
lowing acts are offered.
Weich and Maitland. Belle Wilton the
ORR from Sunny Spain. Henninvs
Lewis and Hennings. i'm their sketch en-
ILled The Automobile Agent" James
aters' the singer from the Ghetto,
and the racetrack BOYS i'm their courJz-
such as McRae and HaverIy produce
entitled The Pikers." The twelve
navajo Girls viii be the adGed attrac-
ION. The Burns-Palmer fight pictures
VIII be shown.
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''The Nigntingales" at Lyceum.

This weeks attraction AT The New
Lyceum Theater will be The Nightfn-
gales. The program opens with a mu-
Slcal IiaNestE called Americans
ABROAD, which serves TO introduce the
entire company Americans Abroad"
IS a farce. said TO be full of suaD ana
brilliant dialogue. The Clio includes Nc
Dewitt and Kelly. dancers; the Vedi-
mars, III gymnastlc nonsense: Kennedy
Evans, and kennedy, in a skeach of life
called True To Nature" and Howard
and Lewis, IN comedy and singing act
ne performance closes with n blTletta
called out for Lark
The Washington times., 1908-03-08

meditation, the whole iIiumined by big
con peliinG eyes that seem 70 shine with
gFei meaning from some higher, wider
world.
Has. Bernhardt Quality.
The finish, the completeness, the dig
nifty, the poise, the efficiency of her
| stage work, stamp her Immediately, e.
! the sophisticated in dramatic affairs Of
today as an artist of most exceptional
| talent. experience. and accomplishments.
| Whether CT not she is a genius of i'm
I mense gamut and lofty capabilities. she
must demonstrate by further perform
ances of illustrative roles. and We must
! learn the truth by close and honest
study Of hes. That she brings to this
country the ripe product OF Russia'a
present-daY scter folk there can be no
question. / can well believe that she
stands at the head of her profession.
She has something Of the BernhardL
convincing quaIlty-that strange splritU.
atty that forces US to believe in her,
without knowing why. and without ask
Ing. And she has the polished finish
that would tax the utmost that Naude
Adams could achieve. Her personality
II as distinctive Of its kind as that Of
Mrs. Fiske. and it is like no one else's
on the stage today. When you Know
her, you get new idea in life. That
much she brings to you, even If you
cannot know word she utters. From
the fact that Nazhnova. also from her
country. preceded ner in attracting
Americas attention, the two will be
compared. They cannot be compared.
for they are so unlike. Nazimova Is a
versatile genius. a born actress. with an
extraordinary gift, aud feshly charm
that always IS prominent Romi-
ss-zhe"sky IS "a spirit from above, held
here in fragile body for a time. TO
hold and sway US by some subtle- in
huenee than We can put in woris-an
inehable fierce that does not depend on
speech entirely tor its magnetic
strength
Nat Goodwin's Good Play.
Our friend Nat Goodwin. has again
scored. George Broadhurst has nro-
viied him with another sheriff cbarsc-
ttr-the FIRST practicable one lie has had
since In Mizzoura.' This time The NAV
IS named The Easterner," and II is |
big measure
OF course. do not believe in tailor |
10 order To- TT Nat Goodwin-and il fits.
an right; yet there are many bits of it /
that We could have wished otherwise \
IN fact, thinking Of Maxine Elliott and /
Nat Goodwin in the palny DAYS of many
plays they put forward together. We
seen! 10 miss much In this last edition /
Of the best comedian in America. BHt
why Waii2 Here We have a thrilling
pay "nen the third act comes. and /
we nave FIVE love stories that do not en-
lahgle zach other; we have plenty of
action and plenty OF unctuouss hur,or /
ana we have buttons and buttons az de- !
'ightiui Nat GOodwin-the best eve~. as
l SAID before. The construction Of the
play dehes competition. and also descrip-
-lon-it IS four-in-one and good and had
IN the same breath ar that You can
gamble on the fact that there il plenty
'f interest in the piece. and lots Of
The Washington times., 1908-03-08

Lincoln J. Carriers border drama. 9Th.
aiming ARROW. Will be the attraction
al the Majestic next week. II is said
10 possess the true Western roaI,-
aIsiaatlc flavor, depending for its sue
cllmaNes and realistic scenic ereCte n
VIII De presented by a company OF rbfr-
~ including real Indians and ponies
The Washington times., 1908-03-08
suRPRIsE THEATER.

SURPRISE THEATER,
30 Pa. Ave. ~. W.
OPENING SATURDAY, MARCH 7TK.
p. m. Motion Pictures ana Vaudeville.
Our FIRST Surprise.
THE EXCELSIOE QUARFETTE,
IN conjunction with latest moving pictures
Admission SC. Sunday Double Shoar loo
WATCH FOR SURPRISE NO. :.
The Washington times., 1908-03-08
x THEATRICAL NEWS AND GOSSIP =

feature ia other plays. or in vaudeville.
IT, still remains feature of I'm Old
Kentucky"
The horse race loses none OF is in
terest by frequent repetitions, because
II is so admirably led up TO and given
with such skdllfuI attention to detail
Inc cast this season includes Burt @.
Clark, May stockton, Charles x
french, A. II. Wilson, and Duncan PeR-
warden.
The Washington times., 1908-03-08
Ian KubeIik Recital

Jan kubeik, one Of the most noted
Nioiinists before the public today. will
appear at the Columbia Theater this
evening in violin recital. An enter
talning program has been arranged for
the occasion.
The Washington times., 1908-03-08

| N~VHtlhucd from Second Page)
port Charles Leonard Fletcher. Mr.. and
Mrs Jimmie Barry & Co. Emil subers.
Nile. Chester's $1,000 Statue Dog ana
the motion pictures.
frederick Monsen a new travai-tslk-
or professionally. viii give a series OF
| Lsetures IN Washington at the BeIasco
inleater. beginning March %.
MI Alonsen has been well knovyp for
5fFFeIal years and has spent most ~
~ IRE studying the Indians OF me
2gt,HNe est and has an intimate knoV-l-
susc or tHelr picturesque mode Of Iiv-
luE. ftis lectures here will SHOW 4 Tfgo,7a
ana the homes Of the Pueblo Indian
after the first OF the se,.Ies on RTo1IJ,,.
AaIcA -, the remaining four Iect,,.g
VII pe given on four consecutive Tues-
"aSS' beginning March g.
Cute an unusual amount OF interest
Hho inquiry at the box Office OF The
Ne" Academy has been occasioned bv
The announcement Of the comjns- Of
lannon's Superba to that house To-, a
week. beginning Monday. March 1s win
natinees Tuesday. THURSDAY ana Sat-
since the HaHlons first produced SIN
- - 'ieS are said TO have gone 10
,'Iu.h expense TO present their pIav ju
w to-uale form. The transforustfor
.-tiu naiiets are new. as also are tha
speciailles, and little remains of ~
oLlbinai besides the title All its changes
ait sald 10 bee improvements.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-10-29
A Warning for Milliners.

Columbia, Oct. 22.-Mr. A. G.
Douglas, president of the A. e.
Douglas Company, which conducts a
fashionable dry goods and millinery
establishment in Columbia, was fined
81 to-day by Magistrate Fowles on a
charge of violating theigam laws OF
the State. The warrant was sworn
out by Secretary Rice of the Audi
bon Society, under the Act of 1905,
and states that Mr., Douglas has In bis
possession and offers for sale the
feathers of a non-game bird, which
is a violation of the statute. The
feathers in question are that OF a
heron on a stylish hat in the Douglas
window, and there are lots of others
of the same kind in the stock, which
Mr.. Douglas will have to dispose OF
in some legal way. When the case
was called in the Magistrates Court
he entered plea of guilty and paid
his fine. If the Audubon Society un-
dertakes to eneforce the law through
out the State it is likely that good
many stocks of millinery in other
towns than Columbia will be depict
ed of some of their choicest fall Of
feringS.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-10-29
Laurens Office Reported Short.

A gentleman from Laurens states
that experts from the Office of the
comptroller general have been at
work there for some time and have
found discrepancy OF sew
eral thousand dollars in the accounts
of a former county treasurer, Mr..
Copeland, now dead.
COMPTROLLER General Jones declines
to make any statement about the
matter other than to admit that he
has been checking the books in Laur-
ems county and that he has had the
assistance of Mr.. D. H. Wise of Aiken
as expert accountant. He would not
deny the rumors, but said the tax de-
partment is not yet convinced that
there is a shortage and that every
voucher in the Office will be checked
over very carefully.
A dispatch to The State from Laur-
ems says:
$50 far as can be ascertained here,
the true status of affairs in treas
urer's Office with reference to For
mer Treasurer Copeland's admins
tration has not been officially deter
mined, the understanding being that
the comptroller general is to return
to Laurens and complete the investl-
cation at an early date. While there
is a discrepancy, as disclosed iR the
recent settlement, the investigation
was not thorough, all parties agree
ing to take the matter up and ferret
it out later"
The amount of the discrepancy is
said to be something like $4,000.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-10-29
A RARE CHECK.
Drawn for One Cent and Worth Five
Thousand Dollars.

The following is from the Charles
ton News and Courier.
A Charleston man is to-day the
owner of a check which is drawn for
the smallest amount payable in Uni
ted States currency, but which, new
ertheless, is worth five hundred
thousand times it's face value. This
is to say, it is drawn for one cent,
and yet is worth not less than $4,000.
1t is one of the only three checks
ever issued by the United States
Government for the amount of one
cent, and is now the property OF Mr.
E. Randall Borne, of $40 King street.
to whom offers of purchase have been
made by curio seekers in various
parts of the country.
One check for similar amount
was issued in 1854 and second was
made out to the order of President
Grover Cleveland in squaring his &C
count with the United States in 1924.
The third and last, and that which
is now in the hands of Mr.. Borne, is
dated 1891. 1t was sent to Mrs.
Eliza A. Holland to settle the in
debtedness of the Government to her
when she resigned the position OF
postmistress at Sunshine, S. c. The
check is on engraved paper, bears
date of January 8, 1891, and is sign
ed by T. B. Coulter, auditor, and
Madison Davis, acting third assistant
Postmaster General.
Mr.. Borne happened to be In con-
versation with the ex-postmlstressS
and she showed him the check, and
expressed some disgust that it would
cost her two cents in postage TO casn
one-cent check. He was amused
at the illustration of the exactness
of the department bookkeepers ana
offered her fifty cents for the dratt as
a curiosity, which offer she promptly
accepted. The check was then ex-
hibited for while and finally put
away and forgotten by it's owner un-
til the other day, when he read IN
the mornings news that one for
similar amount had been mentioned
as being of value, that left to his
wife by Ex-President Grover CleVe-
land in his will. This set Mr.. Borne
to thinking. He looked up the Gu
riosity" and investigated its worth,
to find, greatly to his surprise and
delight, that the one dated in 1854,
the only one ever on the market, had
sold for $4,000. Several postoftice
inspectors on their trips through this
city came to his store to look at the
check and from them and from COL
lectors with whom he got in cores
pondence he has learned that his for
gotten keepsake is worth not less
than $4,000. -,
The moral, of course, is that it
pays to read daily paper-some-
times as much as five thousand dol
lars in cold cash for the time spent
in the persual of single issue.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-10-29
NEGRESS FATALLY BURNED.
Colored Servant on Anderson Planta-
ton Meets Horrible Death.

Anderson, October 22.-Nesther
Brown, a young woman of this CITY,
who had been working on the planta-
ton of Mr.. Charlie Jones, about two
miles below Starr, was so severely
burned that she died in great agony.
She had been working in the field,
near where she lived, and went to
the house to start fire in the stove
to prepare supper. 1t is believed that
the woman used kerosene oil in
starting the fire and that it blazed
up on her when the match was ap-
Piled. She was horribly burned all
over the body and face. DR.. j.. n.
Land, of Starr, was summoned, but
was unable to do anything for the
suffering woman beyond administer
ing drugs to relieve part of the
pain.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-10-29
How the Russian Throne Got its Heir

A curious light on superstition IN
high places is related in the Woman's S
Home Companion for November. In
this issue Kellogg Durland, writing
tof the Tsaritsa of All the Russlas'
tells the following:
= "When three children had been
born, and no heir, the Tsaritsa turn
ed an open ear to various men who
claimed supernatural power and con-
troll. Before the birth of Anastasle
the aid of eminent medical and sclen-
tific men had been sought to lnf1u-
ence the sex of the child, but all to
no avail. And so, when science fall
ed, religion was appealed to.
sHThe example of their trust IN
miracle working which history has
been called upon to remember, is
that of the dead and buried priest
who was supposed to have finally
brought them a. son, and who was
eanonized by the Emperors The day
of St. Seraphim is now one OF the
hottest of days in Russia and is cele-
brated throughout the empire.
,"Seraphim was an old priest of Sa-
roff in the interior of Russia, who
according to local tradition. was a
kind of sooth-sayer and local medl-
cine man. His particular power is
said to have beer in endowing bar
>ren women with children.
ttSeraphim had been dead seventy
years, but the Tsar was now anxious
to leave no stone unturned to pro
cure a son, and encouraged by the
Tsaritsa, Seraphim was canonized:
"When the remains Of the old
priest was unearthed it was found
that the body was badly decomposed
and to canonize a man whose Dooy
Yields to the influence Of decomposl-
ton is contrary to the traditions and
cnstoms of the church. The Ortho-
dox Bishop Dmitry of Tambof ven:
tured to call attention to this and
protest the canonization to the Tsar,
hut for his temerity he was deprived
of his see and exiled to Vlatka
Nicholas held the preservation OF
bones, hair and teeth sufficient quail
fication for saintship.
$50 Seraphim was canonlzed Wltn
great pomp and ritualistic solemnlty
and the next child born to the Tsar'
lisa was a son! If anything were
needed to fasten the belief of the
Tsar and Tsaritsa in these extreme
forms of religion, it was an answer
to their prayers at this time. The
boy was called Alexis, and he was
born on July 80, 1904, according te
the Russian calendar, and ever since
the Tsar and Tsaritsa have beer
given more and more to the pursul
of spiritualistic religion.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1908-10-29
IDLE NEGROES ARRESTED.
Columbia Police Begin a Crusade
Against Vagrancy.

Columbia, Oct. 19.-About sixty
negroes were arrested this afternoon
by the police for vagrancy and their
cases will become before the recorder
tomorrow morning. Acting under in
structions of the police commission
Chief Cathcart and his men went
through the pool rooms and bowling
alleys. which are numerous on West
Washington and Assembly streets
and around the depots, and gathered
in all the able-bodied negro men
found loafing therin. The patrol
wagon made successive trips with a
heavy load each time, and when the
news began to be noised abroad the
negroes began to get home as fast
as possible. Of the sixty caught loaf
ing nearly all gave bond and are out
of custody tonight. Whether convic-
tions are secured or not the raids will
do good in putting the negroes to
work and the police commission is
determined to rid the town of negro
loafers before trouble results from
their presence. The vagrancy
law will also be enforced against
whites.