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The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-06-05
Meetims 20 Be Held In AlbuQucrq-e,
n. M, viii Give Impetus
10 Great Work.
VIII HELP FORESTRY. TOO.
Projects to Ds Undertaken Nay In
volvs Total Expenditure Of Hun
dred Million Dollars.

Following BY only a few months the
meeting OF the Governors to consider
the conservation Of the nations re-
sources the sixteenth annual irrigation
congress. to be held In Albuquerque.
N. A., from Sept. 70 to Oct. 10. will
be q gathering Of unusual significance.
Within the next few years the work
of the government for retaining the
upfruitfnl lands of the continent will
almost certainly. 1t Is asserted. under
60 q big expansion. and where now mil
lions OF dollars are being expended in
utilizing wasted water supplies and d.
yertin9 them to fertile arid regions. the
draining Of swamp lands and the prob
lem of reforestation are likely to he big
questions that in the near future will
receive the attention OF the scientists
and engineers Of the reclamation SER
vice.
In the work at present undertaken
the next three years will witness an
expenditure Of $39,00O,OOO, according to
the broad program that Is being carried
ont, and this, added to $31 100000 that
already has gone into the irrigation
works concerned, will bring to compile
ton twenty-eight irrigation projects In
sixteen States, making productive
100000 acres Of formerly desert
waste.
From this time On. also, the govern
ment engineers plan to begin operation
on at least n big reclamation project
each year until the whole scheme. in
vofving an outlay Of 500. OO0.0 GOO, shall
have been completed. Plans will be
discussed for those to be begun. includ-
Ing big works In the valley Of the Col
orado River and in the Sacramento Val
ley IN California. All Of which lends
magnitude and Importance to the com
ing congress.
WIN Conside< Forestry Also.
The subject OF forestry Is slated for
extended discussion at this gathering,
its relation to irrigation being the most
intimate, It Is said. Rivers rising in
OVvoDS0tC0 SO05iNA1CS uIc subject 10 an
nuai floods that cannot be controlled
and work only further devastation each
year, while the ffow can be turned to
no useful purpose.
In the country surrounding Albu-
Querque, where the modern wonders Of
Irrigation are to be discussed. there
are traces Of ancient works fully as
wonderful in their way because created
by primitive peoples ages ago who were
the nrst irrigators OF the West.
The most remarkable part Of II. ac-
cording to the government engineers
who are surveying new canals for these
same regions, Is that the ancients. with
their crude instruments. hit upon the
most advantageous routes for carrying
out these big engineering works. and
IN many sections to-day. 1t Is said. the
surveys r plotting out the new works
right along the lines Of those in use
centuries ago.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-06-05

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walking besids I lails,,v IA. -
friend Who was very - . suI
.Fain was approachiae. and !. :.
rounded the curve the whists rnre -.
= those ear-destroyine shrie,s 49,
seem to pierce high heaven.
A smile broke over the de.f No..
face. s
Man" said be, that's the ART roh.
10 I've heard this spring.
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Pretty oon steak will b. . sign Of
Wsalth.
Ihs American navy is still the unfeated
wonder Of the world.
Tie Japs realize that peace has its di,-
asters no less than war.
The desire to take Harry Thaw to Eu-
rope ought to be encouraged.
Congress has been just as busy a.
though X had been doing something.
Prince Relic refuses to plunge at Monte
Carlo. He prefers to play . SURF thing.
IL takes Z strong minded woman to sum-
port The weight Of . Merry Widow bon
net.
Evelyn Thaw says she wishes the pub-
lie to forget her. The public wishes it
ceuld
An authority mys diamonds are hard
e than Steel" They are certainly harder
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Now 1T ~ hear from the delegate an
Merry Widow hats - one Of our national
rssourceA
Sons AZ born 70 trouble, some hunt Tor
trouble md some marry into the Gould
SA0iN.
Mn. Hetty Green denies that her
daughter y going to get married now.
Husban6 win probably Be cheaper before
- ysar = ont.
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f1a0 . mfnsee. Yet people stih say that
SAk = eAeepl"
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hnartcks . thousand pears ego 10 enough
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. - W. with them.
1vsfy young naval of5cer knows ex-
ecfr Nv to build = battleshin tas. a.
svsxy I'm knows how to run ! farm. :
1eea q . newspaper.
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AFTER Seton Misrepresentation.
The old mother bear, having robbed
bee tree. had broa7ht a portion Of Tho
spoil home to her cubs.
One Of them attacked the honey greed.
lily.
THE little darling! !" exclaimed the han.
py old mother bear. "He has cut his
sweet tooth !"
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heard. but don't know, o. cour,e
about the neighbour
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"Why don't you try one OF those to-
bacco cures on your son?' asked Cad
die.
THAT wouldn't have any effect on
him." replied Popley.
"Oh! yes, they simply kill all appe-
tite for tobacco"
but he smokes cigarettes"
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fammntiafi, a,iays pain, cures wind cole.
DC a bottle.
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Since the engagement Of his pretty
sister her small brother had been puz-
cling his head to understand what it
fieant.
Why" exclaimed his mother. "Mr.
Skaggs has asked sister to marry him.
That means that he'll take care of her"
Buy her things?" asked the boy.
Eyes"
Hats and dinners and ice cream and
everything!" he persisted.
Yes" was the answer.
The boy thought 1t all over for a mo-
ment. and then he said:
well, that mans got lots Of cour.
age, hasn't heY"-Ladies' Home Joui
nal.
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The Washington herald., 1908-03-01
Has Rapid Rise.

Few actresses have risen as rapidly in
the dramatic scale as Miss Eleanor Rob
son, the young actress who comes 10
Washington next week. Eight years ago
Miss Robson was a comparatively un-
known young girl. who was playing a
minor part In one of the ten reigning sue
cesses Of New York A year after that she
was leading woman for Kyrle Bellew, IN
The Gentleman of France" and a year
after that she was a star in play Of her
own. From that time she has risen
steadily, until to-day she occupies q posi-
ton second 10 no woman upon the Ameri-
can stage.
II was her ability and artistic worth
that sent her skyroeketing along the
dramatic highway. and it was the
iudicious choosing of such plays as
Merely Mary Ann" Nurse Marjorie. ."
and the present vehicle that have made
her so uniformly successful. Miss Rob-
son has also achieved success BY her
diligent preparation Of each one Of her
characters, for in every instance she has
taken loag weeks to study out in detail
all the possibilities that lie within each
impersonation. and in voice. accent. walk.
costume. and the hundred and one little
things that go 20 make a successful stage
picture, she has been uniformly success
ful. Those who may have coniectured a
mind picture Of Hartes ''Salomy Jane"
viii doubtless be pleased to recognize the
very character 10 the life in Miss Rcp-
sons artistic portrayal of the daughter
Of the mountainer who has emigrated TO
California
The Washington herald., 1908-03-01
Bluffs y

Leo Ditrichstein is one OF the most per-
/ sistent and hard-wOrking men Of our
stage. Presupposing that his penchant is
for farce comedy. since he confines him.
self almost wholly 10 that form OF play
building. it remains for the public and
the critics to say whether or not farce
comedy is his meter. At the perform
ance Of Bluffs" at the Columbia Theater
last week, there was, so far as could be
readily seen. very little lacking from a
technical standpoint to make of the play
typical and successful farce. The basic
idea of the plot seemed 10 be original,
as far as originality can be got nova
days. and the action was smooth OF the
lines it would perhaps be unjust severely
to criticise them. since the play is hardly
two weeks old, and lines are always
changed about and rewritten in the first
few weeks OF a plays career. sometimes
10 an extent that alters the whole effect
OF a scene.
Doubtless. Mr.. Ditrichstein is busily
working the changes in his play. which
he. as well as any one. knows TO be nee
essary; but there is no demand for any
Encouragement OF the plot. or even Of the
east. Most Of the business too is quite
new and comicaI, and some OF Il artistic.
Mr.. Ditrichstein's acting in the scene
where the rise of the curtain discloses
him asleep under the lamp, after a hard
night of preventing unfortunate encount-
ers and discovered identities. was by far
the most cunningly conceived situation
in the whole show, though its bearing on
the action was but slight Asleep. Kim
melhoch appeared 10 dream Of his bride.
upstairs. but denied to him. and his face
went through the blissful pantomime of
a kiss. while the violin played "Dearle"
very soft and soothingly Then the air
changes to La Donna Mobile and a
frown breaks out on the face of the
sleeper. only TO be dispelled by the strains
of 'Dearie' again. and to resume the
expression of anticipation Of that long
denied kiss. The rude awakening. and
the dazed way in which Kimmelhoch
Eropes for the thread OF his plot. not
absolutely knowing into which OF his
many assumed characters he has awaken
ed. was delightfully."- done. II Mr.. Dit
richstein did nothing but this piece OF
pantomime. It would prove him an actor
and an artist, as well as a playwright.
Farce comedy seems TO be a fading
art on this side of the Atlantic The
French. from whom we derive the plots
Of most OF ours have a positive appe-
tite for this form Of entertainment
whereas the American leaning is toward
musical comedy and it's vaudevillian re-
iations. There is that in a romping, ex-
citing farce which is far more exhiIarat-
ing TO the intelligence than the vapid
lndecencies and negligible witticisns of
The Washington herald., 1908-03-01

and sprightly Maud Harrison, was merci-
lessly scored by the critics and condemn
ed by the public Twenty years later
Sue sumptuousIy done by Charles
Frohman. with Annie Russell in the name
part. achieved a success only partial
Paul Armstrong, in the dramatizatior
of "Salomy Jane. which Eleanor Robson
will present az the New National TheateI
here. commencing Monday night OF next
week, has done for Bret Harte and the
stage what jeremiah Curtain did for
Henry Sienkiewics and literature. He has
absolutely absorbed the atmosphere OF
the wonderful creator Of those Califor-
nian idyIls which viii live as long as
prose poems are good
Hapless. unfortunate Harte, His life
was one long struggle TO keep the wolf
from the threshold wherein lived his
loved ones. The success Of "Salomy
jane has revived interest in his career
and his writings. Now. years after his
death, America conceded him the posthu-
nous honors she denied him when living
Our English cousins better appreciated
his worth But wherever the Anglo
Saxon tongue Is spoken, who is there that
can forget those beautiful lines he pen
Apd on the grave where English oak and holly
And laurel entNine.
Deem il not all too pres1mrtuous folly,
This spray q Western pine.
Washington playgoers who remember
Miss Eleabsrf Robson In Merely Mary
Ann VIII md that her ''Salomy Jane" IS
OF an entirely different order. No two
characters could be more widely contrast
ing. the one Offering ample scope for
comedy graces and the other affordins
her the greatest opportunity Of her ca
reer FOR the portrayal OF primitive pas
sion Here is Bret Harte's own descrip-
ton OF his wonderfully fascinating brain
creation.
She was a handsome lazy Kentucky
girl. who lounged with a languid grace;
her shy, fawn-like eyes and red lips add
ing 10 the picuancy OF her fresh brunette
skin. Long black braidS hung down her
back, and her manner was a mingling
Of cOolnesS, hardihOod. sauciness. with
passionate, clinging. savage tenderness. -
Marvellous word cOloring this And
where in modern fiction is there finer
limned picture Of n love scene than this
one Of Salomy, with her arms about her
beloved in that bitter last farewell
They remained thus for a hushed mo-
ment-the man on the threshold of death.
she in the fullness Of youth and beauty
linked together the sentinel pines guard
ing them as God in Nature Himself"
And who other than Bret Harte could
describe the attitude 10 WomankInd OF
those hard-living Argonauts Of '49. and
the rude chivalry of those early Califor-
MIA days, as The Western American fet-
ish of the sanctity OF sex.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-01

the musical comedy. in spite of the lat
ter's popular songs. which it always has
to fall back upon in dull moments.
Good farce is the result Of heavy and
profound thinking. To be good, the ac-
ton must keep up every moment The
slightest let-down is resented by the
audience. who must laugh until its sides
Sche or the piece is pronounced fiat, or
OILY good in spots" The farce comedy
writer must be an adept in inventing
intricate situations. with all the charac-
ters in imminent danger OF being ex-
posed. OF some dark secret. and the
bounding down or the plot must be un-
deviating. or the thread is lost. In
Bluffs" Mr.. Ditrichstein runs the whole
gamut or Misunderstanding and blunders.
and achieves solidly what he set out to
do. and II that is not praise enough for
him. he has missed his calling.
An interesting feature of Bluffs was
the exposure of the press-agent nuisance.
Kimmelhoch says press agent is like
the man who rings the bell at a crossing
when the train is coming. He calls con-
slant attention to what is on the way. A
comprehensive article on press agents so
recently appeared in a current magazine
that the public by this time knows all
about that gentry. but It is difficult 10
refrain from subscribing to the fact that
the public is gradually getting next. ."
and Mr.. Ditrichstein's clever satire is
not calculated 10 wrap that human gad-
fly or 'bell-ringer" in obscurity. We have
had so many wild tales of runaways in
the park. nearly killing celebrated blond
actresses; milk baths. pet elephants, and
the selling Of the seats by auction. TO ex-
cite public interest. that the public is
getting wary, and most shows will have
70 begin to stand upon their merits, as
they appear TO the critics judgment.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-01
The Great American PLAY.

In speaking OF The Great American
Play" that much-discussed vision which
some Of our thinking theatergoers would
like 10 see materialize into a standard,
there are not many of these idsAtsts who
have any coherent idea of what they
really mean or what they really want
This ambiguous phrase is as much mis-
applied as is the term National Thea
ter" We cannot have National Thea
ter. &" in the strict meaning of the words,
or even in the broader policy OF the
theater franchise, simply because we are
lacking In art material Certainly. there
is no such thing as a native art form
that can be applied to the writings Of
American. or, in fact. any other drama
lists. We have no remarkable exposi-
ton. as drama, of our policies. manners.
or problems. Nor have we any distinc-
tive American school" of acting. This.
perhaps. is well. but at the same time il
mitigates against calling a theater Ma
tional." to be conducted as some OF the
national -heaters of Europe. And just
because we have no art form: because
we have a multiplicity OF problems in
our political. economic. and social life.
and because there are so many locales
that are as divergent in color and physi-
cal appearance as they are distinctly
American, we cannot have a Great
American Play" We might have a great
play by an American authoh. treating a
human theme that can as we'll be told in
German as in English. and on foreign as
well as American soil. The Witching
Hour is a big play. with an interesting
theme. handled in a masterful manner
II happens that its scenes are laid in
Louisville and Washington. Also. ii was
written by an American. But the prob
lem it presents is as much Latin. Chi
nese, or Anglo-Saxon. THE Great Di-
vide" full OF poetry, moving with fine
psychological insight is by an American
author and is peopled with American
types. II is big play. But who shall
say this is The Great American Play
any more than is The Rose OF the
Rancho?" The latter has its poetic ap-
peal. 1t tells a sweet story of love. rev.
erence. and practical ideals. as seen both
by the American and Spanish code Of
honor. II is by two American authors
Yet, as The Great American Play" can
this hare any more consideration than
THE Warrens OF Virginia, written by
the American De Mile. produced by the
American Belasco, acted by the Ameri-
cans Frank Keenan, and Charlotte Wal
ker, and treating OF a subject just as in
teresting Gf not so novel; and just as
vital to American history
The Lion and the Mouse" and "The
Man Of the Hour" deal with a phase-a
transitory phase, il may be said-of
American politics. The Heart Of Mary
land. The Girl I Left Behind Me.
The Girl of the Golden West" ''The
New York Idea" and many others Of
these types are American in locale and
perhaps subjeet-matter. but they are
merely episode And so must be The
Great American Play"
The Washington herald., 1908-03-01
aNcttina., a succe.. in MILAN.

Dyrce st. Cyr has received special intel
ligence Of the great success at Milan.
where it was produced at the Theatre
Manzoni, of Roberto Bracco's new play.
''Nettina. Bracco, although popular in
other Italian cities. never had achieved
such success in Milan as would lead him
10 select that city as the scene of a pre-
miere, yet he ventured the first perform
ance OF 'Nettina" there and achieved a
triumph. This drama, written in Bracco's
distinguished modern vein, is said to be
one OF his most powerful works. and il Is
doubtless destined to have a successful
career on the Italian stage.
The Washington herald., 1908-03-01
"Her Sister"
Trust 10 luck.
Stare fate in the face.
For Jour heart must be aisy
II it's in the right place.

IL IL IN the r8hl place
Mr.. Clyde Fitch seems 10 have become
q convert TO the easy-going Hibernian
school of philosophy as expressed in the
above quatrain; but if he continuously
and implicitly trusts that the fame OF
his former productions. coupled with the
personality and popularity OF some star.
viii crown his latter-day efforts with sue
cess, surely some day fate will cease star
ing and administer a resounding slap.
At any rate. 1.-The woman In the case"
and 'her sister" seem pitiable when con-
trasted with the strong plays which first
brought him prominently before the
public.
This condition of the playwright's af-
fairs being considered, the engagement of
Miss Ethel Barrymore at the National
Theater last week presented a dual in
terest with the component parts set in
perfect antithesis. On the one hand we
have a trifing vehicle from the pen. or
at least coupled with the name OF dra-
matist who seems to have reached the
zenith of his fame and whose diminish
ing power will soon drag his name below
the opposite horizon, and on the other we
have an actress whose reputation is still
ascending toward the high point of his
trionic art Unless a sudden and unpre-
cedented revival occur his journey to
the destined end will probably be very
rapid. while she has many long and irl-
some leagues yet to traverse. and may the
glory Of her achievements never be nnarred
by such a falling off as his.
Every circumstance connected with
Ethel Barrymore would seem 10 tend to-
ward a glorious future. She brings the
heritage of name unquestionably great
in the annals of play writing and acting
She has personality which Is both strlk-
ing and interesting. She has beyond. ques-
tion the power of intuitively grasping
the substance OF a character, and a more
than ordinary power Of vocal and facial
expression. All this is augmented
by traditional connection. and ae-
tual experience with stage business. and
her opportunity is broadened by the in
creasing conviction on the part Of those
who have witnessed her late endeavors
that she is steadily growing in her pro-
fession- Her health seems more robust
than formerly: certain mannerisms are
Idst disappearing, and a VigOr OF tenn
permanent has made its appearance which
WAS heretofore undiScernibIe. All these
things being considered. there seems no
reason why the Salic law may not be dis
regarded. and a representative of the fe-
male line succeed to a place lately occu-
pied by male ancestor.
Her late filings at the dramatic critics
were, no doubt. ill-advised. and probably
petulantt but she viii soon get over these
things, and live to regret the error OF such
doings. It is easy enough, when one has
gained experience. to see through. and
east aside. the structures Of the uneducated
and the frivolous, and TO harken unto