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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-08
New Officers.

At the meeting last night ]. H. Es-
tes was installed as chancellor COM
mander to fill out the remainder of
the present term which lasts until
January 1.
New officers for next term were
elected last night as follows: A. f.
Lambert, chancellor commander; R.
E. Tarbet, vice chancellor; w. I.
Gadwa, prelate; F. ]. Quinlan, master
of work; R, W. Fletcher, Keeper of
records and seal and master of fl
nance; Louis Greenawald, master of
exchequer; Berkeley HALEY, master
at arms; Charles Hamilton, inner
guard; Charles Dickens, outer guard. .
and ]. w. Maloney, trustee, to sue
ceed himself
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-08

as. He is a New Yorker by birth and
lived on the Hudson before coming
westward.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-08

II you see It In the East oregonian,
it's %.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-08

You cannot do much good for men
II you seek to do good only to the
good
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12
Shakespeare Set to Music.
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

Miss Hook of Holland" one word in
the title took on pertinency, for Froh-
man got the hook and jerked the
principal comedians out OF it. Tom
Wise and Will West were such sudden
substitutes at the opening here that, II
the rest of the company hadn't been
well poised, there might have been a
falling down all around. Owing TO the
quick study" as stage folk call the
ability to memorize rapidly, of West,
and particularly Wise, no confusion
was apparent from outside the curtain
lire. The introduction had been delayed
one night, and to skip another would
lose the 81, 900 Of a crowded New Years
eve audience Wise's role of jolly
Hollandese distiller. with tipsy spells,
among his own liquors. was long, with
jokes and antics depending for their fun
on a semblance of spontaneity. Much
of his dialogue was with Joseph JEFF
fersOn's sugary daughter-in-law, Chris
tine Macdonald, and the aptness of the
big fat man and the little lean woman
in getting along without sure cues or
sufficient rehearsing was remarkable.
A sweet smile by her, or a broad grin
by him, covered every uncertain mo-
ment. Unction is a comedians valua-
BILE asset. 1t saved Tom Wise on this
OCCdSlOlly ana lIIOuSn MN II SdsSu luc
play.
II was another fat actor, Pete Daley,
who rescued Joe Weber's travesty of
1.-THE Merry Widow" from failure in its
first unready performance. A row over
the right to use the music of the opera,
followed by a shift of libretto writer
from Smith to Hobart, and that by a
pulling in of Mitchell to handle the has
ty stuff, had left time for only
three full rehearsals. Daley is a gag
ger" extraordinary, and whenever any
ones memory was at fault while he was
in the scene, he was ready with a joke
or an antic to fill the blank spot. For
instance, Lulu CHASER was making her
first appearance with Weber, and ske
was perceptibly fiustered. In passing
Weber, her foot caught on his and she
stumbled. The audience laughed heart
lessly.
Il trust that you, like our friends out
there" said Daley to Lulu, enjoyed
your little trip"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

and to save the grown-up at the same
time.
The children are an obedient, cheer
full lot. When we tell them to keen off
certain hills, our instructions are usu-
ally obeyed. There is nothing unruIy
ABOUT Salt Lakes coasting population"
The short streets north of Brigham on
the bench are the more perilous, owing
TO the constant passage of street cars.
The east and west streets, however.
have their dangers, too. There is an ex-
celient hill on Brigham street for cccst-
ing and another on Second South, in
the eastern part of town. Any number
OF fine slides are to be found on the
north bench. and the children have not
been slow in finding them.
1T is not possible for US to restrict
coasting to a certain district or a GER
tain number of Streets" said Chief Pitt.
because there is an ordinance that
prohibits cOasting in the city, and we
could not, of course, under those cir
| cumstances, set apart any number of
streets for the children. We are sup
posed to prevent coasting at all times
and in all places; therefore, we are
simply doing the best we can with the
coasting situation. If the skating sea-
son continues, it will take the young
sters off the hills and to the Kinks, and
that will have the effect of lessening
the multitude we have to deal with on
the inclines.'
During recent years an additional
menace has come into the life of the
boy, that did not have to be reckoned
with when most Of Salt Lakes popuIa-
ton slid down hill on a board, or a
sled, or bob" This new menace is
the automobile. The youngsters have
learned to be wary of the street cars
and as rule they take precious good
care to give the street car the right of
way. But the automobile is a new fac
tor to be dealt with. The boy has not
got onto its numerous curves, which is
not to be marveled at, in view of the
fact that the boy is usually a young
boy and the automobile has only been
here a few years, SO the two haven't
really had a good opportunity to get
acquainted.
The children on the hill streets have
learned to like the big blue coat sta
toned at the crossing. They know he
is there for their protection, and so
policemen usually has little trouble in
enforcing his orders-not so much
through fear of the officer as through
the knowledge that he is there as the
guardian of their destiny.
According to the view of any boy,
the meanest man on earth is the one
who sprinkles ashes on his sidewalk,
and, not content with sprinkling them
on his sidewalk, sprinkles them in the
street. There is perhaps no greater
source of arousing the juvenile ire more
for some householder to sprinkle ashes
on their favOrite codsting hill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

real MaXime's is a disappointment to
most tourists, but as localized in the
comic opera it is a satisfaction to those
who like such sights. The scene in
THE Merry Widow is fanciful
treatment of the original thing. In the
Weber travesty it is like the wildly or
nate nightmare of a man who. after
seeing the opera, eats a Welsh rarebit
and a whole lobster on his way home,
and then goes to sleep fiat on his back.
1t was essential to the travesty that
something or other in the original play
should be exaggerated. Clearly, the
place for that something was in the
blowout at Maxime's. At a score of
New York restaurants 1907 was kicked
out and 1908 Rugged in with a reck-
lessness of hilarity exceeding that of
any previous New Years eve. looked
in on several of these turbulences, and
saw finely dressed men and women as
riotous with champagne as any party
in rags could be with mixed ale and
whisky. But these still vividly recent
spectacles are dulled and dimmed by
the mimic revelry at Webers
one of the things that makes town
talk of the new Weber show is Bessie
Clayton's dance. Bessie is Maggie
Mltchelfs niece-in-law. In Maggie
Ilhle OF HE simple mOOnlit shadow
dance in "FanchOn" was sufficient to
crafty an audience. Bessie now has
TO Irvine her spine and braid her legs
IN contortiVe featS to get applause
Her husband is the Julian Mitchell
who responded TO Weber's call for help
with this show and I suppose he
turned her loose to do her best and
worst at MaXime's. To tickle her ears
with her toes, tie her spinal cord in
DOW Knots and shake a dada over her
head with feet, instead of hands,
would be nothing new for her Some
thing astonishing was demanded. So
she blended the can-can with the hot
chio-cootchio that makes me remem-
Der the women from Cairo at the Chi
cago and St. Louis fairs as calm
drawing room walters, and takes
laurels from the grave of Little Egypt.
the dancer at the historic Seeley din
ner, who died last Sunday. True, the
tumult of muscles in a contortive. ma
roXysmal display of passion is not de-
nuded by Bossio, but the agitation un-
der draperies is very violent, also gra-
phically expressive, and it makes those
who see it it tell other to.
To further characterize the scene at
Maxime's, and to make people go away
to talk advertisingly of it, a shapely
girl is used. For awhile she is merely
one of the carOusing Partisan students.
She wears fat-brimmed silk hat. a
frock coat, girted at the waist, and
tapering trousers, in the fashion of the
Latin quarter. Suddenly she is picked
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

In huStIlnS cOmlnOlIOh WeIe MISS
Hook of Holland" and the travestied
version of The Merry Widow" when
put before their New York audiences.
Both were unready. Has the slang
Get the hook reached you? 1t orig
mated with the amateur nights in
vaudeville when aspirants are tried
and usually found wanting Sometimes
the stage manager reached out with a
hooked pole TO pull the worst of them
in. After the Washington start of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

out of disorderly group by waiter
to be bounced. He seizeS her by the
coat collar and the trousers seat The
coat is staunch, but the trousers come
off, and the girl stands in semblanoe
of bare legs. The hue of them is an
unnatural pink, but on the instant the
spectators don't bethink themselves
that showgirls' skin isn't as warm as
their behavior, and the house is
abashed to silence. Then she throws
off her hat and coat, drops a skirt that
has been packed about her waist, pulls
a starched bosom from her frontage
and stands forth a modish belle,
CARRIED suitably decolette for a ball.
X y
No one disputes the supremacy Of
Gilbert and Sullivan in the making of
comic operas. They originated every
thing that they put into their plays,
down to the smallest witty word and
tuneful note. They reached the apex
of their joint work, 1t seems to me, In
1.-The Mikado,' in which the first show
of trotting, bending, kowdowink olive
maidens of the Orient was given. The
Gilbert-Sullivan exploitation of Japan
ettas has been initiated uncounted
times, but equalled not once; yet some
of the copies have made first-rate en-
tertainment. Therefore, when the cur
tain's lift on "'F'unabashi'' disclosed
the Gilbert-Sullivan little maids from
school, toddling in by the score, with
their bodies angled forward from the
hips. the fans spread open before their
faces, the audience didn't pshaw ii, or
snort out a pooh-pOoh, but waited to
see If this newest stageful of Japs
would be diverting.
1t has become a cynical habit to
fiOut the chorus girls and fling caustic
s,Iv1 OF III ~. Of
plays in which they are employed viii
tell you that, Notwithstanding their
frivolities, they are obediently tracta-
BILE and remarkably apt at new tasks.
The fifty in "Funabashi' are as alike
in their Jap mannerisms as peas rat
ting in pods; the uniformity of their
looks and actions is exact; and it
seems as though they have been
trained to do nothing else than trot
with mincing steps, and giggle behind
fans, in the manner fixed in 1.-THE Mi
kado.' So 1 throw this tribute at the
twinkling feet of the chorus girl. She
would prefer a hot bird and a cold
bottle.
The clothes and scenery We're not
made for "Funabashi," but it was
made for them. They had been fitted
originally to THE White Chrysanthe-
num-" which failed so quickly that
the outfit was left unsoiled. So Cobb
and Stafford were commissioned to
write another Japanese piece, and
''Funabashi'' means "The White
Chrysanthemum" in the same scenes
There is much prettiness, but little
novelty in the new work. American
naval officers go to Japan, as usual in
these shows, to sentimentalize. In this
case a secretary of war goes, too, and
an impersOnation of Taft was expect
ed, but there is no attempt at mimicry.
and the head of our fight department
hgures merely as an obdurate father.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12
Sliding Down Hill F Perl; o sss D. Psssss:

The perils of coasting in Salt Lake
some folk, too numerous to mention
Danger is present on every hill and on
every crossing, placing life and limb in
jeopardy. Each year the record of ac-
cidents III Salt Lake reaches a Distress
ing total, the result of mishaps on the
slides.
Thus far this year there have been
only few cases of accident, compare
lively, but it seems a miracle that not
more children have been hurt.
The number of youngsters on the hills
in the northeastern and eastern parts
of the city each runs away into the
hundreds, better to say thousands, per-
haps. The police are doing their best
to watch the merrymakerS and to keep
them within bounds, so far as possible.
1--WE have had our hands full with the
coasters" said Chief of Police Pitt last
evening. ut isn't so bad now as it
was, because skating has begun and
that pastime draws the boys and girls.
But when the coasting season is in full
blast there doesn't seem to be any eff
fective way of prohibiting the sport,
for the little tykes take the officer s
warnings with a show of humility, but
the patrolman's back is no sooner
turned than they are at it again.
I'VE have stationed officers at var
ious crossings and we are doing the
best we can to prevent accidents. I am
quite sure that 1t is the sentiment of
the people of Salt Lake generally that
the boy should be allowed to coast, and
the girl. too, for the matter of that. We
have all been boys or girls and live In
the memory of the time when coasting
was the acme of enjoyment. 1t seems
hard now for us to tell crowd of kids
who are having a jolly good time to
quit it, sowe are using every means In
our power to give the children show
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12
YWo cLERKs INJURED.

Roanoke, Va, Jan. 1.-THE vestibuled
Norfolk & Western railroad passenger
train No. AZ, bound from Chattanooga
to Washington, coIlided near Crocket's
Station today with freight train. The
freight was standing on the main line
and the passenger was running about
fifteen miles an hour. No one was killed
and none of the passengers wao hurt.
Two postal clerks were injureA
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

AS to Miss Hook of Holland" its
winSome element is its Dutch girls in a
Dutch atmosphere. Some grotesque
men are in it to be laughed at, but not
one feminine fright to mar the charm
of three to four dozen girls quaint and
comedy like the one who. in cap, apron
and skirts short but full, bears a cup
on tray in the advertisement of CO.
Goa, or is it chocolate? These i'm the
play carry bottles, jugs and kegs of
schnapps. and their feet are at times
clogged with wooden shoes; yet they
are gracefully agreeable in such HOl-
land scenes as water-color artists like
to paint. Christie Macdonald leads
them, with George Game and Florence
Nash close behind her. They are deco
rOus damsels to a prim degree, almost
to prudery; so modest in dress and
manner that they suggest a chorus re-
cruited a thousand miles away from
Broadway, if not imported from the
banks of the Zuyder Zee, where the
program locates them. However, if a
knowing eye runs itself along its de-
mure lines it will spy, here and there,
blended young woman of tenderloin
familiarity.
These Dutch girls prettily illustrate,
not a~story, but the merest incident,
of a distilier's recipe for a unique
| liquor being lost and found among
| three couples of lovers. The authors
are Reubef1s, and Horgon, Londoners,
| and its clean fun, set to easy tunes, is
as cooIingly refreshing as draught
of buttermilk served by a dairymaid
after drinking too much of the hot
stuff ladled out by showgirls. Once
only is there a threat of wickedness.
George Game sings about her pink
petty from Pete" which means a gift
| from her admirer, Peter, of pink pet
ticoat. She says that vari-colored I'M
derskirts have been bestowed on her
| by the fellows plenteously, and at the
chorus she lifts one after another I'M
| til five are shown. She almost-not
quite-forgets that she isn't wearing
a sixth, and refrains from raising the
! fifth one that is undermOst. l believe
that even the toughest of the first
nighters were glad that Georgia didn'
break Miss Hoos of Hollands" charm
of modesty by hosting that fifth pet
/ ticoat.
| x X X
The opposite extreme of indecorum
is touched-better make it bumped-in
that act of 1.-The Merry Widow" ira
| vesty which is located at Maxime's no
torious Paris restaurant, where Amer
/ lean summers go to see dissOlute
French men and women carouse. The
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12
HELD TO GRAND JURY.
Whitmore Suspected of the Murder
of His Wife.

Newark, N. j., Jan. 11.-Theodore S.
Whitmore of Brooklyn, N. Y, was to-
day committed to Jail to await the
grand jury's investigation of the muir
der of his wife, Lena, whose nude body
was found in a swamp at Harrison, N.
j., Dec. &c.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-12

Boston. Jan. 11.-Miss Georgianna
Dickson, who was arrested last night
in Cambridge as an accessory in the
murder of Mrs. Lena Whitmore, was
examined today. She admitted that she
was in Brooklyn on the night when it
is believed that the murder was COM
mitted. She also announced her will
ingness to return to New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-26
JUDGE TATE is
ON COMMIT TEE
Admission Man Gets Prominent Appoint
ment From Grand Master
n. S. D. Mallory.

Admission, November 25.-(Special)-
Judge S. w. Tate has been honored with
an appointment a member of the COM
mittee on Masonic jurisprudence the APP
pointment coming through Grand Master
II. S. d. Mallory of the Alabama grand
lodge.
The committee consists of the following
prominent attorneys of the state: GEN
George p. Harrison, chairman, of Opelika
Robert e. Steiner, Montgomery; M. W.
Rushton, Luverne; Kinds Peevy, Bir-
mingham, and Judge s. w. Tate of this
city The committee is said to be the
most important one in the grand lodge
and the appointment came to Judge Tate
without solicitation or suggestions
Judge Tate has been a member of the
committee on work for the past nine
years, mad his usefulness and efficiency
in that place has led to his present pro-
motion The grand lodge of the order
will meet in Montgomery next Tuesday in
its eighty eighth annual convention, and
il is expected that a delegation number
ing 700 or 800 will be in attendance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-26
MONU MENT TO BE
DEDICATED TODAY

Andersonville, Ca, November 25.-In-
diana's state monument to her solaler
dead i'm the Andersonville National Gene
terry will be dedicated with elaborate GER
emonies at 1870 p. m. tomorrow Gov.
Frank J. Hanly, his staff and many prom
inent men from the Hoosier state are
speeding toward this city to attend the
unveiling, and their special trains are due
at 10 a. m. tomorrow.
The Indiana monument cost $4,000 and
is the largest and handsomest of all those
which have been built here by the states
to commemorate those who died in the
old prison. The ceremonies will be elab-
crate.
DR.. R. c. Graffitt president of the
Indiana Andersonvlle Monupent asso-
citation, will present the monument to
Governor Hanly, who will accept it on
behalf of his state. Then the governor
in turn will present it to the federal gov
eminent Col Sam r. Jones, chief of the
quartermaster's department of the gulf
division of the United States army will
accept the monument on behalf of the
United States government. The monolith
Unthank Sherman and Miss Mary j.
Unthanks Sherman and Miss Mary ].
Dggs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-26
Thanksgiving At the White
House

Although the President of the United
States does not pay for his own Thanks
giving turkey. which is one of the very
few exceptions made to the rule of not
accepting gifts, it by no means follows
that his bill for Thanksgiving turkeys is
light
1t is, as matter of fact. heavier than
usual 1t has become an unwritten law
of the office that distribution OF
Thanksgiving turkeys be made among the
minor employees of the President menase.
The presidential household also makes
it rule to attend the special Thanks
giving services at the church of their
choice, upon this day that the chief exec
utive has designated that the people shall
give thanks.
After luncheon each and every MEMBER
of the family may go his or her way ana
follow the Individual bent in the matter
of recreation, but every member OF the
family assemblies at 1880 in the private
dining room, and there with true patriot
ism and good appetite do justice to the
unrivaIed feast, known as the American
Thanksgiving dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-26
Thanksgiving

Americans have always associated the
season of Thanksgiving with Nerltaole
feast of hearty viands, ever since the
day was instituted by the Pnritans' VINO
came over in the Mayfower.
The first feast in the new world was
big one. including not only the survivors
of the voyage, but 80 guests as We'll the
friendly Indians of the Massasoit tribe.
The sweetest sentiment in connection
with Thanksgiving Day, after our graft
tude TO an all-wise Providence for His
manifold blessings, is the home affiliation,
and the assembling of those VINO are
nearest and dearest in the family circle.
The Thanksgiving dinner is usually re-
garded as the appropriate occasion to bid
all the relatives welcome and chair is
also placed at the festal board for the
stranger within the gate 1t is sweet
and Joyous occasion this Thanksgiving
Dav. and in song and story it has been
sung the ages through.
DO You recall the incident in that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-26
l7sS@ =FEMININES@-E -
EEN4FCqBL E.SSsnpFr ANCIBSsgzS N
S&lez DOLLY &Lszs9SMH

charming little story, 1.-The Lady of the
Decoration" when from far away China
comes the letter from a poor, heart
broken woman to sher friend who is so
happy at home?
j. Among other things She says:
You'll be having Thanksgiving soon,
and you will all go up to grandmothers
and have a jolly time together Have
them fix a plate for me. Mate, and turn
down an empty glass. Nobody will miss
me as much as l will miss my poor little
self
What jolly Thanksgivings we have had
together. The gathering of the clans,
the big dinner, and the play at night. Not
exactly a play, Mate, was it-more of a
vaudeville performance, with you as the
stage manager and / as the soubrette.
Do you remember the last reunion before
| was married? l mean the time l was
Lady Macbeth and gave skirt dance.
and you did lovely stunts from grand
opera? And can you ever forget Jacks
famous parody on My Country IT'S of
Thee p
My turkey It's of thee,
Sweet bird of cranberry,
of thee l sing.
| love thy neck and wings
Legs, back and other things"
And so it matters not where one is the
home ties call at the Thanksgiving sea-
son, the joyous season of gratitude and
love.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-26
NEGRO FATALLY
,STABS HIS WIFE
FLoY KING, fRUsTY AT UNION
SPRINGS JAIL, TAKES FEW MIN
uTEs OFF TO CARVE UP HIS
SPOUSE.

Union Springs. November 25.-(Special)
Yesterday as Rebecca King, colored, was
going to her work at Clyde Ellis, where
she was employed as a nurse, her hus-
band, Floy King, who was trusty at the
jail, waylaid her. as she was passing the
street behind the postoffice, and cut her
severely with q razor. He cut her in the
bowels, severed one arm and one ear
Leaving her for dead, he fed to the
woods. This happened in the early morn
ing and bloodhounds from Troy were tele-
graphed for and arrived at 10 o'clock, and
by II o'clock the negro was caught about
two miles from town in a dense wood.
The woman is not yet dead, but physl-
clans say there is no hope of her recov-
erV