Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-07

York. and it's career is said to be doing
perfect justice to.its name. @The
Barrier" which has not ceased to be a
best seller since the Harpers published
it last fall. is to be staged under the
direction of Klaw & Erlanger. The
playwright who will dramatize it,
Eugene Presbrey. iss the same who
dramatized Sir Gilbert gParker's THE
Right of Way" and the actors who will
take the leading parts, Guy Standing
and Theodore Roberts, played the
principal roles also in that production.
Edwin Balmer, whose stirring story,
"Waylaid by Wireless" was recently
published by Small, Maynard & Com
pany, is one of the brightest of the
younger school of Chicago writer's He
was born in the Windy City in 1888, is
a graduate of Northwestern University
in the class of 1902, took year of
graduate study at Harvard. and then
went on the staff of the Chicago Trib-
une For a time he was associated
with Graham Taylor in publishing the
Commons, which was afterwarl
merged with the magazine Charities
of New York. Having story accept
ed in Golfers great prize competition
Mr.. Balmer got his start as writer CT
fiction. Since then he has travelled
rather extensively in Europe and the
Orient. and has all the time kept up
his output of stories. dealing largely
with the application of wireless teleg-
raphy 70 everyday affairs. One OF
these stories he recently elaborated in
to the successful wireless" scene in
the play Via Wireless"
The American Museum of Natural
History has announced the acquisition
by purchase of three hundred objects
from the Indians of Patagonia, the
collector of which was Charles w. Fur
long, +. r. G. S., artist and explorer
who made an expedition into parts
practically unknown to the white man
and who has written an account of his
journeys for Harper's Magazine. The
museums director DR.. Bumpus, anG
the head of the department of anthro-
poloSy, have declared the Furlong col
lection of uncommon value, especially
| at it represents Il disappearing people
Among the objects gathered is tent
of guanaco skin, which has been ex-
tremely hard to obtain, because the ma
tive regards it as his actual home
There are skulls and skeletons, har-
poems and arrows, with the implements
for making these, and specimen Of
the fur shaWl-like garments ingenious
ly worn fleece side out in localities
with heavy rainfall, in order to shet
the water.
Anne" one of the greatest favorites
l.among the novels of Constance FEM
| more Woolson and of her quaint ani
greatly beloved school, has appeared
/ through the Harpers in a wholly new
edition, necessitated by the demand fol-
the book. The new copy is provided
with the happiest of pictures of tht
| Mackinac region. There are shown il
| photograph the old post office, tht
| comfortable mission house under the
| trees, the stiff little mission church
the wonderful bend of the Arch Rocl
| over the lake, a bird's-eye of the little
town and it's harbor; and in addition
several line drawings, made by C. S
| Reinhart, represent the various old
fashioned characters. The frontispiec.
| is photograph of Anne's own home
the little one-storied shingled hous,
with it's flight of steps at each end, ant
tree pushing in at the door. Their,
fSeems to be in the new Anne" some
thing of the spirit of H. Snowdel
Wards Lorna Doone," whose "Doome
land copy last year reproduced thu
real Exmoor country in some highl,
l