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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-22

study the devolopmnet OF the schoo
sy4em, he continued.
The nation VIII have not disclurg-
ed the obligation which # deliberately
took upon itself until IL has estab.
lished not merely In form, but IN
fact, the institutions of democracy
among these people. who have hith-
erto known only the institutions of
monarchy ana serVitude.
This is the greatest program 10
which nation has ever pledged its
credit. Its final success means com
plete readiustmcnt of the relations
between the cast and vest for
through our position in the Philip
pines there has come to US the uppor-
tunitv and the obligation of leading
the orient IN an intellectual and so
cial reconstruction. perhaps the moot
sgninc1nt in an history.
THE declaration ot Independence
has been invoked as an uuanswerable
reason why the United states should
at the earliest possible tlmo
from the control OF tho Philippines
This instrument served in q most adj
way its original purpose as
docum, ut I'm arouslng tha
enthusiasm OF tho people in irN ss-
ruI revolt against th"ir mother cour-
try
In our own ciyil vnr and AZ many
other times. however. this nation ha-
nut Itself ON record as ready 90 10
tcrpret principles or tine declaration
5y logic and experience and of actual
20 g. H.f-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-22
WHITE PLAGUE:
SHOWS SIGNS
Of DECREASE
FIGHT ON TUBERCULOSIS
EFFECT DEATH RATE
Decline From Year to Year May
Now Be Expected According
to Bulletin Compiled by Vital
Statistics Bureau


Washington. oct 2l-Tho greet
Hght against tuberculosis is being
ON. according to chief smtistician
Crcssy l.. Wilbur ot tine division of
vital statistics United States crusus
bureau Ia bulletin issued today,
husod on the annual returns OF denths
from THE death registration ere1 "t
the United states he says.
II ls probable that the great At
tontfon thut has been given 90 this
disease through the International
congress on tuberculosis held az
Washington in 1905 and lhc organiza-
tiou OF many state and local societies
las already begun 20 have It's effect
upon tb, mortality from chat disease
and continued decline IN the Jcatl
-at, from il from year to yeor may be
expected.
\ disease OF Increasing imporianCe.
according to the returns. is pcllagra.
from which e8 deaths were returned
in 1905, but as most of the deaths
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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-22
der the favored Skies Of souther

der the favored skies Of southern
Texas
My friend, Mr. Green. tells me
that, unlike a good many other towns
in Texas, ] received an the votes there
We're in the town Of Taft want tc
return my thanks to my fellow citi-
zcns who were willing to break TIE
Texas record and bring one little eu G
lamb. | thank You sincerely
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-22
uorkmcu Buried in Landslide.

Faensa. Itsly. oct. 2f.-A landslide
occurred today near Brisignclia. bury
ing -ix W9rkmen.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-22
BAD BOY GANG
At LAS VEGAS
IN TROUBLE
BELIEVED GUILTY or
MOST OF RECENT THEFTS
Confession Follows Capture of
Leader of Youthful Band
Important Suit Filed in San
Miguel District Court,


Las Vegas, \. NJ, oct 2l-Iat,
this afternoon chief OF Police coles
arrested Atanaeio chavez as being the
ringlcader of an organized gang OF
small boy robbers. Chavez vas
eought last night by J Il. Baker,
whose residence was robbed Yesterday
afternoon, Among the plunder there
was small conductors punch. and
last evening while down town Baker
met a boy with the punch in his hand,
punching q card Taking the boy n
hand he turned him over To Night
Catpain of police Ward. who decided
the boy had found the punch, as he
claimed. and turned the lad loose.
This morning when chief Of pDli'a
Coles got to work on the case he be-
came convinced that the chavez boy
knew a lot about not only the Baker
robbery but the others that have been
pulled of the last month He started
to find the Chavez hoy and did not
succeed till late this afternoon. After
a long talk with the boy Chavez con
fessed to robbing the homes of J K.
Baker and w. u, Kennedy on yester-
day afternoon with two other boys
whom he named Us Jesse Faulkner
and John Trahey
The loot taken from Baker's home
was a ten-dollar gold piece and "A one
dollar gold piece, a watch ana a re-
volver and several valuable pieces Of
iewelry; also the ticket punch which
led to the arrest Of Chavez. The three
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-22

Governor Curry has named the fol-
lowing Las Negans to represent New
Mexico at the forthcoming dry farm
ing congress, which meets next week
at Billings. Mont. i. y. HOskins,
George A, Fleming, \. $. Bcldcn Dr
J. NJ. Cunningham and Ralph y.
Twltcholl. They viii attend in person.
Las Vegas ana san Miguel county
are now arranging to send mann
moth display of its agricultural prod
ucts to the irrigated lands exposition
to be held in Chicago 1T the Coliseum
The Commercial club has taken the
initiative and already $500 has been
raised for dcfraying the expense of
such an exhibit George \, Fleming.
secretary of the club. is being named
as tho local representative at the eX-
position and ne no doubt will 60.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-22

This morning in the distTiet court
suit was filed by Mrs Coru j.. Archi-
bald of this city against the following
Pablo Jaramllo and WIFE George A.
Fleming and wife. r, r. Pierce, j. II.
Stearns. A. r Rogers, ]r., and the
Canyon Lime company Mrs. Archi-
bald claims that Mr.. Peterson. a near
relative of hers, was urged to dispose
of the property now known as the
Canyon Limo company In Gailinas
canyon. and that he WAS In such con-
dition of mind that he practically
gave the property away. ana the suit
IL being made by Mrs. Archibald as AN
heir to recover the property.
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The San Francisco call., 1909-09-26

that about Macready," said Winter.
in this year close crowding on 1910
|. who learned from one who learned
of Macready, am sitting here in the
dressing room talking"
please don't let me miss that cur
tain said the old actor to Hal de
Forrest, his partner in the hospitality
of the little dressing room.
"Still vain?' said l.
1t was near to the close of the sec
| ond act and Winter didn't want to
| miss the curtain call that is certain
| to follow the close of the pretty scene.
"As bad as ever. It's in the blood,
| you know he laughed. I'VE like the
praise that inspires the applause, and
we do not want to miss sharing in the
little triumphs of our mumming."
And the fine old player went out to
get his share of the clapping of hands
which kept the curtain rising and fall
ing for several luminous seconds, and
when he returned there was pride in
his face He had got his quota.
II do not appear again. he said
| somewhat regretfully. My days work
is over. Now well talk
Tell me-" T said, why do YOU call
yourself a dramatic descendant of Ma
/ cready? Were you going to the theater
in 1S49?'
His eyes twinkled. Hardly as old
as that" said he. Il was not one of
the rioters who forced the great TRACE
dian to believe that New York was
| still peopIed by Indians, but l played
with a woman who had played with
him. and she gave me all his bust
ness in the role of Iago.
Didn't ever hear or Mrs. Emma
! Waller?"
NO" said l.
.Humph.' said he, that's strange.
Well. she had played Iago to Ma
creadys Othello. Sarah Bernhard, you
see. isn't the only great actress ambi-
tious to be an actor Mrs. Waller was
A great Iago and 1 played Othello with
lher oh. that was Tuil generation
ago-In 1872, / think. She didn't like
my Macbeth. but she told me-Ill
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thrilled by his artistic work? The ST.
Ience was profound; 1T was like the
silence that pervades that sphere where
noises can not exist. 1t was the omi-
nous prelude to the action of something
great Never did an audience before
wait so long and patiently for the actor
to say his words. When Virginius first
addressed the tribune:
Does no one speak? am defendant here.
Is silence my opponent7 Fit opponent
To plead cause too foul for speech.
THE clear, pure tones OF his voice
were like vibrations struck from per-
feet chords by an Orpheus. and found
an echo in the hearts of his audience
Each, now, in turn, anxiously listened
for the words of the shrinking and
abashed Claudius. How intense and
graphic was Forests byplay when he
finds that nothing but the death of his
daughter by his own hand could save
her from the pollution of the heartless
Decemvir.
The poet can not express with words
what the tragedian expressed in
~
of his child's death rather than her
dishonor by C1audius.
There is one only way to save
thine honor-'tis this
And quick as the motion of the hu-
man arm could be the knife was
pressed into her heart. The storm had
broken; its lightning had wreathed its
soaring folds around the instrument of
death. And then the thunder tones of
his mighty voice crashed through the
theater:
Io. Appius: with this innocent blood
do devote thee to the internal gods.
Make way there,
II they dare this desperate weapon that Is
Wet with my daughters blood. let them
Thus. thus it rushes amongst them. Away.
Away there! Away.
And then Virginius, cutting his way
through the ranks OF soldiers. formed
a picture"
Ah, that waS it, 1t formed a pic
ture that Joe Winter was seeing as his
eyes read the story on the yellow
clipping of an ancient paper.
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companion of all. 1t was not madness
in Booths brain that impeIled him to
his awful crime. 1t was brandy. But
Forrest 1 knew best of all the great
players.
once he said tonne; My boy, like
you. Study.
Wasn't that fneo I was just boy.
too, playing Francois to his Richelieu-
They say that Booth was great in
Richelieu. but Forrest was more pow
erful. What dignity covering crafti-
ness; what strength of steel clothed in
cardihai,
= Set but foot within that holy
ground
And on thy head-yea, though it wear
a.crown-
launch the curse of Rome.'
Il tell you that no one could near
Forrest read those awful lines without
trembling.
| yes he said, latter the first per-
formance was over the great tragedian
said, as=I was starting to the dressing
room: Il want to see you.'
course, L
what 1 could have done; or wherein L
had failed TO meet his approval All
he said to me was: Ny boy, l like you
Study'I
Mr.. Winter has remembered those
words since 1869.
I'm what respect" l asked Of the
veteran player, do you think For
rest was the greatest of all the
other tragedians?"
| .I'u try and tell you, but 1 doubt
I shall succeed.
"Forrest. was feet and 10 inches in
height. That is my height, too, yet
when he stretched out his arm as
Richelieu 1 walked under it without
STOPPING
| Winter believes that enphatically. 1t
seems that Forrest had a way of ex-
| panding his figure to meet physically
| the grandeur of his words. So Winter,
as tall as Forrest, could walk under his
| extended tragic arm.
I 'Ill show you an old criticism or
Forrest" said Winter, that will convey
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SfCOR two years hadn't done any the
atrical work. Last May I happened
to be in Grismers Office. He asked
me If had seen "A Gentleman From
Mississippi and 1 told him that I
hadn't, but was willing. So he sup
piled me with passes, and 1 took my
wife to see it, I liked the role of the
old colonel hugely, but didn't think il
was destined for me.
Il saw Grismer the next day. and he
told me to see Thomas Wise. one of the
coauthors of the play and the one who
assumes the role that James Lackaye
is playing in this cast. He is a sweet
gentleman. is Wise. and he rehearsed
me in the bit, and told me he wanted
to keep me with him in the eastern
company. Then we had another re-
hearsal My wife said before I went.
Look out for Brady He was the
gentleman we were both afraid of.
needed the work, you know how IL is
and / needed the money. What was NV
surprise to see Mr.. Brady loom up i'm
the middle OF the rehearsal. Now you
NHOW tACAC was q tline WQen i was
looking for engagements. and then
there came a time when Il wasn't. /
was in demand once. but then there
came time again when I was looking
for work. That was this time. You
see, we travel in circles So when
Brady popped up and said he wanted
to see me, was sure I would have TO
go back to Brooklyn and report another
failure to my wife. But it wasn't so
at all Brady said he liked my concep-
tion of the role; then Wise told me
that he was sorry he couldn't keep me
with him in the east. but that he was
more in need of reliable man to go
west with the company. and so here
| am again.
Would l recommend the stage as
profitable sphere for young man to
enter and cast his youth and strength.
ambition and talents?
sI'il try to answer that question.
too. Actors are not made. They are
born. and if you are born an. actor
you Ga not set out Of it you must -
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never forget it--that my Othello was
splendid And just think, was only
a young actor then. Having played
with Macready she told me how he
had interpreted the role of the Moor,
and how he had said: Most potent,
grave and reverend seigniors' with
commanding mien and presence. OF
course, being but a youngster. had
some doubts about my ability to catch
that high Importance which Macready
bore. according to Mrs. Waller. and
so when / made my entrance before
my inquisitors. lacked the supreme
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now',), E. L. Davenport, Edwin Adams
James w. Wallack, Mrs. Emma Wall
err Il played with them, all" he said,
and I am the lineal dramatic descend
ant of the great Macready.
A half century of play going and play
acting was struggling for expression
in winters mind, and memories trooped
by like gay knights in great cavalcade.
Farewell, Macready; since this night we part.
Go, take thine honors home; rank with the best.
tsarrick, and sfateler Kemb!e.. and the rest
Who made nation nurer through their art.
q think it was Tennyson who wrote
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confidence that Macready invested the
role with. l was meek and somewhat
frightened My delivery. was not too
smooth; it was, in fact, somewhat halt
ing. and so ] spoke the lines. The next
day William Winter, who was the big
critic in New York, said that my con-
ception of OtheIlo was original, par-
ticularly in the opening scenes lie
complimented me on my freedom from
convention in the speech referred to
and pointed out how differently did
it from other actors. l didn't mean
to be original. you may believe me,
and before had finished with the
role Mrs. Waller assured me that my
Othello was reasonably like Ma
cready's."
~ YER quarter of a century has
! elapsed. since Winter first came to
San Francisco. I'VE were the first
theatrical company" said he TO come
to the coast over the Northern Pacific.
Duffield and L. r. Stockwell. in a melo-
drama, Taken From Life Ever see
it? No, of course you haven't. While
we were here we played Peter Robert
sons play, 'Coralie, which he had
translated and adapted from the
French. Under the name of Felicea'
the same play with another translation
was played about the same time in
New York with Rose Eytinge in the
leading role and at the Union square
theater.
1T was thirteen years before [ came
back to San Francisco. l was with
Annie Lee and Frank Doane then, and
we played the old Columbia.
Were you ever a starr" l asked.
"Yes, indeed | was. How many years
ago? Thirty-six; that's ALL"
There was touch of pardonable
pride as he went on to tell me of his
starring days.
4 played the star role in Daniel
Boone which was a play written by
Anne Ford. She was the daughter oi
John r. Ford. at whose theater Lin
coin was murdered.
"Ah. that crime was fearful blow
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of man who was. The negro servants
buffet him about, not like they would do
in the south, as the gentleman from Mis-
sissippi later says to them in reproof
of their treatment of the colonel, but
taking advantage of his poverty and
unhappiness. He has seen better days,
has the colonel. and / told myself con-
fidently that the man who was playing
the role had in his own right seen
happier and more sunny times
/ was certain of that, and he gave
me proof.
In that old man who stumbles into
good fortune in the play you are be-
holding an heir of great estates of old.
In his memory, still unclouded and
vivid, there moves with specter shad-
owness the wraiths of associates like
Edwin Forrest, the elder Hackett, John
E. Owens (-there was great actor"
he said to me, but nearly forgotten
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struck by a bit of acting in
the first act done by J. p. Win
Ter. so the program will tell you
his name is. If you went last
week YOU did not. / dare say, overlook
the cameo purity of the little work
Winter plays the role Of an old man
who has been bested by the twin enc
mics of man-years and misfortune.
He is down and out" and he wanders
into the lobby of the international
hotel TO read the papers and rest his
weary limbs. He is approaching the
tfn,e when all secrets will be revealed;
he is near unto that great divide which
is nassed but once. His is a pathetic
6gure-his Colonel Beverly Stoneman
Of Illinois-pathetic because he asks
no sympathy, but stands man even
in the wreckage OF his life.
was particularly struck with the
verify of Winters acting. Obviously
he was not at the necessity of putting
on q wig of gray hairs and he had to
nasnt no wrinkles in his cheeks. Even
his hslting world weary walk was not,
f thought. altogether stimulation, and
he wore his shabby genteel clothes as
easily as king his purple. AS for his
acting it was not studied nor forced.
nor made on the stage. 1t was natural
realistic and genuine.
A dereIfct he wanders into the hotel
and takes his case with the assurance
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my meaning about the greatness of the
man." He produced an old clipping. and
here it is:
None that ever saw Forrest as Vir-
ginius could forget his entrance before
the tribune. bearing Virginia upon his
arm. His firm step, showing the calm
resolution within his heart; his manner
of holding her close up to his side, one
arm around her slender waist and the
other hand grasping her hand. 1t was
the thousand tendrils of paternal love
reaching everywhere toward his child,
Hike the ivy with. its myriad clingings
Ito the object it would hold to. Who
could forget the Roman dignity of his
figure? Who could forget the silence
that pervaded the theater, the motion
less actors on the stage waiting to be
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-09-30
THEN AND NOW.

In 1905 United States Senator Rayner
opposed the constitutional amendment
then submitted to the suffrage Of the
people because it lacked an educational
test as a qualification for the right to
woe, and because, in his opinion, it
would have disfranchised thousands
upon thousands of his white felloW-cit
ZenS.
In 1909 he favors the adoption of the
DISTINGUISHING amendment now pending
and pours out floods of oratory to en-
phasiZe his ANXIOUS zeal for its success
He accepts the bastard provision i'm
posed upon the negro, and which he as
serts does not apply to any white citi-
zen, as an educational test and in strict
harmony with the views he entertained
four years ago. This test may meet
Senator Rayner's judgment of the
attainment in intelligence that should
be required of the negro to entitle him
to vote, but it is a test which today
could not be met by one in hundred of
the white voters of the State.
If Senator Rayner were called upon,
without previous notification, to submit
to it he would probably fail to prove
himself qualified voter. Could he,
without reference to some authority,
sit down and write off hand the full
name Of the President of the United
States, of one of the Justices of the
Supreme Court of the United States. of
the Governor of Maryland, of one of
the Judges of the Court of Appeals of
Maryland, and of the Mayor of Balti-
more City? Yet that is precisely what
is required by the amendment of ne
gro IN Baltimore City, and. if a resident
of one of the counties, the substitution
of the name of county commissioner
for that Of the mayor. This, however,
is not the only requirement, there being
other provisions still more difficult and
especially applicable TO men who make
living by working for wages, as most
negroes do
The injustice of the amendment, on
this account, is so glaring that it is
difficult to conceive how any fair mind
ed man can vote for it. IL may be un.
charitable 10 suggest that in Senator
RsYner' s case q change of circumstance
has altered his judgment, but four years
ago, ne was not candidate for The
J United States Senate
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-09-30
0FFlCEHOLDeRS TO RESCUE

The expected has happened. A
league" of Democratic lawyers has
been formed to push the Straus dis
reimbursement scheme and to faSten in
perpetuity, if possible, the present
Democratic oligarchy about the necks
OF helpless people. So tar as dis
closed, the personnel of this combina-
ton is made up for the most part of
about 80 officeholders, X-officeholders,
wOuld-be officeholders or the relatives
and friends of these several classes of
model citizens. Included in the 80 we
naturally find also several of the men
who assisted Mr.. Straus in the devious
and perilous task of concocung the
amendment along lines that would per
NIT self-respecting barrister to accept
retainer for the Democratic machine
and put up an argument that could be
made with a straight face in the remote
contingency that the question should
ever reach the courts.
EX-Attorney General Bryan, who as
sumes the presidency of the league, "
seems to have recovered from his
modesty and reserve of yesterday, and
now boldly joins in the opinion that the
amendment does not conflict with the
federal Constitution and is not uncon-
stitutional. Only a few days ago he
was unwilling to commit himself and
was content to give a brief outline of
the ''obvious argument in favor of the
proposition Of cOnstutionality, while
speaking with PRESERVE in discussing
what position" the Supreme Court
would take on the question As pro-
mOter of acrobatlc mental performances
the amendment issue seems to be & sue
cess.
/ One of the reasons advanced by the
''league" for its confidence in the legal
I soundness Of the measure, is the claim
that the Republican party would not
oppose it if it was clearly invalid, but
would allow it to pass and then have it
set ASIDE by the courts. Wouldn't that
be pretty trap! What would the
Democratic oligarchy do to the poor
people of this state during the two
years Of it's unfettered supremacy
Everybody, except possibly the great
lawyers of this league" knows that it
would take at least two wars tO cacura
decision by the Supreme Court. In
the interval shere would be a perfect
riot of ringism. Nothing could stop
the further mutilation of our election
laws by d packed legislature. Byparti-
san election boards would soon be a
memory, and the few precious checks
AID safeguards still existent would fade
with the setting sun.