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Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-06-03
COMMITTEES STATEMENT
Showing Collections and Disbursements
For Storm Sufferers.

| Editor Times Promoter:
Will you kindly publish the within
as report of collections and disburse-
ments on account of the sufferers from
the recent storm? The list of receipts
begins with sum collected at Her
nando, and list of these contribu-
tors may be had from Mr.. Clint Whee-
Ter.
To the friends who have SO genero-
usly provided this fund and who trust
ed us with the distribution OF the
same, we beg to say that we have
personally investigated the loss and
need of each sufferer in the territory
allotted us, and have with great care
made such donation as could be done
with the funds in hand. OF course
none could be provided for to the full
extent of their loss, and only a fair
and impartial division was made upon
the basis OF their loss in the storm.
The greater part Of the fund was
used in buying household furniture
and clothing, nearly all of them being
able to procure feed, or having been
supplied with food previous to our re-
ceiving the fund. We have used the
entire amount in helping tenants, re-
garding them in most urgent need,
but will add that our investidations
led us to wish we had little more
mohey so that some of the property
owners might be relieved to some ex-
tent.
We have bought articles, as per
subjoined statement, for these parties
at wholesale cash price absolutely no
profit being made by any one connect
ed with the fund. In addition to the
donations of money several have given
clothing etc., which does not appear
on the listof disbursements.
On behalf of those whom You have
helped in their great distress we thank
you.
G. A. Wort ay, ~, j, 49,
ID. e. WILSON.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-06-03

J. B. Harrington, of Ingrams Mill,
sent to this Office tube containing a
number of ticks which he had gather
ed from a rabbit, and which he want
ed examined by the federal veterinar-
ian. Dr. Sevenster pronounces them
the common wood or dog ticks, which
do not convey the Texas fever.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-06-03

which was given to Lish Parker.
IAN itemized statement showing the
articles purchased and the price paid
for each beneficiary was sent by the
committee. but the list was too long
to publish, SO we have reproduced the
totals only-ED.l
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-06-03
Superintendent Again Indicted.

Two more indictments against Sup
erintendent OF Education Morgan were
made public Wednesday, charging
him with embezzlement and false pre-
lenses in connection with alleged
shortages in the school fund. These
indictments were found by the last
grand jury.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-06-03
Childrens' Day al New Bethlehem.

The inciemency of the weather has
made it necessary to postpon Child
rens' Day exercises at New Bethle--
hem III Sunstay June N Our usual
time has been the second Sunday in
June.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-06-03

Boys and girls who feel themselves
deficient in Arithmetic shotild attend
the summer school OF mathematics
which begins June 18th.
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

ments. My sister. too. is now we'll
known. as possessing those powers
which, when better understood and
wider developed, will work scientific
miracles for humanity.
1T was my sister who gave to
Augustus Thomas the idea which he
worked out so splendidly in The
Witching Hour She has as a patient
a man well known in New York in
the government service. He became
her pupil and had some interesting
experiences with the men of his set.
One of these was a series of circum-
stances which nearly ended tragically.
1t was rooted in hereditary horror OF
a certain object, the very sight of which
exercised a spell upon the victim Ny
sister told Thomas about it. and he
nodded it to his purpose and The
witching Hour was the result.
"a ISS ELISCU is somewhat in doubt
NN as to the abstract truth involved
in "Phe Third Degree" wherein 1t
is shown how a young man is forced
into confession Wllle unQer the nyp-
motto influence of a vigorous and brutal
captain of police. such confessions"
she said, ~have been wrung from inno-
cent victims of police persecution, but
hypnotism has had nothing to do with
IT. The captain in this case would have
gained nothing by throwing his weak
victim into a trance; what he did do,
and what is frequently done, l fear, is
TO batter down by sheer animal force
the timorous consciousness of the ac-
cused. and to force him, physically, to
say something which he knows is not
true
The laws Of psychic phenomena
continued this strange little woman,
..as far as they have been determined
by experiment and from unimpeachable
evidence, declare that no person, hyp-
Noticed. can be made to commit a crime
OF which he would be incapable, in
his normal senses
How about the foolish things per-
sons do when hypnotized?' asked.
This is the idea," she replied. THE
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

I SUSPECT that few men indeed become
what. they intended to be. Most
find themselves in work which was
thrust upon them, or else drift into
their life jobs along the current OF
forces they do not control. How few
of US become the engineers. conductors
or candymen we dreamed of being oues
upon time. We trip and stumble and
fall. finally. and discover, when we pisk
ourselves up. that we were not hurt
after all. but that the grass is as green
in our lot as in that of our neighbor's.
who is where we started out to be- lat
least the sun shines and casts sIanting
shadows where we are just the same.as
where he is, and the sky is as blue
above US. if only we viii see it. &.
Frank Stammers suggests this:
Let's blame the preamble on him.
for he is in a far country from the
starting place where his youthful am
bition already found him.
stammers is stage director at the
Princess and mighty good one he is.
too. He is the responsible party be-
hind the scenes and manages every
thing from the kick of chorus girl
to the staging of the production and
the designing Of the scenery.
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

subject volunteers to give himself up
to the experiment. That subconscious
thought rests in his mind even when
doing the things he is bidden to do.
He knows, with his passive conscious
ness, that it is all an experiment.; but
now. suppose you attempt to make him
commit a crime. HIS soul will rebel.
He will not do it. He will stab a man
with wooden sword, and indicate all
which in reality he would feel and ex-
press; but he will not kill; he will not
strike with steel. Similarly he will not
admit that he committed a crime which
he did not Many experiments have
demonstrated this. Persons of known
probity, young girls. women of unques-
toned honor have been hypnotized, and
then the effort has been made to make
them admit doing wicked things. The
most persistent effort has failed They
reiterate mo- until the experimenter,
wearied, gives up. That fact is the pro-
lection of the innocent. / do not think
a single case has been accepted as
XeTlHeQ where d ptISOH mas confessed
to a deed, when hypnotized, that he did
not commit, or that a person has been
made to do a thing which normally
would be abhorrent to him or against
his moral scruples.
Miss Eliscu commands the power to
hypnotic. Have you a headache?'
she asked me.
Not this morning" I said. "Portola
week has just begun
4 ISS ELISCU was years old when
M her parents brought her to this
~ country. The ambition to become
an actress was strong in the little girl.
In Jassi they lived next door to the
theater When she came to America
she found there were more theaters
here than there were in her own coun-
try, which rejoiced her soul enor-
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

came obstacles as her Annie Jeffries
does in "The Third Degree when she
conquers the great constitutional law
yer, Richard Brewster. and compels
him by power of persuasion, not log
icaI but effective, to, aid her boy hus-
band in his terrible predicament Her
parents did not have the means to pay
for her tuition; she wanted tuition;
therefore. the school should give it to
her. She won quasi scholarship
which entitled her to two lessons a
week and the school gave her chance
of earning a little, extra by "suping. :
So she got her instruction.
who decry the value of academic
training for the stage
Certainly not. 1 do not go around
Dragging that l am a graduate of a
school of acting; neither do l deny it.
learned much there, and know some
players who would benefit by a course
of study, too On the other hand. I've
seen some examples of graduates which
make me sympathetic with those who
condemn that sort of training. I've
seen. rich mems sons and daughters
take course and come out with ges-
ture reduced to a science. and utter
ance and expression labeled and put
away in pigeon holes-gesture of de-
snair, business of fear attitude of
remorse,' horror 'amazement.' Joy,
and all the rest. tabulated as on card
index. Then the managers say. look
ing at the product For heavens sake,
take it awayv"
a ISS ELISCU, when she went on
v the stage, carried the diploma of
the American academy and a gold
medal. She also carried a contract
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

\ T the age of Is stapmers was a
n prodigy pianist When he was.1S
he was organist OF St. Francis
church in charlestown. Mass. with
so masses tucked in the pocket .of-liis
memory; they were classic masses. too.
and he played them all without refer
ence to printed page. Then Charles
Frohman heard of him and put him. in
charge of the musical portion of "The
Little Minister" in which Maude Adams
was starring.
That slip from church music. that
step from the pedals of pipe organic
the directors seat in the orchestra was
stammers' first move of Importance,
Then he became an actor. If you talked
to him as I did in the Princess .of5ce
You would know that the impulse. Tor
self expression that was and is ; in
Stammers would carry him throughxa
variety of callings. So the boy pianist
became the light comedian. He playei
with Elsie de Wolf in. The Ninety and
Nine and. Il wrote the dramatic music
for the production myself"
L forgot to say that as pianist he had
studied the science of making music
and he still is at it. now and again. saa
last week when he wrote the music. fer
the Portola dance which is being feat
ured in Dream City"
So now we have Stammers a. fun
fedged actor, pianist. organist and
composer. But principally at that
time he was an actor. It was some
what stage struck" he said. After.t6e
Elsie de Wolf engagement Stammers
went to cineinnatti and joined stock
comic opera company. II was star
light comedian" said he. sThe com
pany didn't thrive. however. but Ian
guished. tainted. and was in a dying
condition when the proprietors Of the
theater where we were playing in
formed the company that we were
about to be turned out in favor or
something or other that could get a lie
tie money. Our presentations Of Billie
Taylor and other specimens Of old tin1e
comic opera did not attract. john e.
Young. now leading comedians in .Lo.'
was a friend of mine and no more than.
the rest of us wanted the company TO
be closed. He proposed to the pro-
prietors that they give me chance sat
the stage management and see whatil
could do. They were willing to exper.
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24
For ftQf1dQ E1iSCn
Pdcf7HcijF and QGfrod5
- BY WALTER. AQThONI

year with Mrs. Fisl<e in. '.Ieah -Klesch-
ma. While here she appeared at mat
inees with John Mason, then Mrs.
Fiske's leading man. in ~ Light from
St. Agnes She replaced Madam Ka-
lish in the New York Yiddish theater
and was stock star appearing in MAJ
ia of the Lowlands.'' sisters" Why
Men Love. 'Fania." Her Past" ana
other plays. During the season OF
1908 she starred in Her Past" sup
ported by Edwin Arden. At the close
of this season she again. appeared as
stock star in New York and in tho
circles bounded by the influence of the
Yiddish stage she made a tremendous
success. equaling that of Bertha Ka-
lish. She played the role of Hamlet.
originated a crazy boy role in
Russian Hebrew drama. but drew the
line at Romeo.
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24
eRNANDA


~ LAYERS, like plays, are the
better for an appropriate
name. Schumann said of some
Of his shorter piano works
which he presented with title
suggestive Of the content It's a poor
composition that needs q good name,
but an appropriate title helps" Like
wise with plays. Producers spend
weeks in the selection OF name. and
evolve such masterpieces IN the art Of
captioning, as "The Lion and the
Mouse" The Third Degree The
Easiest Way" and so forth.
Fernando Eliscu. That name has an
slluring look. In the first place you
wonder how il is pronounced, and that
centers curious attention, such as
helped Paderewski or Nazimova to get
themselves discussed. 1t has a sort Of
oriental ring TO II; a gypsy tang. the
odor OF sandal wood is upon ii, and
when you encounter its owner you are
quite prepared to find your expecta-
tions realized in a degree.
Miss EIiscu, who is the star Of The
Third Degree" in spite OF the fact that
.he play does not exploit her as such,
is a Rounanian, born in Jassi 2s years
ago. She is not beautiful, and her
most unhattering pictures are correct
photographs-that is, correct In line
and curve. but lacking in ali spiritual
suggestion. II she is not pretty, she is
fascinating, and you find yourself look
ing into her large dark eyes. which
have power Of concentration-Iyp
rotjc in character She is a psychic.
of that you feel certain. provided you
are q believer in or a suspecter Of such
esoterfc things as psychic suggests.
That ability which Miss EIiscu dem
onstrates at sight as possessing, and
which brought her audience last Mon
dav night into immediate rapport
with her, has nothing, necessarily, to
do with acting as an art of gesture.
injection and expression. but it has
4his tremendous advantage: il pre-
posesses her hearers in her favor in
stiDctively. You sit quietly in your
seat and you rivet your consciousness
,pon her presence. and. quite without
xoiition on your part you believe in
10y sister" she explained, was
M assistant for long time TO Doc
~ tor Sahler. the noted psychic
healer in New York: and I have seen
their rAxferrs some wonderful expert
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

mously But while there are more
theaters here there isn't as much en-
coura cement for youngsters gifted
with talent. In Roumania a girl, with
the gift of self expression Will not
find it difficult to get training if she
Is willing to give of her time and
energy.
She found it different in New York,
and her first surprise came when she
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24
BG WLAETEk .ANTHOrNI

The first real money / made on the
stage" she says. was with Maude
Adams in The Little Minister at the
Empire. 1 Was third understudy in
the role OF Micah Dow" Meanwhile
she was going on with her studies. of
course. One night Jessie Mackaye.
who played the role. was i'll. The two
told to get ready for the part. She
did, and Miss Adams. gracious as she
always is. complimented the girl be-
fore the entire company after the per-
Torrance.
Il played the role three times and
Mr. F'rohman sent me check to show
his approval 1t happened that good
things travelled toward me in pairs
that night, for when l went home
there was letter awaiting me from
the Sargent school in which I was ad-
vised that the directors had decided to
permit me TO skip grade and take
the examinations for the senior year.
although I was Only in my first year
at the college.
Il finished my year at the school and
when Miss. Adams took The Little
Minister on the road was given the
role of Micah Dow, in which found
my way that night when Miss Mack
aye was ill.,
= FTER her season with Miss Adams
n
George, as Lisa in Her Majesty"
and playing Miss Georges role at mat
inees. The season of 1912 saw her
with James Hackett in Don Caesars
Return; the. next year she played
with d. r. Ryan in a Royal Love, "
tour in Romeo and Juliet" During
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

><saY sister she explained, was
N assistant for long time to Doc
tor Sahler. the noted psychic
healer in New York; and have seen
her r.Axk1rrs some wonderful expert
The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24

= y ISS ELISCU. when she went on
N the stage, carried the diploma of
the American academy and gold
medal. She also carried a contract
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-29
Placed at Disposal Of Twelve We|Eknown Educa-
tors and Scientists by John D. Rockefeller,
Who Has Investigated the Mysterious Dis
ease and Hopes to See 1t Stamped Out.

your invitation to administer this trust
with keen appreciation of the opportuni-
ty that you give us to do a great public
good.
I'VE have today taken steps for organ
iZation and incorporated for practical
work and have named this board the
Rockefeller Commission for the Eradi-
ca ton of Hook Worm Disease.
THE hook worm parasites often so
lower the vitality of those who are af-
fected as to retard their physical and
mental development, render them more
susceptible to other diseases, make Labor
less efficient. and in the section where
the malady is most prevalent greatly in
crease the death rate from consumption,
pneumonia, typhoid fever and malaria. 1T
has been shown that the lowered vitality
of mutitudes long attributed to malaria
and climate and seriously affecting eco
nomic development, is, in fact. largely
due in some districts to this parasite.
THE disease is by no means confined
fering and death from the highly intelli-
gent and we'll to do as well as from the
less fortunate 1t is a conservative es-
innate that 100000 of our people are In
fected by this parasite. The disease IS
more common and serious in children of
school age than in other persons.
widespread and serious as the infec~
ton is. there is a most encouraging out
look The disease can be easily recog-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-29

nized. readily and effectively treated and
by simple and proper sanitary precau-
tions, successfully prevented.
The undertaking proposed by you Is.
therefore, not only full Of promise of
great benefit. but is eminently definite and
practicable.
I'VE desire individually and we'll as COL
lectively to thank you for this opportuni-
ty to be of service to our fellow men
and we enter upon our task with deep
sense of the responsibility laid upon u.s.
The "hock worm" according to New
York medical authorities, is a hair
like parasite to which is due a form
of ancmIa prevalent especially among
the poor OF the South. II was not until
recent ye ars that members of the med
ical profession discovered that para
site caused the madady
In December, 1902. Dr. Charles
WardoH stiles, then a zoologst III the
bureau of animal industry at Washing
ton who had been studying intestinal
PARASITES, announced to the Pan-Amer-
lean Sanitary Congress his conviction
that the so-called "laZiness' and
"shiftiessness widely observed in GER
tain portions of the South was spe-
cifc disease due to the "hook worm"
Many members of the congress ex-
pressed surprise at the announcement
and uD OF the present the disease has
been a matter of some controversy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-29
Jas, Miller, So. Braintree,
Mass, Through Jealousy
Shoots His wife, Who Had Left
Him, in Chi|d's Presence.
Makes His Escape but Posse Of
Citizens Is in Pursuit.

South Braintree, Mass, oct. 2S.-
Jealous of the wife, who had deserted
him, James Miller, aged 26 years.
sought out Gladys Sampson Miller,
aged 10 years, at the South Braintree
railroad station late today and after
urging her in vain to accompany him,
shot and killed her in the presence of
their 5-year-oid son, Delma, and then
fed.
The COUPLE had not lived together
since last January, when Mrs. Miller
went to live with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. .ioscphuS Sampson of this town.
Mr.. Miller worked in local shoe fac
tory, and was considered of a quiet and
retiring disposition.
Mrs. Miller had taken her son to
Quincy this afternoon to have him vac
cinated. She had just returned to the
South Braintree station when she met
her hrsband in the station yard. Her
husband was heard to ask her to &C
company him. She replied that she
would not go a step. Mr.. Miller is de-
clared to have said: Yes, you Will,
and then drew a revolver and fired
Mrs. Miller fell to the ground and
her husband leaned over her and fired
:, second shot into her right temple,
ana a third shot which failed to reach
the body. James i. Hicks, bystander,
rushed to the woman's aid and others
leaving their work in the shops at the
closing hour crowded about.
Mr.. Miller started off down French
avenue, in the direction of Randolph
and evidently thinking he was to be
followed, fired two more shots into the
air. He then disappeared
The woman was taken to the office or
Dr. F. ". Breet, but she was dead be-
fore medical help could avail.
A posse of officers and citizens under
charge of State Detective John II
Scott of South Braintree Immediately
started in pursuit of Miller.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Miller belonged IN
South Braintrce. They were married
five years ago and had two children,
Delma, and Doris, daughter, aged
two years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-29
Survived Long Campaign
Of Cut Prices on Ice.
Report Of Committee Of Ameri-
can Ice Co. Stockholders.
Company Had Control Of Ice Fields,
Eliminating Competition.

New York, Oct 2S.-The opinion OF
tie stockholders in the American Ice
co. as to the value of their property
was adduced as evidence for the pros
ecution today in the states suit against
the American Ice Co. for attempted re-
strairt of trade. A committee appoint
ed by the stockholders reported in De-
cember, 1903. after an investigation of
the company's properties in New York.
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and
" ashington, along the Hudson and in
the Maine ice fields, that embracing
as it does the control in five of the
largest cities in the United States Of
domestic necessity of increasing con-
sumption the property must have
great commercial value" ~-'
Competition had been keen, the
committee found, but the prospect for
Its continuance was not at all alarm
ing, nasmuch as 1.-The company vir-
tually controls the natural ice fields
along the Hudson river and the Ken
nebec and Penobscot rivers in Maine"
l., d long campaign of price cutting,
the report continued, the independents
had suffered more than the American
Ice Co, and one by one, they nave
disappeared Few Of the competitors"
the report repeats, "have been able to
survive"
The committee estimated that the
company's properties and business In
Maine were worth $1,350.912 and in New
York s5,250,3O1. An immense amount. Of
securities was floated on the property.
however, and when in 1905, the Ameri-
can Ice Securities Co. was organized
to take over the American Ice Co.. 1T
acquired nearly sS7,0oo.00o stock Of the
latter company.