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Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

and THE Great Divide" two OF the best
plays that Americans have paid fortunes
to see in the last quarter OF a century,
while his production Of Percy Maokaye's
Mater was a brilliant failure.
Sources of Plays.
Some plays come a long way before they
reach the public. 1t was an American
actor OF English training. Walter Hamp-
den, who brought The Servant in the
House" to Mr.. Miller, while Mr.. Moody,
author of The Great Divide" had long
been known as perhaps the best Of con-
temporary native poets. The journey OF
these plays was short. But Via Wire
less" which, though far from a good
play, yet ran all last season and will run
all OF this, travelled a much longer route
before It reached the footlights. An cleo
trician evolved the central idea. A maya
zine writer made It into & short story
and then transposed It into a one-act play,
which he sent to Frederic Thompson. That
manager bought the sketch for the sake Of
the idea and then hired two play-makers
to expand II into a four-act thriller.
The Chorus Lady" is a fair example Of
another fairly prolific source OF plays. In
its first incarnation II was a highly sue
cessful sketch played in vaudeville by
Miss Rose stahl. A keen-eyed manager
observed that Miss stahl possessed a pic
turesque and pungent personality A facile
playsmith beat the twenty-minute sketch
out so thin that It became a play running
two hours and a half, and the thing has
returned over 10000 profits in each Of the
last four years and is still going merrily.
In short, there is little that escapes the
playwright or the manager. They get
plays from novels, magazine articles, es-
says on the national debt. newspaper para
graphs, electric light signs. patent break
fast food ads, pictures by popular artists
C'The Education OF Mr.. Pipp" and The
N~ewlyweds'D; poems by folks like Kipiing
GA Fool There Was"): politics CThe Mar
OF the HourD; mining C"rhe Heir TO tn,
Hoorah"); dentistry C'You Never Car
TeIrD; surgery C'zira"), and cheese CMiAl
Hook Of Holland'). They even get play
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
Some Things You Want to Know
The Troubles of Spain

the anti-clericsl element. equally intoler-
ant, more violent and absolutely reckless.
For he last generation this struggle has
conferred I'm the question OF public educa-
ton. Fifty years ago three-fourths Of the
people OF Spain were totally illiterate. In
1857 an elaborate system OF compulsory pri-
mary education was ordained. This sys-
tenn never has reached the perfection OF
its program. The public schools OF Spain
now have 1.7Oo,0oO pupils, approximately 10
per cent Of the total population. The public
schools OF the United States have Il. 900. 900
pupils, or 20 per cent OF the total popula-
ton. In the United States there are also
several million pupils in the parochial
schools OF the Roman Catholic church and
approximately 100000 in other private
schools. In Spain attendance upon all
private schools is 10000. The city OF New
York expends upon it's public school sys-
tenn annually three times as much money
as is spent upon education in the entire
kingdom Of Spain.
The public school system of Spain is, Of
course under the influence OF the Catholic
church. According to the American point
OF view the schools should be nonsectarian,
but even in this country It IL insisted that
the public schools have some religious ser
vice. such as the reading of selections
from the Bible. In Spain the people are
almost uniformly Catholics, and 1t is nat
ural that the schools should reflect that
faith. The latest religious census showed
only 6,654 Protestants, 400 Jews, 9,645 RIA
tionalists. $40 Of all other religions, and
1915 whose religion was not stated. That
is, there were only about $4,000 people out
OF a population Of nearly 2O,OOO,OOO who
were not professed Catholics. II is evil
lent, therefore, that the clerical and anti
clerical controversy in politics is not SO
much the result of a movement against
the church as It is an internal warfare
within the church.
Prof. Ferrer, as the champion of the
modern school,. gained the friendship and
sympathy Of progressive thinkers in all
parts OF the world for his able and %untirinG
efforts to introduce the modern sciences
into Spain. Spain is the only country in
Christendom into which modern science
has been unable to penetrate. Prof. Fer
rer's books were the means of starting ar
agitation in favor OF modern education
This was opposed by the conservative por.
ton of the population and by the extreme
clerical party. It was pointed out that In
those lands where modern science reigns
religion is on the wane. This was sui.
ficient, in itself. to invite the opposition Of
the clergy.
Finding the church arrayed against him
Prof. Ferrer permitted his Spanish spirit
Of intolerance to get the better Of him. II
one of his books he declares that religious
education inculcates falsehood and teache,
foolishness. He declared that the Gospels
relate only to the life OF the so-called Jesus
Christ, and that 1t was truly a misfortune
that such ideals should exist for the pur
pose of deceiving the people. He was, per
haps, the first critic OF Christianity tC
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The spirit Of intolerance Is the chief
cause Of the troubles Of Spain. Francisco
.Ferrer was intolerant when, in advocating
the modern school. he declared that 'all
religions are based on ignorance and i'm
posture and aim at exploitation and OPP
preston" The clerical party In Spain was
intolerant when IL bounded Ferrer to a
felon's death, DESPITE even the pleas Of the
Vatican. Today is the 126th anniversary
Of the last public burning Of a hereto
under the Spanish inquisition. And yet
Spain still finds Itself in deeper p%olitico-
religious disorder than any other nation
I'm Christendom. From the day when the
Moors and the Christians were sworn
enemies each of the other. hating with that
sincere hatred which Is satisfied with moth
ing less than the absolute determination
Of the object OF it's hate; from the day
when the Cross and the Crescent were the
emblems Of a war to the death there have
been few eras of peace In the Iberian
peninsula. Unfortunately the fanatic In
tolerance Of the Moorish Mohammedan so
impressed itself upon the Spanish Chris
tian that It never has been eradicsted.
There have been a few reigns in which
some liberality has been displayed, but
these but serve to emphasize the long
story Of intolerant oppression Of independ-
emit thought. From the time when Aver
roes, the philosopher, was sentenced to do
homage at the door of the mosque, while
every true Mussulman who came ere TO
pray for his conversion was to spit In his
face, there has been little regard for the
conscience of others. Averroes. infidel
that he was. bore his affliction with the
spirit of a martyr, saying, as they spat in
his face: Let me die the death OF a
philosopher" francisco Ferrer with his
last breath. shouted: Long live the mod
ern school,"
Through all the centuries Of woe In
Spain the chief authors of cruelty have
been men who may not be charged with
evil intention. Under the inquisition many
Of the inquisitors were actuated by the
most conscientious and sincere motives.
In their eyes heresy was the most henious
OF crimes. 1t combined all the elements of
crime crime against self. the booming of
an immortal soul; crime against the state,
the propagation OF a doctrine that would
undermine It; crime against God, the mis-
leading OF His people. 1t is related that
many humble and charitable men. officers
of the inquisitlon, performed with tears
coursing down their cheeks, acts Of cruelty
which demons incarnate could not ave
surpassed. 1t Is only a century and a
quarter ago that actual physical cruelty
was abandoned in the Spanish effort to
regulate the consciences Of men. Since that
time the effort has been confined to polit-
icaI activity. 80 closely allied have been
church and state that they are nearly one;
and no religious movement may be made
but that it affects the state, and no polit-
UU 49,
Thus on one side Of every question has
been arrayed the clerical influence, abso-
lutely intolerant; and on the other side,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
You Have Possibilities For /.
Good Figure Under Your Fa'

From 80 years onward people grow fat
Ter, SO many DO so n seems the natural
thlng. Instead OF that, getting fat IL a bad
sign FROM that moment ones tissues are
going 20 get gradually weaker.
II Is easy to correct the trouble. however
one teaspoonful after meals and az bed
time OF the following pleasant mixture.
q OF. Marmola, y OF. fluid extract Cas-
cara romati and az OF. Peppermint
water viii put back into your stomac
that youthful energy which prevented. you
getting fat beforeS0. The old figure RFtil
there under your fat, remember. Dt Il
out with this rmle receipt II viii axe
off ~ 70 IA ounces a day without ANY heiu
from exercise o. diet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

deny the quality of merit to the ethics of
the lowly Nazarene.
Few Of Ferrer's followers go so Tar as he
in the denunciation Of religion. The vast
majority OF his sympathizers and OF the
liberal party. which Ferrer's death brought
to power In Spain, are, Catholic Christians
who are convinced that the best interests
Of both church and state would be served
by a complete separation and by the
elimination Of the clerical influence in
politics.
1t is difficult for Americans to under
stand the Issues involved. Perhaps the
greatest governmental reform in the his
tory Of the world was instituted when.
Thomas Jefferson persuaded the legislature
Of the colony of Virginia to adopt the
statute for religious freedom. 1t was the
first law guaranteeing to every mar the
right to think for himself, and it was a
decree Of absolute divorce of the church
from the state. When the United States
came into existence the Virginia notion
prevailed and this great republic is the
only nation in Christendom in which ehere
is no relation whatever between church
and state, and yet no nation is more
amenable to religious influences.
II the present crisis in Spain shall END
in the separation of church and state, and
shall bring about the solution Of the relt-
gious problem. Spain will be free from
religious controversy for the first time In
eighteen centuries. The introduction Of
Christianity into Spain lighted the fires Of
martyrdom at the beginning of the second
century after Christ. Christians were
burned at the stake for refusing to Worship
the Roman gods. Under Constantine,
Christianity became the state religion, but
it was not long until the great conflict be-
tween the Trinitarians and the Arians
agitated all Christendom. More blood was
shed over the subtle questions raised by
hair-splitting Christian theologians than
had been spilled by the pagan prosecutors
of the early Christians.
Then came the invasion Of the Moham-
medans and the struggle which for seven
centuries racked the Spanish people.
Finally the Christians triumphed, the
Moors were driven from Spain, and the
crescent of Islam forever banlshed from
western Europe. The same religious zeal
which destroyed the power Of the Moors
also drove the Jews from Spain, lighted
the fires OF the Spanish inquisition, sent
Columbus on his voyage Of missionary dis
covery, and established negro slavery in
America.
The intolerance born Of religious con.
t~entions, Spain carried into its political
administration The result is that IT, once
worldwide empire has vanished, and the
mother country itself Is in the throes Of
what seems a hopeless struggle. Spain
presents the spectacle Of a nation being
stranEled to death.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

out of Harvard university. Witness Mrs.
Fiske's production of Salvation Nell, by
Edward Sheldon, the young Harvard play
wright. They would dramatiEe The Con
gressiOnal Record" II there was a sugges-
tion in it. Anything or anybody that comes
along is eligible Take care you don't do
anything noticeable, Somebody will write
q play about you-probabiy Booth Tank
ington and Harry Leon Wilson.-American
Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

Mrs. f.. c. Hill, Forty-firs and Saratoga.
frame dwelling, 5000; G. w. UnderhIl.
Underhill. 1912 Marcy, frame dweiiing. "a M,
Hans u. Nielsen. s3l South Fifty-f,rsi
street, frame dwelling. 1900; Mrs. A s.
ilO6 South Thirty-third, 5000.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

Tomorrow; "Ths Housing OF Congress
by Frederic J. Easkin.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

and The Great Divide" two OF the best
plays that Americans have paid fortunes
to see in the last quarter OF a century,
while his production Of Percy Maokaye's
Mater" was a brilliant failure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-31

A-THE WEMPE. 419 Oak. nr. Buchanan.
Haight Masonic street ears: large sunny
and unexcelled board; all conyeniences;
S35 mo. up.
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A-SUNNY rooms home cooking bath, phone;
congenial family. home comforts 367 Haight
ST.; gentlemen only.
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ANY one wishing good home for girl over
years address MRS NJ. H, Mill Valley. Ca
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PAGE $50, cor Buchanan-Comfortable room.
with 3 excellent meals daily; SIS; bath and
nhone free.
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AA-HOTEL OXFORD, NE. cor. Post and Frank
lin-First class furn. rooms, with without
board; best accom-; special rates perm guests
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PACIFIC ay., 1721-Desrable rooms. with ex
cellent board; splendid locality; references
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lines; beautiful marine view; elegant furni-
ture; unexceied board $50 and $50; every
modern convenience.
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BARRIERS AND SUPPLIES
BARKER CHAIRS.

AAA-Barber wanted today at 40 9TH St. op
posite postoffice.
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PIERCE St. SIS, mr.. McAllisrer-Nice furnishs
rooms. bath. good board, people. $50 mont
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THE san FRANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY, july 81 1909
ROOMS AND BOARD oFFERED-con.

ROOMS AND BOARD OFFERED-Con.
AAA-THE HATToN, on PINE sT.-NIoELY
FURN. RMS. SINGLE OR SUITE; PRIVATE
BATHS; RUNNING WATERVSTEAM HEAT;
SUMNER RATE; BOARD OPTIONAL
AA-Deyisadero st., 116-Convenient to car
lines; beautiful marine view; elegant furni
ture; unexcelled board; s25 and $50; every
modern convenience.
AA-HoTEL OXFORD, Ne cor. Post and Frank
nn-First class furn- rooms, with or without
board; best accom-; special rates perm guests
A-sUNNY rooms. home cooking bath. phone;
congenial family home comforts. 367 Haight
ST.; gentlemen only
A-THE wEMPE. 419 Oak. mr.. Buchanan.
Haight or Masonic street ears; large sunny
rooms and unexcelled board; all conyeniences;
$50 mo- up
ANY one wishing good home for girl over
years address MRS. NJ H., Mill Valley. Cal
BUSH St. 1743-Nicely furnished sunny room.
with board, home cooking; reasonable
CALIFORNIA St. 23f5-Sunny bay window
room for 2; running water; first class Ger
man home cooking; telephone; table board
FOLSOM St. 2l96-Front bay window rooms;
sun all day; new furniture; bath; near cars;
board, IS; without, 81.
FULTON, loss mr.. PierceZFront bay window
suite, with board; priv. family; bath, hot
and cold water; phone.
o'FARRELLs st. 2009-Suites and single rooms,
with excellent board: bath. phone hot and cold
water; special rates to or A.
PACIFIC av., 1721-Desirable rooms, with ex-
cellent board; splendid locality; references
PAGE, $780, cor. Buchanan-Comfortabl room.
with excellent meals daily; SIS; bath and
phone free.
PIERCE St. SIS, mr.. McAllister--Nice furnished
rooms. bath. good board people, $50 month.
PINE St. 2121-Sunny front in private
family, furnished, for 1 or gentlemen, with
excellent board; $50 for two
PINE St, 2510-2 large sunny furnished rooms,
single doube board; reas; West 214O.
ROOM and board for 2 gentlemen, private fam
lily. 1557B Mission st.
SUNNY front room; refined family; or gen.
tlemen; board if desired. 1856 Jackson St
SCOTT ST. AGO. cor. Feil-Sunny furnished bay
window room with board. for 2: bath; 50 wk
ST. MARGARET'S club for working girls. 1541
California ST; $50 up; tourists 81 day.
WOMAN,S HOTEL. Turk ar Lagupa, opp park
Home comforts: reasonable rates
BERKELEY ROOMS AND BOARD
FURNISHED in refined private family;
beautiful grounds and surroundings; board op-
tional; near stations; references 1929 Shat
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STEADY increase IN the business OF the Pacific
telephone and telegraph company necessitates
the employment OF additional operators and
the telephone company is making special in
ducements TO secure for these positions young
women of neat appearance. fair education and
excellent character. Young women who wish
TO study telephone operating will not only re-
ceive free tuition IN the Pacific operating
school, but viii also be paid while studying
and upon graduation will be given positions
at the switehboards The exchange buildings
are equipped with rest and retiring rooms and
the operating rooms are light and well ven
tilated The telephone company takes a per-
sonal interest in the welfare of the young
parents of the sort OF girls desired are en-
couraging them TO take up telephone operating
as a profession. For further particulars call
at the Pacific operating school, Franklin cen
trail office. s21 Hyde st. near Suffer
SECOND girl for cafefaria. $40 week; first
class cook and waitress for gentlemen's Climb,
out of town. $50. SO. references necessary;
a first class cook for private family. country,
S45: German cook and nurse, house.
city. $40. $50: nurse that will assist cham
berwork, SO; nurse for grown children,
SO references necessary iaundress for in
sttuti0n. country. $50: 20 homework girls.
city and country. Call AT MISS PLUNkETT'S,
1896 Suffer ST.
sALEsLADIEs for our ladies' tailored SUITS:
must be first class and experienced Apply
S. n WOOD CO.. 4th and Market SIS
WANTED Experienced filter for cloak and suit
from TO II q. m. HALE BROS, Inc, Mar
ket and 9Th SITS, city.
WANTED-Young woman who had had expert.
elce as cashier in department store work.
Apply superintendent's office from to II
SITS. city.
WANTED--Lady with some means to take hall
interest in good paying business: one that can
travel from town 10 town preferred Call
1913 9TH ST.. Oakland
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APPRENrIcEs wANrEp

EXPERIENCED watch maker is willing to take
an apprentice under contract; position guaran-
teed after serving full time. Box 2919. Call
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BOARD For CHILDREN

OR from TO years boarded where there
are no other children; good home; reasonable;
references. MRS. F. WHITE, 217 ST., San
Rafael.
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AAA-THE HATToN, on PINE ST.-NICELY
FURN. RMS, SINGLE OR SUITE; PRIVATE
BATHS; RUNNING WATERpSTEAM HEAT;
SUMMER RATE; BOARD OPTIONAL.
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o'FARRELLs ST, 2009-Suites and single rooms,
with excellent board: bath. phone, hot and cold
water; special rates to or 4.
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Second hand chairs. an kinds and makes.
from So up.
JAMES BARKER, Inc.
Phone Franklin 1899. "a Turk St
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BUSH ST., 1743-Nicely furnished sunny room
with board home cooking; reasonable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15

Will be conducted by Rev. Fl. Schroeder
of Washington. assisted by Rev. Mr..
Wenchel Of Trinity Lutheran Church
of Washington. special musical pro-
gram will be given. Rev. Mr.. Gross
was recently elected to the pastorate of
the local church. He comes to Alex
andria from North Carolina
Rev. Edward G. Fitzgerald, o. p, Of
the Catholic University Of Washington
Will deliver a lecture next Friday aft
ernoon at the Young Mems Sodality Ly-
ceum Hall under the auspices Of Fitz-
gerald Council, No. 459, knights Of Co
lumbus. He will take for his subject
THE Bible" A musical program will
also be given. The lecture will be open
to the public.
Henry Stanton. colored, was arrested
yesterday by the police and was taken
to Jail today pending an investigation
into his sanity.
In the police court this morning Ella
Witherspoon forfeited collateral when
her name was called to answer a charge
Of stabbing Mary Lomax. colored.
The work of installing water mains
by the Alexandria Water Company in
Potomac, Alexandria county. is now in
progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
THREW HIM OFF THE CAR.
Musgrove Jackson's Kindly Deed
Gets Him Into Trouble.

Musgrove Jackson, colored, was sitting
next to another colored man, who was
very sleepy, tired and rather full OF cheap
whisky. on a Tenleytown car Saturday
night The tired one asked Musgrove to
lead him off With those instructions he
leaned his head on Musgrove's chest and
fell to snoring with loud and regular
tones
Not long after that Musgrove began
trying TO wake the sleeper. as the car
was rapidly approaching the place where
the inebriated gentleman wanted TO
alight. MusgrOve shook him:
'G-r-r-r-r-r," came from the snoring
nose OF the reclining gentleman.
Wake up said Musgrove. shaking
him.
"A-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r," was the response.
Get up, man, Don you know yos
done got to yo' place.?
'Leggo-'
Then Musgrove began punching the
chap in the ribs and shaking him vio-
lently. and made a good deal of disturb
ance in waking his friend up. The con-
ductor, Archie Phelps. yelled at Mus
grove to cut it out" but Musgrove. true
TO his trust, finally managed to dump his
friend off the car.
Then he and the conductor had a heart
to-heart five minutes. The conductor told
sponded by calling the conductor a name.
And just then so said Musgrove in the
Police Court this morning, the whole car
load of passengers jumped on Musgrove
and beat him in most thorough man
ner. They pitched him off the car into a
ditch. and some one took a kick at his
head. which missed the target, but which
shattered a hat.
That was Musgroves story, and he paid
SO after telling IL.
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Franc. E.'Sheiry, Printer,

7. connected In no way with any other printing
Arm or corporation. For nearly two years ne
has been conducting prosperous printing ousi
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NO COMMENT TO MAKE.
Admiral Brownson Regrets Hcspital
Ship Decision.

Rear Admiral w. II. Brownson, retired.
left here last night for Thomaston. ". c.,
to spend a week in hunting and fishing.
Admiral Brownson was formerly chief OF
the bureau of navigation. and resigned
that office when President Roosevelt APP
pointed a naval surgeon to command the
naval hospital ship Relief in spite of his
strenuous opposition to such an assign
ment. When asked last night il he had
any comment to make regarding the ac-
ton of President Taft i'm assigning Sur
geon Pickrell to the command of the hos
pital ship Solace. Admiral Brownson SAID:
Nothing. except that it Is to be re-
GREETED that a matter Of so much impor-
lance to the best interests of the service
should not have been decided entirely On
its inertia