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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27
CHAPTER XII.

Ianthe Macqueen IS IN talr way to
have her head turned" was Lady Ingra-
hams remark to her son, after she re-
turned from her call. 81 must admit
she is remarkably pretty and has good
deal of style, but she spoils it al by the
airs she gives herself"
Denis was well acquainted with this
formula. 1t was his mothers invariable
comment upon a pretty girl. Therefore
he only sighed and made no reply.
There's a rumor that she is engaged
to that young Mr.. Oliver. think it
must be true, for they certainly seemed
on terms of great intimacy. In my
young days, thank goodness, girls were
not allowed to behave as Ianthe did this
afternoon. She firted openly with every
man in the room. If I had been Aff.
Oliver I should certainly have objected.
But nowadays suppose the idea is to
go your own way and let your hance or
your wife go hers"
Perhaps she is not his fiance," sug-
gested Denis very quietly.
Opposition was the one thing required
to make Lady Ingraham sure about any
thing
But / tell you she is she answered
tartly. Il have it on the best authority"
Denis said nothing.
She had not even the courtesy TO ask
how your hands were," continued his
mother.
"She did not know they were burned, y
said Denis. Nobody knew, and there is
no reason why anybody should"
IF you had had sense to say some
thing at the time instead of putting on
pair of gloves and pretending they
were all right, they would have been
better by now, instead of having given
you all this trouble"
NO doubt" answered Denis, "but we
all do foolish things at times"
1t certainly had been rather foolish
thing to do, he admitted TO himself, but
it would have been ridiculous to make a
fuss about his hands when Ianthe made
none about her arm. As a matter o;
fact, he was far more seriously burned
than she, and the delay in attending to
them had made his hands far worse than
they would have been. This was why
Denis had not gone in person to call, for
the injured hands were still bandaged
and would have to remain SO for some
time.
He rose and left the room, for it was
| obvious that his mother had returned in
very bad temper, and would have nc
good to say about any one, Her news
scarcely surprised him. He too had heard
the rumor, and had thought it probably
true. Ianthe had danced more than once
with Oliver, and had seemed to enjoy his
society in very special degree. He had
remarked it at the time
TO BE CONTINUED.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27
TO BE CONTINUED
BIG CAVES IN LAVA BEDS.
Interesting Discoveries in a Land of Ex-
tinct Volcanoes.

The Modoc lava beds in California.
near the klamath county line, long a
place of historic as well as scenic inter
est, have grown more prominent lately
from reason of new discoveries, especial
ly as to the caves, of which there are a
great many in this region. all among
lava beds of the raggedest description.
As one traverses Tulu lake, the south
ern margin of which rests On the lava
field, about forty extinct volcanoes can
be counted in the region of the lake.
Many of these are weathered and an
cient. covered with shrubs and trees,
and others are absolutely bare and the
reddish lava about their craters has a
modern look.
Following the lava flows from these
cinder cones are vast crevices and GRIN
killed. ridges of lava and caves of great
extent and of various forms. A man
who lives in this region and who has
spent thirty years as a cowboy, claims
to have discovered a cave many miles in
extent. which he calls the Mammoth
cave of California, and steps are being
taken to make thorough exploration of
its vast subterranean recesses.
4 party of thirteen persons from
klamath Falls has just returned from
four days outing in the lava beds and
TGpOIAS d IIUSl IhltLtSllbE oulluR III klHI
land of dead volcanoes.
Several new caves were discovered by
the party, one of which some 200 feet
in length, so in width and with a level
ceiling 40 feet above the floor. The
most important discovery made by the
party, however, was of a two story cave,
which is indeed one of the worlds mar
wells A hole was found some 10 feet
in width in the bottom Of a large cave.
A lantern was lowered on a rope until
it was evident that there was another
floor with surrounding cavity some %
or 80 feet below.
4 small pine tree was cut, Invested Of
it's limbs and brought into the cave. This
was lowered until it touched the lower
floor and by il the party descended TO a
great corridor 80 or 40 feet wide. ex-
tending apparently parallel with the cor
ridor above in both directions from the
point Of descent. The corridor is not
less than 500 feet in extent and is OBJ
structed at the ends by loose material
fallen from above. No Thermometer
was at hand to determine the tempera-
ture, but it is cool enough TO contrast
greatly with the degree above ground.
and icicles 3 or 9 feet in length descend
from the ceiling in many places.-Klam-
ath Falls Cor. Portland Oregonian.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27

When Grants army crossed the Rap
pahannock, Lees veterans felt sure of
sending II back az battered and
torn" as ever II had been under the
new generals numerous predecessors
After the crossing, the first prisoners
caught by Mosby were asked many
questions by curious Confederates
What has become of your ponto0n
train?" said one such inquirer we
haven't got any" answered the pris
oner. How do you expect to get over
the river when you go back?" "Oh, "
said the Yankee, we are not going
back. Grant says that all the men he
sends back can cross on a log
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27
CHAPTER XII

bis r lex nezt day Lord Duly at last found
vii. OPP9IVunlty to ask Ianthe to be his
nert Ianthe had known that the mo-
ipey;4.l must come sometime; this was
yon rtbs@OIe, considering how deeply the
ton LAS vas IN love. She made no obiec-
her s '-,1IsIore when he followed her to
evi3orP.e eiai greenhouse alone with the
ny T'oen M, intention of declaring himself
Of ,e sltl did not care much for the task
been e 5:e5 him. With Gervase it had
vas no. ,-eIent, Tor she had known that he
aIn ~. really very deeply in love.
for t6s a frank, / thank you very much
belisys nonor you have done me, but,
BOW rat u az 1t can never be-" she had
~Bss. l' the length of saying.
''a a, be said. ~ nave some rea'
swera5 '01 I a great many reasons an
is-tbs. 1@nthe gently. 1.-The chief one
@' do not love you"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27

The army transport Sherman, which
has been out of commission at san
Francisco for year, owing to lack Of
available funds for its repair, is to be
thoroughly overhauled contract
has been made with the Union Iron
Works for the complete repair Of the
ship at its bid OF $314,000.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27

Since 1903 there have been no i'm
ports Of live cattle to England from
Argentina. on account of the foot-and-
mouth disease. but the imports of frozen
beef from that country amounted last
year TO 2,047 ,632 pounds. valued al
S29, 696, 1913.
The Honolulu times. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1902-1911, 1909-10-01
CHINK, NO. S.

You'll go to the races in June,
And try to win some money"
Indeed and indeed, you will not;
I'm right vex'd with you, Honey.
You'd better starve, than seek the
Devils money
There's no good in races, and
never was, Honey;
Men fight and drink, and every
thing that's bad;
(To the low level of a jockey,
would you sink?)
0 Honey, stop and think
The horses are, the only sane,
And put to shame mems riot,
Honey
I'd rather see you, poverty-poor,
Than take that way, for making
money.
Its ruined scores of men,
That might have made their
mark, Honey;
Lured them on, like Will-o'- the
Wisp,
(Dazed and crazed)
TO be robbed at last, of all their
money!
You've reused, "the spirit of '76"
Shades of Harvard, Honey;
Be poor, but never play,
To win, your neighbours money.
Anne M. Prescott.
y - y
Almost everybody knows of
Honolulu and it's marvellous
aquarium, finer than any in
Europe-much queerer fish it has
to show, the queerest in the sea.
Fact.
y y -
Do you own a "Thrum's An
nual?"
Miss Schaefer has her music
class Groom O. at Kapiolani build
ing; and don't forget Hugo Her.
yer, who also holds forth there, in
good time.
The Honolulu times. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1902-1911, 1909-10-01

Miss SellWOOd tor many years, his
income was so slender that he
could not take her as wife until
he was forty-one.
What he suffered throughout
this long novitiate no one knew
but himself, though not few of
his friends suspected it; though
his reticence forbade any refer
ence to it by them. OF
ly sensitive nature, and shy as a
doe, these years of waiting must
have been very trying. The ex-
perience would have discouraged
some aspirants for popular regard,
but not Tennyson. He had a
fortitude, quiet and retiring
though he was, that was bound
in the end to win.
Inu 1912 the wind veered. At
first there were but kindly
zephyrs of appreciation, but these
grew into favorable currents car
rying his poetic bark towards
fame. By As he was almost uni
versally acknowledged as a great
poet. One thousand dollars a
year was voted him from the pub
lie funds. "The Princess" and
other verse commanded favor.
Then came "In Memoriam," and
his place was won. The Prince
Consort allowed England to know
that he esteemed "In Memoriam"
one of the greatest poems ever
written. But it did not need any
commentator of royalty to make
it acceptable. There was an in
herent royalty in it's theme, it's
philosophy, its measures. limit
merable letters came to him
freighted with profound personal
gratitude and appreciation.
In 1850, upon the death of
Wordsworth, Tennyson was
made poet-laureate, and English
men everywhere approved the ap-
pointment. Could one have seen
the signatures to the letters of
congratulation that lay on his
cabinet, he would have seen such
names as Browning, George
Eliot" Matthew Arnold, Kings
ley, Dickens, Carlyle, Thackeray,
Macaulay, Ruskin, Cardinal New
man, and many others equally
notable.
The change from the earlier
years Of neglect and criticism
would have turned some mems
heads, but not his. He remained
the same unassuming, modest
man as before, and to the end of
his illustrious career. Dean Far
rar writes of his being made
Lord Tennyson," and says: ct
The Honolulu times. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1902-1911, 1909-10-01
TENNYSON.
By r. w. Wallace.

In the quiet village rectory Of
Somersby, Lincolnshire, between
the Humber and the Wash, and
not remote from the German
ocean, whose waves necessarily
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea-"
and where as an enraptured and
dreamy lad he had often seen
"The stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill"
that Alfred Tennyson was born
August S, 1909.
1t was in the semi-rural sur-
roundings of this region that the
boy, in his walks through lane
and copse and grove came to
know every bird and insect, the
orchestral music of the hedge
row, and the musical ripple Gin
little sharps and trebles" of the
brook, that one finds interspersed
throughout his poems almost
down to the last, and that brings
them close to the popular heart.
His clerical father schooled him
in the Odes of Horace as we'll as
in the Hymns of the Church, and
probably gave his boyish mind
that bent towards poetry that it
never lost for over three-score
years. At the early age of eight
he began to versify; at fourteen
had moved along the tempting
pathway of poetry with eager
heart and at nineteen had receiv-
ed a gold medal at Cambridge for
his poem in blank verse-"Tim-
buctoo."
Dean Farrar tells us of the
legend at Cambridge,-though he
rather doubts its authenticity
that one of the examiners of verse
in the competition wrote on the
outer leaf of "Timbuctoo" the let
tiers "V. O." which he meant for
very queer" but the other exam
liners construed these letters as
"V. G" very good" and award
ed Tennyson the medal.
Tennyson was not favored with
an early and enthusiastic recogni-
ton of his poetical ability. In
fact, he had to fight for it. His
first attempts at publication were
extensively derided by the critics.
Very contemplate personal let
tiers were sent him disparaging his
efforts. Even the Times made
sport of him. 1t reads strangely
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28

have left him with Good night"
after the shows of other days were
over.
"The top of the morning to you
writes Henry Miller on his photograph.
Lillian Russell has CHEEKY greeting
on her picture. John Drew unbends
and calls William SkeIly Pat" In
deed, now that I think of it, all of the
pictures are addressed to pat" I
asked him where he got the name.
From my brogue. I presume said
he. Olga Nethersole has inscribed a
picture ITO Pat" so have Rose Stah1,
Richard Mansfield. Robert ManteIl, Mar
garet Ellington. Ethel Barrymore. Nine.
Nordica. Maude Adams. FRITZ Schefr.
Frank Worthing and a host of other
players and singers who beam at Pat
from their assigned places on the walls
of his little lookout room next the big
stage door.
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28
SRUVESG

so years Of age. has no support what
ever, and has the care OF an invalid
daughter. L am sure that those who
knew John Bogardus in his better days.
when he had plenty OF money. will not
forget this appeal Many a citizen OF
San Francisco can testify to his kind
ness of heart and his many charities.
Will you kindly give this space in
your columns to remind some OF his old
friends that his widow IS in need.
will head the list with S25 and IL
any one desires to contribute to this
most worthy cause funds intrusted
TO my care viii be taken care OF until
sufficient amount is gathered to pay
of this little mortgage. The whole
amount is only $3.50 and if we could
raise from s4OO to $500 1t would be OF
great assistance and relief to this grand
old lady
John Bogardus never turned any one
from his door. generosity was his
greatest enemy, and I hope and trust
this will meet the eyes OF many n
old friend, who viii come forward
with little assistance. Yours truly.
ARCHIE LEVY"
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28
Ben Greet's PLAYERS

IN spite OF statements to the con-
trary. says Manager Will Green
baum. the local impresario. there is
no doubt of his having secured the
Ben Greet players. who will open at
the Orpheum in Ellis street near FIJI
more May for one week. Green
baum will assume the management OF
that house after the Orpheum moves
down town and the Greet players
viii be his first attraction They will
be supported by the Russian sym
phony orchestra from New York. and
the entire company will number, he
says. more tnan 100 persons
The opening piece viii be "A Mid
summer Nights Dream with Men
delssohn's music. The Tempest viii
follow, then viii come The Merry
Wives OF Windsor and Romeo and
Juliet" each of which productions viii
be presented with orchestral garb.
Besides the Greet players" says
Greenbaum. ''it is likely that Mrs.
F'iske viii come 70 my playhouse in
Salvation Nell Negotiations are
now under way looking to the con-
summation of this plan. The last
time Mrs. Fiske was here she played
at the Alcazar. which this year will
not be available on account of other
bookings at that house. She does
not play at syndicate theaters."
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28

ceives. They have all done obeisance
to him and passed out Of his door to
come back no more. Skelly is man
OF many memories
It's very different with Richard He
mings Of the Alcazar. He permits him
self no memories. He is not old at
the stage door tending business. but
he is old IN fact. His life would make
an interesting story if there were not
an impertinence in bringing it forth
in- an interview.
"As I say" he told me, quietly, 'T
got adrift .How2 I do not think it
would interest your readers. am here
now My life is given up to routine
in which about four hours a day are
relief for the gray monotony of life.
spend those hours in the sunshine,
when the day is fair. enjoy the parks
and the flowers and the green of the
grass. I have plenty to eat and a
place TO sleep. I do not drink and
have no friends. Ny life today is what
it was yesterday and what it will be
tomorrow, if I live. II it IS free from
much joy it is also free from care, and
thus am compensated
Some old Greek whom I used to
read many years ago said something
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28

fatal facility. I can sweep as well
as run transportation company, and
so. when the unhappiness came. gave
up and fell back on the ability to do
a little of everything, from acting to
setting diamonds, sweeping out dress
ing room or holding undesirables away
from the stage door.
My stage experience. except what
you see me doing here, is limited to
ness in 1895. That was late for me to
start, wasn't it? 1 find this work
easier and thus pleasanter. come on
at 9 o'clock in the morning and do
my housework; am back again at 5
o'clock and go on the door at 7. There
stay until after the show is over and
until the lights are out And that
makes another day"
~ ICK CRIBBINS is a critic His judg-
ments are more feared than are
those of reviewers. Dick has
heard the best in the world and when
ever he says on the occasion of a first
L
prima donna or tenor or barytone,
That's good it means a lot. His de-
cisions are prophetic. Either the
singer will do or will not do, and Dick
picks them as fast as they arrive.
Dick knows singers because many
years ago he used to attend the grand
opera in New York and he tells me
that a man learns much by hearing
these great singers. Besides he is
fearless judge OF acting. This is be-
cause he has heard the best tragedians
For instance, he was in the house when
Edwin Booth played his last perform
ance in Baltimore He was Brutus-
Booth was-and after the play was
over he went to New York. where he
died soon afterward.
Twenty five years ago. said Crib
bins .I was advised to go on the stage
myself. This is as near as got to
it. and it's near enough. Perhaps my
advisers were kidding me. but they
said I was born with character face.
Look at It, DO you think they were
honest?.
Not the least of Cribbins' accom-
plishments is his ability to write. He
has pretty hand, and moreover, what
he writes is most important. He is a
model of exactitude, as a man should
be surrounded by the alluring com
pany with which he associates, and his
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28
Lackaye at 1t Again

WTHEN Wilton Lackaye isNnot say
w ing witticisms he is writing epi
grams. Wilton recently cele-
brated his hundredth performance of
'"The Battle" at the Savoy theater. New
York. by distributing a pretty book
let bearing the title 'Laconigrams." /"
The title page informs the reader that
these 'Laconigrams@ were projected
or purloined by the author. Lackaye,
and that t..ere are anecdotes on or
about the author appended A few
samples of the epigrams are given
herewith:
No man really understands women.
no matter how young he is"
"They never name a cigar after an
actor who doesn't draw"
The shadow you see most often in
life is your own"
THE man who wears diamonds the
size of lima beans is not always a
book maker. Sometimes he's an alder
man.
Hall Caine looks like Shakespeare.
they say "A bard of auburn I pre-
sumo"
~The reason these gaudy hotels are
so popular is because they furnish ex-
clusiveness to the masses"
Lincoln probably told good story
illustrative of this point. but if he
did I never heard it,"
They tell me Mars is 5000, 900 years
older than the earth. That may be
the reason their canals are finished. +"
The anecdotes that follow fill over
80 pages Of the booklet. They make
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28

about spending part OF your quota
of cents for food to eat and the rest
for dafodiis. That is good"
Perhaps, after all, the story Of the
Alcazar stage door tender may interest
you. You must know, according to
Dick Cribbins of the Princess, that
among the duties of the Job is that of
ianitorship. They have to keep the
dressing rooms spick and span, for. of
course, costly gowns and dust are on
very unfriendly terms. So, If you drop
around to the AIcazar in the morning
you'll find Hemings. broom in. hand,
cleaning house
Il came here said Hemings, with
Wilton Lackaye last season. Poor busi-
ness at the Van Ness, Indifferent bust
ness in Monterey and disastrous busi-
ness in San Jose. where, you will re-
member, The Bondsman' was withdrawn
hurriedly. made inroads into my pock-
ct, and I was accommodating nothing
but cobwebs in my purse. So I left
the company at Stockton and said Cal
ifornia was good enough for me. had
a minor part and nobody missed me
when L left, except the stage man
ager, with whom I usually quarreled.
So that's how I came to San Francisco
and here I'll stay for the rest of the
years live"
Hemings was married in 1888. He
was a widower in 1884 "I lost heart
then, said he, land cut myself adrift.''
He had been a prominent figure in the
transportation business in New York.
and before then was diamond setter.
but" he said, "the tariff which pro-
tected the manufacturer in those days
invited the men from Germany to
come here and take our Jobs. They
couldn't set diamonds in Berlin and
send them here but they could come
themselves. and so wages dwindled and
1 got out OF the business. But I used
to be great judge Of diamonds Those
We're the days before the South African
stone supplanted the Brazilian. When
was boy. say in '65, men earned at
the trade up to $55 a week.
'Unluckily I could turn my hand to
any kind OF work-was cursed with a
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28

THREE sons Of Erebus they
William skeny, James
Richard Cribbins and Richard
Hemings. Like Charon they sit
and walt Unless they open the
portals you don't get in, and nc
.obolus or other coin viii suffice IL you
40 not belong" In other words, they
~re three stage door tenders and they
ARE immutabIe as fate. as unyieldins
as The law, and as fine a trio as ever
held sway over the land of the painted
scenes in the fantastic world Of the
Htage.
Though their duties are manifold and
xsxing their authoritative and quite
distinctive task is to keep you out.
They laugh at green rooms" and
f'Johnnies," and though YOU may wait
outside OF the door with bouquet
send an automobile YOU do not get
past them. They VIII not take the
-fowers away from you, but neither
1riI they let you in. Particularly
lanes Richard Cribbins. who is the
ltocrat Of the Princess door
He has many troubles and the con-
.sinuous exercise Of an inexorable firm
ness has left its marks on his coun-
tenance. He is stern man. and not
10 Dc moved lightly. once, I remem-
her. went TO the Princess to inter
view - member Of the chorus. It was
purely a matter Of business, Of course.
and ] told Mr. Cribbins-I used to
call him Dick-about it. He said You
don't get in" ~Why2" I asked him.
Because you don't" said. he. with
splendid clearness and conviction. So
] went after Manager Loverich and told
him about the iron hand that PLAYED
2 Davy Crockett stunt at the hasps
OF the Princess door. Manager Love
rich told me. Dick wouldn't let his
grandfather in unless he had a permit
from the front OF the house" Duty as
stern as this needs makes man firm
and Dick is very "sot." He has large
chorus 10 care for and his reputation
depends on his hrmness.
Then there is William Skelly Of the
4 Van Ness. His occupation varies with
Ethe weekly attractions, but he IS the
Oldest stage door tender in San Fran
cisco-not, perhaps, in point OF years,
hut in service. A string OF the worlds
notables has passed him. The mighty
Ira fNdians and gentle comedians of the
old 's4hool the Booths and Barrett.
Irving. Joe Jefferson. regal Modjeska,
! Sol Smith Russell and others OF the
days that are past now are in that
l1ine which SkelIy's vision still per-
The San Francisco call., 1909-03-28
A Worthy Appeal

y he following letter is quite ex-
planatory and il viii doubtless
be needed by many old friends
of the late John ?. Bogardus.
a few friends of the late John P
Bosardus consregated together few
days ago and asked me If would not
address a few lines TO each OF tho
dramatic editors OF the various papers
in behalf Of his widow Mrs. Bogar-
dus is in. dire need OF financial aid.
She has little home that in incum-
bered by mortgage held by the Hi-
bernia bank of this city. and we are
now trying to raise funds to lift this
along in her declining years. She IL