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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-21

1T seems to me-" said Mr.. Dooley,
shud be stopped"
Whats tn matther?" asked Mr..
Hennessy.
WELL" said Mr.. Dooley, "a lot "
narrow-minded people, who have no
idee iv art at all, are maxim an attack
on tn modhern stage. They say it is
immoral, an has a bad effect on tn
youth iv tn land an ought to be re-
formed. An why, 1 ask ye? Simply
because iv tn Interest in art an FIR no
other reason, tn theatrical managers iv
tn country are eliminating clothing
as inartistic an are Attempting to re-
projooce life as it exists in parts ~ TIL
wurruId well known TO tn polls FIR tn
binifit iv humanity.
IT'S a disgrace to our civilization to
have what a leading mind i'm tn the
atrical syndicate has called boneheaded
purists interferin' with tn progress iv
cd But, faith, 1 don't know how any
thing started in this gloTyous country
iv ours. As Hogan says, We disIodge a
pebble, an it rolls down hill and be-
comes a hurricane at tn bottom An
so it is with a moral wave. Somewan
goes to tn theaytre an sees an actor
lady on tn stage dhressed FIR sleep if
she hadn't frgotten something, an tn
first thing We know tn second lady
firm tn left end iv tn first row iv tn
choruh is arrested FIR not wearin'
enough roocheing around her neck.
Sthrange to say, both sides admit that
tn theaytre is an educational institu-
ton. I niver thought iv it that way. 1
always supposed that people wint to tn
theaytre because they had no COM
Portable homes to 60 to. or TO frgit that
tn dishes weren't washed, or to laugh
or cry or have a good spell iv coughin'
where it wud atthract attintion. But it
seems l was wrong. TIL theaytre is in
tinded to be more like a night school
thin a circus. It's a good thing FIR tn
theaytres that tn people that go to
thin don't know this. If they felt they
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-21

we're bein' idjacated whin they thought
mob tn box office to get their money
back. Amy recollection they have iv
idjacation is olouded with sorrow
But there it is, an me frind Nose
Forty Sapphos Extravaganza COM
pany, is ready to admit that he occy-
pies tn same position in tn wurruld iv
culture as Dock Eliot iv Harvard. 1 see
discussin' Ibsen with his Financial
hacker, a gintleman that Hogan calls
tn Meseenas iv tn dhrama, but his
right name is Schwartz, an he runs a
hand book in tn summer time. Mr..
Einstein readily consinted to talk FIR
publication, provided tn name iv tn
attraction an tn location iv tn house
was not mentioned too prominently. I
understand he says. that a Baptist
Clergyman uptown has called on tn DO
lis to close this Temple iv Thespis,' says
he. AT Taste, I have so advertised in
tn enlightened press. Do people GIN
rally ralize what this means? Do they
understand that thinly-veiled undher
a pretinse iv morality this is nawthin'
but an attack on art? Ivrything I have
done in TIL production iv this show has
been in tn INTERESTS iv art. I have
even gone so far as to give tn dhress-
maker vacation. An I'm glad to say
that in spite iv tn narrow-minded big
OTIS who wud've hanged tn sculptor iv
tn Venus de Milo (if 1 have tn name
right in consequence, [ might almost
say iv their attacks-th' public has ap-
precyated our efforts. Thousands come
ivTy night to see tn wonderful clas-
steal scene in tn Turkish bath where
tn heeroyine kills tn villain with a
champagne bottle an thin dances on
his chest. TIL American public will
niver see art sacrificed to hypocrisy
Why, let me tell We, afther this here
dhTama FIR tn young was suppressed
be tn chief iv polls in Pikestown OF
account iv his insane hathred iv our
press agent, who is his on'y son, an
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-21

hats, coats, fans, handkerchiefs, pro-
grams an bottles iv smeIlin' salts in a
large bundle an slowly rise an stand
in a furyous row. TIL gintlemen back
up against their new silk hats in tn
commojous racks provided be a ilb'ral
management undher tn chairs TIL
space thus left between thin an tn
backs iv tn people in front is meant
FIR me thriumphal enthry.
How 1 got through I'll niver tell ye.
Me figure is suitable to man iv digni-
fed years an. puTsoOts. 1 have recOi-
lection iv shrieks iv pain, muttered
oaths, tn tearin' an rendin' iv gar
ments TIL back buttons ~ me coat.
become locked in a buckle belt. I tore
mesilf loose with a superhuman effort,
seat, with a feather boa around me
legs an me watch an chain hangin' on
tn ear iv man in front iv me At last
was safe, but I dared not look behind
at tn desoiation an room I had
wrought. 1 soon recovered mesiIf. I
placed me overcoat on tn nure an
tucked me new hat into tn rack undheT
tn seat. Onforchinitely l f'rgot to low
er tn seat befure attemptin' to set in
it. This incident seemed very pIeasin
to tn aujeence an made me avenin'
more enjoyable thin it might've been
otherwise.
''Nawthin' is more comfortable thin
a modhren playhouse, EXCEPT, p'raps,
tn upper berth in a sleepin' car. They
are too luxurious. Tn people iv this
generation are pampered. Why shud
tn managers iv tn theaytres be called
on to place tn rows iv seats so near
together that even a small man can rest
his knees on tn back Nv a frind in front
iv him? Why shud they be so lux
yourously arranged that all We have to
do is to leave ye'er seat to start a
speakin' acquaintance with ivrybOdy in
tn same row. / hadn't been in tn
house two minyits befure there wasn't
wan Nv me neighbors who hadn't spoken
to me, if it was no more thin to say:
Get off me feetr But I'm what Hogan
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er of child labor in our state. That is
what / want to talk to him about"
Ever see Bobby, ?" says 1.
He says he hasn't.
Know anything about his habits an
so on?' 1 asks.
Not a thing" says the Rev. Sam.
Then you take it from me-" says 1,
that you amt missed much
See? 1 couldn't go all over that rec
ord of Bobby Brut's, specially to a
preacher. Not that Bobby was the
worst that ever cruised around the
Milky Way in a sea-goin' cab with
his feet over the dasher; but he was
something of a torrid proposition while
he lasted. You remember some of his
stunts, maybe? I hadn't kept strict
tabs on him; but I'd heard that after
they chucked him out of the sanatorium
his mother planted him here, with a
man nurse and a private doctor, and
slid off to Europe to stay with her SON.
in-Iaw Count until folks forgot about
Bobby.
And this was the youth the Rev. Mr..
Hooker had come to have heart to
heart talk with,
Amt you takin' a lot of trouble.
just for a few Polackers2" says L
They are my brothers." says ne,
quiet like.
w nat. says L. L on OOn look It. ~
His mouth corners flickers a little
at that, and there comes a ylimmer
in them solemn gray eyes of his: b1t
he goes en- u say that it's part Qf his
belief THAI every man is his brother.
''Gee!" says I. You've adopted u
big family"
But say. he's so dead in earnest about
it, and nc ia ks so sensible about other
things, besides appearin' so white clear
through, that l can't help iikin the
cuss.
Look hereI" says I. This is way
out of my line, and it strikes me as a
bdtty proposition anyway; but if you're
still anxious to have a chin with Bob
by. maybe I can fix it,
Thank you, thank you," says he,
givin' me the grateful grip.
It's a good deal easier than I'd
thought All / does is get one of Bob
by's retinue on the house phone, tell
who I am. and say was thinkin' of
drOppin' up with d couple of friends for
q short cali, if Boobies agreeable
Seems he was. for inside Of two min
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now let's get down to how you two
happen to be loose on the seventh floor
of the Perzazzer and so far from Messy
DELL
The Reverend Sam says there amt
any great mystery about that He come
on here special to have a talk with a
party by the name of Rankin, that
he understood was stoppin' here.
You don't mean Bobby Brut, do
you?" says ]
Robert h Rankin is the young
mans name, 1 believe" says he--''son
of the late Loring Rankin, president
of the Consolidated"
That's Bobby Brut," says 1. Don't
catch onto the Brut, Ell? You would
if you read the champagne labels.
Friend of yours, is hep
But right there the Rev. Mr.. Hooker
turns balky. He hints that his bust
ness with Bobby is private and per-
sonal, and he amt anxious to lay il
before a third party. He'd told 'em
the same at the desk, when some one
from Boobies rooms had 'phoned for
details about the card, and then he'd
got the rundown But he want the
kind that stayed down. He's goin' to
see Mr. Rankin or bust. Not wantin'
to ask for the elevator, he blazes ahead
up the Stairs; and Danny, it seems,
hadn't got 81 his track until he was
well started.
"An 1 ask" says he, lis five min
utes of Mr. Rankin's time. That is
not an unreasonable request, l hope?"
Excuse me- says 1: but you're
missin' the point by a mile. 1t amt
how long you want to stay, but What
you're here for. You got to remember
that things is run different on Fifth
avenue from what they are on Penrose
street, Messy Dell You might be a
book agent. or a bomb thrower. for all
the folks at the desk know. So the
only way to get next to any one here
is to show your hand and take the
decision. Now if you want to try run
min the outside guard again. I'll cali
Danny back. But you'll make a mess
of it,
He thinks over that for minute.
lookin' me square In the eye all the
time, and all of a sudden he puts out
his hand. You're right" says he. 4
was hot headed. and let my zeal get
the better of my common sense. Thank
you, Mr.. McCabe."
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That's all right" says 1. You go
down to the office and put your case
to 'em straight"
No" says he, struggling his Shout
ders, that wouldn't do at all 1 sup
pose I've come on a FOOLS errand. Kro-
nacher. we'll CO.
That's too bad" says ]; IF you had
business with Bobby that was on the
level"
Since you've been so kind says he,
perhaps you would give me your Opin-
ion-if 1 am not OBTAINING you"
spiel away" says I. 'I'll own up
you've got me some interested"
Well, say, when he'd described his
visit as a dippy excursion, ne want
far off. Seems that this Rev. Sam
Hooker amt req lar preacher, with
a stained glass window church, a steam
heated parsonage and a settled job.
He's sort of a Gospel promoter, that
goes around plantin churches here and
theTe-home missionary, he calls it.
though I always thought a home mis-
sionary was one that was home from
China on half-pay visit.
Mainly he says he drifts around
through the coke oven and glass works
district, where all the Polackers and
other dagoes work He don't let il
30 Will DftdEIln 10 EN-. though. he
pokes around among their shacks, see
in how they live, sendin' doctors for
sick babies, givin' the women folks
hints on the use of fresh air and hard
soap, and advisin' 'em to keep their
kids in school. He's one of them siren
uous chaps, too, that believes in stirrin'
up a fuss whenever he runs across
anything he thinks is wrong. One of
the fights he's been maxim is some
thing about the boys in the glass works.
Perhaps you have heard of our eff
forts to have d child labor bill passed
in our state?" says he.
No" says I; but I'm against it
There's enough kids has to answer the
mill whistle, without passin' laws to
make EN-"
Then he explains how the bill is to
keep 'em from goin' at it too young,
or workin' too many hours on a stretch.
Course. I'm with him on that. and says
50.
All" says he Then you may be
interested to learn that young Mr.
Rankin is the most extensive employ
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utes were on our way up in the eleva-
tor.
Got any idea of the simple way a
half baked young pluto can live in a
place like the Perzazzer? He has one
floor of a whole wing cut off for his
special use-about twenty rooms. ]
should judge-and there was hired
hands standin' around in every corner
We're piloted in over the Persian rugs.
with the preacher blinkin' his eyes TO
keep from SEEM some of the statuary
and oil paintin's.
At last We comes to a big room with
an eastern exposure. furnished like a
show window. Sfttin' at big mahOg-
any table in the middle is a narrow
brOwsi, pop eyed, bat cared young chap
In a padded silk dressin gown, and ,
remembers HIM for the Bobby BrU- 1
used to see floatin around with the
TTixy- Madges at the lobster palaces.
He has a couple of decks of rds lad
out III front of bint, and gussses he's
havin' a go at Garfield solitaire. Re
hind his chair stands a sour faced
lackey who holds up his hand for US
to wait.
Bobby don't look up at all. He shift
in tire cards around, tryin' to make 'em
come out right, doin' 1t quick AMI NOR
vous. All of a sudden the lackey claps
his hand down on a pile and says,
Beg pardon, sir; but you can't do
that
BLAST you!" snarls Bobby. And I
was just gettin' it: Why didn't you
look the other way? BAH" and nc,
sends the whole lot flynn on the floor
Do you catch on? He has the lackey
there to see that he don't cheat him.
self.
But while the help was pickin up the
cards Bobby gets a glimpse of our trio,
ranged up against the door draperieA.
Hello. Shorty McCabe!" he sings out.
IT'S bully of you to drop in. Nobody
comes to see me any more-hardiy q
soul Say, do you think there's any
thing the matter with my head2"
Cant say your nut shows any cracks
from here" says L. who's been tell
in you 1t did ?"
why, all those blasted doctors" says
he. They won't even let me go out
alone. But say" here he beckons me
up and whispers mysterious, 'T1t Fix
EN- yet. You Just wait till I get my
animals trained You wait!" Then he
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-13

one in 80 being infected he believed
there was one in 20 of the popula-
ton of these islands. He later ex-
planned that he meant the Hawaiian
population Instead of a period of
four years the disease ran from five
to ten years in incubation. He be-
lieved the House bill under consider
ed to contain the greatest advance
ever made here in dealing with the
subject.
Secretary Mott-Smith, after intro
ductory remarks on the serious ma
ture of the question and the past his
tory of dealing with 1t, said he be-
lieved the House bill under consid-
Grafton the best measure yet devised.
1t gave the person suspected Of hav-
ing leprosy his day in court, pro-
viding for every endeavor to cure the
disease before the person was sent
to Molokai He felt deeply on the
subject from the knowledge he had
with the Board of Health and from
personal acquaintance with some pain
full cases. 1t was matter that
should strike home to every citizen.
Besides the improved methods of deal
ing with the scourge now proposed,
the Federal authorities had now taxi
en- the matter up with liberal me-
thods for the purpose of discovering
the nature of the disease and a cure
if possible. The conditions of the
islands were such that it should be
feasible ultimately to eradicate the
scourge.
Senator Robinson proposed an
amendment relative to reporting of
cases, which President Smith said
was covered in other laws
Mrs Atcherley twice addressed the
chair from behind the rail- but each
time was informed that Senator Ron-
inson had the floor 81 must preserve
ORDER" Chairman Chillingworth re-
marked.
! The Senate rose and recommended
passage of House bill 165 and the re-
committal of Senate bill sc to the
health committee for amendment.
The report was adopted, which pass
ed the bill on second reading.
Chillingworth moved that the SEN
ate sit in committee of the whole to-
morrow night for consideration of the
appropriation bill. Carried
/ At 4:45 adjourned to 9 a. IN. today.
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THE AFTERNOON SESSIONS

B. Cooper, DR.. ]. T. Wayson, f. l..
Waldron, A. l.. c. Atkinson, Jared G.
Smith, Mr. Vivichaves, A. Nj. Brown,
Representative Shingle, Mrs. John H.
Atcherley.
Chillingworth took the chair and
the House bill was read through for
information at his suggestion.
Mr.. Atkinson being called on to adj
dress the Senate began by saying at
tention to leprosy in Hawaii began
in 1868 and segregation was started
in 1866. One of the causes of the re-
volution of 1887 was the slackness of
segregation, only ~ lepers being TAX
en- up in 1886. There was activns
the following two years, when over
1000 were segregated. In recent years
the numbers had diminished, the av-
erage for four years having been ~
when, as he estimated, it should havc
been 2SS. Last year the only ones
in were those who voluntarily gave
themselves up. Mr.. Atkinson com-
pared the statistics of Hawaii ana
Norway. In 1876 Norway had 1445
lepers segregated and Hawaii 7O6,
while in 1905 Norway had POS and
Hawaii 1905 Thus Norway had al
most exterminated the disease in rs
years while the number of lepers in
Hawaii, where no settled policy had
been followed, had greatly increased
Formerly the Hawaiians had a real
grievance in that inadequate medical
attendance was given to the lepers in
segregation. There was a gradual in
crease in prevalence of the disease
among others than native Hawaiians
the passage of the bill, which pro-
vided for hospital treatment in Ho-
nolulu, no subjects to be sent to Mo
! lokai until the attempts to cure them
ton of $4,000 was proposed, which
he thought sufficient.
! President Robinson, in answer tC
the chair, stated that it was true the
Board of Health had practically given
up the apprehension of lepers the
reason being that it had been con-
I fronted with much litigation to de.
! feat the law.
President Smith made remarks con
Guiding with motion that the com
mittee rise and recommend the pass
age of House bill 165 on third read
| ing.
Coelho favored some provisions Of
the bill, but thought some considera.
tion should be given the cases il
which the disease was arrested.
Dr. Cooper said leprosy was sup.
posed to have been introduced about
1910 by Chinese coolies and first be
came known in 1S4S. Then it. spread
rapidly until in 1865 the Legislator,
of the Monarchy enacted law of Sc
gregation. Legislatures since theI
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were less wise than that under the
monarchy of the time mentioned
Having been on the commission of le-
prosy for ten years he could confirm
the calculations of Mr.. Atkinson. The
increase was about 100 a year. The
Board of Health should be represent
ed in every examination of a subject
by a competent bacteriologist.
Atkinson, replying to Coelho, stated
that the bill contained a provision
under which one in whom the disease
had dried up might be discharged
Fairchild thought something should
be done to prevent the propagation
of children at the Leper Settlement.
1t seemed to him dreadful that chill
dren should be brought into the world
burdened with a curse.
Dr. Cooper recalled that while he
was in the Board of Health 20 or 80
epers were discharged on being
found to have leisous of the nerves
making them incapable of spreading
the disease.
Smith read the provision in ques-
ton.
Coelho, after further talk, stated
that the Board of Health refused a
permit to allow lepers to be treated
with a remedy discovered by an tia
liam which had been proved to have
improved the condition of lepers. Lat
er, when his own bill (Senate No SCI
had been read he gave instances OF
remedies that had been rejected by
the Board of Health doctors. There
were herbs known 10 the Hawaiians
which he alleged had proved to be
cures for leprosy. In one case the
man having such remedy died and
the valuable secret was lost with
him In the course of a running de.
bate with President Smith he sale
the purpose of his bill was to prevent
the arrest of anyone who ventured tc
treat a patient given up by licens
ed physician.
Fairchild asked if an amendment
would be acceptable making the con.
dition that three physicians instead
of one should give up the patient be
fore a lay practitioner was allowed t
take him in hand.
Coelho said it might do in Homo
lulu but not in Hama where there
was only one doctor.
Harvey supported Coelho's conten.
| ton telling of a Hawaiian girl Civ.
en- up in infancy by physician
treated with domestic remedies anC
now healthy girl of thirteen, also Of
| a white man cut open in the Queen.
Hospital and his case declared hope
| less, who had been treated without
| licensed medical aid and was now {
well man.
President Smith suggested that tn,
Senate bill should be held over fol
amendment of the phraseology anC
, the committee recommend the pass
age of the House bill.
Mccarthy wanted to hear any visi
tors who wished to speak
Dr. Wayson being requested to speal
said he regarded Mr.. Atkinson's fig
ures as too conservative. Instead c
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THE sICKLY SEASON IN BURMA.

THE SICKLY SEASON IN BURMA.
One Of the most effective remedies
known for diarrhoea ana bowel com
plant is Chamberlains Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, and every
home should be supplied with it dur
ing the warm weather Mr. H. j. ID.
Wilkinson, proprietor of the Upper
Burma Gazette, Mandalay, says: Ever
since l first tried Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, sup
ply of it has always been in my house
and is always in demand during the
sickly season." This medicine is for
sale by all dealers, Benson, Smith q
Co., agents for Hawaii.
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XX/HO PAYS For THE ADVERTISING?
wv There are still a few non-advertising
Germs in this enlightened age that claim
they can give better value than others because
they do not spend money in advertising. ltwould
be just sensible to say that they give better
value because their trade requires on y one sales
man Does advertising add to the cost of selling
goods, or reduce it Let's see
A shoe store paying $40 per dayfor
rent and selling ten pairs of shoes,
would have to charge you 5 per pair
for rent alone.
If, by spending $40 per day addi-
tional for advertising, the same store
can sell 100 pairs of shoes instead of
10 pairs, then the rent and advertising
combined would cost only zoe instead
of 81 per pair.
1t is volume of sales that reduces the cost
selling, And the quickest and easiest way to get
volume, when you have the right kind of goods, is
by advertising
Let us have talk
The ChaS. r. Frazier Co.,
I22 King Street Phone 81
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The Senate went into committee of
the whole to consider House bill 165
on second reading and Senate bill SO
on third reading. President Smith,
before leaving the chair, invited the
gentlemen from outside to take seats
on the floor. The visitors comprised
A. G. M. Robertson, invited to give
legal advice, President Mark P. Rob-
inson of the Board OF Health, e. A.
Mott-Smith, F. M. Swanzy, F. A.
Schaefer, ]. F. Hackfeld, Clarence H.
Cooke, L. Tenney Peck, Dr. ]. r.
Judd, Representative Geo. X. Hubby,
David Kalauokalani, e. Spalding, p.
d. Tenney, James F. Morgan, DR.. c.