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The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12

nee has an interesting theory that
you can not do anything on the stage
that you haven't experienced in fact.
L do not mean to say" he explained
that a man has to be a murderer in
order to play the role of villain. That
would be little hard on Howard Hick-
man. wouldn't it? What l mean is
this: No man can correctly portray an
emotion that he has not harbored
himself at one time or another.
Take one of the worlds greatest
musical geniuses." he went on. Felix
Mendelssohn. for example. He would
have been greater if he had been less
happy. The world was too kind to
Felix. He did not know want or sor-
row or unhappiness. Everything but
the deep note is in his music, but there's
no tragedy in his work. He did not
understand it. He never eX-
perienced it. There's nothing but
sunshine in Mendelssohn. But look at
Bee>loven, What chasms are sounded
in his music after deafness closed his
ears TO the glory of sound. Or Wagner
or Tschaikowsky.
You know nothing about music?' 1
asked.
sure 1 do" said Ince. i've been
travelling all over the city today to
buy piano. and what haven't learned
from obliging statesmen about acoustics
and scales and temperament and strings
isn't really worth knowing. L have
been receiving a liberal education and
a postgraduate course in music today"
~ Ut, speaking about the necessity
for suffering even if the pain be
- vicarious," said Ince, ''the proof
of what I contend is observable read
lily. A guide is a poor leader who tries
to take you over paths he never fre-
quented and through valleys he never
explored. The actor is guide through
the province of romance. He must have
Travelled through the tangled brush of
adversely; he must have been under
the shadows of sorrow; he must have
clambered over the thickets OF disap-
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12

r HIS is John Ince's first trip to the
coast though he has planned many
a visit. His father came to San
Francisco when he was Is years of age.
Ince Sr. was one of the original coast
defenders. He deserted his ship when
the vessel reached this port after jour
ney around the Horn, and as lad in
terested himself in such enterprises as
boy could handle. He was a newspa-
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12

sumo to be in the play. Then he must
have voice. The audience is i'm
pressed favora bly,, let us say. with the
appearance of the actor. 1t waits now
in pleasant anticipation for the spoken
word. If the voice be musical, sauve
and tinged with feeling, the rest will
be easy for the actor, even though he
has just graduated from a correspond
ence school Actor, preacher, lawyer
and teacher are blessed if they possess
the attributes of a pleasing appearance
and well modulated voice. Then
comes the final test to the actor After
this wave of mutual sympathy between
player and listener has vibrated
through the theater he must make an
individual appeal to each individual in
the room. He must give forth emotive
energy; he must compel attention.; he
must grip with a personal palm the
sensibilities Of his hearers. That
concluded Ince "is all there is to act
ing"
And it would seem to be enough,
wouldn't it?
The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12

- HOW me q sentimental man.
says Ince, and I'll show you a
- man with imagination. feeling
and character. / don't confound senti-
ment with sentimentality, mind you. A
man who has sentiment does not i'm
pugn others motives; he refuses TO
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
British cabIn.. Ministers and Coli.

British Cabinet Ministers and Golf.
The chancellor Of the eXchequer
may be described without offense as
a ministerial golfer That is to say
he plays as we'll as is necessary for
any cabinet minister Although the
golf standard is on the whole fairly
high among NJ Ps there has been nc
one of cabinet rank, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Alfred Lyttelton, who
could be truthfully described as an ac-
complished golfer Mr. Balfour is
probably the best known of all the
golfing NJ Ps. but his enthusiasm Is
greater than his skill. OF Mr., Asquith
it may be said that neither his skill
nor his enthusiasm is Immediately APP
parent. In truth, however, no cabinet
minister can afford to play golt too
well The country would feel decid
edly distrustful of prime minister or
foreign secretary whose golf was OF
kind likely to win the amateur
championship and Country
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
ANTS A PEST IN LOUISIANA
Oranqe Crop Threatened with Destrue-
tion, According TO a Lead
ing State Authority.

Warfare of a most strenuous charae-
ter will have 10 be undertaken against
the ant pest in Louisiana within the
next few years if the orange crop is
TO continue. This is the opinion OF
Wilmon /. Newell, secretary OF the
State Crop Pest COM ss.on.
Strange to say spondence,
which have had a;;a othor sections
Of the world has est 3lishcd that the
same k.rd o. ans 81 IN are devastat-
ing the Vegetation O. this state and
causing thousands OF dollars worth
of Damage annual are equally as
much a pest in other Places" says Mr..
Newell. From Portugal, from the Ma
deira islands. from South Africa, from
California ana isom Brazil, their
homo, the damage reported is large.
The greatest harm ia Louisiana seems
have been done in the orange farms
OF The lower coast sections. BY eat
ing he tender buds OF the orange
trees they make them almost barren
and after the ants come all sorts OF
parasitic scale animals which com
riete the Observation-Disclosures Orleans
Times Democrat,
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
Radium in Sea Water.

Some fresh determinations of the
amount of radium present in sea wa
ter have been made with specimens
taken from the Atlantic at various
places. All possible precautions were
taken to eliminate error, and the mean
result for the six samples was 9xlO'
18th grams a gram of sea water This
is only about one-seventeenth of the
value Il Gx10-14thl obtained by Jolly
but agrees fairly we'll with the value
6xt0-16th previously obtained by A. s
Eve. 1t is also shown that, when test
ing for the quantity of radium emana
lion present in given solution, about
equal accuracy is obtained by collect
ing the emanation over water or over
mercury.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
French Birthrate Grows.

France. after all, may not be fail
ing. Last years census of that coun-
try, where the signs of decadence are
usually believed to reveal themselves
IN declining population, shows that
IN 1908 there was an excess of births
over deaths amounting TO 4641l. In
TWO years prior to 1907 there was ca
excess of deaths over births. But the
xces8 OF births over deaths last year
nas higher than the average for the
preceding ten years. II is noteworthy
hat for 1908 the number of deaths
was The smallest in II years and con
siderably smaller, OF course than in
the average for the preceding ten
years. The birthrate, then, is recoy-
cry And marriages are the largest in
IT years, five per cent greater than
the average for the decade
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
AROUSED TOO MUCH INTEREST
Why City Woman Preferred ChleSen
Dinner to Keeping Fathers
Present as d Pet.

A Massachusetts farmer not long
ago sent large black hen to his mar
ried daughter, who lives in Springfield
and who wished to keep the presen,
as pet. Upon the arrival of the fowl
it was Immediately placed in coop
which chanced to be within sight OF
the street.
1t wasn't long before neighbor,
passing by, said
Got hen, haven't your?
Yes" said the new owner,
Nice, black one, isn't it?'
Yes"
This neighhor was almost immedi.
itely followed by another. who made
he customary observation;
why, you have hem"
Yes"
Just one?'
Yes"
Coal black hen, isn't it?'
Yes.
An intermission Of few minutes;
then another neighbor
Well | do declare, you have a."
Nary called out the lady of the
house. XIII the hen for dinnerl"--
Lippincotts Magazine.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
The Good Dinner.

The successful honsekeeper was
planning dinner for few Of her hus.
bands friends,
Il must have apple pie aud cheese
for dessert she remarked without a
flicker Of indecision
But should think you would want
something more dainty this time of
year" suggested the woman who al
ways worried herself sick over a com.
pany dinner. an ice or frozen pud-
ding.
oh, but apple pie is my husbands
tavorite dish When he has company
always serve what he likes best
then he thinks his guests have had
such a good dinner, and everybody is
aappy. At least my husband and !
arc happy, and if the guests aren't
40 one is the wiser"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
KNIGHTS OF HONOR
Elected Officers Last Night For En-
suing Year-Installaton in
January.

At the regular monthly meeting Of
Cairo Lodge No l4l2 Knights OF
Honor, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
Dictator-P e. Powell.
Vice Dictator-George Adams.
Assistant Dictator-T. d. Holmes
Chaplain--James Quinn.
Guide-George t. Magee.
Reporter-C. B. S. Pennebaker,
Financial Reporter-Frank Cassidy.
Treasurer-Charles Cunningham.
Guardian-Samuel Y. Humm.
Sentinel--W. A. Steagala.
Trustees--George T. Magee, 7. D.
Holmes and Samuel Y. Humm.
These officers will be installed at
the next regular meeting, the first
Tuesday in January.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
Whales Along Massachusetts Coast.

OHicers of the steamer Vera which
arrived from jamaica, report that
they saw hundreds of whales off the
Massachusetts coast The fruiter was
off Nauset when Capt Rynuing and
the chief officer first sighted the
whales.
To the northward for miles the
whales were disporting in the water,
One of the officers declared that he
had never seen so many of them. They
swan along, apparently all heading
northeast Every little while one
would nose alongside the steamer and
would dive out of sight. The whales
were in sight until Cape Cod was
rounded Boston Transcript.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

AMI he is far more encouraged than
ever over their efforts. The Oriacs,
most OF whom are alumni of C. II.
s.. did not PIT up their usual good
game. but Manager Pink Scullin is
nevertheless jubilant over future pros
poets. But just wait till the local
high lads get in little more work
aaud they will make them all sit up
AMI take notice.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
G, q. S. on Himself.

Like all men, | play many parts;
nd none of them is more or less real
han another. 10 one audience / am
the occupier of house in Adelphi
errace, to another am ''oue OF those
damned Socialists A discussion in d
club OF very young ladies as TO wheth.
" | could be more appropriately de.
cribed as an old josser or an old
goezer ended in the carrying of an
amendment In favor of an old bromide,
am also q soul of infinite worth. |
an. in short, not only what can
make Of myself, which varies greatly
rom hour to hour and emergency to
ao-emergency, but what you can see
n me.--George bernard Shaw in the
london Nation, In Reviewing G K.
Chestertons George Bernard Shaw. F."
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
Name to Fit the Trade.

Old newspapers give us many In,
stances of mems names fitting their
callings. Thus we have Last, shoe
maker of Exeter, and Tredaway, who
piled the same trade in Hammersmith
There was Bristol shoolmaster
named Rod Dodge and Wynne. attor'
neys at law Of Liverpool, must have
been the butts of their fellow towns.
men, while few could have more ap.
propriate name than the Primitive
Methodist preacher River Jordan
London Chronicle.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
The Harmless Foo.

Your political antagonist is calling
YOU every name he can think Of said
The agitated friend.
Don't interrupt him" answered
Senator Sorghum. ut Is better to have
A man searching the dictionary for cpl
thets than going after your record for
facts"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
playground Ethics.

A code Of playground ethics has
sen promulgated by George H. Rose.
educator In Kosedale, Never
ght; never run; never get licked If
felioN ewats you on one cheek.
wat him on the other also Do II
heeriully, goodnaturedly without
aalice or anger Anger Is the dipid-
ne line between play and hostility.
Keep on the manly side of this line.
The hardest knocks on that side are
nothing as every hero OF the gridiron
viii attest Mere looks or words on
the other side cut like knife.--Kan.
sas City Star
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
Why7

DO you believe the truth should be
spoken at all times?" NO When your
wife comes home with new hat and
wants to know whether you think 1t is
becoming, why tell her that it isn't,
even ii it makes her look like
fright?"
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
Louical Conclusion.

you look sweet enough to kiss,
says the impressed young man.
SO many gentlemen tell me that,
toyly answers the fair girl
'Ah! That should mako you happy.
But they merely say that, she ne.
plies. "They merely tell me the facts
jn the case and never prove their
statements Life.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
! CAIRO SCHOOL NOTES:
y il
s.sss . . . . s.s.. . ) ::

There has been noticeable COM
plant among some OF the students re-
garding the Disappearance of the a.
ISOLATION football which Is used in
the game of that name at C. f. $. be
fore and after school on the ca'npts.
It seems as though during the game
one day last week the ball was in
some way injured or torn. the game
was stopped and the ball taken in
hand by one OF the officers OF the
athletic association. Upon inquiry
among the heads of the association it
decelops that the day the bah was
taken in it was found to he in pretty
bad shape, in fact so bad that n
would hardly pay to have it repaired,
The only way out of the matter they
concluded. was to buy new ball.
Acting upon this alternative Jack
castlepan said that as soon as they
can consistently do so, new ball
viii be purchased
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

Miss Anna Anderson will read the
Christmas selection in the program at
c. H. S. next week, in place of Miss
Pansy Crabtree.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

The senior class committee on a
/: ''flss. flawRis and motto had a meeting
Yesterday afternoon, but announce.
nothing definite.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15
Pointing the Way.

II a man had the sense to admit
when he Is wrong he could learn to be
more often right.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

when man admits that you were
Won't and he was wrong, watch him.
He has some Interior motive.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

The c, II. S, basketball squad in a
game with the Oriacs last evening at
the Arnory, failed to carry Off the
honors, losing by score of s to I.
Tie high school boys put up a good
game, considering the odds of their
opopneuts, and with regard to the
points Of The game out-classed their
heayies opponents. The defeat. how
ever, does not displease Coach Allen.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

Whats the matter with the girls
basketball teams this year," is asked
by great many interested persons.
TIE boys are interested, have formed
several teams, but the girls have
been rather slow this year in this re-
spect. There certainly plenty vi
good material on hand for several
gir.s teams. so young ladies, get busy
aand make definite plans. A girls
team is badly needed and it is not to
late to organize.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

The students who are to take part
in the Christmas program are re-
hearsing every evening under Mrs,
Miller and Miss Wilson.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

Miss Hastings Freshmen class in
English has taken up THE Ancient
Mariner" by Colerdge
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

Simple Business Proposition.
There can be no profit IL the out
lay exceeds it.-Plautus.
The Cairo bulletin., 1909-12-15

Tenny Goldsmith, TO- has entered
Mss Vanderburg's art class,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Chad Abont woman.

Mrs. Ella Flass Young, who has been
elected superintendent OF the public schools
of Chicago, will receive a salary OF SlO,VOJ
q year. She Is "a and was born at Buffalo,
N. Y.
Mrs. George Vanderbilt started a few
years ago TO re-establish hand weaving
among the women tenants Of her Biltmore
estate and she has had such success that
the work promises to become a popular
craze.
Miss Bacon Of England and a Miss
Spencer were among the first who became
interested in ballooning and made an ef-
fort TO rescue II from oblivion and make
II worthy Of scientific research. Women
now run their own motors and no doubt
VIII be among the first TO pilot balloons.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gerberding, president OF
the WOmans League of Justice IN San Fran
an active part In the state election next
fall. The league has a membership OF
more than 1000 women, and all OF them
are said to be as determined as their pres
ident 70 have their say in the next political
campaign.
Someone has discovered that the toilet
table OF the Egyptian woman OF 5000 b.
G. was very much like that OF the present
day young woman who has a black OF
brown eyebrow pencil, a pot OF cream and
q rouge pot with masses OF hair and pins.
The Egyptian belle painted her eyes green
and she wore long ivory pins like the hat
the same sort OF trinkets hat are now
worn.
Mrs, Sarah Plat Decker, commenting on
mothers and nice refined women In Col,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Runs . Thres6inE MaehIne.


Miss Harriet ~Spangler, yet in her teens,
a daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. F. p, spangler
Of Union township, probably holds the rec
ord Of being the only girl engineer In the
state. However this may be, she is an en-
gineer and a good one, as any person may
see any day should he find her running the
engine for her brothers threshing outfit.
She takes to the work as a duck to water,
and Is making a great success Of IL.
For several years while her brother was
running his sawmill, she often usurped the
position Of fireman, which she performed
as well as a veteran, and the idea grew
upon her that she might also be the en-
gineer.
A few months ago she decided that It
would be a fine thing to take a trip to the
exposition at Seattle this fall, but financial
matters proved a puzzle, for although her
father offered her the money, she refused
It, saying she intended to earn every cent.
There appeared little she could do, but she
decided that she could run the traction en-
CINE for her brothers thresher during the
season, and she got the position, which she
is filling in an ideal manner. She fires
the engine and attends to the mechanism.
and can run the outfit on the road while
travelling from one stand to another as
well as anyone. Needless TO say, she is
going to Seattle on money earned by the
sweat of her brow, and she says she ex-
poets to enjoy II all the more on account
of her work for 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
GOLD Medal Rnhien.

The Boston committee on hygiene will
offer gold and silver medals TO mothers
who bring them babies which conform to
the standards of the board of health.
Mothers who have the healthiest babies
will receive a gold medal, Those whose
babies are healthy, but not in the gold
medal class, will receive silver medals.
Then, too. there is to be some form OF
recognition for the mothers who start out
with a sickly baby and bring it to a high
degree Of health.
This scheme is a direct result of the
Huddersfield plan for the prevention Of
infant mortality, although a great i'm
provement upon the Huddersfield plan, "
says DR., ]. NJ. Connolly, the medical d.
rector OF the committee on milk and
baby hygiene. The HuddersfieId plan
arose in the following way: Mayor Broad
bent of Huddersfield, England, offered s.
to every mother in the Longwood district
of Huddersfleld who should during his
term Of office, produce at the city hall a
healthy child Of one year Of age. At the
same time mothers and prospective moth
ers were visited by voluntary lady help
ers,' who showed them the most approved
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
Never Pa. the Plate.

The third annual convention OF The Dip
pers." as the Cooneyite revival, in progress
at ~Ballinamallard, County F~ermanagh, Is
called, presents strange scenes OF religious
enthusiasm. 1t Is the belief Of the sect
that the millennium may be ushered in at
any moment and prayer meetings are being
held almost continuously. John West. a
well-to-do member OF the sect, has placed
his large house and grounds, Cooknacrieve,
at B~allinamallard, at the disposal OF the
convention. The house accommodates 100
persons, and the others OF the pilgrims
utilize the ~outbuidings and the spacious
marques erected on the lawn for sleeping
purposes. More than 1000 pilgrims are at
tending the convention.
The little colony Is the realizations OF
simple. self-supporting communal life and
should go far to please a Tolstoi. Sunrise
each morning finds the eneampment full
Of life and activity. All the pilgrims are
dressed In coarse, plain clothing. The men
are u~nshaven and wear rubber collars; on
the heads OF women are straw sailor hats.
All are busily engaged In manual labor or
domestic duties-miIking. butter making,
cooking. sewing, boot making. carpenter
Ing. ste.-to every one his daily task. Then
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29
slanderous TonEues quiet.

Mrs. George Frey, who lives at Phillips
burg. N. j., is engaged these days in haul
ing her husband around In an open buggy
and pointing to him with pride, to the
manifest confusion of her ~neighbors, VINO
have. created a strong demand for sack
cloth and ashes.
Fourteen years ago George Frey disap-
peared from his home after q quarrel with
his wife. No trace OF him could be found
by the village constable or anybody else.
Then some industrious gossip whispered
his suspicion that the widow had made
away with her husband in some dark and
mysterious manner.
Philllpsburg Is a sleepy old hamlet, ana
the people were hungry for a sensation and
scandal. The suggestion that Mrs. Frey
was a murderess was eagerly accepted ana
for weeks and months the inhabitants
neglecter their own proper business to dis
cover some evidence against her. They
dug up every foot Of her farm, hoping to
find her husbands body; they took the
we'll out Of the ground, expecting to dis
cover his bones In It; they ripped the house
apart, and she had to put 1t together again;
they tore down all the stacks, and they
opened the family COW, thinking the wicked
woman might have concealed the mans
remains in It. When she made q boiling
of soft soap they accused her OF having
used her husband for soap grease.
They couldn't find a scrap of evidence
against her. and they were naturally in
censed, and their Indignation grew as m
passed. It was bad enough to kill her hus-
band, but It was infinitely worse TO do the
Job SO adroitly that they couldn't find the
evidence that would hang her. That was
adding insult. to injury.
So the woman was ostraciBed. Had she
been a leper, wandering the waste places
and ringing a bell, she couldn't have been
more Stunned. To be seen conversing with
her was sufficient to dam any man or
woman In that community The children
were taught that her name was anathema,
and plous people muttered prayers when
she was mentioned.
And after fourteen years her husband
came back and explained that he had left
his home in a fit Of anger and had been
In Chicago ever since. There he made a
fortune and now he wants his wife to q
with him and live happy ever after. But
the only use she has for him Is to haul
him around the town in her one-hoss shay
for exhibition purposes. There Is a grand
free street parade in Phillipsburg every
morning. and the people who slandered this
woman and made her life a sorrow and
bitterness for fourteen long years are at
last ashamed OF themselves, and when they
see the Frey chariot coming, with the hus-
band on the front seat. they go into their
cabins and lock the doors and pull down
the blinds.-Emporia Gazette.