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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-07-07
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.

The Queen of Rumania has written
thirty volumes.
Florence Nightingale has entered
her ninetieth year.
Queen Alexandra Is said to be
against woman suffrage.
BY recent decree women are not
allowed to engage in bullfghts In
Spain.
Patents for inventions relating to
flying machines have been applied for
by British women.
Miss Mary Hartman, eldest daugh-
ter of E. II. Hartman, gave an Ecie
ferryboat for a consumptive camp to
Brooklyn.
The Sisterhood of Emanuel has
lust opened new branch in the form
of a home for Jewish girls in East
Sixty-first street, New York City.
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrlni.
Superior-General OF the Missionary
Sisters of the Sacred Heart. has re-
turned to this country from Brazil.
Miss Josephine R. Upham has ac-
cepted the post of woman missionary
in the new American Seamen's Friend
Society Institute in West street, New
York City.
Nine. Poppoya, a Russian woman.
has invented rudderless airship,
which she has named the annulated
dragon because of the peculiar shape
of its body.
Miss Charlotte Church. who 10
teaching in new schoolhouse on the
Necanicum, Oregon, is "baching" in a
cabin about mile from her school.
having no near neighbors but wild
animals.
A wife in New York City who got
decree of separation in 1901, with
$40 a week alimony, told the court
the other day that 1t has cost her
nearly $40 every week since that time
to collect the $40.
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Damage Suit Decided.

Columbia, Special The Supreme
Court last week affirmed the Circuit
Courts decision in the case Of Nc
Creery VS. the Southern Railway Com
pany, in which judgment was rend-
cred for $4,000. This was very
unusual case. The contention of the
PLAINTIFFS attorneys was that L. 1.
Met Creery, who was fagman on the
Southern, had been over-worked and
was killed while asleep on the track
with a flag in his hand. The point
involved was that the man was al
legged to have been on duty over
time and for this reason the road
was responsible for his death. The
suit was for $4,000, and $500 was
secured.
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THE ICE BOX.

It Is not advisable to pile the food
In! it promiscuously. The slice of
breakfast ham is often carelessly. left
in juxtaposition with the dinner
roast, which spoils the flavor Of the
latter. a dish OF cold boiled onions
is thoughtlessly set near the butter,
which at once absorbs its distinctive
odor without advantage to itself Gel
cry is laid near the cream pitcher
and trrnips or boiled cabbage set
by the cooling custard for supper.
Through such carelessness and ignor.
ance, the loss is sometimes great.
Milk cream and butter should be kept
as much as possible from all food,
as they very readily absorb any flaw
or at hand. Meat and poultry should
not rest against each other, but be
arranged so that the air can circu-
late about them. II meat and poul.
try are to hang, they should be sus-
pended with the choicest part down.
that they may settle there.-New
Haven Register.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-07-07

Opportunities Invite Girls.
.sVacant scholarships Of free tu-
ition are offered through the South
Carloina Federation Of Women g
Clubs as follows:
stiSouth Carolina Kindergarten, as
sociation One scholarship for free
tuition for two years.
sELeesville college -Four scholar
ships for free tuition for four years.
g sGreenville Female college-0ne
scholarship for free tuition for four
years.
sCokar college-One. scholarship
for free tuition for four years:
sfThese Will be awarded by COM
petitiye examinations held July 10,
1909.
MApplicants must file their names
with. the chairman of the department
before July 1. Students must be at
least Is years of age and prepared to
enter freshman or any higher class
and must inform the chairman which
college she desires to enter.
aF or further information apply to
s1Miss .Theodosia Dargan,
I" Chairman Dept. Of Education of
South Carolina Federation Of
Women's Clubs, Dalzell, S. C.''
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-07-07
Snake ii Role of Goat Feasts on Fin
s J,aces

Greenwood, Special-Here is a
snake story tosmatch that tale. Of the
eooter sent in from here last week.
Mr.. WI. Wells of this place vouches
for the snake story, the details of
which are furnished by MIR. Pope
Riddlehuber. Mrs. Walter Riddle
huber, who lives about four miles
east of town, had occasion to open a
drawer which had not been, opened
for some time. To her surprise and
establishment She found a highland
1noccasin of tremendous size coiled
up In the drawer.
How long the snake had been In
there is not known. He was there and
had been there some time. 1t SEEM
sed that he could not get out and be-
/ ing attacked by the pangs of hunger
I ne proceeded to devour what was
! arond him in the way of laces and
ribbons and had laid away "a con
siderable amount of such things. In
fact, Mr.. wv az. Wells, who happen
Il ed along about that time, helped kill
& the snake and saw that about four
yards Of lace was; removed from his
snakeship s mouth.
{ The Burea.u Of Soils VIII Investigate
State.
Columbia, Special United
States bureau of soils will shortly
take up the reiuvenation of the
famous Pudding Swamp tobacco area
In Clarendon county. Commission
.er Watson has had the matter up
with the federal experts for some
time and letter received states that
| as soon as the approproation is avail
{ able this will be one of the first coun-
ties in the United States to receive
attention. This will mean much to
the planters of that section, said to
.sbe one OF the richest In the country
for the development of tobacco rais-
ing. Commissioner Watson will de-
liver an address at Manning on July
IA in which ne will explain the work,
He Will be accompanied by Prof
Harper, who will talk on tobacco.
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Ed sauls Wounded by Watchman
Hayes.

Bennettsville, special.-Ed Sauls,
machinist at the Marlboro cotton
mills, late Sunday was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded by II. B. Hayes
night watchman for the mill. Three
or four shots were fired by each man.
Hayes has been lodged IN Jail, pend
ing the result Of Saul's injuries.
There is conflict of statement as to
which man fired the first shot.
T. q. Duncan Held For Grand Jury.
Union, Special.-T. c. Duncan,
former president of the Union Buff
alo Mills, was held for action by the
grand jury Wednesday by order of
Magistrate Walker, after a prelimi-
nary hearing. John H. Morris
charges Duncan with fraud on ac-
count of check issued in December,
1906, on the bank of Spring City,
Tenn, when it is alleged there were
no funds to meet it. Duncan was ar
rested several weeks ago, but was re-
leased on bail fixed at $1,000.
" N q . H ~
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1.-lIl VI ~ Ol1Istlt . 1f2U3t - =
The Columbia State Of Thursday
gives the following list Of contribn-
tions to Woman's Monument by
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Pasteur Institute at Home.

Columbia, special.-The State
laboratory for the treatment Of
rabies and for bacterial examinations
opened July i. At The meeting of
the State Medical Association, which
was held at Summerville recently, it
was decided to open this laboratory,
which will mean so much to the med
ical profession and be of such benefit
to the people of South Carolina.
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Gninea Lays Wondrous Eggs.

+ Aiken, Specialize Journal and
Review has ON exhibition two guinea
eggs, presented to it by Mr.. James
Widerier, of the Tradway section.
One Of the eggs has on it good like
ness Of a duck in sitting posture,
while the other has an American
eagle emblazoned on it. The like
nesses are almost perfect, and the
eggs are quite curiosity to all those
who have seen them. The eggs were
laid by the same guinea. They are
normal in everp respect, except the
pictures, which. are in white, while
the rest. of the egg surface is in the
natural brown.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-07-07
Arrested on Serious Charge.

Anderson, Special.-N. H. Sexton,
well-known white farmer, was
committed to jail wihout bond Tues
day on the charge Of an attempt crinl-
inal assault upon white woman who
had for several months been his
honsekeeper. A little more than a
year ago Sexton was arrested on q
similar charge, the complainant at
that time being regro girl, but the
case was trown out by grand jury.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-07-07
Case of 7. F. Fulger Refused b
Governor,

Columbia, Special.-Gov. Ansel
has refused, to pardon John Frank
Lin, Fuller Of this county, convicted
and sent up for three years for house
breaking and larceny. Fuller, who
is a white boy about 20 years of age,
was caught in the bungalow Of Capt.
John "A. Willis few miles from the
city by DR.. E. NJ. Whaley. He ad-
n,itted that he had stolen the key to
enter the house and both the judge
and the solicitor refused to recon-
mend pardon, although the petition
for pardon stated that the boy was
weak minded.
Fat Dividends Make the spartans
Happy.
Srartanburg, Special. Spartan
burg mills, banks and other enter-
prises paid their shareholders IN
semi annual dividends Wednesday
something over $350,OOO.
The exact figures are not at hand
but conservative estimate of the
amount is 1866 600. The banking in
stitutions and mills are all paying
their usual dividends and some mills
have declared extra dividends.
Divislend-Pa Day at spartanburg
Spartanburg, Specialize banks
and cotton mills of Spartanburg
paid ont Thursday more than $780,
600 in semi-annual dividends. Divi-
dends are paid ont twice each year
July and January-.with the preeis-
ion Of clock work. It is a fixed Gus
tom and the stockholders no longer
regard dividend as anything out of
the ordinary, The money to be sent
ont VIII be deposited in the local
banks and eventually will seek new
Investments.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
PROGRESS OF REALISM
SEEN IN IBSEN'S VOGUE

"When Ibsen first made his way in
England" says Miss Anna Morgan in
the Chicago Record-Herald. the first
thing that became apparent was that
Ibsen failed, largely because the ira
ditions of the actors craft took no ac-
counnt of Ibsen's method. The actors
could read the lines, indeed. but they
We're evidently puzzled as to what the
author meant to convey by them. Be
cause Ibsen was often satirical they
jumped TO the conclusion that when he
presented a character in a satirical
light once it should be kept in that
light throughout the play.
"They were accustomed, In other
words. to project trenchant profile
sketches with which they were intrust-
ed. Now, Ibsen works in the round.
"A character may assume as many
different phases as he would in life;
by turns be pathetic and noble. weak
and strong-in short, preserve only the
integrity of a mixed personality, such
as all of us have. 1t was the realism
that troubled the actor trained in the
old school and familiar with conVen-
tional characterization.
Now the younger generation OF
actors has at least the benefit of
more flexible technique. Realism has
made its way on the stage as elsewhere,
and il Is possible to find among rela-
lively unknown younger members OF
the craft quite satisfying casts Tor
the modern plays"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
EDWIN 7. EMERY UNIQUE !.
ART IN DRAMA OF
HUMBLE IRISH FOLK

LONDON, Eng.-Public opinion, most
assuredly, has not yet awakened to the
curious excellence of Lady Gregory's
Irish plays, and it may be doubted II
serious criticism has either. London is
so vast; the Irish plays are so COM
paratively small, and the Court thea
ter, where some of these paylets were
recently performed, is. in many respects
a bijou theater, and suffers accord
ingly.
But now these plays are published in
little volume there is no longer ex-
cuse for us to abstain from their frut-
tion. And il may still be said outright:
their Joy is a public possession.
All humor is akin to sorrow, and in
ireland particularly it would seem born
of it. Take, now, that simple play,
"The Rising of the Moon" merely the
conversation of the policemen on the
lookout for an escaped convict who,
in disguise of a ballad singer, talks to
the sergeant and finally reveals his
identity and is suffered to escape. Or
that other conversation, The Gaol
Gate" between two women before the
gateway of the prison. In both of these
a deep sense of tragedy is imminent,
and vet the handling of them Is full
of a delightful quiet humor which is
of the true Irish soil
In these and in 1.-The Workhouse
Ward" the art of Lady Gregory is pro-
found and sincere. The words are
right, the proportions are right. We
get into the souls of their people. We
see: we have not only impression but
expression. The grand poetry of life
unfolds before us, and 1t is sad but
strangely young and beautiful and void
of all freakishness or sentimentality,
Lady Gregory has the power of tragic
simplicity. Her people are felt; they
exist, they speak to us, and we know
and love them and yearn to know more
of them. And it is so, too, in her light
er plays. such as THE Jackdaw' and
that delightful postiche "Hyacinth Hal
vey," this latter enabling us to under
stand the stronger art of Synge, who
ives even more Irish than Lady Gre
CORY.
In some admirable notes the author
confesses that she likes THE Gaol
Gate" the best. 1t Is the best, the
truest, the saddest of them all. 1t
gives us in a few touches the national
history and sorrow of Ireland, More
than pages of prose could do, the Ia
ment of these women, keening the loss
of the man who has been hanged,
brings itself upon the mind. 1t makes
us think, brings the tears of things
in our souls. These plays deserve wide
cognition.-Philadelph Record.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
NEW BISSON DRAMA WILL
BE PLAYED IN AMERICA

Among the foreign plays of sincere
motive and real value brought to Amer
lea Madame X" by Alexander Bisson.
is said to be one of the best. 1t is to
be in the repertoire of Henry W.
Savage's new productions. Its success
in Paris was enormous; it practically
brought all of her old-time popularity
back to Madame Jane Hading, who
created the role of the unknown womah
and in this remarkable drama mas
aroused no end of interest.
Heretofore Blsson has been known
exclusively as a writer of successful
farces. And he is now said to be one
Of the richest playwrights in France.
In Madame X" he has taken the
plunge into a new field for him. New
York playgoers who saw the play IN
Paris last winter declare that 1t is one
of the most moving, heartrendinS
dramas which have been produced IN
years. Although Madame X" or poor
little Jenny Wren" as the husband she
has deserted always calls her, is re
garded as a great acting role, the part
of her son, a young district attorney
who. in ignorance of his relationship,
defends and secures the acQuittal of MS
mother on a charge of murder, is sad
to offer young actor one of the finest
juvenile roles that any playwright mas
conceived recently.
William Elliott who scored a hit rs
Robert Bibelow, the thieving boy in "A
Grand Army Man." has been engage'l
by Mr.. Savage to play this role IN
America, and the part of Madame X
is to be acted by Miss Dorothy Don
nelly. The opening will take place IN
Chicago late in September. Christine
Blessing and Arthur Forrest will be the
other members of the cast.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
HOW AL LEVY NEARLY
BROKE INTO DRAMA GAME

"Yes. I came mighty near being
theater manager" said Al Levy, the
well-known restaurateur, to a little
group between acts of 1.-The Climax.
IT might even have combined two
perfectly good ideas and gotten ahead
of the New York music hall out west
here, staging shows and selling re-
freshments at the same time. 1t was
all of twenty-five years ago that Har-
ry Wyatt asked me to go into partner
ship with him up in San Francisco as
a theater manager. ] liked the no
ton immensely. I had a saloon at
the time and my partner was shy Of
the new venture. IF you 60 he said,
you must make over the saloon busi-
ness to me. Then you'll be safe, what
ever happens. l couldn't see it that
way, and insisted that he make over
the saloon to me.
"Out of that disagreement came the
abandonment of the stage proposition
and out of that saloon partnership
finally grew my present restaurant
venture. And yet every time l. go to
a show | wonder if I didn't make a
mistake"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
7NES LOS ANGEL L < ) :
y =

the economy of art as we'll as of
money. Mr. Locke's constructive
| thrift enriches us as we'll as Mr.
Weber. We are spared the boredom
of innumera Bile visions of entering ana
retreating servants, tradesmen and
colorless kinsfolk, who force us to
draw an invidious class distinction by
refusing to be treated as human be-
! ings. OF course. there are many of
these shadowy shapes in the unseen
BACKGROUND of The ClimaX'-obtuse
young Anton Rubenstein the stupid
but profitable music pupil; the police
man who won the fight with the we'd
ding cOachman; the sick woman up-
stairs. not to mention the agonizingly
good people of Azalea, Ohio.
All of these contribute their mites
to the fund Of action, and our idealized
memories of their bodiless selves are
vastly more interesting than if Visibly
personifed. The same is true of the
incidental unknoWns Of The Servant
in the House about whom F. B.
Morse contributed a chatty article to
these columns a few weeks ago. And
this increasing suppression of recti-
linear and merely typical characters
in recent drama suggests an interest
ing speculation as to the future VIII
the tendency toward simplicity of play
structure continue until such lavish
and gorgeous utilities as the late Mr..
Mansnelds Henry V" and the spec
tacuar Prince Of India are all but
relegated to the realm of extravaganza?
OR is the present trend but sWerVe
of the pendulum returning from one
extreme 40 another. of which imagi-
nary are we may now consider our
selves at the geometrical center?
Perhaps il is idle to speculate, without
due allowance for the winds of fash
ion and commercial eXpediency which
| so often upset any mathematical calcu-
latiOn as to variable ana lalllply
human art form. Yet, paying heed to
the poWerful reflex action of the one
act vaudeville play on the 'legitimate'
drama. we may safely hazard guess
that the latter will steadily become
less complex, more simple: less like
the novels of Dickens and Dumas with
their throng Of striking lay figures
and more, perhaps, like the canoes
of MaupasSant or the pastels of Poe;
less like life in the analytic sense,
more lifelike in the synthetic; fewer
men and women perhaps, but more
and more of essential manhood and
WOmanhOOd.
And then, belize, we shall have am
other turn of the pendulum, another
outbreak Of refreshing rOmanticism an
"Hernani" for our Molieres, Eugene
Sue instead of a Daudet But limita-
tions, once fixed in popular approval,
are hard to uproot Only genius can
do this thing. only a Shakespeare or
Victor Hugo can replace the ven
cradle tradition of Classicism with the
yet older tradition of reality. And if
we must achieve the acme of the in
tensive and circumScrlbed to evoke
such restorative revolution, then his
tory must surely repeat itself The
seed must shrivel to produce the flow
er, but it is the seed which produces
the flower, as the husk Of the artificial
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
QUAINT WAYS AND MEANS
OF THE BRITISH CENSOR

In an editorial on the British drama
censorship the Boston Traveller says;
English playwrights have been pro-
testing for years against the arDltrary
acts of the dramatic censor without re-
suit but when parody on the play,
The Englishman's Home was refused
n license 1t struck Englishmen, who
have not gone mad over the German
war scare, as coming pretty near be-
ing an infringement of the right OF
free speech, the result being an IN
ouirv by a Joint committee of the lords
and parliament.
George Alexander Redford, the 'eX-
aminer of plays under the lord cham
herIain, did more in two days test-
mony before this committee to make
ridiculous any dramatic censorship
than all the thousands of letters of
complaint written by playwrights dur
ing the fourteen years he has held Of
flee.
followed no rule in deciding whether q
given play should not be licensed,
simply applying what he called the
'official point of view which meant
custom and precedent Scriptural
plays or anything adapted from the
Bible were barred. Shakespearean plays
were passed because they were old,
and for the same reason plays of the
restoration period by Wycherly, Con-
greve and others, which are highly i'm
moral as viewed by modern lights, were
passed. Plays referring to crowned
heads and the soVereigns of other
powers were not allowed. Mr.. Redford
could not read German, so he depended
on his wife's Judgment for plays in this
language. His evidence indicates clear
ly that he is stupid man, ill-equipped
by training and education for the office
he processes to fill, but with a keen eye
for what he fancies to be the likes and
dislikes of the powers who control his
~
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
DAVID BELASCO ANNOUNCES
POLICY OF AMERICANlSM

Only plays of American life, by
American playwrights and presenting
American actors, will be produced by
David Belasco next season, it is an
nounced from the prolific press depart
ment of his New York enterprises. This
policy will be rgidly adhered to, it is
said, and as proof attention is called
10 such dramas as "The Fighting
Hope "The Music Master" THE Eas-
lest Way" and 1.-THE Girl from the
Golden West now playing under the
Relasco colors, all of which are dis
tinctIy native in appeal however they
may differ in other materia! respects:
There will be many to scof at what
NAV fairly be called a dramatic re-
yival of the old political spirit ot
Know Nothingism, but the tact that
eucb an announcement is possible is
deenlv significant of the advance of
American play writing in the last
decade.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
JOHN DREW's NEW PLAY

John Drews new play. which will be
produced at the Empire theater Sep
tember &C. following a two weeks en-
gagement in Jack Straw" will be
called 'Inconstant George" This piece
which is by the authors of Love
Watches" has been played for the last
six months at the Gymnase theater,
Paris. where it is called LANE de
Buridan." The French title is from
the fable of Aesop, in which the donkey
is described as standing in its stall
with oats at it's left and water at its
right, unable to decide whether to eat
or drink. In the play the dilemma is
solved by a little girl making the choice
for a human donkey.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

of the enterprise. Good wine needs no
bush, and great drama likewise. Let the
plans of Miss Burkhart and Mr.. Mes
tayer meet with all possible approval
and may their appeal be made to the
mass of theatergoers as well as the in
tellectual elect i'm the confidence that
great play, we'll acted. is as sure of
making it's appeal tangible and Visible
to the masses as to any cult or group
or coterie. The Majestic is a hand
some theater and it will be a pleasure
to see its stage, somewhat excessively
devoted to the hippant and the ephe7
neral of late, producing the sort of
thing which is artistically as well as
financially worth while.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22

French drama held the glorious
hourgeoning of the Romantic Renais-
sance within its heart.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Mestayer
and Miss Burkhart will be successful
in their plan to stage some of the less
widely known dramas of Ibsen, Mae
terlinck, Sudermann and Hauptman at
the Majestic this autumn, and it is es-
pecially encouraging that number Of
prominent club women are reported TO
be taking an interest in the project
The term Literary matinees"-a posi-
BILE bugbear to "A certain class of thea
tergoers to whom high brow" is as a
red rag to an able bodied bull-might
well be eliminated from the literature