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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-02

PARIS, SEPT. 2.-The eyes of Europe
taye been drawn again to the unending
march Of political prisoners in Russia
t" thc ral!cWs and to the penitentiar-
les ~ The assertion that Emperor
Nicholas not only knows all the troci-
ties pcrpetuated in his name by the po-
ave. but that he approves of them.
TGis charge was made in a socialist
paper. the Vorwaerts. OF Berlin. which
published what Durported to be a fac
si.iie Of a special handwritten news
Eaner issued only for the cars infor-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-02
AmuSementS
MICHAEL ORION ADVISES
STAGE Struck Girls to Make Their Start
In Musical Comedy.

1t was very much Woria while list
ening to Michael Morton as he held
forth to a group of two or three in the
box office of The Garricl1 theater, New
York. the other night Mr.. Morton is
the brother of Martha Morton-herself
a playwright with a long list of sue
cesses to her credit. Years ago he got
his first taste for the stage in A. M.
Palmers production of THE Private
Secretary. From that obscure position
he has advanced by industry and un-
tagging application to the post of lit
erarv adviser to Sir Beerbohm Tree,
and at the same time a successful
playwright and adaptor with con-
tinuously lucrative list of royalties at
his command. Several years of OBJ
scure struggles as an actor, ten years
CT experimentation in acting and play
writing in London, and as many years
application while a guest at humble
pension in Paris-finally opened up the
way to position and profit for Michael
Morton. Such mans words have a
background that make them worth
hearing. Straight from the shoulder
Michael Morton's advice to the young
girl who would SO upon the stage, is
Make your start in musical comedy"
The walking stick that the play
wright carries is cut with nOtches.
There is notch for Marie Lohr, an
other for Alexandra Carlisle a third
for Constance Collier. fourth for
some one whose name Mr.. Morton will
not reveal. and fifth for Hattie Will
liams. Michael Morton has assisted
every one of them in their commend
able and highly successful flights from
musical comedy to straight acting;
he has seen each of them become bet
ter actress the better she did i'm must
cal comedy
What the London stage is now suf-
fering FROM" says the author of de
tective Sparl,es.'' is not so much
dearth of plays as a deafth of PLAYERS
OF flexible. teachable, graceful young
actresses there are few. They are not
to be found in dramatic companies be-
cause it only needs one or two parts in
straight drama for the average young
actress Immediately to fall into the
habit of initiating Maude this and FL
len that with the end that she becomes
Miss Nobody. Flexibility and adapta-
bility are hurt rather than helped by
the young actress beginning her career
In small dramatic part. She is GER
tain to look hungrily from hsr small
eminence at her sisters upon the
heights and just as certain to try to
initiate them. The result is the
cramping of her own individuality and
the fiexibilty that always results from
too-persstent devotion to any one set
of ideas. The fact seems to be that i'm
musical comedy An actress is thrown
entirely upon hSr own" She succeeds
or falls as an individual-which gives
her great rescurces-because even the
best of musical comedies lack suffio lent
vitality to succeed of themselves. Act
resses in musical comedy obtain
fine sense of relative values: there is
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Single Mill tc Reopen.

ABERDEEN, Sept 2-Advance in
single prices has been steady during
the past few weeks. Due to this and
promising business outlook and re-
vival in wood work trade. the North
Aberdeen shingie mill. which has been
closed for a time, will resume work
Monday.
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incisive, owes it's clarity to her train
ing in musical comedy, which forces
it's opponents to be rapid and to be
clear. This is thoroughly American.
And yet there is only one other part
of the world in which ! have heard
such crisp, swift but nicely chiselied
utterance as Miss Williams'-and that
is in the best theaters of Paris"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-17

trovert, no matter how philosophical he
may be. A schoolmaster asked, What
is the sign when you hear the call of the
cuckooT' Said, one little fellow, TITS a
sign of getting married" Said the school,
master, "That cannot be, James. as I
have heard it many times and am not
married. Now, Bob. maybe you can tell
the sign when you hear the cuckoo"
please, sir" said Bob jumping to his
feet, Its a sign you're not deaf"
Within the range OF the occult, certain
Iy dreams and their subsequent, or coin
cident fulfllment, should have place. The
illustrations of this remarkable phenome-
non are amazing, and furnish q vast
realm for speculation No man, be he
ever SO skilled in psychology. is able to
explain the correspondence of subsequent
facts with the prophecies of Dreamland.
1 shall not say more on this subject now,
as I expect to devote a paper in these
columns to this interesting subject later,
when I shall relate some startling facts
well authenticated.
Euppose we advance into the subject Of
condolences and correspondences in an
other sphere; the mysterious sights,
facts most strangely prelntimated. There
opens up before us here a world of OBJ
truse, perplexing and bewildering phe-
nomena. Almost every family has some
interesting and true story to relate when
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first to cross the threshold. Whereupon,
his honor. the mayor of the town, sep
arated the contending brides, extended
each of them an arm and led them out OF
the church together. Now my dear
madam, don't spoil the effect of the story
by asking what was the sequel?"
If a picture falls from its support, It
means bad luck, and should one break a
mirror he may look for seven years Of
trouble Who does not believe that find
ing a four-leaf clover will cause the
course of love to flow smoothly?
Was there ever an evil spirit bold
enough to enter a doorway over which
there hung a horseshoe7 Lord Nelson
had horseshoe nailed to the mast Of his
ship, the Victory The horseshoe at
first protected a house from the devil
You know the devil has hoofs, and one
day, in the distant past. he went to ST.
Dunstan to get shod. The saint knew
him and tied him tightly to the wall and
then drove the nails; but he purposely
put the devil to such pain that he cried
out for mercy. st. Dunstan at last re-
never enter a house where he saw the
horseshoe. The devil being a gentleman
of honor, of course, has kept the terms of
his parole.
Numberless are the superstitions of
sailors What strange sounds they hear
at SEAL What weird voices call to them
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tces. Every little while some inspired
bug emerges from the cocoon and an
nounces that at 415 next Tuesday after
noon the stuff will positively be off with
this planet. He has read the warning in
the heavens or a dream book, or he ate
lobster newburg and went to sleep and
had a revelation. He knows he has the
date down right and from that position
he cannot abate one jot or little. Fine
and superfinel I think to myself that
this arrangement is going to take a
considerable load off of my mind because
it saves my buying a new fall over
coat and besides a large number of un-
pleasant people are going to be perma-
nently eradicated without any rubbish
to clean up afterward, which would not
be the case If I had to carry out my
original intention of numbering them one
at time with my bare hands Let
her come, I say to myself But next
Tuesday comes and she looks and acts
like any other Tuesday. The usual num-
Der of notes come due in the bank, the
usual number Of people mistake toadstools
for mushrooms, and the usual number
of hunters shoot each other up in the
Maine woods About Ais the party who
made the prediction begins to throw off
a few of the Jots and by half past he
hasn't got little left to his name. We'd
nesday morning when I wake up the
same sufficiency OF pests are encumber-
ing the earth and I realize that I've
either got to get that overcoat right
away or else start in to popularize the
custom of wearing a doormat across the
chest. Confidentially, as man to man.
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to two-thirds of the way up your spinal
colyum.' But you don't understand
says the chap. I'VE had a revelation-r'fn
a Holy Chester from stanten Island 4
don't care If you're a Rolly Coaster from
Coney Island, says Casey. You have most
scandaluos ideas of correct evening dress
for young men. Come along now before
I fan YOU I've arisen and come forth
to predict the end of the world says the
fellow. You don't say says Casey.
'Whens 1t due? This very night says
the prophet. In the midst of a mighty
tempest this sinful world will be wiped
out he says. We'll, / wouldn't be sur
prised but what you're right says Casey.
My corns have been paining me all even
ing something fierce and that generally
means a change in the weather. But
you wouldn't want to be caught out at
the grand finish wearing the undress
uniform Of an angel, would your says
IF I'm any judge of this town there'll
be quite crowd out. And anyway, you'd
better come on down to the station first
with me and tell the Cap about it. He's
interested In knowing everything that
goes ON In this precinct. Let's be cool,
cam and collected sayd Casey. You
ought to be cool, anyhow, In that strik-
ing costume, and now that I've collected
you there's nothing for you to do but
be cam And he took him in and the
next morning the prophet thanked Casey
very cordially and borrowed a pair of
pants off of shim and went home. But
Casey told me that when a thunder storm
came I'D about midnight he went and sat
in the prophets cell and held hands with
him. He knew 1t was all blamed fool
ishness of course but in case anything did
come off Casey said he wanted to be in
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the right company. casey's a good, care
full man. He'll be a sergeant some
day"
''Wot I never could dope out is why
folks will keep right on fallir fur them
dippy prophecies and the like" said the
House Detective. Specially when we're
supposed to be goin' ahead and gittin
broader all the time"
Maybe we're being broadened and may
be we're only being fiateened," said the
Hotel Clerk You'll notice this, Larry.
You can organize almost anything from
a new brand of religion to farewell per-
Torrance Of the world II you only make it
exclusive enough. When you scrape the
rind Off you'll find most Of US nursing
the notion that heaven Is a highly re-
stiicteo establishment that will be popu-
lated exclusively by our own immediate
set together with few specially invited
guests, and a carefully selected line of
angel hired girls, who can bring good ref
er.noes from their last places. You may
have observed that everyone OF the parties
engaged In predicting the abrupt finish of
this world always figures It out that only
his own particular little crowd is going
to be saved, everybody else going into the
discard. That's what makes 1t so attrac-
tive None OF US would want to go to par
adise as long as we had the choice OF
another place, If we thought for minute
thered be mixed Sunday excursions run
ming In. and bringing ali kinds of socially
impossible people to turn our mansions
in the skies into bum two-family houses
with clothes poles out the back windows
and to hang signs for delicatessen stores
and hat cleaning establishments out over
the solid gold sidewalks. Not at all; not
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I don't mind telling you, Larry, that I'm
beginning to lose faith.
Now you take. that shepherd in the
frock coat and the white tie who did the
predicting for the recent group of true
believers up in Massachusetts. He didn't
have a particle of doubt about it. not
an atom. I suppose he knows by now
that what he mistook for the end of the
world was merely the beginning of his
liver complaint. But at the same time
he didn't have a peradventure of a doubt,
and so he passed the word along that
the official sightseeing car would be
leaving for on High, punctually on the
hour and go straight through without
stops, and those who desired to get
aboard would do we'll to put in their
applications early. And quite a number
did. Did you read the accounts of It?
Well, you missed something worth while
"The prophet announced that the world
would probably pass away in a great tenn
pest, and so all the members of the
congregation who We're subject to colds
brought their umbrellas. He also said
the faithwul few would be snatched UP to
heaven just as they We're and the ladies
of the flock came all prinlped up in
their best frocks.
We'll they gathered on the side of
hill and took up a collection and sang
hymn or two and waited a while, and
took up collection and then waited some
more and the scoffers who'd been sitting
silent until then, with one eye on the
heavens. began to scott up a trhe, and
finally the pastor announced that, owing
to unavoidable delays in arriving, the
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BEN HARDIN-By Savoyard-No 2

ticipated by two friends, and thus he could
not answer, with the great tragedian,
Kean, by God, Mary the pit rose
to mel"
When Ben Hardin, then "a, took up his
residence at Bardstown, he there found
John Rowan, Felix Grundy. William p.
Duval, Charles A. Wickliff Ben Chapese
and John Hayes, the last named, so ira
dition has 1t, the greatest orator our
country has produced since Patrick
Henry, above Marshall, above Menifee or
Prentiss, Breckenridge, Choate, or Brady
He was a student in the office of Judge
Rowan. and lived in his family, but when
he asked the proud and naughty old
patrician for leave to become a sutton for
the hand CT his daughter, he met with
score anu contumely, and, transcendent
genius that he was, Notwithstanding it
made a wreck of him. though there is lit
tie doubt that had he been able to re-
strain his appetite for drink, never de-
veloped till Rowan contemptuously de-
MED HIM his daughters hand, he would
have developed into as great a lawyer
he certainly was an advocate and an
orator.
James Guthrie was another member of
the Bardstown bar of that early day and
soon thereafter came Joseph Holt, worthy
any mans steel at the bar, on the hust-
ings. or as pamphleteer Guthrie was
the author of the Louisville and Nash
Vile railroad-he had now moved to
Louisville, where he amassed the biggest
fortune any Kentuckian of his genera
ton had ever acquired. And when Ben
Hardin, who had as cordial and as whole
some a hatred of taxes as John Randolph
of Roanoke himself took the stump and
defeated the subscription Of Nelson county
to the enterprise, Guthrie located the
road II miles west of Bardstown, and
thus 1t passed through Elizabethtown,
Munfordville and Bowling Green. 1t made
1t larger and much more crooked line,
and 1t Is a more or less notable fact that
Guthrie made John L. Helm, afterward
governor president of the road, and he
had married Ben Hardins daughter.
When quite young man Hardin attain
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and for some years father was arrayed
against son, and brother against brother.
Ultimately common sense prevailed, and
Ben Hardin, the greatest of the "Od
Court" champions, did more than any one
else to bring about the result. When you
read his speech you will say he was
greater than Robertson, but when you
read Robertson you will say he was
greater than Hardin, and you meet with
the like difficulty In deciding between
Fielding and Smollett, Dickens and
Thackeray.
kentucky has gone through four tre-
mendous political travails-the old court
and the new court, of which I have just
spoken, the union and secession of 1861,
the Bryan 1S to l campaign of 1896, and
Goebel and anti-Goebel in 1899. OF these
the old court and the new court con-
troversy was as fierce as the fiercest.
When Ben Hardin was a very young
lawyer at Elizabethtown, one Bray,
charged with murder, employed him to
defend, but complained Of the fee of $500,
with the remark that he could get
Bardstown lawyer for that" Hardin
went to his homo and said, Betsy"
pack up. We are going to move to Bards-
town." and within a week they were To-
Gated in that, then the Athens of the
west. 1t was only an exemplifcation of
that infallible common sense with which
he was so prodigally endowed.
In ms first important case at Bards-
town a man named May was his client,
and the suit involved the title to a very
large and very valuable body of land.
Hardin was alone on his side, while the
adversary had retained the very cream
of the car, then the ablest the other side
of the Allegheny mountains. He scarce
ly alto slept until the case was tried
and determined. He gained a complete
victory. and from that day he was In
the front rank of the elite of Kentucky
lawyers. Little tells an amusing story
that while Hardin was on his way to
tell his victory to his wife he was an
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great DR.. John c. Young, then presi-
dent of Center college. as competent a
Judge of discussion as ever listened to
an argument. said: "Prentiss was the
tinsel; Hardin the bullion" Nobody need
undertake to describe the speech Of Har-
din. It must be read to appreciate It.
and in the report of It we lose all the
acting of 1t. Suffice 1t to say, he was
caustic toward Prentiss, and scared to
the quick the defendants, whom he de-
nounced as 'bowie-knife gentry, these PTS
toll men In private life"
I was told a sequel to the trial by a
distinguished public man of Kentucky;
but as Little does not relate 1t, I am led
to suspect that 1t is apocryphal. It was
this,
Some years later Hardin was at jack
son, Miss, to try a lawsuit, and while
there he was invited by a committee 81
the legislature then in session, to deliver
an address on national politics Prentiss
heard of 1t and FASTENED to Jackson.
where he induced the committee to can
eel the Invitation, a very ungentlefnanly
thing to do, by the way. but Hardin had
been terrific against him and his clients
at Harrodsburg. I will here say that
Hardin got even with that town and Mer-
Ger county for the hooting they gave
him when,
"Weel mounted on his gray mare, Meg,
A better never lifted leg"
he refined her up and said: 'T'1l see that
John Helm and Ben Palmer run a stake
and rdered fence between this town and
Danville." And SO it happened. Helm
and Palmer, both sons-in-law OF Hardin,
were both members Of the legislatures
created the county OF Boyle, and took the
cream of 1t from Mercer county. That
new county part is authentic
Well, old Ben rode over to Vicksburg
form Jackson after the indignity was
put on him, and he knew from whose
culver the shaft came. He put up at
the leading tavern to await the ar
rival of the steamboat on which he
could take passage to Louisville There
he saw a legal record in the reading
room. and lawyer-1ike he picked 1t up
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JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY-By j. c. Hidden, D. D.-No. 2

Toys can be extracted from the docu-
ments before him, l. e., from the writings
which we commonly call canonical. The
answer is a sad one; but as true as it
is sad; by reconstructing tho documents
themselves abridging here, expanding
there and discrediting yonder. If a
whole treatise, like the Fourth Gospel. is
saturated with the divinity of Christ then
1t is the production of later age, writ
ten by some unknown Gnostic of the
se,.onc century, and posing as an eye
witness. If another book. like 1.-THE Acts
of the Apostles" Is full Of the miraculous
works of Christ's followers, and of as
surnptions of Christs heavenly origin and
destiny, it is to be ruled out as "a
later growth" and discredited as un-
historical and "tendential." g.. naturally
growing out of the various tendencies at
work In the early church. I hope that
DR.. Toy would not 60 SO far As does Baur,
In his destructive criticism; but it is easy
to see that, in the production of this very
able and learned book, he has been more
or less Influenced by Baurs principles
From purely literary point of view,
Dr. roy mas nero uoho eoao " AAS S
work. The style is not so clear as that
of his History of the Religion Of Israel,
which is really a model of didactic style;
nor Is 1t so accurate as that of his Quo
tations in the New Testament" but then
the author had here a heavier piece of
work on his hands than he had under
taken before. The materials were not SO
we'll defined az were those with which
he had to deal In his Quotations" and
the scope was very much broader than
that of the former works. So we find now
and then that his statements are looser,
and his style less clear-cut, than we are
accustomed to see from his polished pen.
I can pay DR.. Toy the compliment of
saying that very few Americans could
have produced such book as this; and
cannot resist the temptation to say that
am heartilA glad Of 1t.
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end of the world would be temporarily
postponed and took a collection and Is
sued rain checks and they all went
home, and tried to get back their world
ly goods that they'd given away be-
forehand.p
Think how foolish them poor deluded
guys must have felt?" said the House
Detective.
Yes. but think how foolish all the
lothers would have felt If the prophet had
been right" said the Hotel Clerk. IN
such cases l think It's well to follow the
example of a friend Of mine that used
to be a policeman, over in Brooklyn and
his name was Casey Casey Is patrolling
his beat one cool night, trying the side
doors of the saloons to see If they are
all properly locked, according to the ex-
else law, and very grievously disap-
pointed to find that they all are, when
he hears a noise up the street and here
comes a wild-eyed citizen wearing about
as many clothes as you could get for
a nickel at Tiffany's, If Tiffany's was a
clothing store. What have we here?
says Casey as he reaches up between
the gentle strangers shoulderblades and
grabbs him by his passementeries. Leave
60, says the other fellow, Leave go
Instantly have a mission 'So'Ve !,
says Casey, since you bring up the
subject, I may state that I'm the original
mission kid. My first mission is to see
that no lunatic goes scouting around this
part of town with not enough buds on to
tie up a sore thumb And after that
my next mission is to wrap a blanket or
barrel or something around you and
take you in out of the chill air of the
evening before you ketch cold from half
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through the ships riggingi What phan-
tom ships pass them in the tempests!
Ghosts of ships that were lost in bowling
gales. What sailor but feels uneasy II
his ship sail on Friday7 Many a corpse
is buried at sea because It Is bad luck
to sail with dead body.
Fortune telling is a phase Of supersti-
ton, whether 1t be with cards, coffee
grounds or with the petals of a flower as
a maiden with love-lit eyes looks upon
the flower and tears 1t asunder saying
the while:
zone love, two I love,
Three 1 love today,
Four love with all my heart,
But i've cast away;
or in the tent Of black-eyed gypsy, who.
for so cents, will read for you the book
of fate or lift the sable shroud that
covers dead past.
Then In dreams how our superstftfons
revell MY dreams presage some Joyful
news at hand" we read In Romeo and
Juliet What don't they presage2" To
dream of snakes is to be deceived In some
water means trouble. To dream of
money means a loss of some kind. To
relate q dream before breakfast is to
bring whatever sorrow it foreteIls. And
thus might go on ad inhnitum.
Now, many Of these signs at times may
fail, but here is one that on one will con.