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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05

afternoons or misty evenings; The
Wheeling Hour, has ALREADY been writ
ten he Thief. has been as ubiquitous
as a piekpocket and Camille is an old
lady now of 6s.
When a reviewer of things done un-
dertakes the Office OF prophet he
usually is lost in space; nevertheless
like the audacieus lackwits who travel
where angels hesitate, 1 muster up
courage to predict that Virginia Harmed
viii get the play she needs and that you
and will reve1 with her in the emo
tional glory of her art.
Her capacity to simulate suffering is
the greater for her capacity to radiate
joy. Her tragic gift is merely. her com
edy facility reversed. The shadows in
her art are Just deeper because its light
lis brighter and merrier. She is emo
tionally ambidextrous-a true SCelt.
When she gets the play that calls her
out it will be a flame.
WAS not surprised, I am just re-
| minded, when she told me that her
a genealogical tree was green with
Irish branches. / was surprised when
she said that on it was grated Eng
lish stock, and still more surprised
when she said that the tree had long
since been transplanted to America. If
she had told me that her father was a
Munster man and her mother was from
Ulster, it would have seemed truer, for
Miss Harmed is essentially Celt in
|countenance and temperament. As she
said, "she is either all up or all down. .
that have made the Irish the merriest
of melancholy morta1s. She. herself, is
uncertain whether she prefers the
tragedies OF the stage to its comedies,
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u fave5 too lrtapcll ofsa sense of lallrlor
while .reraained eptleal
Nobody can said / trying 10 think
of something to- say about having 4
sense of humor and faiifng because She
didn't give me time to think OF shunor
is the refracting lens that coFreets the
astigmatism of abnormal tisior,2 but
proceeded at once to tell noe about how,
once upon time. her sense q. humor
was the cause which lost tolter a play
in which another subsequently, made a
great success.
Il don't mind telling you, she said,
that it was Lefty and Charles Froh-
man offered it to me-. One of the scenes
struck my funny bone and made me
laugh, even when 1 read it in the manu-
script
What are you laughing at22' Mr..
Frohmana asked me.
Then showed him and he laughed
too, but insisted that it was a fine play
just the same and that it would suit
me, and that I should play it.
Il was afraid to try it and so let it
go. "A year later 1 saw. it in London 1t
was, a great success. Norman Hapgood
sat behind me at the theater. He leaned
over and whispered, Don't you wish
you'd done it?' !"
What was funny about it?"
1T may not strike you as funny,
Tell me and see"
We'll then, here's a woman that is
madly in love with musical man. She
throws her reputation to the winds of
high and low scandal and visits him at
his apartments. She goes. realizing the
Iawfulness and gravity OF, her offense
against conventions and society and
with full Consciousness of the esult
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OF her act. Naturally she is perturbed,
feverish and overwrought. What does
she do when she gets there? She calm
ly goes to sleep while he plays on the
piano. Somehow that scene seems
funny to me yet. I'm sure I never
could do it seriously on the stage. If I
did I know some imp would devil me
into snoring."
Her story sustained my contention
that a sense of humor is a fine saving
faculty which few artists can do with
out.
well" she said. reluctance in her
tones, "yousmay be right about it. but
/ know that Lefty was a big sue
cess and that 4 might have enjoyed
it and been richer. And riches are NOT
to be sueezed at, as l found out when
staged play with 16O persons in
the cast because MIR. Frohman, who
also has sense of humor. laughed at
me- for asking him to take a chance
with it. needed riches to pay for
the fun of having more people on the
stage than in the audience. I shouldn't
say that. however, because it was a
very good play. was Jane shaw. 1t
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but others consume the forenoon be-
fore the plot is fully barred. Just the
same, look at them all; for should
die of mortifcation if / overlooked a.
gem in the debris pile. and somebody
else should fish it out and flash it
across the land
Isss HARMED has no fear of a
AN season Of tdIeness before her. She
wants to rest anyway until next
December after her stock starring sea
sons under the western Belasco man
agement in this city and Los Angeles
are done. Besides. she says, .if worse
comes to worst she can keep busy and
mainly amused reading the funny trag-
edies and the solemn comedies that she
gets. She has plenty of managerial of
fers for next season, though she has
broken from the Shuberts; she has
plenty of booking possibilities and an
audience that stretches from the great
white way to Twin peaks ready to hear
her. But must have new play!''
Some of the manag gers who want to
write their names with the-legal sigma
ture of Miss Harmed, Virginia Harmed
Sothern,' on a contract declare that
they have play that viii do But L
don't want play that will do. she
said psssionately. Il want big play.
want to create a woman of flesh and
blood and reality to set before the pub
lie and suffer and endure and Hve.'
I'll bet you could do it, too said I.
forgetting the nice parts of speech, but
voicing your sentiment, Tm.sure, if you
have ever. seen this dynamic woman act.
Not but what Miss Harmed agrees
there are fine plays already written.
but managers are afraid of Shakespeare
for female star; Ibsen is for foggy
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was merely too expensive for me to
support. A fine brief for the suffra-
gette Jane Shaw was. Two women
wrote it, a third-nyself- it.
and fourth, still myself. enacted the
leading role. wish there had been a
fifth to pay. the salaries.
''If there were anything in the in
fuence of association that play should
have been great hit in man ruled
world. Mrs. Lena r. Smith. wife of
Librettist Smith. was one of the play
wrights. and Mrs. Vance Thompson.
wife of the critic and litterateur. Vance
Thompson, was the other Their prod
uct was a great play IN my estimation,
though the opinion was not universal
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y T seemed TO me that there was a
. tsgerish eageFness, almost agita-
Stion. in Virginia HaA'ned's piaint
- for a play None Of us grows
younger from season to season.
p and the period Of an actress greatest
powers. unless she be a sarah, is likely
TO be limited- Meanwhile Virginia
Harmed one OF the eouutry's greatest
actresses. has not been fortunate in her
Plays that is to say, her dramatic
vehicles, as the profession calls the
shows in which stars tour through
land crowded With stages. have not
Of late called or al Of the latent
power Of which she is possessed. This.
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enough to pay the east of $50 players
and take them like a colony over the
country. 1t is singular. but true. that
Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Thompson and
myself remained good friends through
out and are so at this moment. The
only one we were mad at was Mr.
Frohman. who thought $50 players was
funny and declined the pronered honor
of supporting them en- masse."
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or whether she plays better in Ca
mile and Anna Karenfna 2 with their
doleful deaths, than in Sardou's frotliy,
witty Love Letter
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g 7 IS thought to be sign OF
wisdom" said Miss Harmed. ito
Il make fun of Camille these days
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Thackeray's Satire.


Thackeray created quite erroneous
impressions of himself by often indulg-
ing in irony in the presence of people
who were incapable Of understanding
it. One curious instance which he gave
was this: Thackeray had been dining
at the Garrick and was talking In the
smoking room after dinner with vari-
Gus club acquaintance. One Of them
happening to have left his cigar case
at home, Thackeray, though disliking
the man, who was a notorious tuft
hunter, good naturally offered him one
Of his cigars. The man accepted the
cigar, but, not finding it to his liking,
had the bad taste to say to Thackeray,
IT say, Thackeray, you won't mind my
saying / don't think much Of this
cigar" Thackcray, no doubt irritated
at the mans ungraciousness and bear
ing in mind his tuft hunting predilec-
lions, quietly responded, "You ought
to, my good fellow, for &c was given
me by a lord" Instead, however, of
detecting the irony, the dolt immedi-
ately attributed the remark to snob-
bishness on Thackeray's part and to
the end of his days went about declar-
ing that '"Thackeray had boosted that
he had been given cigar by lord"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

By one of the most remarkable gas
explosions en- record the wife of Clyde
W.. Sast of Fairmont, w. Va, was
killed, the house was wrecked and the
entire family blown bodily through
the roof. The two-year-old son of
Mr.. Sast was blown into the branches
of an apple tree after journeying
through the roof and was practically
| nuinjured, Mr. Sast's mother, seventy,
is in a serious condition, but the
father and two sons escaped with
bruises.
Near Grafton, w. Va, Baltimore
and Ohio passenger train No. Z the
westbound New York and Chicago ex-
press, one of the fastest trains of the
system, was wrecked in collision with
a helping engine at the head of sew
enteen-nile grade. Three trainmen
Der of passengers suffered slight in
juries.
J. w. Wheeler, formerly of Echo,
Ala, murdered a woman who register
ed with him as his wife, under the
name of Mrs. May Wheeler, at hotel
in Los Angeles, Cal. He then attempt
ed to kill himself The couple had been
in their room less than five minutes
when five shots rang out in quick
succession.
Forest fires are raging in the
mountains of Kentucky and the loss is
already immense. Several towns are
in the fire zone and thousands of per-
sons are endangered. Seven persons
are reported burned to death. There
is no possibility Of relief unless snow
or rain falls.
After confessing that he had at
tackled Mamie May Shealey and final
ly cut her throat from ear to ear,
Flute Clark, negro, was shot to
death by a mob about three-quarters
of mile from Little Mountain, S. G.
Henry Bauer, farmer eighteen
miles south of Detroit, Mich, was
struck and killed by Lake Shore
newspaper train. His wife and little
son were with him and had crossed
the tracks safely.
Gasoline fumes from his automo-
bile, over which he was working in a
small garage caused the death by as
phyxiation of Edwin M. Hadley, a
manufacturer and capitalist of Wor-
cestor, Mass.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
SPORTING AFFAIRS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

Bat Nelson, the Durable Dane,
was defeated in the eleventh of what
was scheduled as a twenty round bout
at San Francisco by Owen Moran by
the knockout route. 1t was necessary
for Moran to floor the Hedgewisch
fighter five times in this round before
he was "down and out" And the
referee had scarcely finished the count
of ten, which meant oblivion for Bat,
before he was on his feet, bleeding
and dazed, but ready to continue the
fight. When teld that he had been
counted out, Nelson insisted that a
mistake had been made, but shook
hands with Moran and congratulated
him on being the only man who had
ever forced him to take the fatal
count
When Jack Lester and Ed Hagan,
lightweights, finished a lively fight at
Dreamland rink, Tacoma, Wash, they
found that Thomas Steinberg, presi-
dent of the Loid Athletic club, and
promoter of fights, had made get
away with the box Office receipts
amounting to $4,000. Harry Burns
and Lonnie Austin have sworn out a
warrant for Steinberg's arrest. Sew
eral minor participants in the exhibit
tions and their assistants were left
stranded.
Tim Hurst, the well known umpire,
is seriously i'll in New York with
blood poisoning, which developed
from a sharp blow by foul tip which
struck him OH the ankle several weeks
ago. The physicians expect Hurst to
recover.
A twenty round fight between Jack
Burns and Bill Lang. the Australian,
will be pulled OF In London this week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
FIFTEEN DIE IN FIRE
Scores of Others Are Hurt in a
Blazing Box Factory.

At Newark, N J., at least fifteen per-
sons are thought to be dead in a fire
which started in the factory of the
Newark Paper Box company, at ZIG
-Hich street.
Eleven bodies had been taken from
the building up to IL o'clock. Several
scores of persons were injured.
When the fire started it trapped fif-
ty girls employed on one of the upper
floors A panic ensued and many Of
the girls leaped from the windows to
the street below.
There was an engine house next
door 10 the factory, but before the fire
men could give assistance at least
twenty of the girls had leaped to the
street
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Signals of Distress.
Edgerton People Should Know
How to Read and Heed Them.

Edgerton People Should Know
How to Read and Heed Them.
Sick kidne, give many signals of dis.
tress.
The secretions are dark. contain sed-
iment.
Passages are FREQ isent. scanty, painful.
Backache is constant day and night.
Headaches and dizzy spells frequent.
The weakened kidneys need help.
Don't delay Use special kidney
remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys
backache and urinary disorders.
Mrs. William Parr, 2l4 N. Madison st,
Stoughton, Wis, says-"In return for the
great benefit Doan's Kidney Pills
brought me, highly recommend them
I suffered from backache and distress
ing pains in my kidneys / was also
subject to headaches aud dizzy spells.
finally procured Doan's Kidney Pills and
their use as directed did me world OF
good "A
For sale by all dealers. Price 80 cents
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's and
take no other
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Wants to Help Some One

For thirty years j. F. Boyer of Fer
tile, Mo-, needed help and couldn't find
it. That's why he wants to help some
one now. Suffering so long himself he
feels for all distress from Backache,
Nervousness, Loss of Appetite, LASH
tude and Kidney disorders. He shows
that Electric Bitters work wonders for
such troubles. Give bottles he
writes, wholly cured me and now
am we'll and hearty" It's also posi-
lively guaranteed for Liver Troubles,
Dyspepsia, Blood Disorders, Female
Complaints and Malaria. Try them.
SOC at w. G. Atwell's.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Saved from Awful Death

How an appalling calamity in his
family was prevented is told by A. D..
Mcdonald of Fayetteville, II. c., R. F.
d. No. s. ''My sister had consump-
ton, he writes, "she was very thin
and pale, had no appetite and seemed
to grow weaker every day, as al rem
edies failed, till DR.. Kings New Dis
covery was tried, and so completely
cured her that she has not been troubl-
ed with cough since. It's the best
medicine ever saw or heard Of. For
coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, Group,
hemorrhage, all bronchial troubles it
has no equal. SOC, $1.00. Trial bottle
free. Guaranteed by w. G.. Atwell.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02

Nasal Catarrh. an inflammation of
the delicate membrane lining the air
passages, is not cured by any mixtures
taken into the stomach. Don't waste
time on them. Take Ely's Cream
Balm through the noistrils, so that the
fevered, SWOLLEN tissues are reachee at
once. Never mind how long you have
suffered nor how often you have been
disappointed, we know Elys's Cream
Balm, is the remedy you should use.
All druggists, SOC, Mailed by Ely
Bros, 56 Warren Street, N. Y. 19
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
DR.. CRlPPEN HANGED
American Physician Pays Penalty for
Wife Murder in England.

DIR. Hawley Harvey Crippen, the
American physician. was hanged In
London, England, for the murder of
Belle Gilmore, his actress wife.
The announcement of the execution
from the prison was accompanied by
the official statement that DR.. CrippeE
made no statement or confession what
soever before being hanged
Father Carey, who has been much
with Crippen at Pentonville, remained
at the prisoners side throughout the
night and accompanied him to the
scaftold.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Cautious In His Answer.

Uncle George Snow, an old ante
bellum negro, was giving testimony
The counsel asked Uncle George
which side of Souchatouchee Creek
he lived on. to which he replied:
(Which side of the creek do live on.
boss?" Eyes" ''Gwine up or down
the creek, Doss?"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Editor Wakes Sarcastic.

A Kansas editor sarcastically an
nounces that he wants to buy sack
of flour, pair of three-ply- button
trousers. and a straw hat. and that he
is ready to receive bids on the same.
He says that is the way the merchants
do when they want two dollars worth
of job work.-Atchison Globe.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Firmness Not stuhhornness.

There is vast difference between
stubbornness and decision, between
flrmness and what is termed pig
headedness The decided man has
thought out his course and sticks to
it for good reasons The stubborn
man insists on having his way merely
because it is his way.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
ENDS Winters TROUBLES

To many, winter is a season of trou-
BILE. The frost bitten toes and fingers,
chapped hands and lips, chilblains, cold
But such troubles fly before Bucklen's
Arnica Salve A trial convinces. Great
est healer of Burns, Boils, Piles, Cuts,
Sores, Eczema and Sprains. Only 25c
at w. G. AtwelPs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Charm in Sincerity.

Sincerity always has charm OF
its own. Even when two men are
fighting, you are compelled to admire
their earnestness and singleness Of
purpose. -" Master of the Vineyard"
by Myrtle Reed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Banks on sure Thing Now

.T'll never be without DR.. Kings
New Life Pills again., writes A. Schin-
geek, CAT Elm ST., Buffalo, N. Y. "They
cured me of chronic constipation when
all others failed. Unequaled for Bill
iousness, Jaundice, Indigestion, Head
ache, Chills, Malaria and Debility. 25c
at w. G.. Atwell's.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
Mans Dual Roles.

MEN bring happiness to the women
who love them, but also do they bring
much sorrow, especially husbands
1.-TWO Men and Gwenda," by Mabel
RarDes Grundy
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-12-02
The Straw Vote.

Another good thing about politics Is
that man can always find straw
vote to indicate exactly what he wants
indicated.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-01-13
MAN SELF SLAIN
IN AN ACCIDENT

Dubuque, Ia, Jan. 6.--Elmer Roddy
aged "a years, son of Michael Roddy.
OF this city, shot himself to death in the
station OF h Illinois Central road this
morning.
Roddy had been working in st. Louis
and came home to spend New Years.
Tuesday morning, bidding his mother
and family goodby, he went to the sta
ton to take the train for st. Louis. In
revolver. He was in the act of sitting
down when the revolver went off, the
bullet passing through his abdomen
and upwards into the heart. He died
almost instantly and before any aid
could be given him. Roddy was held
IN high regard here, and was prominent
in social and dramatic circles.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-01-13
COAL FAMINE IS
INVADING STATE
Railroads Are Accused of APP
propriating Coal in Transit
for Their Needs.

Des Moines. Ia, Jan 6.-Complaints
of a feared coal famine are reaching
the Office of the state railroad commits
sion from many cities in Iowa. They
allege that the railroads are confiscat-
ing coal that is Intended for city con-
sumption.
Iowa City and other municipalities in
the east central part of the state are
most visibly affected n the state uni
versity, as q result Of the shortage, is
closed and has not enough coal to keep
the boilers hot for a day. 1t is believed
that while the roads are using some of
he coal for their own needs they are
hauling some also to distant points in
the west where in the newly settled
country there was not opportunity to
lay in stock sufficient for the season.
Prompt action will have to be taken
to guard against congestion of bust.
ness and Gripping of service.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-01-13
WATERLOO TAKES
THE WATER PLANT

Waterloo, Ia, Jan. CATER i've
years discussion pro and con Waterloo
voters yesterday registered their final
on the question of the munich
pal ownership of the water plant, when
they gave 4SS majority to the PROPOSE
the plant and make extensions. At the
former election municipal ownership
won by a decisive majority, but the
form of the ballot was defective. N. w.
Harris & Co, owners of the water
plant, agreed to stand all expenses. of a.
new election and assume the entire is
sue of AZ per cent bonds at par. The.
change from private to municipal own
ership will speedily be made as the
bonds are ready to be delivered and the
cash paid h city, minus the price of
the plant. which the city takes over at
347. 90.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-01-13
OFFICERS ARE NAMED FOR
UNION INSURANCE COMpAN,

Elk Point, S. D., Jan. AT the an
nual election of officers OF the Union
Mutual Fire Insurance held
here today, the following officers were
elected for the year 1910: Directors. p,
D. Cowles Of Vermillion, J.. w. Reedy
OF Beresford. Ben Bernard of Jefferson,
A. Q. Ofstad Of Alcester; president,
Michael Hoffman, Of Elk Point; vice
president, A. o. Ringsrud, of this city:
secretary, Andrew Martin, Of Elk
Point; treasurer. o. M. Walters, OF this
city.
{ Peter Larson vas appointed by the
county commissioners at their January
session manager of the county poor
farm for the year 1870
This makes Mr.. Larson's third year
on h farm and he has proved a good
manager.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-01-13
STATE SECRETARY
EDUCATION BOARD
UNDER ACCUSATION
investigation to Be Made Of the,
Charge That He Is Drawing
Salary as Expenses.

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. cit is boldly
charged that Secretary Luther P. Lud-
den of the state board of education has
been drawing salary illegally as mem
Der of the board for the period of about
five years. 1t is further stated that he
is now drawing about $500 per year
which he has no legal right to accept.
When the state normal gets
back from it's junketing tour and Sow
ernor ~Shallenberger returns from a TO-
days trip undertaken Sunday, there is
liable to be a collision. 1t is specifically
fixed by law that members of the board
of education shall not draw a penny's
salary. They are supposed to serve for
expenses and out of patriotism.
In violation of the letter and spirit of.
the law as it plainly reads, and with.
the consent of the other members of
the board, Secretary Ludden appears to.
have been drawing his salary right
along. The illegal salary has been ac-
counted for in the annua reports under
the heading of expenses. 1t is very
unlikely that this expense" strategem
can be permitted to continue much
longer and the secretary may be afford
ed a splendid opportunity to liquidate
after the facts have been more fully
investigated.