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along hearing me say the same thing as
long as I've teeth enough left to permit
Of my articulating. When l say that,
however I deal more or less in hyperbole
if you gather that one. BY intellectual
woman, I employ the phrase in ordi-
nary conversation, 1 mean one of those
women that think they know about nine
million times more than their husbands,
with an overhang of knowledge sufficient
to permit OF their knowing more than
any body else on earth. That Is what L
mean by an Intellectual woman. And
woman for a sure thing doesn't have to
things a little interesting around the
house.
She doesn't have to hand out hunks
Of Browning over the grapefruit or I'M
coil Jumps of Stendhal and chatter about
pragmatism over the dinner coffee. All
wife is that she stop chronicling small
beer and gossiping-
What? I told you only a little while
ago that 1 depended upon you for the
news of the little affa rs Of life, did /?
Oh, we'll, if this sleep walking habit is
growing upon me that way then it's time
for me to do something about it. for
could only have said a thing like that
while in a state OF profound somnanbu-
lism. Maybe you'll be good enough to
How? You've often heard me say
that a little gossip adds a certain Spiel
ness to everyday existence? Ohio. so
said that. did L? Great! Next thing I
know you'll be passing it around that
I'm in the habit of writing anonymous
letters, and from that it'll he an easy
thing for you to begin whispering to your
cronies that 1 operate at night as
porch-climber.
"Oh, well, you can't help it. / s'pose.
and SO I've no right to complain about 1t.
When a man makes his bed-when, in
short, he deliberately makes provision for
a dull. dry-rot life, then it's up to him to
take his medicine without murmuring. I
made up my mind to that long while
ago, and that's the reason you never hear
me so much as open my mouth about the
dismal kind of a life l lead around here"
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Why. ARE xylophones and xylophon-
lists?
The curtain rises. A barber-like-look
ing person with slick, not sleek. hair be-
plastered on his forehead. and chastely
arrayed in the hussar uniform of the
Kaimuck Cavalry, stands revealed in the
looks like a junk shop which you are
supposed to suppose con lists of musical
instruments. Way down-stage, right In
front of the orchestra leader. is the
xylophone thing, with a screen of cr.mson
velvet, arabesqued with gilt, hanging in
front thereof.
The barbe -like-looking person picks UP
the two whacke4s pose. them in the air
for moment, and
Oh. we'll, you know. before he whacks
one XVI, Just what he's going to- play.
The Turkish Patrol, OF course. VARY
pianissimo at first. OF course: tum, TIM.
tummy-tummy-tummy ia, tum: then the
old, gradual fortiss mo gag. with the or
che stra leader rocking in his seat he
saws h g violin to help the illusion of
nearness, and then the gradual ret eat
down to the pianssimo tn.ng again
What for?
Why should folks, while this sort of
tulf1S Is SolHS oI, bS cDllpeIleu, Hielels
out of the instinct of self-defense, to lean
back and yawn and gaze ixedly at the
ceiling, so they won't have to look at the
xylophonist with the plastered hemp!
Why can't the xylophon- SITS let take it
for granted that they can XVI? TIL y pos
sess little mechanical skill. All light.
Agreed Lots of Xylers have possessed
the same little amount of mechanical
skill. But none of EN- ever possess u any
music. Why do they go on doing 1t year
after year?
The Turkish Patrol finished, the tom
sorialish- looking duck pauses for vCcifer-
Gus applause. He generally gets it. The e
"A e always folks in the audience who fall
for the xyiling business and give him ii
mitt. He bows profusely, and then he
picks up his two xylophone Founders
again. Poising them again for an in
slant, he begins to play
Well, you know what The overture
from civilian Tell" of course.
I often wonder if the guilt Of that will
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America to remain until the time arrives
when our actors are recruited from a
corresponding class. English actors like
to play in the states because they are
paid always at least twice as much, and
very often three times and even four
times as much, for their work in this
country than they are in Great Britain. "
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your gaze riveted on the ceiling Some
thing uncanny draws your vision to the
contemplation of the beads of sweat
standing out on the forehead of the xyller
as he romps along to the clang-clang
finish of the William Tell overture. He
looks like a tunnel worker about to be
seized by violent attack of the bends.
You can see his dubious bosom heaving
under the evening shirt-dickey where
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MONG the things
which /, as an
American with a
strong leading mo-
tive of Irish in my
veins, hate to aclS-
k n o W ] edge" OBJ
served q New York
theatrical manager
of prominence, lis
this: That, in draw
ing room p avs
particularly, but IN
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AY, wait a min
ute," put In Mr..
G r u m . Sunday
morning last when
Mrs. Grump was
trying to indulge
In q little harm
less, CHEEKY b eak-
fast table chatter.
Nv nat are you
conversing about,
any howe
For the last
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HE other night at
the APP Ito Theiter
in Atlantic City |
saw a rather strik-
ing exemplificatlon
OF the fact that the
average theater au-
d:ence con .inues to
insist that a play
shall have what is
KIN wn as a happy
ending" just as
the onniverouS con-
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upon as a concession to the American
demand for that sort of thing. AS pro-
duced in France, under the eye of the
dramatist, the young leader of the anti
Semitic party, who d scovers that he him
self is a Jew. after he has fought due
with the man who afterward reveals him
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land come from a far better class OF peo-
pie, speaking generally. than in this coun-
try. The cid Puritanical prejudice ag ainst
the stage has neve BEEN compile ely Grad
lcated in this country. There still remains
a sort Of sTu INFANT OF that preiu-
dice. American stage folk, no matter
what You hear to the contrary, are still
looked at in the as'ant light by a la ge
body of Am aricans. England has out
grown that sort Of thing.
Actors are no longer looked upon as
vagabonds over there, even If there does
still survive a British statute. dating back
more than tn ee hundred years. classify
ing actors with thieves and that sort Of
people. The very best people. as we say
expressively on this side, go on the stage
In England, and their adoption of the
stage as a profession is by no means con-
sidered a disgrace. The word gentleman
considered a social rating, still means
something cone etc in England: and the
great body of really successful actors
now on the English stage are the sons OF
gentlemen; men who have been reared
amid refined surroundings, thoroughly
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D this, then, is to
be a little stray
Cling piece OF type
writing with respect
to tbut not neceS-
sarily in a. respect
full vein) some of
t h o S c m a Y b e.
mu ical manifesto
tons at the yode-
reel show.
First of all the
xylophone and the
yy'OphoniStS
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sumers of current ficti; dema. d HIT q
novel must termina with at least a su5-
eestion OF wedding bells.
1t was the first p~odu Ntion in this { IN
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self as his father. walks off-stage In the
last act and puts bullet in his head.
There is absolutely no other way out of
1t for this man. He is disgraced, he has
made himself a sort of pariah, he is
on the point of being thrust out by his
caste; therefore he does precisely what
man in that situation would do-he re-
moves himself from the scene
AS produced in this country, the young
man in this terrific plight is visited at
his rooms by the bread-and -buttery
sweetheart, girl under twenty with lit
tie brains and no experience; and she
proceeds by the emission of a few mushy
phrases, to drive his gun-using purpose
from his mind, and at the finish this in
tensely moving and wonderfully power
full play, as here produced. is utterly
ruined and made maudlin and claptrap-
pish by the spectacle of the ruined noble
nan standing under the spotlight with
his doll of sweetheart wrapped in his
arms.
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most other sorts of plays, the average
English actor Is far better performer
than the average American actor. 1t is
a thing, however. that anybody familiar
with the present stage must admit, out
of simple fairness, for II is the indubit-
able undeniable truth.
There is great opportunity TO make
such comparisons in this country nova
days, for the American stage in a way
Of speaking, is overrun with English
actors. Nh Frohnan was at the bottom
of this invasion, if it is to be called an
invasion. He doesn't make any bones
about acknowledging that he was at the
bottom OF IT. He found. years ago. that
he could not find enough competent, fin
ished American actors to figure in the
vast number of plays he was producing
from year 10 year. and so he Simply was
forced TO engage the English actors; and
they have given such complete satisfac-
tion that It may well be accepted that
the invasion of English actors on our
stage is going TO be a permanent in
yason.
1T is not. when you come TO view it, a
matter in which Spread-eagleism enters
acknowledge the superiority of the Eng
r but I is mpJs
sible not to make that acknowledgment
There are. for example. a good many
plays now before the public in which
English actors and American actors
work side by side--I am speaking mainly
of drawing room plays. l, believe that
the most prejudiced Fenian in the world
would be forced to acknowledge, viewing
a play where this condition exists, that
i'm every case the English actors, for ease.
for smoothness, for all-around ability and
competence simply outclass our cwn act
ors They don't strut, they don't attitude
nize they don't Crape themselves clum-
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They are men, as rule, with GER
tan amount of mimetic talent; but this
alone does not compensate for their lack
repose and exterior breeding as exhibited
on the stage. Even in Eng ish musical
comedy-and the English have it on US
evely-which-way from the ace In pro-
ducing this form of entertainment-you'll
observe the superior character of the
English actors and singers. They are
studied men. 1t takes them good many
years, as general thing, to achieve any
sort of position at al on the stage They
have to serve long apprenticeships, gen.
orally in the English provinces; and it
often happens that English leading men,
splendid actors, too. who are known and
rightly appraised al through the British
Iaovinces, find L ute. " impos: ible to
gain hearing before London audiences.
You will have noticed l suppose, that
| have spoken exclusive Y of NAL. stage
persons. The comparison does not hold
when We peer to the subject of English
and American actresses. There, l think
it is coming to be acknowledged every
American actresses are vastly better
speaking generally, than Eng ish ac-
treSseS TIL s is easy to account for, too
Culture in the United States is mainly
in the hands of our women. And our ac-
tresses are recruited from a far better
class than are our actors. The Eng iSll
leading woman gen rally is a pronounced,
even dowdy. stick; umsy, strident.
rarely pretty or beautiful, lacking in the
elan, the grace, o. the American ac-
tress. No less a renowned English actor
than Sir Char es Wyndham admitted this
to me not very long ago.
The English actors. however, are in
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the happy ending" no matter how much
the playwrights protest. The managers
can't be expected to produce plays for
purely hygienic reasons. They have to
spend their money in gobs to put plays
on. and they are within their rights in
this catering to a concrete demand on
the part of audiences.
Fully a dozen financially successful
plays of the current season, all of them
winding UP beaut fully, after revealing
troubles to burn on the part of all hands
through all of the acts, originally ter
minated according to the facts of the in
CIdentS-that is to say. they wound up
not happily for the principals concerned.
But all of the Wind-upS had to be char ed
in response to the managers demands.
The managers know very well that the
audiences would not have the d small
finishes. and they overcame. by the fact
they they wouldn't produce the plays
otherwise the playWrights' protests that
their plays would be spoiled If the happy
finishes lad to he worked in.
1t Is the same with novels. Publishers
of fiction positively require, nowadays,
that the last chapter of the novel shall be
a -'hx-it-all-up' chapter; that the folks
who have been submerged in grief or
hard luck or misery of any sort through
all of the p eCeding pages shall be extri-
Gated from their messes at the finish, in
order that the books may be laid down
with sigh of content when 1.-The End
is reached by the reader. Inevitable con-
illusions of some stories are twisted and
distorted out of all reason. The intent of
fictiona themes is nu'lified. The whole
spirit of the p oduction is transgressed by
the imperative necessity, as the publ sherS
view it-and sur rly they know their bust
ness and their publc-of making the
wind-up one Of those happy ever after
ward affairs.
Take. for contra y-wise example. that
rxritf 1x.{ hn lott ool>
about dozen years ago-"M league"
"McTeague'' had a tragic finish. There
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we'll educated, grounded in literature and
the arts, men who have lifelong fam1i-
iarity with the most subtle social usages;
men to whom the wearing of evening
clothes is not, as it still remains for most
men in this country. a sort of novelty but
a settled habit of life, just as much so as
their habit of wearing sack coats and
bowler hats in the 70 enoon.
ut wou be strange indeed II men OF
this character did not develop into better
actors than Americans: for, while this
phase of American theatr' Gals is grad
ually improving it still remains the fact
that the great majority Of American act
ors do not come from what / might call
the upper strata of American society. On
the contrary, they come decidedly from
the lower strata. Fsw of them are rea ly
well educated men: few of them are ac-
quainted, from actual personal contact,
with social usages; and mighty few OF
them, as a natural consequence, have the
knack of looking natural when they are
thrust into drawing room plays.
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Special Correspondence of The star.

NEW YORK, February 4. 1910
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do you understand F'renchT' AT
times" AT time;? When?" when /
talk II to myself. Leader
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-09
OCCUPY NESTS BY SEASONS
Buzzards Seldom Use Same "Home"
Twice Consecutlvely for Some
Reason Unexplained.

The flight of the buZZard is as well
nigh perfection as is possible to find.
In fact, he might be called the most
perfect aeroplane in existence. To
see him soaring between the bare
hills, with vast green fertile valley
below him, and with the spring sun
lighting up his brown plumage as he
slowly sails around, with outspread
pinions, is sight never to be forgot
ten.
The buzzard usually chooses a
ledge on a cliff for an eyrie. but in
certain parts of Wales there are few
well used nests in trees, and as
these are generally used by some
bird of prey each season, they grow to
an enormous size. The buzzard does
not as rule, use the same nest two
consecutive seasons, but returns to
II the third, and after that allows an
other season to elapse before occupy
ing 1t again.
Two nests are often constructed In
one dingle, and an amusing incident
happened a few years ago In one of
these places. The hen laid one egg in
each nest, and as 1t was quite i'm
possible for her to sit on'both at once.
we did her a good turn by placing one
of these eggs in the nest with its COM
panion. The result of our kindness
was that a collector passed by about
two hours afterward and put both
eggs in his collecting box.
When | thought the matter over
came to the conclusion that that old
buzzard was not half such fool as
we took her to be. and If we had
left the eggs as we found them the
bird might have had chance of rear
ing one oungster.-Country Life.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-09
UNLISTED STOCKS.

j. A. Minnear & Co. say today:
A more conciliatory attitude dis
played by the fereral authorities rela-
tive to the impending railroad legisla-
ton caused a slightly better tone to be
noted in the New York list. Closing
prices were slightly higher today. The
markets though on the whole ruled
dull. Trading i'm the Boston list was
with special feature. Copper Range
lost point in the morning business.
Calumet & Arizona was also down
point. North Butte covered narrow
range with offerings at $32 untaken.
Amalgamated unsupported around
$50 Curb trading was confined to OPP
tions. Good buying i'm Cortez was in
evidence all day with all offerings at
$500 quickly taken. The Globe issues
were dull and unchanged. We look
for the market to rule rather dull for
the remainder of the week with i'm
portant price changes few and far be-
tween.
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FELT GRIEF HE EXPRESSED
Circumstances Under Which Verdi
Produced the Sublime "Miserere"
In al Trovatore."

Men of genius are confessedly crea-
have often been a real help to them,
rather than a hindrance. Poe. 1t is
said, produced "The Raven" while sit
ting at the bedside of his sleeping but
dying wife. Many similar instances
might be cited, but an anecdote of
Verdi, told by Carlo Ceccarelli, will
suffice.
On one occasion, when Verdi was
engaged on his well-known opera, I'll
Trovatore," he stopped short at the
passage of the "Miserere," being at
loss to combine notes of sufficient
sadness and pathos to express the
grief of the prisoner, Manrico.
Sitting at his piano in the deep
stiffness of the winter night, his int
agination wandered back to the stormy
days of his youth, endeavoring to ex-
tract from the past a plant, groan,
like those which escaped from his
breast when he saw himself forsaken
by the world. All in vain!
One day, at Milan, he was unex-
pectedly called to the bedside of
dying friend, one Of the few who had
remained faithful to him in adversely
and prosperity. Verdi, at the sight of
his dying friend, felt lump rise In
his throat; he wanted to weep, but so
intense was his grief that not a tear
flowed to the relief of his anguish.
In an adjoining room stood piano.
Verdi, under one of those sudden i'm
pulses to which men of genius are
sometimes subject, sat down at the
instrument, and there and then i'm
provised the sublime "Miserere" of
the "Trovatore." The musician had
given utterance to his grief
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-09
Test for Color Blindness.

At the Royal Society of Arts, In
London, Doctor Green read a paper
on color blindness and concludes that
the colored yarn test, which is the
official test of the board of trade. is
not reliable. He says: II have ex-
amined great many dangerously col
or blind men who have passed II. and
many others have had the same expe-
rience. In the board of trade report
of 1908 II will be seen that of those
who were rejected by the wool test
and who appealed. more than SO per
cent. was found to be normal sighted
and to have been rejected wrongfully.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-09
NOTICE OF
DIVIDEND

CALUMET & ARIZO-
MA MINING COMPANY
has declared dividend of One
Dollar ISL O) share, pay
able June 20, 1910, to stock
holders of record June 3rd.
1910.
Transfer books close at
close of business June 3rd,
1910, and reopen une 18th,
at ten O'Clock a. m.
GORDON II. CAMPBELL.
Secretary.
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M,NNEAR G. co.'s GOSSIP.

Foreign stocks have decreased 1000
900 pounds.
North Butte has recently been acting
very well. Recent developments AT
the mine would indicate the intention
to keep production at the present basis
while prosecuting necessary develop
ment work.
The strength of Osceola has been
very noticeable in all bad times. There
is practically no stock offered.
The good showing in S. & Il. and Ma
tional Elk. has helped the market po-
sition of Arizona Commercial when
has recently shown considerable
strength.
1t is believed that sinking on Al
Comah will be started almost immedl-
ately since the management knows
lust where to sink the shaft to open
the Lake lode.
Lake Copper has been bought by
strong people lately and looks like go
ing higher.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-09
Mining News

$40 of an ounce of silver and 50.47 per
cent copper. Leaving out of consider
alton the gold and allowing only 10
cents for the silver, this ore at present
has for copper worth $1S1.22 per ton
and Mr.. Dow says there is lots of ii.
1t is figured that there will shortly
be enrolled stockholding list of $50
names as there were 100 differept
subscriptions for the stock at SO per
share and in view of the large number
of brokerage applications it is to be
presumed that the actual stockholders
will feel up $50.
The management has ordered hoist
compressor and boiler and will very
soon start active sinkings.
Subscriptions to the stock are pay
able in full today.
New York, June 9.-tSince the open
ing OF the market this morning, it is
apparent here that slightly more
cheerful feeling has been gaining
ground. Under the circumstances the
dullness in the market is considered
as being rather favorable.
The reduction i'm the Bank of Eng
land rate today was unexpected, and
has caused banks TO offer time money
here a lite more freely.
The news of Importance is still OF
the Washington variety and the mark
ct is waiting to hear what is going to
| be done by the conference committed
| TO the railroad BILL. w. Prentiss.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-09
GAY g. sTuRels GOSSIP.

Calumet, Mich, June 9.-The generai
market was a dull and listless anoir
aud prices fluctuated in very narrow
range.
Lake. was the only stock in the Bos-
ton list that shows any signs of actiV-
ity. it opening at sly. selling down TO
509s and closing at 50.
The balance of the list was neglect
&c and no change in prices were noteu.
The Bank OF England rate was re-
duoed this morning and tliue money
Iaies were a little easier.
Boston, Mass, June 9.-President
Stephen r. Dow of the Algomah Min
ing Co. is in receipt of the results of
an assay which he has had made OF
the copper sulphide ore encountered In
the trench on the Algomah property.
The assay shows: A trace of gold
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-09
AlGOMAH

The lAlgomah Mining company has
filed articles of Incorporation with
County Clerk Richardson. The CAPT.
tai stock is $2,5O0,OOO. divided into
100000 shares at $25 per share. The
actual capital paid in is given as $780,
900, representing the property of the
company. The directors are as fol-
lows: stephen r. Dow, Brookline,
Mass, Albert Wyman, David Il. Dow,
John c. Watson, all three from Bos-
ton. Mass, and John H. Rice, and
Richard M. Edwards, of Houghton.
Each of these has 100 shares except
ing Dow who has 69,5o0 shares. The
principal offices will he at Boston
The property is located in Ontonagon
county.