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rsmarkable reversal Of form this eounfry
has ever witnessed. No one thoashs for
moment that the Republican defeat IN Sew
YORK.. which almost every body efpecssd.
would affect the res boss OF the Empire
state party 80 profoundly ~ 20 drive him
into Ahsolute seclll.ion.
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To Iap FDuoK oy TEt SrN -t,. GERMANY Il.
. country where II \. made easy A-cp dow n
me r0>i ~ living In large and very good re-.
taursnt In Munlcn saw INC sign 'hss are gen
rVaHy half IN french ihs-.r GaydeTnb. 5 ussr
digt. Announcement ~ pfrnnisr snd from, the
menu learned Ihst orr could order q Cans
NV NoHE NOEsmbcT ~ iouIa How
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The s~mr.m. y,c,.s, Nv W.. .n,ps,or

10 rHI fDTToR OP TRY SrS-Si Thr 90
for woman suffrage in The STATE Of v aAE-a : -
an object lesson in perseverance. and s'~o y w.
RrUwth 81 the suffrage movement ThIs -
inigd iih.r mat 4 woman suffrage ar -n -
has been submitted IN Washington IN 90 "
vss bearr1 nv ma oyiiy VI ~. 10 In I'i' Tf
majority Of Only D.ssg. AMI nov n - rrpO@'-i ~
have carried ~ q .naionIy Of :; OD
ALICE SIoNH BLACK- Ia
DoHcwysYEE. Mass. November %
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Wounds OF o rrienai.

Fve~a re affa.ta Cso-ssaa ant Ns~s.
Theodore Roosevelt. whose course In the
present campaign has been a disappoint-
ment and a disbursement even 20 many
Of his friends. being marked as IL Was by
trivial and petty Diet ais. hshwife seedlings.
and exhibitions Of Ell allied sgo,ism, and dark
ened a. IL Was by the sh sdov OF New Ma
ton ali-n
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kings I'm Exiie.

To TIE EDITOR or TIE Sex Sr kno.-
ing ny recent experience just how II is him
sslf. King Manuel very likely might be will
ing to give him half his quarters on the
banks Of the soft flowing Avon.
BosToN. November 10 r MANN
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To walton Hans

To rHE FDfToR ~ T'Hy SrS -, Nnii. o.,
lending Congratulations IN ne Nrw HampshIr.
victor, Pass wny .hOud We not speak a GOO,
word for 'h~ n--ay elected Justice ~ the peace In
the Kighth uard % Nswars. John PuIin salmon.
Republican PAaRfMac
NEwAKA. y J., November a.
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sober Voters On the lnsstln bile lnebriate
81 cheap Applause.

ROW me ~ ohf MY
He heard too much facile applause. and
he committed the blund@r Of accepting the
verdict OF the men who yell rather than that
OF the men who think
He has not hesitated to denounce a. liars
those Who crossed him. lie has succeeded
an compelling men TO break the laws OF hos
p,tAlity because Of hi@ selfish masterfulness.
These are traits which the sober voter
cannot approve.
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There - no finer evidence NJ the sturdy
patriotism - our public servants than
that supplied nv the con-ldarahl. number
who a. the present time have no parsonal
regrer-. but are sincerely sorry for the
nation
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70 NJ EDITOR OF THT ~r~-Nv' cannot
ID understand why Americans rsad EsYyA~ sni
znnr- rroiippr Those fWp men are dITsrsn'
M tiousIiy bii iheb have Inc ,ams tSmDsTmen'
why 10 RsIys~ rlA-s popIfsy In America
NsW OKK November -. NElNLAsDr.R
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From ta< Ch1rfSTo1 Posi-
Thai he will remain plague TO Pre-id-h mt
Taft and q mArpiot for the Republican party
NAV be taken AZ certain. II - probable
that his defeat in New York will increase
his rage against the President.
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London nince trnngharr hous~ ~ nae s'rre'
snand. The daily and >lndaS SrN arc on sAle In
London A. tn. american amt Ioon'a. fiohAnEe
Carlton stree, Regent street and pa~ ss'eanshi7
Agency. II Grren street Charins cross Road
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Par, ,~c- y, Rue Louis le Grand. Ths daily ard
sunday editions are sal- al klo,al- Z? near The
Ji-sn.i HoteI Mosque - Bou5e,Ard de> Capuc+nes
rorner Place Dc rOP"ra. and kio>aue n clie'ard
IL. itAIens corner Rue Louis lie Grand
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To rHF EDITOR oF TsF sr> ~, Tori-
dem verbs voH ., prstsr"a nihil stat
mszni nominis Umbra Sic transit gloria
mundi vale TheosoTus' REX
.IxvIyrpN ! November ~
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Published Is ,hs sun Printing AMI Publishing
Association a, 100 Nassau street. IN the BOro-Ch
81 Manhattan Nsw York. i'rcs dent ~ The Nsso
citation. EDWARD = Mitchell 10 Nassau street
Irrssurrr OF the Association ?. LAran, Ia
nassau street Secretary u me Association d
LGinn 100 NaS>a street
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cor ~,pec' 4 will he able % accsm9.-h 'ery
zen tut j mean 20 ra>e 'he De 81 'OCihi"
81, i~1 'p PsuTryr a-'fI i>g dos"rr
His yrea' prototype was never a. frank
- this
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IBslsies o. nm Or<aD g.

To IRE EDITOR ov THE SrN -sp For
vari-ty's sake the Outlook might now in
dulRe in a little Interrogation
" II HAskRLL.
CHICAGO November o.
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?, o.r ,rt,r6S rho 'lro- u, run vcrLi---r'' ~
publication ush 70 hIr. i.ciSd ~ lies ''7sd meg
-,sa ~ ag eas>, ,crf E'g-1r' TO- that 5u-po',.
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Healing the Rler. Of sennsi

To THE EpIrOE oF THESrS ST. IL ' Y
giving ia the West Point silent rebuse'
New NoRk. ember ~. Anxious
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The sp&pecaed. tine Thrice welcome


FroTs ne Warrington lIgv
Perhaps We greatest surprise catSssd by
TrIesdsya ballotinR 70 the complete clos
ing Of the Colonel's mouth The silence
thas peEvades &C Oyster Bay 10 fhe paoss
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Slnc.. the Tribune Yesterday conceded
he election - IN" Who'll. ticket ve pre-
sum. rh. cauga Gn hs- officially closed
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Prom me Go'awbia SrJiS
In the states where the sr-PTssid.nt
spoke he vas the advance agent Of disaster
to- his party
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A. m. heginning Of tho campaign IN Nsw
Jersey We -aluted the Hon VIVIAN "
IEwis 49, the handsome-t candidate who
had ever heen nominated for Governor
and tn" cordiality ~ his good wishes To-
the gentleman who rode full high ad-
vsnr-d on in. LANDSLIDE. which no Repub
Ir4n in New Jersey could have prevented.
reminded u- Of the hOmaly adag-, Hand
some ~ that handsome does
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Cnrgraf 4l,ttun from . defeat ted candidate Ia
TIE Irtp~ may be prrfunrtoTb but INC message
- NIyi,NN Ivvfa To GO, rtnOr -I-c' " iLsoS Of
N-U I--- -. VA Of = different sort u i snOvn
'l,- gentleman Nas elected ~ the GubeTnsto-isi
chair Eli ~ certain also that another gen tie man
'aII.rf TO reach n I'rIaasf rEtd fsgJ>r
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- Nnslly responds in kind
and TITS Queer SHAPE IL bu'
the erisna ton Of an s.rO
planetary mind
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BALBOA ry.

When neat YOU see . poem prir'~1
-'husly. and y its SHAPE creates 80
den doubt sNou' the sAnity % Ira roor Su'sss
please cast M dark slspicion prompt
out. FOR IN this age OF ds-inr -
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which rules the councils of Colorado s
political parties. That trail of blood and
shame, which shows clear through the
beautiful capital building in beautiful
Denver, is unquestionaby due primarily
to the determination of clique that the
people shall not rule. The interest of in
vestors supercedes democracy. The same
principle is precisely that which IS indi-
Gated by the story Of Schedule k the
wool tariff. Who made the tariff? Why
ask? II was the wool manufacturers in
league with the wool growers. The
aforesaid Senator Warren many times
a millionaire. is a great wool grower
with a quiet home in the bland city of
Cheyenne. Do your clothes cost too
much? Why not, since Mr.. Whitman,
the head of the wooden mills at Arlington
Mass, and Senator Warren, the western
sheep master. have practically dictated
the schedule? Why not, when the Sec
rotary of the revision committee was in
the pay of the said Mr.. Whitman regu-
larry reporting to him?
'Rejbice O young men in thy youth.
and let thy heart cheer thee in the days
of thy youth but know that for all
these things God will bring thee into
Judgment For the continuance of Gym
ical ana unpatriotic greed has at last
surpassed its youthful age, and its day
of Judgment for long time slumbereth
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LIVE TALKS WITH DEAD ONES-By Iruin S. Cobb

cigars and rides in large touring car.
Having none of those things myself, I
presume l was regarded as an impostcr
Nor did | feel myself qualified to pose as
a producing manager any more. | having
never worn my vest on backwards or mad
a wisp of hair hanging down on my brow
to stamp me as a genius. I was never
dragged with reluctant eagerness out on
the stage for a curtain call and, of course,
| could never achieve one of those perfect,
matchless, Belasco stage sunsets that are
such wonderful improvements over the
faulty efforts of nature along the same
line.
In my day we depended upon the act
ing to carry conviction, which, of course,
was our misfortune. The Lord Chamber
lain's humble servants. of whom | was
the humblest, sought to- SO enforce our
art upon the minds of those who came to
see thepoor players that our bare boards
would seem in their eyes the Forest of
Arden or the palace of the Doge, court
or a dungeon or a desert isle. We didn't
even have a press agent. or a trained
claque made up of the Palm-oil Brothers
to applaud our song hits. We didn't have
any stars to shine for us; but on he
other hand we didn't have any shines 10
star for us, either, which is something.
'Yet l admit that | cannot quarrel with
the assertions that | am no longer to ,,e
listed with the live ones, such as Bard
Gus Thomas and Bard Armstrong and
Bard Sam Harris. After taking a few
notes on the situation / find a six and
seven-eighths that fits me comfortably;
whereas before it took seven and a
quarter to accommodate my dome. For
example | am given to understand that
since Forbes Robertson abandoned my
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loaned the use of a small closet OPEN
ing off his suite of offices and | inter-
viewed the bard there. 1t was a very
good place, indeed, for such a purpose,
because if there had been a window in
the place we could have looked out of the
window and up Broadway to the modern
home of drama at Forty-second street.
in the Hotel Knickerbocker bar.
thought at first of getting Shakespeare's
views for the paper on some timely topic
of the day. say the meat strike, but I
happened to remember in time that men
ton of meat might call up in his mind
some unhappy memory, such as venison
or Bacon, and so in my questions l con-
fined myself to the drama.
Now let me see If | make you, said
Shakespeare, using, as you will observer
just as much slang as he ever did. II
gather that about the only places where 1
am supposed to enjoy my real popularity
are places where none of my plays are
ever acted anyhow-stop-on-si gnal-only
towns where a cuspidor is regarded as a
superfuous luxury in the winter If there
a hot stove handy, and the natives gather
at the postoffice on the day the New York
Weekly Tribune comes In and open their
copies and look at the editorial columns
and say to each other that Horace amt
writing the stuff ne oncet did-been sall-
ing off powerful in his work these last
few years. I know by my own observa-
tons that there's no niche here in New
York where | would fit In. / went around
to some of the managers offices incog.
but I couldn't get anybody to talk to me
except office boys | understand that
every recognized playwright wears a fur
trimmed overcoat, smokes illustrated
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part either in white spats and plug
hat OF a burlesque female costume-a
fatal defect, indeed.
Three hundred years ago when l. If
you will pardon the egotism was the
Theodore Gremer of my time, playgoers
were not so we'll educated-they were
satisfied merely with actors and plays
that held the mirror up to nature. Now,
you must have the problem play, which
tells a particularly nasty subject in a
nasty unpartlcuiar way; or else plays to
show what a frghtfully hard time a ce-
lestial visitor has in modern society.
Realism is the KEYNOTE can see that
If the scene is room in an apartment
house a stage hand stands in the wing
beating a piece of gaspipe with a tack
hammer to initiate the steam in the reg
listers which is realism and the true
Belaseos touch land. is admired as, such
by the audience. Or suppose it is a storm
at sea that is to be shown. An ocean
liner eleven feet long, which is crowded
to suffocation by the hero, the heroine,
the villain and one wireless operator,
ioggles up and down. three inches up and
then three inches down, and an electric
fan blows its song of death through her
riggins-she having two riggings, one fore
and one aft-and the property man
splashes up real water out of bucket,
and that is a magnificent triumph of
stage realism. Think, my young friend,
how bare and desolate and poor a thing
the stage was in my day, with none of
these splendid Illusions.
and yet In some respects l find that
the real art of acting, the true essence
of mimicry, has changed but little. For
example when character enters for
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the express purpose of finding a muir
dered person who is stretched out In
plain view down on the stage, he still
walks over him and around him and
looks up into the flies for him and
searches the wings for him and peers
behind the center table for him and
looks between the leaves of the family
Bible to see If he's hidden there, be-
fore ne finally glances down and be-
holds the victim of murder, and then
recoils with low, tense exclamation.
That was the way we did it at the
old Globe. Also a hero, to be a real
stage hero, must be of handsome APP
pearance but behave in such a way as
to carry the conviction that he has
quarter sawed golden oak intellect and
a mind good for nothing but to re-
ceive the wrong impression-all hard
wood and open, plumbing, as you might
say Twas the same with us in the
Elizabethan era. A comic character
drinking prop wine from an empty
hartshorn bottle must rub his stomach
with a circular motion with his free
hand, all the while, and then say
'Ah-h-h,' like that smacking the lips
loudly. That was trick l borrowed
from Marlowe, who borrowed it from
rowed it, so I've heard, from the
players who played before Cheops at
the stag social, following the formal
corner stone laying of the first pyra-
mid, by the local Masonic lodge [
don't know who they got it from
Moses probably. | note that in clasp
ing heroine's hand a stage lover still
follows the custom of Selling one of
hers in both of his. and then applying
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great tragedy-at least | once rated it a
great in my own mind-to double in a
clean shave and a cape overcoat as the
Heavenly Golddust Twins of a symbolic
drama. the only Hamlet that has been
seen on your stage was a tabloid version
tried out in vaudeville. 1t went on late
between Gezookums, the Comic Juggler,
and Madame Eczema S Troupe of Trained
Performing Fever Worms, and was not
an unqualified success. 1t seems that
when the ghosts of Hamlet's father walk
ed out most of the audience initiated MIN,
and so it was withdrawn after the second
performance. But the Feverworm
Troupe ] understand signed up for forty
two weeks on consolidated time at III
creased rates.
81 learn that an effort was made to
adopt my play of Romeo and Juliet
to the moving picture houses but it
failed to draw like the Great American
Train Robbery which was also put out
about the same time and was severely
attacked by the critics who review the
film first nights for your leading dra-
matte papers. Nobody apparently in this
generation cares for Mad Lear when
they can hear the Last rawlings of John
Mccullough on a monograph for cents.
The project which one leading manager
considered of making my Merchant of
Venice into a rafting up-to-date farce
with Shylock played as comic Hebrew
by Sam Bernard and Portia a mod
ern Suffragette by May Irwin, has, hear,
fallen through. Even the character of
Falstaff, a character which | don't mind
telling you I thought pretty well of
when | was writing it, failed entirely
when made into a musical comedy role,
because it was impossible to dress the
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are out for the blood of all that opposes
the pure American doctrine of govern
ment for the people and by the people,
Hence they are keen on the scent of
corruption. Here I sit in a country hotel
and turn the pages of the March Every
body's. 1t is a number as large and i'm
pressive as the Century used TO be, and
much more interesting than when Mr..
William Dean Howells was the main
attraction of that high-prieed periodical.
And it is shining example of con-
siderable group
Vulgar? Certainly. there's an unmistak-
able tendency here to call. a spade a
spade, and the necessity of making an
impression and winning the applause of
the readers is very obvious. The editor
stands, as it were. cap in hand, waving
us toward his wares, and saying, Il trust
| Ahave a collection of literary charms
which will please you! For the editor
is plainly thinking of circulation and the
dividends that must be earned. But see
what in his editorial wisdom he selects
as good copy, Be sure he is shrewd
enough to know what the argus-eyed
public is looking for and is willing to pay
for at the rate of $1.50 year.
Well, there is the usual quantity of
more or less breezy fiction We take
that for granted. Just such fiction can
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a living as a professional driver on the
trotting race course. In a few days King
asked the lordly New Yorker 10 drive with
him and give his opinion of pair of
fine horses, excellent matches, he had
just bought The Senate adjourned early
that day. and about 8 p. m. they started,
King driving.
After driving through the streets for
an hour or more they went out to Cabin
John Bridge. and there King opened his
budget and offered Conxling the presi-
dency as a gift from the bitterest enemy
he bad in the world. Conlxling spoke not
a word, but his jaws came together with
a snap He reached over, took the lines
from Kings hands, turned the horses
toward the city. and like Jehu they went
till they arrived at Wormley's, where
Conkling lived. Leaping from the car
riage Conklng threw the lines to King
with these words: AN admirable pair
of horses. King William; | envy you the
ownership of them.' And then he entered
the hotel. and that was all King ever got
out of him. OF course the thing would
not have been proffered had not Blaine
known the man. known that he would so
to the stake sooner than betray Grant.
known that he would go to the grave
rather than take the presidency as gift
from the man he had denounced to his
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Garfield was elected mainly through
the stupidity of the democrats who
threw away the rape of the presidency
as the paramount and substituted the
1929 Garfield got as dividends on stock
in the corrupt Credit Mobilier concern.
In September Maine, Blaine's own
state. defeated the republican candidate
for governor and Garfield appeared hope
lessly beaten. Then it WIS that Con<-
ling returned TO his clients $4,000 re-
tanners given him for services at tile bar
that fall and plunged into the campaign
for the party. Never was there any,
thing like it-not even in 1910 or 1865 lie
was the first personality In public life,
and perhaps the ablest. He was un-
rlvaled as an orator. He restored the
battle and snatched victory from the jaws
of defeat.
What happened? Garfield said that ev.
cry man chosen President in November
ought 10 go through a court of political
bankruIHcy before March. That meant
Blaine. Who had saved him in that Credit
Mobiler affair. was not to dominate him.
But Blaine did dominate him, and de-
manded Conkling's head. He got it. IT,
is the most miserable episode in Ameri-
can political history-the malice of Blaine
and the ingratitude of Garfield, the
spring of 1881. / shall pursue this theme
further ere long.
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serted him, wrote the acts of the Apos-
ties which is largely made up of the
life and labors of Paul. and yet you cam
not learn from Luke that Paul ever
wrote a line.
2. We have here the only bit of
literary criticism that occurs in the New
Testament Peter distinctly expressed
adjudgment upon Paurs style of writing,
when he tells US that some of Paups
writings ''are hard to be understood"
The criticism is just Nobody knows
what Paul means by saying that a wo-
man ought to have power on her head
because of the angels; nor does any CONF
mentator know what he means by bap-
tizlng for the dead. Does the seventh
chapter of Romans describe states of
mind and heart actually and personally
experienced by the apostles? And If so
did these experiences precede, or did they
succeed his conversion? What did he
mean by the thorn In the flesh the mes
senger of Satan to buffet him? The man
who imagines that he can give a salts
factory answer to these questions is vio-
lating the apostles injunction, not to
think of himself more highly than he
ought to think. but to think soberly.
Note, however, that Peters criticism
uOcS iOi Apply " tnc WuOlt VI dul >
writings, but only to some things In those
writings. The great body of Pauls writ
ings are thoroughly practical, and can be
understood by any average man that
really cares to understand them SO you
cannot dodge your duty by hiding under
the obscurities of Pauls style.
5. This Is the only place in which the
term Scriptures" is applied by New
Testament writer to any writings outside
of the Old Testament. When Christ and
the apostles use the word Scriptures"
they mean. In every case but this. the
Old Testament Here. and here alone,
the writings of Paul are ranked with the
other Scriptures.
Let me close with one or two prac-
teal lessons:
l. In your attempts at interpreting the
New Testament don't apply to the writ
ers the literary canons which prevail in
our day. Those writers lived in liter
airy environment vastly different from
ours, and you cannot safely argue from
one to the other.
2. Do your best to learn what can be
known of the literary environment of the
apostolic age, and don't imagine that the
apostles did not have as much sense as
You have.