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The Realistic Roulette Spin
ner of Experience TwirIed
at Monte Carlo.

Billy had learned to spin the ivory bali
and call out "Twenty-three and the
red!"
After that il was Good night. nurse, -
for a man with the gambling fever. II
Virginia closed up things tght, New
York didn't, and this way came the am
bilious Mr.. Belts and wha. remained
OF his bank roll. At rrst he played
roulette from the ground as an out
slider and il was only when he realized
thar his roll was rapidly disappearing
he perceived the careful percent
age in favor of the house and against
the player. Thereupon he made ar
rangements to return to the job of
being a croupier, that is. spinning the
wheel and acting as the bank.
81 don't like to talk any too much
about that period of my life said Mr.
Belts last week, between acts at the
Casino: New York has been "A pretty
wide open town, but II isn't So any
more When things got too hot dozen
years ago, after the raid on Canfields
place. a lot OF us hilled over to Europe
| couldn't talk French, but ! picked up
the numbers and the colOrs and a little
patter. and so could manage To get
along ] spun the ivory in Paris and
put in two summers at Monte Carlo
Being a croupier on the other side II
vastly differen; from what it Is in New
York over there they pay the croupieI
salary of S25 day and he hasn't a
. chance to make false move. The cash
is handled by some one else and all he
handles is the chips. All the time he Is
under the watchful eye Of commits
sionnare. In Paris it is the same way -
SO much per night and the boss looking
on so close no one could double cross
him
Here in New York most OF the mer
who spin the ball have an interest In
the game Maybe it Is only nth or a
| fourth, bw 1t is enough OF an interest
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and talking to the baby in her arms rs
she faces a strange world Is the only
solution Of the plav that could have
satisfied anybody. Anything like a con-
ventional happy ending would here have
robbed the drama Of ali its significance
Had the uhlan returned, married the
grin the language OF life-and car
ried her away TO live happily ever af-
terward in Berlin on Neutrality-suspicious.
ind Gaensebrust, could any fate have
been more contrary to the spirit Of the
pay? 1t ended most happily on an I'M
resolved chord.
Mr.. Knoblauch's language, It seems
might have been a little more poetic
allowed some room for fancy, some de-
parture from the purely commonplace
speeches in which the characters ex-
pressed themselves. II was possibly the
result Of the authors struggle for sim
plicity that led the characters to speak
in such prosalc fashion. one longel
for some fight into another ether But
the men and women kept their feet well
on the ground.
The language OF The Shadow" is in
the main well chosen by Michael Nor
ton, who made the translation from the
French But either he or Mr.. McRae
does not know the difference between
the meaning of avoid and prevent"
TO judge by Mr. Mcliae's speech In the
last act.
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Words Concerning "Androcles
and the Lion Prepared
by the Author.

men met lions in the arena from first
to last, 1t Is not too much to ask you to
believe that just for once they turned
out to be old friends.
II the author is asked why he made
Androcles "A Christian he can only ask
why not. ST. Francis prea ched to the
birds as his little brothers." and st.
Francis was Christian. ST. Anthony
preached to the fishes, who proba bly,
understood at least as much Of his
sermon as a modern fashionable con-
gregation would have done and St. An
thony was n Christian. Depend on II
Androcles had that root of the religious
matter in him which made all religions
free TO him except the religion of
hunting and killing That Is, the re-
ligion of the English country house.
But the twentieth century Christian
need not regard the Christianity OF the
early Christian martyrs as having much
to do with his safe and emineptly re-
spectacle Sunday profession of faith.
Christians in those days We're neither
safe nor respectable. What is more
some OF the most eminent Christians
were by no means fond Of the average
Christians of their time. The author
once dSktu ON olu ''Ntnllt SOCldllSl
why he had given up socialism. lle
replied that after preaching It for some
years he had noticed that ii seemed
to have a very bad effect on the moral
character of those who gave themselves
up to It's propaganda. The same may
be said of all III prosecuted creeds
A doctrine may be true and important
and its prosecutors may DE altogether
in the wrong, but this makes the posi-
tiOn Of the man who Is prosecuted for
propagating il all the more morbid
one sane man in lunatic asylum
can no more keep his normal health
and temper than one lunatic in "A com
sell de prudhommes. Add to this con-
sideration the fact that all movements
which attack the existing state of So
ciety attract both the people who are
not good enough for the world and the
people for whom the world is not good
enough, so that the saint is always en-
barrassed by finding that the dynamiteI
and the assassin, the thief and the
libertine, make common cause with him
and you viii not be surprised TO learn
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IL YOU do not know it already, that
early Christians. like st. Augustine.
have a good many stories 10 TED of
Christians who thoroughly deserved
their evil reputation. The character
OF SpinthO in the present play is by
no means a malicious invention OF the
authors. Indeed. had he gone on To
exhibit SpiHthO as having taken the
precaution to marry an orthodox Ro-
man in order to shirk the Christian
obligation to practise Communism, and
as ostentatiously giving the lady black
eyes to show how his conjugal duties
revolted his ascetic nature there would
have been warrant for that, too, and
worse. in the records Of the Fathers or
the Church.
"In representing a Roman centurion
and a Roman captain Ga pure inven-
tion) as corresponding TO a British SER
geant and a British company officer
some violence may or may not have
been done to the petty accuacics OF
military history. Centurions were much
chaffed in Rome as being mostly thick
booted, vulgar persons, whacking their
men with winewood cudgels and out OF
place in refined society; and tho nearest
thing 10 a modern captain as far as
rank was concerned was probably not
much more OF a patrician. The pa
trician soldier was not a professional
soldier: he commanded armies or
adorned Senates or governed provinces
as part of the natural pursuits OF a pa
trf,ian. But the relation OF patrican
officer To plcbeian routineer eNisted'a as IL
exists to-day; and whether my captain
should have been called something else,
OF my Centurion a Decurion, does not
trouble me any more than the old con-
trOversy aa to whether the audience
turned their thumbs up or down When
they wanted a defeated gladiator slain.
In short, II YOU demand my author-
tiles for this or that | must reply that
only those who have never hunted up
the authorities as | have believe that
there is any authority who Is not con-
tradcted flatly by some other authority.
Marshall Junot, reproached for having
no respect for ancestry, said thar he
was An ancestor himself. In the same
spirit | point out that the authorities
on the story OF Androcles and on ths
history OF the early Christian martyrs
are the people who have written about
them; and now that |, too, have wRitten
about them, | take my place as tho
latest authority on the subject ana AJAX
you TO respect me accordingly"
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THE HEROINE OF A PLAY.
Irene Fenwici. la n serious Ora ma
Succeeds We'll.

Succeeds We'll.
Just now the heroine of "The Song
Of Songs" is meeting with the eN-
perienCe that other fortunate actresses
in New York encounter. She is the
heroine of a successful play. All that
she does, therefore, rebounds to her
credit. She might have acted quite
as well In drama that met with no
success, although her own share In IL
was superb. Just now she is. as the
heroine of the play at the Eltinge The
atre, deserving all possible benefit from
her talent.
Irene Fenwick was Irene Frizelle
when Henry w. Savage gave her a
position as chorus girl in Peggy From
Paris" and 1t wasn't long before she
had small part with Frank Daniels
in The Office Boy" and later with
Lulu Glaser in Just One Of the Boys"
But this young girl, born in Chicago
and educated in n convent school at
South Bend, didn't want to stay in
musical comedy. She had higher ideals
and so she wrote to Charles Frohman,
who was in London, and Mr.. Frohman,
who had heard of her from other
sources, replied that on his return to
New York he'd see her. But l-ree'-nee
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How far realism is demanded on the
stage to-day is instanced by the fact
that in Experience, the George V. Ho-
bart morality drama now being pre-
Sonlcd at the Casino by William Elliott,
II was thought necessary to engage =
real roulette croupicr to handle the big
scene in The Corridors OF Chance" as
tine programme describes the gambling
incident And probably few of those
VINO have seen this wonderful play dur
ing its long run in New York haze
N""n that the corpulent gentleman
Who spins the ivory ball SO nonchal-
'nily and ralies in the chips of the
.osors Is in reality one OF the best known
cr"upiers in the world.
His name is Billy Belts; he weighs
go pounds; he is 50 years old but
doesn't look 1t, and he has gambled all
over the world for the past thirty years.
No" he says he has taken the biggest
gambling chance he ever took in his
"'" 10y becoming an actor--and has won
because he has made good and car
i."s off the big gambling scene with just
Do" right dramatic touch, when Youth,
after winning amid the gay crowd o.
pressure seekers, finally loses his last
u''lar and is turned from the Primrose
ram 10y the suicide of Despair.
MI Betts-he gets offended II any one
c'Iis him anything except Billy-was
born and raised down i'm Virginia. In
it Younger days gambling fiourishel
pretty wide open in his neighborhood
youth poker and faro became
household words for him. Then one
@H' ~ a rH-dnOuse he was initiated
..'. the mysteries of roulette. There
Va notorious gambling house oper-
N'"h IN defiance OF the county authori-
.'- at "a village named Falls Church
ITS visited Their" a number OF times
WIS lucky, like all beginners, and soon
h"'. such a stake that he went to the
h""r'"t"r ard bought 90 on - half in
''"oI Things were going swimmingiy
"''n the sheriff came along and
grabbed the outfit, but in the meantime
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~ LAWRENCE RENMER.

THE psychology Of the mob is no.
whore more battling than in the
theatre. Ii was not alone the
dramatic critic who should have
been pictured by Robert Hichens run
nng after the crowd and trying To
beckon Il in one direction while i kept
imperturbably on in another. There
should have been in the society of the
critic. TO whom little attention is paid.
the dramatist. the manager and the
actor. Yet this union would not have
been any more effective. The public
keeps on its inscrutabe and determined
way, But it seems possible to conclude
from several plays seen here this year
that there is again a demand for the
drama once called emotional which de-
ponds on its interest from the emo
tional adventures OF a woman.
THE Hawk" with its suggestion of
the feverish romanticism of Belot and
his contemporaries, although the play
lacked the technical skill of those writ
ers was the first drama of the season
10 suggest that there was again a taste
for plays Of this kind. Then came
That Sort" which was modelled d.
rectly on the plan of the amatory drama
Of the late '7Os, but unfortunately so
amateurish in form that II barely lived
through a week or two. BY its form
= included indifference TO certain
laws Of reason. In this drama the hero
me was altogether unreasonable. Mar
Garct Illng;on's great success in The
Lie is further evidence Of new inter-
est in these pieces. although Henry Ar
thur Jones has not Of course departed
in the least from his altogether made
In England pattern.
Now comes THE Shadows" Darlo
NIcodemi has In none Of his previous
pays shown the same sense Of the
stage which is revealed in this really
Interesting work. No detail Of the PLAY
q, the Empire Theatre is more satisfy
ing than its logical ending. The wife
j, for SIX years, finds that her husband
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THE WEEKS CHANGES.

so Much for So Much" Willard
Macll's drama of middle class life in Ne
York. will be seen at the Bronx Opera
House next week. Marjorie Rambeau
has the leading role and all who go 10
see this interesting play will certainly
light in her agreeable acting Then
she is a very charming figure to con-
template MIR. Macks play will havs
had a long run in Greater New York
before 1t takes 10 the road.
Marie Tempest is returning on Mon
day to New York and will act in THE
Marriage OF Kitty" and The Dumb and
the Blind" at the Standard. The COM
pany associated with her will be the same
that was seen during her successful sea-
son at the Comedy Theatre. This viii
he Miss Tempest's last engagement in
New York this season.
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THE WEEK IN THE
THEATRE.

Ballet, Shakespeare and q New
English Play to Be Acted.
TUESDAY - Century Ope'ts
House-Anns Pavlowa opens
her season of Russian ballet
with Volinine and Cuisine.
Forty-fourth Street Theatre
Robert Mantell in King
John" Four weeks season of
Shakespeare.
THURSDAY-Comedy Theatre
William A. Brady produces
THE White Feather"
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DRAMATIC SCHOOL GIVES PLAYS.

The students of the American Acad-
envy of Dramatic Arts and the Empire
Theatre Dramatic School gave their sec
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is in love with another and Is the father
vi child by this woman. There is Of
course nothing left for her to do but to
allow the man TO have divorce and
legitimatize his son--the son moreover
of his mistress and not OF his invalid
wife. Any attempt to compromise with
the facts would have reduced what had
been vital and moving episode to the
most theatrical banality. But the au.
thor resisted that temptation If he felt
it. There was not the happy ending
Of the conventional kind. Such would
have been the reunion OF the wife and
the husband. But that did not happen.
The young husband had the opportunity
to wed a healthy woman suited to him.
After all that really was the happy
ending for 1t was the conclusion that
the public wanted. Sympathy had
rather departed from the wife in the
final act. The mistress made out such
a good case for herself that she seemed
to deserve the man who had loved her
So much.
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one Of the advantages OF Marie
ode" is its altogether plausible end
ing. Nobody would he bold enough TO
say that everything in Mr.. Knoblauch's
war time idyl is plausible. Their,
would be no romance and less poetry in
the novice leaving the convent grooming
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06
BERNIE HUGHES VICTIM
OF PAINFUL ACCIDENT.

Bernie Hughes, superintendent
of the local light and power plant
was the victim OF a painful and
serious accident, which occurred
Saturday morning about III o.
clock. He was looking after some
adjustment on the ammonia tank,
which is a part of the lee maxi
ing machinery, when the glass
guage, similar to that on steam
boiler. bursted and filled his face
and eyes with hot ammonia. Or
course, he was temporarily blind
ed and had to be led out by his CO.
workers who responded TO his
call for help.
The full extent of his injuries
cannot yet be determined, accord
ing to his physician, DR.. Chas.
Curtin. With such an accident
there is a possibility of total loss
of sight. He has suffered IN
tense pain in his eyes, while the
face, though blistered, is not
such a serious matter.
The force with which the IL
quid struck was terrific, being UNI
der a pressure of ITO pounds.
Mr.. Hughes speedy recovery
is hoped for by his many friends
here
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06
MRS. AMMAN z. BALLoW
IS CALLED TO REST.

Mrs. Annah Eliza Ballow, be-
loved wife of John w. Ballow,
died at her home near this city,
Friday, April Both, after a long
illness of rheumatic fever.
In the midst of scores Of life
long friends and relatives the
remains were laid TO rest at Pop
lar Grove cemetery Saturday az
ternoon at 4 o'clock, with ser
vices conducted by Rev. G. y.
Austin, of Henry Station, Tenn.
Mrs. Ballow is survived by her
husband and four daughters. The
daughters are Mrs. Ida Wheeler.
of Hickman; Mrs. Rosa Saunders,
of jackson, Tenn. Mrs. Emma
White, of Union City; and Miss
Annie Ballow, of Hickman. There
are also large number of other
relatives throughout this section.
Mrs. Ballow was born Nov. IL
1874, on the farm where she died,
and was reared, of course, IN
Fulton county. Her whole life
has been one long, living exam
pie of christian womanhood -
pure, gentle, charitable - anJ
crowned with all the honOrs OF
love and yeneration, TO whic.
she was so justly entitled. Not
only the family, but hosts O
friends will feel most keenly hel
loss. In early life, deceased
united with the Christian church
and she held steadfastly and sin
cerely to the faith, true to hel
God, her neighbors, loved one
and TO herself. There was NJ
better woman. She was loved
revered by all who knew her. Tn
memory of her well rounded life
replete with the beautiful charac
terlstics that go TO make up Tn
truest and best of wives an
mothers, is left to those tina
mourn as a priceless heritage.
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06
TRIBUTE TO GEN. TYLER.

General Henry a. Tyler, brief
account of whose life and career
appears elsewhere in this issue,
was a man of heroic mold. In
his person, he was the incarnation
of the spirit of chivalry, OF
knighthoOd, and of the ideals of
the most ambitious SOutherner.
He was an ideal soldier, the first
among the boldest and most dar-
ing sons of Mars for whom dan
ger had no terrors. He was
stern as the sternest Roman that
ever lived. But this was only his
rugged exterior His heart was
gentle and tender and kind. HIS
mind was east in big, broad
mold. He was not only the ideal
soldier. but the ideal citizen, bus
mess man and philanthropist.
He was brim full of good demo
cratic feeling. Though himself an
aristocrat, wealthy, successful and
of national prestige and fame,
yet he hobnobbed and joked and
made himself friendly with any
body, no matter how humble OF
obscure their rank or station n
life. The word magnanmou'
conveys the proper idea of Gen
lTyler's character. Though h
was gallant as any knight tina
ever carried a lance, still he wa
a wise practicable man who coul'
shrewdly and with effect adap
means 10 ends. We have N
doubt that great cloud o
mighty and potential spirits, tn
spirits of the choicest and mobiles
heroes of the South, gathered a
round General Tyler when HI
soul was ushered into the othe
world and welcomed him DIR. i
IN. McRee zone of the honorar.
pail bearers tells us that tire
wagons were required to conye
the floral emblems from the maj
sions. lakewood, to the cem'
tery.-Union City News-Banner.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06
MAN TAKES HIS OWN MEDI-
CINE is AN OPTIMIST.

lie has absolute faith in his med
icine-he knows when he takes 1t
for certain ailments he gets re
lief. People who take DR.
Kings New Discovery for an lr-
ritatng Cold are optimists-they
know this cough remedy will pen
citrate the Innings OF the throat,
kill the germs, and open the way
for Nature to act. You can I de-
stroy a Cold by superficial treat
ment-you must 90 to the cause
of the trouble. BE an optlmlsl
Get a bottle of DR.. Kings New
Discovery today. (Advt)
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WHOLE FAMILY DEPENDENT

Mr. f. Williams, Hamilton,
Ohio. writes Our whole family
depends on Pine-Tar-Honey. "
Maybe someone in you family has
a severe Cold-perhaps 1T is the
baby. The original DIR. Bell 5
Pine Tar Honey is an ever ready
household remedy-it gives I'M
mediate relief. Pine-Tar-Honcy
penetrates the Innings of the
Throat and Lungs, destroys the
Germs, and allows Nature TO act
At your druggist 25c. (AdvtJ
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When the baby takes too muen
food the stomach turns, the re,
suit is Indigestion, sourness ana
vomiting. Frequently the bowels
are involved and there is col iS,
pains and diarrhoea. McGEES
BABY ELIXIR is a grand cor
receive remedy for the stomach
and bowel disorders of babies. IL
is pure, wholesome and pleasant
10 take. Price Doe and 5Oc per
bottle. Sold by Hickman Drug
Co. NAu'")
Gosh, niger, what's dat you
goti A load of de best groceries
You eber saw. If dat's the case
II guess dey come from BetterS
worth's.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06
HAILEWELL LOSES P. o.

When V. o. Clarke closed his
store a week ago, Hailewell was
left without a post office. The
Star Route, which handled the
mails between Columbus and
Ilailewell has been abandoned
and everybody in the Hailewell
neighborhood must either get hls
mail at Oakton or at Columbus"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06
GOOD OIL PROSPECTS.

Capt. j. W. Scott, the Pitts
burg oil man, now looking over
Reelfoot Lake oil fields, says that
to a trained eye there are many
things to indicate that oil might
be found in that territory lie
says the topography of the coun-
try is precisely like the topogra-
ply of the country where mil
lions have been made.
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CARD OF THANKS.

The undersigned wish to thank
most sincerely the friends and
neighbors, who so kindly assist
ed us during the illness and death
of wife and mother, and trust
that each of you may long be
spared such sorrow.-J. W. Bal
low and Children.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06
BURRELL WILL SPEAK.

Gov. Engineer has speaking
dates, ON the road proposition, as
follows
Thursday night at Farlyiew
FRIDAY night at Sassafras Ridge
Saturday night at Graves. lie
will also deliver an address at
Hickman next Saturday after
noon
During the past three days he
spoke at Simmons, Montgomery
and Rush Greek
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06
wALLoPED THE LOCALS.

The Hickman College Basket
Bail was defeated here Friday al
ternoon by the Fulton high
school girls to the tune of 300.
While the game a little one
sided. il was interesting from
start to finish, and when the To-
Gals have had as much practice as
the Fulton team, we predict an
altogether different score.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-05-06

c. s. Patterson tells us that cG'
worms are doing considerable
damage to cabbage and tomatoes
in his section.
Breakfast delight coffee. =
Eel 4 Son.