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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26
~ LAWRENCE REAMER.

ny LAWRENN VEANER
TINE plays Of the late Stephen
Philips never gained any fol-
lowing for the poet in the
theatre, although their beauty gath
cred Of course an army OF admirers
for the poetic genius OF the writer.
Charles Frohman was for some ga
son vastly interested in Ulysses"
which he saw in London just as he
first made the acquaintance OF half
the dramas he produced. At the Gar
den Theatre here as capable "A COM
tany Of actors who can play poetic
drama as II is possible to collect on
the American stage to-day struggled
TO do what il could with the authors
work. Naturally the drama. whatever
It's effect may have been under other
cIclmtances. did not win approval
irc
Elr Mr.. Frohman liked the play
nnl he paid for this affection. as he
made every effort TO attract the pub
rc to his point # view. but the game
AFR a wh..e hecan 10 he worth less
:lta the candle and ne disbanded the
company.
William Faversham satisfied his am
t.ton To he a poetic actor 10y pro-
doing "Ilerod' at the Lyric Theatre
with remarkable pictorial effectiveness
end a complete realization Of certain
values in the drama. Then Henry b.
irving gave ''Paolo and Francesca"
b., il is doubtful If any single pro-
d4ctlon of the play wriaht's work eve
met with financial success, whatever
NAV have been the dissatisfaction of
the who added such lus,re
to his reputation as to put one or
these dramas before the public. II
10 certain that Charles Frohman. who
vas willing to lose his money in n
good cause, never regretted the S'O,-
900. more or less. that his fancy for
Ulysses is said to have cost him.
Whether or not the demand for the
poetic drama Is a thing of the past In
this country or not. 1t is not possible 10
say. Il is certainly true, however. hat
Few Of them can be recalled which
have met with any degree OF favor
Iet they had Q following in other
countries. Francois Coppee with his
"par Ia Glaive" and the other pseudo
Roman,icists find a public In Paris
although much of their composition is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26

Harris Theatre on TUESDAY night the
the play which Edith Ellis has made
u Of william Is. Maxwells novel
The Devils Garden" The principal
roles will he acted by Lyn Harding,
Lillian Albertson, Geraldine O'Brien.
Charles W. Butler, Alice Butler, Rhoda
Beresford, Frederick ADVERSELY and
others. Robert Jones has designed the
scenery
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26
PLAYS FOR THE NEW YEAR.

MONDAY-The Cohan Theatre-Otis Skinner appears in Cock o
the Walk" a play of English stage life by Henry Arthur Jones,
with Janet Dunbar and Vernon Steel in the leading roles.
TUESDAY-Harrs Theatre-Arthur Hopkins will present THE
Devils Garden" a dramatic version of the novel of the same name
by William B. Maxwell. Edith Ellis made the play, in which
Lyn Harding will have the leading role.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26

The vanity. conCeit. cup.d!ty and pom
posity OF the modern actor-manager is
scored again and again.
Janet Dunbar and Vernon Steel are
in Mr., SINNERS Company.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26

Sarah B~ernhardt, who is now IN the
public mind, mad the coup of her
business If not of her artistic career
when she associated herself with Vic
torien Sardou. out Of this union there
came the long series of plays which
made the fortune of both of them, al
though in the case OF the actress
prosperity and bankruptcy alternated
with such swiftness that her earn
ings were never a matter Of enduring
importance. The situation out OF
which this combination OF unusual
talents grew may soon he repeated in
France. The end of the Franco-Prus-
sian war had come. PHILIPPE DEN
merry had conceived the stroke of gem
JUS which made him the dramatist of
the most popular fiction Of the day
the novels OF Jules Verne. Out of
around the World in Eighty Days"
Michael Strogof" and the rest Of this
thrilling theatre there came a fortune
Cor the two.
OF course. IL was easy to say that
the art Of Sarah Bernhard had de-
Perforated and that she was no longer
the Sarah Of the earlier years. But
she snarled and cooed her way over
the world as those various incarna-
lions of passionate womanhood that
Sardou designed for her, whether it
were a Romanoff princess, a Byzan-
tine empress or an Italian singer.
Of course, Sardou anne in for his
share Of equally bitter criticism. He
had sold his literary birthrlght to Mt
plays 10 the genius of Sarah and they
showed no trace Of the humanity that
his plays OF the Second Empire, such
az the Benoiton series, La Maison
| Neuve" and the others had revealed
when in addition to being plays they
were n criticism on society.
But It was the union Of the two
that carried the fame OF SardOu and
Bernhard over the world. Each cor
tributed to this success, and It would
have beer impossible to either alone,
All that was said about the scting of
Sarah Bernhard may ut times have
been true. But she showed a complete
mower Of recovering her technical
met hods when they were required. On
ner last appearances here In vaude-
vile theatres 1t was not possible ia
say anything favorable Of her APP
~n,arances. There was no suggestion
Of the great woman of the past. But
on her previous engagement at ths
Globe Theatre she played with exquis'
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dreary and academic enough. certainly
not so fine as The work OF Philips at
his best. Modern romantic German
drama IL rather IA dreadful thing. but
ii is scarcely any worse than its prede-
cessors of, say, half a century @
What the Italians. such as Giacom-
matt, for instance. can accomplish in
the way of banality and dreariness
when they set out TO, their historical
plays have shown.
The English dramas of a poetic
form may not to-day he as effective
dramatically as those of an earlier
period, hut they are vastly moe in
teresting. The Wife" is no more i'm
possible according to our present ideas
than The Hunchhack." and is lingo
mar any less tiresone than either of
them? Venice Preserved" has a Ger
tain archaic grandeur to this day. but
II Is not IN the least certain thai an
audience to-day could sit through it
with a straight face in spite Of the So
called modern note in Otway which
sympathetic students have discovered.
Dreary and bombastlc old plays they
are down to the beginning of the last
century. and better ever than the best
of the old ones are such subltmated
melodramas as "Belphegor' and its
school. And there is as little for the
present day in these pieces as in the
tragedy OF a century older.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11
GOOD TEETH ARE ESSENTIAL re
GOOD SCHOLARSHIP, DEN
lists SAY.

Many persons are familiar with the
old practice of looking at a horses
teeth TO tell its age, but representa-
tives Of the Des Moines dental asso-
citation sprung new one on the
school board, says the Daily Capital,
when uey declared that il is possi-
bic to make fair guess as to child's
mental ability by looking in its mouth.
The dentists presented figures CLEAN
cd from the examination of the school
children in other cities to show that
it Is an established fact that there
Is l. certain relationship between the
condition Of d youngsters teeth and
his standing in his classes.
They told the board that children
with BAD teeth get habit Of boiling
their food. This means improper
ncu,ishnent, which in the end results
in lowered vitality and mind power
1t IS entirely possible that hundreds
OK little Willies have been spanked
IN the past for disinclination to
study when what they needed was the
kind Offices Of dentist
The dentists asked the board to
make provision for dental clinic as
II part af the health service of the
schools !. is their plan to have the
teeth Of every child examined and to
d. tie Genital work free at the clinic
for those who are unable financially
to have it done. A special committee
was appointed to confer with the den
fists to ascertain the cost Of installing
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

Don't overlook the good work of the
late board of trade. The Fort Lewis
school will be one of the shining
marks in years to come of the organ
ization. Again, the board of trade
was active in the formation of the
Spanish Trali-Grand Canyon highway
which passes through this city and
which will detour many hundreds of
automobile parties making the Paci-
fic coast trip. All that is necessary
in this connection Mt this time is to
advertise the fact and see that the
various counties along the line hurry
up and assist in the work of COM
pleting the road and keeping it in
repair.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

The completion of the state high
way link between Pagosa Springs and
the San Luis valley is not the only
thing necehsary to induce travel. 1t
viii be necessary to keep the road in
recent condition. Care should be ex-
ercised by county officials. Mud holes
and dangerous places should be look
ed after without delay. A few auto
parties can give the highway bad
name as bad news travels fast, while
good news goes by freight. We hap
pened to visit Pagosa Springs last
August when there were several very
bad mudholes on the divide between
the Piedra and Dyke. Twenty-Five
dollars in labor would have filled in
the bad places.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

AS the police appear to be inef-
fective the district attorneys office in
Denver is kept pretty busy in raid
ing saloons and beer resorts violat-
ing the midnight and Sunday closing
laws, and from the reports in Den
ver's papers law violations appear to
be the favorite pastime. Different
in Durango, where IL o'clock finds the
doors of every drinking establishment
secretly locked and where sugges-
tion to play friendly game Of stuff
for 25 cents on the corner is frowned
upon. In the glorious San Juan basin
the people live together in peace and
harmony, realizing the laws were
made to be obeyed without question.
Blessed Durango.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

The terrible condition at the state
insane asylum is directly chargeable
TO the Shafroth-Thomas political re-
form system. If there is any place
in the state that has not suffered
through the four years of Honest
John" we would like to have some one
come forward with the name. The
eyes of the voters were opened to the
truth last November and when Shaf-
roth bobs up for reelection what the
voters will do TO him would not sound
well in print.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

over carefully, and the 100000
900 disbursement was decided
upon unanimously.
The company has no bonded in
debtedness. The earnings repre-
sented in the surplus rightfully
belong to the common stockhold-
ers.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. has had
remarkable career of progress
since it was incorporated, less
than nine years ago. Within that
period the yearly sales have
grown from less than $50,000,-
900 to $101 100000.
Wonder how many of our reader
helped to contribute to this juic,
melon? Half of the $2O,000,000 divi
dend came from the men and womel
who impoverished their home, mer
chants, curtailed road improvement
and diminished school efficiency. Pa
tronizing Sears, Roebuck g. Co. ma,
directly save the patron a dollar o
two but in the long run it prove
very expensive, curtailing the hom
market for farm products thus dim
inishing the ability to pay taxes an
the improvement of schools, road.
etc.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11
o. s. GALBREATH WRITES
FROM THE NORTHWEST
(From o. S. G.)

Tello, there Durango, beautious
queen of the golden San Juan basin,
how's your liver? If you are not on
the Crouch would like to cnin-chin
you about nothing in particular Be
comes easier than falling off log
for "feller" who has lived in that
section for more than thirty years of
his Improbable existence, to agree
with everybody else who has ever liy.
ed there, that it's wonderfully splen-
did place to "hold out" In fact, it's
hard to solve the proposition ,"why
will you leave there to 90 elsewhere 2"
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11
COURAGE is COMMON IN THIS
WAR.

LONDON, Feb. 11th.-Every Eng
lishman knows how to die bravely.
The Irish, Scotch and English soldiers
face the bayonets, the machine guns
as though out on dress parade. 1t is
the men who sicken and die in the
trenches, or at home after an arduous
campaign that our sympathy goes out
to most. There are thousands of
such men behind the battle lines who
went to the front without the strong
constitution and good pure blood to
Withstand the deprivations, the hard
ships of the campaign in Belgium
and France. It's warning that we
should pay strict attention to our
stomach, liver and blood. If one is
all out of sorts he should take an
invigorating tonic and Alternative such
as DR.. Pierces Golden Medical Dis
covery which cures diseases OF the
stomach and organs of digestion and
nutrition. 1t eliminates from the blood
disease breeding poisons. 1t makes
the blood rich and pure, and fur
nishes foundation for sound, phy-
steal health. Fifty years ago, DR..
Pierce, of the Invalids' Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y,
found that certain barks and roots
manufactured by using glycerine
without the use of alcohol or opiates,
made into concentrated extract,
which he called DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, made a stimulat-
ing tonic for the stimulation of the
food and eradicated stomach, helped
the digestion and aspoisons from the
blood. This is natures cure for in
and by correcting the stom-
ach, and thereby feeding the blood
on pure materials, the red blood cor
puscles are increased and the body es-
tablished in healthy state. No-oae-
suffers from catarrh who has plenty
Of red blood corpuscles and good di-
gestion. Catarrh in all its forms ia
stagnation Of the blood. Introduce
pure red blood into the system bv
taking the Medical Discovery" and
health ts assursd.-Adv.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11
CUT S2O,OOO,OOO MELON.


Herald readers may be intereste
in the following Chicago dispatch t
the New York Times:
Directors of Sears, Roebuck e.
Co., at a special meeting here to-
day, recommended the payment of
S2O,000,OO0 dividend to holders
of the $40,0O0,O00 outstanding
common stock of the mail order
corporation. The distribution will
be made in new common shares
of the concern against an accu-
mulated surplus, large part of
which has been reinvested in the
business. The resolution recon-
mending the dividend provides
that the distribution shall be
made on April /, to stockholders
Of record on March 10.
While the melon" was expect
ed, nobody in financial circles be-
lieved the payment would exceed
20 per cent, or s10,000,000. When
the directors met, eastern men,
bers of the board being represent
ed, the whole situation was gone
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

Werner Horne, the Canadian bridge
dynamiter, should be extradited if in
ternational law viii permit. 1t is a
dangerous thing If one can pose as
a citizen Of this or that country and
given the privilege of aneaking across
the border line and committing un-
told damage and then by sneaking
back into neutral country claim
protection on the ground his act was
one of warfare.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

The auti tourist will have the choice
of two routes between Durango and
Shiprock via Aztec and Farm
ington and the other via Mancos and
Cortez. The latter route will enable
one to visit the historic cliff ruins
and the first named the ancient cities
of the Aztecs. This certainly a
favored section when it comes to pro
viding interesting scenery and sight
seeing trips for the tourist.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

It's safe bet that the general as
sembly will be in session the old time
limit-9O days. Of course the legis-
lators do not receive per diem salaries,
the amount received being the same
whether the session lasts 30 days or
16O days, but this is not the case with
the 100 odd employees who receive
from "a to $5 per day each. Thus it
will be seen that the state is paying
from $500 to $700 per day for legis-
lative clerks every day of the ses-
sion, the employees being paid for Sun
days the same as week days. Again.
as long as the assembly remains in
session there is general expense that
foots up quite an item, especially in
printing bills. Therefore, a short bust
ness session means saving of $780,
900 to $4,000 to the state.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

and yet the present administration
actually proposes to pay her rs mil
lion dollars SO as to atone to her for
our not having permitted her to fol-
low course of conduct which would
have prevented the isthmus from be-
ing worth twenty-five cents. This
proposal treaty is a proposal to pay
blackmail to that government which
sought in vain to forbid us to use our
national efficiency in the interest of
the world at large.
"The land could not have been ac-
quired and the canal could not have
been built save by taking precisely
and exactly the action which was TAX
en-. Unless the nation is prepared
heartily to indorse and stand by this
action, it has no right to take any
pride in isthmus and it has no right
to remain on the isthmus. If there is
moral justification for paying Co
lombia 25 million dollars, then there
is no moral justification for our stay
ing on the isthmus at all and we
should promptly get off. If Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary Bryan are
right in their position, then they have
no business to take part in any cere-
mony connected with opening the can
al; on their theory they would be en-
gagged in the dedication of stolen
goods"
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

The defunct immigration bill con-
tanned many meritorous features, es-
pecially the one providing for the de-
portation Of any emigrant who, with
in five years after his arrival, shall
be found to have advocated the de-
struction of property or the resistance
of legal authority Such law woulo
have deported host of men from the
Colorado coal strike zone and saved
the state pile of money as well as
loss of life. Again, the bill should
contain provision that foreigners
who fail to take out naturalization
papers and become citizens who in
dufge in any sort of agitation be de-
ported without loss of time. Several
of the leading agitators in the Trini-
cad district were aliens. The men
oponly declared themselves as pre-
ferrirg to remain under their native
flag depending on protection no mat
ter how much deviltry they commit
led.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11
BLACKMAILING THE U. s.

Secretary of State William j. Bry-
an, backed by President Wilson, is in
sisting that the United States take 90
million dollars out Of the national
treasury and give it to Colombia in
payment for the Panama canal. This
is being done in the face of the fact
that 10 million dollars have been paid
for the canal and its purchase is a
closed incident, or was such until the
present proposal to repurchase the
right to build it came up.
The canal rights were purchased
when Theodore Roosevelt was presi-
dent, and the attempt on the part of
Colombia to secure 25 million dollars
as an additional payment, Roosevelt
unhesitatingly terms "blackmail."
"The proposal now is that after
having paid 10 million dollars to the
rightful owners of the isthmus," he
says in recent article, 1--WE shall in
addition pay 20 million dollars to their
former taskmasters and oppressors;
sum two and half times what
these tricky oppressors originally ask
ed, sum which is to be paid to them
merely because they failed in carry
ing to successful completion what
must truthfully be characterized as
bit Of international villiany as wick
ed as it was preposterous. In point
of good sense and sound morality, the
proposal is exactly on par with pay
ing discounted burglar a heavy
sum for the damage done his feelings
by detecting and expelling him from
the house.
"The people of the United States
should remember that the United
States paid 80 million dollars to Pan
anna and the French company for ev-
cry real right of every sort of de-
scription which existed on the 18TH
mus. There would have been no val
ue even to these rights unless for the
action that the United States then in
tended to take, and has since actually
taken. The property of the French
company would not have been worth
any more than any other scrap heap
save for our subsequent action, and
the right to cross the Isthmus of Pan
anna would have been valueless to Co.
lombia or to any other nation or body
Of men if we had failed to build a
canal across it and had failed to build
one somewhere else. The whole value
then and now Of any right upon that
isthmus depended upon the fact that
we then intended to spend and now
have spent in building the canal some
375 million dollars
"The proposal of Mr.. Wilson'S ad-
ministration is that, having given to
the Isthmus of Panama its whole
present value by the expenditure of
1916 million dollars, we shall now pay
25 million dollars additional TO the
power that did its best to prevent the
isthmus from having any value, by
treacherously depriving US Of the
right to build the canal at all, or to
spend a dollar on the isthmus. II |
Colombia's action had been successful,
the isthmus would now b worthless;
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

Mexico is well provided with pro-
visional presidents, there being four
who are claiming the honor at pres
ent, the rights of each one being back
ed by an army where might makes
right. Looks as though the watchful
waiting policy of our president will
have to be kept up during his occu-
pancy of the White House as the
Mexicans have the habit and it will
be difficult to persuade them to lay
down their arms and enjoy peace and
prosperity. Fact is, however, nine out
of every ten Mexican poems would
rather wear uniform and fight for
nothing than till the soil at good pay
In Old Mexico, the Mexican shys at
work like the old topper shys at wa
ter.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11
THANKS DUE SENATOR WEST.
Cortez Journal.

Cortez Journal.
Our thanks are certainly due to
Senator West for the square stand he
took on this county division matter,
thus practically rendering the thing
impossible. As long as he is in the
senate things will remain as they are.
And this fact is the real stumbling
block to the present attempt, which
has been put in cold storage for an
other session, we learn.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

We might make dozen, yes, a
hundred, suggestions to the directors
OF the Duranog Exchange, but the
subscribers and members elected them
TO study conditions and 70 ahead and
act without being handicapped by any
one. The directors are level headed
and should be able to map out pol
icy that viii endure to DuranFos
benefit in every way--we say Duran
go, not individually.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11

President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan must be guided by considera-
tion during the trying diplomatic sit
uation arising from foreign shipping.
We will all have to admit the situa-
ton is delicate. England is no doubt
playing the game to the limit, while
Germany comes to the front with an
uncalled for onslaught. The United
States is not alone in a complicated
predicament, but every neutral coun-
try is in the same boat and it may
be necessary for all neutral nations
to read the riot act to both Germany
and England.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-02-11
FARMERS COMING WEST.

Cortez Journal.
A big movement of farmers to the
west is freely predicted for the COM
ing season. 1t is a sure thing that if
those farmers knew what this rich
valley had to offer them they would
certainly come here first. With all
the advantages that other sections
have to offer in the way of fertility
and fine climate, we additionally of
fer land for fifth of the price that
is asked elsewhere. This gives the
settler something with which to i'm
prove his place and buy stock. Many
have gone to places and paid out all
their funds for land and consequently
found farming hardship on account
Of having nothing left with which to
purchase tools and other necessary
articles. Here can be found the finest
opportunities for homes in all the
west This valley will bear all the
investigation anyone chooses to give
it. Come and see.