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Youth's Ambition.
During l.H season's ronil tour of
"The Little Princess" Millie James
became pro illy interested in one of
the players in her support. Ho was a
young fellow engaged to Impersonate
one of the L;:s,cnr servants. Ho was
good looking, earnest nml rellnble,
but most mysterious in his habits.
His principal assistance to the com
pany was in making the transforma
tion scene in the second act. He had
no lines to speak, but It is so impor
tant that the scene should be changed
quickly and properly that application
was made by the managers to a dra
matic school for a young man who
would be r liable as the Lascar, and
who could understudy some, of the
other parts.
Ho was never seen in the daytime
except when tho company was travel
ing. At night, except for the few min
utes he was on the stage, he stayed
in his dreeing room reading. All ef
forts to make him sociable were re
buffed until Miss .lames .got his con
fidence. She found that he had made
up his mind to be a physician and
was studying to that end. In the day
light hours he makes cignrs in his
rooms, which ho disposed of for a
Iund whlc!i ho hopes will enable him
to outer Yalo Medical college next
tall.
Causa of the Trouble.
We are "indebted to tho press bu
reau of the Savage forces for this
suggestion of causo for tho recent in
ternational complications. Possibly
one of Henry W.'s young men is re
sponsible for the Panama-Colombian-Tall-Type
press Imbroglio. Runs tho
squib:
It is surely more than a mere co
incidencemore than what has been
called "Savage luck" that just as tho
new Blossom-Uobyn comic opera.
"Tho Yankee Consul," has been
launched with marked success the
government should send a fleet of
warships to Puerto Plata in Santo
Domingo, where the scenes of the
opera are located. Puerta Plata hadn't
been heard of in jears until "Tho
Yankee Consul" was produced by
Henry W. Savage. Hut here is where
the startling coincidence comes in.
It was no sootier announced that
George Ado and Gustav Luders had
about completed "The Sho-Guu," a
comic opera with scenes located in
Corea, for Mr. Savage than Russia
and Japan rushed their finest war
ships to Corea and began to wrangle
for its possession.
Career of Miss Marie Cahill.
Miss Marie Cahill, the saving grace
of "Nancy Brown," was born in
Brooklyn, N. Y. Shortly after her
baby carriage days she went on the
stago in a little Brooklyn theater
where Harley Merry, a scenic artist,
was conducting a stock company. Her
WZW MP
firrt appcaranco as u member of Mer
ry's company was in a small sou
brettc role in "Kathleen Mavourneen."
Tho title rolo was played by Miss
"Nellio l.lngard, grnndniece of tho his
torian and essayist. Miss Cahill and
Miss LInpnrd became Inst friends
then, and the latter is now a play
reader for Daniel V. Arthur, Miss Ca
bin's manager.
Charles Hoyt's "A .Tin Soldier' wan
tho first musical play in which Miss
Cahill took a part. She playod the
rolo of Patsy. In this piece her work
consisted mostly of dancing. She
gradually climbed to preeminence,
and today is the foremost woman ex
ponent of the broad yet thoroughly
legitimate school of low comedy
founded by Miss May Irwin. Miss Ca
hill Is, artistically speaking, own sis
ter to N. C. Goodwin, their methods
often being startingly similar.
French Tutor's Odd "Ad."
Clyde Fitch, the playwright, collects
in scrapbooks specimens of tho errors
foreigners making in dealing with
strange tongues. One of Mr. Fitch's
scrapbooks is devoted to French-English
the sort of English that French
men sometimes use. An addition was
made to this volume tho other day. It
wns a French tutor's advertisement
clipped from a London newspaper, and
it ran:
"A young Paris man shall desire to
show his tongue to classes of English
gentlemen. Address, etc.
Greenroom Gossip.
Mr. H. V. Esmond is said to be en
gaged upon a five-act tragedy.
Augustus Thomas is writing a now
play, and Frank Worthing is to cre
ate the principal part.
"Grandma" Is said to be the title of
the play chosen for Mrs. G. II. Gil
bert's farewell tour next season.
Madame Pntti will clear nearly half
a million dollars on her tour enough
to keep her to an evergreen old age.
Nora Dunblane ha8 won praise from
the press in the large cities for her
performances as Ruth in "Tho Worst
Woman In London."
Edmond Rostnnd ha3 almost com
pleted a play for Coquelin which is
promised at the Gaiety in Paris about
Feb. 1. Title and nature of play are
secrets.
William Owen has fully recovered
from his recent illness and 1ms ro.
Joined his company. During his ab
sence his understudy, Harry L. Hays,
has been filling his place.
Mary Anderson (Mrs. de Navarro)
appeared In London Dec. 30, and gave
nn entertainment for tho 4,000 chil
dren of tho Whitechapel district. Miss
Anderson sang.
Viola Allen Is delighted with tho
new play that Marion Crawford has
about finished for her. It is, Mr.
Crawford says, a play of modern
times. The heroine is a Glory Quail
part.
William Collier and Messrs. Weber
& Fields have parted company. The
cornelian has not been the success
that tils managers expected he would
be, owing, mainly, to dramatic veh
icles not adapted to his peculiar style.
Mr. Forbes Robertson will, on his
return from America, produce a now
play by Miss Margaret Young, en
titled "The Edge of tho Storm." Miss
Young is one of the writers for the
stag who have had some practical ex
perience of acting.
Jean Sibelius, tho most noted
among the composers of Finland, Is
about to finish a violin concerto,
which he intends to dedicate to Willy
Burmester, who will, of course, bo the
first to play 'the novelty in Scandi
navia, as well as all over Germany In
the course of the present season.
WHAT HE HAD ON FILE.
Popular "Periodicals" of a South Car
otina Speak Easy.
Representative Aiken wns for eight
een years an official court stenog
rapher In South Carolina.
"Some time nfter the Dispensary
law wont into effect out there," saiu
the memlier from tho Palmetto Btnto
the other day, "I was reporting a caso
where the parties on trial were
chnjgod with maintaining n. 'speak
easy.' It was In tho little town of
Vnlhalln, wherp a large proportion of
tho residents nre Germans. The Dis
pensary law had, of course, closed tho
saloons and the Germans to get their
beer regularly had organized so-called
'social nml literary' clubs, which were
no more or less than drinking Joints.
There were hnlf a dor.cn or moro such
clubs in this little burg, and finally
the prosecuting attorney got after
them and had the manngcrs nnested.
The man on trial was endeavoring to
prove Hint his organization complied
with the law In that It wan hoclal and
literary. To prove his caso ho placed
an old Gcrmnn upon the stand. In the
course of the croEs-exnmlnatlon tho
prosecutor asked:
"Mr. Hnntzmnnn, what periodicals
did you keep on filo nt the club
rooms?"
"The old fellow scratched his head
for a moment nnd then, with every
evidence of his desire to be honest
and truthful manifest, replied, 'Oh, I
'spose ve hat mooch, mostly peer it ml
corn vis key.' "
Hydrophobia a Real Disease.
Despite the fact that denials hnvo
been made by various physicians of
tho existence of hydrophobia, sovcrnl
prominent members of tlio medical
profession, at n meeting of the County
Medical Society of the College of Phy
sicians, declared that tho disease has
n "pathological entity," and should bo
so recognized. Dr. G. Morton Illmnn
presented n paper entitled "A Report
of a Caso of Hydrophobia, with Au
topsy." Dr. Illman described tho
symptoms as exhibited in tho case,
and maintained Hint hydrophobia ex
ists as a separate disease, with pecu
liar symptoms, and ho asserted that It
is a grave error to call it excessive
hybteria, as has frequently been done.
Dr. M. P. Ravenel of the Veterinary
department of the university said, in
discussing the subject: "1 have per
sonally experimented on 150 cases of
animals which I inoculated with the
germs of rabies, and I found that the
brain In encli case bhowed tho same
symptoms, nnd theso symptoms hnvo
been found in no other diseases."
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Lost Galleon.
Her decks ntc drowned In non-wreck,
her guns arc sunk In s.iud.
Where nhe lies In the still water, hard
by tho Irlhh rtrand;
There nre dead In her glided cabins,
there nre white bones in her hold.
With tho coffers lotting iilank from
plunk, brimming o'er with gold.
lit end o' the beam they built her, that
they might load her deep,
They ."owed a goodly harvest for tho
fierce, wilt i-ens to map.
They freighted her with inorchuudiMe,
with sold they weighted l.vr wn.
Kre they steeled slowly to her bonrno
their castled elt.iUW.
God rest their i-ouls wliote they lie low,
where fIic swirled down of yoi
With chanting priest nnd HhrJekltiB slave.
a .'tone's throw from tho shore!
Nor all ihelr piled-tip Ingot, nof ull their
gold could pave
Tinier the ellff together, tho Don and
tho enabled clave.
Far o'er tho gray-green waters goes
sound of gull and gale:
White cup aro on the breakers and the
sun on n patched sail;
Hut she lies lost and mouldered, with
her cnptuliiH nwntt and bold
Dead In her glided cabins, and weighted
down with gold.
C. Fox Hmotli in The London Outlook.
Gordon a Stranger to Fear.
Of Gen. Gordon, who died nt Khar
tum, Lord Wolseley says: "A deeply
religious man in whom danger appar
ently excited neither pleasure nor re
pugnance, he seemed only to distin
guish between a safe position or an
extremely perilous one as ho would
notice any slight change in the wenth
cr of n fine sunny day. He know how
infectious courage was and how much
any exhibition of contempt for per
gonal danger braced the nerves and
steadied tho heads of thoso less gifted
with masculine daring than he was.
Ho was a man in a hundred. During a
lull in our siege operations one sailor
was overheard saying to another In
tho battery: 'I haven't seen old Gor
don hero lately.' 'No,' answered his
shipmate, 'the fire ain't hot enough for
that old beggar just now.' "
"ClefmanU"
"Clefmania," says "T. A. T." is n
comparatively modern form of the col
lecting craze. It consists in an irre
sistible ambition to gather together
keys of all Boris, sizes and shapes.
Onp victim to tho habit, a woman,
openly confessed recently to having
traveled over one hundred thousand
miles in pursuit of her hobby, during
which timo she had expended, entire
ly on keys, quite a respectable for
tune. Her collection comprises tho
key of tho Nuremberg Iron Virgin, one
said to have belonged to Cleopatra's
jowel ease, a huge Iron specimen from
tho Towor of London, got by bribing
a "Beefeater"; the one that used to
unlock Anne Hathaway's cottage at
Stratford-on-Avon, and many others
equally curious and interesting.
TIs But a Little Fsdcd Flower.
"Tin but a little faded flower.
Hut O, how fondly dear!
Twill bring me back one goldon hour
Through many a weary year. '
I may not to the world Impart
Tho secret of its power.
But titiiBured in my Inmost heart,
I keep my faded flower.
Where Is thn heart that doth not keep
Within tts inmost core,
Some fond remembrance hidden deep,
Of days that are no mnre'
Who hath not saved some trilling thing
..lore prized than Jew els raro
A fkded flower, a broken ring,
A trees of golden hair? .
THE OLDEST MAN IN
Tells How He Escaped the Terrors
by Using Pe-ru-na.
Mr. Brock's
Age is 115
Years
MR. ISAAC BROCK, DORN IN BUNCOMBE CO.,'N. C, MARCH 1, 1780.
His age is 115 years, vouched for by authentic record. Ho snyn: "I at
tribute my extreme age to the use of Pcrunn.
Horn before the United States was
armed.
Saw 22 Presidents elected.
Pe-ru-na has protected him from
all sudden changes.
Veteran of four wars.
Shod a horse when 'J9 year,3 old.
Always conquered the grip with
Pe-ru-na.
Witness In a land suit at the age
of 110 years.
Believes Pe-ru-na the greatest
remedy of the age for catarrhal
diseases.
ISAAC HHOCIC, a cltl.en of McLennan
county, Texas, has lived for 115 years.
For ninny years he resided nt Koiuuo
Fnlls, eighteen miles west of Waco, but
now lives with his son-in-law at Valley
Mills, Texas.
There are many kinds of tears;
none are Bhed from Indifference.
To Cure a Cold In. Ono ilny.
Tuke liUxatlvollroLCo Qnlnlno Tablets. All
druggists rof uud money if it falls tocuro. 25c.
If there were no fault-finders we
should stagnate.
Many who formerly smoked 10c cignrs,
now smoke Lewis' ".Single liinder" straight
5c cignr, Thu best combination of the beet
tobaccos. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111.
Decorating Berlin Schools.
The committee of tho Berlin town
council in charge of tho prima?:
schools have taken a novel decision
with regard to school decoration. The
proposal Is to spend 10,000 marks ev-'
ery year for eight yenrs, with the ob
ject of painting frescoes on the walls
of classrooms 'and corridors. Those
pictures wiu be simple In character
and will represent for tho most part
scenes In Gormnn history. Uefore,
however, the plan can be carried out,
experiments will be made in three
selected schools.
Monument to Dret Hartc.
To mark tho resting place of the
late Hrot Harte, In Frlmloy church
yard, Surrey, there has Just been'
erected a masslvo nnd costly monu
ment. Tho author of tho "Heathen
Chlneo" ami "Luck of Roaring Camp"
had resided at Frlmley for some time
prior to his death, which took placo
early in May of hist year. Around
the gravo have been planted a number
of young fir trees. The monument
consists of a masslvo slab of whlto
granite, weighing two and a half tons,
on which is placed a block of Aber
deen granite, sloping upward Into
tho form of a cross.
A Physician's Statement.
Vorktown, Ark., Jan. 11. Leland
Williamson, M. D., one of our cleverest
physicians, has mado a statement, en
dorsing Dodd's Kidnoy Pills and say
ing that he uses them in his daily prac
tice In preference to any other Kidney
medicine. Ills statement has created
a profound sensation, as It is some
what unusual for a physician to pub
licly endorse anything in tho shape of
a patent medicine. Dr. Williamson
says:
"After twenty years' practice In a
sickly and malarious country I havo
come to the conclusion that it is al
ways best to uso the remedy that will
relieve and euro my patients, whether
ethical or not.
"I havo used Dodd's Kidney Pills
with uniform success in tho various
forms of Kidney Disease, Pain in tho
Hack, Gout, Rheumatism, Inflamma
tion and Congestion of tho Kidneys
and all kindred diseases; I always pre
scrlbo Dodd's Kidney Pills in such
cases and can testify that they in
variably restore the Kidneys to their
normal state and thereby relieve the
blood of accumulated poisons, produc
ing prompt and effective cures."
Wis is tho man who is able to
keep his mouth shut when he has
nothing to say.
A short, time ago, by request. Uncle
Isaac came to Waco, and sat for hi pic
ture. In his hand liu held n ptlck cut
from tho grave of Guueral Andrew Jack
win, which 1ms been carried by him ever
since. Mr. II rock N a diguifhd old gen
tleman, showing few signs of dectepi
tude. Ills family Bible is still pnv-erved,
and it shows Unit thn ditto of hit birth
wus written 115 years ago.
Surely a few words from this irmnrkn
bio old gootlumau, who him (mil ll.'i years
of experience to draw from, would bo
Interesting ns well ns profitable. A
lengthy biographical sketch N given of
thl-t lumnrknhlc old man In the Waco
Times Herald. December ). IRON. A still
moro pretentious blouraphy of tbU, thn
oldest, living man, illustrated with n
double, column portrait, was given the
readers of the Dallas Morning News,
dated December 11, 1S0S, nnd also the
Chicago Times-Herald of same date.
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AMERICA
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This centenarian is nn nnlenfc friend ot
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In HkMiklng of his g6od health anil ex
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"I have nl ways been n vnry honlthy
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During iny long Ufa 1 havo known it
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uud I'.mrrhirn.
"As for Dr. Ifnrtmnn's remedy,
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In n Inter letter dated January 31, 1003,
Mr. Urock writes:
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without IVriinn."
YontB truly,
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