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Will Make Another Danh for Pole. I Leave of absence for three years has been granted Commander R. E. Peary, U. S. N., by the Navy department in order to resume his attempt to find the North pole. The dash will be made in the summer of 1908. TEXANS RAISE PECANS NUT-GROWING INDUSTRY SPREAD ING IN STATE. Value of Product Proved by Late Gov ernor Hogg—Northern Investors - Enter Field and Begin Plant ing of Orchards. Austin, Tex.—Texas has at last come to a realization of the pecan's importance as a revenue producer, and the tree that once fell indiscrim inately before the thoughtless wood man's axe is now carefully protected. More than $2,000,000 wqrth of these unimportant looking little nuts were shipped out of Texas, during the year 1906, and there now are nurserymen in Texas who devote themselves ex clusively to pecan propagation. Texas is the chief pecan state of the union, although the tree flourishes in many other southern states, even as far north as the southern part of Indiana and the Egypt district of Illi nois, and the culture is spreading year by year. There was a time not so very long ago when all pecan trees were of the wild variety, but the enterprising nur seryman has brought about a marked j improvement, and statistics now show > that Texas has 35S,955 artificially j planted trees, while the number of j wild ones in bearing condition is esti- j mated at nearly a million. The late Gov. James S. Hogg, of! Texas, was among the first to appre ciate the commercial value of the pecan, and on his plantation near the historic old town of Columbia there stands a large and select pecan grove as a monument to his planting. It is also a matter cf official record I | in Texas that in his dying moments,! ! Gov. Hogg directed his law partner, j Frank Jones, of Houston, to see that j j his funeral was marked by simplicity. ! and that his son, William, and his ' daughter. Miss Ima, be requested to j plant as early as possible a pecan I tree at the head of his grave and an- ; other at the foot, and that when these | trees reach a bearing state their ' product be distributed so far as they will go among the plain people of Texas to be used as seed in spreading j pecan culture. It is the rule rather than the ex- 1 ception for an ordinary pecan tree to bear from three to five barrels of nuts, hence it can be calculated at a glance that in the course of time, an ! immense quantity of pecan forestry j will result from the two trees that stand as sentinels over Gov. Hogg’s I grave in the Austin cemetery. As soon as practicable after the fu neral the trees of the most improved variety obtainable, were planted in accordance with the dying governor's request, and their growth thus far has been entirely satisfactory. Nuts grown from wild pecan trees sell for about five cents per pound, while the cultivated nut brings from 20 cents to 50 cents per pound. The trees are long-lived, and it is not un usual for a ten or 12-year old tree to produce a crop worth from $60 to $100. The average, however, is some what below that ligure, but 25 or 30 trees find ample room upon an acre of ground, thus making pecan raising a highly profitable industry. lJecan growing has now reacnea me dignity of classification as a horticul tural pursuit, and many northern in-, vestors, appreciating the great profit that is possible, are forming syndi cates to plant and operate large com mercial orchards. Since the nurseryman has taken hold of the pecan, numerous varieties are springing up, each vying with the other in the matter of early produc tion. The best that has ever yet been reached is a tree warranted to bear fruit in four years from date of plant ing, while others of the improved va rieties require all the way from five to seven years. The wild tree is much slower. Hardiness is one of the chief char acteristics of the pecan tree. It be longs to the hickory family, and grows to a large size. Almost any kind of soil satisfies the pecan sapling, no dif ference whether it be along the river or along the high plains. Its roots penetrate deep into the ground, and it thus at once becomes able to with stand the severest drought. Owing to Us size and spreading branches, the pecan tree serves wre!l for shade, and in many of the towns and cities of Texas, pecans are being planted for the dual purpose of ornament and usefulness. Experts who have indulged in vari ous tests, assert that, the pecan pos sesses a nutritive value of great merit, and is more easily digestible than most of nuts. WAX REPLACES THE BONE. Remarkable Operation Performed on Six-Year-Old Boy to Save Arm. New York.—Surgeons at St. Greg ory's hospital performed an operation on a six-year-old Italian boy. Peter Lepari, of Brooklyn, by which they re-, placed a portion of a necrotic bone of the left forearm with a substance known as "bone wax,” which the sur geons say will turn into bone. When the boy was brought to the hospital it was found that he was suf fering from a tubercular bone in the forearm. Decomposition had set in, and to prevent loss of the use of the arm and the complete removal of the bone it was decided to bring the "bone wax" into use. An X-ray view will be taken daily to watch the progress of healing. “Bone wax" was discovered by a German chemist ten years ago and has been used in Vienna. HOLD FLOATING EXHIBITION. France to Make Bold Bid for Trade in Mediterranean. Washington. — France, the land of surprises, is about to make an enter prising ' innovation, through her mer chants, to secure more trade with Mediterranean ports. The plan is to hold a floating exhibition of French products. According to Levantine newspa pers,” writes Consul General Gabriel B. Ravndal from Beirut, “Mediterran ean ports are shortly to be visited by an exhibition ship which is to be fitted out with a view to gaining, new outlets for French commerce. The vessel is to be arranged as a floating exhibition of products suitable, for ex port and French manufacturers and merchants will be enabled to exhibit \ their goods and samples on payment of moderate charges. A number of salesmen, partly drawn from pupils of the commercial schools, speaking at least two languages, will be car ried, these being under the superin tendence of experienced commercial travelers. In order to stimulate their , zeal all these employes will be paid on commission and the widest possi ble publicity is to be given to the ex pected arrival at the ports at which the vessel is intended to call. At each place the salesmen will present their samples to the various buyers and transmit the orders they may ob tain to the head oflice. which will see them carried out. A series of re ceptions and fetes are to be held on orard with a view of attracting cus tomers. New Project for Grossing English Channel. The plans for the projected subway under the English channel, comprise a ft'heme for an unfamiliar kind of passenger car. As shown in the accom panying photograph, these cars are planned to hold only two passengers each. THIRD CENTURY RELIGION, Professor Burns Cross on Foriehead to Attest His Sincerity. Des Moines.—As a mark of sincerl I ty in his belief Dr. Paul Bittix. until recently professor of Greek in Central Holiness university at Oskaloosa, has burned a cross an inch and one-half long and three quarters of an inch wide on his forehead. The tortures which the flaggel i lantes of the middle ages Inflicted on themselves, the sufferings of the old crusaders, whom Bittix would imitate in a large degree, can have been no worse than the agony endured with out a sign of suffering by the ousted professor as the acid ate into the liv ing flesh. Moreover, this, says Bit lix, is but the beginning. All his fol lowers in the new crusade must mark themselves as he has done, “with the sign of the cross.” . Bittix was discharged as a result of h : self-mutilation. There is a proposition to erect in Boston a statue to Silence. Will the women of Boston sit idle and permit such a thing to be done? Is A Sculptor of Ability. King Edward’s Sister Carves Statues of Queen Victoria. London.—King Edwards sister Louise, the duchess of Argyll, lately permitted her photograph to be taken. That is something rare, for two rea sons. In the first place, pomp and parade and homage are distasteful to her, and, in the second place she travels a great deal incognito as the countess of Cowal (using one of her husband’s minor titles) and does not wish to be recognized by strangers. Had she been born in a private sta tion the would have achieved distinc tion In both literature and art. Glas gow university conferred on her the degree of LL. D. One editor frequent 4 accepted articles from her before her identity was revealed and Princess Louise declares that one of the proud est moments of her life was when she received a check for literary work made out to “Myra Fontenoy,” the name she had assumed. As for her art wcrK, sne was a pupil of tne late Sir Edgar Boehm and she has long had a studio in Kensington palace. Among her principal works are a sitting figure of Q-^een Victoria, an other statue of her late majesty for Manchester cathedral and the striking memorial to the colonial heroes in St Paul’s cathedral as well as vari ous. pictures and designs for chimney pieces and candlesticks. Oh, Joy! ‘This offer of your heart and hand is sudden,” said Miss Nuritch, “but I will take it”, “Ah!” gasped the dry goods clerk, surprised and badly rat tled, “will you—er—take it with you or shall I send it hame?”—The Catho lic Standard and Times. The Dour Girls. “Grace has had herself photographed with her pug dog.” “Well, that’s the kind of foil her style of beauty ’—Houston Chronicle. I NEWSPAPER MEN WILL FARM. i Colony of Writers to Take Land in Little Snake River Valley. Denver, Col.—A colony of newspa per men Is to be established in the Little Snake river valley in Routt eouV.y, Colorado, where the state of Colorado will throw open for settle ment this summer, under the Carey act. 50,000 acres of land. This land is under the Little Snake river canal system. The plan is to make this colony an up-to-date farming community, where each man will own his own farm and improvements, the only Connection in which the community idea will pre vail, if at all, being in regard to labor. Under the Carey act, any citizen of the United States may select ISO acres, the price of land and perpetual water right in the canal system being fixed by the state at 122.50 per acre. Warren R. Given, a former newspa per man, has taken options on 40 se lections of 160 acres each for the newspaper men. NO RAW WESTERNER ‘ BAT" MASTERSON CORRECTS At,, WRONG IMPRESSIONS Has Become of the East, Though H.e Owns to a Fondness for the West He Has Left—An Early Day Tragedy. “This talk about my being a raw westerner, ready to eat two or three men at every meal, is rather tire Rome.” said “Rat” Masterson, sheriff of Dodge City, Kas., back in the sev enties; deputy marshal of Trinidad, Col., one of the rangers who went fighting Indians with Gen. Miles, and now deputy United States marshal in New York city. "When the president appointed me to the position I now hold. I had been living for four years in a hotel on a prominent corner in New York,” he continued. Yet it was made to seem as though I had just stepped out of the plains with a sombrero hat, cowboy trousers, a belt full of guns, and ready to shoot up the town. I was followed with camera# and flashlights until life was made a burden. 1 have lived in the east a long time now but, of of course, I am still something of a westerner. A man who is once a west erner never gets over it. He can't. It gets in his system. “Out there in the west in the days when a man had to tiavel hundreds of miles on a stage coach in order to get anywhere, we had some adventures now and then. For instance, one day in 1S78, when t was sheriff of Dodge City- and my brother was marshal, he saw on the street two obstreperous cowboys who threatened to do harm to innocent bystanders, and started to take their guns away from them. He told them to disarm and they refused. He wrestled with one for his gun. I saw the other shoot at my brother and miss, and then I saw the fellow whom my brother was wrestling with dis charge the bullet into his abdomen. My brother fell dead. I had been run ning up, and was then ten or 12 feet away. Before either of the cowboys could fire I had shot them both dead. Only a matter of 20 seconds had plapsed since the fracas began, and there lay the three dead bodies in the middle of the street." Marshal Masterson modestly de clined to go further into the history of his shooting scrapes. "There was quite a lot of shooting going on then,” he said, "but it was mostly confined to the obstreperous individuals, who set tled tlieir difficulties in that way. If one of them attacked a map who had always been peaceful and industrious, and refrained from quarreling through no lack of moral courage, the bully who wanted to fight was attacked in turn, and told that if he could not find his own kind to fight with he had bet ter leave town. A man was recognized for his true worth, everybody was out spoken, and hypocrisy was not tol erated.” American Catalogues. Tons of American catalogues are destroyed every year by the authori ties of Australia for the re'ason that business men, to whom they are ad dressed by manufacturers and mer chants of the United States, refuse to pay the duty of six cents a pound. Thus there is a loss which cannot be estimated in descriptive circulars, catalogues and price lists which never reach their destination. United States Special Agent Bur rill at Sydney, suggests the follow ing as the best remedy: “If the American exporter will carefully ad dress his matter, and by the same mail send to the comptroller general of customs or the postmaster gen eral, or the comptroller of the. cus toms at Melbourne or other port, as the case may be, a notice that he is sending by parcels post, via Sin Fran cisco or London, a description and the weight of the matter, and in close the amount of duty—preferably in international money order—the lit erature will be forwarded to its des tination without delay.” Postage should also be fully pre paid; if not the recipient is liable for the deficiency and also a penalty in double the amount. Roadside Trees in Hanover. . The German province of Hanover, r.ays the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, owns 1,967 miles of highways, on which there are 175,794 fruit trees—pear, cherry, plum and apple—sufficient if set out 80 to an acre to form an or chard of more than 300 square miles. The fruit raised on these trees is a source of income for the province, which sometimes makes $40,000 a year by selling the products of this elon gated orchard. The province maintains a nursery of 403 acres to supply young trees for roadside use and for promoting the in terests of fruit culture. The .profit of a tree is very small, but the Hanover people do not worry about that. Shade is afforded in summer, the roadbed is free from dust, the presence of trees retards the washing out of the soil from the banks into the roadside ditches and the attractive appearance of the roadside stimulates an interest in tree culture and benefits the prov ince in many other ways. They find it worth while. Oratory and Its Dangers. Grand oratory is a new thing, and it seems to be dangerous. Ulysses S. nd^er talked, and, therefore, never got into trouble oh account of his tongue, it is a good rule for soldiers and sail ors, says the Washington Star. Even politicians, whose business It is to talk and who should study words in all of their power both to enlighten and to copfuse, often trip and find it necessary to issue a supplement car rying a key to the first edition. In this day of banquets and addresses, when everybody is drafted and few smilingly-decline, the plea of misquo tation is often made. But the fact re mains that the difficulty is more fre quently with the speaker than with the reporter. The latter, as a rule, is practiced in his duty, and has no ends to serve but those of accuracy, while the unpracticed speaker is liable to say unintended thingB and regret in tended thingB after they have been said. Cold type la the greatest of eye openers. STORY OF A' DESERTED CAMP. M yaWHamrStffor Graves / of Early Cal if ornia M i ner*.’ Qfltf of the' Old residents of Cali fornia is Jeremiah Van Horn, who is now a retired merchant and spends his time in traveling. He .is full of tales of the state and last night told one of an old mining camp near Marysville, “Near the town of Marysville," said he. “there is an old mining camp, now deserted. On a hillside lie the bodies of 50 miners. Their resting places are fenced in and a few hardy flowers bloom in the spring, only to dry and wither in the summer. No name is to be seen on the rude headboards. But one man—himself as unknown to the people of the region as the dead men below—knows the secret of the graves. About Eastertide of each year this man—now aged and somewhat bent, but with vigor still in his walk—ap pears from out of the mysterious east. He arrives at Marysville, hires -a con veyance, and visits the graves of three of the old-timers. There is nothing of the miner about him. He is prosper ous and perhaps wealthy. His cloth ing is of the city cut. His gray beard is well trimmed and his gold rimmed glasses hide a pair of shrewd blue eyes. His business is to look after the graves. He straightens up the fence, waters the thirsty plants and when everything is shipshape spends a half hour in looking over the valley and the hills. Then, jumping into his car riage, he returns to Marysville, takes the train to San Francisco, and is lost for another year in the solitude of civ ilization. “Who is he? What, tie binds him to the three men whose bodies long ago crumbled into dust? Was he himself one of the Argonauts, bound by ties closer than those of blood to the trio upon whom the winter rains have fall en for half a century? Great is the curiosity of the people of Marysville. They watch him narrowly on his an nual pilgrimages, and some of the for ward ones have been made bold to question him. He has always turned them away with courtesy and strict reserve. They do not even know his name or station, but they marvel much over what they believe to be an ex ample of brotherly love and affection that stretches over many decades and never forgets the past." What Rolling Stone Does Get. After an absence of five or six years, Ephraim returned to the little town in Maryland where he had been born and reared. From his brown derby hat to his patent leather shoes he was dressed in the tiptop of fash ion. His first call was made on his brother Bill, a slow, plodding kind of darky, who had never even been to Baltimore. Ephraim told with great enthusiasm his experiences in Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and other places, in which he had plied his call ing of barber. He wound up rather softly with: “Say, Bill, kin you len' me two dol lars?” Bill looked with just a touch of scorn at the fine clothes of the wan derer and drew a small roll of bills from his pocket. He peeled off two ones, handed them to his brother and said: “It's the old story, I see, Eph. A rolling stone gathers no moss.' Ephraim drew himself up, adjust ed his coat by the lapels, flecked an imaginary speck of dust from his sleeve, and replied: “Yes. Bill, but he gits a mighty sight o' polish.’ Feeding the Infants. The helplessness of some women of the poorer classes in the matter of feeding babies was brought out at the coroner's court at Leigh, says the Dundee Advertiser. A child of two years had been killed by a meal of liver and bacon and beefsteak, and the mother could not realize that there was anything extraordinary in the diet. Medical men who practice in Ancoats wage a continuous battle against thifc sort of thing, and one of them, at a meeting of the Ancoats Healthy Homes society, told some ex periences that would have been amus ing if they had not so grim a signifi cance. "I was called one day," he said; "to see a sick baby, and found the mother feeding it with little pieces of corned beef. 'My good woman,’ I said, ‘you must not feed the baby with that sort of stuff.' 'Well, sir,’ she replied, ‘what am I to feed him with? He doesn’t like pork!’’’ 'Youthful Logician. Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston aroused a good deal of comment with her recent declaration that tin sol diers had a bad effect on children, in citing in them a love of war. Mrs. Mead, an engaging author and noted lecturer, was well qualified to speak on this matter, for she has for a number of years studied carefully and intelligently the child mind. In the course of her investigations she has come upon many quaint instances of the peculiar reasoning of children. The other day she said: “1 once told a little girl that some folks claimed the moon was inhabited. “The child sneered. 'Rubbish,' she said ‘It can't be. What would the people up there do when there was only a little slit left?’ ” Trouble Coming After School. Johnnie Jones—My sister has been took with the measles, teacher. Teacher—Then you’d better go home at once, Johnny, and stay there till she gets well. Freddy Brown — Please, teacher, Johnny’s sister is stopping with his aunt in. Chicago. Couldn’t Disturb Ike. “I want a pound of oyster crack ers,” said Mrs. Medders. “Sorry, ma'am,” replied the coun try grocer, “but I reckon I’ll have to send 'em later. Ike Huskey is a sleepin’ on top o' the bar’l they’re in, an’ he’s in a bad humor to-day." Teacher’s Agency. Teacher—Have you any position In view for me? Agent—I know one man who wants a tutor for hia empty-headed son. Teacher—Well, I think I could fill the vacancy.—Harper's Weekly. I —ncnonrxirr- J oxalleyv corrcr headeloi&rthwabd <* What with earthquakes from within and comets threatening from above, surely these are days of uncertainty and anxiety for the inhabitants of this mundane sphere. Astronomical calcu lation tells us that four big comets are headed for the earth, coming with that awful speed which only those erratic tramps of the heavens can attain. Three are due this year, and the fourth, which is the one which is causing the greatest speculation, will come into view in 1910. This last is known as Halley’s comet. At present it is not far from the orbit of Jupiter, and by the time the year has waned it will be speeding through the belt of the asteroids—a group of minature planets revolving in orbits just out side of that ol' ,.lars. Assuming that the gigantic star-like nucleus and its mighty nebulous tail succeed in passing without disaster through this maze of little worlds— none of which is more than 100 miles in diameter—it will cut across the orbit of Mars and touch upon that of the earth. That the comet will not come in contact with one or more of these planetoids is not at all an as sured fact, but this does not concern us nearly as much as the possibility of its coming into collision with the earth. When the bright-tailed orb is near est the sun it will be many millions of miles inside the earth’s orbit, and hence there will be two occasions when it and the earth might meet, namely, when the former passes into and out of the latter’s path. If such a celestial collision should take place, the comet would probably be burned up in the earth’s atmosphere, and the earth be still left intact, though the blinding light and intense heat would destroy all life on that side of the world. Olbers, a German astronomer living in the interval between 1758 and 1810, pointed out that Biela’s comet would, in 1832, pass within 20,000 miles of the earth's orbit, though the earth would not reach the same point until a month later. While astronomers saw no danger, a great many people who feared the verity of the deductions looked forward to the time with con siderable apprehension. They were greatly relieved, however, for* as pre dicted the comet came on the day the mathematicians named, and all danger had passed. Halley's comet, which is now ap proaching, is of extraordinary inter est. It was the first to be suspected of returning periodically, as well as the first whose period of .revolution was calculated. It will be its thirteenth visit which the comet will make three years hence, but who can tell what scene it will look down upon? Many authori ties believe it will come very close to the earth, though it may not be as brilliant or as conspicuous as in its earlier returns. Arago suggested that comets in traversing their gigantic orbits might throw off into space nearly all the matter of which they were composed when at a point near est the sun. Under these conditions, then, It is evident that some of the more at tenuated ones may, in the course of time, pass entirely out of existence, though they may, on the other hand, attract particles floating in space along their paths and so equalize their losses. This would account for the varying intensity of the same comet, as for instance, Halley’s. However this may be, it must be remembered that appearances of comets in the early days were much more mysteri ous, and proportionately impresssive, than in the more enlightened ages and that the extraordinary brilliancy re corded in some instances was, quite likely, due more to imagination than to the actual state of the comet. When the great comet comes on the scene in 1910, its nucleus or beard will appear like a star of the first magnitude, but having a mighty tail trailing after it and pointing away from the 3011.' Different from many of the smaller comets which are tail less, the one named for Halley is formed of three distinct parts, namely —the nucleus, coma and tail. The nucleus is the concentrated part and shines by the reflected light of the sun„ while the tail gives out a light of its own, due chiefly to the glowing carbon vapor which is not unlike that of an ordinary gas jet. 1 hough shining as brightly as Jup iter, and sometimes visible even in the daytime, the comet is very light in weight, being not more than one one millionth as heavy as the planet named. That this is true is known from the slight attraction it exerts on the plents. while the latter fre quently pull the comet out of its course. The tail is so flimsy that should it brush the earth it would hardly be noticeable. When Halley's comet Is first seen by the comet seekers as it rushes headlong toward the sun, it will ap pear like a round, dim ball of hazy light. As it comes nearer the earth, its tail will graduallly appear and lengthen. It may increase or decrease from night to night, varying from 25 to 15,000 miles in 24 hours, though should it do this, it would be an ex ception rather than the rule. As the great celestial messenger swings round the sun, its tail will apparently grow smaller, and finally disappear, the ball of hazy lignt alone being left to tell of its flight to Neptune. After a little this will be gone to be seen nc more until the year 1S85. The composition of comets inter estel men even before their periods were calculated, and Halley's will be examined as it never was before, for we have instruments now that were unknown when it was visible in 1835. The spectroscope has shown what other and smaller comets were made of. The nucleus is a solid mass formed of different substances,' and this is an envelope of danse gaseous matter that is in perpetual motion. This portion is called the coma, and to its activity is probably due the tail, attracting and repelling the gaseous particles of waste material. There are many small periodic com ets that have been discovered in re cent years, but Halley’s is the only great comet that appears at regular intervals. In spite of the comforting assur ance of astronomers that the ap proaching comet will be harmless, so far as its general effects upon the earth are concerned, and providing, of course, that the comet ever reaches us, Mme. de Thebes, the Mother Shipton of Paris, has predict ed that the comet is going to make a great deal of trouble for the earth. Mme. de Thebes predicted the Boer war, the great Charity Bazaar Are in Paris, the Servian massacre, the San Francisco and Kingston disasters and the discovery of radium. Incompatibility. Mrs. Crossway—Your last girl didn’t stay long. Mrs. Kawler—No; she was one of these partlular girls. She said she couldn't stand our language—we used the imperative mood too much.—Chicago Tribune. Among Newspaper Men. Wright—I’m working on the Bugle, now. Penman—That paper is no good. I was on it once. • ‘Oh, well, it improved after you left it. you know!"—Yonkers States man Extremists All. Batcheller—Well, if I ever do take a wife, I'll make it a point to pick out an economical woman. Wiseman^Impossible, my dear boy! There’s no such thing as an econom ical woman. A woman is either ex travagant or mean. . ' Last Year’s Cocoa Crop. The world’s cocoa crop in 1906 was about 151,000 metric tons. Of this quantity, Germany got over 35,000 tons. Seek Transvaal War Chest. Latest of vast fortunes sought by seekers of lost treasure is the Trans vaal war chest containing $5,000,000. The chest was taken from hiding at Delagoa bay in 1898 and shipped on the Dorothea, which vessel was lost on a reef in the Indian ocean. Now the steamship Nobel has been spe cially fitted up by a syndicate for the work of recovering the treasure. Good and Sufficient Cause. Constable—Th’ very idee cf two old men like you a-fightin’! Ain’t ye ashamed o’ yerself, Uncle Reub Punk infrost? Uncle Reub (still In the ring)_No, sir! He ’lowed his roomytism hurt wuss’n mine did, dad blame him!— Puck. Unaccountable Prejudice. Starcrase — These dramatic critics are so unfair—very few are willing to give one a show on one’s merits. Miss Actorine—Yes, one critic gave me a roast for no better reason than he had seen Sarah Bernhardt and El len Terry in the part