10
TTTTC OMATTA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 25, 1909.
NEW ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT
Maugham, Who Looks Forward to
Seeing Pittsburg.
AUTHOR WITH AN AUTISTIC IDEA
II tar THere'll B Beaatr Ito
ank Chlmaer HU "Pea
lap" te Be ea la
New York.
LONT50N. Jul I William Somerset
Maugham (plea pronounce If apelled
Morm), who ! spoken of In London dra
matte circle a th tnu of th hour, has
typical "chamber" on Mount street W, a
locality wbloh has hlatorio and fashionable
Interest, for tt la near tha celebrated Berke
ley Square and a part of Mayfalr peopled
with Prtnoa Charming by romantlo school
glrla wl.o ueed to read Owen Meredlth'a
"LucUe," before romance went out of data.
On tha way to tha Interview, If you have
the teeing eye, you will note where once
upon a time an escaping horaeman evading
an unpleaaant quarter of an hour for hla
highhanded and highwayman methods In
Piccadilly aa object of envy to all au ex
ceeding Americana who have never been
able to adopt Ma desirable potior dashed
down soma atepa and along a passage,
where now vertical bare of Iron mark hla
hair-raising flight You may pass the win
dow In Half Moon street where Shelter
ueed to alt Tou will note the houae on
Clargea street, next to Half Moon, where
Lady Hamilton lived, and not far away
the home of Edmund Kean and Macauley'a
residence when he returned from India.
Other Places of Memory.
If you Insist upon repeopllng the neigh
borhood, why evade stopping a moment at
11 Berkeley Square, where Horace Waipola
lived for more than a decade? At 46,
where Cllve committed suicide and at 21,
the blrthpluce of "Auld Robin Gray," and
on Charles street, which like Mount leads
directly from Berkeley Square, where Beau
Brummell strolled and ogled, where Lord
Lytton wrote, where Fanny Burney Im
mortalized the fashions of tha day In "Eve
lina." You turn Dover atreet way with en
vious eye, but a distant chime marks the
hour and you have to leave your re
searches. Mount street, through which you pass
hurriedly, has few landmarks. The hand
of tho destroyer has been particularly
ruthltss, but you glimpse the Mount Coffee
Houe, once presided over by the father of
Harriet Weetbrook. the first wife of Bhelley,
who furnished more than the allotted nine
days' talk to the scandal-mongers.
All this you say haa little to do with one
of the latest claimants to fame, but who
can tell, every stone In the locality has
been trod by the feet of the mighty and
the Invisible prints may have helped greatly
In Mr. Maugham's ongoing. At any rate
It does no harm to blleve so, and he him
self does not deny It.
Where Manahmtt Works.
The special environment, up many flights
of generous sized Ktalrs to working and
living rooms, high enough to catch even
the elusive sunlight of London, Is Interest
ing to harmonize with your expectations.
The salon has Its easy chairs and divans
covered with shiny chintzes which recall
Clyde Fltche's stage settings and home
decorations. Mr. Maughan In appearance la
not unlike the Clyde Fitch of eight or ten
years ago, as hla playa, of which Ameri
can audiences have seen "Lady Frederick"
and "Jack Straw" and will see "Penelope"
next siason, are not unlike Mr. Fitch's
In their clcvtr construction, their more
than clever diulcgue, and their lack of
ulimatlu shock to the novelty seeking
nerve.
lie has a sort of resemblance also to
the bronze Narcissus silhouetted ugalnsi
the light on top of a revolving bookcase,
for Mr. Maughan is a very good looking
young man, with bright brown eyes, a
determined chin and a ruddy, ouldoir
color. He is of medium height, and wears
a loose Norfolk Jacket as part of hla writ
ing costume. He is in the early thirties,
the era when a man refers frequently to
tha time "when I waa a young fellow,"
which is said by those who have passed
on, to be a verbal disease, brief and non-
recurrent.
If he does not live up to his blue china,
he at least sits up against It, a number
of selected pieces forming a desk frieze,
and over and about him are numerous
interesting pictures, some charming water
colors of the Riviera and Italy, and a
portrait of himself by Mr. Kelly. The
most Interesting object In an extremely
Interesting apartment is a new painting
by one of London't greatest painters,
Wilson Steer, who Is familiarly called the
modern constable. The owner exhibits It
with pride and .the attitude of a con
noisseur. He haa, however, a little the
manner of the family man, who has been
carried away by the exaltation of an auc
tion's psychic moment, has purchased an
Ellsabethan bed and then remembers that
he lives in a Harlem flat.
"I certainly shall have to move,"" he
aaya, taking you at once Into hla confi
dence, "for I have no room here, and I
hardly think chambers make a suitable
'environment for a picture like this. I sup
pose It must be a house next time."
The moment of confidence is apparently
quite typical of Mr. Maugham, who haa
little of the British detachment, to put It
mildly, and he laughs easily away the idea
firmly Implanted in your mind that he waa
averse to being interviewed for an Ameri
can newspaper.
Home for Hla Picture.
, "I have had to refuse a lot of requests
recently, but it waa only because the in
terviewers themselves got ao frightfully
anlffy. I don't mind being misquoted to
the least. I want to be misquoted, because
I say auch frightfully indiscreet things
max ir you repeated me verbatim It
wouldn't be fit for publication, and you
can aay anything you want to and claim
I did It. but when I'd obliged two or three
Journallatlo friends, aa I foolishly thought.
and then read that I had pushed myself
Into public notice and was seeking for
self-advertisement, why I had to stop Just
jor protection. And then the hlfalutin
atufl they make you aay a if any one
ever did talk that way; Isn't it awful
Tou don t know when you read It whether
you're proud to have such an unexpected
and wonderful vocabulary or mad to think
anybody could think you did have, you
know.
HIs Idea of Pales."
Naturally you talk about Mr. Maugham's
own profession, and with the recollection
of hla latest success In mind. "Penelope."
aha of tha emotional nature, finding out
tha Intrigue between her husband and her
dearest friend and seeking U fit herself
by a routine of self-control and elaborate
policy to the task of rewlnnlng him, you
ask If he believes that the Munsey-Hsrras-worth
ending, which marks the fall of tha
curtain after the fourth act, continues
through Penelope'a life.
"I honestly think," said Mr. Maugham,
with an expression of worldly disbelief In
bis cynical eye which belles hla phrase,
"that Penelope was clever enough to keep
bar husband faithful to her all through
tha rest of bar Ufa, although everybody
Is I know who baa seen It haa an entirely
opposing opinion. Certainly I ought to
have a right to mine, however, don't you
think r
Tom shake your head sadly. "Not In
tha face and eye of a personality which
suggests frequent temperamental acci
dents. Then you ask maliciously If he
Imagines that American audiences will ac
cept such a cold-blooded portrayal of
marital barkulldlrg.
He Is undoubtedly amazed at the sug
gestion. "Why, honestly, I never thought of such
a thing. Tou mean that women In America,
that Is of the smart, social whirl, expect
their husbands to be faithful to ttaemT"
Tou nod In your best Star and Stripes
manner.
"Why, thkt'a awfully Interesting; of
oourae we expeot the wives to bo, faithful,
naturally, but we are not along as far as
yeu are, or further along, which la it?
However, I don't think you can look
askance, for you have an easy divorce law,
which really balances those questtlona."
la tha Matte, of Woman.
Having In mind the rumor that as a
popular bachelor Mr. Maugham is much in
demand at social functions, you ask re
garding hla rather remarkable knowledge
of feminine nature, which In "Penelope"
la portrayed to the point of making you
wonder If the fable concerning the impos
sibility of understanding the sex Is to con
tinue. He agrees that this polite and pleasant
fiction la relegated to the limbo of last
year's hats. Women are, ao different from
men; they are of the eame clay; they have
the same passions, the same emotions, the
same principles or lack of principles, so 1
say give 'em the vote. I intended 'Pene
lope' aa a lesson, showing young wives
how to treat their husbands, for aa a
bachelor I feel that I have a perfect right
not only to have radical Ideaa about the
marriage state, but also to express them.
It'a tha only time a man can, and he ought
to make the beat of hla halcyon days,
eh?"
Mr. Maugham hospitably presses upon
you -sanitary cigarettes with cotton at the
mouth, which absorbs the nicotine and
ldoaa. Tou are forced to decline, although
ha assures you that he don't mind ash on
hla carpet, not a bit.
Doctor Gta His.
One of the moat amusing blta of "Pene
lope" Is the peek- behind the veil in the
doctor's office, where a strange array of
patients are shown and the comedy of
which culminates when, having treated a
fussy old woman on whom he haa counted
for a fat fee and whose continued visits
has prompted Penelope to buy another
Paris hat, he learns that she Is a doctor a
widow, and according to the unwritten
law of hla profession he cannot accept any
payment for his services. The author ad
mits that the play has not made him so
popular with the profession that he Is
prompted to break a leg to show how
cheaply It can be reset, but life, ever com
pensatory, had tipped him off to the
Christian Scientists aa a promising con
vert. The real reason why I selected a doc
tor's office as the mlse en scene was this:
One has to keep one's finger on the pulse
of public demand In playwrltlng, as in
other professions, and the popular bent at
present among English people shows a
decided reaction against the continual
portrayal of the lives of the aristocracy.
Over here we have decided distinctions of
class, which I understand you also have In
America, but don't admit. We have, for
Instance, our upper middle classes, our
middle classes and our lower middle
classes, with about thirteen subdivisions,
and everybody is relegated according to the
obvious symptoms. Theatergoers say now
that they want to see the lives of people
who are not admitted by card to the state
balls at Buckingham palace; they want
the intimate revelation of domestic doings
of the Bayswater people, whom one of our
popular dramatists, John Galsworthy, In
troduces very convincingly. Bayswater
means nothing to yon aa an American, to
an Kngllshman it would mean at once the
class of people whom he knows about &a
merchants on a.amall scale, professional
men who have not risen beyond the mark
of mediocrity; it la absolutely distinct In
lta suggestion and certainly does offer a
promising field.
Advantage of Aa Aristocracy.
"But I think the reason the aristocratic
class has been drawn on so frequently
is not because the playwright haa any
special affiliations with tt or haa confined
his studies there to the exclusion of other
classes. It is merely because It is the only
class available for his needs. People like
garden parties, they like 6 o'clock tea
crowds, they like the picturesque and the
environment which appeals to their aes
thetic sense, and In consequence when you
use that environment you must people it
with that class that you would naturally
find there. You can't take a business man,
a man who Is stock broking in the city,
a barrister working out a legal complica
tion in the courts, forcibly remove him,
put him In regulation dress and place
him In a garden party, or dancing at
tendance at an afternoon bazaar, now,
can you? If you want to take a man into
the country or to a smart function in
order to work out your story, you .have to
look for that man among the only class
who are always at your beck and call.
You cannot find auch a man except in the
leisure class, and I believe; that is un
doubtedly the reason why he haa been a
bit overworked. The doctor's office seemed
to me a very possible compromise, and
having selected it for the reason given,
the comedy came as a matter of course.
"You have to have ao much more snow
of evidence on the stage than In real life.
The motive of action must be a hundred
fold more reasonable. In one'a daily ex
istence, he will do the most absurd things,
act absolutely on the Impulse of the mo
ment, follow a mood, a caprice, no matter
what may happen, but you can't do that
on the stage and be convincing, for your
audlenoe will not realise the emotion of
the moment you portray and the hap
hazard results, without logic or coiisecu
tiveness, that ensue. In Mr. Bernard
Shaw's play 'The evil's Disciple' there
la a case In point, and the reason the
play did not make a bigger success I
suppose was due to the fact that while
tha man in it acted as a man of that kind
would do under the circumstances, acted
emotionally, without thought or care of
consequences, the audience looking on and
seeing the Absurdity of It all could not
and would not be convinced. In real life
altuationa are made for us; on the stage
we have to make situations and work
them out to a reasonable conclusion.
Slow ta Write a Play.
"Play writing Is a knack, merely a
knack, and you have it or you haven't It,
that la all. When I waa extremely young
I had to live, although the necessity may
not seem apparent, and I commenced zeal
ously to write plays, which nobody seemed
to want then they've been sold since, by
the way, and to people who wouldn't even
trouble to read them at that time. I was
frightfully discouraged and reasoned out
to my own satisfaction that If I turned my
attention to novels and got sufficient repu
tation then my plays would be read, under
the absolutely false impression that If a
man were fairly well known as a novelist
his course as play writer would be made
easier. I don't think It helps In the least.
Some of my books, notably 'Lisa of Lam
beth,', had a fair aale and I could have
kept on filling orders from the publishers
and ended where I started, looking at It
from the standpoint of my original am
bition, but Would not have advanced an
lota by that means. Merely In the matter
of dialogue, you can write a very effective
bit for your story; take It out of tha story
and try to make It go In a play It falls
absolutely flat and will not reach over the
footlights even so far aa aa the first tow
of stalls. Why? Nobody knows. Play
writing Is founded on an entirely dissimilar
Idea from novel writing, and what that
Idea Is nobody has yet defined.
"I have never been In America and I
am extremely anxious to come to your
country, although I have not yet been able
to plan for It with any certainty. When
you look ahead and Imagine a success
you think of the things you will do when
It comes. America loomed large in my
Imaginings, but the success brought with
It obligations and work and responsibilities;
some of the thlngn It meant to me have
had to be eut out.
"I want to study your people. I expect
to be greatly Impressed with your llve
nees,' your Initiative, your difference to
ourselves. I Imagine you much more hos
pitable to the stranger."
Hla Notions of America.
Mr. Maugham inquires If It is not much
easier to work and play in America. He
has heard so.
"Judging from the few American plays
I have seen here, I believe that you actors
work together better than ours do; that
each helps the other and that your en
semble is more satisfactory on that account.
I may be wrong in this, for I have seen
beside 'Arizona,' which I consider one of
the best melodramas I ever saw, pnly the
play of 'Strongheart on which to base my
assumption. I never saw a play where It
aeemed to me you got so completely the
Idea that everybody was working to help
everybody else and that the suocess, aa a
whole, meant more to every one of the
cast than an individual triumph. I espe
cially noted this in Robert Edeson's part.
He Is to appear In a play of mine this
coming winter in America. It is called
The Noble Spaniard. The scene Is laid
in Calais in 1850, it Is a comedy and the
costumes of the period are very amusing.
'When I speak of America I think of
Pittsburg. I want to see it more than any
place In the world. I have heard that there
never was a more ugly city, and I don t
believe it. I know that I shall find It as
beautiful as Florence. Whistler, you
know, had to come to London and teach
the English people how to appreciate the
Thames, the foggy days, the heavy smoke.
Ha revelled artistically in the atmosphere
conditions which had been acceptend as the
great aesthetic drawback, with Italy al
ways in mind.
Pittsburgh's "Atmosphere."
'Beauty exists in the eye of the beholder.
You must make the beauty yourself, In
other words. When I was at the age when
one is tuVvht, but does nothing for one
self. I warf made to believe that factories
anu factory chimneys, the pall of smoke,
the gray days and nights were ugly things.
Now I know better, and I believe that I
shall enjoy In Pittsburg the climax of ar
tistic delight that I havo learned to find
in environments of that kind.
'There is one that I am especially fond
of. I have never seen a more exquisite
landscape. It is along the Medway on
the road to Chatham as you go to Parts
by the Dover route. Don't miss seeing It
from your car window. There are times
when it Is as delicately tinted as a Corot
landscape, there are moments when It Is
like an Impression of a huge fire opal."
Having proved to hla own and the inter
viewer's satisfaction that Pittsburg and the
Medway share the world's beauty and
charm, with a leaning toward Pittsburg,
Mr. Maugham goes calmly on to announce
that whenever he is not in London he
lives by preference in a small place oppo
site Bellaglo, on the Riviera, where he
goes soon to fill the many orders for
playa which will keep him busy for aome
months to come. It la there that bla new
piece which will bo produced by Mr.
Frohman is to be completed. It Is called
Smith," and is a serious play. "It la in
tended to show," continues the speaker,
"how it is possible to lead the simple life
even amid complex surroundings. The
simple life idea ia not, I know, a very novel
one, but I hope I have succeeded In finding
a novel viewpoint. I don't think the time
of its American production haa been de
cided upon."
Censor, Author, Aetor and Critic.
"The censor? Oh, we love the censor, ha
la so much better than the police. Every
play has to be sent to him to read over and
it's ten chanoea to one that it escapes his
blue pencil. But when you have the censor
aealnst you, you often have the critics
with you, bo there again s the balancing
law.
'In one of my plays, 'A Man of Honor,'
It was necessary to use a very ugly word,
and I used It because that was the only
word that would do. The censor promptly
crossed it out, saying that one might em
ploy the verb 'to seduce' in a melodrama,
for it was expected there and no melo
drama would be complete without it, but
not in a serious play; it was too offensive.
Not having a synonym in my vocabulary
that would fill the place, a happy inspira
tion occurred to ma and 1 said, I will leave
the word out for the actor who plays the
part to say what he' pleases. I did so, and
the actor being In the same dilemma as
myself, merely scowled, waved a twisted
finger and thumb and looked unutterable
things at tha climatic moment. The critics
the next day said that a man . less versed
in the art of playwrltlng than Mr.
Maugham might have committed the sole
cism of using a crude phrase, but he, with
his accustomed art, merely suggested and
In that way made his meaning doubly
clear and wrote himself down a master of
method."
ANOTHER ILLUSION SHATTERED
Home Reflections an the Wisdom
of Widows la the Matrimonial
Game.
Another tradition Is scattered to the
winds by the published record .of our
latest experimenter In wholesale matri
money. Of the seventeen women whom
Christian C. Johnson of San Francisco
can remember leading to the alter, only
two were spinsters. Tha rest presumably
were widows. ' Johnson, who practiced
polygamy of revenue only, and who. In
fact, never married a woman If he could
make off with her. money in any other
way, like the burglar who never slays un
less he Is absolutely compelled to, lays it
down aa a general proposition that the
conquest of woman Is easy. "Treat bar a
little harsh, and be a llttla distant, and she
will come to you." Of women In general the
thing has been said before. But In the
present Instance, aa we have pointed out,
for "women" we muat read "wldowe."
What, then, become of our vast stores
of gnomic wludom concerning the widow
aa a menace to man? Her guile haa been
pictured as Infinite; her patience aa In
exhaustible; her will aa of adamant; her
eye aa unflinching; her hand as sure. The
ancient world thought of Artemis aa
maidens; but If you believe tha cynic, the
true huntress waa a widow. Tha world
was her game preserve. Young and old,
wise and foolish, those who did not know
enough and who should havo known better,
she ran down with equal ease. So much
for legend. The fact, of course, U quite
the opposite. Far from being man'a lm
placeable foe, the widow now standa forth
aoft, sentimental, gullible her own worst
enemy. New York Post
SAFEGUARDING INFANT LIFE
Campaign for Babies' Rights to
Health and Proper Care.
EFFECTIVE WOEK IN EIGHT LUTE
Freak Air, aa.hlae ana Pare rood
Cheeks Anpalllnar Waste Coster,
eace Intended to Spread
tho Light.
Under the auspices of the American
Academy of Medicine, a conference on
"Prevention of Infant Mortality" is to be
held In New Haven, Conn., next Novem
ber. In connection with the campaign In
augurated by the academy in behalf of
the babies' rights to health and to proper
care, it is interesting to note that nearly
all of the humanitarian undertakings that
have had the prevention of Infant mor
tality as their chief aim, have sprung up
in this last quarter of a century. It has
been only since people have waked up to
the possibilities of preventive medicine
that the laity as well as physicians have
realised that the sovereign remedies of
freah air, sunshine and pure food are the
most effective weapons that could be de
sired in a fight against the appalling waste
of life among little children.
Just as the excessive mortality due to
tuberculosis was formerly loked upon as
a visitation of Providence. ih t.r-ihi,.
mortality among the babies was regarded
as due to divine Intervention, to be ac
cepted with auplne resignation. But the
work of the visiting nurses, of the day
nurseries, tha floating hospitals, tha fresh
air homes, the establishment of milk
depots, the Inspection of tho aourcea of the
milk supply by enlightened boards of
health, the Banltary Inspection of tene
ments, all have ahown, that given a fair
chance, the baby can be depended upon
to do hla share toward making good phy
sically. Effect of Educational Castsaln.
Proof of this is ahown In statiatlca col
lected by Dr. L. Emmett Holt of New
York. Hla table la for New York City
and covers the Derlnd from tsai loon
During 1891, when the population under five
years amounted to 188.70S, the mortality of
children under 6 was 18,222. This meant
that the number of deatha for every 1,000
children under S yeara of ace was ninetv-
alx. In 18 the number of wth h.H
down to eighty-five per 1,000; and In 1!H
It has been reduced to sixty-seven, a total
decline of nearly thirty per 1,000 in ten
years. Though the population under 6
years had Increased 66,000, the actual da
crease In deaths of children under 6 years
was l.oOO. This decrease is attrlhnt.rf in
th wider diffusion of knowledge of Infant
feeding and hygiene; to the more enlight
ened care given to the babies during the
summer; to the bettering of the milk sup
ply, and to the many agencies that are at
work to secure more favorable nriitinn
for the babies In the overcrowded sections
of the city.
Nearly everey civilised country hut hwn
alarmed at the appalling mortality among
me oaDies, and In many placea special ef
forts have been made to lower the death
rate. One of the most pnnn4i.iin,iBiu ....
cessful of these was tried in Enirland. and
Is now generally sroken of an the l-TiMW..
ftfcld plan. But there ia Just as much cause
10 can it the Boadbent Dlan. for It wax
Mayor Broadbent of Huddersfield, who an
nounced on the day of hla election in 1904
mat ne would give a prise of about $5 to
the mother of every child born durin hi.
year of office. It waa atipulated, though,
that the child was to be alive and well and
waa to fro brought to toe town hall on the
appointed day. Aa a means of insuring
intelligent care for th children, a com
mittee of women was appointed, who vis
ited tho mothers and gave them simple,
practical instruction In the proper hygiene
and feeding of the babies. -
A Great Sarrea,
When the exhibition day arrived 100
lively, healthy babies were entered In the
baby show, and their mothers received the
promised award. Incidentally, when the
town clerk made up the vitality records
for the year it was found that the death
rate of 134 bablea In 1,000 had gone down
to 54 In 1,000. Small wonder the municipal
baby show" was, voted a great success!
In many parts of Germany, while the
baby show does not figure conspicuously
on the program, the plan Is in force of
Instructing the mothers through a regu
larly appointed board of visitors. In some
of the German cities, among them Cologne,
If the circumstances of the family are auch
that the mother ia compelled to be on
of the bread winners, arrangements are
made for her support for the first month
of the baby's life, ao that the baby can be
sure of having the mother's care during
the first few critical weeks of Ws life. In
our own country tha education of the moth
ers is one of the most Important feature of
the work of the visiting nurses. In some
communities the way Is prepared for the
more intelligent care of the babies hv tv,
distribution of educational leaflets by the
local boards of health on the birth of th
baby. The carelessness with which vital
statistics are usually kept, and the delay
on tne part of physicians In recording
births, makes this method less effective
than It could otherwise be."
Plan of the Conference.
The conference to be held at Now Haven
will be on the general subject of the pre
vention of infant mortality. The possibili
ties of such prevention by medical, philan
thropic. Institutional and educational
means will be discussed by men and women
who have made a special study of these
problems. The officers of the sections are:
Medical, Dr. J. H. Mason, Jr., of the Johns
Hopkins medical school, Baltimore, chair
man; Dr. Richard A. Urquhart, Baltimore,
secretary; philanthropic, Edward T. De
vine, editor of the Survey, chairman; Miss
Lillian Brandt, secretary; institutional.
Homer Folks, secretary of the New York
State Charities Aid association, chairman;
Miss Mary Vlda Clark, secretary; educa
tional. Prof. C. E. A. Wlnslow of the
laboratory of sanitary research, Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, Boston, chair
man, and Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, Boston,
secretary.
Th executive, advisory and other com
mittees of the conference include many
well-known specialists in children's dis
eases, social workers, educators and health
officers. Among them are: Mlsa Jane
Addams of Hull House, Chicago; Prof, Irv
ing Fleher of Yale university, president of
the One Hundred on National Health; Dr.
Charles R. Henderson of th University of
Chicago; Dr. Helen C. Putnam of Provi
dence, R. I., chairman of the executive
committee, and Dr. James Morgan Rotch,
professor of pediatrics at Harvard.
CHLOROFORMED THE SNAKES
WIm Experiment of a Keatsrkr
Dorter lur1 a Mlat Julep
Seaaoa.
Dr. W. K. Delaney of Ptate Run, Ky.,
is often called at night to go into what
Is known as the Black Forest region, where
Weed 4 Co. have several large lumber
camps. Tha doctor owns a velocipede
truck, which he rides over a little narrow
gauge railroad used to haul log out of th
woods. He can ride within two mile of
th camp, these laat two mile being cov
DREXEL'S
YOUNG MEN'S
OXFORDS
The young man is always
a criterion on the quentlon of
style and quality of oxfords.
He notices all the details of
an oxford, such as width of
toe, shape of last and height
of heel. On all these points
he Is well posted. Oxfords
with distinctive style and
shape appeal to him.
We hare been shoeing
these critical young men for
years and know their every
want when It comes to the
oxford question. We have
these young men's oxfords In
all style and leathers, and
with a price to fit any
pocketbooV. ,
OVR riUCE
$3.50 and $4.00
NOTE We are including
In our $4.00 line the high
arch and extreme high mili
tary heel.
1
Drexel Shoe Co.
1119 faroam Street
are one of the troubles of
this warm weather, but we
can help them just a change
of shoes in the heat of the
day will help. v
A fine, light tan shoe is
good or a black vici shoe will
do nicely and they can be
had in any gra'de from $2.50
up. Better come in and tell
us your foot troubles.
WE CAN HELP YOU
FRY SHOE CO.,
THE SHOERS
16th and Douglas Streets.
ered on foot by way of a zigxag path
through the woods.
He always carries a small lantern which,
when he rides his velocipeds car, he hangs
on the front as a headlight. One 'night
he( received a telephone message to come
to the forest to attend a woodsman who
waa very 111. It was almost midnight when
he left home. At the end of the run where
he left the car he detached the lantern
and carried it In his hand. In hia other
hand he carried a medicine case, which
contained, among other things, a pint bot
tle of chloroform.
At a point along the way the path runs
through a small clearing, where once the
stable of a lumber camp stood. This is
now grown over with a crop of grass
nearly a .foot high. Dr. Delaney had Juht
stepped into this grass-covered clearing
when he was startled by the sound of a
snake's rattle at his feet. Involuntarily
he leaped forward, landing almost In the
center of the grass plot, when to his hor
ror he heard a chorus of rattles. The
sound seemed to come from all sides. He
dared not move lest he step on the venom
ous snakes, and to stand still seemed al
most aa perilous.
Lifting the lantern above his head so
that the rays be cast in a radius covering
th grass plot, the doctor found himself
praotlcally hemmed in by snakes. He saw
no less than a dozen of the serpents and
every one of them had risen to a height
so that their beads were from six to ten
Inches above the top of tha grass. Turn
In any direction he might he found himself
confronted with the ugly head of one of
the venomous creatures. Some of the
snakes were within four or five feet of
him, but none appeared to move, except
as they swayed their heads in a rhythmic
movement that set the doctor's head awhlrl.
He dared not move, yet he found himself
growing sick and faint from a nauseating
odor that arose from the ugly reptiles.
The snakes evidently were drawn to the
clearing from the woods and it waa hla
luck to walk Into this charmed circle and
become a prisoner.
But a bright thought struck him. Ly
ing within reach of him, half-concealed In
th grass, was a piece of bark, probably
three feet long. Wrapping a handkerchief
as best he could about one end of the bark,
while he still held aloft the beacon light,
he saturated the cloth with chloroform
from his bottle. Then cautiously poking
the bark at the heads of the rearing
snakes, one after another, again and again
occasionally renewing the saturation he
finally had the satisfaction of seeing the
snakes begin slowly and drowsily to de
scend into tha grass.
Their rattling, which had lessened from
a shrill whlxs to a lazy buss, finally
stopped altogether, and Inside of ten min
utes tha doctor had conquered the whole
cordon of reptiles. Then he proceeded to
the camp. '
From there three men with torches were
sent back to the grass patch to dispatch
the snakes. They found the reptiles In a
half -dormant condition. When they cleaned
up th bunch they had just sixteen rattle
snakes, among that number two of the yel
low variety, each of which measured over
flv feet In length. Bardstown Standard.
If you have anything to sell or trade
and want quick action advertise U In
Th Be Want Ad col u rare
iBUHG
All Summer Suits Must Go
Don't tYliso tho Grand Clear
ance Bargains This Week at
pji
M0E
Nil
mi
THE RELIABLE STORK
Ain rn For your unrestricted
M I&.UU choice of any Two-Piece
Suit in our house, including all
Hart, Schaffner & Marx and other
highest grade makes. No matter
where you buy or what you pay you
cannot surpass the quality or style
individuality of these splendid suits.
Blue Serge Suits worsteds, cassi
ineres, etc., in three-piece styles
that sold up to $18.00; go fry CO
in this sale at, oiioice .... M I w U
Hand Tailored Suits, that sold reg
ularly to $22.50, at, Pin
choice V IU
400, Hand Tailored Suits, including
the celebrated Hart, Schaffner &
Marx clothes, that sold regularly
to $25.00; while they last
choice
You can match the price but not the quality and
style at the price.
BOYS' SUIT BARGAINS
$3.50 Boys' Suits. . . .$1.85
$5.00 Boys' Suits. . . .$2.85
Boys' Knickerbocker Pants
$1.50 values at. .T 98c
$1.00 values at 68c
fSr'Jet Try HAYDEN'S First p'.
SUIT CASES
TO SUIT
THE PURSE
small profit. It is economy to deal with us for the reacon
that w charge no more for good goods than is asked for
cheaper grades elsewhere.
Matting Suit Cues, np from $2.00
Suit Cases $1.35 8135
Our Own Make Trunks. .$3.50 to $70
Omaha. Trunk Factory
1209 Farnam Street.
DR, BRADBURY, DENTIST
Crowns, np from 90.60
rartial riatea, np
from 93.00
Painless Extracting 60 o
r tilings, np from Boo
Porcelain rilllnga,
np from tl.BO
Desirable Offices .
There are very few opportunities to secure office space In The
Bee Building. At this time, there Is. but one room vacant. On
August 1st there will be an opportunity to secure some particularly
desirable" space In the building. Although it Is not a pleasant time
to move during the warm weather, we suggest that any one desiring
an office would do well to take advantage of the opportunity.
South Frout Office
Oh the sixth floor, large corner office with vault, having south
and west light. This very desirable location now available. TIiIb
room Is partitioned, providing for a general work room and a private
office. Price $40.00 per month.
For Rent August 1st. "
Suite of two rooms on sixth floor, number 616 and 618. These
offices are 13x20 and'9x22 feet In dimension; are outside rooms and
have good light. Price $33.00 per month.
Rooms 417 and 419 will also be available on August 1st. They
are 8x14 feet each In size and are court rooms. The light in these
offices is equal to that In outside rooms, and the ventilation perfect.
Price $20.00 per month.
Room 617 is 8x14 feet in size, and faces on the court This
room will be ready for ocoupancy the first of August. Price $10.00
per month.
THE BEE BUILDING
R
W. BAKER, Superintendent
tipntMi la Mmtttxa fle-rr
cattery- m m uiniaim nockiffi
ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSTION
Stopover without xtra charge at th famoua resorts:
aalf Xke toot Jleld Qlaoler.
This "Lnd of Enchantment" la reached only by the
Canadian Pacific Railway
Through tralna to beattle from Bt. Paul dally at 10:o a. ra.
X,ew Bsearaloa Tares from all places to Seattl and all Puget
Sound cities and return.
, Alaaka and return from Vancouver . by Can. FaoUW
stcamcjxa. Tickets for sale by arents of all railwaya
Eend for literature and Information.
A. C.Shaw, General Agent. Chicago.
THE NATIONAL HEALTH RESORT"
HOT SPRINGS,
SOUTH DAKOTA
Approved by Natlaa and Stale. Bed
Climate and sfeoictnal Mprlogs is
America, flret Class Hot. la llespW
tal and Beta House Writ m
etary Ooaamerelal Ola.
mot svriaae. , taa.
s. ,ti J J
jfi
$15 B
this week at,
BOYS' PANT BARGAINS
75c Knickerbocker Pants,
for 48C
50c Knickerbocker Pants,
for 39c
All the Straight Knee Pants
to close at 25c
We carry the most complete
line of trunks, traveling bags and
suit cases In the city. Our line
embodies the best quality in all
the different grades.
Our prices are low because we
can afford to do business on a
''4
Tel. Douglas 1058
1506 I1BH1H BTmSXT. 17 yeara
same off to, 'rhonei D. 1756.
Bridge Work, per
tooth, up from $3.50
Serves removed with,
out pain.
ALVEOLAR WOSI
A Br-ECIAXTT.
Work guaranteed tea
rar'
Itee Business Office.
nly. thm marnlflcne of th
CLARK'N CRUISER
OF THE "CLEVELAND"
(Hamburg-American Line)
o,ouu toas, sreua new,
d new,
ted. T
WORLD
superbly fitted.
UUNU the
l'lm New York October 14. l'J03; front
Ban Fancisco Feb. b. 1j10. nemly four
uiontha. costing only 6.i AND l;P, In
eluding all expenses lfluat and auhor.
raiAX TBITUBEIi Madeira, Egrpt,
laita, Cyloo, Burma, Java, Borneo, VhU
Ipplaes alaintu. An unusual cnaace ta
visit oaasually attractive places.
lath Aaaaal Orient Cruise, Feb. S, '10l
by North Ujrmsa Uuu a. tt. "Grosser
Kuifuer.t. 71 days, Including 2t days
Egypt and Palestine, $400 up.
:rAK c. OX.ABK. timis bwav. a. x
W. B. Book, 1M raruaus at, Omaha,
