The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 September 1910 — Page 7

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Raymond Quit Twain’s Play I A?

I I Grew Tired of Playing Colonel Sellers to Big Houses and Paying Most of the Receipts for Royalties. Some years after John T. Raymond, who died in 1886, had made his great historic hit as Col. Mulberry Sellers in a dramatization of Mark Twain’s book, “The Gilded Age,” a character according to one authority, “that became completely identified with his own breezy optimism,” I met him one afternoon as he was entering the old Willard hotel in Washington. He beckoned me to one side. “I have made up my mind to buy a play written by pavid D. Lloyd, a Washington newspaper correspondent you probably know,” he said. “It is called ‘For Congress.’ Mr. Lloyd read it to me this morning, and I am going to produce It just as soon as I can j:los& my present contract.” “Why,” I said, “what do you want with a new play, Mr. Raymond? ‘The gilded Age’ ought to be good for ten years yet. It has given you a national reputation, and should be making you rich.” The comedian smiled a dry sort of smile. “Oh, that play has given me a reputation, all right,” he said, “but reputation is not milk and honey, and that’s why I am soon going to be done with •The Gilded Age’ forever, yes, forever. I have got tired of playing Colonel Sellers to packed houses. and finding ', out, wheii figuring up accounts, that I have made just about enough to pay the expenses of my company and to draw fori myself a ‘ham fatter’s’ salary.” “Everybody has supposed that you were making a fortune out of the play,” I said. Mr. Raymond struck the familiar attitude of Colonel Sellers in the play, when that worthy, in describing the eye-wash says, “There’s millions in it!” "Oh,” exclaimed Raymond, with uplifted hand, “there’s millions in it —■ there’s millions in it —but they are for Mark Twain and not for John T. Raymond. * “You see, it’s this way. When the book, ‘Thb Gilded Age,’ appeared I got one of the first copies and the instant I ran across the character of Colonel Sellers I said, ‘Raymond, that’s your

Why England Honored Grant

7. Minister Pierrepont Convinced John Russell That There Was Precedent in Reception Given j Napoleon 111. When- the world became aware of the fact that General Grant was going on a world tour, our minister to the court of St. James was Edward Pierrepont, who two years before, had been appointed attorney-general by President Grant. He and General Grant were warm personal friends, and it was this friendship more than anything else which caused him to do all he could to see that Grant would be received properly when he visited England. Making an appointment with John Russell, i secretary for state in the British cabinet, Judge Pierrepont brought up the question as to how General| Grant would be received offisially. He found Lord Russell very jordial and anxious, apparently, that the reception should be worthy of General Grant. “But,” added Lord - Russell, “I am, not at all certain as to the appropriate official procedure tor his reception.” • “What, in a general way, had you thought of, Lord John?” politely asked Mr. Pierrepont. “Well,” was the reply, “I will answer your question in what is said to be a characteristic American way, by asking I you. another: What do you think the general character of the reception should be?” “That, of course, is for you to say,” countered Minister Pierrepont, "and I feel sure that you must even now be entertaining some idea of what would be appropriate and sufficient recognition.” “You are right,” confessed Lord Russell. "It seems to me that General Grant should be received as the most distinguished private citizen of the United States and one of the great military commanders of the world’s history. * , "Oh, no,” replied Mr. Pierrepont, bluntly, “that won’t do at all.” “Well, then,” said Lord Russell. “Tell me what seems to you would be an appropriate official reception.” The reply was Instantly given. “General Grant should be received with all the honors that you are accustomed to bestow upon any one who has served as a ruler of a great nation.' He has been not only a great general, but also president of the United States for nearly eight years.” "Btrt,” protested Lord Russell, “there isn’t any precedent for official recognition of that sort." "If nreced«nt be necessary. Lord

part. You’re a sort of Colonel Sellers off the stage, and you ought to be a good Colonel Sellers on the stage.’ So I arranged for the dramatization of the book, got a company together and played it ‘on the dog* in western New York. It was a go, and then, suddenly, I heard from Mark Twain. I met him by appointment. “ ‘Look here,’ he said, ‘you’ve been trespassing on my domains. You’ve been taking my goods. The dramatic rights of "The Gilded Age’ are mine. But for all your trespassing there Isn’t ar actor anywhere that can do Colonel Sellers as you can, because, John, you know, you are Colonel Sellers to the life.’ “ ‘Glad to hear you say It, Mark,’ I replied, ‘but what’s in the wind?’ “ ‘Well,’ said Mark, ‘I want to do the play over a little differently. I want you to play Colonel Sellers. I want you to get the company together and rehearse It, and then we’ll make a few dollars between us.’ “We cnme to the contract and I ac-

Were Driven to Big Triumph

Colonel Mapleson’s Story of the Cast That First Sang the Opera “Carmen" In the United States. The cast that first sang the now celebrated opera “Carmen” in this country consisted of the world famous tenor, Italo Campanini; Del Puente, the baritone, and the American stars, Minnie Hauck and Alwina Valeria. They sang the opera and scored a great triumph therein under the direction of the late Col. James H. Mapleson, the operatic impresario; and one of the most’ amusing stories of the troubles of an impresario that Colonel Mapleson ever told me related to this famous “Carmen” cast. “I had seen the opera In Paris,” said Colonel Mapleson, “and deciding that it would be a great success in London and the United States, made arrangements to produce it in both countries —at Drury Lane, in the early summer, and at New York’s Academy of Music in the autumn. Then I sent for Minnie Hauck, Alwina Valeria, Campanini and Del Puente.

S — I John, I can call one to your attention.” “Indeed?” “The reception, Lord John, England accorded to one who was an ex-presi-dent of the French Republic and exemperor of France —Napoleon III — when he came to your shores an exile.” Lord John Russell’s face went instantly blank. Slowly he recovered from his astonishment. “Mr. Pierrepont,” he said finally, “you are right. General Grant shall be received with all the ceremony and etiquette properly appertaining to one who has been the ruler of a great nation.” And in such fashion Citizen Grant was greeted and entertained some months later by the representatives of lhe British government. (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) What Is an Equinox? Parents, as well as teachers, have sometimes to run the gauntlet of awkward questions. “Father,’ said little Tommy one day, “what is an equinox?” Father—“ Why, er —it is—ahem! For goodness’ sake, Tommy, don’t you kfiow anything about mythology at all? An equinox was a fabled animal —half horse, half cow. Its name is derived from the words ‘equine’ and ‘ox.’ It does seem as if these public schools don’t teach children anything nowadays.” This is perhaps equaled by the definition given by a proud father who derived the word from equa, “mare,” and nox, “night,” and called it “nightmare,” which may have expressed his feelings fairly enough. Too Honest. Senior Partner —Where is the office boy? Junior Partner —He said that he wanted to go to the baseball game and I let him go. Senior Partner —He said that he anted to go to the baseball game? Junior Partner —That’s what he said. Senior Partner—Didn’t say anything i about a dead grandmother? Junior Partner—Not a word. Senior Partner —Discharge him to- [ morrow; he’s too honest ever to sucl ceed in this business. . Quite a Traveler. t “Well, well! It takes all kinds of s people to make a world.” "I’m listening.” “A fiend for statistics estimates that 1 in the last five years he has circumavi gated his library table 9,000 1 j imes."

cepted the terms that Mark Twain proposed. I fondly counted on at least $50,000 a year for myself; his royalties were to be paid on a rising sca le—and we have played at such good houses that the scale has risen out of sight. How much, do you think, I have paid Mark Twain this year In royalties?” I couldn’t guess. “Well,” said Raymond, "I have paid him a little more than $60,000 and the season isn’t over yet In addition to that I have given a part to his young protege, William Gillette. He plays the lawyer In the courtroom scene. He’s a family friend of Twain’s and lives In Hartford. “So, you see, here I am, the bigger the profits the less John T. Raymond makes —my fifty thousand a year has never materialized. And that is the reason why I have been looking for a new play and why next season I shall produce Lloyd’s ‘For Congress’ and open right here with It in Washington. Then let’s see if Mark Twain can find another Colonel Sellers on the Rialto, in New York, or anywhere else.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.)

opera, “Carmen,” ’ I said to them when they had arrived at my London office, ‘and I have selected the cast. Madame Hauck, you are to take the part ol Carmen. You, Valeria, are to sing Mlchaela. You, Campanini, are to take the tenor part, Don Jose, and yot», Del Puente, the part of the bull fighter. Here are your parts. Come ts me with them two days from now.’ “When the four appeared before me forty-eight hours later, I saw at once that there was trouble ahead, for Mln nie Hauck was the only one who looked happy. It was easy to see that she was delighted with the part of Carmen, and that she agreed with me that it suited her both physically and ternpermentally. But even as she smiled upon me the storms broke. “Colonel Mapleton,” cried Valeria, “It is an insult to give me this part It is too trifling. Get one of youi chorus girls to sing it. I won’t take It” “‘Yes, you will take it,’ I said, ‘and you will make a great hit in it Take the part home and learn it.’ And, bursting into tears, poor Valeria took her departure. “ T glanced at Campanini and he was in a rage. ‘What do you mean by giving me that insignificant parts he fairly shouted. ‘I won’t sing it II is beneath me. I had rather go back to the army.’ “ ‘Camp,’ I said, ‘don’t be a damr fool. You sing It and act It, as yox can, and you will find that you hav« made one of your greatest triumph! after it Is all over.’ “ ‘You are trying to give me a dos« of soft soap,’ he retorted, using th< equivalent of that expression In Ital ian, which he was speaking to me. “ ‘You take that part, Camp,’ said I ‘or you won’t sing with me any mon here or in America.’ “He glared at me, muttered some thing beneath his breath and walked out. Then up shot Del Puente. “ ‘You make a monkey of me, Maple son,’ he screamed. ‘Go out into th« street and get an organ grinder to sing your bull fighter. I will find many who will sing it for you, but I, De! Puente, I will not sing it’ “‘Yes, you will sing it, Del,’ I re torted, and forthwith told him the day of rehearsal. “It wasn*t a happy affair, that re hearsal, nor were Valeria, Campanini and Del Puente other than gloomy al through the preparatory period. But! keep feeding them managerial plumi judiciously, and at last they wen ready for the first night’s perform ance. “It was a superb success. Cam panini was magnificent in the lasi act. Valeria was recalled twice In th< first act and three times after sing ing her aria in the third act. I saw Del Puente’s white teeth gleaming and his face all wreathed in smiles when he was recalled again and again after the toreador’s song.-' “After the performance the three, together with Minnie Hauck, who, ol course, was flushed with her triumph as Carmen, came to my office. Valeria fairly hugged me in her joy. Campanini was superb; he apologized and berated himself for a fool for not reo ognlzlng that Don Jose would be one of his greatest parts. Del Puente actually embraced me as he announced. T, Del Puente, will sing that part as many times a week as you want me to sing It.’ And during the remainder of the season those three artists were the most tractable singers I ever had to deal with.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) Slow. “Mrs. Smith was to have called on me this morning and here it is night and she hasn’t come.” “She Is coming; I met her headed this way when I was going to work this morning.” "Don’t be silly!” “Well, I did; she waa wearing hei , new hobble skirt.”

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DURING his recent stay of a day and night in Omaha, Col. Roosevelt was Initiated into the order of Ak-Sar-Ben, an organization of Middle West “boosters.” Such details as have leaked out give the idea that the ceremonies were of a peculiarly lively character, and the distinguished initiate is said to’have enjoyed them hugely. The character of the doings may be judged from the illustrations representing “stunts” through which the ex-president was put From the expression on his face it may be judged that the fun In no way displeased Col. Roosevelt Last year President Taft was initiated into the society, which is chiefly made up of business men who. have banded themselves in a co-operative movement, having for its object the development of the transmissouri country. s

IN THE SCRAP HEAP

——— 3 Remnant of French Panama Canal Goes to Melting Pots. Costly Machinery Brought Over by Backers of Ferdinand de Lesseps Being Sent to Furnaces to Be Made Over. Harrisburg, Pa.—The ghost of old Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French engineer, would stand aghast were it to visit the yards of the Harrisburg Iron and Steel company and see what is being done with the costly machinery and equipment which he shipped from France to the Isthmus of Panama in the ’7os, to aid in the construction of the big ditch that was to be dug solely by French labor, conducted by French skill and paid for by French cash from the strong box of the banker and the humble woolen sock of the French peasant. As all the world knows, after De Lesseps had made such a great success in building the Suez canal, he was urged to greater efforts to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic ahd Pacific oceans; and he set about the task with fer-

HYPNOTIC AID - IS REFUSED New York Magistrate Rejects Offer of Services of "Professor of Hypnotism.” New York.—A simple and easy means of solving all marital troubles by hypnotism has just been refused consideration by Magistrate Cornell, officer of New York’s court of domestic relations. A tall, dark man of impressive appearance called upon Magistrate Cornell the other day and introduced himself as a “professor of hypnotism.” He Informed the miglstrate he was ready to place himself temporarily at the service of the court. “I can be of vast assistance,” he said. “I am needed here. Nothing can stand against my powers. Let a couple who are at war come to me. I look in their eyes. I stroke their heads. I say softly, ‘Go, my children, and be at peace.’ They walk out turtle doves.” Magistrate Cornell said he would take the name of the professor and send for him if he was needed, but that he would try to worry on unaided for a while. Eskimos Have Girl in Moon.’ New York.—Professor Wilhelm Verbeck, an ethnologist of Indianapolis. ' who has been studying the folkloof the Eskimo of Northern Labradt has returned from St. John’s, N. F., with a notebook full of observations taken in the year he passed in the north. Instead of having a man in the moon, Eskimos have a girl. One of their young warriors, according to the legend, became angry with his sister, and ran at her to box her ears. Finally she got to the edge of a precipice and he thought he had her trapped. But her momentum was so great that instead of stumbling off the precipice she shot out into space. The brother saw her land in the middle of the moon.

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S--- 2 vor ’and a desire to enrich his countrymen as well as to add luster to his own name and reputation. It was too expensive a transaction, however, and after the French government withdrew its patronage and the French people declined longer to contribute, there came scandals without number that shocked the world, and De Lesseps withdrew to France to die of a broken heart In the abandonment the French company left on the ground all of its machinery, some of which had never been in use, consisting of locomotives, steel cars, huge steel scoops and dredges, valuable tools of iron and steel, bridges that had been made in France and were ready to put together, huge cranes, levers and costly casting material. This costly outfit lay in the path of the American engineers when they came to dig the new ditch which Uncle Sam has in course of construction. Some of it was covered with mud a foot deep; some of it gathered rust an inch deep in the forests of the tropics; locomotives that cost thousands in France lay upturned, the resting places of the swamp birds, and monkeys swung from one bridge piece to the other as had done their ancestors

FIND YOUR NAME BY NUMBER

Uss Zoe Boyle Explains Workings r Her Nomenclature System— Not Fortune Telling. New York.—What’s in a name? Nearly everything from a sure throat to a steady job, in the opinion of Miss Zoe J. Boyle of this city, who cahs herself "a name analysist.” She maintains that when one writes one’s self “E-D-Y-T-H-E,” instead of “E-D-I-T-H,” one actually makes one’s self a* wholly different person. For, she says, as “Edythe” one may be more unlucky than when it’s spelled with an “I.” “It isn’t fortune-telling,” said Miss Boyle. "It is the working of a natural, ordinary law. It means a lot of accurate, careful work. Every letter of the child’s two or three names —Christian, middle and surname —stands for something. Then each letter is equivalent to a number in several mathematical tables which I use. The simplest is like this,” and she showed the following diagram: 123456789 abcdefgh I jklmnopqr rtuvwxyz “I add up all the numbers to which the respective letters of the name be’ong. For instance, the name ‘Mar mid be 4-pliis 1, plus 9, plus 7. T ■n of these is 21, and I consider ti .brations of that number in two ways, as the compound number, 21, and as the sum of the two component parts, 2 plus 1, or 3. I have many books telling what qualities and tendencies every number stands for, away up into the hundreds. “Using this simple table, I analyze each of the names borne by the person I am studying. I then add the sum of the letters of the three names together, coupled with the mother’s maiden name. Only with all this data do I attempt to make a reading.” “But people don’t name themselves ' i reporter ventured, "and Isn’t

■ when De Lesseps and his merry men began to dig the ditch that failed. There was only one thing to do with this old stuff, and that was to gather it, ship it north and sell it for junk, to be remelted in the Yankee smelting pot, to make useful things. Tons upon tons of it were sent to New York and sold, and among those who got a share was the Harrisburg Iron and Steel company. Thus far Harrisburg has handled 1,500 tons of this scrap. As none of it can be used for its original purpose, as fast as it is received here it is cleaned of the rust of years and the mud of Panama and sent to furnaces, for there is always a demand for it, because of its quality. ’Gator In Hen’s Nest. New York. —A pet alligator owned by the family of Jesse Irving Taylor, 249 Broad street, Bloomfield, N. J., disappeared and had been given up as lost. Miss Jeannette Taylor, while gathering eggs from the nests in the Chicken coop was startled to see the head of the alligator sticking from under the wing of an old black hen sitting in one of the nests. „The gator, Ted, was removed from its comfortable quarters and placed in an aquarium. The alligator had grown considerably, and judging from the number of shells found, had been subsisting on fresh eggs.

ather unfair that their characters a heir luck should be determined / pite of themselves, at their christc ing?” “Science is seldom fair,” she answered, “and people have only to change their names. Os course, fre quently it would be rather inconve nient to disturb the surname. But even if that is an unlucky one, the Christian name can nearly always be manipulated to neutralize the bad qualities of the other.” “That’s why some women are so different 'after they arg married?” was suggested. “Yes, indeed,” said Miss Boyle, “and you know many unhappy marriages are simply the result of an unlucky combination of names.” LOVER CHARMS WARTS AWAY Nitric Acid Helps After Year of Hard, Conscientious Work, Winning Girl’s Heart. New York. —After a year’s conscientious and patient-treatment with nitric acid and similar remedies, Robert J. Mcßlan, a young curb broker, has succeeded in removing seven huge warts from the third finger of the left hand the girl he loves, and as a rewar< .iss Lilith Borsberg has consented 7 to their betrothal. Just 13 months ago Mcßlan asked Miss Borspherg to promise to marry him, but she told him' such a thing was out of the question, as she would be unable to get the solitaire over the warts, and even if this were possible “the ugly things” would have detracted from the beauty of that symbol of their plighted troth. So Mcßaln went to work, and after what seemed to him the longest year he ever lived, succeeded finally in vanquishing th' last stubborn excrescence o< the fles' d now he wears a smile? and Ml rspherg wears hi» “kig.

LOUISEJJEROINE Germany Commemorates the Death of a Beloved Queen. Sweet and Womanly Sovereign Whose Memory Will Never Fade From the Pages of Her Country’s History. Berlin.—Memory of the heroine ol Prussia, Queen Louise, the centenary of whose death Germany has been com memorating, will never fade from th< pages of her country’s history. Hel brief life—for she died at thirty-four—* covered a most eventful period of thf country’s annals; and in the drama ol war and disaster the “Martyr Queen,* the “Good Queen,” the “Prussian Ma donna,” by all of which appellation! the beloved queen is known, played s foremost part. Her domestic virtue and the sufferings she endured in her patrt otic efforts to defend her country against Napoleon are related to every pupil and her portrait hangs on ths wall in many a Prussian home. Born In Hanover in 1776, she be» came the wife of the crown prlnde ol Prussia at the age of seventeen, and he became king four years later. She proved a devoted wife to FrederlcH William 111., who married her for but her husband’s weakness, or, pen haps, vacillation, brought humiliation upon her and upon his country! HS delayed resistance to Napoleon’s ag gresslon until resistance was In vain, Persuaded into war with France bj his dauntless queen, who herself went to the front wearing the uniform of hei regiment of dragoons, his military preparations were swept away at Jenn and Auerstadt. Before the Gallic lim vader the royal couple fled from Ber> lin, for the resolute woman Insisted A ' / I' that her husband refuse all terms witl| “the Genius of Evil,” as she called Bonaparte. At Koenigsberg, however t one of their children was stricken with fever, and she, remaining to care f ol him, contracted the disease. Napoleon continued onward, and In mldwintei • Louise was taken from her bed to a carriage, and after a journey of ex* treme hardship found refuge In Memel But further disasters compelled Prus« sla’s submission. Then came greatel humiliation for the unhappy queen. Libeled by Napoleon in his “Bullet tins, nevertheless she consented to an Interview with him at Tilsit, hoping to abtain more generous conditions of peace for her country. The meeting was a bitter one for her, and In vain, as the victor refused her request that Magdeburg be restored to Frederick William. The idol of her people because of tier great beauty and dignity, added to her lovely character and wide! benevolence, her early death, which occurred July 19, 1810, caused wide* spread mourning. On March 10, 1813, the anniversary of her birth, King; Frederick William in. founded the Order of the Iron Cross, to be bestowed! for valor in war against France. On the sixtieth anniversary of her death, her son, King William I. of Prussia, and later the first German emperor, revived this decoration, and on the same day the formal declaration of was on the part of the French government arrived In Berlin. Annually on that day a quaint ceremony takes place In the garrison church of Berlin, when the "Louisq brides," as they are called, are married. In her will Queen Louise provided that every year six servant girls Who had served their masters faiths fully and desire to marry shall receive a dowry of about S9O, provided they marry soldiers in the Berlin garrison church. At Charlottenburg the ashes of th4 beloved queen are contained in a bean* tiful mausoleum. The sarcophagus, tha master work of the sculptor Rouch, is famous. Many monuments have been erected to her memory. Thus lives the memory of the ,md womanly Queen Louise, whose untiring efforts against Napoleon’s 'powel were to prove so fruitless during her life. Despite the titles of love bestowed upon her by a reverent people she died an unhappy queen.