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i 'if- 4a THE KETTS AOT) OBSEBVEB. SUTDAT, SEPTEMBER 8. .The News and Observer. r Tfc? tlzrn and CS:smr friK f- JOSEPllUS tAilLA4 Office: News and Observer BuiVUng, Martin TITO ONLTPAFCn PTJBIJRnKD AT . IDS 8TATK CAPITAL USKfO Foil Associated Press Report. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: For Year. M-? 8U Months Entered at the postofflce at Raleigh, C. as Moond-claM mall matter. sunday September , 107 MORNING TONIC. (Dr. Johnson.) ' The true, strong and ound mind in the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. , MERITED TRIBUTE. That was a well merited tribute paid to State Superintendent Joyner by the State Association of County Super intendents in resolutions unanimous ly passed commending him for de-( - cllnrng the presidency of the State ' JCormal College and continuing his v work as State Superintendent. To suc ceed MclTer as the head of this great ' Institution vat no doubt a tempting offer and In declining It Mr. 'jyyner showed greater regard for the edu- , . 'ctlonaJ Interests of the State than fori h!s own comfort and promotion. It turns out now that Ferdinand N tPlnney Earl, the artist who gave up . . Ill wife and son to marry his ".soul's ' 'afinlty." gave his wife twenty thous and dollars- in cash and "legally safe- guarded tne legal rights of the little son an heir to his million dollars state." This explains why the cast oft wife acquiesced. She preferred to go without a scene if she could keep her boy and safeguard his rights. Within, a few years the socialist arttst will be wanting to change his "soul's ; "affinity" for his real wife and son. No - doubt his wife understands him. Th Southern is doing everything . possible to make the people believe they cannot live at the 2 1-4 rate. They went too far when the conductor put County Superintendent Vann off . the train ' because his ticket had not " .been validated at Black Mountain. It -'vu not his faurt, but the fault of the railroad which did not furnish suffi cient employes at Black Mountain to " attend to Its business. It seems from - such act, that the Southern fs wish ing to, compel men to criticise- its Inexcusable contemptuous treatment l of the travelling public i. v , i News and Obtwrrrr was prepared by Mr. Andrew Joyner, our Greensboro V correspondent, and two of the regu lar members of the staff. Mr. V.. C. t Moore and Mr. Edward I Conn. No - better trio can be found in North Carolina Journalism. Mr.' Joyner is sr native of Pitt county and his story of his old home has (he flavor of a T loyal son. Mr. Moore and Mr. Conn ' are past masters in their work. in all its calculations of running 7 'passenger trains fn North j Carolina, the Southern figures the rlce at one - dollar per train mile, the estimated ) Jeost'of the finest Palm Beach Limited. , 'it only coeta forty-four cents per v train mile to run a passenger train . 'rom Ooldsboro to Raleigh. The "ex perts" make th price double in all 'expenses when figuring for "confiscation." ; ' " Mr. Dooley- is a wise man. Wher he has nothing to say, he says tu , That accounts for the absence of the .Dooley letter today. Most men who f write a weekly letter grow dull after 'a time. Mr. Dooley never does. Why? Because he realizes that some t lines his thinker will not work land he state nothing. That makes .everybody read when, be does write. i If you wish to Impose a burden of a year on Raleigh for, a theatre . 'sind city offices, with no strltable audi torium, you . need not register. If you wish to kill that proposition and get an auditorium that will fill the bill at half the cost later on. register and Vote against the bond. po far the State has shown that. It costs $44 a day to operate train from Greensboro to GoldSboro. the comptroller. charges it at flte. That's a pecmen of the way expenses are padded to show that toothing i earned by the Southern in transporting passengers. Morgan ton aad Statesville boh took In more cah in August. 107. for passengers than In August. 10. hut the Southern Railway folks are trying to 'explain it amy. The disease of Plan Ham seems to be a germ that attacks nearly all Southern Railway officials. . o far neither President Plnley nor Tlce-Psestfdent Andrews has testified. They are the men who know the sums spent for lobbying newspapers, law yers, experts and other methods of trying to ran pel Hies and evade State laws. ' Toa'll never make anybody who , travels on the Southern believe they do not make big money on hauling passengers. Two many passengers bare to stand up to make that yarn go down in North Carolina. The colleges are all opening with targe attendances. The people are learning that It pays to Invest In im mortal mind. The . Ryan, the . Whitney and the fjchwaba are now trying to organize a type-writer trust - Will they make It pil correctly X "s ; v PITT A METROPOLITAN COUNTY. Todays-issue of The News and OlH server is mainly devoted to the story of Pitt county a metropolitan county of Eastern North Carolina, that: haf .made such grand strides in material and educational development as to win the admiration of the State. In this decade that great county has cie-. veloped another quality greater than; any industria sluccess the spirit of hearty co-operation and united action by every community and town in thd county. The Individualism of the Eastern people, the aloofness of the: towns from one another seen In narlyj all counties where there are a numberj of. thriving townv and the Jack of; town and county leaders working To gether for the uplift of the whole county have prevented that larger de- velopment which their natural re-i sources called for and their highest prosperity demanded. Pitt has more; towns that are growing along the lines of activity than any county n the State. It is in fact almost an empire! In territory, and in every section 'thfreTj are live and growing towns that stim ulate development that toucjhes every part of the county. The county town, progressive Greenville, is growing rap idly and is destined to be one of the largest towns in Eastern North Car olina, but its enlargement is not draw ing from the smaller, thrifty towns that go hand in hand with it in build ing new industries and developing oy ery resource of the county. The coun ty seat indeed rejoices in the growth of other towns and they in like spirit of county pride rejoice to see th?ir county seat growing in population, in manufacturing, in business, in every element that' makes for prosperity and that attracts investors and good cit izens" from other sections. This .cvn- i eral progress in the coun-.y is the most healthful sort of growth, for it does not draw into one ce-rvil town the cream of the county to the detriment of the sections remote from the county seat, but secures the equal develop ment of the township remotest from the county seat as well as those sec tions near the biggest town in the county. Another and most happy thing about Pitt county is the fact that iSvhlle its many towns have grown sur prisingly, the agricultural develop ment has been even more marked. While some leading spirits have been drawn from the country to the towns, the farmer living in his country home remains the leading factor in the county, and the Chief wealth for tpVn and county has come from the better and more business-like development of agriculture. The farmers have ben going to school themselves, as they have taken a new interest in the edu cation of their children. They have learned and put in practice diversifica tion of crops, intensive cultivation, better drainage, more scientific fertil isation, seed selection, the use of labor-saving implements, the care of slock and the importance of good Mood, and the other essentials to suc cessful farming, and all over the coun ty you will find model farms, small and large, yielding fair returns to! In telligent cultivation, and farm homes that have the air of care and thrift and happiness. Pitt Is blessed with fertile land. It is more blessed with industrious and thrifty and intelligent .farmers who are making it yield not only enough for sustenance, but enough to send the boys and girls to Hchool. improve' the homes and lay up something for a rainy day. The story of the agricultural development ofPitt cannot be told by object lessn like the tory of a town's expansion. You must ride through the countiiy, see the better farm houses, observe the -better cultivation, look at better barns and stock, and know the general con dition of the farvn fully under stand the real agricultural progress. I Those who have done this and repre sentatives of The New and Ohcrvr drove over most of the county last monthmarvelled at the splendid ag ricultural conditions in Pitt county. The educational life of Pitt cpanty is an inspiration. In every town there are flourishing public schools and several useful high schools under church oi private management. They are doing a great work. But the ru ral district is not behind. The story of what has been; done in building good rural school houses, lengthening the; term, providing rural libraries and giving enthusiasm to teacher.?, chil dren and parents is told in the article devoted lo pabUc schools in Pitt coln ty. The whole State has been stimu lated by the enthusiasm, of I'minty Supeiintftident Ragsdale and the pa triotic Br-ard of Education of Pitt county, backed up, by the educational spirit of the county. The crowning proof of the domina it ed'jeat nal spirit In Pitt was seen In the contest for the location of the Eastern Train ing School, when Pitt county secured the location for Greonville. Its suc cess was directly and chiefly traceable lo the local enthutsiasm for public ed ucation that had burned brightly in every rural district and in every town ,in the county. Ten years ago the educational spirit and earnest co operation did not exist in Pitt as to day, and no such militant and de termined organization could have been organised in Pitt county as put forth the successful and victorious campaign that won the location of that import ant educational Institution. That school will grow year and by year and become a great power for good all over Eastern North Carolina. The fact, that Greenville won is due to the united action of Its people, the freel voting of the necessary money by county and town, and the Spirit of Progress it manifeatedf will tell In every other direction for the uplift and growth ol the town and county, This PITT COUNTY ElrxtON of the News and Observer, is not pub lished as in any -sense ah advertise ment of the county, though it will make known to many the wonderful progress; of Pitt . county and its pro gressive towns. It is published rath er, as an interpretation r of a modern agricultural North Carolina - county. I We have bad many stories of factory life and town building, but few of those sections of North Carolina where tilling the soil is the chief in dustry and the main source of wealth. Pitt county is such a county and for that purpose thtsi edition will have an educational value-of the highest order. So much, have thevmilki and indust-ial towns been 'written about that some people have obtained the notion that they are the seat of power In North Carolina. They are great fac tors in all that is today making North Carolina richer and giving it greater reputation, but the real seat of power in North Carolina and the chief source of wealth is on the farm. The earth is the mother on whorii the State mainly leans for sustenance. The ar ticles about Pitt county in this paper, show what Old Mother Earth la do ing for those who understand her. The agricultural . development of Pitt county has been more gratifying in the past five years than in the previ ous twenty years, and it is but on the threshold of larger growth and de velopment. Quicker and better trans portation faclities will give a mighty stimulus to truck growing and all other forms of agriculture, as well as help toward (securing the factories and mills and other industrial plants which will give the desired diversification of industries that best promote general and steady prosperity. Those who knew the Pitt county in the old days Avhen its only means of communication was water transporta tion will find this PITT COUNTY EDITION of The News and Observer a revelation. It will prove also an inspiration to those in the county who in their quiet, well directed industry will be surprised, to see the mighty things they have accomplished. This edition shows, too, that North Carolina is making giant strides. Its progress is confined to no section of the State. Its "people are moving forward, and nowhere Is there more? of the rijrht spirit' of progress than inthe great county of Pitt or more certainty of the steady development that is just ahead of its people. WANT THE EARTH. When the Southern Railway laryers ask JuCge Pritchard to enjoin the prosecution of a suit in a North Carolina Court against a ; North Carolina corporation, they go a thousand furlongs further than they have yet gone. When ask ed to restrain as to the Southern, they could plead that it was a foreign cor poration. They can make no such plea as to the Xorth Carolina railroad, and if Judge Pritchard should grant this latest request he would go further than any Federal judge ever dreamed of going. In the progress and development of Pitt county, so clearly told in this is sue, no factor has been more effective than the Greenville Reflector, edited iy Mr. D. J. Whichard, one of the best ' citizens of the county. He hast had an eye single to every good cause that meant the betterment of his County and the Pitt folks fully appre ciate his labor of love. If the Seaboard is thinking , i f Changing Its chief offices. Raleigh is the place. It is near the centre or he system and the best paying town Of them a!?. It has property here and would get a warm welcome. i The Kfws and Courier 1s right in saying that Artist Earle ought not te permitted to marry his "soul's ffinfty" in this country. This is no place for dishonoring the marriage ties. i The Asheville aternoon paper has 1 her eased its subscription rate from tpvr to five do1!ara. The increase! cost of printing newspapers is very great 1 Three one cent ipepen have doublet the price lately. They must do thai or get hlgger pay for advertising tH make both ends meet. The only sure way of getting a suit able auditorium Is to vote down the plan to spend $100,000 and then have no auditorium. Old Nolo Contendere has bobbe l pj again. This time it is the plea of men charged with "moonshining" THE WISE MAN, Ifi folly, rank breath folly, to waste any On the fellow who knows all about it; He tan tell you of life and the mys tery of death. This fellow who knows all about It. He-Us postei on all or the stock Pres- ! idential. He can travel to heaven without a cre- ; ; dential. Andin sickness he knows just the dope that's essential, TjiU fellow who knows all about it. If fn trouble, he'll tell you just where you are at i Th1 fellow who knn.,. oil oi ... j - - . . -. - ukwui iv. , Pnr :nriTimnt'a aV V will . i . . ctvuui .j a gnat -"" This fellow who knows all about it. He oan tell of the government's ways i good and bad. And he knows to a T the most fashion : able fad. Bui ihe never finds tvork there is ! I none to be had 1 This fellow who knows al! about it. ' He Is there when it comes to political l dope. This fellow who knows all about It; ' He can ' hand out a talk smooth as t glycerine soap, i This fellow who knows all about it. He knows all the laws, amendments, ! revisions. Can tell you the court's most irnpor- s tant decisions. But he can't keep his family supplied . - with provisions. This fellow who knows all about it. Milwaukee Sentinel. :GRANT UNION HOTEL. ! Saratoga Springs. N. Y. The! largest and most magnificent summer hotel in the world. Opens In June. Noted for Its sunerior ae. hcommedations, excellent table, fine I mnilo TjiakI fnn...ia Via 11 .nl ... cial attractions. Woolley A Cerrans, Proprietors, i Also Hotel Iriquois, , Buffalo, Y. and Hotel M Marie Antoinette, Bread Broadway. f th to 7th St.. New jpric.-.,,.- ... . M.-ik-yr-lw. THE WIT Sayings Credited to Mansfield How VM Squelched Three Verbose PTmi9ter--Quarrers? With His Leading Women Had a Terror t i I of Empty Houses. Richaixl Mansfield, the great Ameri can act?r, the foremost of his I day, who dlejl Friday, was for 25 years al most constantly in. the public eye. It waa onl natural that scores) and hun dreds of stories should have been told about him. i Many delicious bits of wit were attributed to him, and. other an ecdotes were related which did not al ways reveal him in the most enviable light. His high-strung,; nervous s tem perament often betrayed him into an apparent Indifference to the rights and feeling. pf others, and caused him to give offence where ntwne was intended. The anecdotes of Mr. Mansfield, which follow, clipped from vartous metropo litan Journals, will be read with Inter- lai answer to a comment ort his manner printed In a New York news paper. Mansfield said: ;"I am, I) con fess, a poor, fretful creature, moved by fortune since a chjhd. and have earned m' living byx hard work in many professions from an early; age. X have starved so often - that an emp ty housed terrifies me." . lAmong! other stories' told on; Mr. Mansfield Is that of his reply td the promoters who came to:him for capi tal to float' the greatest scheme felnce Col. Sellers time." They painted their prospect, in more colorsithan the Rain bow, and; their optimistic verbiage was more brilliant than an ( autumn sun set. ; Mr. Mansfield listened: then asked, with delirious sang-froid: "Do 5 you know why the Lord said to. Ananias. "Stand frrtth?' " Upon receiving a'neg- Stive repy, he aid: "Well. I don't Ither, unless it was that you three could istand flrt, second and third.' On one occasion he was drilling a Bdper to rush on and cry. "The enemv are with Us!" The ipoor dullard tried It again a!nd again, but could not ap proach even remotely to the Idet of the actor; Finally Mansfield rushed on and give the line Jn; his own beet style. "There said he, "like that" "Why, lr," said the timid supe, Vlf I could do ?t like that I would not be getting only ISa week." ? rhat!" replied Mansfield, "do vou get only $3 a week? Atthat price, my boy. isay It any d d way Vou choose." . 3 Sflnce the time when Mr. Mansfield was caught In a ismall railroad wreck fast train were odious to him. 'A In May. 1901j while traveling in hi spe cial train from East St. Liu is to Kan aa City. 1j;he speed annoyed him. He eiit for the conductor arid ordered the aped promptly reduced , to twenty miles an ljour. Dispatches were $ent aicme the llne and other trains wereJ forced to wait for the Mansfield special to crawl by. I Self-poaseasion which he had learned in iadverwltv never deserted him. i As an! example, too, of bis -humor; if rightly understood. t is: told that at th endi of one of the acta the man ager, then. Mr. Palmer, came into Mr. Majnsfielri'9 dressing room: "Young man, you are acting superbly." he said. ; That 'What T am here for. Yon must exvue me. I ami very busv." and Mansfield proceeded with his make-up. touching ut the lines of his face for hts third act. After an attack of typhoid fever, when he was to begin acting at the Garrick Theatre In 1902 the farnpu nlayer wa!s forced to retearn roles formerly fare liar. fThrouab thfcs Illness, Mr. Mansfield has forgotten the linos of all the plavs in pis repertory." wrote Frederick Ed ward MeKav from the player's retreat t Lakewood. "In everv other resort hs ; feels remarkably alert mentallv. But the parts that he has played hun dreds of times are wholly strange to him.- i Manffieldf hired a private secretary a few years ago. but was compelled, to discharge Him because he could not spell, and was otherwise rather lame In the master of education. When the; young man had received the notice of hi dismissal he went to the actor and asked for an explanation. "The faci is." he was told, "your education is too meagre for the re quirements Of the position.?' Greatly bffended, the ex-secretary exclaimed: -t "Why, sir. my parents spent $5,000 on my education." "Then my dear boy." said the act&r. "1 would advise them to institute pro ceedings for' the recovery qt the money. They were dwindled." j In- 189?, alter a performance of "Cv ranp de Bergerac." Isreal Zangwill. the novellst.j essayist and critic, visited Mansfield behind the scenes. "Do ,you like my interpretation of Cyrano ?" asked the actor, "You a-ja really great actor," he said. "Jn tie first act you are ad mirable unsurpassable. But you do not; hold the mirror up to nature in the last act;" . "What?" said Mansfield..; furiously. "Da you mean that, sir? "Most assuredly I do. Permit me to add, sir, i Coquelln in he closing scenes fcj more artistic, more con- sistent than you." arneia, sensitive about htm- 8,f 1 and about the American stage, defended both furiously. "Pnnn.ll.. 1 ,1 n. Inn i v.uiji Why. we canigive Coquelinj Irving-and your so-called European stars points they never heard about. "Too dare to compare my Cyrano, the result of months of arduous study, i to that of Conquelin?" Wherenporf he went into his dress ing room without bidding the novelist' good night. Mf. and Mis. Mansfield were enter taining . distinguished company at their: dinner table. There happened to be present however, one who was rather a bora1. He made much of his refusal to partake of wine. "'You may take ;an ass t0 the water, but you can't make him drink."" he said; ; "As you please," replied Mansfield, graciously, 'then I won't press you. any more." yLast of the; quarrels whlck the great American aeor had with the women of his company, through extreme nerr vousness and; inability to tolerate the leart j of imaginary faults,! was with Miss Emma (Dunn, who was playjng the part of Ase In "Peer Gynt." Miss Dunn-left Mansfield : after the flnst .'iact of a performance .in New York last March, accusing him of trying to embarrass her by making remarks in aa undertohe while she was reciting her lines and of handling her roughly Them is fa scene in which Peer Gynt.? , said Miss Dunn at that time "throws his mother to the ?top of the roof of a mill house. Mri Mansfield TTo.ttIt 119 U jwlth, ranneceiairy,-; yisror. ACTORS Also i he struck m on tie bade with his clenched fist, 'placing mop tne verge of inervou-s prostration." j Because of quarr-eJs with trie higfily strung etar eight or his leading wo men j quit him. They were J Isabelle Irving, whom re called "crude and in efficient;' Margaret Anglin, who later praised him; Katherine Grey, who set tled everything amicably r Myra Brooks, after he had said. "iYou are coarse and vulgar You cannot play comedy;"i Eleanor' Barry, Who was greeted with "Terrible! Terrible ! Why. you are an arnateur;" Florence Kahn, wJth ringing In her ears his "Awful! Awful! you will destroy my re putation" Lucilli Tlaven, to Whom he said, "Who everjtbld you that you could act?" and Eirima Dunn.' ir- An.. anecdote of . Richard Mansfield was brought overdone summer by a member of his company who had It from: an English player, who was an associate of the actor in his early career. As this narrator teels it. Mans, field, though a mere boy, was playing the leading role in a tragedy; In the last scene- of which he was strangled. Sometimes, however, the actor who was to simulate strangling him be came: too realistic.; Several times he nearly incapacitated the principal player for finishing hl,s great scene. It came to such a- pass that' drastic measures had to be" taken. One even ing, in (the greefc': room, Mansfield sidled un to the muscular player who was to strangle him The latter not ed a strange addition to Mansfield's costume. Instead of the collarette of lace It was his wont to wear bound about his neck was a leather band thickly studded with prongs. . "And what is that for?" he aeked. Oh, that?" replied Mansfield, with the rlsinK Inflection and K gm'le In hls voice, "that is:, merely a trifle to defer the collection of my life insur ance, i Most inconveniently the healthy condition of my neck and my throat Is necessary for the pursuance of my profession and the earning of my daily bread.'. j The other actor saw the point and apologized. Mansfield took off the collar and never after suffered at his companion player hands in the big scene. Some years ago ;Mansfleld was ap pearing in his great part of Richard III. A company of Harvard students, some because they' needed the money and isome for the?lark," got places as "supers" In the company. I i One of the students an the course of rehearsal on th$ afternoon I before the performance did something which displeased the staft ;He broke forth with all the vltroiMc force of his in tense nature. The -student was: "mad clean through," amd vowed vengeance. That evening ho slipped into the theatre a dilapidated wooden saw horse.: When Mr. Mansfield proclaim ed "A hor3e! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" the: aggrieved youth dropped the saw horse In front of the actor i in full view - of the audience, then discreetly made his escape. Mr Mansfield ordered the curtain rung down and offered a rewiird of $500 to anybody wjfiofwould point out to him the man who had thus humili ated him. ; V : When he was at 'school in England the boys gave a performance of "the Merchant of Venice," Mansfield acthig Shylock. The Bishop Of Litchfield was a guest that day, and at the conclusion of the, play he asked the youthful Shylock to come forward, so that he might, speak to him. Shaking the coy's tiand. he said: Heaven forbid that I should, en courage you to become an actor: but should you if I mistake jnot,' you will be a great one." , -Many years later an Interviewer ask ed the actor what be thought cf.hla act. nr.. . "Since Garrlck'a time there has been no actor but myself," replied the act or promptly. r Where the reporter's sense of humor was it !s hard to pell, for he wrote up Mr. Mansfield an a terrible example of .theatrical egotism. ' Evidently he completely mlsred the twinkle In the actor's eye. ,s A few years ago' In an address to tnirty graduates of a school of act lng Mr. Mansfield gave the following aavtce: "I trust you are: not adopting ,thc stage ror your proration because you can't do anything else. If you can't ao anything else you ; may be: sure you will not succeed upon the stage, for the stage, above-all other profes sions,; needs a variety Of. accomplish ments. "It is quite time that persons with Face and Feet CoveredRest Broken and Would Cry Until Tired Out "Cradle jCap" Added to Babs Torture -r Tries Cuticura Soap andjCuticufa Ointment. ' IMMEDIATE RELIEF? jf AND SPEED Yj CURE Mv baby was about nine months old when she had rash on her face land feet. Her feet seemed to irritate her most, especially nights. They would cause her tot be broken of her rest, and sometimes 'she would cry until feho was tired out. I had always used Cuti cura Soap myself, and had heard of so many cures by; the Cuticura Remedies that I thought I would give them a trial.' The improve mentwas norinMHl v In a few hours, and before I had used one box of the Cuticura Ointment her feet were well and have never troubled her since. I also used it to remove "what is known as "cradle - cap" from her head, and it worked like a charm as it cleansed and healed the scalp at the same time.: Now I keep Cutkrura Ointment on hand in case of any little rash or insect bites, as it takes out the inflam mation at once. Perhaps this may ; be the means of helping other suffering babies. Mrs. Hattie Currier, Thom&a ton. Me.. June 9. 1903.' COnCURA-THESET,$l. Consisting of Cuticura Soar r Ointment an4 Pills. A single set 13 often sufBc!en to euro the most torturing, disfiguring; itching, burning, and scaly humors, eczemas, rashes, and Irritations, with loss or hair, (from Infancy to age, when 'all other remedies and even the best physi cians fail. Guaranteed absolutely pure. oan I2M t fa nnnu th. Ekm CuUcuraOiatment ioo4 to Heal tha fekta.nd Citt Cur Kraoivent S0O. la tha form ol Chomlkta CoatM Flila. 25c per t la I of 60) to Purify tho MocxL oki tJtrongbout lb wortd. Potter XJtMd A ti.i:.. f Corr tof Pmp, Boaton. 1! BVITCHlS? the manner of a sea cook should cease to disport themselves upon the stage especially in society dramas, i At least you should ' know how to use your knife and fork, how: to cdt down, how to bow and how not to bowi Do not imitate the gentleman who enters the stage drawing room and places his bat on the mantelpiece, parts the tails of f his coat and straddled a charl Do not pull, down youn shirt cuffs or contemplate your finger nails, v one day at a rehearsal In Boston I saw a gentleman arranging his finger nails with a penknife while speaking to a jay. i uunx he did It to show he wasn't afraid to exhibit his Insouciance and that he was Just as much at horn In a drawing room as to a stable. And he woe ceded. . . j "The other day In a play which in troduce a scene at a dinner table. I called tho attention of the actor play ing with me to the fact that well-bred people do not cut up. their food and then lav the knife on one side and eat with the folk, but retain the knife and fork in their hands. 'You don't mean to ay, exclaimed the actor, 'that you want me to eat with my fork In my left hand?' and -he looked about at the members of the company with so expression that said: I j wonder what this crank will want next? The stage doc not need recruits who are boors and Ill-bred people." j This story was told by Mr. Mans field himself: 'Years ago," he said, "when I was starving more op less, in London. I had reached the1: pleasant condition of having had nothing to eat that day, and having my last shil ling in my pocket. I was. walking along looking somewhat covetously into the windows of the various coffee houses and pastry shops I passed, fwhen I suddenly came upon a friend iof mine, a vagabond like myself, but apparent ly Just then in much better luek. He was gorgeously arrayed 11 ; all the blade and white splendor of ? eve'ng clothes. He had a dinner invitation, he explained, at Lord Cavendish's or some place of that sort: we'd ga in somewhere and have a little something on the strength of it. We went into one of those Bodega places that are scattered all over London, where you get a very decent glass of champagn?. on draught, for sixpence. They alway have a huge cheese about, you know, from which you can help yourself, which Is about the nearest approach to the free lunch that they have over fi 111 ' I nr :j ; The Sign of Superiority t , . t m . . . """""T"" - k ' -:,.. T7 o f v ! iUini(DL?,e':;.v, . Ifs. Linen. LINONETTE wears like Jincn it costs about oae-foarih-as much. " t . " 1 I LINONETTE looks like linenfeels like linen it's belter than poor linen.' 1 1 ; LINONETTE washes and! retains its "body" lik2 Iben linen can do no more. 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Sept. 8, 1907, edition 1
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