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PASSION PLAYERS PREPARE FOR
SOLEMN MAY PERFORMANCE.
THEIR HAIR IS GROWING LONG
Numerous Striking Resemblances to
Saintly Figures in Old Paintings
Are Found Among the People of
Oberammergau Village.
BERLIN.—There is a little village
in Europe the fourteen hundreds odd
of which may safely be stated to be
the busiest on the continent—not
only the busiest, but the most inter
esting in many ways—and to add to
their “uniqueness’’ they are all en
gaged on the same task.
This little village is Oberammer
gau in the Upper Bavarian valley of
the Ammer, and the villagers are ac
tively preparing for the famous Pas
sion Play, the first performance ofl
which is to be given on the third
Sunday of May next, and the finali
](;ne on the last Sunday in Septem-‘
er.
The people of Oberammergau
have been engaged on these prepara
tions for the last three years, but it
is in March and April, the last eight
weeks before the production, that
they are most active. The play is
prepared entirely without idea of
profit, and as a thanksgiving or,
rather, celebration of the end of a
plague hundreds of years ago. Vis
itors are merely tolerated or are ac
cepted as pilgrims, who come to see
the performance every tenth year in
all reverence.
Audience Is International.
So famous, however, are the per
formances that steamship companies
make special arrangements to carry
visitors from various parts of Amer
ica, while many special Continental
trains are run to bring the pilgrims
in their thousands to the little vil
lage by the Ammer.
Of the spirit in which the play is
produced and the people who per
form it a well-known writer who has
spent a long time in Oberammergau
has said: “‘There is no guile and no
deception. When you meet a man
there you know you may trust Lim
o the end of earth. 1t 18 an at
mosphere that perhaps exists no
where else, and it is the only sort
of atmosphere in which such a the
atrical production could be preserved
in all the sanctity and purity of mo
tives suggested by its traditions.”
~ In a community deeply religious
at all times the devotional depths
into which the villagers plunge dur
ing the period preceding the per
formances are profound. But the
time the first of these has been pol
ished to the highest possible state
of perfection, the religious atmos
phere in the valley of the Ammer be
comes ‘‘dense.”
Cominercialism Is Lacking.
Each performance is preceded by
mass at six o'clock. Every possible
vestige of commercialism has been
kept foreign to the Passion Pilay
through all the years it has been
given. |
The origin of the Oberammergau
production is commonly supposed to
go back to a great plague nearly
three hundred years ago; but the
Rev. Hermitage Day, in a little book
let just published, traces it back
even earlier.
“As early as the fourteenth cen
tury it was being acted under the
guidance of the priests of Rotten
buchf, twelve miles from Oberam
mergau,” he states. “In 1330 the
Benedictine House of Ettal was
founded by Ludwig of Bavaria, a
German emperor, who deposited
there the miraculous image which re
mains over the altar to this day.
Presented as a Thanksgiving.
“Down to the middle of the seven
teenth century the Oberammergau
Passion Play probably had little to
distinguish it from plays of similar
kind. But it would be natural to
suppose that it always exhibited a
certain artistic superiority and dig
nity, since the people of Oberammer
gau had for centuries followed the
are of wood-carving, making statues
of saints, church decorations, etc.
“But in 1638 the event happened
which established the play upon a
new basis. The Bavarian Highlands
were swept in that year by a terrible
epidemic of plague. Nearly a hun
dred of the villagers of Oberammer
gau fell victims to it.
~ “Those who remained met togeth
‘er and made a solemn vow before
God that if the plague were taken
away they would enact their Play of
the Passion of the Redeemer every
ten years with the utmost skill and
devotion of which they were capable.
Their vow was heard and the
plague was stayed. So runs the
legend.”
No Applause Is Permitted.
As the performances approach
every ten years the villagers let their
hair grow long, and it is curious how
like they become to the types as rep
resented in the pictures of the great
painters. No artificial make-up is
permitted the performers except that
of costume, and these are all being
busily prepared in the village itself,
though great earnestness is expended
in making them accurate.
The preseut theater was built in
1899 at a cost of $BO,OOO, and every
one of the 4,200 seats is reserved.
No applause whatever is permitted
from the audience.
The following are the scenes of
the “Passion Play:’”’ Christ’'s Entry
4nto Jerusalem, The Sanhedrim, The
Leave-Taking at Bethany, The Last
Journey to Jerusalem, The Last Sup
per, Judas the Traitor, In Gethse-
Imane, Christ Before Annas and Be
fore Caiphas, The Despair of Judas,
Christ Before Pilate, Christ Before
‘Herod, Christ Scourged and Crowned
With Thorns, The Savior Condemned
'to Death, The Way of the Cross, The
'Crucifixion, the Resurrection and
!The Ascension.
MOVING PICTURES IN CHURCH.
IA Plan That Is Proposed to Make
’ People Attend Services.
’ “Jane Addams says that on a Sun
ida,\' night in Chicago one-sixth of
‘the entire population is packed into
four hundred and sixt‘y-six places of
entertainment ”’ says Woman's Home
Companion for May. “Churches?
No—moving picture shows. The
churches on Sunday night in Chica
go and, we fear, in many other
places, are not conspicuousty crowd
ed. The problem is this: If the Chi-
'cago churches had presented an up
lto-date moving picture show instead
]of a sermon would the crowd have
’followed the films? Inasmuch as
(the church admission is free and the
|theater admission is from five to
}twenty-five cents it is a fair assump
tion that the churches would have
‘been filled. Now, if the object of
the Sunday night service is prima
‘rily to reach the crowd on the street,
‘and if, as has been shown, the moving
picture is a much more vivid and at
itr’active way of reaching that crowd
,than is a sermon why, in all serious
ness, don't churches give us the
lthrilling stories of the Old Testa
‘ment, its beautiful tales of the New
Testament and its modern illustra
tions of christian heroism in this
and other lands, in the up-to-date
form—in moving pictures? They
may answer that they cannot get
hold of the films and the machine,
but this answer is not a good an
swer. Excellent sacred pictures are
shown in the present professional
entertainments, and many illustra
tions of modern heroism, self-sacri
fice and virtue are in every pro
pramme. Moreover, a demand for
films for church use would enlarge
the supply. Moving picture machines
are not expensive and can be easily
operated. You can do it in your
church. Why don’t you?”
CALF'S JAWBONE FOR MAN. }
Injured By Bull Revenged Himself
on Animal's Offspring. |
A new surgery department of the
Los Angeles, Cal.,, county hospital
was opened with an unprecedented
operation which supplied John Schil
heimer, a long branch rancher, with
part of a calf’s lower jaw bone to
replace maxillary bones that were
destroyed when a bull gored the
man and butted him in the face last
November.
Dr. Carl Deichmiller, who per
formed the operation, first picked
out a sheep to supply the needed por
tion of the lower jaw but Schilhei
‘mer, who had ordered the bull slain
immediately after it gored him, car
ried his revenge on the offending ani
mal’s offspring. He could not talk,
but made his wish known with paper
and pencil.
“Let the sin of the father be vis
ited on the sons,” he wrote. “Kill
the calf.”
The calf was slain an hour before
lthe operation, and the living cells in
|the calf's jawbone are expected to
{knit with those of the human.
DEEP SEA LIFE.
‘The Deposits on the Surface of Sub
i marine Mountains.
.~ Whether or not the light of day
"penetrates the obscure depths of the
isea has not been settled by scient
iists, and the fact that some animals
‘tmmd at a depth exceeding 700
fathoms have no eyes or a very faint
tindication of them, while others pos
sess very large and protruding eyes,
Ihelps to make the dispute all the
more sharp.
Another strange thing about the
lower depths of the ocean is that
when its inhabitants possess any
color at all that color is usually
!orange or red or reddish orange—for
|examplo, sea anemones, corals, etec.
"l‘he surface of submarine mountains
Eis strewn with shells like the virgin
'eeashore, showing that it is the feast
|ing place of vast shoals of carnivor
-50115 animals. When a codfish eats
lit. takes an oyster in its mouth,
tcracks the shell, digests the meat and
lejects the shell. Crabs crack the
{shells of their smaller neighbors and
isu(-k out the meat. This accounts
;for the mounds of shells which are
| found beneath the waves. All fish
{bones discovered there invariably
crumble at the slightest touch, so
completely have they been honey
combed by the boring shellfish, and
further illustrating the constant de
struction going on in the ocean's
{depth, it is said that if a ship sinks
jat sea with all on board it will be
eaten by the fish, with the exception
of its metal pertions, and not a hu
man bone of its crew will remain
longer than a few days.—St. Louis
| Post-Dispatch,
“Cradles of Civilization" KExtant,
There are a whole lot of ‘“‘cradles
of civilization’ extant. Col. Roose
velt has found every country he has
visited since leaving Africa to,be a
‘“‘cradle of civilization,” and he has
told the people about it. And he has
several more ‘‘cradles’” to visit and
rock before he gets home.
John D. Rockefeller would go
broke if he should spent his entire
income trying to prepare a better
medicine than Chamberlain’'s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for
diarrhoea, dysentery or bowel com
plaints. It is simply impossible, and
so says every one that has used it.
Sold by all dealers.
BY PRESSURE OF ROPE ON NECK CHILD
DISCOVERED OSTEOPATHY ANDWONFAME
Missouri Founder of Anatomical
| Treatment Learned Secret
l in His Youth.
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- NEW YORK.—There is living to
day in a little mud-smothered town
in the middle west a man 81 years
old who thought a thought, says
Grace MacGowan Cooke in the De
lineator. Andrew Taylor Sill, the
founder of osteopathy, was born in
Virginia but in his early childhood
was taken by way of Tennessee to
Missouri,
Here he grew up amid the primi
tive surroundings of a western pio
neer. Children, more often than is
supposed, think thoughts of their
own; but this boy held to the habit.
NO ONIONS FOR BARBERS.
A Nebraska Law That Is Destined to
Become Widely Popular.
The progressive town of Waterloo,
Neb., has a new law governing bhar
bers which may become the model
upon which other municipalities will
build similar regulations. The Wa
terloo statute provides that it shall
be unlawful for any barber in that
town to eat onions between 7 o’clock
in the morning and 9 o’clock in the
evening; that no barber while shav
ing a customer shall insert his
thumb or finger into the customer’s
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We announce 1t to the trade with pride, knowing it be one of the best values on
the market. The finish and workmanship is remarkable when you consider that
we are offering you this fivepassenger car at the startling low price of $1,250.0
t. 0. b. the factory. We have other models and designs to suit the general demands
of the trade. Gall on us at our garage for demonstration.
LOWREY % DAVIDSON, Agents
Terrell, Sumter, Randolph and Clay Counties. Dawson, Georgia.
He began at ten years old to find
out things in his own way. Swing
ing once till he gave himself a sick
headache he lay down on the ground
under the swing, put his head across
the rope, which was slightly cush
ioned with a bit of blanket, and
went to sleep, to awaken and find
his malady cured.
Unlike most people, who would
have set the recovery down to chance
or to the few minutes’ sleep, the
child recognized the source of his re
lief, and followed that treatment for
twenty years, without guessing that
the pressure of his rope-pillow on
the back of his neck had suspended
the action of the great occipital
nerve and given harmony to the flow
of the arterial blood in the tempor
arily congested head.
mouth; that no barber shall attempt
to discuss the gossip of the day with
his customer; that no barber shall
use tobacco while on duty; that no
barber shall insist upon his custo
mer having his neck shaved or his
hair singed. A violation of any one
of these regulations subjects the bar
ber to arrest and a fine of not less
than $5 for each and every offense.
A touch of rheumatism, or a
twinge of neuralgia, whatever the
trouble is, Chamberlain’s Liniment
drives away the pain at once and
cures the complaint quickly. First
application gives relief. Sold by all
dealers.
HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS COMES.
Distinguished Chinaman and His
Suite of 22 at White House.
One of the mnotable occasions of
the week in Washington will be at
the white house, where on Thursday
the president will receive his im
perial highness, Prince Tsai-Lao,
brother of the infant emperor of
China who will come to Washington
with his distinguished suite of
twenty-two Chinese of high degree,
composing a commission delegated to
study the military systems of the
world.
The distinguished Chinese visitors
are to be the guests of this govern
ment and will be entertained elabor
ately at the white house and by Sec
retary of State Knox, and will be
otherwise made to feel the kindly
disposition of the administration to
ward the Chinese empire.
MOURNS HER POODLE.
St. Louis Woman Cancels All Her
Engagements For Sixty Days.
A St. Louis society woman has
gone into deep mourning because of
the death of her poodle. She has
canceled all of her engagements for
sixty days, and will wear deep black
for three months. The dog is to be
buried in a rosewood coffin and have
a marble monument. It is hardly
necessary to say there is no baby and
no child at the lady’s house. She
doesn’t believe in children,
Stops itching instantly. Cures
piles, eczema, salt rheum, tetter,
itch, hives, herpes, scabies—Doan’s
Ointment. At any drug store.
$20,000 CORN CONDEMNE
A Lesson to Farmers, Says Presig
Lee of the Farmers’ Uniop \to
Plant at Home,
Since the order went oyt AZaing
the shipment of damageq cor;.l
Georgia some $20,000 \\'unhm
western corn has beep condep 0
and sale forbidden in this staten
Pure Food Inspector p, 4. Mpthv.b
President John Lee of t}, Geop l.
Farmers Union makes thjs start)j
fact a text for a little heart~to-he
talk to Georgia’s farmers, y
“The people of Georgis ar
e
compelled to pay 2 cents g bu!sl}?
extra for corn that is guaranteeq
pass inspection,” said President Lea.
“This is a direct tax upop the
ple of the state for Protectiop fp ‘
the bad corn and other ceregs w}?
are sent to us from the west, 9
“It is a protection that we p
and ought to have, but there ise?
it a lesson which every Geor 1"
farmer should take to himsejs %
“The moral of it is plapt cop
Plant cereals and food products n.
“We can raise the pure articlg
right here at home—ap article thyy
needs no inspection. :
“And the Georgia farmer can go
more money out of it than pe 2oty
from cotton.
‘“Much of the cotton Ccrop has beep
destroyed by the cold. In replantj
the farmers of this state cay do
better than to replace the Jogst Cottop
with corn. .
“They should follow thijg policy
and do it at once, for it will ahyy’
antly pay.”
