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There appears to be some
dispute, or rather some misun
' derstanding, as to the parentage
of Fanny Davenport, whose un
timely death you were informed
, of yesterday.
There is testimony to the ef
feet that she was not the daugh
‘ ter of E. L Davenport, but a
1 child of Mrs. E. L. Davenport
[ by a former husband, an En
glish actor named Gill. Her his
toric abilities were credited to
E. L. Davenport, but possibly
they came from her mother, a
gifted woman.
Much of Fauny Davenport’s
ability before the footlights was
largely due to the tutelage of
Augustin Daly, she being the
leading woman of his company
for many years and they being
on close terms of friendship. Sir
bought her first husband, Ed
ward Price, from his wife—a
little Philadelphia girl ami an
actress —and subsequently dis
missed him on account of the
more abundant charms of Mel
bourne MacDowell, the leading
man of her company of actors.
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There is an inquiry as to what
position, E. L. Davenport, her i
reputed father, occupied on the
American stage. That is a diffi
cult question to answer. People
who are good judges rarely agree
as to the relative merits of great
actors.
There are some who think
that Edwin Forrest was the
greatest histrionic artist this
country ever produced. As a
tragedian he unquestionably
was without a peer in America,,
but there are those who contend
E. L. Davenport that he was the
best allaround actor that we
have known.
To such an extent is this be
lief held that about nine years
ago, when there was a proposi
tion mooted to place in Central
Park, New York, in enduring
bronze or glistening marble, an
effigy of the greatest American
actor, John W. Norton, the St
Louis theatrical manager, the
man who gave Mary Anderson
tn the stage —and who, by the
way, was killed about two years
ago in a railway wreck—travel
ed all the way to New York to
insist that Davenport should be
the selection, because,to use his
language, “He was the greatest
all-around actor this country has
produced.”
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“It is certainly true that Dav
enport was equally great as
Romeo, as Damon, as Coriolan
us, as Sir Giles Overreach, as
William in “Black-Eyed Susan”
and so on through tne gamut
of his art, and only his unfortu
nate ventures as a manager
dimmed the lustre of his reput: -
tion and ended his life in fail
ure.
It would be interesting to
learn whether the thorough
beauty of his art or the thunder
of Forrest’s tones are best treas
ured and remembered by the
members of the prafession in
which both men wiri leaders.
Norton at the time of his visit
to New York was very enthusi
astic about bis project, and in
conversation with Louis Aldrich
indulged in many reminiscences
of his hero. One mutual recol
lection which they bad in the
presence of the narrator comes
back to memory with a laugh.
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Kk Many years ago, when Dav-
was a member of onO of
the Boston stock companies, at
the close of the season he joined
with a number of his fellow-ac
tors and actresses (who were en
gaged in other organizations
playing at the Hub) in what
was then known as a “snap”
company, meaning thereby a
sort of co-operative dramatic or
ganization, which dining the
idle summer . season traveled
from town to town and divided
whatever profits might accrue.
This particular company in
eluded beside Davenport, such
subsequently famous - people as
Frank Mayo, Agnes Perry—she
is now Mrs. Agnese Booth and
recently the leading lady of the
justly famous “Sporting Duch
ess” Company —Louis Aldrich
and John \V. Norton.
They played through the
Eastern towns, but the tour be
ing decidedly unsuccessful they
decided to disband after fulfill
ing an engagement of three
nights in Lowell, Mass. When
they reached that city they were
quartered at a hotel which ad
joined the small theatre in
which they were to appear, l oth
being owned by the same man
and both being equally dirty.
This hotel, however, lured
traveling players to its embrace
by the ensnaring suggestion
i that they could walk directly
from their hotel apartment
through a private passageway
into the theatre dressing room.
After the members es the
“snap” company had attempt
ed to partake of their first meal
in the hotel ihov waited upon
the landlord in a body and de
manded that they bo given edi
ble food, gj which the Boniface
independently responded if they
did not like what was furnished
them they could go elsewhere.
Aldrich, Davenport and Norton
acted upon this delicate hint,
and walked down the street to
the opposition house several
blocks away.
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The last night of the Lowell
engagement the bill comprised
“The Stranger,” in which Ag
nes Perry took the part of Mrs.
Haller and Frank Mayo essayed
the role of the sombre Stranger.
This was to be followed by the
farcical “Black Eyed Suaan,”
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A man in the darkness of hopeless dis
ease is of all men most miserable. When
doctors and medicines innumerable have
I been tried and found wanting, and loving
friends vainly urge upon him the food he
cannot eat and which brings him no nour
ishment or strength, what is to be done ?
Min and women who have sunken so
I far into weakness and disease that the
whole body seems to be permeated and
poisoned by it have found health,
strength and vigor through the transform
ing. electrifying power of that wonderful
“Golden Medical Discovery" which Dr.
R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., proffered,
thirty years ago, to sick and suffering hu
’ l manity.
During all the years since then this mar
velous “Discovery" has been building up
j weak and debilitated constitutions by its
I extraordinary influence upon the human,
nutritive system. It gives the digestive or
i ganism keen power and capacity to appro
' priate every life giving element from the
] food taken into the stomach and trans
i forms it into rich, highly vitalized blood .
and healthy flesh, bone, sinew and nerve
! fiber.
Consumption in all its earlier stages is
arrested and counteracted by the tissue
building flesh-making, life.promoting pow-
I er of this grand medicine and there is no
i darkness of bodily ailment so dense but it
I will shed upon the sufferer the light of re
. I newed hope.
II Dr, Pierce’s Pellets cure constipation-
in which Louis Aldrich was cast
for the Admiral, John W. Nor
ton for Capt. Crosstree and Mr.
Davenport, of course, for Wil
liam.
In the latter play, as every
one who has seen it will re
member, William is found guil
ty of striking Crosstree and the
Admiral sentences him to be
hanged from the yardarm, con
cluding with the solemn words
“And may God have mercy on
your soul.”
Upon this prrticular occasion
Louis Aldrich spied sitting in
the front row of the theatre the
landlord of the hotel, accompa
nied by his three buxom daugh
ters, all evidently pleased with
the play and with themselves.
Aldrich’s soul thirsted for re
venge. When the sentence of
poor William had to be pro
nounced the words of the play
were subjected to a most remark
able change. “I sentence you,”
said the Admiral, “to board at
the House for two weeks and
may God have mercy on you.”
Davenport at first looked
stunned, and then'gave one wild,
delirious shriek of laughter, the
landlord and his daughters
sprang to their feet and rushed
from the place, while the entire
audience held its ' sides and
ached with laughter.
But, of course, that doesn’t
determine who was or who is
the representative actor of
America.
And who will attempt to de
cide it?—Megargee, in Philadel
phia Times.
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A bright exchange says that an
island is a body of land surround
ed by diplomatic complications.
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It is too late to get Christmas
packages ready forlrendsin Alas
ka and just time for those in Ma
nila. Truly, this has grown to be a
far-apavt country.
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Zfia denies the report that he is
to enter a monastery. He must
even up scores with the French
Government for trying to make a
monkey of him before he becomes
a monk.
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Vesuvius is trying as hard as
Aguinaldo to keep before the pub
lic. Their is this diffsrencs be
tween them: It can’t throw wp its
job, and he can throw up his, but
won’t.
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Husbands and wives traveling
together in Norway pay only a fare
and a half on the railways, and in
Austra and Hungary this is also
the case. In the latter Countries a
child under six years of age travel
ing with an adu't is not charged
for, while considerable reduction
in the fare is made for children
of a family, according to their ages
and to the number traveling
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The editor of The Cynthiana
(Ky.) Democrat is as witty a« a
noeat-ax. In oonnecti >n with a
street fair to be held in his native
town he says: “The Democrat of
f> rs a special premium of SSO for
the handsomest and most, charm
ing old maid between the ages ot
thirty and forty-five years who ap
pears at the street fair. The winner
is to become the bride of the edi
tor and promptlyreturn the SSO.
The entries are to assemble at the
Star grocery on Friday morning
at 11 o'clock, where they will be
entertained by Messrs. Baah, Wal
ker, Blair and Monson until the
editor arrives and makes his selec
tion. No biting and scratching al
lowed.”
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An unusual scene occurfttb’ at
the Temple Jhaboi Sholom, in
B Bton. tne other day while the
DANGER IN SODA.
SfcßioUfj Results Sometimes
Follow Its Excissivs Use
Common soda is all right in
its place and indispensable in
the kitchen for cooking and
washing purposes, but it was
never intended for a medicine,
and people who use it as such
will some day regret it.
We refer to the common use
of soda to relieve heartburn or
sour stomach, a habit which
thousands of people practice al
most daily, and one which is
fraught with danger; moreover
the soda only gives temporary
relief and in the end the stom
ach trouble gets worse and
worse.
The soda acts as a mechanical
irritant to the walls of the stom
ach and bowels and cases are
on record wheie it accumulated
in the intestines, causing death
by inflamation or peritontis.
Dr. Ilarlandson recommends
as the safest and surast cure for
sour stomach (acid dyspepsia)
an excellent preparation sold by
druggists under the name of
Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets.
These tablets are large 20 grain
lozengers, very pleasant to taste
and contain the natural acids,
peptones and digestive elements
essential to good digestion, and
when taken after meals they di
gest the food perfectly and
promptly before it has had time
to ferment, sour and poison the
blood and nervous system.
Dr. Wuerth states that he in
variably uses Stuart’s Dyspep
sia Tablets in all cases ot stom
ach trouble, but by promtly di
gesting the fool they create a
healthy app tite, increase flesh
and strengthen the action of the
heart and liver. They are not a
cathartic, but intended only for
stomach diseases and weakness
and will be found reliable in
any stomach trouble except can
cer of the stomach.
All druggists sell Stuart’s
Dyspepsia Tablets at 50c per
package.
A little book describing all
forms of stomach weakness and
their cure mailed free by ad
dressing the Stuart Co., of Mar
shall, Mich.
congri g itiun was celebrating the
hist of the rites of Yom Kjppur.
Rabbi Lasker paused in his Ser
mon to announce the decision of
th* F eneb Cabinet favoring a re
vision of the Dreyfus trial and the
applause which spontaneously
followed interrupted tha ceremo
nies for a quarter of an hour.
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There is great rejoicing in New
England over the fact that the
Boston and Maine Railroad has
issued an imperative order that
baggage masters must exercise
great cau'ion in handling trunks,
and that they must not be thrown
from the car door to the hard
platform. Sliding boards will be
provided, and now the b : g trunks
will dccen I to earth gently.
o o c
Switzerland las more inns in
proportion to its siz» than any
other country in the world. The
entertainm nt of tourists has be
come the chief industry ot the land
No less th n 1700 hostelries, stat
ioned for the m< st part on moun
tain tops or near glaciers, are on
the list and the receipts of the
h itelkeeppr-i amount to $25,000,-
000 per y 1 ar.
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The barbers of Boston are about
to present to the Massachusetts
Legislature a bill to protect the
public against incompetent barbers
and unclean shops. The commit
•ee a; p noted to represent the ton.
sorial artists consists of Messrs.
Wohlschlegel, Rheimstadter, Vlad
ski, O’Hara and Byrnes, Who
shall say we are not getting JW'.jbe
o'b~o
Our Consul at Vienna assorts
that American si l k 'is no.v being
sold in Lyons, and a report frotn
the Ghaut consular district says
that the cotton mihs there are
using more and more American
cotton.
000
The latest map issued by the
Georgia railroad commission shows
that there are now eixty-four rail
roads in this state, with a fatal
mileage of 5,371.82.
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In his lecture last night, says
the Los Angeles Tinies, Eli Per
kins showed great art in telling
stammering stories. The one on
Sam Jones caused great laughter,
hut the laughter was caused by
Eli’s inimitable way of telling it
It seems that Sam arrived Viry
late at the Spirit Lake Chautauqua
and had to rush through a hasty
dinner befoie he struck his waiting
audience.
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“W-W-What will y-you fa
have?” asked the stammering
waiter, slowly.
“Dinner, dinner, quick, hurry
up !”
“Will you have some sou-sou
soup?’-
" “Soupl” exclaimed Sam, rush
ing his fingers through his hair.
“Yes, soup—anything!”
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“Will you have r-.r-roast bee
beef?”
“Yes, yes, trot it cn. Hu*ry !”
“And mac-mac macaroni?”
“Thunderation, yes. N w git!”
“All ri-right.” said the waiter,
siowly. “but I want to ask one
more quee-qnes question.”
‘‘Out with it, foci,” said Sam,
poundibg the table with his hand
“Well, I wa-wa-want to ask you
if you came here to eat or hi-ha
have a f-f fit?”
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turbed Sleep, Frightful Dreams and all
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We ofler One Hunirod Dol
lars Reward for any case of
Catarrh that cannot be ’tired by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, huve
known F. J. Chenev for tlie last
15 years, and believe him t-j be
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oT LOUIS. MO. AND RETURN
On account of the Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows (colored,)
St Louis, Mo., October 4-10, 189 S
the Southern railway will sell
round trip tickets at the very low
rate of $16.85, Tickets on sale
October 2, 8 and 4’h with final
limit returning October 18lh,
1898.
See that your ticket reades via
the Southern railway. Finest trams
quickest time.
J. N. Harrisois, C. T. A.
The Indianapolis News wants
to make a match between Hob
son and Miss Helen Gould.
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