' 1Q THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. NOVEMBER 21, 1909. j
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TURKEY11
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LATE on the evening before Thanks
giving, Elizabeth, the minister's
daughter, had. as usual, filled a mar.
kct basket for their washerwoman and
rlaced it in the kitchen entry to be given
the small boy who was to call for it.
Karly the following morning the market
man. rushed" with belated orders, placed
a similar basket beside Elizabeth's, con
taining their Thankskivlng turkey. It
was a wonderful turkey, large, fa and
tender. Eliza.beth had chosen it herself
and 6he was no mean judge, as the mar
ket man could testify. As she had saved
and planned for several weeks so as to
he able 'to buy it, she now felt Justly
proud and important, as any little mother
would feci who had provided such a
splendid treat for her family.
But alas, when the small boy called,
what did the housekeeper do but hand
over to him the basket containing the
turkey, and he, scarce able to believe
his senses, staggered away happily un
der the solid weight of It.
Not until two hours later did the dread
ful truth come out. Mrs. Mullen, then
quite ready to prepare the turkey for the
oven, went to fi tch it and found the only
basket there contained a small pot roast,
a bunch of celery, some sweet potatoes
and a mince pie. Utterly dismayed, she
hurried to the library, where Elizabeth
was dusting, and exclaimed:
"I've given him away! I've given him
Not Calamity!" Elizabeth cried. Jump
ing up and confronting the distressed
woman. "Surely you could not be so
heartless, Mrs. Mullen!"
Calamity was the Irresponsible, playful
and wholly destructive puppy which the
harassed housekeeper dally threatened
to bestow gratuitously upon the first per
son who could be induced to carry him
away.
Mrs. Mullen sank into the nearest chair
and groaned, overcome with honest grief,
thougha dab of flour upon the end of
X. lier nose lessened the tragedy In her
face. If not the distress in her voice.
"Do you suppose I'd be moaning about
any such good luck. Miss Elizabeth?" she
now asked indignantly. "I've given
your big turkey away that's what- I've
gone and done. And I reckon Mrs.
Jameson has him stuffed full of bread
rrurr.bs by now and all sewed up and in
the oven." And when Elizabeth stared
at her unbelievingly, she reiterated al
most impatiently: "I give the wrong bas
ket to the Jameson boy that's what I
done the wrong basket!"
Elizabeth swallowed hard and then re
marked briefly, but courageously:
""Well, don't take it so hard. Mft. Mul
len. If it had to be given away I don't
know of a family I'd rather have it than
the Jamesons."
But despite her calm words, which
were spoken to relieve Mrs. Mullen.
Elizabeth deeply regretted the mistake
although she tried hanl to bring her
. self to the minister's complacent view
of the matter that the true spirit of
giving lay in just such a sacrifice, made
willingly, albeit, and cheerfully.
Tommy thrust both hands, into his
Sunday pockets, and listened to his
father gravely, but when the minister
had left the room to get his sermon,
he spoke his thoughts aloud to Eliza
beth: "Sis. it may be all right to eat a
plain, every-day dinner on Thanksgiv
ing, but I hope I won't see any of the
Kids today. I bragged, too, about our
big turkey yesterday. I'd feel mighty,
small and ashamed with Just a two-bit
pot-roast."
The twins "were frank in their evi
dences of disappointment also, and there
ensued a tearful half hour while Eliza
beth helped them to get ready for
church, and the Orphan Baby, though
wholly ignorant as to the why and the
wherefore, echoed the lamentation all
about her.
Altogether it was most dishearten
ing. Elizabeth, who remained at home
to superintend the dinner In Mrs. Mul
len's a bsence, felt like Indulging in a
good cry herself after the others were
all gone. She could not hear to see
unhappiness . in those she loved. The
day had begun beautifully: while now,
she even asked herself what In the
world there was for oie to be thankful
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for. Truly there are moments in the
lives of the bravest, when they no long
er desire to be heroes: and Elizabeth
curled up in tier mother's chair and
suddenly dissolved into tears. "I want
my mother!" her heart cried out
hungrily.
Presently she unlocked a little
drawer in an escritoire that stood near,
taking therefrom a small volume. Eliza
beth went to it for comfort and guid
ance as do some to their Bibles. When
she grew lonesome, as she sometimes
did, even in the midst of the dear ones
who loved her so tenderly, yet were so
dependent upon her, she took out this
little Journal of the last year of her
mother's life, found the parallel month
and day, and read the lines written
there.
She now turned to the duplicate date
In the book, and found a little prayer
for Thanksgiving; written in the deli
cate, fine hand she knew so welK As
she read it and re-read it. her troubles
grew lighter, and finally floated away
altogether, while a' sweet exaltation
flooded her soul, the radiance of which
no earth-born cloud could dim. If more
tears fell they were not for the lost
basket.
The door-bell rang. As she was the
only one to answer it. Elizabeth dabbed
her eyes hurriedly and opened the door
to encounter her neighbor and friend, a
young girl who lived on the next square
below the parsonage. But instead of the
laughing, jolly aspect Helen Burnham
usually wore, her eyes were now red and
swollen, and she appeared distinctly
down hearted. The two girls looked at
each other for a comprehensive Instant
and then both laughed outright.
"Well. Elizabeth Newton!" exclaimed
Helen. "I do believe you are the last
person I ever expected to see In tears.
Why, brother Jack is forever holding
you up to me as an example of un
changing cheerfulness. Whatever can be
the matter, I wonder?"
"I I miss my mother so, today!" con
fessed Elizabeth, "You could .never under
stand, Helen."
Helen quickly put her arms about
Elizabeth. 'OIi. please forgive me!" she
exclaimed contritely. "It makes my own
heartache seem so babyish. I was actu
ally crying. Just now because my own
mother had to leave home upon Thanks
giving to visit her sister who is 111. It
seems so terribly lonesome why, I should
think you would cry!"
Elizabeth's lips quivered, but with a
brave effort at control, she drew her
friend to the fire, and then told her of
the turkey episode, and the keen disap
pointment felt by her sisters and brother.
At the end of this recital Helen was
fairly jumping up and down in excite
ment. "Oh, hurry!" she cried enigmatical
Realism on Stage Carried to
Limit in Newspaper Play
New York's Latest Thrilling Production, "The Fourth Esfate," by Joseph
Medill Patterson, Proves Exciting Star la Recent Discovery ,
of Liebler & Co., in Charles Waldron. v
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. (Special.) A
new star has been made In a new play
by a new playwright, and New York is
today engaged In taking a lot of credit
to Itself for the discovery. The actor
whose work is thus recognized is a young
fellow named Charles Waldron.
Very few theater-goers were familiar
with his name a Tew weeks ago. Today
everybody is talking about nim. There
are life-size pictures of him in front of
Wallack's Theater the largest reproduc
tions of photographs ever made; the New
York newspapers ara sending around to
"Interview" him and Liebler Sc. Company
have agreed to star him in a new play by
Hall Calne, the manuscript of which has
Just been received from the Shakespeare
of the Isle of Man.
Newspaper Play Makes Good.
Hugh Ford, general stage director for
Liebler & Company, engaged Mr. Wal
dron for the part of Wheeler Brand,
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ly, "come over lo our house with me!
Our phon8is out of order and so I just
ran over here to use yours, but now I'll
not need to tell the Salvation Army
anything about it."
Then perceiving that Elizabeth was lost
in a maze of uncomprehenslon Helen
hastened to explain: "You see. mother
and Jack and I were going to have a real
celebration, and so boucht, a turkey for
today. Then mother had to leave so un
expectedly and Jack said there seemed
no use of a Thanksgiving dinner anyway
with auntie ill and mother gone, besides
neither of us know one single thing about
cooking. So we decided to donate it to
a charity and take our meals across the
street at Mrs. Potter's boarding-house un
til mother returned."
Elizabeth's eyes had by now grown very
wide and she asked:
"Would your brother come over here
with you and help us eat it, do you
think?"
Helen smiled. "Would he!" she re
turned. "Oh, just you ask him and see!
I was hoping you'd say that, Elizabeth.
Now, let's go as fast as we can and ask
Jack to carry the turkey over for us. It's
a dandy, and It's all ready to roast."
"Please wait one moment. Helen, until
I see if the firs is all right," Elizabeth
replied with a happy thrill in her voice.
"And I must set this pot roast back so
it will not burn down, and put Calamity
out or he'll quarrel with tile rugs. Come.
Calamity, be a good fellow and run along
and after awhile you may have Just
heaps of bones."
Later it would have been hard to tell
whether the guests, the minister's flock or
Calamity were the happiest. Certain it
was that the dinner was a perfect suc
cess and everyone at the table declared
there had never been such a turkey.
When the day was over and Elizabeth
and her father sat alone, he looked .at
Lhe sweet, serious face on the opposite
side of the lire and a new thankfulness
suddenly sprang up In his heart. For
the first time it was borne to his con
sciousness that his eldest daughter was
the exact picture of her mother. He
leaned back In his chair, with half-closed
eyes and draamed, while Elizabeth, with
chin in hand, repeated softly the little
prayer which she, had thatmorning dis
covered: "With all the gifts thy lavish hand hath
spread -
Sun, moon and stars and clouds above
my head,
Grasses and flowers and dew beneath my
feet
Love, life and liberty and all things
sweet '
With all these countless blessings round
mo poured.
Grant mo one other gift, a grateful heart,
dear Lord!" ,
when the company to present Joseph Me
dill Patterson's newspaper play, "The
Fourth Estate," was being made up.
Ford said the young man had a credit
able past in stock and a brilliant future
in more important lines.
Today the big town supports Ford.
Waldron has made very good. And the
play is easily the most talked-about piece
of theatrical property In America. It
couldn't very well get away from im
pressing any one who ever saw it. Its
realism is so sharp and uncompromising
that, as one commentator says, "It al
most hurts." The last scene, showing a
composing room a few minutes before the
paper goes to press, with real Jinotype
machines, operated by real operators
from Typographical Union No. 6, and
everything else in the mechanical line,
from proofreaders to etersotyperg and
makeup men. Is startlingly vivid.
Wheeler Brand, the managing editor
played by Mr. Waldron Is nearing the
moment of his triumph. For years he
has been working to show up the rot
tenness of the big corporations, and the
path has. led to the doorstep of Donald
Bartelmy, a United States Judge, whose
decisions favoring a certain rascally cor
poration have been paid for at so much
per decision. Brand has himself fol
lowed Bartelmy at midnight and seen
the judge in conference with the attor
neys for the corporation and the. lobby
ists. After this Bartelmy has handed down
his Infamous decision. To prove to the
owner of the Advance, the paper on
which Brand Is employed, the corrupt
ness of Bartelmy, Brand lays a trap.
He charges the Judge with illicit relations
with the trust and permits himself to lis
ten to the suggestion of a J10.000 bribe for
the suppression of the story. When Bar
telmy visits the Advance office Brand se
cretes stenographers, takes down the In
criminating conversation and at the cli
max of the passing of the bribe, presses
a bulb and a flashlight photograph of the
transaction is taken.
( Climax Seen In Last Act.
This photograph, reproduced in a four
column cut. Is made up in the front page
form as the curtain goes up on the last
act. Then the Judge begins to squirm.
He.sends his daughter, Judith, with whom
Brand is In love, to the composing-room
to stop the pag. She falls. Then Nolan,
the owner of the Advance, appears, and,
under pressure of his family, who see In
the Bartelmys the open door to social
position, the proprietor orders Brand to
'kill" the story. After Nolan leaves.
Bartelmy, unaware of the owner's order,
comes to make a last plea, and the sight
of the man moves Brand to sudden ac
tion. In' the presence of Judith the whole
evil life of the Judge Is exposed and
Brand gives the sharp order to the stere
otyper, "Cast.that page," adding to Bar
telmy, "You have six hours to get away
In before that paper Is on the street."
And ttiat is the curtain, with the aud
ience understanding the revulsion of
Judith for her father and the probability
of the lovers coming together.
That takes the Advance prertty Tar on
its road to press but now Liebler & Com
pany have Taken it even further. For,
as the audience, still discussing the dra
matic ending of the Tllay. file from the
playhouse, newsboys in front of the the
ater meet them crying "Special extra of
the Advance All about the Bartelmy bri
bery!" and a copy of the tell-tale cut of
the Judge at his bribery is handed to
each person. It' Is certainly carrying
realism to some lengths. '
Story Is Realistic.
In addition, the play's producers have
set out systematically to ascertain the
attitude" of the press of the country on
the relation of the business office of a
newspaper to the news columns.
In "The Fourth Estate" the first act
Is laid in the office of the managing ed
itor. The paper 'has printed a story
showing up certain corporate iexsts.
The lobbyist for these interests calls and
demands that no further criticisms be
passed. If the paper refuses, out go ads
aggregating $30,000 yearly. The Advance,
at this stage of its career, needs that
$30,000. And the managing editor yields
to the pressure. Parenthetically this is
where the managing editor. Brand, suc
ceeds. Liebler & Company nave sent ito- 22.000 ,
newspaper owners in the United States
and Canada a circular asking what would
be the attitude of the paper under like
circumstances. The responses have been
interesting. The New York Herald de
voted three-quarters of a column to an
editorial defining its stand, which is un
vlolable adherence to principle.
The New York Times stated that an
advertiser with such A threat would be
thrown down 18 stories to the street. , All
over the country the question is being
taken up. ,
SCIENTISTS WILL GATHER
Oregon Academy to Meet at Forest
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Grove November 2 6 and 2 7.
PACIFIC; UNIVERSITY, Forest Grove,
Or., Nov. 20. (Special.) The Oregon
Academy of Sciences will hold Its annual
meeting in this city November 26 and 27.
The president of th organization is
Professor A. L. Kniseley, director of the
Government pure food laboratories in
Portland, and J. D. Lee .is secretary.
Papers will be read ,by members of
the faculties of University of Oregon,
Oregon Agricultural College, Willamette
University and Pacific University, and
by leaders in scientific research from
Portland and other parts of the state.
Friday evening the subject will be "Arc
tic Research." Dr. L. J. Wolf and Dr.
R. C. Walker will give their experiences
in the Far North. Dr. Walker was a
member of the expedition headed by Lieu
tenant Schwatka, of Salenr.
Dr. J. Allen Gilbert will deliver a lec
ture on "The Psychological Features of
the Harps Case" Saturday evening. This
entire session of the society will be given
over to a discussion of these phenomena.
OLDEST COOS MAN IS 94
David A. Felter Is a Pioneer of Mis
souri, Iowa, Kansas.
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BANDON. Or., Nov. 20. (Special.) ,
David A. Felter, the oldest man In Coos
County, having recently passed his Wth
birthday, is still hale and hearty, with
every appearance of rounding out a full
century. Mr. Felter was born in Hamil
ton County, Ohio, 'September 15, 1815,
DaVid A. . Felter, . Coos County's
Oldest Resident, Who Attains
Age of 84 Years.
where he grew to manhood, moving
thence to Indiana, from there to Missouri,
thence to Iowa and later to Kansas, being
a pioneer in all of those states.
He Is not a very old resident of Oregon,
having been here only about 13 years. He
likes the - state, however, and wants to
pass Oie rest of his days here. Mr. Felter
makes his home with his son. John W.
Felter, of this city. At a recent sociable
held in his honor at the home of his sort,
four generations of the Felter family
attended.
Brazilian exports in the first three months
of 190 totaled a value of $70,762,000. an
increase of $24,300,000 over the same months
of 1908. Coffee and rubber enjoyed PO per
cent of the Increase. Imports . decreased
14.45 per cent.
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EW YORK, Nov. 20. (Special.) Wil-
years appraiser of the Treasury Depart
meht'at New York, has supplied a great
many of the startling facts about the
sugar thefts In theCustora-House. Among
other things, Wakeman is quoted as say
ing that he presenfed evidences of the
frauds to Secretary Lyman .f. Gage and
that Gage said he was quite sure his
good friend, H. O. Havemeyer, could not
know of them and asked Wakeman to tell
Havemeyer about them and ask htm to
have them stopped.
Senator Simon Guggenheim, of Colo
rado, is indirectly involved in the coal
land scandal In Alaska by ex-Clerk
Glavis. The Senator has been interested
in mining all his life and is with his
brothers a member of the millionaire Gug
genheim Exploration Syndicate. He Is a
native of Philadelphia, but went in 1S86
to Pueblo and has been a resident of
Colorado ever since. He became a United
States Senator in 1907.
George Bernard Shaw is really coming
to this country, it is believed, to attend
a meeting of the unemployed. It would
be the irony of fate if the unemployed
found jobs before" Mr. Shaw arrived.
However, It is reasonably certain that a
large army of them would not take the
jobs if they found them: there will al
ways be a certain amount of sociological
material to be found on the Bowery.
William Loeb, Jr., was the most unpop
ular private secretary to a President who
ever sat in the White House. When he
came to the jumping-oft place at the end
of the Roosevelt term. Roosevelt tried to
provide a comfortable mat to ease his ,
fall and President Taft made him Col-
Two of Second Generation Play
in "The Traveling Salesman
Mark Smith and James O'Neill, Jr.,
Traditions of Their
VpHERE'S a situation in "The Trav-
ellng Salesman" company that is
as interesting as it is unusual.
Two prominent members of the second
generation of the -stage are playing in
one company. And the plot is thick
ened' considerably by the fact that the
preceding generation is still on the
boards. Mark Smith' and James O'Neill,
Jr., have the distinction of trying to
live up to the reputations which their
parents are still preserving faithfully.
The first named, who takes .the prin
cipal role in his play, is the son of
Mirk Smith, whb used to be a member
of the famous Boston Museum Com
pany. The elder Smith was last seen
at the Chicago Opera-Hoase in "Babes
in Toyland." James O'Neill. Jr., Is, of
course, the son of that other James
O'Neill always easily recalled with
"Monte Crlsto."
Unquestionably the memory of the
oldjpt theatergoer of America will need
considerable Jogging to bring from his
reminiscences a situation as interest
ing as this of "The Traveling Sales
man." There are two young people in
positions of importance in their com
pany, each one performs creditably,
giving indications aplenty of the talent
their elders possess so admirably.
Perhap3 the nearest resemblance to
such ah interesting situation as the
American stage- affords at present has
been on such occasions as when Miss
Eleanor Robson and her mother. Madge
Carr Cooke, have played in America in
star roles, within a few weeks of each
other. John Drew, too, was followed
soon by' his daughter, Louisa Drew, in
the supporting cast of Miss Billie
kv. .im-n again, two years ago,
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, accompanied by
her daughter, .Miss Stella Campbell,
made a few appearances in an Ibsen
repertoire at Symphony Hall.
On these two members of a second
generation of stage families "the pres
ent play leans to no small degree. To
the work of Mark Smith much of tha
success of the production may be said
fairly enough to be due. The young
man seems to have inherited consider
able talent, which serves to recall
easily the work of his father. Perhaps
it is in the stage savolr faire that dis
plays itself In what he has to do.
The Smiths are one or the well-known,
families of the American drama. They
have the distinction -of going back
through three generations. The grand
father of the present bearer of the name
was Edwin Booth's stage manager. Mark
Smith, the second, made his debut with
John McCulloushr in "The Three Guards
men" in 1864. This younger Mark Smith
made his debut in the musical extrava
ganza "1492." Later, In Henrietta Cross
man's play. "Sweet Kitty Bellairs," he
had a minor role, and then for three
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confirmed his former record by making
himself the most unpopular collector who
Son9 of Actor-Fathers, Uphold Best
Families on Stage.
seasons was with other David Belasco
productions. He was in this city several
years ago in support of Mrs'.' Leslie Car
ter in "Zaza." Prior to the present year
he played In Marie Cahili's company.
Perhaps it was design that induced the
management to flm4 a place for James
O'Neill, Jr.; but there's no doubt about
the worth of the name on the play bill,
or for that matter of the excellence of
the young man's abilities. Young
O'Neill ventured on the stage a few years
ago against parental judgment. When 1
he left Georgetown University, his father
planned for him to go into business. For
a few months he played an inconspicuous
role in the lumber trade, striving with no
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ever presided over that office. No one
could object to his Insistence on collect
ing the revenue due the Government: but
great objection was made to his method
of dolus it. And he has been much
criticised for keeping in office confessed
rascals who have turned state's evidence
for him.
Louis Brennan lias demonstrated the
practicability of his gyroscope railroad
operating a car containing V passengers
at 25 miles an hour on a single rail. The
car used was built under an appropriation
of the Indian government for experi
mental purposes. When Mr. Brennan an
nounced about two years ago to the scien
tific societies of Great Britain his appli
cation of the gyroscope to railroading,
his discovery was hailed as promising a
revolution in railroad operation. The.re
was, of course, the. doubt whether a full
size car would do what the model car
had done: and -this doubt Mr. Brennan
has just solved. Equipped with two gy
roscopes running in vacuum, the full-sizs
car has carried passengers around a
curved track with, perfect safety. This
railroad will cross a, river on a wire rope.
Baron Uchida is the new Japanese Am
bassador to the United States. He should
not be confused with Mr. Uchida, for
merly Janancse Consul-General at New
York.
Herbert Parsons, according to the re
form element In politics, is a reformer
gone wrong. He admitted recently that
he had had four party workers appointed
In the Treasury Service here. " As the
Treasury Department has discovered
frauds against the Government aggregat
ing perhaps $30,000,000 by the sugar trust,
of which Mi, Parsons' father was re
cently the heaxJhis position is slightly
embarrassing.
great success to learn the cues of buy
ing and selling.
In 1901 he disobeyed 'the advice of his
actor-father and begged a part in. the
production of "Monte Crlsto," making
his debut in Boston at the Boston Thea
ter. After coming out on the stage and
saying a few lines, his instructions called
on him to depart. He made his way
across the stage, turned at right-center
and then to right-left, finally, in his
confusion of rights and lefts, bringing
up with a Jolt against the wall. Thence
he veered off until he encountered the
curtain. This gave way affording him
tha welcome of getting out of sight.
The next year he was around again,
looking for a part In Eleanor Robson's
company. He played parts with a fair
measure of success, gaining confidence.
He was now doing so well that when the
all-star cast for "Two Orphans'"was made '
up he was given a chance to go on again
with his father. After that there were
two James O'Neills on the same play bill
until last season,-when the son was en--gaged
by Henry B. Harris for a part in
"The Traveling Salesman" company.
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