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I, rniE Oregon iAnY jotonal portlandA satcjudat EVEisrpro,; jttly n,- 1003. 15 'SHAKESPEARE HIS THEATRE CAXTX9 XZZXJIs MlMftT, . . VERY LONG SUIT two Nights Ohfy; Monday and Tuesday Nights, July 13-14 TRANSCONTINENTAL TOUR OF THE REPRESENTATIVE MINSTREL ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA . , rnna a Rnnthtarlf.. In PMarrA fcl I vv u wvvwiuvn ill WllllUCUi WoocT Emerges from' Univer sity with Degree of .Bachelor ot Arts. : (Q)SE MISTOELS Management SCIBY C OPPENHOMtR .When a Ragged Urchin Some Wags of Lawyers Thought .0 Have Sport with, Him, but . round mm neaay. , v the World's Recognized Leading Minstrel Stars GRAND lii ' ..: 1 ft I I a. III I . I X IT , int. its i i i i . ' ... .?:-. A :i f Thi.L 11 :!' C:': li -. J ' ItJ 40 of I 111 -FM4( - 1 1 . ,.! i A Chicago lawyer one attempted to pur joite upon dirty, raxced little lored bootblack, who stood day In and out at the corner of Clark and Ran dolph streets. Aa a Joke tha lawyer's attempt waa a nat rauure. Aa a. boon I tor tha bootblack it waa an unbounded success. . ft A taw daya ago Charlea Wlntar Wood waa graduated with honora front Co lumbia University, New York, with the degree or bachelor of arte. Ha will re-j turn to Tuakegee aa tha head of the I English department of Booker X. Wash- , -Ington a school. . 'r The graduate la tha aama Charlie I Wood that one time waa made tba tar get for tha Jokes of a group of Chicago lawyers, who, In thoaa daya, had mora time than patronage. Charlie Wood had a habit of strolling Into tha old Unity Building every day with Ma bootblack- In g box thrown over, hie shoulder. I Nearly all tha lawyera In the building knew the kinky-haired, grinning negro boy. - 1 The bootblack often stuck his head In at tha door of Jarvla Blume s office. .William To. Mason occupied tha samel suite of offices, and used to banter the ftvA. mA TmI T nr. ranaxba. T nrln n Q91na and Carter H. Uarrlaon occupied jfj:t on the same floor, and all knew I VyTiarles Wood. The boy waa In his early teens at that X' time. .He waan't a very Impoalng-look- r . m .... I. J . I mi niuro. uui lie ou i iuwa ui i shining white teeth, that lighted up ev ery office he entered. Quoted from Shakespeare. One day the boy waa down on his 'knees polishing Jar vis Blume's shoes. .While anawerlng one of the lawyer'a questions the boy used a Shakespearean quotation. Blume thought the quota tion waa an accident y t "Charlie, do you ever go to thj thea- 4 re?" be asked the bootblack. i "Yes, sir; quite often," answered the bootblack, whose pronunciation of the English language was almost perfect , "What kind of play do you like bestf Staked the lawyer. "I like tragedy best," said Charlie, iwltb a grin that would make a minstrel taian turn green with envy. i "What kind of tragedy, blood and thunder plays or Shakespeare?" the law yer again asked, expecting the boy to ay he didn't know what was meant by Ifihakespeare. But the boy knew. "I like 'Hamlet,' iOthello,' 'Richard. Ill' and ail the Bhakenoearean tragedies," he answered quickly. The lawyer was sta:,:ered, but he I .saw a chance to play a Joke dvtheraga Imuffln and he aald: "Cliarlie.lf you'll learn a speech from Hamlet' I will give you a dollar. How long will it take youT" "Oh, about three days, 1 guess." , Joks nidBt wot. REALV LIVE WIRE VAUDEVILLE WEEK STARTING MONDAY, JULY- THIRTEEN. fol i Jarvla Blume Told th bootblack t fleam the lines In the ghost scene from Hamlet. Three days later the boy came back to the office. He threw his dirty cap on a chair and -sat down grrnning. His one suspender had fallen from his Shoulder, and his begrimed waist had scaped from his pantalqpns. ; The lawyer asked if the speech waa ready, and was told it was. The boy jwas asked to stay In the office, and iBlunie hurried about to the other of fices on the floor and the whole com- 'pany of lawyers gathered In the office. "I want you to see Charlie turn white .when he sees the ghost of Hamlet's father," said Blume, and all the law yers planned to try to scars the boy. The bootblack unslung the blacking box and walked to one side of the room. (All the lawyers were grinning and Jar vis Blume, the master of ceremonies, mas waiting anxiously to see his Joke Work out.' But it didn't work. The boy gave a tu .r at his suspender and began. He Stood transfixed. The speech, full, round and clear, fairly flowed from his lips. Every one of the lawyers in an Instant stoppe grinning. What they had expected would be a ridiculous mix f i t DfPiiiDn i men lii - II WATCH FOR' THE II I .. i v , li r ;- wkV III ; 1 ; : III T . It i '.- Ill V . ill .. i-,.-t-v - ill r- : 41 : u, ) III1 ' ' . , II t II MS 1 II I . : I S) .11 f . -rr't. II Iff It I I (7t I II I X I I I S H SS I I from the arduous duties that demand all his time at the Capital most of j I I the year round. The President, In the bosom of his family, at his sum- lift I I i mer home, Is taking it as easy as possible, although of course be still has J I ft I to attend to a great deal Of the nation's work, although he Is supposed I I tb be on his vacation. The above authentlo anapshot shows how the W President looks In the holiday attlr ho Is able to don In the seclusion x , of bis own home. - 0 .....--- r t- , I It .VllL rf , V' I I lrr ' ; "-li' - ' r - . . i T r -l It-VwV i It'll I I 5) nil J? r v; --LLi -.s'w t TT ' M hi i , iiJsl - -- -3 v FRANK CUSHMAN WM. M'DONALD WM. KELLER MACK Xrotres toon, soept last tows, last 3 rows, 78c Baloony, first a rows, 75o; last rows, BOo. Oallsry, 3So and SSo. oss and I-oges, "Beats are now seUlng. PARADE MONDAY AT. 11:30 A. M., STARTING FROM THE THEATRE. f .. Cor. IZfb and Hom'soo I Phone Main 78 McINTYRE & PRIMROSE The Minstrels i ii id u.i.ieieiitiuui.-ioi)Kiiit bun.iic, la ivuiiy tue present headquar ters of the natlor. lloi - l'retiideii : Hnosevclt has established his office, while he Is enjoy in j his vacation at the Oyster Bay home. His office force is now properly organised in their, new quarters and the nation's work is being carried on with vim and vigor. There is plenty, of It. for the President cannot claim compleU immunity from work while on his vacation, as can lest distinguish! citizen Cabinet Ministers, public offi cials, etc., are constantly visiting Oyster Bay to disturb the President in the midst of his comparative obscurity. the boy read several selections from the Shakespearean tragedies. Mr. Par trldge took the boy and placed him I charge of the bargain countera In tho basement of the store. That was the end of the Shakespearean bootblackfng of SfiaftcspearCi -tines-witrthrveT4 B5tat5llBnmBnt,Bndthereat-1)eglnntnB eacular of the street proved In fact to remarkable reading. The lawyers Jare today that tne Dpy aciuatiy od pale. He read the lines without an awkward pause, and the dirty raga muffin mispronounced only three of the i700 words. Just Picked It TJp. When he had finished tho speech bis face spread In, a broad . grin and be reached down and picked up his black- of Charlie Wood's career, Lawyer Blume kept close track of the boy. He took him ,here and there, While a" clerk Wood' showed what wonderful memory he had. He memo Hied act after act of the great plays, and, without reference to book or note, could recite for hours at a time. Wood's next venture In a business way was as theatrical manager. He formed a company of colored people and iV k,w . Tha ivrM Tttrf him nn h Played "Hamlet" for one week at the r . . ,?. . i -v.j i old Twentv-sdcond street Theati back, shook his hand, and asked him where he 4ar ned-ta-speak "I watched the actors and Just picked It up," was the answer. Lawyer Blume handed Charlie Wood the dollar be had promised' him. and - sach , lawyer . there gave him. some money. When the boy counted his money be had a little more than 117. It was more than he -had , ever had at . one time before, and he .alt like a king. A few days later the bootblack read for others long speeches from half , a dozen other Shakespearean tragedies, fairly startling his .hearers by his splen did. Interpretation of the lines. me' took the ragged bootblack and thed him, and during the next two ars guided the Doy in nis reaamg. Finally Blume found employment for ,the boy with a detective agency, but tho (bootDlacK didn't una tne worn congenial 'and he left the position at the end of a year and rented a basement at 44 'Clark street There he became the pro prietor, manager and bead workman of the "Charles Winter Wood Shakespear ian Bootblacking Establishment.' That was a good deal of a. name, but . it drew a great deal of trade, and the boy made money there for a year, About -that tlmeG W.r Partridge,- one of the owners of a State-street ' store, heard SOfftlJM "IT of efflBottM .? v "Brwrc4 from Bohandait Heps. V- ' ' .. '. Otdtrfraa ".'.. rieeksKStsta Mayer Cwsea7 old Twenty-second street Theatre. This was followed by a week of "Richard ITI,r at the Madison-street Theatre. Wood was the "whole show." His aot lng was pronounced marvelous. Soon he took his players to the larger cities throughout the Middle West, Wood returned Home without money and went to his friend Jarvla Blume. One year after Wood plunged into the the atrical pond Blume took the boy to the head of a well-known school of oratory, and, the boy became office boy at wages of $4 per week. There he remained one year, studying under the teachers at the, school. On the night of the Haymarket riot Blume took, the bootblack tragedian to the home of the late Frank C. Hanson Hanson grew enthusiastic over the boy's power as an actor and orator, and -sev eral months later he sent for Wood and asked him If he would try to be a good student if he were sent to school. ' Wood said he would do the best he could. A. week later Mr. Hanson sent the boy to Belolt College. Wood was the only colored student in the college, and he had not been there long when the students attempted to hase him. He shot one student in the foot,, and thus established his right to remain in the Institution, a right that was never again disputed. The boyr whose text-book education was meager; remained in the prepara tory school at Belolt for four years, During that time hs captured every or atorical prise and stood at the head of each of his classes. ' Because or his good Tecord In the . preparatory school Mr. Hanson sent the boy to Belolt College for four years. Upon graduation ha was appointed valedictorian of the class, an honor which he refused to accept because of his color. He had taken first prise In very contest during the collegiate ca reer, and was piarked for second hon ors in his last debate, in which' he con tested with representatives- f col leges. This contest was held at Gales burg .in ' 1895. and Wllllarrt " Jennings Bryan, one of the judges, marked the colored boy 109 pr cop During his senior year at Belolt, Wood, heading the Greek department of Belolt College, appeared as Edlpus In Sophocles' tragedy at Central Music Hall in Chicago. One week later he ap peared In the same role at the Audlto rtnm. "It-was tiw most Tretenttoua work he had ever done In that line, and his acting called forth only the most favor able comment. After leaving Beloit College Wood en tered McCormlck Theological Seminary, and was graduated thence throe years later. In 1898 he became the head of the English department at Tuskegee, and in 1901 was selected by Mr. Wash ington for the John Crosby Brown schol arship at Columbia. At the New York institution he captured the Rockefeller prise and became known as the most eloquent student In the university. Wood wlll go back to Tuskegee next autumn. And this is the ending of a lawyer's Joke. C0NR0Y & PEARL In a Little Coonism CHRISTY & WILLIS The Tramp Juggler and the Soubrette WORLD & KINGSTON In a New Act MARSH CRAIG Marvelous Equilibrist HAYWARD & HAYWARD Novelty Entertainers DEVANEY & ALLEN In a New Act And the ...BIOSCOPE... Positively Last Week of DELPHINO & DELMORA HIELDS''PARK THIRTEENTH AND WASHINGTON nil THIRTY-TWO HUNDRED SLATS 1 1 1 1 ONLY OPEN AIR THEATRE IN THE CITY COOL AND DELIQHTFUL Beginning Sunday Night, July 12 AIV INCOMPARABLE SHOW 1 1-H EADLINER S-l I HEADED BY THE NONPAREIL TRIO DACEY, CHASE AND WARD "FUN IN A QYMNASIUM Evening:, 30c, 20c, 10c. Matinee, 20c, 10c. Matinees, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Last Time Tomorrow (Sunday) of Present Bill. Matinee - - - Night, 8:20. V TRAVEL IN CHINA X IS VERY LIMITED FRANK BOWMAN Prestidigitator and Illusionist THE LEONIS Horizontal Bars. WISE AND MILTON Purveyors of Laughter. DAN McGREEVY Monologise EVA THATCHER The Irish Lady. KEHOE AND RAINER Comedy DIspensors. KELLY AND KELLY The Wonderful Child Dancer and Jler Big Brother. CHAS. CHENOWETH The World's Greatest Cornetlst' EDWARD TRAINER Illustrated Songs. Multnomah Falls On the Polyscope. GENERAL IOC ADMISSION QO TO CORDRAY'S IN CASE OF RAIty No-Hotel" Facilities- In 'the Inte rior for Foreigners the Celestial View BRITAIN'S SEA-GOING MEN One In every 36 of the males over IS years of age in tho United Kingdom Is a seaman In the mercantile marine or a fisherman, according to the report of the board of trade committee, but that by no means represents the proportion of Britons who go 'to sea In ships. For the current year, the total number of officers and men, active service ratings provided by the estimates for the royal navy Is 127,000, being an increase of 4,600 over the previous year. Taking the two totals this means that one in about every 20 is a sailor, which Is an enor mously larger percentage than that whfch any other nation can boast, even with the Conscription which supplies the seamen of several continental coun- trles, London Dally Chronicle, Many and various have been the rec ommendations made to China and the Chinese In order to Induce them to Join more Intimately In the comity of na tions. They have been lectured and criticised, and criticised and lectured, until In all probability the lessons which mon of the West would teach them, if they could, go in at one ear and out at the other. This Is so for a variety of reasons. '' In his heart of hearts no edu cated Chinese acknowledges, even nowi that the West has anything of culture to Impart. There are such things as steam en gines, and all that appertains to the florid of machinery, which he Is in- clln?1 to hate with heartiness quite RuskpesqUe in Its intensity, and he Is willing'- t0 Krant that his Western lec tures havers0"6 byoa TH8 sages in these, but 'vfilSi ot itJ Smoke is not culture, neither ls"f,n-Swhlrr of machin ery the music of the sCi,eres- Man kind In China huM titna nn y ' ell without trains rushing along slxtythiS, an hour, and c aid still, , Hotels Weeded. But alas! he argues, willy-nilly, China has to do many, thing which she would never have thought of doing but for the Intrusion of the foreigner. That we know to be correct, and as the principal slraila slmlllbus curantur ought to ap ply in the far Eas t as elsewUere. we would suggest to him that he should set about making intruders pay for their Intrusion. More and more, as wealth accumulates, the Western world be comes a traveling world. Everywhere in the North. South, East and West may be found first the Englishman, then the American, and In their wake other Eu ropean nationalities. Why do they -not cotpe to China? A few do. The scouts have already visited the. land and spied out the nakedness thereof In the one great reiprlintB of Western- travel. the sine qua non without which the occi dental stops at home hotels. Now these Uhlans of the great army of globe-trotters have given In their re ports to headquarters at home, reports Viffhlv favorable, but for the one thing needed iS." ot accommodation, and, added to ltrthVlOWT,e8" 0( transit. But for these two the "tav6 f .West; erii wunuervrB wuuiu come iaia-a j'HTS spread themselves over China during the autumn, winter and spring, and the more so that European and American cites have become one dreary, monot onous round of glaring light, congested traffic and nerve-racking noise. Every Western city is like every other In fifty things for one in which It differs. Hence the constant demand for some thing new, unhackneyed, fresh. Men go to Egypt, Algeria and other Mediterran ean lands of semi-barbarism to get away for a time from the rush and excitement of the modern city. China would be come the rage In ten years if there were the requisite facilities. Charm of the Country. We start away from Shanghai on shooting or other excursions with the houseboat loaded with provisions for the duration of the trip. Even for us It would be pleasanter to be able to replen ish stocks here and there inland. But as yet it cannot be done. Doubtless when the railway has came In earnest there will be an lmprovemnt In this respect S'ie great question for the Chinese au- .. taiP8 and others la to cVlder tuMla n ki . western- ,.., V. They may not think 'sol; Zney will not think so if the old desire for exeluslve neas continues to hold sway. But that wo think Is doomed to go. Mothers! Hers!! Mothers!!! Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup hu beea seed for tt 8X3CTT TEA&S by MIX UOW3 of MOTHERS Ibr their CHftDftSlt wfcHs TBKTtrTNO, with PSXFSCT CCCX8& It SOOTHB3 (he CHILD, SOFTENS tile GUMS, .IXaTS all FAJH CURES WIND COLIC, and Is the best remedy for DIAKXRCRA. told by Druggists la every part otibe world. Be ears IAd k for -Mrs. Window's 8ootlaf 8vrwp, MtaksMotlMrUad. Twcstrfirsctj. beta THIS HAS BEEN The Busiest WeeR of My Busy Life THE NEWSPAPERS TOLD THE PUBLIC THAT I Could Remove All Disfigurements of the Human Face WITH TWO TREATMENTS And MRS. OTJONNELL, Upon Whom I Had Operated, Has Been on Exhibition Since Last Monday DEMONSTRATING THE TRUTH OF ALL THE NEWSPAPERS HAD SAID. THE DOZENS OF CALLERS I HAVE HAD HAVE KEPT ME " BUSY AS A NAILER," AND I AM GLAD THAT TOMORROW IS A DAY OF REST. hi, .... . 3 O It is bow pretty well understood that all such afflictions as smallpox dttlnrs. otherwise) the hateful pimples that so dreadfully mar the attractiveness of otherwise wrinkles, occasioned by moth spots, blotolies, oooasloned by ernntAins of the skin everything that goes to make the aOioted one wresoneoaess Deeaase eonsoioas ox tne aisngnrement, can speeouy eruoaiea ana that without pain or s' aars. oveaiui ass toia many persons how the smallpox pittugs that had asuoteo her lor aa rears wo' from the side of her face that had been treated, and as the other side shows how badly she had been mar leonreness ox ue remeoMS appuea Becomes at once apparent, x treat men as weu aa women am tretr renuemea bow. xaree persons vn MlssUslppf airex. Kadai tha United States own American rights to this secret, z own that narv lam Irene Iia Pare of Paris, the discoverer, owns the rljhts to all the world be 7 OPEN EVENINGS MADAME VAUGHN in in itu