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I 1 The Abbeville Press and Banner.fl BY W. W.- & W. R. BRADLEY. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1905. ESTABLISHED 1844jjj|| THE STAGE ASPIRANT A HARD ROAD FOR MEDIOCRITY TO TRAVEL fen Times Too Many Applicants For tkt ^ A rails hie Positions?How Incompetency Crowds Merit ? Information For ths "fitajcestrack"?D?tj Crockett's Advice. "This thing is wearing me into tho ground." It was a theatrical manager who hao Just dismissed a young woman who had been imploring him to engage her. He was an unusually soft hearted manager. The average one generally gives a cynical grin and says, "Another girl who wants to play Juliet." S Words may be futile to stem the torrent, but just a few hard facts may cause an aspirant here and there to top and consider. Here in New York, this seething Marra nf the Thesoian. the situation ia actually tragic. There are just abont 5,000 actresses too many for the positions. The pity of it is the incompetents ire in many cases crowding out the capable, experienced playera True, the inoompetents sooner or later find theii level, bat while they are finding it the capables are out of positions and the wolf is putting in his time at their fifth flight hall bedroom doors, the critic* are gaying, the manager is fuming, and there is a good deal of unpleasant friction everywhere. I know of one thoroughly equipped player who has sewed the soles upon hex shoes repeatedly to keep them on hei nU/\ nrollriv) fVlA ofroofo ttl lOCIf yvuiiD ouu nMAou VMU DVAWM search of an engagement Another washes her clothes in the bathtub of her boarding house and dries them in hez room. Both these women have played prominent parts in good companies. Another has lived for some time on one meal a day. These women are fair of face?one of them would bo called handsome?and all are thoroughly competent The cases of the young, inexperienced ones that have come to me hoping I could help them are too many and too sad toreoount They drift into typewriting, oopying and starvation. Many of them drift back home. Some become "extras. " That means they go oil tho stage as "guests," or the mob. jnst to stand around sod say nothing. They must attend rehea^ali, dress perhaps several times during the evening aud be regarded with scorn by those who have speaking parts, all for $1 a performanca Foi the chance to do this hundreds crowd the stage entrances whenever there if call Cor "extra ladies." One young woman who made a short tarring venture in the west and who it undoubtedly possessed with talent, combined with the beauty of face and figure which make up a good stage presence, came two years ago to New York to seek an engagement She was armed with letters of introduction to many I prominent managers from Colonel Rob ert G. Ingcrsoll, and the future seemed rosy to her bright young eyes. This inI flnential man, who had seen her act, sent glowing words to the Gotham magnates ' but not one of them gave her a chance. She has not stepped upon a stage from that day to this. f 4 How has she lived? By doing embroidery for oneof the large wholesale houses. She ha I bravely kept Uer sell | respect, and she has never given up tryi Ing. She makes her rounds of the agen' oies every little while, and she means 4 to attain her end yet She will do it too. There is no sort of doubt that 1' frach pluck, earnestness and persever anoe will win. Before the young aspirant who is ix. deadly earnest about entering the dramatic profession heaven forbid the writ^ er should cast one straw of discouragement There 1b not only room, but there is a hungry demand, for the actress with a strong dramatic instinct, brains, application and a large capacity for work. Work! I should like to write that word in capitals a foot high. The work which in the golden age was done so well because the gods al I ways saw must oome back again tc eai^fa. Until it does there will still be te&ate and agony and suicide in the solving of the life problem. If you lovo the art so that no labor, privation, rebuffs or hardship can stand in your way, then you have a right tc think that heaven meant you to act Do it though the skies fall. If you want to go on the stage simply to wear pretty clothes and attract attention, don't do it, for the end i? dust and ashes. If you want to -be & "professional" because you "likethe life,"don't do it Ton'11 find the life full of damp and dirty dressing rooms, dinnerless journeys, ioe cold beds, hard hearted landlords and absconding managers If you want to be an actress because you don't want to be a typewriter or a milliner or a saleswoman and the stage seems to be a place where you can earn the most money in the easiest way, don't do it There never yet has been found a, real easy way for any woman to earn money. All legitimate work must mean an equivalent for the dollar. In getting into this particular "easy" place and getting out of it you'll find a larger crop of heartaches, tears and agonies than you ever could imagine would be compressed into one small life. I If you think that mediocrity, trifling and laziness can succeed, let me tell you that every case of that sort existing today is propped up somewhere against a barrel of money. If you can lay yotu -i L - 1?? I nanus Oil BUUU t? UIUICI <U1U noun uu use |t for that purpose, no one will kindei yon as long as the dollars last r If it is a toss np whether yon go or the stage or ^ o something else, be sort to do something else. If yon have a great, strong oonvictiiio (hat yon are right, make the plunge, ?nd God be with yon. When you an determined to sucoeed, yon wilL Thi Strong heart win*. Aucx fi. Ivaa. New York ?: - q Cheap Holiday Rates via Seaboard Air Line Railway. ' Round trip tickets will be sold by the Seaboard Air Line Railway at greatly reduced rates on account of . Christmas Holidays. Tickets will be sold on December 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 31, 1905, and January 1, 1906, limited to Jan. 4, 1906, returning. For Schools and Colleges?HcHiday tickets will also be sold at reduced ' rates upon presentation and surrender of certificates signed by the , superintendent, principal or president of schools and colleges, to teachers or pupils. Such tickets will be sold Dec. 17 to 24, inclusive, with final limit Jan. 6, 1906. For information regarding rates and time of trains and for Pullman car reservation, call on your nearest Seaboard Air Line Ticket Agent or write VV. E. Christian, a a p a Atlanta, Ga. I liolllday Kate* VIh Moiiiherii R?llwi?y 4)n account of Christmas Hollldayn. Sonthem Killwh.t will sell tickets from al points east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio rivers and to St. Louis, Mo., aud Intermediate points at rale of one and one third first class oop way fares, plus I wenty-flve oents for the round trip (Minimum rate50 cento.) Ticket* to be ?old December 22nd. 23rd, 241b 25 b 39tb, 31sl, 1905 nnd January 1st, 1906, with final limit January 4'b. 1900. i Tickets for teachers and students of schools and colleges will be sold Dec-mber 17:b to 24(h, 1905, with final limit Jxuuary 8th, 1906, upon presentation and surrender of certificate* signed by Superintendents, Principals and Presidents of tbe various Institutions of learning. For further Information, apply to any Southern Railway Ticket Agent, or L> III U.,ni Dr/vnlru Un>.mn Alr? T UUUli iJJ wo-' 4>#iu?nu? D. P. A. A. O P. A. Charleston, 8. C. AtJauta;-Ga. Doot w^ar your shoes out hupttog for school ix>oki? buying a few here t-nd tbere but ko to SpeeJ* Drug Store where yon can uet w bai you whbi. Don' d?!ay buying vonrChristmas pTe???nt* s->nieihlog ulce tor you Ht Speeds Drug Store. Dont rt?k glvlpg your girl cheap candy' | ibev ^now ih?~re !s a lot of fresh Huylers at Speeds DruK 8tore, i Keep ? good taste In vonr moatb for Chrlsta as by mo ittloif Speeds Clno-t Cigars. Th? p'sce to get whut you wnnt fron change f ?r a quarter up Speed* Drug S:ore. It Kjlaift ?? ? ? ?? A NEW AND COMPLETE LINE OF WATCHES JUST ARRIVED AT RYKARD'S JEWELRY 8T0RE. THE VERY THING FOR A CHRISTM IS PRESENT. ALL 81ZES AND STYLES AT PRICE3 TH ATOAN'T BE BEAT THE WORLD OVER. SEEING IS BEL EVING J. W. RYKA.RD. Nov. 29, im. tf R I 1 MB EBPB BBS njfifil BSB mm | 1 WmSt S^Kw BBS jBjfl i i i liHiINJ I My ent: C cost. Not i is not as possibly b A 44 V T All IN And > as the best i i Bargaii . Trespassers Notice. All persons are hereby forbidden to hnnt or fish on the land owned and controlled by g me. Trespassers will be proeecuted. T. W. Miller. Good Work. Go to the old Hill bhop for all kinds of ^ biacktmltb and wood wotk. Joe F. Edmonds, Prop, ? t FAULKKER8 LOCALS, j1 Tbe place to buy your flooring, celling and R flnlsnlng lumbers Is at Faulkner's, be knows 5 what It takes to build a bouse and can figure * out your bill for you. J Just received by Faulkner 1 car of sasb, t door* and blinds all slees and prices. ^ Mouldings of all kinds and prices. Don't t, forget the place, "FaulinerV' on Trinity Jstreet. Onie In tind let me figure with you H whether jou buy or not, I like to give prices C and make the other fellow sell you cheap, If I y cau'tsell you. Ir It Is shingles you want,l ~ am the man to see. D I . > i Attention Is csl'rd to H.G. Anderson aCo'i. j nral advrrttrrmenton another page. They are showing some particularly attractive e styles in Men's Clothing this week. g Please don't forget that we carry a most ex- fl cellent Hue of Hnsery for ladles, men, boy* c and girls. Price lOo. Dargan's 5 & 10c store. t <ii 11 Correct Dress jj The "Modern Method" y:trm ot P high-grade teilonhp jrtroduced by n L. E. Hays & Co., o: rincinnuli, O satisfies good dreswrr- everyvlvre C All Garments M*de SMet'y to Your Kc.-\?ure at moderate price*. 500 *tv!*s oi tc;' ?A /-tamfK.frv* f-.hnV? Vv!-- * */ ( Rppre H. G, ANDERSON & CO., Abbeville, S. C. ^ A Fe?rf??l F?te. 1 It is a fearful fate to have to endure I the terrible torture of pilep. "I can | truthfully say," writes Harry Colson, * of MaBonville, la., "that for Blind, * H'eeding, Itching and Protruding Piles, Buckjpn'e Arnica Salve, is the best cure made," Also beet for cuts, . j i ? ? n; r? U Qno?H * t>uru8 UUU IllJUIItrc. HI ( . U nj.tcv. druggist, a ... a ? tl Rome of the nlceri Christmas goods we ^ er dl-pla>Ki lu Hterlli g fcilver Brush and Comb Feu. powder bt>xen cigarettes u?d cases eto at Speebs Drug 8tore. ' d li All! $6,0C ERAI i.re stock is on th< ; an article in mj good and iresh st e had in the mart ew Goods m ^14>i i #It/ o+ pubiuvciy a i uuoi, bargains go first. is are her Master's Sale. ITATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Abbeville. Court of Common Pleas. Valter K. Ellis, et al against Paul B Ellis, et al?Partition <&c. By autbotity of a Decree of Sale bj be Court of Common Pleas for Abbe ille County, in said State, made it he above stated case, 1 will offer foi ale, at Public Outcry, at Abbeville C I., S.C., on Tues., Salesday in Jan. 2 k.D. 1906, within the legal hours of sail be following described land, to wit ill that tract or parcel of land situate /ingand being in Abbeville County i) the H'ate aforesaid, containing >NE HUNDRED AND NINET\ iEVEN ACRES, more or lens, anc ounded by lauds of D. H. Baldwin i. L. Lipford, VV. R. Dunn, John M, lodgers and others. Terms of Sale?One-half Cash, Lai nee on credit of twelve months secur d by bond of purchaser and and mort aira nf the nrcmisw with intereai "&v *" r* ?? rom day of sale?witti leave to pur baser to pay all Cash, purchaser tc ay for papera and Recording. L. W. PERRIN, Dec. 12, '05. Master A. C , S. C. mi I liis^ Notice is hereby given that a meeting t the qualified electors of the School iatrict of the Town of Abbeville is call i to meet in the Court House on 'aesday, 26. December, 1905. at half past seven o'clock The object of the meeting is to elect iree Trustees of the said School Dis *ict, to succeed three whose terms ex ire, and transact any other business ertaining to said School District, which lay properly come before it. The TruateeajvyJxoa?-terms expire, are, . D^*o^r^" ^~Thom8on and"" C. A. tflford. By order of the Bb^rd of Trustees. C. D. Bro>^n, Chairman. Frank B. Gary^-Secretary. You will find our stock ol toys clothing in knee and ong pants to be full and com ilete, Suits in price from 1.50 to $5.00 for boys. P Loseeberg & 1o. Something nloe to read tbe latest Novell l Speeds Drug Store. Dont smoke mean olgarg when you <wn ge peed* Ctncoa for' tbe same price, they an tore popular tbao ev?>r It will take tei jousBud to t-upply our deniand this mootl ><>cemt>er and thla demand is steady Id reat-lng. Speetd* Drug Store. We have tbe best liDe of boys' rcbo< 1 not rent- nhofR evtr tbow n In Abbeville. Perrli lotblng Co. / w JC1 >0.00 j M 3 market at r store that ;ock as can :et. Come at once e for you ?\. _ #. 3t.A^ '" Holiday FOR 3 | Yes, we have on displa; r 1 of Christmas Goods ever t ^ goods we are showing are ; and prices that will astoni Among many other t found ? \ ~T 'i Toilet Sets, [ / Manicure Sets, / Military Brushes, . Baskets of all kinds, Fine Box Stationery, Waterman's Fountain Pens, 1 Ladies' Gold Pens, i 1 / % ~\Tr% can v aov^o, Clocks, Mirrors, Shaving Mirrors, Shaving Sets, i Be Sure to See My Lii ' Yours to please, C. A. Milf< ?| mrW i in * m MM' I TI7Atlill ' VV UI nil ERCH A ri /? AM /%? T^-w-rr r urruucnco, x/xj v Farming Aud almost anything the want. Six Thousand Do as good as money oould . if you will eo] i .' ill Goods ALL. 7 the most beautiful line 'M seen in Abbeville. The of the very best quality if ish you. -i_ *i> nmgs we carry win ue j Fine Crepe Paper, ^ Fine Decorated Paper, - S , , | Stationery, ' , Books of all kinds, Card Receivers. :.'3n Cuff and Collar Boxes, ;J? Handkerchief Boxes, Cravat Cases, .JIB Photo Frames, \ Screens, Fine Colognes and > : *11 Extracts. , ae Before Buying. )fdy The D gg'st ff COST! t i of I musk. # xoods, - I M ; ?? ; Tools, etc., -3 ii*- 1 j :li.. pUDIIC COUIU pussiuiy liars worth of good? buy. tne at once. M * ' \ " / 9 . i" fi n - A,