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1 SAVING THE PUN Actors Are Often Called Upon ti Exercise Gubk Wit. \ f SO^Z CURIOUS EXPERIENCES Rose Eytincje Once Extemporized th Entire Part of Lady Isabel In "Eas Lynne"?How John Brougham Mad a Hit Without His Leading Lady. Quick wit has saved many an embax rassing situation, turned many a seem \ ingly disastrous failure into success Politics, literature, courtesy, all ar * served by quick tongue and read, word. r Actors, as well as business men, havi special use for quick wit, so often d they need help out of a difficulty Gur ing the play. A college performance was saved from wreckage by one o the young actors. One of the cast, a boy easily upsel ? had just given his line. "All I need i an advertisement," when half of hi stage mustache fell off. "Oh, no," said the ready youth be side him, seeing his embarrassment "what you need is a hair restorer." ^ And under cover of the laughter th< victim had a chance to recover himsell . It was surely the same readines that enabled Rose Eytinge to g< through one of the most extraordinar; exDerlences any actress ever had. I] San Francisco she was once asked t< fill Mary Anderson's place at shor notice, appearing with the local stocl company. The play was to be "Eas Lynne." By singular chance, no promp , book could be found, nor could the: secure a copy of the novel. Miss Ey tinge protested that it would be im V possible for her to play, as she ha( never so much as seen the piece. Tha fact they refused to believe. More over, to add to her difficulty, thougl all the company claimed to know thi old drama backward, no one seeme< to have an idea of the lines she, a: Lady is&bel, would have to speak. "Oh. that'll be all right," said Johi Xf^PnUnnirh tho mnnncpr tn -whom shi appealed. "Just you sob and look sorry and it will go." So Miss Eytinge, rather than caus< the loss of closing the theater, went oi totally unprepared to act in an abso lutely unfamiliar play. Tom Keene. the Archibald Carlisle instructed her in the proper emotioi from scen? to scene. ."Now she's j jealous cat. a iealous cat," he woul< whisper. "Now she's kitteny." "Nov she's sorrv she was such a fool." "Nov she wants her young ones." "Now sh< up and dies." The performance seemed to cause en tire satisfaction to the audience. an< McCullough. as he generously hande< over half ilie receipts to the heroine o the hour, declared, "Well, you ma: have Lad to vamp that part, but I'v< often seen it played with less soul." The story of an experience demand ing similar readiness of wit is told John Brougham, the early America] comedian and playwright. On one oc casion. when his own clever burlesque "Pocahontas." had been billed and th< house sold out in advance, the leadin; actress left without warning to tak another position in Baltimore. Theau dience had assembled before her ab sence was discovered by the manage and star. As it was that ptay or noth ing, Brougham, who was famed for hi: witty impromptu speeches, went befon the curtain and suggested giving th< piece without Pocahontas. He recalie< the old story of the actor who playei Hamlet so execrably that on the fol lowing night the tragedy was givei with that character omitted by request "Now, if.'Hamlet' can be acted with out the hero," he remarked, "why no 'Pocahontas' without the heroine? O course you are all aware of the fac that 'Pocahontas' is a mucn greaie play than 'Hamlet.' Even if you do no know that, I do, and I ought to, for wrote it myself. Are you willing t< try it?" "Go ahead!" came the cries from th< audience, who settled themselves bad to see the result. <Tbe burlesque proceeded as usua until the entrance music was playet for Pocahontas; then, turning to ware the audience. Brougham, as Powhatan sadly began: "Ladies and gentlemen that sweet strain is supposed to brinj my daughter Pocahontas on the stage You are already aware that she is ii the city of Baltimore, and the steri law of the land will not permit a Chris tian, much less a savage, to be in tw< places at once. Thus does the lav protect that most useful instrument the alibi. However, if Poky were her* she would hasten to say"? Whereupoi the comedian gave her linos in exac imitation of the missing actress, keep ing up the dialogue in two persons al through the play. The delighted peo pie who were fortunate enough to b< present declared that Brougham was avenged. G. P. Huntley tells of an inciden that took place at an east side theatei in London. The "gods" were booing the piece and throwing chunks of breai at the performers. At last the star came forward anc paid: "Now, look here! W ? re trying oui best to amuse you. xnrow Dreau. 1 you like; but," he added as he stopper and picked up a chunk, "thank heavei l in not too proud to eat it." The gods were vanquished.?Ann? Bird Stewart in New York Tribune. Labor conquers ail things. It is idle nese that is the curse of man?not la bor. Nothing is impossible to indua try.?Motto of Periander. 1 OUR EARLY FLAGS i ; c Colonial Emblems That Led Up to the Stars and Stripes. i THE STORY OF OLD GLORY. ! . ! e ! Twice Has the Design Been Changed i t Since the Official Adoption of Our e J First Flag In 1777?The Stars the \ Distinctive Feature of Our Banner. - | The American flag is a growtn ; i- j rather than a creation, its history can | (. j be traced back to the twelfth century. ; e j or nearly tXK) years prior to the tirst J y ! "flag day," June 14. 1777. j During the tirst crusade in 1 ?95 0 Pope Urban 11. assigned to all of the I Christian nations as standards crosses i varying in color and design, emblem" : atic of the warfare in which they were e ' engaged. To the Scotch troops was ' i assigned the white saltire, known as j : the white cross of St. Andrew, on a j blue field. The British used a yellow ! s j cross, but a century and a quarter ' 1 ~ A ? *4-,~ - ~ ? -3 ? MA'l AWACIO /m O | s j later uiey uuopieu a ieu uwm .vu , j white field, known as the red cross of St. George! When James VI. of Scotland ascend- ! ' ed the throne of England as James 1.1 he combined the two flags and issued , e a proclamation requiring all ships to j carry the new flag at tbeir mainmasts. j s At the same time tbe vessels of south | 3 Britain were to carry at their fore- j J masts the red cross of St. George and : ^ ' * ?-i M i.U fA /.OHHTT I * We snips Qi uunxi onuiiu iw k.o.llj i 3 the white cross of St. Andrew. t The new flag was kn5wn as "king 1 * colors." the "union colors." of the! t "great union" and later as the "union ! t | jack" and was the one under which 7 | the British made all their permanent - j settlements in America. - I The people in the New England colo1 nies were bitterly opposed to the cross t in the flag. In 1035 some of the troops ; - In Massachusetts declined to march | 3 under this flag, and the military com& : missioners were forced to design other j 1 ! flags for their troops with the cross 3 left out. The design they adopted has not been preserved. In 1652 a mint ^ was established in Boston. Money , e coined in this mint had the pine tree '?i stamped on one side of it. The'pine tree design was also used on. New e ! England flags, certainly by 1704 and a , possibly as early as 1G35. 1 At the outbreak of tfie Kevoiution : | the American colonies had no flag com- , '' I moo to all of tbem. In many cases the 11 merchant marine flag of England was * i used with the pine tree substituted for ?! the union jack. Massachusetts adopted the green pine tree , od a white ^ field with the motto. "An Appeal to I Heaven." Some of the southern states ; had the rattlesnake flag with the mot3 i to "Don't Tread on Me" on a white or 5 yellow field. This flag had been used f by South Carolina as early as 1764. .. In September, 1775, there was dise played in the south what is by many ; believed to be the first distinctively ' 4 T f KNIA TT?if o I . I AUItfUCilU Uil^. it "iio uiuc n nu <?. | f white crescent and matched the dress i 1 2: of the troops, who wore caps insertb-! ed "Liberty or Death." ! ! >. i The colonist^ desired to adopt a comi | e: mon flag, but vuey had not yet declared j j independence and were not at first' e seeking independence. They took the - 1 British flag as they knew.it and made ! k! a new colonial flag by dividing the red r | field with white stripes into thirteen al- i -1 ternate red and white stripes. This is : s j known as the Cambridge flag, because e i it was first unfurled over Washington's/ ? j headquarters at Cambridge. Mass., on | 3 ! Jan. 1, 1776. It complied with the law j ! i of 1707 by having the unio . jack on \ -! it; it also represented the thirteen col- i -i i onies bv the thirteen stripes. ?! As the colonists gradually became - converted to the idea that independ- j tj ence from the mother country was nec-' f j essary they began to modify the flag,! t first by leaving off the union jack and \ r j using only the thirteen horizontal; t stripes. The modified flags were not al- j I j ways red and white, but regularly c-on>' sisted of combinations of two colors j selected from red, white, blue and yel-; ? I low. The final modification was the re:; placement of the union jack by the ; white stars on a blue field. II The stars are the only distinctive feai ture of the American flag. The charm- j 1 ing story which credits Betsy Koss , j with making the first flag of stars and , j stripes is still accepted oy nisrorians.; I When Washington suggested the six .; pointed star she demonstrated the ease i' with which a five pointed star could be j ! made by folding a piece of paper and i . producing one with a single clip of the } scissors. T The official adoption of our first flag was in 1777. On June 14 of that a year the Continental congress passed ! an act providing that "the flag of the t i thirteen United States be thirteen . j stripes, alternate red and white; that 1 the Union be thirteen stars, white . on a blue field, representing a new t i constellation." The thirteen stars were 3 arranged in a circle to symbolize the | perpetuity of the union of the states, t j Vermont was admitted to the Union r! in 1791, and Kentucky in 1792. It r; was felt that these two new states 1; ought to be recognized on the flag, so 1 in 1794 congress passed an act making 1 I the flag fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, r / This remained the flag of the United f! States throughout the var of 1812, un1 til there were twenty states in the i Union. In 1816 an effort was again made to modify the flag so that all the i new stares woma t>e reyreseiiiea on xu To be continually adding stripes would make the flag very awkward in shape . and appearance, so after arguing the . matter for two years congress decided . to return to the original thirteen stripes and one star for each state. : WANDERING ISLANDS. J Those of the Rio Grande Made Troubl* fl For Us With Mexico. The wandering islands of the Rio j Grande in their migrations from side j to side of the water course have caused years of diplomatic c?'rre.?p.>nde?<"e and I discussion between the^Vjited States I and Mexico. The refusal of certain small bodies of land to remain perma- ! I nently attached to one or the other of I the river's banks deprived th?m of aiB fixed legal status as either Mexican or I American fprritorv and lirouirht about II their participation in many illegal adventures. which in turn led to misunderstandings between ti:e two countries. In no river is spirit more evident than in the Rio Grande. Along its sinuous route below Rio Grande City it pushes its way through miles of level sand in its final reach for the gulf, twisting and doubling upon it?elf like a sea serpent. In 1848 it was fixed upon as the boundary line between the United States and Mexico. The boundary was to be the "middle of the river, following the deepest channel." But the river possessed characteristics that hnri not imnressed themselves upon the framers of the convention as possibl^ causes of friction between the people living along its banks. In addition to its eroding power, exercised through long months of low and mean water, it could during flood periods leap with torrential force across * narrow neck of land at the base of one of its long loops and cut for itself a new channel. Through such avulsive action of the river Texas soil would sometimes become Mexican, and on occasions a plantation occupied by jacals and Mexican citizens would overnight find itself a part of Texas. An example will serve to show both I avfroA-c/UnoMT o^tinnc r>f th > rivor i I I II^T CAIIOV/Iuiuuij IIVUW v* ? T V? I and the difficulties in the way of any satisfactory adjustment of conflicting interests. A certain Josiah Turner began to farm the Galveston ranch, on the Texas bank. Eight years later be was surprised when 221 acres of Mexican land came across the river and attached itself to his ranch. An arrangement was effected by which he became the owner of this land. Six years later the river cut off a piece of Mr. Turner's land and took it to Mexico. Twenty-one years later the river made up its mind to repay the farmer for what it:H had taken from him and so carried;| back into Texas a piece of land farjB larger than the tract originally lost. I The Mexican owners claimed posses- jjjj sion. and a new contention dealing with the questions under dispute be- I came necessary. Brigadier General Anson Mills, U. M S. A., appointed to represent the-United States, recommended that the "< utoffs" be forever eliminated from the bound-; ary line, all those occurring on the right of the river to pass to tne juris- I diction of Mexico, those on the left to I that of Texas. The inhabitants, if any, jl should retain their citizenship in the 11 country from which they had been so;B suddenly and violently detached, or! I they might acquire the nationality ofjj the country to which they were nowjH attached. Any cutoff exceeding 6o0 11 acres in area and having a population jl of over 200 souls was not to be consid- jl ered a banco, and the old bed of the j river should remain the boundary. A convention embodying his recomme;ada- j tions was finally ratified by both coun-j tries. Thus the great turbid, silt bear- j ing river is left to pursue its way un- j trammeled, but the terrors so long syn-1 onymous with its name tave through ' the operation of this equable arrange- [ ment become a part of the storied, ro- j inantic past Corpuscles In Normal mooa. Normally there are approximately 5,000,000 red blood corpuscles in the cubic millimeter. The number is tem-' porarily diminished during fatigue and after the ingestion of much fluid. Fasting and profuse sweating increase the number of red blood cells by concentrating the blood. In high altitudes the number is also increased. There are 5,000 to 10,000 white cells ir the cubic millimeter, the ratio of white to red cells being about 1 to 500. In health the blood amounts to about onethirteenth of the body weight { I New Zealand Oddities. The crow in New Zealand strikes as , sweet note as any head in the wood-1 land. The robin has no song and no : red breast. The native hen is the great- j L-uiors Thprp is n cateroillar ! which turns into a plant. These and^ some other productions of nature have J dorie/or New Zealand what the kanga roo and the.ornithorhynchus have done JI for Australia?given it the suggestion j g| of oddity and the marvelous. Just Practicing, "Son, you mustn't carve your name j I on the piano. Another such episode I and I'll punish you severely." "Dad. how can you expect me to I carve my name in the temple of fame I when you won't let me get any prac- I tice?"?Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Musical Term. "Do you know anything about music ?*' "Yes," replied Mr. Growcher. "What's a rest?" "The time it takes 'em to change the record in the music machine next door."?Washington Star. That's Different. Mrs. Exe (complainingly)?Such servInts as we get nowadays! Mrs. Wye ?Well, one can't expect all the virtues for $4 a week, you know. Mrs. Exe? But I pay $5.?Boston Transcript In the battle of life we cannot hire i substitute.?Harold Bell Wright Your * i V Bint Envelopes Cats Invita LIUOlilUOC i ORI For Engr \ rm tt men Twice ? >? Best A N / ?111 Liber Printe: Telephone No. f ' Fall Prii 7E PRIN leads Letter H Circulars L ilogues Pamph tions Visiting ( i Cards Progra; I DERS TAK i^vrA/1 nfi /\w c? avcu iiiviiauuiio Programs, Etc. * I ^ A l??/\ Puklieli ? c mou JH ui/iiou erald and a Week. $1.50 < / advertising Medi ewberry County * t il An! i ii. nui rs For Particular I1. 120! i iting T eads aw Briefs lets 2ards me Fir IIAO^ JUVVc \; . :en V/dl Ud I J I News ^7 i i ear BB > um in I i in > i Co. r 5eople I 5-9 Friend St. I '?