The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, September 21, 1878, Image 1
TIrit>tW.EEKLY EDITI( N.} AYLNNSBO RO. S. C., 8 iAT riU A Y SEP~'llM B 4jInt 21, 1878. IVO~l N.9
AN ACTRESS AT HOME.
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HIR1 L 1 IS UR 1 IMoMB1N TM.
Her Great Beauty--What She Saw in
Europe--Her Alms and Aspirations.
C 1,o.11 the N1w1 York 116r. .d.
In a handisono French Ilat on
West Forty-socond street, clogantly
furnished with doop, wido lounging
chairs, theatrical engravings and
the bric-a-brae collected during a
brief tour in Ikirope, the Icratc
representativo found 'Miss Mary;
Anderson, the young American
tragodienno, residing with her
mother, her stopfathcr (Dr. Iamil
tou Griffin) and a numbor of young
or brothers and sistors. Ifer recep
tion at the Fifth 6Avenio Thoatro
has boon so cordial, and her popi
Jarity in Now York so assurl-, that
the family have decided upon iak
ing the metropolis their leadquart
ers, and havo removed their lares
And poiates fron Louisvillo. As ve
sat in the tiny drawing-room wait
ing a response to our card there
caine a burst of fresh, ringing,
girlish laughter ; thon a plaintive
matronly voice called out, "Oh,
Mary, how could you?" ind in a
oniont wo woro in the presence of
M ry Anderson.
Tall as a Grecian goddess, with
limbs muirvollously long and as nn
vellously proportioned, and a smamll
head poised upon a slender nieck,
dark grey eys--"Irish eyes"-and
dark brown hair, a complexion as
clear as alabaster, and a small, ripe,
red mouth, Mary Anderson has such
delicate features that slheappuars even
more lovelyiat a close in spection than
upon the stage. HRer face is auiost
aristocratic in its clean-cut profile
and slightly--curling lip ; but her
hans(3 and feet aro republican in
Bize. Her figure, not yet fully do
veloped, has the unforued grace of
girlishness ; her frank, hoarty, ofl
hand manner at once captivates the
intorviewer ; and, althoighl oi the
stago. Mary Anderson is every inch
a tragedy queen, in privato life she
is best describedi as a represen tat,ivo
American girl, full of life and spirit,
hier bright eyes dancing wit.i fn,
and her rich voice, which brings
tears to unaccustomed eyes in Mog
Meriles, ready to ripple from con
versation into laughter it the
.slightest provocatiou. As she stands
rogally before us she holds Jn one
band the fragments of a bisque bust,
wvhich explain the cry that accom
panied her entrance, and she begins
talking in a free, unaffected stylo
that puts her interlocutoyf at his
ease necOssitates the most rapid
employment of his shorthand pencil.
MISS ANDERsON'S HISTORY.
"My age ?" said Mary Anderson,
.mdinugly. 'I am just nineteen, and,
although all the critics speak about
my Kentucky style and height, I
was born in California. I never
.cared to mention this," she con,
tinned, in response to an exclamna
tion of surpriso, "because tihe Cali
fornians' did not treat mo kindly
wvhen I appeared there a young
actress ; but I have learned better
since, and so have they. "Seo !"
she cried, running over the letters
ia portfolio, "hero are offers from
three California managers and con,
gratulations from a crowd of people
in dear old 'Trisco, and I am sure
they will be pleased with me wvhen I
,go back, this year or next. Louis
'ville, however was my artistic birth..
place. There I learnied to love
.acting and to .try to act. No, no,"
she resumed, as a question intern.
rupted her story'; "Dr. Griffin is
not my father. 'I play under my
owvn name. My father was an offi
cer in the Confederate service. I
.suppose that is the reason wvhy I
have been so identified with the
South and am alwvays called a Iron
~tucky belle.
lIER DEBUT ON THlE STAGE.
"Mother will tell you," continued
Miss Ander~son, after a moment's
affectionate pause, "that as as a
~child I was always acting-studying
.about theo house, repeating spees
from the plays X had seen or read.
,1 don't ipiow how the notion came
.to me, T liked the naen's parts the!
best, ad always wanted to play
-them. Richard 1II.-that -vas my
Iavorite par4. The women s charae
jters seed too tame for me. I
hbad a ti'mendows voice, and, like
- nost beginners, I supposed that
.shouting was acting, and7 I tell you
1.mdeo uisille howl when I o
oxcitod over my little performanco
at home. Woll, theso eceontricities
attracted imore and imoro attention,
and everybody said that I ought to
go upon the stago, and the moro my
mothor opposed it tho moro popl
c.une to reason with her, and at last
I m1ado ia public appearalo at
Barnoy Macauiley's theatre, in Louis -
ville, when I was abut sixteon yearn
old. In 1875 was it ? Yes, in
1875 The play was 'lomico and
Juliot'-vou (1nw I am going to
play it hore this week-anid I just
sliouted and lhowled through the
picee and wan perfectly delighted.
Wihen it was Ill over I was not a bit
tired and wantod to howl and shout
it all overl' agin. Now you comio
and 500o n10 xt Thursdaiy and nark
tho diinrence," and hero Miss An,
derson throw liorqelf back in ber
chair and laughed so monrrily and
heartily at the rcollectiol of her
first perforimanco that the room
seeied radiant with iusical sun.
shine, alnd the picturo of Shukos
per0 Oil the wall sihook as if with
approving imirth at the delicious
n'ou'icte of his latest and brightest
oXponlent.
A BRIEF AND BRIL LIANT NOvIIATE.
"You know the rest of the story,"
resumed Miss Anderson when she
had recovered her gravity, "of my!
provincial engageien ts. It's all
dollars and cents, dollars and cents,
and I hate ionev. Ilamiilton (thats
Dr. Griffin) attends to all that.
First I played a regular engage,
mnclt at Joluivillo in 1870, aid
then0 )00r, dear old Bn DO Bar
engaged mo for St. Louis and New
Orleans, and then John T. Ford, of
Baltiimoro. Do you know him ?
The uan with the stuilu-that
sweet smile--took me for a tour
through the Sonth ; and then I
played it Philadelphita, where the
business was pretty bad, and then
I went to Boston, where Longifollow
was very kind to mo--there's his
last poen ; have yon ever road it ?
and the more I acted tihe more I
loved to act. They woro col(d il
Boston-very cold ; so that when I
caie upon the stage I felt chilled,
an(, for the frst time, lost my
courage. If it Id not bei for a.
party of friendly f-eces in a private
box I don't believo I could have
gone on. But I turned up1) the
stauge, an.1 kept saying to mny.iclf.
'M try, you 111it do it-.you must
make them liko you' and I saw
mother's dear, startled face at the
prompt place, and when my cuo
came I throw I) my arm. so, and I
shouted out Ily line, and down
came the house in thetmlers of iap
pinuse, atnd I was all right again."
And very right the houso was, in
tile opinion of your interviewer, if
Mary Anderson presented such a
superb spectacle as she ldid when,
fliiging aloft her splendid arm, she
ended her anecdoto with a voico
full of suppressed passion and
resonant with tho nmmory of the
triumph sho had won.
EXPERIENCES IN NEW YORK.
"You see I had only been on the
stage three years," said Miss An
derson, "when Mr. Fiske oll'ered mec
anf appearance at the Fifth Avemne.
I liked the manager and I liked the
theatre. Every thing possiblo was
done for me, and 1)eop)1 tell moc
thlat there nevetr wals ant actresi 50
advertised and wvritten about bos'
fore. I didn't remark it then, be,
cause tile Southeorn and Western
critics had all written splendidly
about me, and eveni tile old chilly
Bhoston papers woero most kind ; and
now I fully appreciate all that was
done for me, and I am as grateful
for it--well, lBrother Fiske knows
all about that. What I was going
to say is that in Nowv York, for the
first time, some critics began to
find fault with me, and it opoened
my eyes to the real art of my pro0
fession. People told me that the
critics only criticised me because it
was their duty to find fault and
pick flawvs; but I knowv better. MyI
sense told me that they woero very
often right and I was very of teln
wvrong. Tile more they wrote the
.more ' studied, Up to that time I
had been acting becauso-I liked to
act, because something ini 1me made
mue unhappy if I dlid not keep on
acting ; but I had never thoughlt
much about acting as an ari't, a
profession, a life study. I could
p~lay a part and guy all the time.
(You know what 'guy' is ?) But I
can't do that any more. You news..
paper people gave me a new idea;
I went to Europe withl it; I mixed
over there with real artListics, real
art students, and I tell you that for
nearly a year I have had one word
ringing in my ears, buzzing in my
head, haunting me day and night,
imd that word is 'Improve! Im
prove I Imnprove l' When I firs
playo,1 in Now York all the crities
made fun of my clothes. Well,
IHamilton has1p spent thoulsanids of
dollar on my costumos over in
Paris, and ag'ain my clotlhes don't
suit the critics. Isnt it too had?
Wait until you see ti coStui.s
for Evadiic and Juliot, aid then soo
if people airo plelsod. But I tell you
1 do' care so much about dress,
and I doni't understand why so
much fuss is mado about it by crit
ies. Clothes c can't act, or yo ()uld
buy your sfitis at any dry .foods
store As long as a part is dressed
appropriatoly that ought to bo
enough. When I an acting I don't
stop to think about buttons and
banglos, and I don't care whether
the velvet I weoar is cottonlback o
silk. I don't worry myself much
about Imly gowns at home-do I
mother ?--but whll I am on the
stago I want to feel free and uncon
strained, so that I can play my part
witlhlt stopping to kick 3my train
or save my lace If I live," added
Miss Anderson, excitedly, "I will
maI:Lkje )eople forget how I dress
wv'hIen theyI so mo act. But sin0ce I
cannot do that yet we'll do our beSt
to please the dressmakers and mil
lineUrs. Th1a7k fortunue I've no more
modern parts to play, and so feel
pretty safe.
Tm: AMAZON AND AMEIRICAN TRADE.
-The survey of tho river Ainozon
and its tributaries, which is now
being proseceted by Commnm1er
Selfridge-o well knowvn tlhrouglh
his surveys for a ship canal a1cross
tle Isthmus of Tehauntoepec-has
bee u11n1derwtakien at the riglt time,
an1d cOallmot fail to prove of ad
vantago in our commercial initer
(0111E with Biazil. The construc
tion of tile Madeira and Maiore
Rail road, for Which Brazil has given
the contiact to thle Messrs. Collins,
of Phildelphia, will be a further aid
to the extension of our trade not
with Brazil, but with Bolivia also.
Heretofore the lavagation o f the
upper waters of time Amazon, and
espoeially of its chief friluiit-aries,
has been rendered difficult from tile
walnt of trustworthy charts, as well
as of proper buoys and lighthousos,
while adven turons trIders woro
further harasse' and put undei'
restrictions by tle shippinlg laws of
B awil. These things, it is hoped
and belioved, will nO 10w be remedied,
and that. by the adoption of a more
enlightened policy the grcit navaga
ble waters of that eimIire will be
throwni open to Amoerican commerce
under conditions that will give us
a fair proportion of tiat tradu which
is ntow lirgely monopolized by Ea
ropean miierchiauits.
The Grand Canal of China is like
ly to share the fato of the Great
Wall. This water Way was coil
structed by Kublai-Khan and his
successors of the Yuen race, and is
600 miles in 1ength. There are
10,000 flat-bottomed boats on this
caual, and theso are used in the
transportation of grain. The .Echi o
stattes thmat thuis great watersyay is
an enormnous "wvhite elophant," as it
costs an enormous amount every
year Lor repairs~, the app~lropriations
there, as elsewhore, not being on,~
tirely devotod to the purpose for
which they are meant. Junks arc
delayed every month while channels
are being dug for their passage.
This year for thoe first time since the
construction of the canal, tihe grain
from Nankin, with the consent of
the governmont, has boon~ for warded
by son, and this f'act hais impelled
the Pokin authorities to consider
tile expediency of abandoning the
canal as aL commnrcial highway.
The Raleigh, North Carolina,
News is responsible for the follow
ing :"One of the family of Mr. N.
S. Mosely entered a room in his
house, at the corner of Salisbury
and Cabarras streots, yesterday, an'd
was surprised to seo smoke ascend
from the floor, wvith a vividly brighi
ray of sunlight settling thereon.
Tile causo of tho phonlomnonon was
soon1 ascertained. A goblet had
been inverted and placed on a win
dow ledge. Tile sun shone full on
it, and the rays woero brought to a
focus by the bottom of the glass.
Tile rays, so concentrated, fell on
the spot on thme floor, and the heat
wvas so intense as to char thme boards.
A few minutes later and tihe room
would have heeon all onAr.
"It is bettor to laugh than 1)0
crying"-decidedly; and to enjoy
your baby's laughing society use
Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup which re
lieves the chief discomforts of baby~
hood without stupefying the chiii
denn. Prie 2.5 cents.
2O IuJ S ;EN -E11 1.1t 1rER Al.
Tho Wonan Who Has a constant
Struggle to Keep from Falling to Piocos.
[IPoin I/i Brlinglon Jiuckeye, Ihnne Tallr. ]
Sho came to the station a little
lato and had to mako a rush for tie
train. Whlen sho reached her scat
her hat fell off. She got it on, but
it toppled ovef- to on1o hide, and
whlen sho tried to stiiighten it hor
lihir (1am1 tu1bllingi doyni. She lost
bor1. ticket twico bofore 0he conduc
tor reah'ledil hr, aid yoild have lost
it again if he hadn't takce it away
fromiI her. Sho rotiched u) to plut a
bundle ill the crack abovo her head,
and14 burst the coll-bIttoll ofl' her
duster and stuck bor finlgers onl four
pinS in h1(erV dross before sho could
find one that sho dared t-ke out to
repair th damgo '..'o jus~t ats
1ht thoughit She had got comfor)t
b111y settled her little hanid valise,
picked to bursting vitli oliough
thmliis to load a Saratoga trunk to
the iiuzzlV, exploded, and she nearly
worked herself into fragieits got -
tog it together agaei. Then by the
time hgot tihe valiso shut ill) her
hat tunbled oi igain, and by the
time shOe got tihe hat straighted back
into its plaeo her hair tumbled down
g. l, and as soons she8c got her
hair twisted up and liarpooied it
with a couple of hair pins, the valiso
went ofr, and wohen she got off at
New Prague she tuckod the gasping
valise under her arm, and tried to
corral her topp)ling hit and wander
ilg hair wiith ino 11:nd, and as shlo
went Iilutteoil)g and straggling into
the depot, ol( colidn'i. hp think
img' that it would be saIfer and lIorc
convenient to rini her in soet"ons
and flav her against everything. I
have seen this vomin on1 several
other trains, and she has ie ver been
able to keep hersolf together. Thero
seoms to be more hu0 imanlity about
her than thero is about hor neater
sister. She isn't so aggravatilg,
but she keeps you ill a state of igo,
nizimg suspellse, for you never know
where she is going to give way next.
SH ERM AN LNCOURAoEn.--Some days
since the agent of the Associated
Press sent to all of its papers in the
South the followin' : "The secre
ttry of the treasury has just issued
a circulhr giving notice that the
standard silver dollar will be sont to
parties desiring, at the expense of
the governlIlmellt, ill sums not exceed
ing $10,000," leaving Out the ill
portant point that a certilicate of
deposit of legal teodes for the
amount of silver desired would first
have to be secured. To-day Mr.
Sherman received a letter from
Grilinl, Ga., inlclosing the paragraph
aid sayimg
"This looks like the wind had gqt
in the right direction at last. Have
had an abidg faith that our turn
would come, and so it has-and have
been satisfied that all would be
right ill tile end. Have no place
to put it all at prosen'ft ; so please
send to each of us $6,000 por ox,
press, and place reainming $4,000
to our eredit in bank. Yours, &c.
(Signed) -E W. Hammond, 8. 0.
ton Lciter to the Iariford T/ime..
ODRPORAL PUNIsnMENT IN ENGLAN1j.
--Ini England the (ptiostioni of cor
poral punishment is still in the
foreground. A charge of assault,
arising out of the canling of 0110 of
tho scholars of the Preston Gramn
mair School, was preferred against
tihe head master, the Rev. A. 13.
Beaven. Tihe lad had (1011 an
exor~cise carelessly and1( was s truck
four timies 0on the hack wvith a cane.
The assistant masters expressed, in
ovidenlce, their conviction that such
chastisement could not b~e dispensed
withI in the school. One young
gentleman, who was caned at thle
same time as tihe complainant, Can
didly avowed that lhe had undergone
tile operation so often, and 'had
becomo iso perfectly well accus
tomed to it, that hoeno longeo~r re
gard~ed it as a puhnshmlelnt. The
bench, considering that no undue
chastisement hlad 1~eQIn inflicted,
dismissed the caso.
A SENsITIVE WAITER.-The peda
gogical plate-passer in the White
MonlntainsH is surpassed in the
Chicago restaurant. While a ens
tomner wvas oxpressing bis 'views
somewhat strongly to a waiter, the
proprietor, stepping upj, remarked:
"Don't talk to him that way. He
used to be Governor of Oregon,
and such treatment naturally hurts
his feelings."
Snodgrass says tile prettiest sew-.
ing machino he ever saw vas about
seventeen years old, withl ~short
sleeves, low-neck orss an'1 gaiter
booLs.
A RAILWAY IN THE HoLY LAND.
Tihe (Jonstantinoplo Al -.awaai of
tihe 140h instant says: ".We are
assurold that a mixed coinpany has
obtained it concession for laying
doi it railroad botwoon Jaffa and
Jorltsallem ; also to construct at
harbor for shipping at the former
placo. General Mott, of the United
States army, and a moeuber of the
Red Cross Society, is the ropro -
sentattivo of the CoIpany lfO. He
saile(l last Fritlay for Paris to con
stilt with the conipany with regard
to putting the oconcossion into im
miieliato execution." The same
journal states that ao Veral plans
for railroads in Asia Minor have
been suilitted to the Porto, but
thius far nothing in that iospect has
been oflicially decided.
The Grand Dnko Nicholas Con
stantinovitcli, the Czar's nephew,
has been <lisinissed from the army,
tuil the eighty-fourth iegiuient of
Infantry, of which he was the hion
ovary chiel', has boon forbidden to
boar his naie. His crinjo was em
bozzleinont.
VEGETINE
Purillesi the Blood niud Gives
Streigthi.
UIl (jvol*N, IrI. a .21, 1818.
MN11. It. It. S FVI\ss:
DRIa Sir-Yo r "'Vegeli n" 1111 been 0 doing
wIonderns for mile. 1i1v boel) having the Chills
nl''ever. co) tract (l in tit! s4wa1111)mi of tthe
:4otith, notuhing giing lil relIef until I began
lil 1tse of yo1 Vget 11, i giving me1(1 immedl
ale relieit, to ning ip ny sy3sti ein, wirifying ly
blo-. q.iving al rengt . wireas a 1 other medi
cineos weadkend'l mne and1 tilled 1113' systei with
Sim11m ; mut I amti at1:<ied ihat if families tiat
it vo In the agle (list riets of the dl0ttil and West
WoitthI thlrope l'e Iwo o1 reP tim1es a week,
I hy% wiiIld not he itrobled wIth ha Chills or
ite m:lignai, FLevers that, prevail it certarin
t lm)., of I the year, ave doti 'Lor's bills, and( live to
a, goot ohl age. lhespecltftlly voitt'
.J. H. MITChELL
A ffren1 Hentderson's Loomns, St,. Lottis, k10.
Ai.. IsFAsMs OP TIM 1r.0on.-If Vegotino will
r1,liv1-N11 In, 'l-anI'S purIfy, and cure SItch
d1isea1 resloring the ipatnt. to perfect
h,!.Ia(t h after I ryin dIfferenIt phyisicians, manny
rellaedles. stiffrl' ing tor, years, I) It- not conlitl
sive prof, tl you 71re' a sufferer, you caln be
cilred ? W III s thim inedicine performlig insucli
ieaI cutres ? It works it the blood, l4 t 10 ocir
etlating tild. It can truly be called the
e rseat itlool I'ttriller. The groat'sourec of die
as' oiginoates in i he blood ; 1111d no m1ed11iciO
hat. dos not. lict, direcl1 tpon it, to purify and
rienovate, has just claim 1in upon pubUc attention'.
VEGET INE
Ias Eutirely Curol Die of
Vertigo.
A 1R0, I LL., Jan. 23, 1878.
Ih"ar Sir-1 have used several bol,10 of
'VEt ETiINE " it, has crt' Iirrly enred mne of
Ver i;go. I have also used It, for kkidlucy Col
plaint.. it Is the best, medicint tQt kidney
complaint.. I wduld recoxmmnid it as a go
blood puri der. N. YOUM.F,
l'AIN AND UIsKASm.-Can we expect to enjoy
good lhealth When bad or corrupt humors cir
cttlati with the blood catsing ptiin and disease:
1aa;11t ihtese hitnors, 0 ing deposited through tlq
tI Ir' body, produeo pimles, oruptionsi, ulcers,
Iuligeslt on, co)st~ieess, beadaches, neuralgia
rimiatism and ntimerous other comrulaln ?
Ito'pve lih eauise by caking Vegetine, tle
llost. ruliable reiedy for clalnsing and purify
Ing the blood.
VEG ET INE
I Believe It to be a Good Redi
(.1310.
Mn. MT v NS: 0., March J, 1877.
)efir SIr--1 wish to Inform you whtat your
Veget ia iis tone for 1me. I have beoh aillet
ed wit INeuralgia, and ftner ltsing three bot,
t1i4of the Vegetino was entirely relieved.
also foulnd tmly gncrfl health n)t;04 linproveu.
I belIeve it, to be 4. god medliin.
YOt1Irs truly', Jilt El DHA IitlsTlICK.
Y~ouTmNtc i.horolighly eradicates every king
of hutmaor, andmo resItres tile ent~Ire system to a
heatlt.hy' cond~itton.
VEGET INE.
Druggist's Repor't.
II. It. STPEV'ss:
Dear' Si'- We have been selling your "Vege
l~ine fat' the past nighteen rnontbs, and0 we' take
ipleasu're itnstaing that, In every case, to our
knowledge, It, has glven great satisfanctton.
BUK& (owVGIL,
Ulckman, Ky.
VEGETINE
Is 'JIpE Jpi1sT
Spring Meolicine.
Prepareli by
Ii. BR. STE~yENS, B~oston, Mass.
Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists..
set,t2-dwsj
TIHE WINNSBORO HOTEL1
-BY
1,etwoffer's and~ gtlarauteos to t~Ie
pulic indcucemeonts ,unsurpafssed by .any
>ltor hlousot i thl. place. Table sup,
plied wvith theo -bent in the market. Com
Fortable ,rooms and polito at),ention.
Perg-$2.00 per day. pug 9-tf
P~rsh Crackers I Fr'eshi rackers j
JUST ARRIVED.
1 hbl. tSinger Snaps,
1 " Pearl Oyster,
1 " Nick Naek,
1 " Plain Soda,
1 " Cornhiil,
1 " Blutter,
seni,12 . . iM TR