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After I had played the part of Donna Sol
In the same writer's ‘Hemanl’, he sent
me a little note, saying: 'I wept. Ac
cept the homage of that tear of the old
poet.' That was the grandest praise I
nave ever known.”
How She W orks.
In speaking of the method she adopts
for learning her lines, she has said: "It
is nothing for me to learn a part—I can
not Imagine how the mere learning of the
lines of a part can be hard work for any
body. The role of CJesmonda I learned in
an hour, but 1 spent weeks In studying It
after I had learned it.
”1 read everything that can help me to
understand the times in which a play Is
laid, which can help me to understand
the character of the person whom I am
to represent on the stage. I think it out
in wliat I call the ‘lost moments’—the
moments when one would ordinarily
waste one’s mind on trivialities—the mo
ments in my carriage, the moments when
I am walking from one part of my house
to another, the moments when I am go
ing to sleep or waking up. There is so
much time which one can save by having
something important to think about.
“Hut as for the parrot trick of learning
the lines, it is nothing! After that is ac
complished, one must spend so much
time in learning how to live the life of the
character—in becoming actually married
to one’s part—that one has none to waste
on the m.re committing of the lines to
memory.”
Modern Playwrights at Fault. ~
Bernhardt is of the belief that most of
the modern playwrights are all wrong.
Speaking on this subject she recently
said to a Paris interviewer: "I would ad
vise them against naturalism and real
ism in theaters. Those are the besetting
sins of the drama of these years. The
stuff for plays should be drawn from the
imagination, which lifts up; not from real
life, which drags down. The great fault
of our modern dramatists—many of them
—is that they try to split a hair into font4
parts—they try to get something out of
nothing.”
Of late years Sardou has given his time
almost exclusively to the writing of plays
for Bernhardt, but she does not see any
thing wonderful in that. Bernhardt is
. iiJiiilll I suit
In Her Studio.
vain and she isn’t. Her vanity is so
mingled with democracy and good-fel
lowship that it is difficult to separate the
one from the other. For thirty years ad
ulation has been poured upon her in an
Incessant stream and it would be surpris
ing if she were not somewhat impressed
by her own importance.
Her ideas of the greatest stage roles
chime well with popular opinion. She
says: ‘For men unquestionably the great
est part Is Hamlet. For women the great
est part is that of Lady Macbeth. If you
turn to comedy the greatest part is in
As You Like It. But aside from that
one I rank Moliere with Shakespeare as
a writer of comedy. Look at ‘The School
of the Women,’ The School of the Hus
bands and Amphitryon’—all grand! If I
had to give a preference among MoHere's
comedies, it would be for ‘Tartuffe,’ or
'The Wise Women.’ ”
In the matter of individual scenes, she
says there so many that it is difficult to
make a selection. “There is the last act
in Camille:’ there is the third act in ‘La
Tosea;’ there is the scene'in Sudermann’s
‘Foyer Paternal;’ but from them all I se
lect the great scene in ‘Olivia’ as the very,
very greatest.”
Bernhardt in her own home Is almost
as theatrical as on the stage. Every
room in her house is like a gorgeous scene
from stage-land. She has little black
boys costumed in the dress of the Orient
and rugs from the hides of wild beasts
she has killed in various parts of the
world. She does not like to speak Eng
lish, although she talks fairly well. This
is typical of Bernhardt. She will not do
anything that she cannot do better than
other people.
WE’LL JEST~8LEEP ON THE FLOOR.
Our folks is jest the bestest folks you ever
seen or k no wed;
Makes themselves as sociable as rabbits in
the road.
When we tell ’em that the house, is fulled
up to the door.
An’ ain’t rto room for ’em. they say: “We’ll
jest sleep on the floor! ’
Had a fair at-Laurence ville, with circus
♦ents tin’ all,
An’ here they come from Williamstown an’
Huckleberry Hall;
An' ma. she told ’em warn’t no place at
home fer any more.
Bur pshaw! they jest staid roun’, an’ said:
“We’ll all sleep on the floor!”
Ain't seen no folks as sociable as they Is;
-at an eat,
An" tell you that the milk ain't sour, an'
vinegar Is sweet!
An' dad says tf they went to heaven an' jest
squeezed in the door
Ar.’ couldn't get no seats, they'd say: “Weil
jest set on the floor!"
FRANK L. STANTON.
A Large Contract.
Baltimore Sun.
The development of the coal and coke
industry of southwestern Virginia has
be n very remarkable during the last
five years, but there has been no an
nouncement which accentuates this de
velopment more strikingly than that
which now gomes from Roanoke that
the Pocahontas Coal company has just
entered into a contract with the Illinois
Steel company of Chicago to supply that
great manufacturing enterprise with
f.'JC.OOO tons of coke during the year 1S96.
An idea of the great size of this order
may lie gained from the statement that
it will require a dally average of about
eighty earsduring the entire year to com
plet the contract. As a steam-producing
coal the Pocahontas product has been
pronounced unsurpassed. Tdhe Norfolk
and Western railroad will be benefited
by this contract, as It will haul this coke
to Columbus, Ohio, over Its own lines, aaid
from that point Is has satisfactory
traffic arrangements to Chicago.
Don’t take any chances. Take Hood's
Sars/ ttrllla- tha one true hlnod ouri fiery
A TRIP TO THE TROPICS
The Birthplace of the Empress
Josephine Visited
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
Beautiful Roads—Delicious Fruit—A Native
Laundry—Club Life—Negro Chorus
Singers at the Opera.
St. Pierre. Martinique, Oct. 17.—(Spe
cial Correspondence.)—I have been on
this beautiful island but six days, but I
have succeeded in riding nearly all over
it. The roads are perfectly smooth, with
no dust, wind among deep cuts through
solid rock, over the mountains, and along
swiftly flowing rivulets, occasionally af
fording sea views of ever-shifting attrac
tiveness. The diversified tints of the
water, varying from a peculiar delicate
light blue to a dark ultramarine, alter
nating as the water is deep or shoal, with
shimmering colors of green, is a sight
never to be forgotten. The foliage, while
not showing the tender verdure seen at
home, is not without beauty.
One of my trips carried ' me to Fort
de France (formerly styled Fort Royal),
where the Empress .Josephine was born
Some biographers give St, Pierre as her
blrthfPMfre. but what difference does It
others in the sturdy robustness of the
brown stalk. Here and there were rows
of pineapple bushes, and perched on the
hillsides were the giant cotton trees,
feathery bamboos, stately palms and a
thousand variety of trees and bushes
that I had never seen or heard of be
fore.
Just outside of St. Pierre I came sud
denly upon a native laundry. The wash
tub consisted of a narrow, shallow
stream, with a rocky bed. A large num
ber of black and yellow women were
standing ankle deep in the stream with
their dresses, If they had any on, tied up
very high. They reminded one of a ballet
with a flesh-colored tight of sombre
colors. I averted my eyes to give them
an opportunity to arrange their gowns,
but they didn’t do it, and didn’t seem at
all embarrassed. I watched them pum
melling doomed articles on sacrificial
stones. They seemed to have a spite
against the clothes, judging from the way
in which they pounded them.
I found the weather quite cool at the
elevation of Morne Rouge, which is a
long, straggling settlement. The church
is plain and unpretentious without, but
the interior, of cruciform shape, is exceed
ingly beautiful, with one high altar and
two side altars, dedicated respectively' to
the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph. De
vout pilgrimages are made here, and
there is certainly an air of sanctity
about the place well calculated to in
spire devotion in the minds prepared for
religious impression. A few persons were
scattered along the aisles saying their
prayers, among them several negro boys,
one of whom was just about to enter
the confessional. The spirituality of this
devout temple could not fail to Impress
even those who are not believers in its
creed.
After a hearty meal at a cabaret, with
several varieties of fruits, I started for
St. Pierre and coasted five out of the six
miles. My only regret was that I didn't
have some of my Birmingham friends
along to help me enjoy the pleasure._i
MAYOR VANHOOSE
Receives a Contribution From the North for
the Colored Episcopal Church on
Scuthside.
—
Mayor VanHoose has recently received
$.350 from northern people for the benefit
of the Colored Episcopal church on the
Southslde. This makes about $8000 that
lias been given by northern philanthro
pists to this church. This amount of
money all came from the north, and is
just that much added to the local circu
lation, and goes to pay oft one debt after
another.
All honor to the northern philanthro
pists who feel such an interest in the
education of the negro. The Springfield
Republican has suggested that one-half
of the receipts of the football games in
the north should be given to the cause
of education in the south. If this sugges
tion is adopted the south would receive
a handsome sum. The receipts of the
Yale-Prlnceton game were $30,000.
1 HE DOG. “
Charles Dudley Warner writes in Har
per's Monthly of dogs, and measures the
civilization of men by their treatment
of dogs. In some countries men rule the
dogs, and in others the dogs rule the
men. Constantinople is overrun with
dogs, and the civilization of the Turk is
a hopeless task, so long as he is under
the dominion of the dog. England has
learned to govern the dog, and is a highly
civiliz'd nation. New England is under
the dominion of the dog. and prefers
mongrel curs to sheep. This dissertation
by Mr. Warner on the dog brings to m nd
a passage In the "Children of the Ghetto."
Zangwill says that love for a mongrel
^ SPAIN AND CUBA.
What a Local Spaniard Think* of the War an
the Ultimate Results—Cubans Not Capa
ble of Self-Government.
There lives in Birmingham a thorough
Spaniard, whose love for the old country
is as strong and true today as when he
bid adieu to his old home some seventeen
years ago. His name is G. Varona and
he conducts a small cigar factory on
Twentieth street between First and
Second avenues.
Mr. Varona is above the average of his
kind in intelligence, and learning of his
sympathy with Spain in her efforts to
put down the Cuban insurrectionists, a
State Herald representative obtained
from him the following very interesting
interview:
"I am originally from Casteilo, Spain.
I left Spain for Cuba In 1870. 1 lived in
Cuba nine years, and think I know her
people. During my stay there 1 was in
timately associated with all classes, and
to compare the civilization of Cuba with
that of Spain is like comparing America
with Africa.
"The main population of Cuba is com
posed of negroes and half-breeds, who
are totally incapable of self-government.
Tf Cuba should succeed in obtaining her
freedom her people would soon be in the
same condition of Haytl and San Do
mingo. There would be no civilization,
and they would care nothing for progress
and enterprise, and her product and
trade, now so much sought after, would
be worth nothing to the outside world.
“This talk about the patriotic leaders
In the Cuban army is all bosh. Gomez
Is rom San Domingo and was a traitor
make where people were born. At Fort
tie France there Is a magnificent statue
of white marble, erected to her memory
in 1868 by the inhabitants of Martinique.
The date of her birth as recorded in the
baptismal registry of the church of
Treisilets was June 17, 1763. She was
the daughter of Joseph Gaspard de
Tascher, lord of La Pagerie, a lieuten
ant of artillery in the French army, and
Rose Claire Duverger de Saumois. At
the age of 16 Mdlle. Tascher married
Alexander de Beauharnais. He was 19
years of age. The history of her separa
tion in 1788, her return to Martinique
with her daughter Hortense, the death
of Beauharnais by the guillotine in 1794,
her marriage to Napoleon on March 9,
1796; her coronation as empress by Pope
Pius VH in 1804, when Napoleon as
sumed the Imperial crown; her divorce
and her death at Malmaison in 1809 are
all familiar to the reader. Those people
are very proud of the fact that their
island gave birth to this lovely and un
fortunate woman.
Josephine was one of the most beauti
ful and amiable, if not the most virtuous,
of women. Her elevation to the crown
was predicted by an old sibyl some years
before her first marriage. The sooth
sayer prophesied as follows: "You will
soon be married, but you .will not be
happy. You will be a widow, and then
then you will be queen of France. Some
happy years will be yours, but you will
die in a hospital amid civil commotion.”
She paid no attention to the prophesy at
the time, and it was only when her first
husband died on the scaffold that she
began to believe it might be fulfilled.
Some one has prophesied that I will some
day be governor of Alabama, but the
prediction will be received with no more
credence than did the promise of future
greatness to the charming young creole,
but keep your eyes on me and see If the
prophesy does not come true.
When Napoleon was to be banished it
was first intended to send him to Mar
tinique so as to be with his first mother
in-law, but he begged so piteously for
mercy that he was sent to St. Helena.
Yesterday I made a pilgrimage to
Home Rouge, a mountain village, about
six miles distant, noted for its devotional
character. The ride was over a fine road,
skirting the Jardln des Plantes, passing
the Malson de Santl and several hand
some residences on the river bank lead
ing to the mountains. The ascent, ac
complished by easy grades, afforded
many pleasing views of hill and valley
scenery, with the sea in the distance.
Sugar-cane fields lined the roadside In
progressive stages of development, some
la. aha inoLnlanmx at gnwn tC&dfiXDMAk.
Some of the fruits that I have eaten
and enjoyed are the orange, lemon, lime,
banana, grape, muskmelon, fig, water
melon, pineapple, sapodillo, mango,
pomegranate, guava, sweet tamarind,
shaddock, granadillo, alligator pear,
sour-sop, custard apples, star apples,mar
nle and custard apple. Of these the pine
apple and mango are the best. There Is
no comparison between the pineapple
gathered fresh and those sold In Bir
mingham.
The mango is stringy and messy to eat,
but it is the most delightful fruit that
grows, and can be eaten at any time and
in any quantity without fear of their
hurting you The banana is really no
better here than at home. They are nev
er allowed to ripen on the tree, but are
pulled green and allowed to ripen In the
houses. I may have something to say
about the banana, its cultivation, etc.,
in another letter.
There Is an opera house and a nice
club here, to both of which I was Invited.
The club rooms are in a low house,
with cool, stone floors and an open court
with a fountain. The members spend
their evenings playing billiards, cattjs
and dominoes, smoking, drinking and
gossiping, just as they do in the South
ern club—only It Is done In French.
I attended the opera house, with sev
eral members of the club, to hear "II
Trovatore” sung. It was a motley and
heterogenous assemblage that met my
gaze. There were well-dressed ladles
with their attendants, negroes, men, wo
men and children, soldiers, policemen.
The boxes were well filled, but evidently
not with the fashionables. Some of them
were occupied by half-breeds, and there
was a sprinkling of negroes. The in
terior was dark, owing partly to the com
plexion of the auditors. Between acts,
In order to get a breath of fragrant air,
I Initiated my friends Into the American
custom of going out to see a man.
The principal singers were white, but
In the chorus there an admixture of black
with s- few whites thrown in. It was
funny to see these colored chorus singers
rigged out In tights. “Maurico” was
fairly rendered, “Azucena" was worse
("I seen her”), but "Kleanora” was very
good Indeed.
I believe this Island, Jamaica and Cuba
are the only ones on which there Is a the
ater. Theothersdon't miss much,however.
If they are no better than the St. Pierre
opera house.
We sail tomorrow for Trinidad to dis
pose of the balance of the cargo and to
buy a load of cocoanuts. If I can’t get
a full load there I will go. to Jamaica Gcw
tMJateacti Qt.
cur Is an un-Jewlsh trait. Measured by
love of the dog, the Jew has reached a
high state of civilization.
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I have just taken the last of two
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A GORGEOUS OPEBA CLOAK.
Worn at the Fetes for the King of Port
ugal.
The latest make of evening cloak re
calls the domino style, well pleated In at
the back, so that the base Is wide and
ample. These pleats have to be dimin
ished and arranged In a most clever way
on the lining that supports them to pre
vent the back looking clumsy. Immense
hanging sleeves. Wide enough to take In
any other kind of sleeve, add to the
voluminous appearance of the garment.
An elegant one worn by a marquise at the
fetes given to the King of Portugal was
of yellow lampas broqhe, with silver,
lined with ermine, and revers of the same
fur, showing In front a long white satin
gllet covered with point d’Angleterre.
The same lace was quilled Inside the er
mine-lined sleeves, falling; on the grins
'I”**1 -1
there and fought against his own coun
try.
‘‘Spain will take her time, as she al
ways does, but will finally put down, the
rebellion.
“I lived In Havana during her previous
war with Spain. The majority of the
natLves of Cuba are cowards and know
nothing of modern warfare,
‘‘My main objection to Cuba Is her club
regulations. Not only American^ and
Europeansi but citizens of Spain as well,
who go to Cuba cannot conduct any busi
ness successfully without paying hetfvy
tribute In the way of a tax to the club,
the amount thus obtained being set asldqf
to be used In revolution. A Spaniard,
you know, has no earthly use for a
traitor.
“My sympathy, of course is for the
success of Spain, and I really don’t think
the Cubans are worth the cost of a dis
ruption of friendship between Spain and
America.
“When I lived in Spain we had a con
stitutional monarchy and enjoyed the
same freedom as we enjoy In America.
We had a free press and a free vote, and,,
Cuba was given every constitutional
right enjoyed by a citizen of Spain.
“I honestly think it would be best not
only for Cuba herself, but for the civil
ized nations interested In the. Island, that
she remain under Spanish control. Spain
knows better how to handle the people
there and I believe even America is reap
ing a better revenue from, her Cuban
trade now than If she had control of the
island. The truth is the rebel leaders
would prefer to live under the Spanish
government than under that of the
United States, and if liberated her people
are of a class that could not long exist
unless looked after without one contin
ued strife and insurreiStion."
“Do you expect to make America your
home, Mr. Varona?”
“I have lived here a long time and am
much pleased, but have not yet made
up my mind about what I will do on this
point.
“There is one special difference be
tween the treatment of foreigners in
Spain and in America that has often
troubled me. In Spain if a foreigner
transgresses the law unknowingly he is
excused on account of his ignorance, but
In America they fine a fellow because he
don’t know tlje law."
lap?; NimaEa.
A Beautiful Mission Proposed to Women by
Sir Walter Beaant.
Haprs Whiter Besant in the Queen, apro
pos of a s&gested association of lady
working gentlewomen in cases of illness:
"Well, one of these girlworkers 19
struck down, then comes in the lady
nurse to attend her, stay with her, and do
everything for her, all for nothing. The
lady nurse would belong to the associa
tion. It would be sisterhood without
vows, in which everybody was well off;
there would be no poverty, no celibacy,
no perpetual litanies, and only one rule,
namely, that at the bidding of the bos3,
prioress, or head, one must go oft and at
tend a sick lady, stay with her until she
is well, and, if necessary, pay what
money might be required to pull her
through. I wonder if this note will find
a response in any lady willing and able
to take up such a project and carry It
through."
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A handsome portfolio for the boudoir
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Across the top and lower part runs a
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the cond trimming 1s in gold the blossoms
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cream they should be In delicate laven
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NoticB to Non-Kes:deLt5,
•
The State of Alabama, Jefferson County
City Court of Birmingham.
Elyton Land Company, a corporation, plain
tiff, vs. The Alabama Marble and Stone
Company, a corporation, defendant—At
tachment.
Whereas, Elyton Land Company, a corpor
ation, as plaintiff in said cause, has obtain
ed an attachment out of this court, issued
on, to-wit: 31st day of October, 1895, against
the estate of the said defendant, the Ala
bama Marble and Stone Company, a cor
poration, which attachment has been levied
upon the following described personal prop
erty, as the property of said defendant. t<>
wit:
One boiler, one engine, one pump, two
saw gangs (Iron), two saw gangs (wood),
two truck cars, one travelling crane, pulleys
and shafting track; and, whereas, it ap
pears that the said defendant corporation
has gone out of business and all the old
officers have left the state, and that no
notice of said levy could be given by said
sheriff:
Now, therefore, the said The Alabama
Marble and Stone Company, a corporation,
wherever it may reside, are hereby noti
fied of the levy and pendency of said attach
ment.
Witness my hand this 14tli day of Decern*
her, 1895.
NATHAN L. MILLER,
Clerk and Register.
12-15-sun-3t__ t
Order of Pu dication.
The State of Alabama, Jefferson County—
In Chancery at Birmingham, Ala.. Fifth
District. Northwestern Chancery Division
of Alabama.
Alice J. Lee, by next friend, vs. Ben Lee.
In this cause. It being made to appear
to the court by affidavit of complainant,
that the defendant, Ben Lee, is a non-resi
dent of Alabama, and that his place of resi
dence is unknown, and further, that In the
belief of said affiant, the defendant is of the
age of 21 years, It is. therefore, ordered ny
the court that publication be made in the
Birmingham Slate Herali a newspaper
published in the city of Birmingham, Ala.,
once a week for four consecutive weeks, re
quiring him, the said Ben Lee, to answer or
demur to the bill of complaint In tills cause
by the
22ND DAY OF JANUARY, 1890,
or In thirty days thereafter a decree pro
confesso may be taken against him.
Birmingham, Ala., this, the 21st day oC
December, 1895.
THOMAS COBBS, Chancellor,
12,-22-sun-lt \,