Part 2. MAGAZINE SECTION. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1906. ra Farm Notes, “ Choice Fiction, Current Topics. ye GIFTED POLISH ACTRESS, MADAME BERTHA KALICH IS WINNING FAME IN ENGLISH- SPEAKING PARTS. Unfamiliar With English Language Six Years Ago, She Has Now | Mastered Our Speech—-One of a Race to Produce Famous Players. With so much interest focused on happenings in Russia, it would be] strange indeed if we did nol receive al taste of Russian drama The leading cities of the country are now centering their attention upon ihe Russian play “Monna Vanna” the tkle role of which is being essayed by Madame Bertha Kalich, a Polish actress who won fame | in the Yiddish theatres on the Bowery | in New York City. | Madame Kalich may not be considered a beautiful woman but through the nat. | uralness of her acting she touches every spark of humanity that glows in the| human breast. Six years ago she did aot know a word of E._glish, yet her mastery at the present time of one of the most difficult of all speaking tongues, is remarkable, Not only does she speak English well but she 1s fam-| fliar with five other languages—Ger- | man, Polish, Russian, French and Yid-, dish. For years she has been acting | at the Russian and Hebrew theatres of New York City. Her first appearance | in an English speaking play was aj year or so ago when she played the] mame part in “Fedora.” Her earlier | performances were disappointing but st the end of a fortnight she made a profound impression upon heraudience ¥ i TRAPPERS’ PROSPEROUS TIMES. Furs Worth More Now Than For Past Thirty Years. The many trappers operating along the northern boarder will reap a rich harvest the present winter, meaning many comforts, even luxuries, in the log cabins of scores of sturdy settlers in the wilds of the northérn country, who are mainly dependent upon their traps during the cold moaths for a livelihood. The settlers and professionals in the | country directly tributary to the Great | Lakes look to mink, marten and otter | to make their trapping operations | profitable, and the pelts of these little animals at present command a higher price than at any time during the past thirty years, while there has been a decided slump in the prices paid for furs from the black, blue and silver fox which bring only 350 each now, where a year or two ago they were as high as $300 apiece | Yast wi ter $4.50 was considered a good price for a mink pelt, and it wasn't more than a season or two back that $2.50 was the highest paid for a single pelt of this kind, Now a choice raw mink fur will bring $11, and a mar ten pelt from $18 to $20, where $6 or $7 was paid last winter. An otter skin 18| worth $22 just as it comes from the trapper’'s hands, which is away above any price paid for more than thirty | years. Quite a few fisher are caught | through northern Minnesota and these | Beaver are | They are are worth from $8 to $10. very scarce in this state. worth from $7 to $9 each. The higher prices paid for furs will | also a boon to the Minnesota pro ve | | | MADAME BERTHMA KALICH Bo far this is the story of Monna Vanna for the American people are not ac eustomed to the mannerisms and act fog of the Russian plays Madame Bertha Kalich is tall and of the brunette type usual to the He brew, with eyes that while most expres sive, can hardly be said to be winning. She cannot be classed as beautiful, Indians, or such of them at least as have any business ability, A good many of the Indians trap during the Winter, but the trouble with the major ity of them is that they do not know the value of their catch and are to sell a $22 otter pelt for $4 or a $11 mink pelt for a de a pint of whiskey. T but her art has a mimicry which is{ Weil aware of this fact, sure to bring fame to her. Crit great faith in her possibilities as an actress. They believe that after thor ough schooling on the American stage the requirements of which are far dif ferent from those of the Russian, he! will become famous, for she comes of & race which has achieved wonders And when we encounter marked talent in the Hebrew race no one living can predict how many rungs of the ladder of fame may be traversed successfully. The greatest actors, not only of the present age but of the past, have been and are Jews, Of the women we have from Rachel to Bernhardt, and the men mange from Dawlison to Edwin Booth, while passing reflections may be given So the ability of David Garrick, Mrs Siddons and a host of others in whose veins were some drops of Oriental blood. Bertha Kalich's appearance in Chi eago was greeted with an outburst of enthusiasm which continued through. out the many weeks of her performs ance there, Such a well-known critic as W. H. Hubbard of the Chicago Tribune In reviewing “Monna Vanna” and fits beading actress, sald, “Madame Kalich is enrolled in the list of great artists Bhe is now an actress of peculiar and uncommonly attractive qualities and gives every promise of becoming In a seasons ono of the most notable women on the American gtage. Watch. ing her during the week has brought eonviction that she is the possessor of remarkable talents and that these talents are susceptible of a developing and shaping which ean but place her high In the esteem of a large class of the best theatre-goers and add an- other great artist ™ the small list of really gifted p that our stage ean boast. She has the power Indis pensable to any artist who is to endure and whose work is to be of any wide weaching Influence-—~the power to at tract the public. les lay | gents make it the winter to do noth the Indians, selling them handsome margin of profit. These agents usually travel from re servation to reservation by dog team or snow ghoes. Even the little weasel, scores of which dally leave their tiny tracks in the snow on the outskirts of the towns are worth $1 each for their pelts, They were valueless three years ago, and two years ago were worth 10 cents each. For a time last winter the pelts brought 50 cents each. The weasel also belongs to the homologue of the American sable together with the mar ten, mink, fisher and otter. The Ameri ean sable really is the marten accord. ing to some authorities. It is common- ly called the pine marten, and at first glance the only distinguishing feature between it and the mink is a spot of luring the furs of later at a beautiful orange color on its throat, just under the chin A grizzly bear skin is worth $40, if in the best condition, but of course grizzly bears are unknown in the Lake Region. Meany black bears are trapped and shot, however, by settlers, Indians and trappers, — Woman's Sweet WHI On a pillar erected In Canterbury, appears the following: "Wheto 1s the man who has the power and " To stom the torrent of a woman's will: For If she will, she will, and you may depend on't, And If she won't she won't, and that's the end on't.” Evolution of Woman, When Fve brought woe to all mankind Old Adam called her woman, ) when she wooed with love so kind, » ee y _ with pride. r BAC ots Hmming, ma | 48, uniform | one UNCLE SAM'S SECOND NAVY GOVERNMENT MAINTAINS A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR REVENUE OFFICERS. Plenty of Work and Study-Lack of Social Events a Feawre of This Governmental School.~Daily Re- gime of the Cadets, Uncle Sam has one governmental school which, while little known, is well worthy to rank with West Point and Annapolis in the thoroughness of the mental and physical training which it gives its graduates. This un heralded educational fustitution is lo- cated at Arundel Cove on Chesapeake Bay, about six miles from the city of Baltimore, and its purpose is to pre- pare for their profession the cadets or future commissioned officers of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, It is only within a few years that the been | # Inte to an officer general {0 A public has realization of advantages open Uncle Sam's “police force of the in consequence of L there has been of late a marked increase in the applications for admission to the cade t| school, Any young man not less tha 18 nor more than 25 years of age and not less than 6 feet 3 inches in height if unmarried, eligible to appoint ment as a cadet, but no person. should delude themselves with the idea that it is easy to get into the cadet corps, for the entrance examinations are quite as severe as those at either West Point or Annapolis. However, all the examis the selection of cadets are i petitive Political and ial influ are y eliminated and this ost democratic ernment The al the train-| awakening © oppoI | and il sea,’ whi ations for ly eom 80 ences is unques school cadet spend ing school to a vessel during which a taste of all kinds sea duties and incidentally store up good health for the academic year, which extends from October to May. The pay of a cadet is $500 a year and a ration of 30 cents a day, out of which allowance he is renuired to pur chase uniforms and textbooks and meet his mess expenses. The sum of $10 per month is also withheld from pay of each cadet in order that graduation he can purchase the and outfit of a commissioned When the cadet graduates he ‘ ti ¢ mably under th is three 1, each su practice cru tic 10 gov years on a bark-rigged the of the ipon officer at a salary of $1,400 per year. Three promotions will bring him to the rank | if captain with $2,600 salary per year and an increase of tem per cent, for ach five years’ service A Strenuous Life. cadets po at the training school on girenuous ex- it at 6:30 and after half ssing, report es for forty-five he call for breakfast is til 12.30 o'clock study and recita- for recreation served from the afternoon and recitation n tes’ drill. Half an » supper and one hour after allowed for amusement and 7 to § comes another study An hour of “skylarking” » day and the cadets turn in o'clock During the three year interim the future Revenue Cutter officers acquire a wide range of book learning includ ing ms matics, English, history, law, hyg seamanship, engineer ing, astronomy, chemistry, civil gov- ernment, ete Incidentally muscle building is looked after by means of the “setting up” and other athletic drills While the officers in charge of the training school for Revenue Cutter ca dets fully realize that all work and no play makes for dullness, no such prom- lead turn a » ia is In 1dy to two © more Ve iene, { balloon {| which Captain [ the St. {of Japan silk, | spruce, mmer being devoted | | young men get BALDWIN’S NEW AIRSHIP, Believed by Experts to Surpass any Flying Machine Yet Constructed. Captain Thomas Baldwin believes be has found a way to navigate the alr with fair success. Captain Baldwin, be it known, is America’s foremost aecronaut, having been engaged in the profession of sailing to the clouds longer and more continuously than any other citizen of the republic. He began ballooning in the ordinary way nearly a quarter of a century ago. Then be invented the modern type of parachute and in his inventing and ex- perimenting, went from one thing to another until he hit upon the dirigible balloon type of airship. in past half decade Captain Baldwin, who makes his home in Los Angeles, California, has built five dif ferent sky craft, all on this general pattern, but each different in many re spects from its predecessor. He hopes to improve on even the new airship which has recently been completed, but the fact remains that this latest {flying machine is so far superior to everything that has gone before it that t 18 well worthy of notice In the new airship the gas bag or | which lifts it has a capacity of 16,000 cuble feet of gas or nearly twice as mu 3 1) bag of the one Jaldwin exhibited at Exposition. It is made oiled inside and out. | From this bag there is suspended by means of a net of cotton seine twine a framework which contains the pro- | pelling and steering apparatus of the! airship and which is known as the “keel.” In Captain Baldwin's earlier inventions this was built of steel tub- ing and each frame cost $700, but in! the new airship the keel is of Oregon the lightest and strongest | in existence | i A Powerful Little Engine. | The engine which furnishes power | for driving the baloon is located about | { midway on the keel. It consists of a | gasoline motor very similar to those in | | use on motorcycles. The motor] | weighs about 756 pounds, is capable of | 13,000 revolutions per minute, and Lhe Louis wood | national | the subject | thusiasm | polted | President | assistant fore | with an annual | able to develop 734 horsepower, but it | {1s seldom If ever that so much energy | : is facing a heavy wind | Attached to the keel at the forward end of the airship is the which is eleven feet in diameter and has two 18 inch blades of painted can- receives a commission as a third lieu. vas. These blades whirl around at the {tenant in the Revenue Cutter Servies | rgle of two hundred times per minute, {but it will be observed that this pro- peller is at the forward end of the ship instead of at the stern. where it might nat the keynote wins most namely, the ify revolving prog through the air instead of pus as a ship is pushed through t! Nearly fifty feet from the propeller, at the other end of the keel is the rud- jer by which the steering Is a plished. This rudder is about six by eight feet in siz and consists of canvas stretched a wen frame. Attaches framework of the keel is also a tank is ca urally be looked for, and this gives to one of Captain Bald- in tions, rap- 3 yen the tha & hing it "i. pie pon wo to the wl +] pable of holding two gallons of gaso-| line. The navigator of the new Bald- win airship has nothing in the way of a platform on which to stand, but must balance himself on the skeleton framework of the keel, bracing himself {by means of the net which suspends the keel from the gas bag. Baldwin's new airship cost him more than $1800 and by reason of the gas ! required to inflate it as well as other expenses, each ascension costs in the neighborhood of $250. The hydrogen | gas which is emploved to lift the bal joon and to maintain it in a position where the propeller can do its work is manufactured by combining {iron filings or borings, sulphuric acid and water on the basis of one part acid and one part iron to four parts water. This gas is generated in a big tank ! Inence is given to social features as is the case at the academies at Annapolis and West Point. The Revenue Cutter cadets are at liberty on Saturday af ternoons and these half holidays are usually devoted to “hops” but aside these functions and such merry. making as ean be crowded into the two weeks’ vacation In the autumn or the vacation of one week in the spring, the Fal Shai young men apply themselves closely to thelr studies. yy and is led through a rubber hose to the balloon. > Too Rapid Jack—'Yes, T had a littl balance in the bank, I got en- is required even when the aerial fiyer propeller, | | he water, | ] | THE NATION'S FORESTS. BRILLIANT ADDRESS AT A NNUAL CONVENTION AMERICAN FOR~ ESTRY ASSOCIATION. Secretary Wilson Sounds Warning Note on Forest Destruction—Million Acres Should Be Tree-planted Everett Hale in Vigorous S (eC. Secretary Wilson has more than once manifested a deep interest in the question of American Forestry, Mr, Wilson has, in fact, for some years been elected and re-elected President of the American Forestry Assoclation, a pow- erful organization, composed of public. pirited wen throughout the counuy, which has probably done more than any other one influence to awaken interest in the enormous destruction of the forests and the neces gity for their business-like management and preservation, even to reforest ation of denuded areas and the plant ing of trees upon barren prairie lands. That movement in United States is coming to be considered an important one is to some extent evi denced by the increased recognition of by Congress, which is also due largely to Secretary Wilson's en- Mr, Wilson was ap- of Agriculture by McKinley, his forestry di- consisted of one forester, an ter and five clerks and appropriation from | the the the When Secretary vision REV. EDWARD EVERETT MALE, Cotigress for forestry of $30,000. Since due to reckless and wasteful methods, he has pen the axwan apd the will man move westward, swiftly and sure ly down everything in his course until there is practically no sec. tion he bas leit uninvaded, At she present rate of timber cutting in the United States, 40 years from to-day there will be not an acre left of mers chantable timber, mowing Common Sense Forestry, “What are we going to do?” Dr, Hale in his deep voice, use asked “We must and sentiment forest question. LOLOL common sense in dealing with the It is a very great question. The ine dividuals Interested in American fore estry, even though they be millionaires or multi-milllonaires, can not accoms plish anything definite and lasting une less the states and the general governs ment can be awakened to the necessity of giving the cause large and substan tial assistance which it merits. Come mon sense, in forestry, means that the forestry question should be put upon a business basis. In ord to make a large, immediate profit fo: i are de stroyed; they should be cut with some reference to the future: in other words they should be cropped. All the gov- ernments of Europe rely largely upon their forest lands for revenue. A sim- flar condition should and could be brought about in this country.” THE SUNSHINE SOCIETY. An Organization Which Brings Good Cheer Into Darkened Hearts. Among 1 societies organ- ized by th men and women of to-day for the welfare and happi- ness of others none has quite so inter- a history and unique a charac- as the International Sunshine So- J€¢ many € generous esting ter 1181 | ciety. broad ip all al It is so its scope that it embraces the charities, yet is in itself no sense a charity, but an inter- change of kindly greeting and the passing on of good cheer, material or otherwise. Sunshiners do not labor under any rules, but there ig always the personal touch of sympathy which means so much to the unfortunate man or woman to whom fate has seemed unkind. A more appropriate name could not found for the society, the which pledge thenwelves to sunshine into the lives of others; to do something each day te lighten someone's burden; to speak the cheerful word that may bring new hope, new life and energy; to take mo- tice of thefonelyy 6 dole Hittio arty - : have been members o bring f | then forestry division has been advanc ed into a separate bureau of the Depart. ment of Agriculture, employing over 500 men and having an annual appro. priation from Congress of upwards of one-half a mill i and ¢ the ¢ and ceeding able ber su over 10 ment For also been ] of Forestry for admini probable that at anothe 000 acres of public timber land will placed in federal reserves Secretary Wilson in his opening ad- dress at the recent annual meeting o the American Forestry Association Washington, uttered a note warning against the wholesale reduc tion of the woodland area in the country. “No nation on earth is as successful in the work of destroying its forests as the United States.” he declared. "The indiscriminate mutilation of the forests must be stopped: the matter has be come one of national interest which can not much longer be ignored by the people or by our legislators.” After advoeating the broadest kind of protective forest policy, he touched on the sul of reforesting certain sections. He thought that every day should be an arbor day, that every year ghoniid mark a notable advance in the effort fo Yesover ive! ground Plant A Million Acres. “We should plant,” he said, “not 10, acres nor stop at 100,000 acres, but should plant 1,000,000 acres in trees, and this would be, viewed from soveral poinss, the very best investment which the United States ever made. It would be a paying, money investment 0 the government, and it would be a tremendous help to our agriculture, The price of merchantable timber Is in- creasing with great rapidity, while every one knows the very beneficial effect that has resulted from the plant. ing of windbreaks in the prairie Another address before the Associa tion by the venerable Edward Everett Hale, now the Chaplain of the United States Senate, constituted a clean-cut statement of the great necessity of pt action to protect the forests, . Hale Is around eighty years of age; he remembers when the saw and the ax had scarce touched the giant monarchs in Ohlo Valley, when the forests of northern Michigan and Minnesota were unbroken wildernesses, and when those of the far northwest, In that marvelous country “where rolls the Oregon,” were a terra incognita. He has seen whole etaten denuded of thelr valuable timber tL re st have Bureau It is Wy turned on - leant eA : be clear ject of kindness, thoughtfulness and generosity that manifest the human, sympathetic interest in one's fellow tunities for t for lack of thought; the Sunshine doing a kindness the yf Society cultivate the habit of sym- hat will give them a keener nd 0 understanding of pathy t 1 A QeeDer those around them. is unique in that ere are no salaries paid. The president- general, every minor officer and mem- gives his or her services. Even the necessary clerical work is freely donated he personal sacrifices that every officer and member makes to carry on the work cannot be estimated, ETARD e lives of The So the th tw Ly TH ‘ Lal ber Its Origin and Growth. The Society was incorporated under the laws of New York in 1900 and to- day there are 400,000 enrolled mem- bers. The Society is the outgrowth of a {thought expressed by Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden in the office of the New York Recorder several years &g0 during the holiday season. Mrs. Alden was the recipient of a number of cards from her co-workers on the paper as well as outside friends. After enjoy- |ing the cards, she protested that she { would bave been better pleased if the | donors had not written their names on |them, This statement horrified her audience and with one accord every one exclaimed: “What! You wouldn't give our pres- | ents away, would you? “Why not? was the answer. “What do you do with yours? A laughing investigation soon devel oped the fact that the waste basket was the ultimate destination of most of the cards received. “Let me give you the history of one pretty ten-cent card that came to me {a year ago,” said Mrs, Alden. “It had |an exquisite poem on it, and I enjoyed it so much that | thought at once of an old uncle who would appreciate It and forwarded it to him. He as I thought, did enjoy it, and so much #0 that he immediately recalled an old friend to whom it would appeal with special force. So he copied the poem and sent the card on. This recipient found the card so helpful that she, too, felt called upon to pass it on and before the seven days’ holiday was over the card had carried its Christ. mas mec. Te to six different persons. Of course this is exceptional, but is still an example of the infinite possi. bilities of a gli. accepted In the true spirit and then pa: 4 on, giving each one the double d+light of receiving and giving.” The cards which had afforded the little sermon were spread out and were ’ and burned over by devastating fires (Continued on next page.)
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