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Show THE MORNING EXAMINER, OGDEN, UTAH. JFNE SUNDAY, 2, 1007. I iimmiinimni tifttHttmii iititinniiniii hi ii1111111 '" 1 1 1 11 m i 1 IS WHAT SHE HERE IS MARRIED EDNA MAY WHEN 1 1 1 1 hi "H,w WILL DO iinmiimiiiiiiiiiniiiimnitnnifiimiiiiiiiiiiHi H'i iimimummim BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE THAT CAN BE HAD SEVEN MONTHS HONEYMOON TOlK OF THE WORLD, AND THEN GOING TO SETTLE DOWN IN THE RE INTEND TO SPEND THE REST OF TIIEIR DAYS AND CASH ABROAD. HUSBAND-TAND MOST APPARENTLY SUE HER-AMERICA- Copyright In the 1'iliri Staten and Grant Britain by Curtia Brown. (All Right Strictly Reserved ) Goodby, deer public. tt hnne me mare grievously than I pcaaibljr rae eapreae in mere word, te have te eay goodby to the hundred and parkape thousands of my friends on hath aide ef tho theatre curtain. 1 love my warfc sad audiences on both sides ef the water. Perhaps my fondest adieus muH go to my English nit- fences, for I know them better. In my ten years of active stag life, prao- liralty nine years have been spent ia England. 1 know I have been a sucres, fur In all that time I haro only had tw failures. But 1 have worked hard the pubUr will never know hw hard and I have earned a rest, which now I hope to take for Ufa. Sly favorite play is "The Bello of New York." of course, for It was in that I graduated to stardom. But La Toupee" I te a very tkw second. In my stags career I have hut two tittle regreu -- eco that did not appear in l.a Poupee" lu tho fulled Slates, the other that 1 never played la legitimate 1 . j eralle at n mere spwcator. I will also continue my connection with the various charitable Institutions of the theatrical world. And now farewell to my dear public on both aides of the Atlantic. 1 have made my last exit from the stage of the theatre. The curtain ts just going up on tho happiest part of my life. J have deepest regress, yes, Iran, at ending my stags career. These are still with me even In tha gladness of the annahlns of my future. Te my critics my heartfelt thanks. I am paalng frum the light of publicity. but there are others coming Into it. Let the critics be merciful to them. tinodbv, dear wage: goodby. dear public. EDNA BAT. , Copyright in tha I'nited States and tircat Britain by Curria Brown. All Rights Reserved. . London. Bay IS. Whea yon art married, why, what will yon doP be might the playgotng public on both aides of the Atlantic demand of Edna Bay just now, paraphrasing tho famous dll tv from her first and biggest success, -- rte Belle of New York." Fur, as everybody knows, Edna Bay CAE UWISOH, going to be married noon, and not to any foreign "nobleman" either, though there le little doubt that she could have been n countess, or marchloaess if not a duchess if she had so chosen, but to n plain American, albeit, an American millionaire. In fact. It is Just possible that before thee lines are printed the erstwhile Belle of New York end Belle of Bay-fawill have become Mrs. Oscar Lew. leohn, and that the son of the American copper king and his fair bride will bars set off on thalr honeymoon trip, which Is going to be ona of tha longest and probably on of the costliest that ever n young married couple took. . At present, however, the date of the marriage is set for the end of next month June though the scene of the ceremony ha not been and will not be mada public. Itor should publicity bo thua given on can Imagine the mobbing there .would be. The ceremony will be performed in London, and there ia little doubt that tho public here would crowd la thousands to witness tha union of tho moat popular London stage Idol of the day to her American millionaire If only it know, where to crowd to end when. Thom re main a the possibility, and even th probability, that these two young people, who am evidently very much la love with each other, will not bo able to wait until tho date they themselves have fixed, but even Intimate friends have been aaaurad that It will not taka plaeo until the "month of weddings" ia nearly over. Whether the knot will be tied ia n synagogue, In an Episcopal church or at n registry office, how. ever, not oven the nearest friend! of the "parties' am able to nay. And when Edna Bay is married, well, "what will eke do?" Whit manner of life, in fact, ban been planned1 by thin girl, who up to now has had 1 comedy. It ia' the publlr I mast really thank for much cf my success. But for its s kindness! Ira encouragement, lu applause, 1 might have been a miserable failure. Now that I have Mid farewell forever to the stage, 1 caa afford to make a rufloo. a By temperament ia a sensitive, I suffered from one. stage fright throughout my career. Not the ordinary stage fright, common on firstv nights uf new pieces, hut an alwulute-Iooniluwm stage fright a nightly affair almost a (ear of earh not. It has been momentary la nearly every instance, but there have been many orraaioas when after leaving the stage I could not restrain my tears. Criticisms have ia Ilka manner affected me. I have wept and Buffered for hours over the occasional harsh words ef the Journalistic critic, many of whom are my good Meads. critic do not f The public and the realise, I feel sure, what their prate or condeniaalion means to thus on the stage. sur permanent England1 will b home, though neither of us will abandon our cttlienshlp of the V nlted States. 1 have more friends In England than in America, for here I have spent tho last nine years, and when I left the fnlted States 1 waa Its rely 19. There la a womans conrealon of age for you! As a mere girl one scarcely makes the Mends one does in The years following the teens. 1 will not abandon the theatre In Ha entirety, for I aspect to becotpe a r and continue In regular constant attendance, though la tha gee-erou- ir tter-vou- first-nighte- to work hard in spite of haring been for nearly ten years n popular aur. but who now will bo the mistress of millions? la aha eager to be a queen at society and a regal entertainer, a grand dame in England and an th Continent, or does she prefer to lead a quiet life and to find happiness in the dom retie joys that were denied her In the domestic joys that were denied her first brief and rather painful matrimonial experience? To these quite natural questions them have been no answer as yet, despite the many Interview with Biss Hay that have been published since she made her farewell appearance in public at the Aldwych Theatre n fortnight or so ago. It baa been announced, of course, that England will be the future home of Edna Sday and her husband, and that ia natural enough since both have spent many yearn in in fact, this country, Oscar though he went to Yale and knows his own country thoroughly, knows Europe quite as well. He (was the constant companion of his Invalid father, who traveled In search of health all over Britain and th Con- I I ' tinent, 1 am able to describe hem the life which ho and bis famous bride have planned to lend together, but In doing ao 1 am debarred from putting a single word of It between Inverted commas, or In the form of an interview with Edna May. She and her future In fact, are reticent to the point of hyperernMUveness, no far aa tha mention of their future plana in print ia concerned, and whan 1 naked Miea Bay's permission to toll about them is coming from her, ah refused, kindly but firmly. Ail thmt she would content to authorise, tn fact, and this aha did most willingly, waa the publication of little goodby" message American public from her to th which Is printed herewith Just as she wrote and sent It to ms, and which has very rani and personal Interest of Ita own. The rest of this article, telling what Edna May In planning to "do" must ho token only aa coming from on who knows the facta. Bke and her million airs husband are going to live the "simple Ilfs" that la, ao far aa the simple life can be lived In a big English country house provided with every modern luxury and means of enjoyment that wraith can secure. They are. now looking for a "manor house" standing In the centra of n broad estate, and when they have settled down In it such ambitions ns the conquest of high society" are apparently about the last things that are going to trouble them. They will entertain their friends, of course, and lavishly, too, but to be n "great hostess" la the sense of haring titled and poeeibly even royal folk aa her guests io not, oddly enough, n destiny (hat appeals to Edna May. Nor la this n case of soar grapes, hue-ban- Ufa kdha on the rraeKi atrt u tmtuirn THE ALOWVCH THKATEE. AT Vm ttt Daily satvrbay mem gntll h tor there ia little doubt that the one of Its feminine luminaries with Belle of New York could hob-no- b n yearning for bucolic joys, but It is with society "an' she would." She D likely that her last part In the daughter of a. letter carrier, It la "Nelly enough Neil" may have dona somehut Rosie (rue, Boots, the present thing of the kind for the former Bancblooess of Hendfort, In of even "Belle." la this piece aha appeared humbler origin, yet her guests now first aa an advocate of tha simple life Include "the noblest In the land." and then as the of "SimThere In n good deal, of course, in plicity Farm," andproprietress who knows that a having n marquis for a husband, but, desire for with real churns aa Alexandra Dumas remarked, "the and molda dealings and such-llktitle of millionaire In the finest of all." may have been the direct Implement! result? At Moreover, this is unquestionably the any rate, if Edna Bay electa to of the millionaire Jewish Engla day and to boss her own dairy she lish society, as witness the position will have a distinguished example In of Blr Ernest Caesel, the King's grant the of tbs Queen of England, chum: th Rothechlldi, and others who person knows as murh about the pracwhose name la legion. tical aide of butter and cheese makOne of the chief desire of thla hapaa her royal husband does about ing py adtraea la that tha big estate which tbs practice! raising and breeding of her husband is going to bpy should live stock for profit. Include a "home farm, and that she Edna May's favorite recreations are herself shall be responsible for the rising, billiard and croquet; Oscar cream and rgg. quality of her butter, It la not often that tha stage Inspires (Continued on Pag Thirteen.) tar-m- ar e pos-aea- a A ROUND TABLE FOR JUVENILE READERS, ' WITH A MENU OF FACT. FUN AND INFORMATION - s " nets put upon them or a hit put Inte their mouths But when man baa made up hla mind to train an animal to do his bidding he succeeds at last. Blr Walter continued trying, and finally ha has got hla coach and four aebraa In good working order, so that ha can dries them all four abreast. Bo much trouble would hardly be worth while for a mere fad If there were pot s practical aid te thla lengthened eut attempt te train the aebra te work. Yeung people e intalllrent as you boya and girts are, have read of tha terrible taste fly pest In tntsrtsr Africa. There ore te be found eome of tha moat fertile regtena of th earth, but no whits men have been able te colonise them because of th testae fly. Its bite contains u poison which la death to all tha white man's domestic animate bore, mule, cow, cheep and dog. Th colonist there would havo no butter, milk er meat ar even a hone or ex ts plow hla lands If ha tried to farm. In German Beat Africa tha soldiers In their ware with the native tribe have been at great disadvantage because of the Impossibility of using cavalry against them, a derma officers, too, began at Dsraaaalaam the experiment of . breaking In the1' aebra. It eeems to b fly proof. At last the Interesting experiment has begun ta be successful. German troopers are now able, by beeping a stiff rein and a harp watch out, to rid th wild little bust Zebras have also been trained to drive In harness and to do light farm work. The taming of the aebra after more than a century of trying ta a triumph of man aver wild animal nature Th aebra le found in Africa and belongs to the ass or donkey family, though In some respects It membles the home too. Other member of the African donkey family have atrtpee around their bodies, but only the true tbra has striped leg. By the stripe around Its leg the real aebra may always he distinguished. You see from th picture that thay are genuine sabres the trooper are riding. In Its native state the aebra Is much like the wild av in Its ways and haUts of living. Frequent reference ts mad In the Bible to the wild nee. an animml to be found today among the mountains of Arabia and Persia, also India, In the same state as It waa 9, CM years ago. U la so fleet of foot and ao strong of wind and limb that no living ere turn can overtake It on the run, not aven a greyhound. Wild aaeee always travel In droves, with a leader at their head. They keep a sharp lookout, and at tha least apparent danger away they speed like a flying cloud up Into their mountains. Tha wild aaa la rat striped like the handsome aebra, however, hut la Juat plain greyish brown In color, with a black streak running along Its spine. a iMOt horsepower substation at Toronto, The line pressa.OOO far between, seldom more than two In sure Is volta The current is the car. The Island Is a most unln-rllin- y used for lighting, street railway and power purposes In Toronto. place for a residence. When Saturn is viewed through a Oysters cannot live In water contain-I- n ss than thirty-seve- n parts af sell lares telescope It is seen to be greatly to rvery thousand parts of water flattened at the poles. Two Ihree-phse- s What Is supposed to be tho oldest circuits extend from tho electric generating plant at Niagara tree In tho world is still standing la Ieylnn. Its eg Is given as about MOD years, and a writer In the National Geographic Magaxine pays that the statement is undoubtedly quite correct. The pay of tha president of Bwitser-lan- d Is only 12,701 a year. The opinion that Tt per coot ef the present day sermons from the pulpit could bo dispensed with to the betterment of church attendance has bean Training the Zebra to the Use gf Man Bp ALBERTA PLATT Alberts Platt was a In London the attempts to rMlIae tho girl, her father gave aebra have been most persistently a large book on nat- made. One wealthy man, Blr Walter ural history, it waa wrlt-ts- n Rothschild, wanted to drive a coach In easy words which she could unand four through the etreets of Londerstand, and that book waa the de- don and have aebraa of horses light of her eouL She literally wore It for the team nf four. lie got a trainer, and he and the trainer experimented year after year. The keeper ef the London ano drat succeeded In educating a pair of till they could he striven wbnut In the ane grounds. By and by Sir Walter Rothschild got three of th pretty creatures ad tamed that WHEN thanks her for all aha has dona for him and bega for a continuance of her favor for another year. I am afraid In America, aa sooa as children grow big and strong enough to look after themselves, they often car vary little te ehoer affection to their mothers. Perhaps they give them nice birthday, Christmas er New Year presents, but they forget thkt what la out reading It. But natural history baa changed elnre those days Naturalists knew much more than they did then. They would he very stupid If they had not found eut something In the course of years. Alberta Platt's natural history said, for ana thing, that the aebra could never be tamed or trained to the use of man because it was a wild and savage-Th- e attempt te tame It had been made ever and ever again, but was unsuccessful and always weuld he, for the aebra bad not Intelligence enough te be sdueated far the use ef man, said th writer at Alberta's pet book. Tim has proved, however, that the lack ef Intelligence was la th people whs tried to break in the aebra rather than In the Scientific men, circus animal Itself. people nnd rich men whs wanted something new to do to pass away the time kept on trying to tame this wild and seemingly otupld creature. They became more skillful as time went an. and at last they hare succeeded, at least partly. ZEBRA TEAM. FOUR ABREAST. they could be drfvrn with a pony harnessed along with Ihrm. The trouble In all aee waa that the little animate were ao fleri-- and fought so stoutly against either having har- e NEAR AND FAR. Bricks made ef coal dust are used for paving tn Russia. Tha coal dust Is cambined with molasses snd resin. The mast remote mission station In the wrU( ta on Herschal Island, in the for worth wsst comer at Canada. The p rarest pestofllct to MM miles away. Consequently tho packets are law aad Falla, Ontario! to a foojlsh tbom! braggart ta talk . ' We are little birdlra Happy as caa be. Bathing la tha brooklet. Hiding tn tha tree. Peaceful are our homesteads; Cheery are our notea Cosy are our faathera; Bflug and warm our costa CLEVER TRICK WITH AN EGO. A magician held up before an audience an egg and a cannon ball, and, after talking a few minutes about tha strength ef an arch and atm more ef a perfect dome, ao represented by tho shop ef tbo egg. he remarked that few persons know hew strong an egg really la "In proof of that," be raid, "I win now place the egg, without covering of could not really but I and truly be down WHAT THE BIRDS SAY. ef dying for HIS EXCUSE SERVED. Little Johnny, who ta only nine yean old, ta continually causing amusement by hto quaint and original excuses whenaver he geta Inta s scrape. He is never at a lees, and before you epeak almost ha Interrupts you with an excuse that ia aa funny that you cannot1 help laughing and forgiving him. ' H has been last dowa to breakfast several times lately, and h was told that tha next tlm It occurred h should 1 hare nothing to eat. A day or' two ago he mad hte appearance when breakfast was half over. "Johnny said hla mother, "you know what I told you last time you war lata." Yes, mother, In time ' 1 thla - mern-ing- ." "Well, why not?" "Ton see, I waa half asleep and half awake! and somehow I dreamed that 1 was at church, and 1 know you would ." not Ilk me to get up during th . WILD A 89 OF BIBLE TIME.1 t . Johnny did not go without hla breakfast that morning. TOO SMART A ZBBRABACK RIDE. wanted Is everyday love, and that la what many people who talk a lot about loving often forget. A group of schoolgirls were talking an day. and each waa saying how much sho loved her mother. Each girl seemed. Judging rfrom, what she said herself, t love more Intensely than the lest Finally ona girl said, "I lava my mother so much that I ceuld die for her!" After that none of tha children said anything, and the alienee waa broken by a lady who had bean listening unnoticed CHINESE CUSTOMS. "I wonder," aha remarked, Tha "heathen Chinee" has eome cus- "that a little girl wh loves her mother toms and characteristic which Amerienough to die for her doesnt lovt her can people might well Imitate. Fer In- enough to wash th dishes tar her." The lady wa quite right. It la our stance! on New Tear morning every man and bny. from the emreror to the everyday Hie which shows whether w humblest peasant, pays a visit to hla love or not. and tha girl or boy who ls mother. He take her a present and too selflth to work fer ethers Is only There la danger unfortunately that the aebra will be exterminated. Ben hunt It for Its striped hide and also for tha mere wicked pleasure of destruction. Natives at Africa eat ita flesh, which, however, io not particularly good. Tha Boers of South AMca have a great contempt for It and aay it la not fit for "baptised men" meaning them selves te eat When n aebra la shot, tt la said to give forth a terrible groan that sounds as If It were made by a human being. expressed by Mr. Butler of Pennsylvania. a delegate to tha national conference of church cluba. Nibli-t- t claimed that tho cellular etructlon of storage battery electrodes gave them the peculiar property of automatically regulating their owa temal resistance. Aa International league for the extermination of rata has been formed in BY HALF.' At school tha other day a teacher, having asked moat ef bt pupil th difference between an Island and a penlnsuia without receiving a satisfactory answer, cam te th last boy. "I can axplain It, air," said th bright bey. "First get twe g la see; flit ona any kind, in auch a position that with water and the ether with milk. one can break tt with the cannon ball." Then catch a fly and place It In the Haw did he do it? 6imply by puttlnl glass of water. That fly la an Island, the egg on the floor close tn on cornel because It le entirely surrounded by of the room where the projecting wslb water. But now place th fly In the gave It perfect protection, for the can non ball, when rolled at It, struck tM glass of milk, and tt will be a peninsula, because it Is nearly surrounded tw walla and ceuld not touck the by water." Th boy went t the top of the clasa. HOW SPIDERS TRAVEL. But wkta hla father beard about It. the When a spider wants to go a lonl led got a terrible thrashing, for hla way he chesses a warm, sunny morning ll ea tha other elds." and then climbs on t th Up of a of a bush or a tree. He then epia thin thread of silk, whlrh ta carriel up by th warm air. When he hsi pun enough to bear hie weight be I'air ol go the leaf and rises up Into-th- e the end ef hi own line and ta carried along by the wind. Whea he wau t com down he elmply swelled l" thread. As good as a balloon, taa'I A aad aver so much cheaper? Denmark. In Berlin the municipal authorities are offering a penny for every rat's tail dollvered. An alligator cannot resist a bullaeye lantern at night, but will Ho fascinated upon the surface of the water with eyes shining In its glare while the hunter nlswly paddles toward him. In Rural sine August l.tlt man aad woman have bsea hanged r shot aa- - dcr sentence ef tha military courq r bow mostly within forty-eigrest. 1 Th largest carnlverouw mfmu the world are found in America. Ff " pie generally believe that the , lion Is th king of beasts, bn h nst nearly as large or aa paaerfu aoiwiel as the largo brens H1 America. father waa a milkman! KATIE'S PHILOSOPHY. Little Katie started t dress herself on morning in a greet harry. "Katie," called her mether, "why are yea putting your Kecking on wrong outr side "Oh, mother. It takes to tr.g to hunt a new pair, and there ta a hale - ht |