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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
MANY BIG FEATURE
ACTS ON PROCTOR BILL.

Billy B. Van, one of the best all
around comedians of this country, with
a company consisting Of the famous
Beaumont Sisters, Rose and Nellie, and
Natty Whitestone, will be the headline
attraction at Proctor's Theatre next
week. They will present a lively one
act musical comedy by Herbert Hall
Winslow, emitted Props" in which will
be depicted the scenes which are
enacted in the average vaudeville the
atre at q Monday morning rehearsal,
and which involve the headline num-
Der of the bill for the week, the scrub
woman, the stage manager and the
property man. There is good music,
lively action and excellent comedy
throughout. Second of the offerings
for the week will be the Fadettes, a
musical organization of twenty-five
women which has appeared here before
and has always won high favor with
audiences.
Still another attraction will be
Madame Adelaide Hermann, widow of
the famous Alexander Hermann, who
Is styled the Queen of Magic" Her
long and careful training with her late
husband enabled her to continue his
work after his Heath She has retained
all of his most difficult and mystifying
illusions and tricks. and has, besides,
added many new ones.
Among the other acts will be the four
Keatons, in their team comedy aero
batic act, AL Rayno and his company
of bulldogs will also be on the bill.
Sam Dody. monologue artist, who Is
new to this section of the country, will
tell some new stories and MARBLE a
song or two In between. The Pelots,
Fred and Annie, will do an odd Jug
Cling act; Rita Curtis, a clever New
York woman will present an act of
trick solo violin playing, and there will
be new n humorous moving pictures.
Tomorrow afternoon and evening
there will be a sacred concert and en-
tertainment, at which the entire bill
of this last week will be presented at the
regular week-night prices.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
THE BRAND OF A THIEF
COMING TO THE COLUMBIA,

1.-The Brand of a Thief" will be the
attraction at the Columbia Theatre next
week. The play is by Ramsay Morris,
author of the Ninety and Nine" The
new production has a detective element
running through it. a sort of game of
hide-and-seek after a belt of diamonds,
which is as sensational and absorbing
as anything v imagined by Sherlock
Holmes. THE Brand of a Thief will.
be presented by a specially selected
company.
THE Queen of the Outlaws Camp
he offering for the following week, is
described as the most advanced type of
melodrama.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
sHRINERs HOLD RECEPTION.

The officers and mobiles of Salaam
Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine,
rendered a reception to the Arab Patrol
which carried off the prize at the
Shriners' convention held at Louisville,
Ky. last July, thereby bringing fame
to the local lodge. The patrol gave its
drill and showed marvellous mastery
of 1t, no commands except blasts of a
small whistle being given during the
entire drill. Dancing followed the re-
ception.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
GOVERNMENT POSITIONS
FOR
MEN AND WOMEN

The Government gives Raj way
Mail Clerks $500 per year to start and
increases to 81, 200.
Uncle Sam will soon hold an exami-
nation throughout the country for
Postal Clerks, Letter Carriers and
other Government Positions. The
work is pleasant, hours short and pay
liberal 1t is estimated that so, 600
appointments will be made this year.
The Government wants men . and
women over Is. Any reader Of The
Star can get full Information and In
structions to pass the examination
BY addressing the Bureau Of Instruc-
tion. 1863 Hamlin Building, Rochester,
N. Y.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
THE ROUNDUP
COMING AGAIN TO
NEWARK THEATRE
1f -
Edmund Days Thrilling Drama
ss0f Western Life Sure of
Cordial Welcome.
HEATRE-GoERs will again have
an opportunity to witness Klaw

|" HEATRE-GOERS will again have
an opportunity to witness Klaw
& Erlanger's production of Ed
mund Days great play of Southwestern
life, "The Round-Up," at the Newark
Theatre next week. The organization
returns in all its massive entirety. and
Judging from the unusually large ad-
vance demand for seats the engagement
should prove a record breaker. For the
berieflt of those who have not Witnessed
the play, a short synopsis Of the story
ma prove of interest.
Tile scenes are laid in Arizona during
the days when cattle thieves fiourished
and Apaches were making their last
stand against the forces of General
Crook. The story is interesting, with
touches of pathos and comedy. 1t tells
of. love and life on the alkali plains n
along the red canyons of Arizona.
Dick Lane, a mining engineer, who is
to wed Echo Allen, the daughter of an
old ranch owner. disappears for W
years. Jack Payson. a young rancher,
falls in love and wins Echo, who after
ward learns that her first sweetheart is
alive and hat her husband knew 1t
when he married her.
This starts the action of the drama,
which abounds in thrills, to say Moth
ing of climaxes c~apitally worked up.
The third act, when the long-lost fiance
of Echo Allen and her husband stand
off a band of Apaches in a canyon until
the arrival of the United States troops,
contains one of the best pieces of dra-
matte action ever attempted on the
American stage.
The last act of the play shows the
"Round-up," from which the play takes
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
ROSITA MANTfLLA TO
DANCE IN ORANGE BIJOU.

Next weeks bill at the Bijou The
atre, Orange, offers a novelty in Mile.
Rosita Mantilla In Greek worship
dances. Mile. Mantilla is endowed with
youth, grace and beauty and is a
dancer of more than ordinary ability.
She will have as adjuncts to her per-
formanceN some striking costumes,
elaborate stage settings and novel
lighting effects. Others on the program
for the first half of the week will be
the -Four Sullivans. singers, dancers
and musicians; Clyde veaux and COM
pany, in The Duke of Mulberry" an
east side sketch introducing a mon
key actor" James NJ. Duff, in imita-
tions: Mason and Milk, singers and
dancers. and the Bijougraph.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
MANY GUESTS AT HAYES RECEPTION

About 225 members and guests of the
John p. Hayes Association attended
a reception given by thai association
last night in Dodgers Hall. Morris
avenue. The affair was voted by all
a great success. About seventy the
atrical folks We're among the guests,
and the final grand march was led by
Harry Schappel, tof the Dreamland
Company, and Miss Belle Wilson, APP
pearing at Miners Empire Theatre
this week. Alderman Elmer A. Day
and Alderman Joseph Wright We're in
charge.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23

its name. In this scene the cowboys
are shown in characteristic pursuits, of
which bronco busting forms one of the
principal diversions. In this scene sew
eral of the famous outlaw horses are
introduced. There will be matinees
Wednesday and Saturday.
Lillian Russell, in a new play that
has met with approval by theatre-goers,
is the offering for the week of Novem-
Der 1 at the Newark Theatre. For this
Miss Russell will present
her latest undertaking, 1.-The Widows
Might a comedy of Wall Street and
social life in New York, written for
her by Edmund Day.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
THE BRIGADIERS WILL
BE BILL AT THE EMPIRE.

In THE Kidder." which the "Briga-
diers' will present as the attraction at
Miners Empire Theatre next week and
Sunday evening. October 81. there are
new ideas, modern and adroit scenic
establishment and electrical and me-
~chanical effects. 1t is an up-to-date
entertainment, mounted in a manner
that would carry It to a success in my
theatre. The production requires the
services of fifty talented people, includ-
ing a singing and dancing chorus. Some
of the ms likely to be encored are
"I've Lost My Gal" "Cubanolo Glide
when Other Hearts Have Closed
Their Doors" Deutschland" $50
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
FRATERNAL NOTES.

Granite Lodge, knights OF Pythias,
held a well attended meeting last night
at their castle hall, IL Sixteenth ave-
nue.. Two new applications for the
ranks were presented for action. The
several new members who received the
rank of knight last Friday were pres
ent at this meeting. The chancellor
commander invites all members to be
present next month, as plenty of work
will be done, and also takes this means
of thanking the brothers for their at
tendance and assistance during the
work of the past month.
Division No. Z, A. o. H., held a large
ly attended meeting Thursday night in
Eisners Hall, "a Market street. After
the routine of business the good and
welfare Of the division was taken up.
Many of the members spoke on the
good work done by the division for the
past twenty-one years. A committee
was appointed to arrange for the an
nual entertainment to be held in the
near future. The members of the COM
mittee are: Robert Boyle, chairman;
James ]. Kilkenny, secretary; Martin
Kilkenny, treasurer; Charles Connell,
w. Burns, ]. O'Hara, P. Reynolds, j.
Dwyer, B. Murphy, ]. Gingley, M.
Coley, ]. F. Reilly. P. J.. Heating, D.
Fox, ]. J. Waters and A. J. Brady.
The twentieth annual entertainment
and reception of Arboret Council No.
1907, Royal Arcanum, will be held on
Monday night at Grand View Hall,
Ogden avenue and Franklin street. A
three-act comedy entitled Facing the
Music. will be produced by st. Johns
A. and d. Union.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23
ONE HUNDRED DEAD IN CYCLONE.

CALCUTTA. Oct. 2s.-Complete de-
tails have not as yet been received from
the interior, but the best information
is to the effect that the total deaths
during the recent cyclone In Eastern
Bengal did not exceed 100 and that the
fatalities included no Europeans.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-23

nora" when the Band Plays Dixie"
How Do You Like Your Oysters?"
and Jack n JILL" In the asst are
Dick Brown, Harry McAvoy, Dorothy
Barnes. Ruth Everett, Grace Harmon.
the Bartolettis, May Orletta and Fred
Taylor. William Lester and Blanco
Muir and the Martell family, expert
bicyclists. Amateur night, Friday.
During the week of November l THE
Avenue Girls will appear.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-08-27

wounded. d. &c. Handy, a painter. liv-
ing at 2645 Third avenue ) s. was en-.
listed in Company B, as were several
other Minneapolis men whose names
cannot now be recalled.
Branham a Hero
"While there were many brave men
in that fight, Jesse B. Branham was
the real hero" said James Marshall
yesterday, Just before he took the train
for Acton. with two others he broke
through the Indians, who had sur
rounded the stockade at Forest City
and rode through the darkness to warn
us. Without this we undoubtedly would
have been surrounded and attacked
while we slept, and few if any would
have escaped. As it was, we had ample
warning and were able to get out of
the hollow in which we had encamped
for the night and prepared for the at.
tack.
Arson Fl. Rose, one of the pioneer
druggists of Minneapolis, was one who
enlisted with Captain Strout. On the
retreat to Hutchinson after the Indian
line had been broken, many of the
provisions carried in the wagons were
thrown out to relieve the horses, and
it is Mr.. Roses conviction that this
action stopped the pursuit:
The Indians scrambled for the -four
in searching for supplies than in tax
ing scalps.
Thrilling Night Ride.
Jesse B. Branham, now resident of
Fargo, was located on a homestead
about four miles from the Baker place
a Acton. The settlers who. escaped the
fury of the savages gathered at the
Whitcomb place, which for fortified as
much as possible. The next day all
proceeded to Forest City fifteen miles
away The women and children rode in
wagons drawn by oxen and the men
walked, Keeping an anxious lookout for
Indians.
At Forest City number of settlers
had congregated. These built stock
AIDE. This was attacked by the Indians
on Sept and 2 but they were beaten
off. In the night Jesse Branham, with
two others ventured out to summon
the troops, which they knew were near
Acton. They managed to emde the
savages and find Captain Strout's com
mand.
The latter intended to go to Forest
City, but the attack was too fierce and
he decided to retraee his way to
Hutchinson. Forest City was not again
attacked. Among the children in the
refugee camp in Forest City was d.
E. Branham of this city, who was
babe, Is months old, and was carried
to safety in his mothers arms.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-08-27
OLD NEWGARD'S MEN.

Ole Newgard's men are giving the
fans the best article of ball that can
be picked from the diamond. They
are a well-trained and we'll seasoned
bunch of players, never get tired and are
always willing to give the patrons of the
game their moneys worth. They
work well together; never get ratified,
and have made an excellent record.
The Free Press hopes that the asso-
citation which is back of this excellent
organization will receive the undivided
support of the people. The associa-
ton is deserving of this appreciation
of an honest and conscientious effort
to give the fans the most that the
means obtainabe in this community
will supply.
Although it was late in the season
when he was commissioned to engage
the team, Mr.. Newgard has been for
tunate in securing high grade players,
and he has perfected an organization
that has met all corners and emerged
from the contests with credit to It.
self and Mankato. Therefore Mankato
should stand loyalty by the associa-
ton.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-08-27
GROWTH OF RURAL MAIL DELIVERY.

Thirteen years ago the experiment OF
free rural delivery of mail began with
five routes in one of the border states,
says The Boston Herald. There now
are 4O,9l9 routes, with nearly as many
carriers, serving 20,0O0,0OO patrons daily,
and Uncle Sam has spent for the SER
vice up to date not less than $l70,-
100000. 1t is not surprising that the
postoffice department plans to celebrate
this year the anniversary of this i'm
portant and far-reaching extension of
its service of the public. 1t has had a
variety of wholesome effects that its
projectors could not forsee, even in
their most roseate visions; and the
people who pay for it gladly now Won
der why they did not think of it
earlier. A proper celebration would be
the establishment of rural parcels
post. The department would increase
the service of the rural districts by
such a plan; and also make the service
self-maintaining.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-08-27
FOUNDER OF LICK OBSERVATORY.

On the summit of Mount Hamilton,
in Santa Clara county, California, a
great telescope, the most powerful in
the world, serves as monument to
James Lick, whose name the famous
observatory bears.
James Lick was born in Freder-
icksburg, Pa, one hundred thirteen
years ago today. His first employment
was in Philadelphia piano factory
So proficient was he in his trade that
year later he started business of
his own in New York, and later ex-
tended it to South America.
He was one of the forty miners in
California, and the $4,000 he took with
him he invested in San Francisco real
estate, which made him wealthy. In
1874 he placed his entire property in
the hands of trustees, to be devoted to
public and charitable purposes.
Among his benefactions were $780,
600 for Lick Observatory, to be con-
nected with the University of Cali
fornia, $l50,O0O for free public baths
in San Francisco, and $4,000 for an
institution to be called the California
School of Mechanical Arts.
For himself he reserved $500, 1000
gave his son $4,000, and each of his
relatives sums ranging from $1,000 to
$1,000. He died in San Francisco De-
tober l, 1876 His was a life well and
proftably spent. @ Z.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-08-27
FRANCE AND HER FORESTS.

From her state forests France de-
rives an annual income of approx
mately five million dollars, or $l.75
per acre. Eighteen per cent of the
entire area of the country, or 23,500,
600 acres is forest land Approximate
ly six million acres are managed by
the state, the annual cost of manage
ment being ninety five cents per acre
The great achievement of France
in forestry has been the establishment
of protective forests where much de-
structiOn has been caused by floods
Toward the close of the eighteenth
century about 100000 acres compris,
ed in the department of the landes
were little more than shifting sand
dunes and disease breeding marshes
This section is now one of the rich
est, most productive and nealthful in
France.
This marvellous change has been
brought about by the intelligent cult
walton of pine forests. Immense for
ests now cover the country, the sand
dunes and marshes have long since
disappeared, and the wood, charcoal
turpentine, rosin and kindred indus
tries have brought wonderful prosperity
to the entire department, which was
formerly the most barren and MAS
matte in France.
The climate is now mild and balmy
the great change being wrought by
the forests. The thin layer of clay
beneath the sandy surface, formerly
impervious to water, has been so pierre.
ed by the roots of the pine that there
is now thorough drainage to the spongy
earth below. The manufacture of ros.
in, tar, turpentine, pitch, pyroligneous
acid and wood vinegar is conducted
about the same as in Georgia and the
| Carolinas.
The trees destined for "short life'
are bled as soon as they are big
| enough to stand bleeding, when they
| have a circumference of foot or fif-
teen inches, the sapping of young
trees being the only production of a
new forest for time, and when tine
thinning out" time comes they are
"bled to DEATH" and the timber used
largely for pit props, the English de-
mand guaranteeing steady and pro.
| fitable market.
The Standing trees" those giving
promise of most vigor, are never tap
ped until they are about three feet
| in circumference. When these have
reached the age of fifty or sixty years
they are cut down, and utilized fol-
telegraph poles and railway ties. TIC
prevent the spread of forest fires, wide
trenches are dug about limited areas
and the space kept clear.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-08-27
IMMENSELY OF WOOL CROP.

The immensely of Montana's wool
crop can be seen in the following fig-
mes: Taking the estimate of forty
million pounds as correct on this years
fleece, and the average price at twen-
w cents, makes the total value OF
the clip ss,OOO,OO0. Allowing six
pounds of wool to the fleece, would
give a total of 100000 sheep in the
state. or two millions more than the
returns of the assessors showed On
this basis each sheep show gross
profit of nearly thirty-three per cent.
The appraised value of all sheep in
Montana is approximately $l3,5OO,OO0,
and the returns of this year on the
wool clip alone give gross profit OF
nearly fifty per cent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-08-27

because of his royal blood. Louis the
Sixteenth was the son of Louis the
Dauphin and grandson of Louis the
Fifteenth 1.-THE merry monarch who
originated the Louis Quinze style OF
furniture. History records that the six
teenth Louis was most estimable
ruler, as kings go, and that he did not
indulge in the licentious orgies that
were pulled off in the royal palace dur
ing the reign of his grandfather.
In l770 Louis, then the Duke oil
Berri, married Marie Antoinette, an
Austrian princess who was credited
with great beauty and many accom-.
plishments. In IVA Louis XIV, after
a career of unbridled indulgence in
every vice, died and was gathered to
his fathers, and his grandson assembled
the throne, destined to reap the whirl'
wind which the profigate monarch had
sown.
He found France in deplorable
state, its people groaning under the
great burden of taxation and other i'm
positions, the navy destroyed, trade
diminished to the vanishing point and
the finances of the nation exhausted
Then came the American Revolution
and the king was forced by popular
sentiment to declaration of wal
against Great Britain. This conflict
served not only to do irreparable dam
age to the already disordered finances
of the nation, but also resulted in a
spread of revolutionary propaganda
that bore fruit in the fall of the Bias,
tile and the subsequent reign of ter
rOr
From the EXTREMIST detection and
servility to the powers that ruled them
the uneducating, unreasoning moi
swept to the extreme of defiance of aR
authority. In few mad months the
heads were swept from royal should
ers, and Louis XVI and Queen Marie
Antoinette were offered up as bloody
sacrifice on the newly erected altar
of liberty, fraternity, quality and
death Sober spirits and clear headed
patriots in the convention, among them
Thomas Paine, the American revolu
zionist, sought in vain to stem the
tide of blood and save the king and
queen. "Let us slay the king but
save the man." pleaded Paine, but
his voice fell on ears deaf to all senti
ments of mercy, and for his temerity
Paine himself was sent to dungeon
and languished many months in pri
son.