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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
SURVEY OF BIG !
DITCH is ON
Engineers Begin Work On
Little Scioto
A GIGANTIC UNDERTAKING
Work Cannot Be Begun For
a Year.
Large Force of Engineers Start the
Herculanean Task of Deepening,
Strengthening and Widening the
Little Scioto I'm This County.

Active work was commenced on tha
largest public. Improvement to be-
made In Marion county for many
years. the widening, deepening and
STRENGTHENING of the Little Scioto riv-
err, when Ed. s. Ault, county sur
veyor, and corps of deputies this
morning began the preliminary survey
of the river.
The survey was commenced at the
point where the river enters Marion
county on the north and will be con-
tinued southward to the point where
the Little Scioto drains into the Big
Scioto river. a distance of about
fourteen miles The whole course will
be surveyed and maps viii be made.
Then the average width and depth
will be determined and the various
places where the stheam can be short
oned and Strengthened Will also be do
cided upon. The second or final sur
vey viii exactly locate the work to
be done. Then the engineers will de-
termine upon the amount OF mud
and debris that Will be necessary to
remove by dredge and an estimate of
the cost of the Improvement can be-
made. 1t Is believed that the cost
VIII approximate 100000 and II may
reach a point $4,000 higher.
Ii Will require at least until tha
middle of September for the engineer
ing corps to complete the preliminary
survey. The second survey win re-
quire n long time and II will probably
be about one year before the county
commissioners Will be ready to hold
their final hearing on the improve-
ment AT this time the damage
claims of farmers along the route.
some of whom say the Improvement
will rob them of their water they use
for cattle and others have various
reasons for opposing the work, win
present their claims. Some Will
doubtlessly be thrown out while 9TH
ers will be allowed. IL may be that
II Will be difficult to secure satis-
factory settlement and that the mat
ter will be taken to court. IL Is also
possible. that another attempt win be
made to enjoln the work bnt as the
supreme court has already passed
upon the whole case. II is not believed
that much delay VIII be occasioned
from this source.
Even If the contract for the work Is
let and dredges Installed, II will re-
quire al least "a year, and perhaps
longer, TO complete H.
The surveyor Is being assisted by
Edward fties. deputy to the Hardin
county surveyor Pearl Mears. the
local deputy and Art Kinds. In adj
Gition large number OF men to as
sist Will be empoyed. Il
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
George |. and the STAGE.

George /. was a lover of the stage
and. as his predecessors had done,
caused his Servants" to play before
him at court. In 171S his majesty or
dered the great hall of Hampton Court
TO be converted for the time into a
theater. There, under the direction OF
Steele. "whose political services had
been poorly recompensed by granting
him some theatrical privileges" seven
performances were given. Among the
plays were Hamlet" "Slr Courtly
Nice,' "The Constant Couple" Love
For Money" "yolpone' and "Rule a
Wife and Have a Wife, Among the
players were Colley Clbber, Pinketh-
man, Johnson, Thurmond, Booth,
Mills, Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Younger.
In former times the fee paid by the
sovereign 10 his servants for a play
acted at Whitehall had been 200. For
these plays mt Hampton Court King
George, besides paying the actors their
ordinary days wage and travelling ex-
penses. gave 1850 and added 600 for
he managers. The players We're re-
1uired to act NJ any time upon recelv-
lcc n days noti"e
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

The Marquis OF Worcester while i'm
prisoned IN the Tower OF London In
1866 invented and constructed per
feet steam engine and had 1t publicly
exhibited the same year at Vauxhnll
In successful operation. Thlrty-four
years later. In 1000, Dennis Papin add.
ed the piston to the marquis discovery.
In 1893 Captain Savary devised and
built steam engine different In many
details from those made by Worcester
and Papin, and In 17O5 Newcolnb. Cav.
ley and Savary constructed their cele-
brated atmospheric engine, which was
complete In every detail. The above
array Of historical facts notwithstand-
ing. James Watt. who was not born
until sixty yenrs after these great men
had given the steam engine to the
world, enjoys the distinction Of being
the verltable inventor, originator and
author of the most useful contrivance
Of the present day. Fulton, who lived
and worked In the early part OF the
nineteenth century, is given the credit
Of being the man who demonstrated
that steam could be applied to naviga-
tion--this, too, In face Of the well
known historical fact that De Gary
propelled vessel by steam in the har.
Dor of Barcelona In 1543.--St. James
Gazette.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
FEW CHANGES
C0NTEMP
School Board Will Not Be
Radical.
TEXT BOOK COMMITTEE
Unable to Report at Last
Meeting.
Some Minor Changes In Text Books
Will BE Made But on the Whole
the List VIII Remain the Same
No Quorum Present.

According to arrangements made
some time ago the members OF the text
book committee of the board of educa-
tion had planned to submit a report
asking for certain changes, at the regu-
lar meeting OF the board last evening.
The matter has been delayed by other
matters and last evening when the
board was to have met in regular ses-
sion nc quorum was obtained. Clerk
j. W. Jacoby, of this committee Is In
Los Angeles and 1t appears that the
matter will be given further delay
Many Marion people whose children
are IN the city schools are more than
anxious over the matter and the ma
jority of the board members had hoped
10 have had the findings of the COM
mittee under consideration earlier in
the season. 1t appears now that
very few and no radical changes will
be made this year. 1t will be rem
IembeIed that last year the board had
this matter under consideration and
that as the progress was slow 1T was
dropped early in August beca ise the
dealers could not obtain the necessary
books In time. A number of he men,
bers are not in favor of any ci,ange SO
near the opening OF school, aLd>it IS
stated there will be very few radical
changes and an effort will be m, de,
according to one of the board m, m
bers to have the expense of buying
new looks done away with or placed
at the minimum. 1t Is understood that
the reoprt OF the committee Is ready
but as no quorum was secured last
evening, the matter will not be con-
|sidered at least before the next meet
ing IL two weeks
Among other matters before the
board is the election OF an extra High
school teacher and principal OF the
commercial department and also pro-
vidins for the overflow of children at
the David street school next fall.
Members Hill. SpauIding and Dicker
son gathered for the regular meeting
last evening, at the High school build
ing.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
The Lona Bamboo.

An Englishman was once rallying a
native OF India upon his faculty IN ly-
Ing. The native at once replied:
why, sahib, we are all more or less
liars In my country, and IL one tells
a story another Immediately caps 1t.
There We're two young men Of my
country who had boasting match,
and one said, My father is 30 rich and
has SO many horses that his stable Is
of such extent as TO take horse
eleven months to go from one end stall
to the other! 'Shabash, brother, re-
piled the second boaster, that Is very
good Ny father has bamboo 80
long that he can sweep the clouds
away with 1t when they obscure the
sun In harvest time HI, hiY ex-
claimed the first, That Is very Won
derful, but. pray, brother, where does
your father keep such a long bam-
boor why, you stupid was the an
swer, In your fathers stable, to be
sureg"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
Tho orea. vlsooa.

vidocq. the great French detective.
was born In Aras In 17T5. He began
life as baker and early became the
terror of his companions by his athletic
frame and violent disposition. At the
same time he was n notorious thief.
and after many disgraceful adventures
he enlisted In the army. In 1893 he re-
turned to Paris with some money.
which, however he soon squandered.
Next he was sentenced mt Lille to eight
years hard labor for forgery, but re-
peatedly escaped, and In 1903 he be-
came connected with the Paris police
as a detective. His previous career
enabled him to render important sery-
ices, and he was appointed chief Of the
safety brigade, chiefly composed OF re-
prieved conyicts, which purged Paris
of the many dangerous classes. In
1878 he received full pardon, and his
connection with this service lasted un-
I'll about 1928, when he settled at st.
Mande as a paper manufacturer. Soon
after the revolution OF 1880 he became
political detective. but with little
success. In 1S4S he was again en-
ployed under the republican govern
mcnt, bat hs died pennlless IN 1857.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

fans are beginning 10 worry
over the continued absence Of big
Tim Jordan. the Superbas' star first
baseman, who has been out of the
game for the last two weeks or more
with an injured leg. The recent
big slump Of the team Is due most
ly To the inability of the men to
hit the ball at critical stages. II
Is figured that with big Tim"
back In the lineup the team would
surely take a brace. Before the
Injury laid him up Jordan was
playing the strongest game of his
career at first sack. lie was also
leading his teammates with the
stick
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
Try the Mirror Want Column.
Different Pitchers.

Gunner (rending about antique sale)
See where an old Roman pitcher
brought $1,000.
Guyer-An old Roman pitcher? What
club would want an old Roman pitch
er? Why. should think his arm
would be stiff. Minneapolis Journal.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
sIiaht Variation.

T believe In an eye for an eye"
shouted the wild eyed chap with the
long hair
"And | believe In the tooth for a
tooth doctrine" laughed the tall man
In the gold trimmed eyeglasses.
THAT'S queer doctrine, friend"
"Not at all. pull one tooth out and
put another In its place. I'm a den
tist."-Puck.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

Germany" Schaefer Of the Detroit
Americans has been the recipient Of
many words of praise. both from the
teammates and the baseball critics
on the circuit. for the stellar ar
ticle of ball he has been putting up
this season around second sack.
Schaefer Is also walloplng the bali
harder than ever and is one of the
leading base purloiners in Ban
Johnson's league Besides being
one of the strongest players on the
Tlgera Schaefer Is one of the real
funny men In baseball His cut
ups are amusing to both his team
mates and the spectators.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
ON The DIAMOND
National leaoue,

: AT BROOKLYN r. H. E.
Cincinnati ....020 Ill IS
Brooklyn ...O0O 0100 0 o. 2
Batterles--Rcwan and Mclean and
Roth Mcintyre, Pestorlus and Bergen.
Second Game: X. II. II.
Cincinnati ...00 010 o 0 Pa l
Brooklyn ......0 0 q 0 o 0 2 o IS Z
Batteries Ewing Dubuc and Mclean
Bell and Marshall.
AT NEW YORK r. II. IL.
pittsburg .....20oo % 4
New ork ..o10O 0 .--3 0
Batteries--wnlis and Gibson; Mathew
son and schlei.
Second Game: II. Fl. r..
Pittsburg ....02O 303 o 1--9 IL
New York =. % o o 90 o 90 ] 3
Batteries-Camntz and Gibson; Mar
guard and Schlei and Wilson.
AT BOSTON r. H. r.
Boston .......01000 "a Z
st. Louis .....o02 000 o. Ia II 3
Batteries-Ferguso and Bowerman
snllee and Phelps.
AT PHILADEI.PHIA-- r. II. IL.
Philadelphia -. o o 0 o 0 0 0 90 !
Chicago ...3 o o 10000 Ga 6
Batteries Coveleskie. Corridor, Nc
Quiaan and Doom and Martell; overall
and Archer,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

in yesterdays three innings do not
count. Had the clubs been able to
play four and one-half innings. Ma
rion would have been credited with
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

cheap rate excursion viii be run
10 Lancaster Sunday and II is expect
ed that fully 1000 Marion fans will
make The journey.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
American Association.

AT MINNEAPOLIS 4. Milwaukee 1.
AT LOUlsVILLE 5. Columbus 9.
AT ST. pACL /, Kansas City 4.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
HOW THE CLUBS STAND.
GAMES TODAY

Portsmouth at Mansfield.
Newark at Lima.
Lancaster at Marion.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
RAIN COMES
WITH THE RUNS
Diggers Score Twice in
Third Inning.
WEATHERMAN GETS A SHOCK
Sudden Marion Attack
Unnerves Him

Lewis Better Than Mcclure In Short
Fray--Rain Continues Too Long TO
Resume Play--Lewis Tries Change
I'm Batting Order.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

Tomorrow Marion goes TO Ports
mouth for three games. on Saturday
the Diggers go to Lancaster for four
games, returning here next Wednes-
day for "A series with Lima.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
victory

1t was the first time this season
that rain checks have been given out.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

One of the greatest finds of the sea-
son is Edgar Lennox, the star
youngster who holds down third
sack for the Brooklyn Nationals
Since his debut into fast company
LennoX has been batting at a great
clip and is al present leading his
teammates with a percentage of
1856. He holds down third corner
In first class style. Lennox covers a
lot of ground, Is fast on bunt hits
and, besides, throws like a rifle shot
to bases. He IL also one of the
best base runners in the older or
ganiZatiOn
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13
YESTERDAY,S RESUI,Ts

All games postponed on account of
rain.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

Today Manager Lewis will once
more oppose Mcclure. There was
some talk of playing double head
er today, but Lewis figured he had
better wait until the next trip of the
Lanlss n-,'e when the Dlggers viii
probably be going better.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-13

Try the Mirror Want Column,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-10
MR.. HUMPHREYS

NHE HERALD congratulates the peo-
ple of Los Angeles on the appoint
- ment to the board of public works
of William NJ. Humphreys, whose repu-
tation as a citizen and business man
warrants the community in entertain
ing the highest hopes of his efficiency
probity and patriotism as member OF
the board. The Herald's only regret is
it had not the pleasure of being abe
to felicitate Mayor Harper on such an
admirable choice of public servant Ill
the first instance, when, most un1or-
tunately for himself, the city and all
concerned he picked for office the dis
credited Edward Kern. The mayor s
belated change of sentiment with re-
gard to the best method of serving pub
lie interests when choosing men for
highly responsible positions is undoubt-
edlv due to the force of public opinion.
It furnishes a convincing proof of the
force of public opinion when directed
on public affairs and public men,
The nomination of Mr.. Humphreys by
MI Harper is a testimonial to the power
of the people. If the mayor and gentle
men of his type, who when in Office are
too often apt to forget politics may
not always be identical with public IN
terests, may, indeed, be inimical to pub
lie interests, would hold to begin with
the mental attitude toward their duty
to the public which the mayor was
finally forced to hold when he selected
Mr.. Humphreys, it would be well for
public servants and for the public ser
vice. The nomination the mayor was
finally forced to make might just as
well have been made to begin with-a
fact which no doubt Mayor Harper
realizes keenly during these inclement
days of popular displeasure and of I'M
pending defeat by that tried, true and
trustworthy citizen, George Alexander.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-10
ENCOURAGES HERALD IN ITS
EFFORTS FOR A BETTER CITY

LOS ANGELES, March 7.-[Editor
Herald; Permit me to give you
word of encouragement in the good
fight you are waging for civic cleanli-
ness in our fair city. Go ahead! The
rings, whisky element and gamblers
should be made to know that law and
order is for the best interest of all.
No one wishes to deprive them-or
their upholder, A. c. Harper-of any
rights or privileges that belong to a
good citizen. The fight is not to de-
prive Mr.. Harper or any other person,
gamblers or what not, of any equit-
able rights of good citizenship. but to
exact obedience to law and order from
one and all.
You have proved Mr.. Harper to be
transgressor of law, order and de-
cency. He has fallen down, lost his
opportunity. and should. by all rules
of equity, law and order be removed
from office. Such papers as the Times,
Examiner, ETC.. are making pretence
of sustaining him from purely sensa
tional motives, and to cater to sensa-
ton mongers among their readers.
But people are not so blind to the eth
ical side of a question as these mis-
guided papers recklessly assume. Their
day will come. People like news, push,
enterprise, novelty and sensation, but
they don't like these desirables so
mixed with lax morals. loose politics
and a-winking at a debauched munich
pal administration.
AS / said in the beginning of this, SO
I say in closing: Go ahead! A clean,
fearless, at the sar~o time capable,
newspaper is just the wholesome infiu-
ence that Los Angeles needs to make
her the grandest city in the Pacific
west. L. d. JACKSON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-10
MATRIMONY

4 DISAGREEABLE penalty is at
n taohed to the practice of keeping
IA company with vastly rich heir
esses. In view of the fact which is
brought out in startling relief by the
case of Miss Croker, as we'll as by
many similar facts connected with
many similar instances, we advise all
young men to shun the society of girls
with too much money. If young
woman tells you she is heiress to a
million or more, fee from her as from
the wrath to come, for if she should
drop a roll of bank notes or lose a
diamond-studded watch, or miss jew
eled hairpin, she would suspect you
among others of having something to
do with the loss, and you among others
would be Swallowed by her dads detec-
tives.
A part of the world has been turned
upside down because Miss Croker lost
a string of beads. If they had been
glass beads nobody would have worried
over the affair. If pretty little Mary,
who's the keeper of a dairy and you'll
meet her when the sun goes down, lost
or mislaid the necklace you brought
her from the county fair, nobody would
grieve over the loss excepting Mary,
and perhaps you if you were senti-
mentally soft on Mary. Otherwise you
would merely be mad to think of the
four bits you had blown in on her and
would resolve to treat Dolly next time
in
But when Miss Jennie Crockec misses
a. necklace she loses what would mean
lifelong prosperity and peace to the
average human being. Miss Croker
carelessly slung around her neck q
bunch of beads that would have bought
happy little homes for fifty working
mems families. AS she danced at the
colonial ball the equivalent of fifty
houses for workingmen disappeared
from her neck. When she discovered
her loss she was shocked beyond words.
When she found language she sum-
moned detectives and gave them the
names of every person with whom she
had danced at the ball. She told of
those with whom she had mingled. The
names of those with whom she had
supper were also given to the officers"
How pleasant for the suspects, the in-
plicated, the police listed!
With all due respect to the Frisco
millionairess and all the other mil
lionairesses, give us pretty little airy,
who's the keeper Of a dairy, for ours.
And as long as she is pretty, why in
sist on the "dairy?" Who would allow
a rhyme to interfere with the welded
bliss of him and his Mary, if she was
sure he was the right man (poor as
Jobs turkey, probably, and he was
sure she was the right and only Mary
(for better or for worse)?
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-10
SEES GHOSTS OF DARK AGES
STALKING IN Los ANGELES

LOS ANGELES. March 5.-tEditor
Herald: 1t certainly looks dark for
Los Angeles to discover that so much
attention is paid to the babblings or
such ancient superstition as dogmaIic
theology. Bernard Shaw describes the
American clergy as moral brigands.
Looking over the history Of organized
religions. we find that they have at all
times, to the utmost, opposed all en-
lightenment and freedom that the hui
man family have attained, and always
defended slavery and advocated igno-
rance as a remedy for the sufferings of
their victims. And here comes the
ghosts of the dark ages, and. to the dis
guest OF their more diplomatic pals.
openly review the conspiracy.
All men and women who have their
mind clear from dogmas and religious
superstition know that such absurd
spoutings as have within the year been
heard in Los Angeles are echoes of the
dark ages, and only by the aid of such
ignorance and superstition can the peo-
pie be robbed, abused and enslaved.
The true emancipators, who tell the
truth and demand justice for them
selves and fellow beings, are imprisoned
and crucified. The city of Los Angeles
has kept three super men in a dungeon
for nearly a year and half for ven
turing to expose the horrors and inJus-
tice practiced upon people by the aid
of the pernicious doctrine that zig
norance Is bliss"
Tolstoi, Ibsen, Shaw and all great
dramatists have done more for the en-
lightenment and deliverance of the
world from superstition and ignorance
than any other educational system. The
only kind of morality that can be in
jured by the theater. drama and the
stage is ignorance. There is class of
people who teach that ignorance is
purity and morality. That morality is
as liable to be injured by true drama as
darkness Is liable to suffer from light.
j w. l.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-10
SHOWS THAT. WOMEN ARE
REALLY HELD IN BONDAGE

LOS ANGELES. March s.-[Editor
Herald: In your issue of March
C, F. says: ut is not true that women
are in bondage" In his definition OF
bondage Webster says: Bondage. the
state of being bound, or under re-
straint; restraint of personal liberty
by compusion." Now let us see. Wom-
EN- are denied their constitutional right
to express, by the ballot, their wishes
in regard to the enactment or defeat
of laws affecting their pecuniary inter-
ests, the education of their children, or
for such legislation as will minimize
immortality, or for or against any pro-
posed measure in which they are to
be affected. If, believing it to be their
right, they do use the ballot, they are
condemned to prison. Since they are
thus compelled to submit to and sup
port laws in the making Of which they
have no voice, surely they are in bond
age.
c. F. further says: married women
rule, they say, John, do that, and he
does it, and is proud of it." 1 admit
there may be a few such men; but Is
that q desirable position? Are women
asking for the right to the use or the
ballot that they may rule? Not at all:
They are asking for a recognition OF
the right to use, with men, the ballot,
that they may cease to be political nom
entities and participate in the making
of laws by which they are governed,
and to support which they are taxed.
They believe that because or the ex-
clusion of the mother and feminine ele-
ment and interests laws not conducive
to morality but to vice are enacted;
which could not exist If women had q
voice in governmental affairs.
It would be we'll for c. f. to investi-
gate further as to the object of those
women who are asking for the ballot,
the established means Of giving effect
i've expression to their wishes. They
believe that they, with good men, could
secure the enactment of laws which
would tend to develop q higher moral
sentiment generally, and at the same
time secure juatice for themselves.
M " IONGLEY.