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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01
NoTEs oF ME sLAUGHTER.

NOIES OF The SLAOG1l EiN'
Hezzy Breymaier was the really
bright particular star of the contest
although Pop Smith comes in for a
share of the glory. This Breymaler
looks like a new man altogether one
can see now why sturgess clung to
Hezzy when he was losing the club
games day after day by his some
times faulty work behind the bat.
He has developed great ball player
and this season should see Breymaier
go into faster company and stay
there His throwing was excellent
and his work on foul pops about the
cleyerest ever seen on the local lot.
He went close to the stands through
the mud and water and nailed two
that helped his team out a lot in
disposing of the Diggers in the early
frames lie is pounding the ball
hard this year, too
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

houses we're blown down and at Giles
town not even a shed was left stand.
ing. No fatalities were reported from
either place, but information is mea-
ger. Memphis reports Heavy loss
from towns within a radius of one
hundred miles in three states.
Deaths In Mississippi and Arkansas.
At Horn Lake, Miss, 18 lives were
lost and the property damage was
heavy. From neighborlng towns come
tales OF men, women and children
killed and homes wrecked
The tornado swept over into Arkan'
sas and killed eight persons near
Mammoth Springs, besides vrecking
score of buildings. Other points In
Arkansas report heavy loss.
Striking Alabama and headed In a
southeasterly direction, the hurricane
continued upon it's course of destruc-
ton last night. At Danville, in Nor
gan county, Alabama, the storm struck
with terrific force.
Fifteen Dead; 25o Houses Wrecked.
Huntsville, Ala May IL Fifteen
are dead, a score injured and 200
houses demolished as result Of the
storm which struck Fayetteville
Tenn, and vicinity Thursday night
according to a reliable man who has
Just reached Huntsville from that sec
ton. The dead at Harms number five
and many more are injured. The
Harms -four mill was destroyed, az
we'll as a number Of other buildings
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01
OVER ICE
TO SAFETY
Captain and Crew of Wrec ck-
ed Vessel Make NervY
Escape.

sault ST. Marie, Mich. May 1--Capt,
Robert Pringle, of the wrecked Cor
rigan steamer Aurania, arrived here
today. The vessel was caught in an
ice pack in White fish Bay Sunday.
Thursday the ice pressure sprung
the seams, and the boat sank.
The captain and crew crawled over
the ice pack, using a yawl in the
open places and reached the steamer
Barlow which was held in the ice
jam three miles away. The Barlow
was released and brought the crew
here.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01
Personal

Mr.. and Mrs. M. Q Chase are ]
iedo visitors.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long
home from a Findlay visit.
c. B. Jenkins made a business Il
10 Columbus this morning.
Benjamin Bigford went TO LaRue
day on a business trip.
Arthur Nash IS in Springfield
business.
Charles Dowdie, Of Monnette, Y
here today on business.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Dick Staley is some reacher and
will save the local infelders from
more than one misplay this, season.
Yesterday when Watkins fumbled a
hard hit ball he recovered nicely and
heaved high one towards Staley.
The first sacker got 1t and he is the
only Digger who could have made the
reach and have stayed on the base.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Fruit buds growing on the leaves
OF peach trees is the remarkable
phenomenon observed in several or
chards in the Yakima valley. west
OF Spokane, where the original buds
on a number Of early-bearing trees
were killed this spring by an unus-
ual frost. AS result, some OF the
orchards will have light crops. but
as good prices are expected there will
be no severe loss Trees IN the COM
pound at Fort Sim-oe and in other
parts of the valley escaped the chill
winds and are now in full bloom,
While late peach trees are also doing
well. Cherry trees are in blossom
and large crop is expected. Pro-
fessor w. s. Thornber, horticultural
expert at the government experiment
station, Pullman, Wash, says he has
record of instances where peach tees
robbed of their buds by cold weather,
have developed leaf buds into fruit
blossoms, but this is the first time he
has heard of 1t in Washington.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Fancy Strawberries, Fancy Ripe
Tomatoes, Fancy Apples, Fancy Pine
apples, Fancy Bananas, Oranges,
and Grape Fruit Fresh Lettuce,
Spinach, Radishcs, Water cress,
Green Onions, Rhubarb. Celery, New
Potatoes, New Cabbage, Parsley and
Cucumbers.
Fancy Goods Prompt Service
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Mrs. William Roecker and daughter
Wilma, of Bucyrus, are visiting the
Roecker families here this week
Miss Flora Houseworth and Mr..
and Mrs. c. f. Michael OF Waldo,
were Marion visitors today.
G.. w. Cromer returned last even
ing from weeks visit with rela
tives in Lima.
Mrs. Arthur Nash. of Toledo, was
the guest of her husband in this city
the past week.
Mrs. William Ecllhart of Bucyrus
is the house guest of Mrs. Isabel
Norris.
Mr. c. shoad left today for Ken
ton. where he will spend Sunday
visiting friends.
ID. A. Frank left today for New
York City, where he will remail
several days looking after business.
Attorneys d. r. Crissinger AM
Fred Il. Cutlery returned from Up
per Sandusky last evening.
| MIR. and Mrs Cramp and daush
I ter, OF LaRue, are guests at the G.
NV. Baker home.
Mrs. Harriet Babcock, of Findlay
Is the guest of her daughter, Mrs
Charles Long. of Columbia street.
| Nicholas Weber left Friday nigh
for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where h
will visit relatives for few days.
Attorney II. Edmond Hill has re
turned from Goshen, Indiana, wher
he had been spending few Jay
looking after business.
gta,, yeraqng'Ebs ALrs 6;5 si,,s-- Wilson. Yer
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Pop Smith may be regarded as a
dead one by Newark but 1t looks
TO a man up a tree as though Mans
field put one over on Davidson. Smith
covered a few miles of territory in
the middle garden yesterday and
made one circus catch that brought
all Of the bugs TO their feet.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

tne verandas, and sit spen 10
IDOL with the southwind and chat
'ss the street TO their neighbors
the surest sign OF the closing of
II is the souni of beating carpets
q neighbor's backyard, and the
Wasting worry of the paperhang
Iesolating the altars OF home. And
e goes a fellow with a fishing
-hullo there; just wait a min
Ohio State Journal
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Mansfield, 10, Marion, 2.
Rain at Portsmouth.
Rain at Lancaster.

Manager O'Day will send either
Lucas Lewis or Whipple to the hill
against Mansfield today. 1t is likely
that he will use Whipple The Co
lumbus boy is going strong and the
Tigers will be able to do little with
him. Should Whipple work today
Lewis and Lucas will work in the
games with Newark tomorrow and
Monday.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Big Chief John Bull Williams got
away good yesterday and looked
mighty sweet IN Hughey Tate's old
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Big Chief Williams filled the bill
yesterday. lie came close to getting
in trouble in left field though when
he misjudged low liner but he final
yl pulled himself together and nab
bed the pellet a few inches from the
weed-tops or at least where the weed
tops will be when they grow
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Watkins hit was the hardest poke
of the game. the two homers included
The ball was sent to the center field
corner OF the yard 1t saved Marion
from a bad cast of kalsomlning.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

Doc Bailey will probably look af-
ter the power house department OF
the Mansfield club today in the fare
we'll game. The southpaw is said to
be going good this spring and he
looks to be in better condition than
is usual for him at this time of the
year.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01
Lucas and Lewis to Handle
First Two Newark Contests.
Doc Baily will be the Mansfield
Bope-Rain at Portsmouth and
Lancaster.
HOW THE CLUBS STAND.

GAMES TODAY.
Newark at Portsmouth.
Lima at Lancaster.
Mansfield at Marion.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

mage for the joint line to be con-
structed by the Milwaukee and Har-
riman roads through the Clearwater
country.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-01

AS Jimmy Lucas says, "We1l cha
lenge them again today"
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cine show from Portland, Me, and the
only real wild and woolly thing he got
up against was flannel union suit he
bought in Butte. The union suit WIS
woolly and it made him wild to wear it.
You tell Marty to stay right here if he's
looking for the real frontier life. I can
show him more Indians on Broadway
every night than he'd find on the Rosebud
reservation in a month. And when it
comes to scalping the pale-face stranger
we've got a few ticket spectators and
all-night cabmen in our midst that would
make old Sitting Bull in his scalpiest days
look like green hired girl trying to slice
ham with safety razor.
''Old Ephraim, the original fierce and
untamable grizzly bear with the long
black nails. doesn't reside in the hear
OF the Sierras any more. He takes a
square meal every night at the table right
next to mine. I know it must be square
meal because the corners scratch his ten
der places going down and then he growls
at the waiter in the manner peculiar 70
grizzly bears dining out. When he takes
his soup it reminds you of an obstruction
in the mouth of sewer, and his way of
eating asparagus on the hoof would Re
worth three columns alone to Ernest
Thompson Seton and-repeat the Thomp-
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the House Detective. How do YOU figure
that out?'
There's quite pcrceptible difference.
said the Hotel Clerk. When the ordinary
citizen takes his ADAMS express rife in
hand and hikes for the high grass after
big game and small chiggas, he doesn't
have The United States government and
the Smithsonian Institute and the Amalsa-
mated Rough Riders Officc-Holding AS
ISOLATION and the Outlook Magazine and
the National Museum of Natural History
and few other societies and administra-
tons and things plugging ii along for him.
l might go to colored Africa. too. II there
was a trainload of responsible persons
trailing along to size up the rigors OF
the chase and carefully remove all the
rigs from them. The Bloodsweating Be
homoth would have good excuse for th2
sweat then, | tell you that.
"Anyway, Larry, don't think the hnnt-
ing of big game. from bank presidents
down to colored soldiers, is going to be
as popular during the administration
that's coming on as 1t WIS during the
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Something OF the flowing musical quail
ties OF the compositions of the son of
the baker, Abraham Mendelssohn. and
grandson Of the famous philosopher,
Moses Mendelssohn, seems to have taken
music lovers. hold which nothing avails
to break
Hence, as the time rolled around for
the celebration OF the hundredth recur-
renee OF his birth date, February =, 1902
il was resolved to hold in London a cele-
hraton that would be a fitting expires
sion OF the devotion OF the Britons to
muse of the creator of the Spring Song
The concert took place in Queens Hall
on the afternoon of the 3D. and there
was something eminently appropriate
about the selection of the place. for when
Mendelssohn went to London sixty years
ago he occupied a house in Great Port
land street. at Riding House street. This
overlooks the hall, and the house is still
standing. looking little differently from
what il did I'm that day.
The program for the occasion was
picked from the works best identified with
the composer in his various moods and
their favor with British music lovers.
Solos In the "Lobgesang." the dramatic
scene of the Waterman and the two
duets. II Waited for the Lord and My
Song Shall Always Be of Thy Mercy"
were included
The Sheffield Amateur Musical Society,
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feroCious brute in the prescribed manner
must take lot of trouble. Before you
co1 go about the work of properly eraGi-
eating the ravaging creature known as
the red fox you have to get together Il
flock Of bay-voiccG hounds and a troupe
Of ShOrt-tailed horses and a master of the
hunt and an extra drink mixer on duty
all the night before at the clubhouse bar.
and lot of society gentlemen in pink
pill coats and half Morocco pants and a
bevy Of society ladies in derby hats and
stock collars. The ladies have their rid
ing habits on. of course, and the gentle
men have their habits on. too. frequently.
which, however, is neither here nor there.
And then when you get few truck farms
and hotbcds to ride over, and foX-an
the best authorities insist regular
We foX-why, then, everything is ready,
and a-winding the merry horn. off they
so with a view halloo and various other
things. You'd think. from all these prepa-
ratiOns that a fox ought to be as big as
q rhiaocerOs But he's not I've often
seen him on his native heath, which IS
I'm the perfumery ward up at the zoo,
next door to the cage where the civit cats
do their light housekeeping. He's about
the size of one of those marked down-to-
S29S fur boas that you see over on 9Th
avenue, and not near as fierce looking.
"And then there's the simpler, less eX-
pensive pastimes of the middle classes.
called fishing and hunting. But why
should a city dweler awake ct an hour
when nobody has any right to be out
of bed, except the early rising condemned
man, and ride thirty miles on a crowded
excursion train for the privilege Of sitting
all day in a sun-kiSsed rowboat AMI
catching one small pallid fish that I'M
mediatcly expires with convulsive gasp
and then begins to smell eccentric? Then,
also, there's the gibes and snecrs of the
un-soaped pOpulacc when you return home
at evcntide. You can so through crowd
ed street carrying walking stick, or a
baby or bunch of bananas, and no.
body'll say a word, but come along with
a jointed rod under your arm and perfect
strangers have perfect right to hold yol
up and jeer at you and ask what you
caught, besides a cold. You may have
noticed it. And why should you save up
for two months in order to spend a damp.
unhappy week in the North Woods poking
around in the unkempt underbrUsh, shoot
ing at random and having Random shoot
ing back at you. while gloating guile
that you're paying five rlunks day 10
gets a sweet and lasting revenge out o.
you for what happened to him when he
came down to the city by appointment
and had dealings Of a financial nature
with Tender Lawrence and Broad Wayte,
the Goods Twins of AID street."
We'll. Roosevelt wuZ born in this town
and yet he's goin' right into the heart Of
the jungle, soon as his terms up" said
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under the dire ctiOn OF Henry j. Wood.
an organization which was in existence
at the time the composer visited Eng and
rendered a number of his choruses.
A special symphony, composed for the
occasion by Sir Edgar Elgar, foremost or
English composers, and conducted by the
eminent German master or the patton,
Hans Richter followed.
Then came the dramatic event OF the
concert and the one that has created all
the discussions.
''rhe Hymn of Praise" one Of the mas
terpieces of Mendelssohn's style a sym
phony cantata, composed in 1910 was the
piece de resistance of the concert and it
was to the American singer. Miss Lillian
Blauvelt, that the honor of sustaining the
burden went.
Miss Blauvelt is an English favorite
In fact she has won a greater Following
among Britons than at home perhaps for
the reason that her style is strictly clas-
steal. and she has given herself especially
10 the singing of oratorios style far
more popular in England than in the
United States
vociferously. for in tie domain of IN scal
art, when placed face 10 face with the
solost herself, the English music lover
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then smile chastcncd smile of quiet con-
tent For a dramatic critic YOU know.
Larry. wceps aloud when show is hit.
but he smiles when he brings Il down.
wetcrinf In its gore. Some day they II
m. Ike the true classification OF dyspepti a.
Twill be like this: Pain dyspeptic. hone
less dyspcptic and New York dramatic
critics
In the courts. also. from time to time.
rich, plump coveys of love letters viii Le
flushed. thereby giving great satisfaction
to the reading public. All the world loves
a lover. Larry. but il loves better To get
something on a lover. A love letter in
boo is beautiful and a sentimental
thing. and a love passage in a play AZ
calculated to make a matinee girl push
the caramel back on her palate and sus-
pend chewing. but love letter that comes
out in breach of promise suit. especially
il twas written 10y IN elderly widower
with long gray whiskers. makes us show
our teeth in a grin of pure JOY until we
look like q Nylophone In the face.
And in the White House therell be
large President with rounded corners who
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Is not so thin-Skinned as to let nationality
affect the proposition at ALL
So Miss Blauvelt was applauded when
she made her entrance, and her singing
was cheered to the echo when she fin
ished
The concert over, it was conceded to
be great success. But then started the
controversy as TO the wisdom of having
gone away from England to get a princi-
pal singer for a celebration that was
meant to show the admiration of the
subjects of King Edwards realm for one
of the great minds of another country.
Some one wrote letter to prominent
English daily suggesting that as meas
ure of patriotism it would have been bet
ter to put patriotism above art, and have
picked an English singer, even though in
the process that artistic effect of the per-
Torrance be marred trif1e, rather than
make the admission that in their favorite
style of singing there were no English
women with gifts enough TO deserve the
place above the American.
Other writer's took issue with this some
what narrow view. and there were many
to hasten to the defense of Miss Blauvelt
with forceful repetitionS of the fact that
III art there Is no country, and that the
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his talents had decided that he had the
capacity TO merit the critical attention Of
the word, he went at once to its artistic
capital. Paris. and played there with pro-
found success. Again he returned 10
Paris and once more was acclaimed as
one of the mightiest OF living piansts.
Then he went on a three-year tour or
England Scotland, France and Italy, en-
joyiug artistic triumphs everywhere. VIC
torie:' I'm which all thought of nationality
was careful ly eliminated. and then he re-
turned to Germany to essay composition.
lie had wen enough glory as virtuoso
on the piano. 1t was now his duty TO eS-
say higher flights. and so ne devoted him
self to composition, with success SO great
that his enduring fame Is built on what
he wrote rather than what he played.
When Is being honored the memory or
d man whose art interests We're so broad
ii seems fitting that national lines should
be ignored and every ability pressed into
service that could add 10 the glory =
the tribute to him.
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search for perfect ideal ought never to
regard national boundaries.
K
X X
Champions of some native singers then
arose to contend that there were Englis h
sopranos who could rival Miss Blauveit in
voice, but some of the American girls
champions promptly retorted that while
there might be some who had been lust
as kindly dealt with by nature in the mat
ter of vocal equipment. none had devel-
oped their gifts to the same condition of
finish
Thus the contest ragged and the singing
of Uncle Sam and John Bull was COM
pared as it has not been for many day
and number of writer's. American resi-
dents in London. fastened TO the defense
of their fair countrywoman by calling at
tention to the triumphs in London OF
Emma Eames. Lillian Nordica Mary Car
den. Sybil Sanderson, Emma Nevada and
Geraldine Farrar and host of other
American girls who have been leading
figures In the operate seasons at Covent
Garden.
These names We're invoked To show that
the case of Miss Blauvelt was not an iso-
lated one. and that it was rather a CON
tlnued recognition of the fact that i'm fe-
male voices the United States has for a
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Citations. 4 succeeding generation, how
ever, demolished the chimney and the
remnants of the walls In order to secure
the bricks.
marble slab. bearing an inscription
giving the date Of WashingtOns birth and
other information. which had been set
into the great arch of the fireplace above
mentioned, was removed to the old family
buryins ground. but in placing 1t beneath
two ancient fig trees, planted by the
mother Of Washington. it was broken
and It's fragments lie there today, moss
grown and vine-covered. Later on picnic
parties landed on the sandy beach and
made such a practice of carrying away
the bricks as souvenirs that John w.
Wilson. the owner Of the farm, took steps
to prevent further trespassing. Only a
few OF the old bricks. together with the
corner stones. are all that are now left.
These bricks. by the way, were brought
over from England nearly two centuries
ago. serving as ballast for the vessels.
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his boyhood This project Is coincident
with the plan for the restoration Of STRAIT
ford, the birthplace of Robert E. Lee.
The opportunities for a memorial shrine
to the military leader of the Confederacy
are. however, somewhat superior to those
at Wakefield. for whereas the ancestral
home of the Lees is yet standing in fair
state of preservation there are no rem
nants of the old buildings at Wakefield
save some tumble down log structures of
uncertain origin which are reputed to have
once served slave quarters. but which
are now utilized as corn cribs.
The old manor house in which George
Washington first opened his eyes upon
the world was burned in the last century.
but the brick chimney. within the arch
of which four people could sit. and the
corner stones. with a portion of the foun-
dation were saved. Shortly before the
civil war the historic farm passed into
the hands of a family which at the out
set showed some appreciation for its asso-
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Ton to do the principal singing at INC
great musical celebration in honor OF the
composer that started all the trouble.
Had it been found necessary for the
committee in charge of the exercises 10
go to Italy, France or Germany for d
soprano 10 carry. the burden of the enter
tGinment the fact might have been for
gotten but TO pick out an American is
taken To- be a most serious reflection on
the capacity OF England To produce voices
Of The requisite quality for first-ciass
work, and the debate that resulted has
now reached its height of virulence.
london has long been devoted 10 Men
deiEsohn In fact outside nj his own
country. the noted German has known
no parallel for English loyalty to him.