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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29

VANTED-Men TO learn barber trade.
Few weeks required. Best paying
work within the reach Of poor man
Wages up to $40 weekly. Small
capital starts shop. Few BARRIERS
take apprentices. Demand increas-
ing. Write for free particulars.
Moler Barber college. Cincinnati
Ohio. 12-24-6tp
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29

rerS large house suit
able for boarding, or will rent fur
nished hotel in Marion or nearby
town. Address NJ. l.. W., 26S
Sharp street, Marion, o.
12-10-6tp
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29

-Washings TO do. See Mrs
Orpha Reed, third house north ol
Pennsylvania railroad, north Main
street or address II. #. ID. 4, Box Fl
WANTED--DrayiEg OF all kinds. Or
ders receive prompt attention.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and roomers in
modern home; central. Phone 1881.
225 Orchard street 12-2O-3t
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29

NANTED-Salesmen of ability and
neat appearance to call on all mer-
chants in their territory. Elegant
side line convenient to carry Good
commissions. Prompt remittance,
A CAB Belmont Mfg. Co., Clncin-
natl, Ohio. 12-21-31 17-14-2lp
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29

practical farmer, stock
man and gardener Of 3s. desires to
rent large farm, owner to furnish
everything; tenant to furnish all
labor and make all deliveries. Ad-
dress NJ. L. W., 26S Sharp street,
Marion. o. l2-lO-6tp
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29

reliable boarders or
roomers at PA Sharp street. Call
phone on 1920. 12-12-6t
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-01-07

Everything in the Jewelry and Silver
ware line will be sold at 10 and 25 per
:cent discount during January.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
HEIDS IS GEORGIA BINks.
Mr. BentOn Therefore Tan speak AUTHOR
HhtNSly on Business There.

A bunch o. Georgia hank presidents
arrived a, the Imperial yesterday In
dividually there were only two. but col
lectively there were something like forty
SIX " X. Toole. president Of the First
National Bank " WndsT. was one. and
I. . Benton Of Monticello was the forty
five others
Mr. Benton II AZ the head u the Bent on
banks some II which ara state and some
national Ne explained yesterday that
they IN no sense are a chain " bank
hat that each IN a separate institution.
though he 10 the president 81 NJ controls
each one. These hanks are scattered
all over tho State " Georgia. and natu-
rally Mr. Benton 10 m a position 20 know
how business - and how much money
there u down here
Everything j. in good. SHAPE. said
Mr. Benton The farmer are nov not
much mort aged up. a. they used 20 he
The hanks II inc State ara IN good con
di,ion too Crops will h. a littie late "a
owing TO a cold spell mosJ u them had To
Re replanted but the outlook - very
good
How Is prohibition working he was
asked
Mr. T,ole can tell you more about tina,
than / lie ~ interested m the subject
Yes. SAID SIR Toole. since We have
had prohibition down there tho people
have saved a great deal of money Then
rcli estate sales have been greater On
Atlanta hy 81 PER cent
Real estate has advanced considerably
all over the state supplemented Mr.
Benton
In southern Georgia more than G.OOO-
0OO worth ~ farm lands have chan Red
hands during the last few years . con
tinued Mr. Toole People from Illinois
are coming in in large numbers. buying
properly and developing the pecan in
dustry Yes there n no doubt that
prohibition has done the state a Loo %
good
The farmers are going in more for
diversified crops. remarked Mr. Benton
Then the advanced prices Of turpentins
and lumber have resulted in great i'm
proysment in the turpentine and timber
business. We are developing the wnter
power all over the State There are a
great many rivers capable Of giving
water power, and these are being rapidly
harnessed up
There il a great deal Of Northern
capital coming INTO the State for the de-
velopment n projects like these said
Mr. Toole We are ilsl up here for a
pleasure trip. though Mr. Bentou'a bust
ness bring him up here several times a
year
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
HIsTOm OF NOON PLtrrS.
u l. Long. beginning More Than tOO
NTars NGa

10 have a single nnok nia'e with which
o. mari ores own books woul satisfy
mast persons Others ara grceiier Egor-
ton Castle Tor instance. has several
Count ~ I,eininger- " o.terhurg has more
than twenty
Il - more tha" four hundred wears since
the first hook plate was made says Serb
Her'E and the l-t % art So who have since
then desirei hook plates either oyra-
sionally or habiiually j. long one
Associations AMI periodicals. devoted
70 hook plates exist b various countries.
and large collections ~ plates have been
formed such A. the one iu the British
Museum l7OO0O NJ m0rn TieoesI ~ private
ones such = those or " Raille AMI
Henrv Blackwell IN tts country
The mass NJ material has lei the syste.
matte class fer ~ group plates into dIvi-
sions such A. the laroheau the ribbon and
wreath. the allegCrical the pictorial.
The last again has been guhiiyii iUto
the bookpile plate the library interior
(which frequently pictures the owner
among his booksi, the portrait. the bio
graphical, the landscape
In earlier DAYS the book plate reflected
the importance n heraldry m all the
pOmp Of armorial bearings. ard was
therefore an emblem IT family dignity
rather than a. eNpresson Of personal
tastes. To-day the pictorial plate pre-
dominates directly or symhOlicHlly jus
tTatng a particular individuality
Notices allegoriAl illusions. the p0r-
trait " the owner, pictures of iayorite
places. the paraphernalia 81 spirits or
other hobbies. rows u hooks labelled
with the names n preferred authors, alu-
sions n personal achievement. wit. good
and poor, even the downright pun IA cat
and bull on the plate n ChabDun. are
found on them
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
BOOKS FOR SMALL CHILDREN
R4DU1L CHtNGES N STYLE
N THE COLORED PICTI RES.
The shape of the NoluRes Also Affected
Chrdren the Fmai judges 81 the
hooks. Though the Libraries Have
an lnHurRre Nork ~ the Artists.

The making If colored picture hooks Tor
children - a large and important part
Of tho publishing business and has within
70 few years passed through some radical
changes The-" changes have a'ected
aiout everything which relates 70 a pic
turf nupk. the pictures themselves, the
printed natter. the sire " the hook and
d binding
The reasons for some Vt these changes
are known to the publishers, others 70
main mysteries mechanical invention
readily accounts for one ~ the important
g,anres. that's. m the number, character
and quality Of tho colored pictures used
nm the later output II hooks Tor little
once
The slower. more expensive hiho-
graphic uroce-s for producing such pic
tunes has practically heen superseded ny
what Is called the four color prooe-s. or
four color halftonc This combination
Of photography. mechanical etching and a
color printing press faithfully and rapidly
rrproduces the artists work. and ~ one
happv result the score or ~ IT American
artists who arr adored by little folk are
doing their very hest work for this de-
nartment of book making
The revolution in'the process Of making
the picture NAV account for another
change the tfade has noted. the decreasing
popvlaritv ~ the broad fat shape for
chtldren's picture books. But only IN
mart. Largely this change h one Of the
mysteries a taste which publisher are
hound 10 accept and abide by. though
they understand them not all. Speaking
on this subject recently Mr. Morrow Of the
Frederick 4. Stokes Company said:
Children themselves have much 10 do
with the matter In one respect at least
they are the court " last resort which doe6
n6t even give a reargument.
What they decide IN one respect viii
illustrate what / mean. They demand
literal illustration. Their elders will eH-
c,,se with an indulgent smile a bearded
hero described by the author a. smooth
faced. Children will not. Illustrations
Of characters and scenes must agree with
the text or there IL a row in the ranks OF
juvenile readers thAt ~ soon Tehsctou ~
the leusening demand for the Offending
book
Children are not only close observers
but they nave naturally good taste IN the
matter II pictures. That " az least
reasonable deduction from What We hnd
10 be the eject Of good work. artistically
sueakinR. in the illustrations Of a book
for children. The approval Of that good
work may come in part from parents and
Librarians. but the approval which anects
popularity must come from the Teaders-
the little folk.
And. speaking ~ Librarians, the library
influence Affecting Juvenile picture books
IL now very great, that influence "a telt
more IN this respect than In respect OF any
other class 81 books issued. Il has bean
sysaematized. organized In fact
Two well known women Librarians
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04

who have become experts in such books
are az the head % an organization which
issues occasional catalogues Of approved
picture books for children Books 20
Catalogued become the season = standard
But after all within the limits 81 books
they are permitted "a see and Judge it
IL the children themselves who give or
refuse the stamp Of approval which means
popularity.
-Our experience IL probably that II
other houses issuing high class books Of
The kind We are discussing Genernlizing
! should say that picture hooks which
please the most children are those first
m which the pictures illustrate some
classic next those which are IN some
degree educational And the classics
need not he IN juvenile literature. for
We have m our list those three widely
unlike classics A Midsummer Nights
Dream. Haensel and Gretel and Uncle
Remus
As 90 educational picture hooks FOR
children. should say that the sulphur
must not outneasure the molasses You
will find. ! think that other publishers
have had our experience In this respect
children hke 10 absorb Information.
useful. desirable Information. IN their
picture book Studies hut , don't mean
To say that they would take their doses
II the three Rs any less reluctantly even
II their favorite illustrators were TO help
them IN their tasks
-On tho other hand many thousands
Il youngsters had a good understanding
n What the papers printed and their
PARENTS said regarding the north pole
discovery because they had read and
studied the pictures In Mrs Peary's The
SNOW Baby
The form Of book N which the lone
familiar broad fat picture book is giving
way IL as yet uncAssified. something
between the Utart0 and the octave. The
smaller size will probably win in the end.
many publishers think AZ the sharpness
and excellence 81 the color half tone work
turned out by the four color press makes
the larger page used fCr the old syyle
photographic picture no longer necessary
80 In the end child can curl up in a
chair 90 read, not requiring the nursery
hoor as a book holder.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
MS ART TBE WRONG MIND.
Painter VINO Tried Hs SAIL an . sign
heard Failed.

One Of the hest known illustrators in
this city was standing on tho promenads
deck Of an Dream liner recently looking
down at a sailor who Vas swabbing his
paint brush over the donkey engine.
The paint was wet and plentiful and the
sailor splashed Il on as II he enjoyed his
jon.
I'D like to take the brush out Of that
fellows hand and do Il myself. said the
illustrator I've been on this Cursed
vacation ONLY two davs and yet my I'm
gers itch when ] wafch MIN. but perhaps
I'd better not AK him 70 lee me take a
try AZ IL.
There was an artist who did that once
What was his name7' he asked thought
fully. We'll no matter ANYWAY he
passed a hig billboard one day and stopped
n watch a sign painter outlining and fll-
ing In the figure II a man who was 10 H.
an example n some tailOF's expertnegs
The artist watched the operation A. long
e. he could stand Il and then he touched
the painters arm and said;
Look here. old man. You arsnt doing
that right At al
Il know what I'm doing said the
workman Then the artist asked him n
hand over the brush On a promise not %
spoil the picture. SO he painted over What
tie other man had done and then got
down 90 work for a few minutes obliviOus
Of the crowd Of spectators rapidly form
ina behind him AZ the end Of fifteen
minutes hs said 'Therel That's some
where near H. and handed hack the
me workman stood Of a few feet and
surveyed the job carefully. Then be
-. s.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
N.Y.. COMMENCEMENr DOINos.
Festivities of . Week BeSan last Nlwn,
WITH Senior Promenaae.

New YORK. Uuiversitys seventy eighth
annual commencement week festivities
hegan last night with the senior prone
made In the gymnasium. Campbell ?. q.
Norlin. chairman Of the committee. ed
on IN the danos atsP.M
The committee In charge consisted Of
Campbell Z. q. Norlin. chairman; Frank
Z. Booth. John Hill. Earle 0rlIan. RolDsr,
;. Osborne, John ". Mccoy. Jr.. Jam econ
Marshall. y. Adam Ladd. Among the
pa'Tonesses were Mrs. Henry N. Mac
Vracken. Mrs. Marshall 8. Brown. Mrs.
Arthur y. CoTthnll. Mrs. J. B. Ireland.
Mrs. ". y, johnson, Mrs. George q Mac.
Iraoken. Mrs d. C. Nolan, Mrs. Charles
=. Norlin, Mrs. A. l.. Willis. Mru. ]. A.
Zimmerman
To-day IN language hall at Y o'clnck
We annual meeting ~ the Phi Beta Kama
Society will take place. Az 1881 the New
YORK University Historical Society will
meet Following the usual custom AZ
ID 7. VI. In the gymnasium the annual
luncheon II the Alumni Association ~
Arts and Science will be- held. The annual
meeting will be Immediately thereafter.
'ai which the election Of olficers will take
place
lTo-morrow the Rev. Or. Cleland r.
McAtee 81 lafayette Avenue PRESBYTERIAN
church, brooklyn. will deliver the haOca-
laureate sermnn az p. NJ. in the audi
torium
Various exercises will take place ON
Monday and Tuesday next week and
commencement will be on Wednesday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
MARK TWAIN'S FIRST LECTURE
Win the sOHlh seas a. q sun lect He HAD
anowllnE success.

In an account Of Mark Twain's life in
San Francisco Bailey Willard includes
the story of the humorist's fret appear
ance on the lecture platform. Il was after
Twain had spent STA months IN the South
Seas.
'He prepared a lecture the writer
says in tho BockmdR. ewing a most eN-
travaEhnt account Of what he had seen
among the islands When Bret Hare
and some other oi his friends were told
Of his platform intention they agIeed
to 10 In body To the old Mechanics
Hall where Twain was to deliver himself
and form a big claque that would insure
the success Of the affair.
MARK wrote his own handbills. which
Get tho town agOg with anticipation
One particularly inviting phrase printed
n the bottom Of the announcement was
The Trouble Will Begin a. 7. NJ
The hall was crowded and tho claque
was uproario,s when Clemens appeared
upon the platform The lecture was de-
livered with manifest effort in a slow,
deliberate drawing manner. and the lecs
tureT paid no heed whatever 10 the in
considerable demands Of Faster. fasterl
We can't stay here all night and other
urgent calls
Although Harte tried 10 steer the
claQuers they insisted upon applauding
and laughing in the wrong PLACES. which
may or may not have been intended AZ
joke on Twain. bit At last the audience
which began 20 catch on 90 the unique
style ~ the man and 10 appreciate his
quantity whimsical utterances. over
- II. -. II -
own way,
An old timer who attended the lecture
says Of the effect 81 Twain upon his first
audience: His slow drawl. tho anxious
and perturbed expression 81 his visaRe
the apparently painful effort with which
no framed bis sentences and above all the
surprise that spread over his face when
tho audience roared with delight or rap
turously applauded the finer passages
were unlike anything 81 the kind they
had ever known. The lecture was a great
aucueaa
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
NAME I'm ENSIGNS ar ONCE.
heard % NIslt0rs at AnnapoiIa Recon.
mendS 1t-Meyer 10 1910 MSduhIpmen.

"N~HN ~ NBAtefe NJ Annapolis NeGoua'
mends Ii-Meyer 10 1910 MlduhlpHsen.
ANNAPoLIs. June S.--Ths l2S members
Of the graduating class at the Naval
Academy to-day received their diplomas
from the hands Of George Won L. Meyer.
Secretary Of the Navy. and June week
ended in a blaze Of brilliAncy tonight
with the farewell hall given by the class
Of 1911 20 the graduates.
In his address 20 the graduates Sscre-
tary Meyer spoke 81 the increased de-
mands upon naval officers and urged them
not 10 he satisfied with merely following
in the footsteps % others
Henry y hOselle u Florida takes the
higheet graduation honOrs this wear.
The Board n Visitors will recommend
that the senate pass the hill already
passed by the House ~ Representatives.
providing that graduates Of the Naval
Academy shall be commissioned e. En-
signs az once. The board also recommends
the completion Of the academy grounds
by the acquisition Of a strip % land be-
longing 20 the citv q Annapolis The
cost viii he about half a million dollars
\ bridge across College Greek uniting
the academy with the marine barracks
and naval hospital Ia suggested
Several thousand persOns attended
the farewell hall In the armory tonight.
Mrs Clark. wife of Capt George r. Clark.
commandment Of midshipmen, and Mid
shipnlan 7 y. King I'd Of California.
president Of the class Of 1911. received
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
MORJESKA,S MEMOIRS.
the Polish Actress American Appear
anres IN "AdFieune LeeOuN PeuF."

anees ~ " Ndrtenne LeeonNreur.
Helena Modjeska gave In recent
insta lment % her memoirs. which have
been appearing IN the CsHiury Magazine
an account " her appearance IN an
English version Of -Adrienne Leoouvrcur'
a. the particular request NJ Daniel FrOh-
man. who was her manager az the time
and referred to two occasions on which
the audiences were very small
II seems that Scrbe's play has never
gained any great popularity in this
country except when IL was played in
French ~ sarah Bernhard. who con
feased on her last visit % the United
States that she hated the drama and
acted II only here. Ahne. Modjeska WIS
not fond ~ the drama and acted II only
because her manager insisted on IL.
Mime. Modjeska told part Of that
Adrienne Lecouvreur' story said Mr.
Frohman the other dav. but not all ~ n
She was under enga cement ~ me nc that
time and ! paid her q 80 week and she
had no risk nor any share m the business
except 20 act what she nnd agreed on
i had consented ~ lef her play R0su'ind
every night "a three weeks tour ~ one
night stands. a. that saved her tho trouble
~ changing her costume more than
twice In return Tor thar favor however
used to request that she appear certain
number of times as AdriCHHF
No other role seemed % mo % exhibit
m beautifully hnr glorious voice The
I'D fashioned speeCh - even when tr- no.
lated into English were beautiful Co listen
10 whether she we're reci'ing - Fontaine's
"a bile or the outbreak pi Rar.ne's Pitdrg
The Madame a. We an afeCtionatelv
called her AZ that time never hked fp act
AdrisnHS because she knew the play was
not popular and fhe audience was certain
not Ca De large ! had h"- a. D. ucra-
siDnglly for nv particular benefit how
ever az took such deli CHI In her reading
If the lines that | was Wiling tp pay
the uiurr
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04

From H1rpsy's MoHRiv
"".'rate compliments have been
'." '..r saH by men subtle In speech.
" Glowing comes straight from
' n IN illiterate negro who was
ne south the other day BY q
rir.s'er 81 tho conchmon Of
'sls ths Bridegroom asked the
.r" mo z-fyice
veil answered the minister, syou
e. .a' No whatever you think u Il worth
~ E"zro turned and silently looked hls
,. ~ over from head u foot. than slowly
Ing he whites u hia eyes alid.
49,. ave iah. you has done ruined ne for
"' 20. has. Tor sure
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
THE MODERN NOVEL.
VIZ. winston Churehnl Tells what re
Thinks About u.

Mr. Winston Churchill. speaking of con-
temporary fiction. says: -Of late years
tho novel has assumed a great variety Of
form. am catholic enough 20 enjoy
them all Provided a novel IL the natural
expression Of the man or woman who
writes IL IL Il interesting. no matter what
form il takes - However. should say
that one marked tendency Of late years
Is 10 shorten a novel Our fore
fathers not only read serious books but
they had also their leisure The main
change IN the novel has been. according
60 Mr. churchill. the expansion Of the
functions Of the novel Mr. Henry
James has hewn out a new Path; Mr..
Meredith. who may we'll be called modern.
another Ard the possibilities Of this ex-
pansion seem n me 70 boz hmiiless An
true efforts such a. these ara entertain
ing. all are useful; all were undreamed Of
once
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
sunda, Nornlns vim Col. Goethals.
From ne National Magosins. '

From me National MGg6sfHe.
Every SUNDAY morning Col Goethals
hears all grievances from canal workers,
and not a man on the canal force but feels
free 20 so & him with a complaint.
Il Is not popular down on the Isthmus
10 kick these days just for the fun Of
kicling. The Colonel claims that he
learns more from these grievances than he
does from routine inspections.
One locomotive engineer insisted that
he was hauling eighteen carloads while
others hauled fifteen.
This u not right. he complained.
-Of course Il IL not right, echoed the
Colonel. Hereafter they viii all haul
eighteen cars II you can do Il without
dihiculty.'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04
n,',rrbrnrlou At Dr. bradford. Church.

Noyf.LAtR. y J.. June ? Next Sunday
0Hiver-ary Sunday In the FIRST
',t.tsEa Church. which Is corn
"fr rurg the for'ieth anniversary of
r. aii0n by two weeks of special
''...,. The Rev Dr Washington Glad
asr ulnbus. ohio. will he one Of the
''fa-.rs The Rev Dr. Bradford. the
ir' 10 tortieth anniversary II whose
'ts ne church j. celebrating. will
'-. make an address Tomorrow after
NO. a 10 Wilde Memorial chapel there
VI. Do rsoeufion n he members n the
o.r.. aad congregation and invited
f-.. u. and Mrs Bradford and the
.'i..f. 0.'mrers u The church will re-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04

The hero Of Mr.. n. q. Weiss George
Mssk. Bath CHAIRMAN II not an
imaginary crsHtion. but an actual indi-
vidual Who hsa led q Ne II precariOJH
poverty. He n engaged In the struggle
Of Ne Handicapped By detective eye
siEht and hes dTiftsd into many ocoupa.
tons. but the chief work of his NE b
wheeling . bath chair along the parade
e EAstbourns. The book IL crowded
With pictures Of lie among the poor and
viii b Of intsrssi 10 thsi half Of he World
Wihloh desires b lmoW how he 0thsF half
lives.