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The Prescott daily news., 1910-09-13
.A0[D UP AN AUTO PARTY
MASKED BANDITS NEAR POUCH
 KEEPslE GET $500.
hghwaymen Fire on One of proml. nent New York Trio
 Who Reslsts.

Poughkespsle, N Y, Sept. 13.- sasked bandits, forking with a free aom Of manner that would have done 'e'se James and his band proud hsd up three prominent Poushkeepsie l''dsnts at the points of revolvers .nd stripped them of much jewelry 'su and valuable papers.
 One fired two shots at one of the as'omooilists who resisted beine "archsd, narrowly missing him. The .ufss men held up are James C. ueery' Harry Hollister and Charles W Townsley.
 AS they were bowling along two a'n sprans from behind a tree. way. As red lanterns Sspposfng there n N" an Obstruction in the roadway WY threw on the brakes. As the Valhe to stop. the pair with the ~I ''.as 1T. were joined by a third man, Ns s 'nfee reyolysrs quickly covered |, 1uiow up your hands and get out ,h. I'' ssr!' snapped the leader of ns. O'naits' and the men obeyed ~. l' thought he saw a chance to ye. v,. aua almed blow at the man who ,nd ,9arcning n him. The latter dodsed m., 'e'' lost his balance and fell Mo .s .s one Of the other bandits fired vood. Aolaap men disappeared in the ps,r,. rms hoidup is the last ol l, th. score, and following so close. nelaup and murder of a brick
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TAFT EYES NEW STATES
Prssident 10 spsak Wsrd Of Warn inO ts MAkers of Constt-
 tu1sons.

Beverly, Mass., Sept. 13.-When the proper timo comes President Taft will have something to ssy about the con- stitvtions of Arizona and New Mexico tho new states which his insistence has made full members of the Union.
 Advice was recently given by Colo nel Roosevelt to the people of the new states to leave loophole for the amendment of their constitutions. Whether President Taft agrees with this sentiment is not known. He has adopted d policy of wise silence re- garding the declarations of the for mer president
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GETS POSITION IN RETURN FOR SECRET lMPARTED TO THE
 AUTHORITIES.
NOW IN FEDERAL PRISON
President Taft irtervenes and Short ems Term to One Year, Thus Bringing Release In January
 Next-Unusual Case.

Pittsburg. Sept. 13--John Francis, warden of Riverside psnitentiary, and Edward Lewis, warden of Pittsburg jail, have many letters offering good positions to Joseph A. Hass, counter feiter, who is to be liberated from Leavenworth prison January Il. thanks to the intervention of Prssi- dent Taft.
 Because of his scientific ability and his delivering to the government au- thorities certain valuable secrets. Hass, who was sentenced four years ago by the Pittsburg courts to the government prison at Leavenworth, has had one year taken from his sen tenee by tho president.
 Gets Government Job.
 The government authorities will themselves give Hass employment at a good salary-this being one of the terms of the agreement under which Hass revealed @ cheaper method of getting gold and silver from bullion than that which the government has hitherto employed.
 Mass is perhaps one of the most in- teresting and persistent criminals ever sentenced in a Pittsburg court. He was reared in the vicinity of New York by parents prosperous enough to give him a good college education. His college work ran chiefly to the laboratory, and shortly after his grad. uation he was arrested for burglary, having employed new kind of eX- plosive with which to enter build ing. Hass argued his own case be- fore a New York judge so clearly that the court took it from the jury and sent the young man to the Elmira reformatory.
 Burqlar for Scientific Reasons.
 Hass' defense was that he had turned burglar to procure funds with which to pursue scientific research. Hass managed to talk his way out of the reformatory after a short stay, and then entered on career of crime in earnest.
 
 vicinity of New York and on October r, 1902, was sentenced to 20 years in Sing Sing for burglary. He ap- pealed his case and got reversal of judgment after he had served a few months of his time. He was caught soon again and on April 20, 1904, he was stentenced to 12 years and lO months in Auburn. Again he appealed and again he was freed, this time on May IS, 1905.
 Hass then came to Pittsburg, where in the spring of 1907, he was tried and convicted for making and sell ing whisky without license. Hass whisky was made largely of cider and mustard. He served four months in jail. In 1908 he was caught red-hand ed in the act of counterfeiting here and tried to stab the arresting officer He got five years.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-09-13
Ptomaine Kills Rich Banker.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 1S.- David F. Walker, prominent Salt Lake and San Francisco business man, died from ptomaine poisoning. He was one of the four brothers who quit the Mormon church in the early days and became the richest men in the coun- try through their business, banking and building enterprises.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-09-13
HELD GUILTY OF MURDER
James Humphrey Is Convicted at Trenton, Mo, of Staying
 Enemy in Feud.

Trenton, Mo, Sept. 13.-After delib- erating R2 hours, the jury found James Humphrey guilty of the mur- der of James Hatcher January last Humphrey was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary.
 Hatcher's murder was the result of a neigborhood feud. He was shot ten times.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-09-13
FALLS IN IRISH CHANNEL
Lorraine Dives From Under Biplane, Swims Ashore, Steamer Picks
 Up Craft.

London, Sept. 13.-Robert Lorssne. the actor, well known in America for his performance in "Superman," tried to cross the Irish channel, 50 miles from Holyhead, on this side, but fell into the water near the Irish coast
 He swan ashore and his machine was picked up by steamer.
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yard cashier and his driver a week ago. leads the police to believe an organized hand Is at work
The Prescott daily news., 1910-09-13
JEALOUS WOMAN SHOOTS
MAKES CLAIM THAT VICTIM HAD
 DECEIVED HER.
Says She Was Induced by Promoter to Go Weot and Invest and That
 Marriage Was Promised.

Los Angeles. Cal, Sept. 13.-Mrs. Daisy Turner Krauss, former wife Of pr. William Krauss of Memphis, Tenn. one of the most noted experts on yellow fever in the south and at one time dean of the University of Vicksburg. Missa shot and painfully
The Prescott daily news., 1910-09-13
Child Shocked to Death.

Terre Haute, Ind, Sept. 12.-Helen. three-year-old daughter of Bernard Hoke, wire chief of Central Union Telephone Co. touched an uninsulat- ed part of dynamo while with her mother calling on her father and was killed instantly.
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Rubber Factory Is Burned.

New York. Sept. 13.-The plant of the Rubber and Celluloid Harness Trimming company, with which is also associated the Rubberset Brush company, was swept by fire with a .vs= sse.......sA sssee....s..sA 9. s250.o00.
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the settlement had been arranged. Griffith knew this and asked mo to marry him and I agreed to do SO as soon as 1 secured ny divorce.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25

the Northern countries were. If possible,
more Catholic than anybody eIse), there
are three qualities which explain, 1
think, its hold upon the human sense of
happiness, especially in such men as
Dickens. There are three notes OF
Christmas. so to speak. which are also
notes OF happiness and which the pagans
and the Utopians forget. If we state
what they are in the case of Christmas
l. Will be quite sufficiently obvious how
important they are in the case of Dick
ems
The first quality is what may be
called the dramatic quality. The happi-
ness is not a state; it is crisis. All
the old customs surrounding the ceebra-
ton of the birth of Christ are made by
human instinct so as to insist and rein
sist upon this crucial quality. Every
thing is SO arranged that the whole
household may feel, if possible. as a
household does when a child is actually
being born in it. The thing is a vigil
and vigil with a definite limit People
sit up at night until they hear the bells
ring; or they try to sleep at night in
order to see their presents the next
morning. Everywhere there is a limita-
ton, a restraint: at one moment the
door is shut; at the moment after it is
opened. The hour has come or it has
not come the parcels are undonc or they
are not undone; there is no evolution of
Christmas presents. This sharp and
theatrical quality III pleasure. which hu-
man instinct and the mother Wit of the
world has wisely put into the popular
celebrations of Christmas, is also a quail
ity which is essential in such romantic
literature as Dickens wrote. In ro-
mantle literature the hero and heroine
must indeed be happy, but they must
also be Unexpectedly happy. This is the
first connecting link between literature
and the old religious feast; this is the
first connecting link between Dickens
and Christmas
THE second element to he found in all
such festivity and all such romance is
the element which is represented as we'll
as 1t could he represented by the mere
fact that Christmas occurs in the win
ter. 1t is the element not merely of con
trast, but actually of antagonism. 1t
preserves everything that was best i'm
the merely primitive or pagan view of
such ceremonies or such banquets. If
we are Carousing, at least we are war
riors carousing. We hang above us.
as 1t were. the shields and battle-axes
with which we must do battle with the
giants or the snow and hail All COM
fort must be based on discomfort Man
chooses when he wishes to he most iov-
tui the very moment when the whole
material universe is most sad. 1t is this
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
IMPATIENT OF TRADITION.

II have no use for a singer who goes
into an opera with no idea Of her own
as to the proper way to act 1t. 1 may
seem aggressive in this, very American
in my impatience of traditional restric-
tions, but 1 cannot see why one should
be bound by tradition when one does not
feel that conception of the part If a
singer takes a conductor or a stage
managers conception and not her own
she never can do as good work as she
otherwise would do. simply because she
Is giving a conception that IS not her
own.
''It has been great pleasure To me to
be allowed 10 create tn ole Of the Goose
Girl. 1t gives me chance in different
sort of part from the ones have been
playing recently It IS exceedingly bad
for an artist to appear in only one kind
OF parts. / am to change shortly again.
when I appear in the first American
production of .Ariane ct Barbe Bleu.
This is a very different type of opera
from Koenigskinder,' and will proba-
bly, grow more slowly upon the public,
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state Of certain human beings, the at
mOSphere Of commonwealth, the en-
during climate of certain cities or
islands. They poured forth treasures of
the truest kind OF imagination upon de-
scribing the happy lives and landscapes
of Utopia or Atlantis the Earthly Par
adise- They traced with the most ten
der accuracy the tracery of it's fruit
trees or the glimmering garments of its
women: they used every ingenuity of
color or intricate shape to suggest its in
finite delight. And what they succeeded
in suggesting was always its infinite
melancholy.
''William Morris described the Earthly
Paradise in such a way that the only
strong emotional note left on the mind
was the feeling of how homeless his
travellers felt in that alien Elysium; and
the reader sympathized with them. feel
ing that he would prefer not only Eliza
bethan England but even twentieth cen
tury CamberwelI to such a land of shin
.rg shadows. Vhus literature has almost
always failed in endeavoring to describe
happiness a state. Human tradition,
human custom and folklore ChOugh far
more true and reliable than literature as
q rule) have not often succeeded in Civ
ing quite the correct symbols for real
atmosphere of cdmGrGderie and JOY. But
here and there the note has been struck
with the sudden vibration of the r0r
hHmGHG. In human tradition it has been
strucky chiefly in the old celebrations of
Christmas. In literature it has been
struck chiefly in Dickens's Christmas
tales.
I'm the historic celebration of Christ
mas as it remains from Catholic times
III certain Northern countries (and it is
to be remembered that in Catholic times
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Of Christmas came to be born out OF
due time

Of Christmas came to be born out Of
due time
Dickens devoted his genius in a some
what special sense to the description OF
happiness. No other literary man Of
his eminence has made this central hu-
man aim so specially his subject mat
ter. Happiness is a mystery-generally
a momentary mystery-which seldom
stops long enough to submit itself to ar
tistic observation, and which, even when
it is habitual, has something about 1t
which renders artistic description almost
impossible. There are twenty tiny minor
poets who can describe fairly impress
lively an eternity of agony; there are
very few even OF the eternal poets who
can describe ten minutes of satisfaction.
Nevertheless. mankind, being half di-
vine, is always IN love with the impOs-
sible, and numberIess attempts have
been made from the beginning Of human
literature to describe a real state Of
felicity.
Upon the whole, l think, the most
successful have been the most frankly
physical and symbolic; the flowers of
Eden or the jewels of the New Jeru-
salem. Many writer's, for instance, have
called the gold and chrysolite of the
Holy City vulgar lump of jewelry. But
when these critics themselves attempt to
describe their conceptions Of future hap
piness, it is always some priggish nom
sense about planes about cycles of full
filment,' or 'spirals of spiritual eVolu-
ton Now, a cycle is just as much
physical metaphor as a flower Of Eden;
a spiral Is just as much physical
metaphor as a precious stone. But, after
all. a garden is beautiful thing;
whereas this is by no means necessarily
true Of a cycle, as can he seen IN the
case OF a bicycle. A Jewel, after all, is 4
beautiful thing; but this IS not neces-
sarily so Of spiral, can be seen I'm
the case OF a corkscrew.
Nothing is gained by dropping the old
material metaphors, which did hint at
heavenly beauty, and adopting other ma
terial metaphors which do not even give
a hint Of earthly beauty. This modern
or spiral method OF describing indescrib
able happiness may. [ think, be dis
missed. Then there has been another
method which has been adopted by many
men Of a very real poetical genius. 1t
was the method Of the old pastoral poets
like Theocritus. IT was I'm another way
that adopted by the elegance and piety
of Spenser Il was certainly expressed
in the pictures Of Vatican. and 1t had a
very sympathetic and even manly eX-
preston In modern England In the dec
orative poetry Of William Morris.
These men of genius. from Theocritus
to Morris. occupied themselves in ell
deavoring to describe happiness as a
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25

lar. Indeed. Dickens Is In so profo,,rd
and spiritual 4 sense a popuIar a1,+hor
that In his case, unlike most others if
can generally be said that the best work
Is the most popular. 1t Is for PickwfcI
that he Is best known; and rpon the
whole it is for Pickwick that he is best
worth knowing. In any case this supe-
rforfty Of The Christmas Carol makes
lt convenient for us to TAX. II as an
, example of the CONGRATULATIONS already
ihade- IL we study the very real atmos-
Ihere of rejoicing and Of rfotous charity
IN The Christmas Carol We shall find
that all the three marks / have men
toned are unmistakably visible. The
christmas Carol is a happy story. first.
because it describes an abrupt and dra-
matte change 1t is not only the story
OF conversion. but of a sudden con-
"erslon; as sudden as the conversion OF
q man at a Salvation Army meeting.
Popular religion is quite right in insist
ing on the fact of a crisis in most things.
1t is true that the man at the Salvation
Army meeting would probably be con-
Verted from the punch bowl: whereas
Scroose WIS converted to it, That only
means that Scrooge and Dickens repre-
sented a higher and more historic Chris
tianity-
Again. The Christmas Carol owes
much of its hiIarity to our second source
the fact of its being tale Of winter
and of Il very wintry winter There is
much about comfort in the story: Vet the
comfort is never enervating; il Is saved
from that by a tingle of something biz
ter and bracing in the weather. Lastly.
the story eXemplifieS throughout the
POWER Of the third principle-the kinshIp
between Gaycty and the grotesque
Everybody is happy because nobody IS
Gignified. We have a feeling somehow
that SCrooSe looked even uSlier when ne
was kind Than he had looked when he
was cruel The turkey that Scrooge p
bought was SO fat. says Dickens. that II
could never have stood upright. Thar
tCpheavy and monstrous bird is a good
symbol of the topheavy happiness of the
stories.
1t is less profitable To CritiCisc the
other two tales in detail because they
represent variations on the theme m t"'
directions; and variations that were no''
upon the whole improvements 'Ino
Chimes ~ u monument Of pckensS
honorable quality Of puEnacity TO
could not admire anything. even pear
without wanting To- I've warlike aoout '~
That was all as il should be.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25

sp,r1t of the work. It breathes the spiri'
NJ youth. undying, unquenchable
And here Miss Farrar showed nee DC
lief in the absolute necessity of beauty IL
a work is to appeal.
.'In every work OF art there must DC
line of beauty; mere realism VIII never
make a work live. An ugly theme II u
lives. must be treated in beautlIui
manner, That is why, also, singer OF
an actress must strive always to express
tho beautiful An audience goes to the
opera to receive a sensation, but IL a
singer is to impart this sensation she
must not herself be the sensation. she
must work with her head rather than
with her body; she must give to her
audience what is beautiful, not what is
gross.
"This is why I love 'K6nigskinder
80. 1t gives so much chance for the ex-
preston of the beautiful. The words
and the music and the action are so per-
fectIy allied. And then the story is so
dramatic, and to me the dramatic Is al
ways of first appeal. The dramatic
actress has a great advantage over her
operatic sister in the greater freedom
allowed her In opera there are restric-
tions set by the music that it is fnpos-
sible to pass. I am always chaf1ng
against these restrictions, and as far as
possible try to give my own conception
Of a part.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
A LIGHT ON MATERNITY.

The late William James. Harvard's fam
Gus psychologist, would often illunlnata
misty subject with an appropriate anec-
dote.
Discussing motherhood IN lecture on
psychology, Professor James once said:
"a teacher asked boy this question IN
fractions:
Suppose that your mother baked an
apple pie and there were seven OF you
the parents and five children What part
of the pie would you get for your portion?
"A sixth, ma'am,' the boy answered
But there are seven OF you.' said tbs
teacher. Don't you know anything about
fractionsT
Yes. ma'am,' said the boy, 7 know all
about fractions, but I know all abou.
mother, too. Mother'd say she didn't wan,
no ME-"
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25

Miss Farrar sighed. Yes, the geese
| love me, but fear they love corn more!
Yet after all, poor little brides, they are
very, very hungry, and the property
room is very, very dark, and SO sup
pose you can't blame them. / do hope,
though, they won't cackle at the per-
formances. Realism is a good thing,
only we must not have too much Of II,
| especially when such beautiful music as
DR.. Humperdinck's is being played. II
they don't behave themselves 1 suppose
they Will have to go back to the butcher
shop. and we will have to use the prop
erty ones.
GRANDPA GANDER WINKED.
only" and Miss Farrar dropped her
voice, Il am sure they will behave. I
whispered something in the ear of tho
big grandfather gander only yesterday,
and he winked his eye at me. Such .
wink, / know he understood, and will
tell all his children that If they do not
wish to catch sight some day Of a great
sharp knife they must restrain their
voices and not try duets and Quartets
when Mt. Jadlowker and myself arc try
ing to sing!
But there are other novelties besides
the geese. There are the children, forty
little tots, each one Of them as intor-
ested as am in having the opera suc-
cess. There was a pretty little incident
the other day that shows how much In
terest they are taking. One Of the little
tots is the same child that appears with
me in Butterfly and Of course we are
great friends. At the last performance
of Butterfly she came up to me Just
before she was TO go on and said:
You know I am going to be in
''konigskinder," too
"'Are you?' said. And have you got
a big part?'
AN awfully big one came the quick.
delighted reply.
And what do you do?' I asked.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-25
Miss Farra Rejoices at Prospect of Being Goose dr
<;,aer Finds Relief from PreUaIinS 6ype 4,
"Stveef Pure" Music of Humperdincfs
* Koeni6skinder."

! though I am sure that It. too, vm h
success
1T is curious the way different public,
like different operas. In Berlin the uso-
pie love 'Manon' and Butterfly bn.
won't have Boheme.' In New Yo-L
'Manon' has never been popular, 70.
they love 'Boherne.' I hope some tina
TO be able to persuade the powers In Bsr.
lin to allow me TO sing IN Tosca,' but "a
yet I have been unable TO do So"
But while Miss Farrar was speakaz
OF these other operas her eyes seemed
to be looking far off, and the sponta-
neous thought came that her heart va,
in the work she is TO appear in on mex,
Wednesday. with the boy king, and the
forests, and the children, and the geese
And, after all. it Is not a bad place for
ones heart to be!
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Sees

Christmas is supposed to be the hap
1iest day in the year. Is it? That de-
lends a great deal on what you consider
lapniness TO be. Well, what is haVpi-
lcss. then? a hard question that, for
Happiness is one Of the most difficult
things 10 describe in all the world; far
more difficult to describe than its op-
,posite unhappiness. There are thou
sands Of mediocre writers who can make
you weep over their word pictures Of
ong-drawn-out unhappiness to every
one literary genius who can satisfactor-
Sly depict a ehort half hour OF happi-
ness There IS one, then? Yes Who Is
he? Dickens II you don't believe It,
read what G. z Chesterton has TO say
In his forthcoming book, Charles
dickens" where he treats OF the popular
9noveIist's genius for happiness, and es-
pecislly the inimitable way in which he
captured the real atmosphere OF Christ
mas rejoicing, Christmas charity and
Ehrtstn1as fun, and used IL to such an
nx.ent that no Christmas seems COM
plete without q memory OF him: and ali
his books make good Christmas books,
40 matter what their main topic. The
following extract from Mr. Chesterton's s
work 10 reproduced by permission Of the
kubllshers, e. P. Dutton & Co.:
The mystery OF Christmas is in a
snanner identical with the mystery Of
D1ckens. II ever we adequately explain
khe one We may adequately explain the
>cther: ard, indeed, in the treatment OF
Me two the chronological or historical
prder must In some degree be remem-
k,erec Before we come to the question
Of what Dickens did for Christmas we
must consider the question OF what
HyhrIstYnas did for Dickens. How did It
Aappen that this busting, nineteenth
Dentury man, full OF the almost cocksure
npnmon sense OF the utilitsrian and lib-
oral enoch- came TO associate his name
chieny in literary history with the per-
.xetuation OF q half-pagan and haif-
Cstholfc festival which he would certain
uy have called an antiquity and might
easily have called a superstition? CHRIST
mas hs. indeed been celebrated before In
Fnglish literature: but II had, In the
.,1ost noticeable cases, been celebrated in
connection with that kind Of feudalism
with which Dickens would have severed
kI. connection with an ignorant and
even excessive scorn-
Sir Roger de Coverley kept Christ
mas. but II was a feudal Christmas. Sir