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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
PITIFUL STORIES FROM
FAMINE-STRICKEN CHINA
Sixty Girls Offered for Sale Without a
Purchaser; Food More VAL
liable Than Lives.

SHANGHAI April i3.-Pitfu stories
OF suffering in the famine stricken areas
OF China reach this city daily. Sixty
town without a purchaser. because the
food the slaves eat was more valuable
than their lives.
Heavy rains partly have refloodcd the
famine district FOR the third time In two
years. rendering extremely difficult the
Importation of grain FOR the relief of the
starving thousands In some cases the
water is so high that IL prevents the
gathering of herbs in the fields and cuts
the people off from relief stations.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
GIVES PRAISE TO
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Champ Clark Addresses College
Mems Democratic League
at Washington.
Continued From Page One.

collegIans and non -coleeians. come upon
the scene I'm II fortunate era. This Is the
day of great things. II Is the age of IN"
worlds intcnsest activity and highest de
vclopment. Men are prone TO look back
ward 10 a golden age.
Il prefer TO think this age Is better
than any OF it's predecessors and that the
best Is still To come. ] take no stock In
the pcsslmIstic theory that the republic Is
on the road 10 pcrdition and that wo
are headed for universal chaos The
world is progressing-pa particularly our
part OF II. True. we have not reached
the millennium There are wrongs STALL to
be richted, reforms TO be effected. There
Is plenty for all OF us to do In improv-
ing our methods of government and
amelorating the conditions under which
we live"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
SIBLEY'S SICKNESS
WILL NOT SAVE HIM

FRANKLIN. Pa, April Designers of
the petition asking for an investigation
OF former Congressman Joseph G. Sibley's
S4e 500 election expenses incurred during
the June primaries, 1910. in the Twenty
eighth congressional district today re-
fused TO drop the investigation. Judge
Grisswell set Thursday. June l5. as the
date for the audit
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
TOWNS RAZED BY
BIC WIND STORMS
TornadOes of Wednesday Fol-
lowed by Twisters in Mis-
souri, and Other States.
Continued From Page One.

Okla, suffered the greatest damage.
Three people were killed there and sixty
injured, thirty eight fatally. At first IL
was reported eight people were killed
All the injured from Big Heart we're
taken To Tulsa on relief train, where
they are now in hospitals.
Little OF the town was left standing.
Damage at Lawrence, Kan.
Lawrence. Kan. sustained the largest
property loss OF any Kansas town, IL be-
ing estimated at S2Oo00 Seventy -four
residences were wrecked and the street
cars and electric lights put out OF hus-
ness. The city is still dark j, y. Bow
erstock, a former congressman was the
heaviest individual loser. his loss being
s30. 900.
In Brown county, Kansas. the tornado
hugged the ground and residents are los
crs Of more than 100000 worth OF
property. The tornado swept clean
path of fifteen miles long and three quar-
tors OF mile wide in that section, Esk-
ridges loss is placed at $4,000.
Miss Eva Stroud. who lost her life at
MountaInburg, Ark. was killed while she
lay In bed. The house In which she was
asleep was destroyed
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
UNREASONABLE DELAY
CAUSED THR00P HORROR

SCRANTON Pa. April 13,-UEreason-
able delay in giving warming 10 the men
who lost their lives last Friday In the
Pancoast mine al Throop Is one Of the
findings OF the federal board OF inquiry.
The board investigation was completed
today and a full report viii be made to
the bllrpau Of mining a Washington.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
TORNADO IN ARKANSAS.
Three Persons Killed and Twenty five
Injured at PummervIIe.

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, April 13-Ac-
cordiug TO Information received from a
telephone !ineman near PlummerVille.
three persons were killed and twenty five
injured in a tornado which struck that
town last night. Wires are down be.
tween Little Rock and Plummeryille
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA
IND0RSES GUARANTY LAW

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. April 13-
Governor Lee Cruce OF Oklahoma tode,
issued n statement lndorsing the stat
bank guaranty law, deploring the oppo
sltion of national banks 10 the law am
threatening, II this opposition does no
cease, To remove all state deposits fron
national banks.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
LIABILITIES REACH
NEARLY A MILLION

NEW YORK. April 13.-The schedules
In bankruptcy Of Patrick j. kyeran OF
the Fidelity Funding company were sub
mitted today 10 the federal court and
show known liabilities OF 1921, $50. with
known assets of S123.181.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
REBELS ON RAID.
Great Damage Done TO Railroad al
Bocatcchc, Mexico.

LAREDO, Tex. April IA body OF
revoutionists appeared at Bocatechc, n
small town on the international line of
the merged system, about thirty-flve
lsilomcters from Monclova, Mexico. today
cut telegraph wires. blow up the railroad
pumping station, burned small trestle
and threatened to destroy Il large iron
bridge. The number of the rebels was
not reported.
In the event the insurrectos destroyed
the iron bridge at Bocatechc and sue
Mexico. and points south would be cut
off leaving the Laredo route the only
open line OF lngress Into the Interior OF
MnHlco
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
NEBRASKA FARMER
COMMITS SUICIDE

NORFOLK. Neb., April 13.-W. A.
Tawncy. q brother Of former Congress
last night by hanging himself TO a rafter
OF a barn. lie was IL years of age
Temporary insanity is said TO have been
No
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14

American consul AT Ensenada TO ascer-
tain whether Charles w Eberle and Mr..
and Mrs. III. II. Eberle. Americans at
Alamo Mexico, are safe.
The department has not received re-
port from the Ensenada consul in re-
gard to the plight Of the American wom-
en- and children said to be held prisoners
there.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
YOUNG GOULD OBTAINS
LICENSE TO MARRY

NEW YORK. April 13.-Jay Gould, son
tanned a marriage license to wed Miss
Annie Douglas Graham, daughter Of
John Graham. and granddaughter Of
Queen Lydia Kamckeha LiluoSalani ot
tha Hawaiian Islands, The young couple
will he married in June. 1t Is understood.
and probably will go abroad and visit
Lord and Lady Dccies, the latter former
ly Miss Vivian Could
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
Can YOU SOLVE IT7

Take any number from seven 10 eiteo, :.
elusive. Do not use any number moro ths,
twice Place number eleven in ceuter sousra
one number in each OF the squares so that wbs,
they are added together perpend,cularly or b"r
Zontally The total viii make 33. For the uea,ns
co.Fcc: answer we will give absolutely free N,
premiums in order OF merit You will Be not;ss
By mall, and all the premiums must be oaIirS
tor within ten days from closing OF contest \,
is not necessary to use this paper Only on ~
person in n fnmiIy cnu enter az
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
SITUATION is CRITICAL.
Consul General at MazatIan Reports to
State pepartment

tion at Mazatlan. one Of the principal
ports of Mexico. is becoming critical, I'm
view OF an impending attack upon that
city by insurgents This inforna tIon
reached the state department today in
telegram from the American consul gem
cral at Mazatlan.
The state department instructed the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
To ADVERTISE SMITH ( BARNES P|AN0S|
This Great
Publicity
Contest

being held by the Piano Manufacturers Adver.
tising Bureau OF Chicago to distribute au app.o-
priat!on which has been allowed by the manufact-
urcrs Of the pianos offering, They have
allowed this large share OF the appropriation at
this time. not ouly TO make their pianos better
known In this locality. but also to advertise
their exclusive dealers,
Be sure tina. your answer in this Great Pub
city Contest Is m allied az and you will receive
reply direct from the Piano Manufacturers Ad-
vcrtsiug Bureau of Chicago. who control this large
advertising appropriation for the manufacturer.
They want to assure you that imp rtial Judges will
decide the merit OF the answers received. Be sure
that your answer Is correct, then nj all or deliver i'm
mcdlatcly 20 S Evans Clark. who is specia.
representative OF The Piano Manufacturers Adyer-
tislpg Bureau,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-14
In Addition to These Premiums

every premium winner will receive, according 20 the
merit OF solution. oona-fdc Manufacturers Draft
for amount from $500 to $4,000. These drafts
will be accepted a, their foil face value to apply
the purchase OF any one OF the pianos that we
are introducing to the piano loving public. through
his mammoth advertising plan, The above men
toned drafts will be given ia denominations as
follows: Three at $4,000: four at slds.00 FIVE at
$3.50; six at Sl35.0 90. at $4,000: eight at
Sl25 co. nine $40 90. at sll0 co. sl00oC:
ten at SIS 90: fifteen a. $50 co.; AND ALL COR
RECT SOLUTIONS WILL RECEIVE n
DRAFT FOR S25.OO.
These pianos are introducing have en-
viablc reputation throughout the United States and
the manufacturers believe they can introduce them
In this market more quickly and more satsfac-
tory by giving the people the saving of the en-
orTnous expense an introduction through ordinary
methods. This sthe age OF co alton. and the
manufacturer of these pianos correctly believes
that the best way to Introduce them is TO spend
the advcr tisDg money In making special offers
TO the people rather than employing world S famons
demonstt ators. at fabulous expense. and max
Ing the people pay for such methods by asking q
heavily-infated price for the pianos In the event
OF tie, duplicate premiums will be given
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08
On the Stage to Marry.

In Austria something like a crisis
has occurred in the theatrical profess
sion owing to so many actresses finding
themselves in straitened circum-
stances. The women's committee Of
the Stage Society has taken the mat
ter in hand.
1t has been found that many girls Of
good families go on the stage in order
to advertise their beauty and to en-
able them to make good matches. They
are willing to work for small salaries.
and this affects the pay Of other &C
tresses. AS a remedy for this evil
managers r asked to place girls of
great beauty but of no artistic gifts
among the supers instead of as at
present, intrusting them with small
speaking parts.
In order to warn girls of the fact
that a stage career is not a certain
road to fortune the committee has cir
culated the facts as to the actual sal.
aries paid. Only 2 per cent. of Aus
trian actresses earn over 5000. a
month, 8 per cent. earn over $500, Ia
per cent. ove $50. Fifty-five per cent
earn less than $50, and q per cent
less than $24 a month.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08

ences of the amateur gardener, espe-
cially with pusley weed. and my
fellow colonists had had proof of the
truth that was in the saying of Hor-
ace Bushnell, our great fellowtowns-
man, who in one of his lectures spoke
of the moral perversity of inanimate
objects. If there could be anything
more perverse than pusley weed none
of us knew what it was.
We'll, there was something in the
humor, possibly something in the
light of philosophy, that worked it's
way into those little sketches which
happened to catch the public fancy;
and before l realized it l discovered
that the sketches were gaining in pop
ularity far beyond the boundaries Of
Hartford. Then many persons urged
me to have them republished in book
form, and they were. Sometimes my
friends tell me that, after all, My
Summer in a Garden is the best thing
l I'VE did. Measured by popularity. 1
am inclined to think it is"
MI. Warner might have gone furth-
er and said that the phenomenal sue
cess Of this work, and the type of
humor that was in it, caused him to
be ranked among the foremost of
American humorists.
copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08
Refused Chief Justiceship

cat that time all my aspirations
were directly in line with a political
career. The whole situation confront
ing me, in view of the presidents ev-
elation, passed through my mind in
stantly, and I made intuitive judgment.
1 told the president that as great as
was the compliment, and distinguished
as was the honor, nevertheless M
judgment was that I must decline the
chief ~justiceship. He looked at me
regretfuIly for a moment, and then
took up again the business we had in
hand.
81 have often wondered" concluded
Mr.. Carlisle, whether or not l made
a mistake in declining that unexpected
offer of the chief ~justiceship."
1t may be set down as a practical
certainty that had not Mr.. Carlisle de-
clined hat offer the closing years OF
his life would have been happier than
they were to him as a great lawyer
with few clients in the city of New
York.
Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. AL
Rights Reserved.)
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08
When Speaker, Carlisle Was Offered
Position by President Cleveland
and Afterwards Thought He
Made Mistake in Declining.

With Mr.. George F. Parker, the BIZ
ographer and intimate friend of Grover
Cleveland as my authority, I told re-
Gently that John G. Carlisle, lieutenant
governor Of Kentucky, member of con-
gress for six and speaker of the house
for three terms, United States senator
for three years, and secretary Of the
treasury throughout President Cleve-
lands second administration, refused
to become chief justice of the United
States when President Cleveland, to-
ward the close of his first term, Of
fered him the exalted post. Today, in
Mr.. Carlisle's own words, I tell how
that offer was made and how it was
refused-a hitherto u~nchronicled bit Of
national history, and m of dramatic
simplicity while 1t was happening.
Mr.. Carlisle himself was the first to
let it be known privately that he had
been offered the place Of chief justice
of the United States by Mr.. Cleveland.
A few days after Mr.. Cleveland's fu-
neral, in 1908, when Mr.. Carlisle had
been practicing law not too success
fully in New York for a number Of
years. he said to a friend:
81 owe much of the success Of my
career to Grover Cleveland. l also
owe to him an expression of conf
dence which I have never before made
any reference, except to my immedi-
ate family. l called one morning in
1888 upon the president; as speaker of
the house of representatives l had
some official business to transact
with him.
He received me cordially in his pri-
vate office. Suddenly, while we were
chatting about the business in hand,
he arose from his chair, went to the
window which gives upon the south
lawn, or White House lot, thrust his
hands in his pockets, and stood for a
long time looking out Of the window in
the direction of the Potomac. knew
from his manner that he had some
thing on his mind. Then, as suddenly
as he had left his chair he wheeled
around, looked at me intently for q
moment, and said: Mr.. Carlisle, l want
to nominate you for chief justice OIL
the Supreme court of the United
States: will you accept?
"That was the first suspicion l ha6
that the president had borne me il
mind in connection with the vacant
chief ~justiceship. For myself, ! hai
never v connected myself with The
position. Therefore, his words cam
to me with the s~uddenness of a wholly
unexpected blow. / was startled-ye
l knew instantly from his tanner tina
he wanted an immediate reply.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08
Charles Dudley Warmers Explanation
Of How He Came to Write His
Famous Book, my Summer
In a Garden"

After a brilliant career as an officer
Ia the Civil war, Gen. Joseph r. Haw-
ley returned to his home at Hartford,
Conn, at the close of the hostilities.
He proposed beginning over again as
an editor, for he was the editor of a
Republican paper at the time he laid
down the pen to open the first recruit
ing Office in the state of Connecticut
in response to Lincoln's call for vol
unteers on April Is, 1861. And "a
hours after the call had been issued,
he had raised his states first COM
pany of volunteers.
General Hawley, however, was
obliged to defer hat purpose, for. in
1866, he was elected governor of Con-
necticut. A year later. when he re.
turned to private life, he brought
about him an ably body of associates,
five in all, who bought the Hartford
Courant and consolidated with it the
Hartford Press, of which General
Hawley had been the editor before
the outbreak of the war. One of these
associates RAJ Charles Dudley War
HeI, WHO was kuOWn TO a circle OF Cul-
tivated literary men and women as a
master Of English style, but whose
name was not then familiar to the
public.
General Hawley's election to the
lower house of congress in 1868 and
his long service in that body followed
by four terms in the senate) made it
necessary for Mr.. Warner to assume
the duties Of editorial chief of the
Courant. 1t was while he was serv-
ing in that capacity that Mr.. Warner
began the publication of a daily series
Of articles without the slightest
thought that upon this trifing work.
as he called it, was to be based his
mastery reputation, and that by rea-
son of it he would join the ranks Of
those who in hat day published what
nowadays we would call a best
seller"
While Mr.. Warner was occupied with
conducting the department entitled
The Editors Drawer" in Harper's
Magazine, a task which he assumed
in 1884, I asked him If he would tell
me how he was led to write the little
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08

series Of daily essays which became
nationally famous under the book IT,
tie, my Summer In a Garden"
8" have been asked that question
many times" said Mr.. Warner, land
l have always said that l did not
know exactly how l came to write
those daily articles. l suppose it was
a sort of literary lark. l lived in the
center of a colony of well-known lit
erary people. Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe was my neighbor, and SO was
Mark Twain, and there was the charm
ing literary circle which met at the
house of Francis Gillette, who had
been United States senator and was
the father of William Gillette, the
actor. We all had little plots of
ground attached to our homes, and
some of us undertook to have kitchen
gardens. We used to have great sport
in describing our experience with pus-
ley weed.
"One day l though l would turn my
attention from the heavier sort OF
editorial work to a sort of recrea-
ton, to writing a little sketch each
day that would hint at the expert
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08
Made Very Sure Of Death.

Deciding to end his life the other
day. Thomas McManus of Philadel-
phia made elaborate preparations to
ensure his death by inhaling gas. He
took a bed sheet, and making a hole
in it he tied it with a piece of string
to the gas jet in the room. Then he
gathered the four ends of the sheet,
and with another piece of Irvine he
tied it around his neck. He then
turned on the gas ana threw himself
on his bed. The gas flowed into Nc
Manus' improvisad balloon and he was
probably suffocated in a few seconds.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08
Edward Eggleston's Failure to Equal
His First Success Was Due to
Fact That He Scattered
His Abilities.

At one period in his career Donald
G. Mitchell, better known to the world
of readers as TX Marvel, creator of
"Reveries of a Bachelor" was tempt
ed from his retirement at "Edgewood,"
his farm, then upon the outskirts Of
New Haven, Conn, to ssum the ed
itorial management of a weekly pub
LEGATION called Hearth and Home,
Mr.. Mitchell, however, found the
post somewhat irksome, and further
more it interfered with the literary
work he was doing at home. 'The
editing of this periodical is of itself
not irksome," he explained, but it en-
tails two or three trips a week back
and forth between New Haven and
New York, and for that reason / have
given it up"
Mr.. Mitchell's as editor
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08
A Man Of Mystery.

The death has taken place in Dun
fermline, Scotland, of a man whose
identity has been a mystery for ten
years, says a dispatch.
Ten years ago he was seized in the
streets of the town with a stroke of
apoplexy. He was picked up by a po-
liceman, but it was found that he had
been struck deaf and dumb. A stran-
ger to the locality, he could neither
read nor write, and his identity has
never been established.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1911-06-08
Too Versatile as a Writer

of this periodical was Edward Eggles-
ton. Like Charles Dudley Warner,
Mr.. Eggleston suddenly emerged from
comparative literary ~obscurity with
such suddenness and with such daz-
ed for a time as sure to become recog-
nized is a great American writer of
fiction. His venture, however, was
accidental and due to an emergency.
The story has often been told, but l
will repeat enough Of it to illustrate
the new anecdote l am about to tell.
Mr.. Eggleston was disappointed
about receiving a serial contribution
which he expected for Hearth and
Home" Not knowing what to do or
where to go for a substitute, he de-
termined to make use of some of his
experiences as a Methodist circuit
rider in Indiana. He, therefore, OF the
spur of the moment almost, wrote the
first installment Of a story entitled
"The Hoosier Schoolmaster." It ap-
peared in 1871 and no one was more
astonished at the instant success of
this, his first venture into fiction, than
was Mr.. Eggleston himself. It de-
termined his career, for he decided to
take up literature as a vocation.
The question has often been asked:
Why did Eggleston never quite re-
peat his first success? He had other
successes, but one so pronounced as
his first. Why? Probably the best
answe to that question was the one
once given by Donald G.. Mitchell.
"Eggleston's 'Hoosier Schoolmas-
ter" said Mr.. Mitchell. was SO racy
of the soil, was so evidently a true
picture of Indiana life, and moreover,
had just the touch of illusion that is
necessary for success in fiction, that
it is no wonder it gained widespread
and well deserved popularity, and
that many persons looked for subse-
| quent works of fiction that would be
| it's equal in all respects. But Eggles.
ton never quite reached that high
mark, and he knew it as we'll as any
one. He explained it to me by saying
that if it were not for a versatility
which he possessed he undoubtedly
| WOu1Q nave u1dUC d SISdC CdISGI DIS d
! writer of American fiction. His yer
satility, however, haunted him. He
could write good fiction, he could write
good history, he could write good bi
ography. If he had been able to con
centrate himself upon any one of these
departments Of literature, he was sure
that he would have gained a higl
measure of success. My versatility i:
the bane of my literary life,' he tole
me, and it is my impression that il
saying that he was an accurate criti,
of himself. And after he had sait
that he added-and l could see tina
it came from the heart:
eff l we're ever called upon to Civ
any counsel to a young man ambitious
to gain literary success. l would mos
surely and earnestly say to him
"Study my career, and be warned b,
it. Don't scatter your abilities. Con
centrate them upon n department o
literature. Then, if you do not SUI
coed, you may be sur that literarnr
is not your vocation"
copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. A
Rights Reserved.)