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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25

her sister and the old Puritan mother
is played by Miss Marian Holcombe-
The action of the play takes place in
New England village and occupies
one whole day.
Whatever else may be said of Row
land and Clifford's new production
THE Rosary which comes to the
Grand Saturday matinee and night,
the change of imitation of other plays
cannot be made. 1.-The Rosary has
just finished its three months run in
Chicago and it is now crowdtng the
Globe theater, Boston, where it is pre-
dicted it will run a year.
The Charlotte News says of Paul
Gilmore, who comes to the Grand on
Thursday:
THE most fashionable audience of
the season witnessed Paul Gilmore in
The Mummy and the Humming Bird
at the Academy of Music last night.
1.-THE play was well balanced and
everybody enjoyed it. II deals with
the most sacred relations-marriage
and the greatest impelling force in life
the Humming Bird is a lesson, a
study in human nature. the differences
in mans and woman's nature. and
should be invariably observed-or di-
gested.
The story of a good woman, the
toned to every luxury. every pleasure,
every want, every wish is gratifed ex-
cept one-the love and companionship
of a husband. Her husband is ener-
getic industrious and in fact every
thing except a companion to his wife
She is woman with life that Is hu-
man and her happiness depends on the
devotion of her husband. He makes
her life miserable and is blind, so far
as understanding human nature of a
woman. Her attention is directed to a
wealthy Italian who admires her and
| is lust the contrast, so far as nature of
man is concerned. He understands the
feminine sex. is gifted with a fluent
flow of pretty words and an all around
| experienced ladies' man He shows a
marked attention to another man S
wife, a wife who finds companionship
and love in one other than her hus-
band. She is led on and on until final
| ly the temptation is too great and in
I a fit of madness she loses control of
| her respect for her husband, confesses
and yields to her admiration for the
clever foreigner. whom she thinks is
capable of giving her happiness. The
husband flies in pursuit and traces her
to the rooms of the william, but out
wits him. In the last act the climax
is reached. She runs away thinking
she has brought degradation upon her
pursues and finds her heart-broken in
| her room in Paris. An understanding
Is the conclusion. The william has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25

with her and when she is brought
back to the house he. to his horror,
finds she is the woman he loves. and,
as counsel Of the people, he must
prosecute her. The terrible agony
brought on by the mental conflict be-
tween love and duty, make several
scenes tremendously powerful The
stage settings showing the New York
home of the Brentanos, the estate of
General Darlington in Virginia. the
county Jail and the Mission of All An
gels in the Rocky Mountains of Can
ada, are realistic reproductions in
stagecraft.
Henrietta Crosman and her COM
pany direct from her Chicago engage
ment at the Studebaker theater, and
earlier in the season az the Garrick in
New York, will be at the Grand Tues
day, March %. in Percy MacKaye's
satirical comedy Anti Matrimony.
In this play which Miss Crosman
produced last May, Percy MacKaye.
who has always been considered
a "high-brow'' pokes little fun at
himself and incidentally those lovers
of the higher drama who claim to read
between the lines of the masters and
get meanings from them that the
masters never really intended.
The spirit of Anti MatrimOny' is
satire of the Bernard Shaw and ]. M.
Barrie type 1t is simply brilliant wit
and seemingly serious SlCuatlOtS d Z
turned into screamingly funny ones.
Mr.. MacKaye says that there is moth
ing in the play that is not intended to
make you laugh so the first night au-
diences are always invited to take the
play in the spirit in which it is meant
and laugh whenever they feel so in
clined.
The story hinges on the return from
Europe of two young Americans who
have decided that everything beautiful
in this world is mixed and obscure and
that such fictional persons as Hedda
Gabler. Candida and the others are eX-
amples of the right way to live There
fore. with their child they go to visit
New England clergyman and his
Wife and announce that they have
never been married. This situation is
the more awkward from the fact that
the minister is the brother of the man
and the minister's wife is the sister OF
the woman with the advanced ideas.
This embarrassing situation is re-
neved in the first act when the min
lister and his wife learn that the young
people are concealing their marriage
which really did take place, but be-
cause they think no real artist can
have a career who is burdened with
a wife and a home.
The minister's wife sees that the
way to reclaim the two young people
lous, so she forthwith proceeds to give
them a taste of their own medicine by
announcing her conversion to theiI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25

Vaughan Glaser's associate pIavers
presented for the first time in This
city at the Grand this afternoon a
dramatiZation of of Augusta Evans
Wilson'S novel eat the Mercy of IT.
berius." There will be a second per-
formance tonight In plot and descrip-
ton of characters this story is far slI
perior to "St. Elmo" and a drama of
exceptional interest has been evolved.
The story concerns Bervl Brentano. a
young woman of aristocratic birth who
is sent on mission of appeal to her
grandfather, who has disinherited the
mother for clipping and marrying an
eXiled scion of on e of Italy's noble
families, against his most positive pro-
test. Beryl goes to Virginia and pleads
with the grandfather who, while he
will not grant her mother the for
giveness she asks, gives BeryI 500 and
a case of jewels that had been in
tended for the mother had she mar
ried the man of his choice Beryl
leaves the house to return to New
York City, but before she reaches the
station, is held for the murder of her
grandfather. who has met with a vio-
lent death after she left the house.
Lennox Dunbar young lawyer
called Tiberius, has fallen in love
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ever appeared. It is called 1.-THE
revolutionary War and the Military
Policy of the United States'' and the
author is General Francis Vinton
Greene who has given many wears of
labor to the work. His. purpose is a
double one-frst, to trace from the
military point of view the history of
the War of Independence and then to
show how Washington and his ex-
perienced officers, with a nucleus of
trained soldiers about which was or
ganized large army of volunteers in
augurated definite, permanent mill
tary policy for this country, based on
the principle of maintaining a small
disciplined standing force as the core
of great volunteer army. Discussed
from this viewpoint the military oper-
atoms of the Revolution gain a new
and great significance: the purely
military skill and initiative of Wash
ington and those acting with him,
viewed as the foundation of such a
service comes to have a great and not
widely recognized civil Importance.
General Greene's ultimate purpose is
to write a complete history of the
American army as illustrating this
though in itself a complete work, is
to be first in a series of three, the sec
ond to deal with the Mexican, Span
ish, and other minor wars, and the
third with the Civil war alone.
Daniel Beard is a unique flgure IN the
literary world. Some of his books are
now passing into the hands of second
generation. A good many men who as
boys were. partly educated on the
american Boys Handy Book now
have boys of their own to become alb
sorbed in it and the amuSementS which
it discloses to them. Yet Dan Beard is
still writing books and apparently these
new ones are about as full of original
entertainment and practical value as
that first american Boys Handy
Book" Author of 1.-The Boy Pioneers
The Field and Forest Handy Book"
1.-THE Jack of All Trades The Out
door Handy Book and 1.-The American
ways been and still is the pioneer him
self-besides originating books of the
What to Do and How to Do IT, type
he has produced the first working
drawings ever published of the tailless
kite called by him the Holland Kite
now known as the Malay kite; also the
nrst working drawings ever published
of a house boat, the first working
drawings published of the construction
of a paper balloon, also the first work
ing drawings published giving the de-
tails and telling how to build an Indian
birch-bark canoe, the first working
| drawings telling how to pack a dog, the
first working drawings of a top-hitch
tor pack animals. He has also invent
ed q new manner of making diagrams
for the Diamond hitch which Illus
trates each throw of that celebrated
hitch with one diagram in place of two
or three. These diagrams make it 50
Ilain that a child can understand it.
Besides many inventions of his own in
camp-craft and engineering, he has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25
Madame Lillian Nordica

general public does not realize that the
Information necessary to build them
was originally printed in the Beard
books along with exhaustive articles on
all subjects dear to a boys heart Mr..
Beard is also the founder of the first
society of Boy Scouts in existence, the
Sons of Daniel Boone, the Boy Pioneers.
and one of the founders of the Boy
Scouts of America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25

published the first working drawings
of log house, of how to make totem
poles, of backyard switch-backs, also
the first working drawings of tree-top
houses, underground club houses, plans
for building a house on the water and
a house in the swamps, the cars to use
on a backyard switch back; the back
yard toboggan slide, the first working
drawings of the coaEting wagon and
numerous other minor devices which
have since become so popular that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25
Wf An THEs m'
IL A!!T'RE rs
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
At the Grand.

Tonight-At the. Mercy of Tiberins
Tuesday, March 2S-Henrietta. eros
man.
Thursday, March 30-Pau1 Gilmore.
April 1st-The Rosary.
Monday, April 3d-The Third De-
gree.
Saturday, April s-The Girl in the
Taxi
At the Majestic.
Next week--Lend Me Your Wife -
At the Novelty.
Vaudeville.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02
FAMILY DINNERS
At GREEN CAMP
Thanksgiving Day is En-
joyed in Real Thanks
giving Way.

Green Camp, Nov. 2.-Mr. and Mrs
Thomas j McNeal had for their
guests, Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. Alden
Brown, OF Prospect Mrs. Gertrude
stayner and son. Harold, of LaRue,
Mrs. Andrew schlosser, Mrs. Belle
stayner and sons. Murray and Car
roll and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Stayner
and daughter. all of Marion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Walker. Of
David street. Marion, visited Satur-
day and Sunday, with their daughter,
Mrs. d. ID. Fletcher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Gornllow. of Ma
rion, visited Sunday with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs William Gornnow, Of
near Mt. Olive.
Mrs Bfhe Leach spent several days
Of this week at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Bert Bricker, north
of town.
MIR. and Mrs. Herman Uncapher and
children, Esther and Karl, of near
Newmans, were guests, Sunday, Of
Nj. and Mrs. j. p. Carmine.
Mr.. and Mrs Randolph McClelland
entertained at family dinner Sunday.
Those present were, Mr.. ana Mrs.
William McClelland and Mr.. and Mrs.
Oran McClelland, of big Island; Mrs.
Pearl Alspach and children, of To-
ledo. and Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob McClel-
land. Of our village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Wisecarvcr of
Bells Corners spent Sunday with
their daughter Mrs. Ben Fish and
family
Mrs Mary Nebcrgall and two sons,
Of Mlrion, spent Thanksgiving with
her sister Mrs. James Berry. also vis-
ited at the home of Mrs. VIII Court
west Of Green Camp
Mrs. Lorena cobb, teacher in the
Marion schools. Is spending the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Patton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Leach enter
tanned at dinner Thursday Mr.. and
Mrs. James Fletcher Jr.
Mrs. Ida McClelland is visiting her
mother, Mrs Wagner, at Tlfliu, Ohio
for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ritzler pro.
prietors of the Central hotel, gave "a
family dinner, Thanksgiving to their
children and grandchildren and Il
few invited guests. \ sumptous spread
was enjoyed at noon. Those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. l.. r. Dowell. Of
Chase strdet. Marion; Mr. and Mrs.
Claud Eckley, OF north Of Marion Mr..
and Mrs. Chris Brady and daughter,
Mary. Of east of Owens; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Ritzlcr and daughter; Mr.. and
Mrs Chard Jerew and three sons;
MIR and Mrs. John titzler Jr and
family, Of near Prospect
Mr.. and Mrs y. w. Porter spent
Thursday with their daughter, Mrs.
John McNell, at her home on Pleas
ant street Marion.
Mr.. Isaac BoXwell, an aged resident
of our village, Is In very poor health.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02
Temperance


The following mastery address on
Personal Liberty and the Spirit OF
Anarchy" by the Hon. Seaborn
Wright. Of Georgia. was delivered at
the National womahs Christian Tenn
perance Union, Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin. october 90. 1915
since the Civil war there have
grown up i'm America immense busi-
ness corporations, knit together into
what we call trusts, or combines.
Among the great Industries so weld
ed together, stand today conspicuous
the Whisky trust and Brewery COM
bine. 4 thousand million dollars VIII
not cNaggerate their combined cup-
ital They not only control the man
ufacture of whisky and beer, they
practically own and, through local
agents, control the hundreds Of thou
sands OF saloons now operating I'm
America. The independent saloon-
keeper is a thing of the past. Let as
understand then. plainly, the enemy
we are lighting. DO not let us blind
ourselves as to It's power and re-
sources. We are nghtlng arrogant
brutal trusts with unlimited capital,
accumulated since the Civil war-in-
terests which neither love nor hate
the people. controlled solely by the
idea of extending their trade, and
with the sole purpose OF making
money 4 thousand times | have
said, and so long as God gives me
power To speak, ! viii say-it Is the
ld-blooded lust of money in men
who manufacture ana sell and not
the appetites of men who drink
which is responsible for the alarming
use of Intoxicating liquors in Amer
lea. The Whiskey trust and the
Brewery combine are literally fore
ing upon the American people the
habit of drink.
Deliberately, and with a devirs
cunning. the Whisky trust and
Brewery combine have twisted
warped and hidden the real issue
before the American people.
Through the great newspapers
they control through thousands of
paid emissaries, they have taught mil
lions OF honest men 10 believe that
this crusade against the liquor traf-
nc is crusade against men wht
drink. They have deceived them int
the belief that 1t Is "A war upon theil
| liberty
What Is the truth? There Is mol
one word in any temperance law in
America which says TO The adul
grown man. you shall not drink; moi
one word which says you shall not
keep liquor for personal use within
certain limitations. our war Is no
upon men who drink but upon a vas
class of men who have realized tn,
| possibility Of making money out o
| the passions and appetites of men
upon the same principle that CLASSES
of men in our great cities are maklns
millions out of the business o
gambling. out of the business q
prostitution We make war upol
these men, not upon their victims
Every man who thinks, must know
that the value of the property of IN,
| Whisky trust and Brewery combin,
depends absolutely upon the sale o
their goods. II their combined cap
ital today. amassed since the Civl
War. Is a thousand million dollar
its value absolutely depend upol
the one fact that by pushing thei
trade steadily. perslstently, relent
lessly they have taught the peopl
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hgnting the Whisky trust and Brew
sry combine, not oniy doubling the
cost of whisky and beer but aided by
our govcrnments, forcing the poor
men TO pay twelve times the cost o.
production for his liquor"
Then 1 looked steadily into the face
of this man and it seemed TO me, gaz-
ing through the windows of hls
soul" that | could follow his thought,
could see with him the rented home
whore the whlto-faced woman bend.
ing to her sordid Work-the woman
who back i'm her girlhood days. when
the light was i'm her eyes and roses
al loom ON her checks, gave herself
e. him, today, the tired, heart-brokeR
mo- her OF his children; / could fol-
low lis thoughts 10 the saloon where
the cunning agents of the Whisky
trdst and the Brewery combine piled
hls trade, where dollar by dollar the
rCw6rds of his long life toll had gone
dollars which might have won for him
4 happy home, consecrated by the
pIa;tle of Joyous childhood and
SWeetened by a mothers lullaby. as
She sang her little ones 20 rest Then
| Saw as plainly as day, the light OF
Gods t.uth break through his blurred
VISION as he gave me his hand. hence
fortE lcysl soldier in the crusade
against oppression and wrong for
human rights And so would il oe
with the millions of laboring men n
they would but think, If they would
bu, think.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02
Chill Con carne.

From remOtest Mexico comes this
recipe for chill con carne. which Is
capable of warming whatever cookies
the heart may have ANA Of diIfusing
calorles 10 ones works NJ large: First
comes n fire Of logs In The open. Second
comes au ola cf generous proportions.
Into the ola put gallon of water aud
plenty Of the hot chilis. and in that
region Of Mexico they ripen So hot that
not even the rattleSuake will dare take
refuge I'm their shade Upon This he
ginning lay ns much Of side OF beef
In one piece rs may he squeezed into
the pot Set the cover on this ola and
lutte 1t down With clay. Then put Tie
pot into the lire and heap the glowing
Goals all over II. With particular alton
ton 10 the ill., so that the luling may
bake into brick. Keep the lire burning
slowly all day long When night has
come scatter the emhrrs, break the
brick seal OF The OLA. fork ont and
throw away whatever of the meat !"
mains solid The remainder is the chill
con carue. No sauce Is needed
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02

or the renuhIjc 10 annually consume
co.. Iuiia,, noit,rs' ,,or,,, ac a.,
,nad,,nt or +ha,r s,ii,s ana trav,or,as
n,o ,,,i,,,atn ,h. ,.aIn, az ,ho,r
,,,.,,,o,,,. No., ,,,ns, not mil, hoi1
80. ,t LII, h,,, ,.,u,t, ~
t,,,,t, ~ ,ba tt,s ~ a., ,,,, ~
d,.,nk todn, ~ Vhi,i,,. trrs, ana
A., p,.,,,,,,,. ..,,,,,t,t,n ~, ,oao,, ,
n,.,, ..anernt,o, tn dr,nl,
,,o, r,.Il,e th. ,ru,h thoy
,stan1 a,,,a,.1 ,nnoilod NJ i,s rrisht-
en- t,,,,,,,, ,rti,L ~ a. ,,o,sa,,,',i
riu,on dollars in mo hands or dan
,orans ,,ns.run,ilo,s mon obsointclv
denondont for its yalu. rn,n tbo
wreckopc or the Gnest virtues of
N,,,orIco, ,,,,bood ond Fam, its rp.
go ,.at,,o mon Ne rrir.d ,,anboo.i
~ n,,nto,s nj ,ner,can n,ys
nov II,yc Thr, An,ns.cd Thcir Nil.
,ionso
in'" l''''''.''' ,,,, ,r,',''..'.,.
pE soVtIH'''"' '"No'i''S''' i'l""S %
tne PuHVE VI .'>'e.uu' '''''"h u'''' " ~
the feutr'' 7',er,''''enI ivy nav = :
pracueal'N 'Iu7"'u ~ ,""'p'i'ur"'
oppoS'tloh ",'" '9''p'isi'o" a." '''"
lute lhohol'"N
b'l"re u'' w Nar' 'ueIv W.
lnousahuS "l '"Uopenuei. ".S''''''i ',S'
me cost OF WHISKY prlor 10 'nr ~
WhFh puI'"'S'" .i"ni w '"'' 'p'l'"-
eht uiSU'.S' was ."oii,s Nv ,v'''' Pc
sauoH' "' '",' ,oo''S ~ "a, '''
su,,s' SUI, q. ",ro from ,wo ~ ,@vo doIlarsH
80, ai,ht ~. twenty ,in,es tho cos,
,ui" - ~" ,fI .,.ston, Ntoronot, IN
u',I ,'','iei,, NH Nor ts onIy nossihl,
',9' -, 80 tsodnr,i ,,, M,
,,'''', t,,o,..y,s todav Az MOI nbioc,
=" 'tt w.. Tod,r,I tax thongb # is zoo
NOV ront oboya the eost of produc.
zion.
There are many reasons why IN,
Whisky trust and Brewery combmr
| do not object rn the enormous "a,
ostensibly placed upon their bust,
ness. not only by the Federal govern
ment but by state. county and cit,
government.
FIRST, as / have said, II enables 3
class 10 lnonopulize the business. Jus
as the Federal tax OF $1.1O on everl
gallon made. ultimately destroys tn
independent diviller and an cqua
tax the independent brewer, so state
county and city tax on the saloon
growing higher each year. has driver
out of business the small independ
ent dealer ami given the real owner
ship of the saloons TO the Whisk.
trust and Brewery combine.
second the government tax OF
lliouor nsures The government pro
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02
Arousss Suspicion.

~7VVVNVVVVV|VVV ' ' = y ' Y ~ ' ' ' y =
x Arouses Suspicion. Z
9 We have noticed that when y
3 woman spends nil her time be-
& tween twenty and thirty In hlrt- 3
3 ing she generally has to hustle 9
g between thirty and forty TO .
3 make almost any kind OF a man 9
q believe she Is In enrnrst.-SDo' Z
2 kane Spokesman Review. &
The California Legislature, mind
ful of the new fact that women have
votes, proposes TO pass bill provid-
ing that "over ~" viii be a sufficient
answer to the age Interrogation at
registration,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02
Getting Cupplics,

"Iohn.' said the bride Of last June
sadly. we're all out Of pickles and
chill snuce again"
IAN right. my dear" replied her hus'
band. wen go aud visit your mother
for little while tomorrow night and
graft a few more bottles. detroit
Free Press.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02
inexpensive.

"I am thinking Of going to Europe on
a vacation"
You are! didn't know you had that
much money"
Il haven't, but. you see, II doesn't
cost anything TO think of golng."-Lip.
pincotts
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-02

First came the bicycle, with which
all are familiar. Next came the mo-
torcycle, clipping it through tho
streets at terrific pacc--thc power
being supplied by "A mysterious box
under the riders seat which gives
the machine It's name. Now comes
an inventor at Oakland. Cal, p. Frqy,
with a new machine called rha hy-
drocycle, which is motorcycle de-
signed TO run on water