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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-27

| something of advantage to everybody
perhaps arranged But at the end OF
a long and gloomy talk nobody had
found anything brilliant TO suggest
81 won't go TO the poorhouse, and
won't be an object of charity" ex-
claimed Lille pluckily. "1ve been in
bad scrapes before and got out of 'cm
somehow. and I bet we all have I'M
less It's Gordon, so l guess we can
again"
Cant we get at them and punish
them somehow" Loveland wanted to
know.
Stakes money to do that sort of
thing. even IL we could II would cost
the boss of the hotel more than ia
-cobus owes him for us all to 90 to law
now they've vamooscd out of the state
too. As for us, we're not In it-except
the soup. We're stripped clear of ev-
erythlng but our theater trunks, and
they'd have taken them IL they'd
| dared"
But Loveland had not even n the.
alter trunk.
"If we could get up some kind OF
benefit performance, those that are left
OF u.s." he, suggested. 1--WE might make
enough TO go-somcwhcre."
Good idea If we had play" said
Eddy. But we-no, by jinks, we
have got oncr'
"What one?" asked Lille de Lisle,
clasping her hands.
sidney Cremer's Lord Bob Old
j. j. gave me the manuscript to copy
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-27

What remained of the night he spent
in committing to memory the part of
Lord Bob. for which. without dis
sentlng voice. the five other members
of the company had cast him.
They went out to rehearsal early
next morning and were thankful that
there had been neither rain nor snow
to destroy the fragile posters. In front
of one which Loveland had put up on
the face Of the opera house stood girl
and an old man. talking In low voices.
81 shall certainly write and tell them
what's going on" remarked the girl to
her companion. who was probably her
father. ats n shame. Something
ought TO he done"
eve might telegraph IL you think 1t
would be worth WHILE" replied the old
man
Loveland heard the words, spoken as
the pair turned away to walk down the
street toward the residence part of the
town. but he attached no Importance
to the disjointed sentences.
Everybody was In deadly earnest,
and the rehearsal went of very well,
considering all its disadvantages.
Ed Blnney's cough had not i'm
proved, but he was kept up on strong
hot coffee. and they got through tho
performance that night. two men short,
almost without hitch.
A few well though plainly dressed
ladies' and gentlemen were I'm the front
seats, and all seemed TO know each
other. laughing and talking together
between the acts, and among them,
through peephole in the curtain,
Loveland recognized the nice looking
girl and old man lie had seen staring
Mt his homemade poster in the morn.
ing.
The profits OF the first performance
and the next were not what Val had
expected, though the acting of the
company improved. but on the last
night Loveland tried to hope that Ash.
vile would turn out In full force.
Having set the first scene himself
in default of stage manager or COM
petent stage hands. he applied an
anxious eye to n small "spy hole" in
the curtain and peeped out.
His heart sank. The house was half
empty. But 1t was early still. There
was hope yet. People were coming
in. There were the old gentleman and
the girl he had seen before, finding
their way once more to the front seats.
| With them were Lesley Dearmer and
her aunt, Mrs. Loveland.
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paper. solely in the hope OF finding
news of her He described BilfS de-
light at hearing that she had become a
star" with her own company, and
explained how 1t was by Bilrs wish
and ndvlcc that he had written to ask
for his present engagement
az only it was my company, really"
sighed the poor little star, wouldn't |
lust send for Bill to come out? But
I haven't got any more say, than the
property man, and y. j. used 10 hate
Bill, becausc-bcCaus he was Jealous.
You see. that was before sacobus mar
rlcd. oh, since you're friend Of Bits
and he told you he cared about me |
can talk to you as If I'd known you
forever. II Bill had asked me to mar
nv him | would in minute. But he
never did. / wasn't sure he ever real
~ cared till what you said tonight.
lie was the best man ever knew"
"I'm not sure he isn't the best | ever
knew, too" said Lovcland.
"Id have sooner begged with him
lllNH Nt u uut'l Win " 'ibNh WI NY
head IL he wasn't the kinE!" sighed
Miss dc Lislc. Don't you feel that
way, too. about lover
"Ycs." Lovcland answered. 81 didn't
always, but then used not TO under
stand"
ITS too late now" Blll's star went
on. 1--WE shall never see each other
again"
The words echoed in Lovcland's
head: TOO late now. We shall never
see each other again"
"Thc human flowers" thoughts were
far away with Bill willing. But at
least she knew where he was and was
sure that he loved her. while Val did
not even know the name of the place
near Louisville where Lesley Dcarmcr
, lived. and he was sure that she did
not love him. Yes, he was sure Of
that, though perhaps there was n time,
he told himself. when he might have
made her care.
Instead of trying TO win her when he
had the chance he had asked her ad.
vice about the best way Of making
love TO other girls. oh, he deserved
all he had got. he thought with sud.
den fury-all-evcn 10 being a waiter
at AlcXander's and leading Juvenile
under the management of"J. j."
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-27
CHAPTER Xxx.
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.

OltDON, come TO our room
directly after dinner. l
want to talk to YOU" said
~ Miss Moon. mot a word
to any one, mind"
She spoke in a low voice, with an
air of mystery, stopping Lovcland on
the stairs and then passing with
significant look and a finger on her
lips as n door shut sharply some
where above.
1t was only week that day, since he
had Joined the company. but the long
est week of his life, save one. AL
ready the time when he had not been
/ 4 transforming country actor seemed
distant He was "old man" or dear
boy" with all the men except Jacobus,
and Gordon" with the actresses.
If Lesley Dcarmer We're an actress
and 1t we've her company instead of
Lille de Isles, he said to himself,
how happy he could be in spite of all
hardships. Always she seemed near,
always she was in his thoughts, but
perhaps this was partly because some
one had mentioned incidentally that
Ashville. where the company was
playing now, lay only about thirty
miles from Louisville.
Somewhere near Louisville she lived,
aud II he were Lord Loveland, with
money in his pocket, even little mon
ey, instead of being just n strollins
actor named Gordon, with two suits
Of clothes TO his back, he would have
tried his hardest to find her. How she
must have laughed mt his fallen pride
and the wildly farcical things such
merry humorsts as Tony Kidd had
doubtless put into the papers! He had
become Il mere figure Of fun for Amer
lea and therefore for Lesley Dearmer,
who had never been respecter of
persons, and the fear that "the human
flowers" company might play ut Louis.
vile had been hot in his mind until
Ed Binncy treasured him. Louisville
was not for the "lilkes of them" Soon
| they would be out of Kentucky, and
he had written TO Bill Willing, asking
him TO send on any mail to Boomers,
town, Mo. Now Miss Moons mys.
FERROUS summons gave him an uneasy
moment.
He had supposed that his acting was
satisfactory and had worked hard oyel
the learning, and rehearsing Of his
parts, seldom getting to sleep before
In the morning, then dropping Off witt
a manuscript in his hand as well rs II
his head. But what II Miss Moor
meant to break the news that -. j.
thought he could not act well enough
and that he must expect his discharge
Immediately after the meal he wen
upstairs and knocked at the door o.
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CHAPTER xxi.
PIRATES.

ToR an instant Val thought Of
l. nothing but the heavenly sur
prise of seeing the girl he loved.
q wild impulse rushed over him
to call her name. Lesley. Dcsleyr and
spring from behind the curtain as IL
they two were alone together in a
world of their own. But after the first
luminous instant the Joy of her pres
ence was blotted out in darkness.
He remembered everything
bered that he was Perceval Gordon.
an actor of the submerged tenth, a
wretched. penniless transformer, who.
for the moment came near to being an
object of charity.
When he had hidden Lesley goodby
he was splendid being who looked
down from his heights and, though
loving her, saw her impossible as a
wife. Their friendship had begun by
being somewhat of condescension on
his part-from his own point of view
at lcast-nnd she, half amused, half
angry, had seen that point Of view
| quite clearly. nor had she ever at
tenlP'M 10 chanse II 10 'ne 'asI
At Che thought that the curtain
would ring up and show him rs he
] was now, 10 the astonished eyes OF
| Lesley learner, he could have run
away, out of the theater, anywhere
1t mnttered not whereof only she
need not see him, need not know that
tho magnificent Lord Loreland and
tho miserable 7. Gordon were one.
| His blood surged up to his head,
| throbbing In his temples ana tlngllng
In his ears, but through the confusion
or his senses penetrated the knowledge
that he could not go,
Let him suffer MS he might and must,
no couldn't desert these people whom
he had undertaken to help out of the
trouble In which by his ineXpericnce
he had landed them.
| He was responsible for putting on
Lord Bob" and his was the principal
part. Crudely as he knew that he
played II, the performance. could not
go on without him. III he refused to
act the curtain could not ring up. and
the money in the thcntcr would have
to bc refunded to the disappointed
audience.
Loveland felt that It would have
.neer almost ehaicr 10 shoot himself
|
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Mr.. and Mrs. ia
cobus' room. The
s ia ge manager
a n d his wife
We're both there,
Jacobus s IN o X
ing in sulky
silence, which he
broke only with
a grunt by way
OF greeting for
the venile
lePd." But Miss
Moon made up
In cOrdlality for
her husband s
GOODNESS.
"Air Jacobus IL
cross with me-"
= he announced
coquetis h ~,
tHulRnf NatN -
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CHAPTER Xxi.

n FrER consultation In the room
~ Of the star II appeared that
I the funds of the deserted six
amounted to exactly 80. or,
II equally divided, 81 apiece.
The landlord disappointed at find,
Ing very little Of value IN the rooms ~
the actors had threatened IN the drst
uulhurst ~ anger 10 urn Them an
into The street hut Loyeland and ~
lir do li'ln nfaurh thut he would lose
nuth'ng Dos wni'mg uu hour ar two
until Wutlors hnd been discussed und
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-27

Blank books Of all sorts lsdgers,
etc, manufactured by tho Bulletin
Publishing Company ..-..s Ia,
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"About me" Loyelnud repeated,
puzzled and vaguely uncomfortable,
"Nes There's an Idea Of mine l
want to talk 10 you about uud he snya
youll blab u 10 The olhaga But | say
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06

and also to have "coloneled" aud gen
GRADED" for number OF South ana
Central American men OF ambition.
Like numerous others who have ap-
peared on the border since the insur'
rection broke out. he has not hesl-
tated TO talk OF past performances
and has never hidden when the report
ers sought an interview.
Col. Mason, a man who says or HIM
self when reporters ask him anything
that 'he is the we'll known New YORK
soldier OF fortune. who was wounded
many times hghting Nicaragua and
Venezuela" is one OF these Amerl-
can adventures who is still with the
Madero command, but most OF the
subordinate Americans are gradually
drifting back to the border with hair
raising stories OF the dangers they
faced and cruel stories OF the treat
ment accorded them from their insur-
recto superiors in rank OF Mexican
birth and breeding Their usual COM
plant is that there are more officers
than food with the insurrectos and
that all officers eat first.
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The Way Clear For Arbitration

preciate the motives and secret in
formation OF the cabinets that drew
Il. after the Russian war. Certainly
Britain seems as well served, without
"entangling alliances by the more
elastic friendly entente with France
which has so advantageously modified
the relations between the two coun-
tries.
To frame satisfactorily an arbitra-
ton treaty with second nation which
second nation was bound TO make
common cause with third In certain
cases Of foreign war was a matter not
impossible but difficult. The Difficult
~ is removed This is an exceedingly
friendly act upon the part OF Japan
toward the British and American ma
tions and people Once again have
the Japanese statesmen shone 10
great advantage in II compared with
the jingoes In our own country, in
England and upon the continent OF
Europe who are seeking to keep alive
the heat and hostility that invite war.
New York World.
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With the news that work has been
begun upon framing the general arbi-
tration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain which Presi-
dent Taft and Sir Edward Grey have
In principle Endorsed and which liber-
al public opinion in both countries
emphatically commends, comes the
announcement that Japan will con-
sent TO the modification OF the Anglo
Japanese alliance II it stands in the
way OF the treaty. This generous
offer and attitude remove the only
serious obstacle TO the new pact OF
peace.
The Anglo-Japanese treaty has still
four years to run. IL Is not a mere
arbitration agreement but a positive
alliance, under carefully limited con-
ditions, for mutual military aid. The
first break made for many years In
the policy of splendid isolation"
which was 80 long the British boast,
II has always seemed blunder to OBJ
servers who perhaps cannot fully APP
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
BY G. A. MARTIN.


Ell PASO, Tex. April 6.-The first
American army OF insurrectos 10 en-
ter Sonora is headed by Red Lopez,
former border character OF consid-
cradle celebrity in the camps OF
Tom bstone, Bisbee and other Arizona
points.
Lopez is himself a Mexican, but
has lived for many years in the states
because, some say, he could not go
back TO Mexico-and at least half his
command is composed OF Americans.
young adventures who come 10 his
ranks from the cities OF the Pacific
coast principally. Some Americans
are said TO have joined him from the
east, too, as IL is rather hard for an
American TO get into the insurrecto
ranks In Chihuahua any more too
many OF the improved TO be lacking
In staying qualities when the rations
got low and the marching became
wearisome.
Lopez has as lieutenant one
Brodie, who claims TO have done SER
vice in the Boer war in South Africa
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
STOLEN DAUGHTER FOUND
THIRTY-NINE YEARS LATER
Cleveland Woman Was Kidnapped
When Toddiing infant-Her
Mother L. In California.

SAN BERNARDINo, Cal, April :.
"A photograph Of a twoyear-old IN
FAINT was recognized by Mrs. Sadie
Browneu, a resident OF Redlands, Cal,
as one of her daughters, who was
stolen from her nearly forty years
ago. The child had been kidnapped
from her, she declared, two weeks
after the portrait was taken in Da-
kota territory. From that time she
had never been able to find a trace
OF her daughter.
Recently the daughter, now Mrs.
Alfred Hagerty, Of Cleveland, o.,
learned for the first time that her
mother was not dead, as she had sup
posed. She at once began advertis-
ing throughout the country for trace
OF her mother. A friend of Mrs.
Brownell saw one OF the advertise
ments few days ago and notified
Chief Of Police Shay, who brought
about the Identification.
Mrs. Hagerty telegraphed that she
would start for California at once.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
PORTALS PLEA READ TO
JURY WINS BIG VERDICT
Case To Be Appealed on Ground That
Shakespeare's Character Is Not
Legal Counsel.

OMAHA, April Charles C..
Burdge, chattel loan broker, brought
suit against Adolphus C. Warthen for
$50 house rent. Warthen filed a
cross-petition. and when the case
came to trial Warthen's lawyer read
to the Jury Portals plea Of Shylock
and the pound OF flesh incident.
The Jury was out ten minutes and
returned a verdict of 500 In favor Of
Warthen, q part OF the amount being
for good will" The verdict was for
ten times as much damage as the
plaintiff had asked.
Burdge will appeal on the ground
that Portia was not recognized
counsel for the defense and her plea
should not have been read to the
Jury
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
TWELvE-Y EAR-OLD HEN
HAS REARED 400 CHICKS
Retires From Active Family Pursuits
But Still Lays an Occa-
slonsl egg.

WINONA. Wash, April The old
est chicken in this part OF the state,
Dove" little Leghorn- Brahma hen
belonging to Dan Branch, twelve years
OF age. has never been sick n day in
her life. is yet active and lays an egg
occasionally.
Until last year he Matched two
broods OF chickens each year, and
was always given enough extra ones
TO make a brood OF from twenty TO
twenty-five,
In her nine years as a mother she
has reared between four hundred and
FIVE hundred chicks Three times the
Branches-have sold all their chickens
but one, but Dove has always gone
with the family 10 the new home and
mothered another flock.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
SISTER FINDS BROTHER,
LOST IA YEARS, IN A CELL
Time Up Long Ago, But Likes Jail
Life 50 Well That He Will
Remain There

KANSAS CITY, April 49, by chance
Mrs r c. Smith. OF New York came
upon her brother. James Gray, in the
state prison at Lansing Gray likes
the place, and although free TO gol
says he Will end his days there. Mrs.
Smith said afterward she had arranged
with the warden to keep her brother.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
BURIED UNDER TONS OF
ORE, IS RESCUED ALIVE
Miner sustalns Many Cuts About the
Body, But Escapes With Every
Bone Intact.

GEORGETOWN. Col, April a.
]. Z. Burkholder was working In the
Capital mine when there was a crash
and fully ten tons OF ore and rock
broke through, burying him complete
ly. A number of miners who hap
pened 10 be in close proximity went
to the rescue of the man.
After twenty minutes Of heroic labor
on their part Burkholder was rescued.
II was believed at the time that he
had been suffocated, but soon after
being taken to the outside he regain
ed consciousness.
II was found on examination that
no bones were broken, although Burk-
holder received a number OF bad cuts
about the body.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06

Mrs Smith had not seen her brother
for fourteen years until he confront
ed her in convict's garb. She went
to Lansing merely to inspect the peni-
Tertiary.
Gray was sentenced from Concordia,
Kan. six years ago TO one year on a
charge Of stealing a pair OF shoes.
When his term expired he had no
place to go, so the prison officials
cared for him. According TO Mrs.
Smith. gambling caused Gray's down
fall.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06

that Link is get
ting along in years,
but that he's alive
to have another
birthday. For Link,
as you doubtless
know, Is our fore
most muckraker.
and there are num-
erous gents Of high
degree who would
like to kill him
dead.
Steffens is the
author of THE
Shame of the
Cities" and Is a
regular contributor
to the magazines.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
SUPPORTS HERSELF AT
70: PREFERS TO DO so
Splits Her Own Wood; Has Eight
Children and Ten Grandsons;
All Are Living.

FOREST GROVE Ore, April g.
Mrs. Sarah Crowther OF this city, who
has Just celebrated her seventy ninth
birthday anniversary, has eight living
children, two daughters and six sons,
and has ten grandsons living in this
city.
Mrs. Crowther, who has been a WI
dow for ten years, spent her girlhood
In westmoreland. England, where she
was born, and then came to America,
locating at New Orleans, where she
lived three years. She then moved
to st. Louis, and came TO Forest
Grove with her husband and children
twenty-one years ago. She is strong
and robust and lives alone. She splits
her own wood and is practically self
supporting.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06

he made two excursions which car
ried him close TO and beyond the
pole. Although the pole is not much
TO look at, Commander Peary pro-
nounces it the goal OF his lies work.
It's sad to have congress decide that
one has missed goal by l.6 miles. but
history must tell the truth and that
is what she is here for.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
Twenty Lodges Protest.

CETTINJE, Montenegro, April g.
The Turkish minister today urgently
requested that Montenegro take steps
TO stop her subjects from aiding the
rebellious Albanians in Turkey. King
Nicholas said he would do all in his
power TO comply, but admitted that
the Montenegro mountaineers were
practically beyond control.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06

he over-reached 1t,
for the committee
on naval affairs OF
the honorable, the
house OF represen-
tatives. after long
and thoughtful de-
liberation, have
solemnly declared
that on that date
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
killifer's Hard Luck.

Red Killifer. bridegroom OF n
few weeks. will be detained, owing to
o necessary operation on his new wife
for appendicitis. He will not be able
to enjoy much OF Cantillon's hospital
lty at Hickman Ky
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
TAXES BACK WIFE he AIDS
IN LEAVING THEIR HOME
FINDS short Life With Another Man
Does Not Come Up TO Her
Expectations.

CHICO, Cal. April l.-Being OF a
forgiving spirit o. ]. Eller, who last
November gave his wife permission TO
leave with another man, Alexander
Bowen, has taken her home again. She
wrote him from Medford, Ore, that
she repented, and he Immediately
Joined her. Bowen followed them 10
chico. but she spurned his attentions.
Bowen and Eiler were friends ana
when Mrs.. Eller told her husband she
wanted 10 leave with Bowen he made
no objection, helped pack her trunk,
and then accompanied the pair TO the
depot and gave them an affectionate
farewell.
The two Eller children also accom-
panied their mother TO the station and
kissed her goodby.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
OUR DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Lincoln Steffens, is As years old to-
day. There's some JOY In that-not
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
TODAY IN HISTORY.

April G, 1909. Robert L. Peary,
reached the North Pole. Strictly
speaking, perhaps
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-06
Try AGAIN With HIohbalI.

Sam Hastings has sent Highball.
2:03 81, to Billy O'Neil.