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Arizona republican., 1912-12-01
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Arizona republican., 1912-12-01

Death his recently robbed the stage of two particularly popular comedien- nes. Miss Mabel Hite and Miss Mabel Harrison will be sadly missed. For years Miss Hite was a very bright spot in the theatrical world. Who could not laugh at her,-and with her. was in deed hopeless. As a gloom dispeller and joy-producer she was a wonder
 Poor little Mabel Harrison was an other; all the more wonderful when one thinks of her long. hard and hope less fight against the great white
Arizona republican., 1912-12-01

tins Restaurant is really. a great art ist. He never Offends and is the en- bodiment of grace. At the very end of the performance the Akern Troupe" came on in a bicycle act that caught the house and dispelled what was evil dently very heavy gloom. In a big auditorium like the Winter Garden it is hard to get things over" so that all productions there are largely spectacu- lar
Arizona republican., 1912-12-01

I have often read of men advertis- ing for a wife, but I can't call to mind an instance where a woman advertised for a husband. That may in a measure account for the scar city of single men and the abund- ance of unmarried women
Arizona republican., 1912-12-01

The new Winter Garden Review Broadway to Paris met with a cold reception at the hands of the critics. One gentleman speaks of it as " a per
 "formance that reaches in many in stances the rock bottom of stupidity" That is pretty low down. The general idea seems to be that with tons of scenery, acres of costumes and a vast display of tights and bare legs" there was altogether too much review and too little of Miss Gertrude Hoffman, the featured star She made big hit with her "nympth dance" as did also the famous Maurice and his partner Miss Flora Walton in their dancing. Maurice who made his bow to New York in the Cabaret in Louis Mar
Arizona republican., 1912-12-01

be permitted to hear him. The type of opera made no difference to him. To- day is the day of specializing, one sings that particular type of opera to which one is particularly suited. German, French, Italian. it was all one to De Reszke-he was king in them all. Lo- hengrin, Siegfreid Faust, Don Jose in Carmen, Wather in the Meistersing- ers,-his equal has never been known. That perfect combination of singer, actor and gentleman.
 Andreas Dippel, director Ue the Chi cago- Philadelphia Opera CO, himself a great tenor and a greater actor, says that today De Reszke's voice is, if pos sibe. even more beautiful than it was twenty years ago. He tried very hard to persuade him to make farewell trip to this country and create the tenor role in a new French opera which is to have it's first production in Chi cago this winter. De Reszke was al- most persuaded; but looking back at the farewells of other noted artists farewells that displayed only the tarn- ished remains of past slories,-he wisely decided to let well enough alone T am only human. The voice is no longer the voice of youth My memor- ies of America are too happy to risk their being changed. It is better to be remembered as I was. You know the
 fable of the pitcher and the well' he writes to MT. Dippel If only others would do likewise.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-01

Still on the subject of opera. The present season promises to be a par ticularly brilliant one. A number of novelties are promised although no new opera in English is to be produced at the Metropolitan this season.
 At present Litta Ruffo and Lucrezia Bori, the little Spanish prima donna, are the sensations at the moment. Un- like Signor Ruffo, Bori came unher- aided There was no blowing of trum- pets nor beating of drums. She was chosen to share the honors of the op- ening performance with the great Ca rusO in Puccinis 'Manon Lescaut,' less well known than his later opera but more frankly melodious than any of
 them.
 Society," paid Caruso the compli- ment of coming early,-it paid BOri the tribute of staying late. The little lady with the little silver voice. seems to have crept into the heart of that most critical of all audiences in a manner as surprising to her audience as it must have been to her small self. At the end of the first act "she was politely received" In the second act came her "aria of wearinesS.". "These splendOrs with never a kiss After this act she received seven curtain calls and a dozen more after the third act
 Here the great house rose to her, show ering her with flowers and refusing to
 let her go. As our critic says, Tn vain Caruso edged away toward the dress ing rooms. Bori, so slender and half a head shorter than he picked up her bouquet and thrust them in his arms till she left the chief tenor looking like a chrysantbemum show. At last he tore a huge branch of antiuim foliage. Busting the floor to the footlights he beckoned the nut-broWn maiden out and when she appeared, he laughingly
 swept her away again with the floral broom"
 Signor Polacco too, making his debut on this greatest of opera first nights" scored a popular success, as we'll as critical commendation Signor Polacco is the man who is credited with dis covering Tetrazzini on San Francis CO.,
Arizona republican., 1912-12-01
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA
by Maitland Dawes.

To cap the climax came the big op- ening of the new Weber and Fields Music Hall with it's well loved proprie- tors and it's galaxy of stars. Both The High Road" and the ''Weberfields' Op- ening will be gone into at length in a later issue
Arizona republican., 1912-12-01

In an appreciation of Mischa Elman in last Sundays paper, the types made us speak of Mr Henderson "of the New Yorn Herald" This was an error. The New Yolk Herald has no standing as d critic dramatically or musically, il reports" but it does not "criticise. :. lie .ics referl ed to were MT. P1ii.p Hale of The Boston Herald and MT. W. j. Henderson of the New York Sun, conceded to be the greatest musical critics of the day
 Can it be that King Tenor is to be dethrored and the meek and lowly
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
What a Reporter Saw in the Room of Dread

bound to prevent them from tossing
about in their beds and falling out.
They were very pale. Many were
scarcely conscious. DR.. Luscher stop.
ped at each bedside a moment, speak.
ing word of encouragement to each
patient.
I-e visitor was deeply impressed
by the strange scene. He had so
strongly sympathized with the pa.
tients that he had not asked the su
perintendent any questions. AS he
was leaving the big room he wanted
to know about the masks, the re.
straining bonds on the hands and feet
Of the patients, and finally the disease
with which they were infected.
That big room is the isola.
tion ward for patients infected with
cerebro-spiral meningitis" replied the
superintendent. The visitors spine
ibegaE to creep. Then he thought OF
his heels and took to them as fast as
he could, reaching the elevator Just
as It had passed out OF sight. While
the visitor waited DR.. Luscher contin
ued: Those masks are to prevent
possible infection, but the attendants
do not know whether or not they are
immune from infection with the dead.
ly germs. They work blindly, as all dc
in caring for meningitis patients.
They are heroes and heroines, fac
ing death as long as" but the eu
logy never was finished, for the visit
or hurried into tho elevator.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
Boy Pirates Hush Baby's Cries With Cookies

MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.-Just like
AVA all the money in the world was
the way $23 looked to two twelve.
year-old robbers who looted the till of
Lake street grocery. fed baby gin
gersnaps to keep it quiet while they
made the raid, and then fed to Lake
Minnetonka, where they planned TO
become pirates, with a cave on Mich
aels island for headquarters. The
pirate flag was never raised for the
sight OF two youngsters buying ice
cream sodas by the half dozen and
dickering with boatmen to charter a
launch was too bizarre to escape the
notice of Chief of Police John Pow.
ers Of Excelsior. With but IS of the
money spent, the pirate cruise ended
in the city Jail
The boys told their own story when
thev we're locked up. They said they
went into Gust Johnson's grocery, 523
East Lake street, just to spend few
pennies. They found the store de-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
01y571Is2y,oe:c'.GOTHANond 1y57I2,e (:
l2ss 8z2Ss#as3}oMcrC CITIES
What Occurred When the Big Liner Pulled Out

/ band" she repeated. "he has deserteC
me! he has deserted mel"
We'll, who can blame the poor fel
low?" demanded an irrreverent bach
elor. and was literally transhxed fol
his temerity.
The ship was FIVE minutes late ano
she was a mail steamer. too, The
woman would not bulge from the
gang plank and the sailormen could
not pull It in without dropping her
into the North river. The steamer
was getting later every minute.
My husband she shrieked
Where is he? He has deserted me-
won't sail without him!"
We'll go ashore and let us SAIL
calculated an exasperated sailorman'
The liner was now ten minutes late
Then he came through the crowd.
He didn't seem TO be making any un'
due effort to hurry. Perhaps he
couldn't. He was bespectacled little
man, laden down with more bundles
than a Baxter street peddler.
MY husband" she shrieked. There
he is. thought he was deserting
me-"
Il am Gustav Atesh," was all he had
time to tell a shipnews reporter be-
fore she dragged him up the first cab
in gangway, and as the liner headed
out into the stream she could be seen
dragging him back toward the second
cabin. The big vessel sailed fifteen
minutes late.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
Wife Turns at Last and Beats Tiny Spouse

NHICAGO.-Peter Lombard OF bl7
Y South Halsted street weighs about
l25 pounds. His wife weighs 200. and
is about four inches taller than her
husband. In spite OF these discrepan'
cies. Lombard beat her whenever he
took the notion-and the notion
struck him frequently in the last three
years-according to her testimony be.
fore Municipal Judge Caverly the 9th
er day.
The night before. she said. he came
home in fighting mood again. Mrs.
Lombard objected to taking a beat.
ing, but her husband insisted she was
looking at the subject in a wrong
light Then she lost her patience,
picked up an iron pot from the kitch-
en- stove and whaled him over the
head with it, The argument was eff
fective. Lombard appeared in court
with his head bandaged.
Big Mrs. Lombard took the witness
stand and explained what happened
TO little Mr. Lombard.
we we're married about four years
ago." she said. "A year later my
husband decided he wouldn't work any
longer. So he retireB. The fact that
he hadn't any money didn't seem to
bother him, but worried about 1t. /
got hungry occasionally.
so went to work, and have sup
ported him and myself for three
years. He didn't do anything: once
in awhile he would ask me for money,
and when / didn't have 1t he would
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
EX.CONVICT AN EVANGELIST
To Help Other Men to New Lives
Work Of Alderman Burke Of
Philadelphia.

Philadelphia.-Wil Burke, who
resigned from the common council
and then fed the city when he could
no longer meet blackmail demands OF
former prison cellmate in the
Charlestown (Mass) prison, leaving
behind a written confession In which
he declared that up to his coming to
Philadelphia, about three years ago,
he had been n criminal ever since he
could remember, has become an evan
gelist.
Burke, since his return TO Philadel-
phia, has been running u cigar store
in which he had been established by a
business man whose interest was
aroused by Burke's published life
story.
Mr. Burke will join the Inasmuch
Mission workers, located IN "Hells
Half Acre" this city, and labor with
them to save wrecked lives.
Mr.. Burke made this announcement
the other day at the religious service
at Lemon Hill, when he responded to
an invitation given by Rev. DR.. James
B. Ely that he speak. He told the story
of his life, and said that since his re-
turn to Philadelphia he had received
hundreds of letters from eX-conyicts
asking him to aid them to mend their
lives as he had done his own. The let
ters. he declared. have induced him to
take up the work.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
"GooD STUFF"
A Confirmed Coffee Drlnker Takes to
Postum.

A housewife was recently surprised
when cook served Postum instead oe
coffee. She saya;
For the last FIVE or six years have
been troubled with nervousness, In
digestion and heart trouble. couldn't
get any benefit from the doctors med.
icine 80 finally he ordered me to stop
drinking coffee, which / did.
II drank hot water while taking the
Doctors medicine, with some improve
ment, then went back to coffee with
the same old trouble as before.
"a new servant girl told me about
Postum-said her folks used 1t and
liked it in place of coffee. We got a
package but I told her / did not be-
heve my husband would like it, as he
was a great coffee drinker.
ITO my surprise he called for o
third cup. said it was good stuff and
wanted to know what it was. We
have used Postum ever since and both
feel better than we have in years.
MY husband used to have bad
spells with his stomach and would be
sick three or four days, during which
time he could not eat or drink any.
thing. But since he gave up coffee
and took tG Postum, he has had no
more troU' 20, and we now fully be,
neve 1t W all caused by coffee.
Il have not had any return of my
former troubles since drinking Pos
tum, and feel better and can do more
work than in the last ten years. We
tell everyone about it-some say they
tried 1t and did not like it. tell them
It makes all the difference as to how
it's made. 1t should be made accord.
ing to directions-the it is delicious"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the book, "The
Road to Wellville." in pkgs. There's
a reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time, The1
are genuine. true, and 1ul OF humaa
Antcrest. Adv
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
SHE COULD ANSWER FOR HIM
Little Comfort for Candidate In Rea-
son Assigned by Wife for Her
Being Confident.

Mr.. Williams, one of five candidates
for the Office of sheriff in one Of the
northern counties of Wisconsin. was
making a house-to-house canvass OF
rural districts soliciting votes. Com
Ing t othe house of Farmer Thompson,
he was met at the door by the good
housewife. and the following dialogue
ensued:
is Mr.. Thompson Mt home?"
No, he has gone to town."
Il am very sorry. as l would have
liked to talk to him"
rs there anything can tell him fOI
you?"
MY name is Williams, candidate for
bheriff, and l wanted to exact a prom
Ise from him to vote for me at the
coming election"
"Oh. that will be all right, know
be will promise. for he has already
promised four other candidates the
same thing. Norman e. Mack's Ma
honal Monthly.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
French Woman Writers Discuss
Case of Nine. Bloch.
Six to Two Against Woman Who Shot
Her Rival-Various Opinions
on Crimes of Passion and
Literature.

Paris.-Some French woman au'
thors have been giving their views on
the right of their sex to kill. TheiI
opinions are based on the case OF
Nine Bloch, who wrote books signed
with the name of Frederic de Beau
lien and who shot and killed Mrs.
Bridgeman, who had won M. Bloch's
affections. From the prison Nine.
Bloch announced that she had re-
ceived "innumerable letters Of con-
graduation" and that many of them
came from her sister authors. The
suggestion that woman writer's sym
pathized with Nine. Bloch's act moved
lie Miroir to make an inquiry. or the
eight women of letters who gave their
opinion only two supported Nine.
Bloch's action. The first of this mi
nority, Nine. Marie de Vovet, writes;
Although murder inspired by jeal'
ousy is reproved by all In principle,
nothing is more difficult to Judge in
the various forms it may take. Inc
best thing, it seems to me, Is to treat
it with charity, thinking that before a
woman's hand could seize a weapon
there must have been suffering enough
to constitute presumptiye expiation."
Nine Aurel, the other supporter OF
Nine. Bloch, writes: IF a rival had
dared to set me at defiance | believe
that | should have done as Nine.
Bloch did. 1t is none the less mis-
fortune"
AS for the six woman writer's who
condemn Nine. Bloch's crime, more
than one finds that desire for self
feeling that the ac-
ton would boom her books, had some
influence on her mind Nine. Daniel
Lesuer, the best known writer Of the
eight quoted, says:
q hold that he who kills ought to
accept death; otherwise he is the
most cowardly of beings On this con
dition only can vengeance to death
be clothed with any grandeur"
Nine. Jeanne Landre would have a
law passed that, except in cases OF
self defense, no acquittal should be
allowed when a death has been caused.
She casts doubts on the sincerity of
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25

The greatness Of che future will not
depend upon its science. its invention
IT'S industry, its trade, its knowledge,
or any Of these material things. Our
glory must rest not upon the physical.
but upon the spiritual That has been
the backing OF all great reforms and
upward movements recorded in bis
tory. It has been the vital principle
of all great and true lives. And what
is this spiritual upon which all true
progress is built? It is faith, love,
hope friendship, unselfshness. There
is no fact in everyday life sure and
steadfast as this. We may grow in
material things, but it is not true
growth unless we grow in spiritual
things, too says the Ohio State Jour
nal Whoever spends his life in ma,
terial progress, in making money and
doing a great business, is no agent OF
lr friend of his community unless he
embodies these spiritual qualities in
his work. The only real enterprise
consists in its alliance with these vir-
tues of the spirit. One can build the
taIlest structures, the biggest mill or
the longest railroad, but he is a poor
agent Of the public good if he does not
unite in his work these great moral
virtues.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25

proceed to beat me. never fought
/ back.
But last night ! lost my temper.
He came home and demanded money.
! had none. Then he struck me.
picked up that iron pot. and just gave
him a good wEack over the head with
it. He seemed surprised. / really
didn't want to hurt him, but it seems
/ cut his head. Anyway, the police
arrested him for disorderly conduct.
Judge Caverly looked Lombard over
and smiled
You look like a man who has been
tanned" he said. 81 don't think you'll
beat your wife again Take him home,
Mrs. Lombard and the next time he
starts a massacre, you know about
what to do. And don't you ever come
before me again. Lombard. on
charge Of wife beating. II you do.
I'll have to take care of you"
Lombard and his wife departed arm
in-arm, their domestic troubles-like
Lombard's head-apparently patched
up.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25

Miss Dora Keen the mountain clim,
Der who ascended Mount Blackburn
in Alaska, startled American geog.
raphers by her statement that she
saw at a distance to the eastward an
unknown mountain apparently higher
than Mount Mckinley. Coast sur.
yey experts have looked into the mat,
ter and found that the peak which at
rracted Miss Keen's attention is
Mount Steele, the height of which
has been estimated to be G,439 feet,
while the height of Mount Mckinley
is upward of 10000 feet. The height
of Mount Blackburn is 16,14O feet,
which is 300 feet lower than that of
Mount Steele Mount Mckinley re.
'ains the reputation which it had
when it was named of being the lofti-
est peak on the North American cont.
neut
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
q A&5{1AI!2:::l

KANSAS CITY, MO.-A reporter for
N local newspaper wanted to be
taken on a sightseeing tour of the
General hospital. DR.. L. w. Lusch
er, superintendent of the institution
granted the request. 'I'll take you
myself and wen start in on the third
floor" he said.
The particular part of the third
floor in which they began their visit
seemed an unusual place, even to
the visitor, unaccustomed to sights in
q hospital. Nurses and orderlies ap-
peared ghostly in white garments and
heavy white masks entirely covering
the face and head, with only room
enough to see. They also wore rub
Der gloves. The masks we're so ar
ranged that the air they breathed
was filtered by passing through them
The visitor saw two rows OF ten
beds each, separated by a wide aisle
Thirteen of the beds were occupied
The patients appeared dangerously i'll
The hands and feet OF a few were
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25

Nj YoRK.-The last visitor had
~ gone ashore from a big liner the
other morning. The last adieu had
been said. The second cabin gang.
plank had been drawn In. Fussy little
tugs were drawing tight on the haw-
sers preparatory TO pulling the liner
out of the pier. Sailormen were un
lashing the first cabin gangway, ready
TO haul her on board The captain
and his officers we're on the bridge
telegraphing to the engine room
But the steamer did not sail on
time.
Through the hundreds on the pier.
whose waving -handkerchlefs and fags
were bidding goodby to departing
ones, a woman came dashing like
Sam White through Harvard lineup.
She was not to be denied, for she was
a suffragette and she looked it.
,ln a trice she bounded onto the first
cabin gangplank, nor would she bulge.
my husband" she shrieked in ac'
cents wild, as the poets say. MY hus-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-25
Protected Both Ways.

Two conservative ladies' OF old
fashioned notions were travelling Ia
the west and, becoming interested in
a young girl on the train, finally asked
why she was making so long a jour
ney alone. They were greatly shocked
at her Elithe explanation:
well, you see, my mother and step
father live at one end of the journey
and my father and stepmother live al
the other. They send me to each
other twice a year, so there isn't e
bit of danger with four parents al
on the lookout"