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The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
HOUSE ID PASS CANAL BILL SENATE PASSES ApMINISTRA.
 TON MEASURE. A ~, ri~ Chi1e na DaeeaN
American Ships to Be Passed Free From Toll Payments-Rail-
 road Vessels Barred.

Washington, Aug. 12-The Panama canal administration bill, which was passed in the senate by non-partisan vote of 47 to 15, Is expected to pass the house without dangerous opposi- tion, despite the fact that the original bill had one of its most drastic fea- lures modified. As the original bill came from the house it contained a flat prohibition against the ownership or control by any railroad line of a steamship line. This was toned down to prohibit the passage of railroad owned ships through the canal Spon. sors of the bill declare that they ex pect President Taft to sign the docu ment.
 As the bill stands now it provides free passage to American ships, pro hibits the passage of ships owned by railroad systems through the water way and authorizes the establishment of one-man government for the zone It is expected that railroad systems owning steamship lines nay assail the SOAot Oi Iut Ulll III tuS coufts if 1t becomes a law However, if the attack is not made and the bill stands in its present form 1t will prove a powerful instrument in the hands of the government in antitrust warfare.
 The interstate commerce commIs- sion, under the senate amendments to the bill, will become a powerful force The amendments endow the commis- sion to a large extent with the en- forcement of the antitrust law. It had been expected that the passage of the bill in face of opposition from the British government to the clause granting free tolls to American ships might be used for campaign material. However, the senate wae so divided that party lines were split up. A similar condition is expected when the bill comes to vote in the house.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
Young Turks Deliver ultimatum.

Salonica, Aug. 12.-A young Turk emissary is on his way to Constan- tnople to deliver to the government an ultimatum, the details of which have not been made public but which amount in general tenor to a demand that the Sultan dismiss his advisors of the military league, replacing them with group of men acceptable to the committee of union and progress Meeting with a refusal the young Turks will resort to force and proba- bly, organize new government.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
NO CONTEST OF ASTOR WILL
Family Denies That Suit Is Planned In Behalf of Expected
 Heir.

New York, Aug. 12-Persistent re. ports that Madeline Force Astor is contemplating a contest of the will of her husband John Jacob Astor, have been set at rest by an emphatic de. nial by w. H. Force, Mrs. Astor's father
 Those who announced that a con. test of the will was under consider atl1l declared there were grounds for bel.rr,cg the courts would give the ey.. l heir a much larger share of Astor fortune than under the provisions of the will, which pro- yides that each child who shall sur vive other than his son Vincent and his daughter Muriel, shall receive S3.000,000, to be held in trust until such child shall have attained the age of 2l years.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
Children Versus Church.

In a strong article in Suburban Life Magazine, Margaret Woodward raps the present-day woman and shows how the ancient and honorable calling of home-making Is being neglected by the modern woman. As an example she cites the following; Across the street new family has moved in, consisting of father, mother and several small children. These children are allowed to amuse themselves by committing acts of lawlessness in adjoining yards. When visited by an irate neighbor, whose lawn had received a donation of tin cans and other abominations. the mother admitted she did not know what her children were doing. When asked why she did not look after them she offered as an excuse church du- ties, which were so arduous as to leave her no time.~
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12

bet each winder upstairs cost S4 and a cellar winder cost at least $2 I ain't ever heard anything so foolish. have you?"
 Tt was perhaps a rather high esti- mate. Some day when We are over at the glazier's we might ask him just out of curiosity how mach one of our windows cost. A cellar window, for instance"
 T thought maybe We might go over that way this evening if it stopped raining" Bobby said hopefully. You aint had lot of walking today, have you?"
 Not q great deal"
 Billy says burglars always get in through cellar winders Do they?"
 Not any oftener than through other windows"
 "Once would be often for me-" Rob- by sighed Balls go through winders awful often, think"
 50 ball went through one, did it? l hope it wasn't where the boy would get himself into serious trouble"
 NO, sir That's the nice part about it." Bobby said cheerfully Tt was our window. It went through, just as easy, this morning."
 Our window? Did the boy feel sor- "? l suppose he offered to pay?"
 "rm-well, I'm offering now" Bobby stammered ''It was me"-Chicago Daily News.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
MAY SUPPORT PROGRESSivES
Leaders Predict Popuists Will Join New Party After Bitter
 Convention Fight.

Chicago, Aug. 12-The Peoples party, better known as the Populists, who meet in national convention in St Louis week of August 12 may indorse Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive cause, and disband as a separate organization. This plan was suggested as the possible action of the convention by James H Ferris of Joliet. Ill, chairman of the Populist national committee. Ferris, an editor, has devoted considerable space in his newspaper recently to commenting the Progressive party.
 The amalgamation, If it should come about, would probably only come after a sharp clash in the con- vention, according to many Western members of the party.
 Steam roller methods and bossism are likely to be charged, it is asserted For some time, the Western men say Roosevelt has packed the delegations with the Coloners followers in the Eastern states. It is likely that their right to sit in the convention will be questioned.
 George w. Perkins and Cecil Lyon of Texas said it looked almost certain that Roosevelt and Johnson would be indorsed in St Louis by the Populists
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
MOSQUITO BITE PROVESFArAL
After Surgical Operation Is Performed.

Philadelphia Aug. Mrs Albert H. Hartman is dead in St Marys hos pital as result of being bitten by a mosquito at Atlantic City >on July 4. Mrs. Hartman was bitten on the back of her neck and paid but little atten- ton to it. The small wound grew larger and larger until it was neces. sary to send her to the hospital. De- spite the efforts of surgeons, two weeks ago gangrene developed and finally tetanus appeared after an op- eration
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
Breaking the
 News

Papa" began Bobby, after dinner, does 1t cost very much to build house?"
 His father laid down the newspaper he was reading and considered the question.
 Tt depends, of course, on how big a house you want to build and how deep your purse is," he said at length. Are you thinking of building house."
 I've been thinking about how much it costs,' Bobby said. And wonder ed. There's so many winders and doors and things Of course, parlor winders cost more'n cellar winders, cause they're made of better glass Now, Jimmy, he says some parlor winders cost $2, but then Jimmy al ways puts prices up awful high Gee, I wisht it wouldn't rain such a lot. We don't hardly get outdoors any"
 Its rather hard on baseball and picnics, isn't it?"
 Well, we ain't had any plans for picnics yet hardly. Billy says our room at school oughter get up one, but he begins talking picnics soon's Christmas is over. Nellie Fosters had one all thought out long ago, but 1t ain't fair to get up one that way.
 T ain't In a awful hurry for any picnics longs it's so wet It's baseball that I'm looking for. I'd like to know how anybody could run In all the mud, less'n he was a fish. It was baseball started me thinking about houses an things like that"
 ''I suppose your idea was to build a grandstand to protect the baseball fans. Is that it?" asked the father.
 "N-not exactly" Bobby acknowl- edged. You see, we don't get any fans 'cept fellers that don't want to sit down. They get so excited they just jump up and down, an run all around. Jimmy he's a swell player this year. We was playing yesterday and this morning before it started In to rain in the same dinged old way"
 Hold on! That's no way to talk"
 "Why. 'dinged' isn't bad. You just oughter hear that feller from over on Aunt Mary's street. Gee, that's going some, the way he talks"
 T don't like that sort of boy, my self"
 "Oh, well, he ain't so bad" Bobby said, hastily He don't say 'em, you know. He just knows 'em and keeps still. Only he told some words to us fellers wunst and they're worse than 'dinged.' He's a swell player, only he gets sore when the fellers butt in. You see, the fellers get so excited they pick up the ball and throw it in when they aint on the team at all, and 1t makes him awful sore don't blame him, do you?'
 No, should think not They have no business to touch the ball.
 Well, he made me crazy talking about houses It was him started me and Jimmy talking and he said houses often cost moren a thousand dollars He said you divide up thousand dol lars into winders and doors and you'd find door cost heap. He said there was about twenty winders in this house. Is there?"
 T don't think I ever counted them You might count them some day. just for fun"
 Well. anyhow. he said he could count 'em from where he was and he
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
KANSAS SENATOR IS IN DOUBT
Curtis and Stubhs in Close Race Official Count to Determine
 the Winner.

Washington, Aug. 12.-Senator Cur tis returned to Washington with the prediction that it would take an of ficial count to determine whether he or Gov. 5tubbs had carried the Re publican senatorial primary in Kan sas.
 The official count is to be started August Is.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
DarroW Evidence in.

Los Angeles, Aug. 12.-Evidence ID the Darrow case has been completed It is planned to give five days to ne final summing up and the instructor to the jury. The case will go to the jury late Friday, as the plans now stand.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12

Greenfield, Mass, Aug 12.-Ber- nard c. Murray, son of former fire commissioner of Hartford, Conn. has confessed to having set fire to thirty hotels and public buildings in Con necticut and Western Massachusetts in the last four months
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
Church Falls; Three Die.

Chicago. Aug. 12.-Three men were killed and six buried alive in the col. lapse of an old church at Indiana ave. nue and Twenty-first street. The men killed were members of a wrecking crew engaged to pull down the struc. ture. A number of others were in iured by flying debris.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
Life He Took Insured for sso,ooo.

Westchester, Pa, Aug 12.-Col. Gib- bons Gray Cornwell, who ended his life on train when on his way to answer a charge of embezzlement, had made will giving his life insurance of $50,000 to his wife. The document has just been found.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12

Rome, Aug. 12.-A dispatch from Messina says the volcano of Strom- boil has become active and that a vast column of smoke and a stream of lava are pouring out of the crater. The eruption is accompanied by tre- mendous explosions
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
W. II. Gest. SoIon, Dead.

Rock Island, H., Aug. 12.-Wiliiam H. Gest, circuit court judge and form erly representative in congress from the Fourteenth district, is dead at ms home here. He was "A years old
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12

Jamestown, N Y, Aug. 12-Fire in the plant of the Jamestown street railroad practically destroyed the powerhouse, with a loss of S50.00O Not a car is in operation in James town.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-12
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-24
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-24
YOU ARE CLASSIFIED BY YOUR HUMOUR
Nothing So Surely Indicates Your Social Origin and Your
Intellectual Status Nor Yet Your Moral Plans.
The Drama League.

For the latter has done more to de-
base the taste OF the public than any
other agency.
Its humour is grotesque.
1t puts life out of focus.
1t exagerates personality.
1t ridicules sentiment
And kills refined instinct.
Its most deplorable aspect is its art.
For the comic supplement artist is
an artist, ten to one. A student from
art schools. Learning the principles of
art from masters and applying them to
the production Of all that is hideous
and horrible.
Nothing is quite as bad as a bad
thing done we'll
And. paradoxically enough to this
must be accredited the overwhelming
success of the funny sheets"
AS hideous as they are aesthetically.
they are drawn with, usually, consum-
mate art.
Every line is made to tell.
Points story.
Shrieks it's tale.
AId tuC SoiulS tncIS AZ
reflected in the vaudeville houses.
What is it gets the loudest ensem-
BILE laughs?
Almost invariably the coarse Joke or
the suggestive attitude.
In a very good play seen this winter
the greatest hit was made when one
of those traditional spinsters of the
ct, In Hfa''--pTr1l-
ed up her skirts in front and ran
across the stage.
She saw that she had made a dis
tinct impression.
Therefore repeated it. And every
time with added approval from the au-
dience.
In this play were some really hui
morous situations.
But they were passed over with a
yawn.
man mind is appalling.
1t is mostly covered up by a fair
seeming. But now and then it rears it's
ugly head and grins hideously through
the medium of some human quality.
And more frequently than otherwise
through what is termed humour.
The Gentleman, the Lady, ia known
by the quality of humour
This is indubitable.
Certain. Fixed Sure
Nothing shows breeding, or lack OF
1t, sooner.
Nothing so glaringly exposes your
social origin.
There is a certain line beyond which
the Lady or the Gentleman never goes
And in his expression of his sense
of humour this line is formed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-24
bohemian Girl"

No opera of modern times has prov
en- as popular as Balfe's Bohemian
Girl" In spite Of the fact that it has
been hacked to pieces by cheap COM
panies its popularity increases year
after year Such favorites as 81
Dreampt I Dwell In Marble Halls"
Then You'll Remember Me-" The
Heart Bowed Down." and dozens of
others will live as long as music ex-
lists And when this delightful opera is
sung by such a company of artists as
compromise the Sheehan Opera Com
pany. these numbers take on a new
beauty. The full charm of exquisite
Balfe score is brought out to the full
est extent and the result is a perform
ance which is adding new laurels, as
we'll as to the excellent company
which is presenting 1t.
The Sheehan English Opera Com
pany, will be heard at the Gennett
Theater. Thursday. April 25. and it
will be welcome treat to hear Mr..
Sheehan. who is acknowledged by
press and public to be Americas great
est tenor. sing Then You'll Remem-
Der Me-" To hear Miss Gladys Cald-
wen. the famous prima donna of this
organization sing Il Dreampt I Dwelt
In Marble Halls" will be treat which
will long live in the memory of all
who hear 1t. To hear the splendid bari
tone of Charles Swickard, sing The
Heart Bowed Down" will also prove
an additional charm.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-24
THANKSGIVING PSALM.

A teacher in a Terre Haute pubic
school joins in the chorus:
Teaching is a business which re-
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force. Unless this force is renewed
as fast as expended, the teacher is
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For 3 years | struggled against al
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les. Then in the spring of 1908 had
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which left me too weak to continue
my work. Medicine failed to give me
any relief, a change of climate failed
! thought l should never be able to
go back to school again.
Il ate enough food, (the ordinary
meals-white bread, vegetables. etc.
but was hungry after meals.
Il happened at this time to read an
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other teacher who had been helped
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First, | noticed that / was not
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in a few days that tired feeling
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I'm three months, more than my US
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led 10 pounds in weight.
Il finished the years work without
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Am still in the best of health, with
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-24
Help The Kidneys
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-24
HE STOPPED SHORT.
Reason For the Peculiar Signature on
the Hotel Register.

the r1ctei he9iStSr.
Many peculiar signatures in the
course of a season lind themselves
upon the register Of a hotel There
are foreign fists Of all sorts in script
that none but the Kytka could I'M
ravel. The most curious OF all. how
ever. was placed on the book only re
Gently. 1t Is this:
"Wm"
Only that and nothing more!
There is no surname. no address.
nothing at all but just WIN"
This is the way IL happened:
A well dressed man entered the ho-
tel the other day and followed his
bags to the desk. The register was
swung around into position for him
manly desk clerk. Then. in free.
swinging hand. he wrote the accepted
abbreviation OF his first name. "Wm."
As if n thought had suddenly oc-
CURED to him. he stopped writing and
looked up.
What do you charge for a single
room here by the day.: he asked.
Three. four. five and six dollars"
answered the clerk.
"Ain't you got no dollar rooms?''
mo. we have no dollar rooms
Three. four. Eve and six
Gosh" he said. and he didn't look
the part either. This Is no place fol
me- Gimme my luggage"
And he sneaked out OF the hotel as
one who had trodden on sacred ground
Which is why on the register today
Is the odd signature:
"Wm."-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-24

There is nothing that Classics so
surely as the quality of humour.
People may be fooled about you for
time but when you get funny then
Is the crucial moment in your career.
You can be, by the discriminating,
at once ticketed, docketed, tagged and
thrown into the topmost pigeon-hole.
You will be relegated to the limbo or
welcomed into the innermost sanctu-
airy in accordance with the standard
established by yourself at this mo-
mentous instant
Birth is indicated by humour.
Breeding, or its lack
Culture, or it's absence.
Intelligence or stupidity.
Morals are seen through its veil and
temperament viewed from it's basis.
Personality is enhanced or made to
shrink through it's manifestation.
States have been swayed by it's use
Empires changed by its abuse.
1t has made or marred lives.
Has swung the balance on the pivot
Of reputation.
Is one of the governing forces of hui
man intercourse.
A difference in tastes of humour has,
perhaps, been the cause Of more do
nestle infelcity than can be credited
to any other account.
Haven't you seen the strained eX-
preston in the faces of some wife
when her husband begins to tell fun
ny story?
The agony endured by other men,
bers of the family when mother or
father gets facetious?
The lip biting and hand twisting of
a husband the while his wife relates
an alleged humorous incident?
Haven't you known women of deli
cate perceptions shocked and repealed
of humour INDUCED in by their hus-
bands?
And men of fastidious taste contin-
ually disguised by the coarse jokes of
their wives?
On the other hand how we'll two vul-
garians get on.
How they howl and shrek and back
slap and yell with joy over each 9th
er's witticisms?
Where other than at the theater do
people so expose the mainsprings of
their souls?
1t is there your quality of humour
is dragged forth from it's lair and held
up for inspection from pit to dome.
The moralist and the aesthetic alike
will shudder.
The frightful spectacle Of the audi
ence which attended Mutt and Jeff
was animadverted on at length here at
the time of the appearance of this
classic in Richmond
The lover of the drama grew pale.
And the aesthetic retired to cover.
When the heroes of this perform.
ance-for you can call it nothing else
appeared, the shrek, the howl of JOY
that went up this side of the footlights
was comparable to nothing more than
that which greets favorite matadors
upon their entrance in the ring ready
to charge the maddened bull.
It was a tribute to the comic supple.
ment.