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sion of all the property He is q stckler
Tor his rights. He has an office up In
Fifth avenue and looks after his bust
ness himself. He is one of the largest
stockholders in one of the big realtv cor
porations OF Brooklyn and he keeps HIM
seif as closely advised regarding the af-
fairs of that concern as does any of the
officers. Although he has an income of
nearly N,0O0,OO0 year, young Mr.. Zieg-
Ter lives modestly. He was married when
he was 20 years old and now at p heels
happy papa.
Like Vincent Astor, he was i'll for sev
eral years. There was nothing the mat
ter with him constitutionally, but when he
was IA he fell against the edge of a bed
post while skylarking with some boys and
injured his spine. He was bedrjdden for
long time and once his life was despair-
ed OF. He never lost confidence This
accident upset the plans for his educa-
uon. When he was 10 he was sent to
Columbia but he had not regained his
health and had to be taken out of the
university. He improved a bit and went
TO Harvard. In both Columbia and Har-
ward ne was principally noted for his in
terest In amateur theatricals He wrote
a play and an operetta. He sings we'll
and he took a part in the musical snow.
lie only remained In Harvard for the
freshman year. IL he did not have many
millions of dollars he could earn a fair
living on the stage. Some persons thought
because of his love for plays that he
would be a likely candidate for che
dubious honor of becoming a theatrical
angel. Young Mr.. Ziegler disabused them
of this notion very quickly.
He has recovered his health cornpletelt
and is chocS full of life and energy now.
He Is pretty fair tennis player loves
yachting and goes in for outdoor sports
generally. His foster father had a coun
try home at Great Island. Young Ziez-
Ter is studying farming and Iandscap,,-
gardening to carry out some plans the
elder Zlegler had In mind in connection
with this property.
Vincent Astor is OF German deacent sn
Is william ziegler. Young Astor has
none of the characteristics of the DER
mans but William ziegler has many. He
is not OF the phlegmatic. but the buovant.
music loving oermanic type The ne
trait the young men have in COM
mon rs T. dence. Neither believes in
display. Ziegler is more boyish in man
ner than young Mr. Astor and picks his
companions more from persons of his own
age, but Ziegler gives one the impression
OF being the more forceful and independ-
ent of the two.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge is the least
known OF the young multi millionaires
In absolute possession OF his fortune
When his grandfather, Marcelius Hart
ley. died the public was surprised to
learn that Mr.. Hartley left $4,000 600
Mr.. Hartley had two children--daugii-
ters. one became Mrs. Jenkins and
the other Mrs. Dodge. Mr. Hartley out
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THE PLAYS-NO 3-By Dr. W. E. Evans

moulding on the four edges of the tester,
or canopy, is massive enough for the cor
nice of a house. Rye House, where the
bed is now kept. is the famous seat where
the Rye House plot was Matched. In 1852
a scheme was planned to assassinate
Charles IL on his return from Newmarket
The Rye House plot failed for the
reason that a fire occurred In the New
market house where he was stopping, and
the King was obliged to leave the place
eight days sooner than the day appoint
ed for his murder.
In act 2. scene 4, of this same play, the
clown says to the duke, whom he is about
to leave, 1.-THE tailor make thy doublet of
taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal"
The allusion is to the changeable quality
of the opal. The opal not only changes
its color as it is moved into different
rays of light. but If held within the hand
the heat of the flesh will so act upon it
as to modify all it's hues. The warmth
of pressure has the effect OF expanding
the fissures of the stone, thus changing
the cplors. The opal is comparatively
soft stone, consisting of hydrated quartz
combined with water, hence 1t is soon
heated and its colors changed. The most
changeable opals are called ''Harle-
quins,' for the reason that Harlequin Is
arrayed In all manner of colors in the
show. and is constantly changing; there
is, also, Harlequin snake, so called be-
cause of his skin "of many colors''
In the dagger scene, in the second act
of Macbeth there are many illusions
of interest. such as:
"Witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecates offerings, and withered
murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel. the wolf,
Whose howls his watch, thus with his
: stealthy pace, 80.
with Tarquins ravishing strides, to-
wards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm
set earth
Hear not my steps, which way they walk,
for
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\ HISTORY-BURR'S ARREST-By B. F. Riley

the night before on the edge of the road
some distance from the Hinson. home. did
not arrest Burr, and was now on his
way with Burr to Carson's Ferry, on the
Tombighee to enable Burr to get to Mo-
bile and make his way to Pensacola.
Was the sheriff awed by the commanding
presence of the distinguished man, un-
duly persuaded, thrown off of his guard
by seductive and misleading logic. or was
he Influenced by the fact that his kins-
man, Colonel Iinson. had some months
before met Burr at Natchez. was charmed
by him, and had invited him to his home
TO spend some time, or was there bribe
involved in the transaction? The strange
conduct of the sheriff was never ex-
planned.
Burr was taken to Fort Stoddard, where
he was intent on making himself most
agreeable by his courtly manner and
pleasing address, and whiled away the
days playing chess with Mrs Gaines the
wife of the man who arrested him, and
the daughter of Judge Harry Toulmin of
Mobile. Burr was especially intent on
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HHERE are frequent illusions in the
plays to the Bible and the Prayer
4 Book. Some of these latter have
already pointed out There is another
one in Loves Labor Lost" to which
call attention. In act g. scene Q, Rosaline
says to Katherine:
"ware pencilsl Ho! let me not die your
debtor,
My red dominicai, my golden letter.
Rosaline calls the dominical letters
red" because anciently they were writ
ten and later printed in red ink. In the
Prayer Book just before the "Order For
Daily Morning Prayer" there are tables
given For finding the Donlinical or Sum
day Letter, and the places of the Golden
Numbers in the Calendar" The dominic
cnf letters, which are the first seven OF
the alphabet, are used IN. church calen-
dars to point out the dies dominica" !"
or Sundays. throughout the year. The
golden number Is the number of any year
in the Metonic cycle of 10 years. Both the
domnical letter and the golden NUMBER
are used IN determining the date of East
er day. The golden number was so called
because upon the discovery of the Meton-
ic cycle, in the year 1872. an inscription in
letters of gold. commemorating the fact
was set I'D in many cities of the east In
old Prayer Books the golden numbers
were written in gold.
In king john, act s. scene Q. Lewis
asks:
Have l not the best cards for the game,
TO win this easy match played for
CROWN"
The alluson lies bare upon the face of
the words. 1t refers to playing a game
of cards. How long the world has been
playing cards the historians do not know
nor is it known whence they came. 1t is
supposed that they We're brought to Eu-
rope from the east, but it is not certain.
n .ae middle of the fifteenth century
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disorder Of his Queen, however, who hal
taken to walking in II r sleep, he sug.
gests. "rhubarb, SIENNA. or some purgative
drug" But he knew that therein the
patient must minister to" herself. Says
the doctor:
Not so sick, my lord.
As she is troubled with thiclz-coming
fancies.
That keep her from her rest"
To which Macbeth says:
Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to mind dis
eased
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow.
Raze out the written troubles of the
brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the suffd bosom of that peri1
ous stuff
That weighs upon the heart?'
At the time of the writing OF the plays
the faculty used an effective cataplasm
made of swallows nests. straw. sticks,
filth and all. Powdered human skulls,
human fat, and a drink of snails and
earth worms were strongly recommended.
If patient were sinking the practice
was to ellt a pigeon in half ana apply
the parts to the feet. II the heart were
failing little musk was dropped into
some wine for the patients drink Then
there was the. custom of bleeding" in
fevers. Add to all this the almost uni
versal belief In charmed draughts and
phiters. Brabantio charges Othello;
"Thou hast practised ON her with foul
charms,
Abused her delicate youth with drugs or
minerals
That weaken motion"
If the reader has a copy Of Burton's
Anatomy of Melancholy q generally keep
1t within reacD, he will md much or
interest on this curious subject
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The very stones prate of my wherea-
bouts.n
Hecate was the goddess of hell, and the
offerings made to her were usually dogs.
Hence "withered murder resorted to
the wolf for its sentinel. In Greek the
name of Hecate is pronounced with three
syllables, but in English it Is nearly al
ways given only two. The rhythm In the
plays generally requires that 1t be pro-
nounced in two syllables For the same
reason Milton gives the name two sylla-
bles in one place. The Tarqin, to whom
the text alludes was Sextus. son of Tar
quin, King of Rome, who in the midnight
hour, with ravishing strides, sought
the bedsire of Lucretia whose husband
was away In camp This Tarquin threat
ened, IL Lucretia should not yield to his
base designs, to kill her and place slave
In her bed, whom he would also kill and
report that he discovered them together
In her despair Lucretia yielded. Then,
sending for her husband, she related all
and plunged dagger into her bosom
and died. Her body was taken to the
market place, and the story of her un-
bearable shame was rehearsed to the peo-
pie, who rose up against the house of
Tarquin and drove them from Rome
King and all. From this tragedy arose
the republic of Rome. See Shakespeare S
Rape of Lucrece." The final allusion
above quoted, 'for fear the very stones
prate of my whereabouts" refers to
passage in the Bible the stones would
cry out" We are not to suppose, how
ever, that the Bible, from which SO many
quotations are made In the plays, was
the same translation that we now use.
Macbeth was written about 1906 while
our present standard Bible did not appear
until 1911. Later. in this same act, Mac
duff, upon the discovery of Duncan's
murder, blends two passages of scripture
One is, "the Lords anonted"; and the
other Eye are the temple of the living
God" Macduff has 1t,
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of events, may be expected to take the
place his father held in the various
transportation systems he controlled.
Young Hartman displays more of the
ardent spirit of youth than does Vim
cent Astor. He Is not cast in so serious
mould and has not had to assume
such important duties as his friend. 1t
is four years since e. II. Hartman
died. The Hartman fortune was left to
the widow. Averell Harriman's ambi-
ton Is to be railroad man and finan-
cier as was his father AT Harvard
where he has been a student, he has
been one of the popular men of his
class. He has many of the character
istics of his father. He is keen. alert,
and has lot of nervous energy.
Up, at Arden, N. Y, where e. II. Har-
riman had his country home on noun
tain top, the two Hartman boys,
Averell and Roland, lived most of the
time out of doors. Their father hao
two acres blasted out of the mountain
rock and grass sown on the cleared
space to make playground for them.
He had camp for them, too, at Gran
berry lake, where they could hunt and
fish. He wanted to harden their mus
cles and strengthen their limbs and
have them healthy and sturdy when
they took up the cares of business SO
father have worked we'll
1t is understood the plans of Mrs.
Hartman are for her eldest son to take
q regular course in railroading and
get good. practical experience before
he assums the duties that will be his
as the successor of e. II. Hartman
Averell Hartman was breaking no
family tradition when he entered poll
tics. His father had wide experience
In town, state and national politics.
Wherever he had railroads he had polit-
ical connections. So far as is known,
however, Il. II. Hartman did not march
In parades to show his political feelings.
He let others do that while he pulled
the strings. The sons method will ap-
peal to many persons as the better.
The picture of Averell Hartman that
appears with this article Is unique.
One OF the things in which Z. H. Har-
rtman took deep interest was the pre-
sentation of the Palisades of the Hud-
SON. In this picture young Hartman
Is shown giving a check for $1,000, ,000
the Hartman contribution to this great
work.
Probably the most forceful of all the
young nulti-millionaires Is William Zieg-
Ter, who when he reached the age of Il
within the present year came into the for
tune of from $20.000,OO0 to $4,000, coo left
by his fos'er-father, the baking powder
King Young Ziegler is square jawed
sharp eyed and quick of speech. lie has
supreme confidence in bipself. The zieg-
Ter estate was in the hands of trustees
So soon as he reached his majority the
young man took steps to get full possess
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In South Carolina where lived his snn=In-
law. Col Joseph Aston. who VAS utter
ward governor Of South Caronsa, Bur-
felt that he was somewhat @nown. ana
one afternoon late. as tie squad an-
preached Chester Courthouse. and W.
passing the tavern. where a large croWd
was gathered. Burr ieaped frcn his Hofze.
and exclaimed. 'I am Aaron Burr, gen
tlemen. under military arrest. and claim
the protection of the civil authorities"
Perkins and several Of ihe suard dis
mounted. and ordered him 10 remQunt his
horse, which he defianty declined 70 DO
when Perkins threw his arms about him
and flung HIM into his saddle and tho
party galloped away. The crowd looked
on with wonder. and to them it was only
strange proceeding of prisoner under
guard who was seeking to escape. and
the sensation turned out TO be merely
momentary A vehicle was bought. Burr
was placed IN it with guard. and no
further trouble was had to the end OF
the journey.
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HNWO young men-one unusually tall,
the other of medium height-wallted
1 side by side In political parade
in New York one night in October Few
persons who saw the parade recognized
them. The young men were Vincent AS
tor and Averell Hartman. Young Mr..
Astor has a fortune of from s100, 600 to
sl50.000000 Hell the richest man of his
age in the world. Averell Hartman is
the eldest son of the late Il. III. Hartman
who left an estate OF about $50, ,000, 900
The parade in which the young men ap-
peared was that Of the Honest Ballot
league, of which the boy millionaires
are two of the most active members.
Arthur c. Train, who was assistant
district attorney under Jerome. and who
is the head of the Honest Ballot league,
says the young men offered their serv-
ices to the cause. They were put on
The finance committee. The first thing
they did was to chip in generously. They
went out among their friends and solicit
ed subscriptions They did not have
much bother in getting men to contribute.
Most of the men they visited seemed to
take delight in giving checks to them.
The Honest Ballot league will have no
trouble in paying it's bills this year.
Who ever heard of two youths of such
monumental wealth taking an active part
in politics before? Mr.. Astor not con-
, tent with his association with the Hon
est Ballot league. offered his services to
the anti-Tammany forces. Apparently
from the example set by young Astor,
young Hartman, John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., William Zeigler, Marcellus Hartley
Dodge and various other young men who
have or will have colossal fortunes. the
heirs of the great millionaires of Amer
lea, have ambitions aside from the piling
ip of money and mean to play earnest
parts In the affairs OF their home cities
and the nation.
Aside from William Waldorf Astor who
once ran for Congress, and, when beat
en-, left his native land and became a
British subject, Vincent Astor is the first
of his family to show any interest in
politics. He Is a different type of citizen
from william Waldorf Astor. He will
be % years old on November Is. His life
delicate as boy. For several years
culosis. He was taken abroad and It
was only by the greatest of care that
he was brought back to health. His ILL.,
ness retarded his studies and probably
made him somewhat reserved and for a
time a bit morbid. Probably the best
physician who ever prescribed for him
was his father. Colonel Astor had great
love for his son and after studying the
boys case after his own fashion. made
np HIS mind that the best thing for
Vincent would he sympathetic. intelligent
and congenial compantonshfp. He could
not think of anyone more fitting for this
position than himself, 80 he set deliber-
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y COMMISSIONER wEATHERLY

+" COMMISSIONER wEATHERLY
has begun to strike the nail on the
head in the ordinance providing
for registration of persons carrying guns
IN this city But the blow is so exceed
ingly hesitating that one fears that little
progress inward is likely to be made by
the nall.
How very often we have deplored the
loss of repect for life which DISTINGUISHES
Birmingham, and how very little has
come of these frequent lamentations!
Once decent and God-fearing people,
loving nature and the simplest delights,
now We live in a complex city, com
said of us as of Lesbia:
Nunc in quadrinus ct angi portis
Glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes.
Our heroic ancestors would weep to
find us lodging bullets, at one end of
an alley and shooting supposed criminals
by guess work at the other end. But
we have reached sort of fatalistic con.
clusion, and while we deplore the killing
we really see no way but smilingly to
apologize and LAY it on the niggers.'
Far be ii from me to add more verbosty
TO an already befogged situation. Rather
j would, this Sunday morning, preach
on this subject from text (strangely we
preachers get long way from the text
TO reach the subjectD my text being,
What shall we do therefore?'' and my
subject, What shall We do to check our
abominable murderousness? esey
The causes of killing may be largely
covered under three general heads:
%. The irascibility of badly balanced
persons.
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The Lords anolnted temple. and stole
thence
The life of the building"
In Richard H. we have what is real
ly paraphrase of familiar scriptural
text. The King is in prison soliloquizing,
and says:
ut is hard to come. as for a camel
To thread the postern of a needles eye"
There is striking allusion in the sec
ond part of king Henry W. act l.
scene l.
"Methinks the realms of England, France
and Ireland,
Bear that proportion to my flesh and
blood,
AS did the fatal brand Althea burned
Unto the princess heart of Calydon."
Meleager, one of the heroes of the
Argonautic search for the Golden Fleece.
was the son of Oeneus and Althea. When
Meleager was born Althea behed the
three Destinies at their work of spinning,
who, as they spun their fatal web, pre-
dicted that the life of the child would
last no longer than a brand that was
then burning on the hearth. Althea
seized the brand, extinguished the fire,
and preserved it for many years, and so
Meleager lived to manhood. There came
a time when Diana sent wild boar of
enormous size to destroy the corn, vines
and hocks of Calydon. Meleager, after
many incidents, slew the boar Envy
caused his mothers two brothers TO rise
up against Meleager so he slew them. In
the course of time Althea discovered that
her son had slain her two brothers and
In anger she cast the unburnt brand into
the fire. AS soon as the fire had con-
sumed the brand Meleager fell dead: This
NEUROLOGICAL story most certainly was
not intended to illustrate the supremacy
of mother love.
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all rosy Beggars, bis and little, clever
and clumsy, obsequious and insistent
pester them through every channel by
which they can be reached, Ii they
did not take means to protect them
selves from both professional and ANA
tour mendicants they would have little
time to themselves They giye-but for
their own protection and for the good
of others-tl1ey have to be careful in
the giving.
lcopyright 1919. by Richard spillane.l
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V1ITH the glance of his eagle eye.
w Burr took in the situation At
once. and in a moment was pre-
pared for It. Captain Gaines saluted him
and asked if he had the honor of address,
ing Colonel Burr. Polite as the saluta-
tion was, Burr feigned great indignation
In denying the right of a stranger TO ask
q question SO impolite of a traveller on
the highway. Gaines cut short the tao
ties of the occasion by saying: Il arrest
YOU at the instance of the federal gov
ernment." In a burst of indignation,
Burr again demanded TO know his right
and authority to arrest a traveller going
in pursuit of private affairs on the public
highway. In a perfectly cool way, Gaines
replied that he was an officer in the army
IN possession of the proclamations of the
governor of Mississippi and of the Pres-
dent of the United States directing his ar
rest Burr reminded Gaines that though
he was an officer, he was young and in
experienced, and might not be aware of
rne responsibility incurred in arresting
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-04-10
Annual School Meeting and Election.

Notice is hereby gwen that on Mon
day, the 21st day of April, 1918, the
annual school meeting and election in
and for school district No. %, of Clear
water county, state of Idaho, will be
held at the school house in said district.
At / o'clock p. m. of said day, at said
school house, a meeting will be held to
select a Judge and a clerk of election,
and to determine whether or not the
question of a special tax shall be voted
upon at the election; to fix the rate OF
special tax which must not be nor
than fifteen mills on each dollar of tax
able property in the district; to decide
upon the length of school term to be
voted upon, and to transact such other
business pertaining to school interests
as may come before the meeting. The
polls will be open at 1870 o'clock p. m.
of said day and close at $3.50 p. m. One
trustee will be elected for three years
in place of A. E. Hinckley, whose term
viii expire. JOHN r. BECKER,
Clerk of School District No. %, Clear
water County.
N. B. a. None but actual resident
freehOlders or heads OF families Of said
district shall vote on the question of
special tax.
~ Inc third MONDAY In April is the
time fixed by law.
(3) This notice should be published
in two issues in a newspaper nearest
the place of election.
() Three copies of the notice must
be posted in public places-one of them
at the school house-at least ten days
before election.
~ All elections shall be by ballot
and a separate ballot box is required
for each question submitted. There
and we are required by law to have at
least nine (9) months of school. Sec.
81 revised code.
JOHN r. BECKER,
Clerk of Board of Trustees, School
District No. %.
Dated and posted this 10th day of
April, 1913.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-04-10

for approving the bill providing
$4,000 for the Ross Fork road,
and not approving the bills for
the Idaho county road and the
Kootenai road. 1t may be Of in
terest to our democratic ex-
chages who have republished
some of the articles ~crlticising the
governor, to know that the Ross
Fork road was one of the uncom-
pleted matters brought over from
Governor Hawley's administra-
ton and that the road had been
completed before the legislature
met, and that the payment of the
claims for completing the road
had been recommended by Gov.
Hawley and the rest Of the board
of examiners. This idea did not
originate with the last legislature
at all, and Gov. Haines could moi
very well pass it by without his
approval, under the circum-
stances.