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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
two minutes longer than the ordinary
nhonopranh disk reyolyeS,

two minutes longer than the ordinary
photograph disk revolves.
Four additional sketches" were ex-
hibited and in each the illusion was
maintained. Two of these Mr. Edison
hadn't seen himself before and he
laughed heartily as an Irish politician
in one of them delivered an impas-
stoned political Grafton which his
daughter, standing behind, read to him
out of newspaper. The most startl-
ing manifestation of the synchrony of
sound and action came when a brick
was sent crashing through a window
above the speakers head. You could
plainly hear the tinkle of each piece
of glass as it fell.
Slept on the Job
Men have been working upon the
proposition of moving pictures that
would talk for long, long time. Mr..
Edison has been at it four years.
He has literally "slept on the job as
his employees describe his absorption
in his work, and when he "sleeps on
the job" he has the reputation of max
ing things go.
The moving talking idea is based
upon two comparatively old PROPOSE
lions. The talking machine is old and
the motion picture machine is old. But
they have never been harnessed up
together before successfully. Other
inventors have had actors talk into re-
cords and then go and act the piece
separately, but the illusion wasn't
there, except in spots.
Mr.. Edison's way is to have the
talking and moving picture machines
getting their impressions at the same
time. They are set up side by side,
at any distance up to 40 feet away
from the actors and as the characters
gesture is taken by the movie" his
words are taken by the "talker."
When all that is done the "movie" is
placed in it's usual place with it's rays
Illuminating the screen back of which
is the "talker"
How to get these two machines to
work together is the problem on which
Mr. Edison has worked four years.
The "timer" is some sort of contri-
vance that is coupled up between the
two machines. The talking machine
can run at only a certain speed, the
speed with which the sound is made,
and Mr.. Edison has invented mech
anism which prevents the moving ma
chine from going any faster.
"The kinetophone," as the inventor
has named his latest child, can be used
in room of almost any size. The
one it was shown in yesterday was too
small, Mr.. Hutchinson said, to get the
best effect. In big theatre seating
1000 or 5000 persons the best results
can be obtained. The invention has
been tried privately in one of these
and every sound could be plainly heard
at the very top of the gallery.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
I. t. Edison Makes
Talking "Movies"
Sound and Action In Unison Are The
Result of Four Years of
Hard Work

lnOmdS "A. EQlSOH SAT DdCh III lis
chair and chuckled the other after
noon as there passed upon screen In
the theatre of his laboratory at West
Orange, N. j., a procession of human
beings and animals that sang and
talked and shouted and played upon
musical instruments and barked and
made various noises that moving pic
lures never before have furnished. 1t
was a moment of triumph, the result
of four years of unremitting effort to
give to the world what probably was
the only development possible in the
''movies," to reproduce sound syn
enormously with action.
"That's a little raw yet" laughed
the Wizard, 'but you just give us a
chance and We'll show you. We're
green at working these things yet"
There may have been something
"raw" to the trained eyes of Thomas
A. Edison, but to other spectators it
seemed that success had been gained.
When the time for the show to start
came there was short delay. The
"oid man." as everybody in the big
factory calls Mr.. Edison couldn't be
found and his right hand man and
chief engineer, M. r. Hutchinson, gave
the word to start.
For the first few seconds it looked
just like regular movies" A large
man in evening dress STROBE down a
fight of stairs and to the front of
lavishly furnished setting. When he
reached the front of the stage
things began to happen.
Picture Man Talks
First the big man thrust out one
arm in customary attitude and then
and even the spectators who had
known what was to come were sur
prised-he began to talk.
Ladies and gentlemen" he began,
and there followed an introduction to
the first exhibition of talking moving
pictures, real talking movies" that
has ever been seen. The speech was
delivered in carefully modulated tones,
with articulation of the clearest, each
action coinciding exactly with each ex-
preston. 1t was so lifelike and nat
ural that gasps of surprise and Won
derment could be heard from different
parts of the darkened room.
In the course of his talk the speak
ing picture took up plate and dashed
l. to the floor. 1t flew into pieces with
crash and each fragment made its
individual noise in bouncing up and
back. After that the picture blew a
horn and a whistle and then a man
came on and played the piano. A girl
appeared and played, Way Down Upon
the Suwanee River" on the violin, and
another girl sang some of the old
songs, while the pianist and the VOL
mist accompanied her.
They went away-you could hear
their footsteps as they walked up the
stairs-and another man appeared
with two collie dogs, whose loud banks
were as natural as life. 1t was hard
to realize that those were not living
beings in flesh and blood until the
lights came on and broke the illusion.
That was one complete reel and it
lad taken just six minutes to show,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
GIRLS STUDY ENGINEERING

Miss Hazel Quick, a student at the
University of Michigan, is the only
woman taking the engineering course
there who has ever worked at the
forge.
Miss Quick wanted to make her
course in hydraulics as complete as
possible and was determined to elimi-
nate no part that the men students in
Guided. So she goes into the shop
with them and does not avoid the
hardest work
When she finishes her course she ex-
poets to practice civil engineering in
the West.
Another girl in the engineering de-
partment is Miss Helen Hamilton, the
first woman student who has ever spe-
cialized along the. lines of sewer con-
struction.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
Blue SKY.

The blue sky. which reveals itself as
the hemispherical vault of the firma-
Ing more nor less than the far depths
Of the air sending back to the observer
some part Of the solar illumination
which it receives. The light thus re-
turned to the eye Is blue. simply be-
cause the particles Of the air are Of
such exceedingly diminutive size that
they can effectively deal with only the
smallest of the luminous vibrations
that is. with the blue fluctuations.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
What He Deserved.

Husband (handing his wife some
moneyl-There. dear. is SO, and it has
bothered me little to get it for you
I think ! deserve little applause
Wife-AppIanse? You deserve an en-
core. my dear.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
A Business Proposition.

81 put perfect trust in you. Amaran
tha," said Dubleigh. land now | find
that you are engaged to a dozen men
all at once"
Now, Tommy. don't you be silly"
said Amarantha. Have confidence.
Don't you know that perfect trust
always requires the services of pres
ident and board of directors?'-
Harper's Weekly
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
His Smile.

Old Hunks sitting for his photo
graph)-What are you asking me to
look pleasant for. Blame it, amt ]
smiling? Photographer-Yes. sir: that's
why | am asking you to try to look
pleasant.-C Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
Was Misquoted.

Was MI8du0ted.
The king Of the hObos slouched into
the office of the Daily Bread to make
complaint.
"You tn editor?" he asked.
YES"
"ln yore paper this mornin' you said
| made talk to tn boys last night on
How to BE at Work All tn Time
.'Well?"
"You got it wrong. TIL subjeck Of
my little talk was How TO Beat Work
All tn Time | want 1t erected, mis-
ter That's all."-Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
]. ]. Ehrstein, pastor.

q. Se 11HI5tcIH, P0oEOHs
10:30-Union services at the M. E.
Church.
12:00-Sunday School.
6:30-Y Young Peoples Meeting.
7:30-Sermon on "a knowledge of
God"
You are cordially invited to worship
with US.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
METHODIST CHURCH
N. de nj. Darrell, Pastor

10:3O-Sermon on knowing the
Lord Jesus Christ"
IL M.-Sunday School.
6:3O-Epworth League.
7:30-Union services at the Presby-
terrain church.
You are cordially invited to all of
the services of the church.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-01-21
CHURCH NOTES.
LUTHERAN CHURCH
A. Schaller, pastor.

Jan. 26-No services.
Feb. German services at 1870 A.
NJ.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28

w AsHINGToN.-Whlle the postof-
w fee department has long since
stopped the shipment Of plows and
household furniture through the
United States mails by the use of a
congressional frank, it still permits a
member Of congress to frank to and
from his home large cedar chest, in
which he is supposed to carry his let
ter files and other documents neces-
sary to the proper handling Of his con
gresslonal affairs, Time was when a
member could send home a rolltop
desk or a family dining table on his
congressional frank but when a few
more daring members used their spe-
cial mail privilege to frank lumber
wagons and pianos, the department
called halt, limiting congressman to
the cedar chest, as aforesaid.
That at least one of Uncle Sans
postmasters was not aware of the
cedar chest privilege was proved re-
Gently to the entire satisfaction of
Representative Rucker Of Colorado.
After the campaign Judge Rucker
moved his Office from a Denver hotel
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28
Uncle Sans Revenue Cutters Were Busy in 1912

THE United States revenue cutter
4 service-the Red Cross Of the sea
broke all its previous heroic and hu-
manitarian records during the fiscal
year 1919. Thousands of lives and
hundreds of tempest-tossed vessels
valued, with their cargoes, at nearly
81, 900 900, were saved from the perils
OF stormswept seas by the little cut
ters which guard the coastline Of the
United States in an unbroken line,
from Maine to Texas, and from Alaska
to California. nervously alert sor the
IS o s."
The annual report Of Capt. L. P.
Rerthoof, commandant Of the service,
made public the other day, IS a reei-
tation of thrilling adventure of this
arm of the federal government, older
than the American navy. A total of
26O distressed vessels we're assisted
during the year, and their burden of
2,212 souls rescued from impending
death. One hundred and six persons
we're actually saved from drowning.
For every dollar the government
invested in the maintenance of the
revenue cutter service" says Capt.
Berthof. "there has been a ,eturn of
Si.3G in the form of property saved
from the perils of the sea, and this in
addition to lives saved and other ben
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28
In an UntraveIed Section Of the Capital City

and you will find an untraveled and
abandoned road. The stony way is
nearly covered with brown turf. and
where it is not so covered the white
quartz with which the roadbed was
once repaired is grown with moss and
gray lichen. Low banks on the sides
show how the road was worn down.
Pines-poor, stunted specimens
border the road. and on the right hand
the traveller looks across Tilden street.
which lies below, and southwark and
eastward over a considerable extent
Of the city. You are led on through
thickets of small pines, whose green
is grateful, and through a copse of
oaks dis.nally bare ard with few
brown. shriveled leaves still holding
fast to tho sapless branches.
The eastward course of the road is
broken by a sharp turn which leads
down the hill through which Tilden
street was cut and into the raTine or
vale through which many of the older
travellers passed on their way to and
from the mill. On the left there is a
high bank and a steep hill closely
grown with tangle Of T!&cs. On
the right a hillside slopes gently up
ward and this slope is covered with
open oak woods and thickly strewn
with dead red-brown oak leaves. A
little distance farther and this road
merges into Tilden street.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28
GRAVE POST FOUND
WOMEN PLAN A UNIQUE BANK
Suffraeottes OF New YORK to Have
Financial Institution With Only
Their Sex Employed.

New York.--According 10 proposals
and plans now under consideration
here, New York in the near future is
likely to have the country's first suf-
fragette bank, a real financial institu.
tion which will operate like any other
except for the fact that from president
down to Office boy. or rather from
presidentess TO office girl, only women
will be concerned with its manage
ment and operation.
Many attempts and proposals have
been made before by women identified
with the suffrage movement both here
and in England to start such an insti-
tuition, but for one reason or another
they have failed to be productive of
any definite results.
The women behind the present plan,
however, believe that this time they
will be successful Just what the plan
Is they refuse to disclose until the big
meeting at which it is to be made pub
lie later in the month As its back
ers are women of wealth, there is
much curiosity as to just what they
propose to do.
1t is pointed out, however that IL
they adhere to the plan OF having no
man connected with It, the bank viii
be unique in more ways than one
since 1t will have a board OF directors
none Of whom serve on any other
bank directorate that is, unless Mrs
Hetty Green is made n director-and
will thus be free from the criticism of
directors.
OF course if a few of the city's
more prominent bankers should be
asked to serve, this claim to distinc-
tion would be lost. but even at that
financial circles are expressing consid-
erable curiosity over the plans for a
real suffragette bank.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28

eficial acts performed" To accom-
plish this work there have been 25
cruising cutters and Is harbor vessels
and launches employed during the
year.
Among other unusual incidents,
Capt Bertnolf told of how "piratical
native wreckers" swarmed down upon
the Hamburg-American steamer Prinz
Joachim when, with a large party OF
American tourists aboard, including
William J. Bryan, she stranded on At
wood Cay, Bahama Islands, November
%, 1911. The revenue cutter Algon'
quin restored order by standing guard
over the steamer and arming her
crew.
Two mutinies we're quelled by the
cutters during last year-one on the
Haitian gunboat Ferrier in Charleston,
S. c., harbor and the other on the
Uruguayan lark Brema in Mobile bay.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28
ONION SCORES BIG VICTORY
County Attorney Refuses Warrant for
Man on Womans Complaint
Against Vegetable.

lola, Kan.-The onion won a legal
skirlnish here when County Attorney
Forrest refused to issue a warrant for
Willis Thompson, charged by Miss
Lucretia Campbell, a neighbor, with
permitting the cooking Of onions in
his home, the odors from which filled
her rooms, causing her great discom-
fort. Miss Campbell declared that
the odor of onions was poisonous to
her. and upon that contention she
based her demand that Thompson be
arrested.
The state OF Kansas will not lend
it's aid to Danish the onion from the
home" said the county attorney.
Miss Campbell's remedy is an Injunc,
ton issued in the district court. if
she can obtain one"
Mr.. Forrest paid high tribute to
the healthfuI properties Of the onion,
quoting Hetty Green as saying she at.
tributed her health and wealth to eat.
ing the vegetable daily.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28
Cost of BUGS More Than the Upkeep Of Schools

IF all the GOO colleges and all the
1 college endowments in the United
States should be destroyed tomorrow
the insect taX Of one year not only
would replace them, but would leave
a balance sufficient to endow thirty
two new universities in the sum of
$1O,o00,000 each,
It costs more by many millions each
year to feed our insects than to edu-
cate our 20O00,00O children.
It is clear to those who know most
about the subject that unless radical
and immediate measures are adopted
to restore a sure, safe and natural
equilibrium between insectivorous
birds and their foods. the time will
soon come when the annual loss caus-
ed by insects to agriculture in this
country alone will be counted in bill
lions instead OF millions of dollars.
The estimated annual loss to farmers
through insects Is now $800,000,000.
The hessian fly in 1904 cost the
wheat-growing states $50000,0oO-
Chinch bugs cost the crops in the Mis-
sissippi Valley $1O0,000,OOO in one
year, Rocky Mountain locusts, in their
years of greatest activity, cost the
northwest more than $150,000,00O Cut
worms have caused loss Of $100,000,-
900 at one time. Thus it is seen that
the terrible loss Of SSO0,OO0,OOO in one
year is fairly easy Of proof.
The fecundity of many insects is be-
yond imagination. The green leaf
louise or aphis, SO destructive Of the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28
SHOWS ARE BARRED
Philadelphia Police Act on Theory
That "Beer and Music Do
Not Mix"

Philadelphia, Pa.-"Cabaret' enter.
tainments are placed under the ban
by a police order issued recently by
Director of Public Safety Porter More
than a quarter of century ago H.
cense court judge in this city laid
down the dictum that beer and mu.
sic do not mix" OF late years this
Injunction has been obeyed more in
the breach than in the observance
The presence Of music has not been
objected to by the authorities until re-
Gently, when the prevalence Of "caba-
rets" caused the director to order an
Investigation and the issuance OF the
order.
The police served notice of the or
der on the big hotels and cafes as well
as the smaller saloons. Managers of
the former, however, declare that they
are not affected and their orchestras
continued to play.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28
THE DEMOCRAT
-@>>~~~-~s~
c. C. CARLlN, Publisher.
-~~-~-~--~-~w~
cnLINA OHIO
BANANA AS A CHEAP FOOD.

BANANA 40 - GflEfAF ENfCGs
The banana must be reckoned with
as one OF the staple foodsutfs OF the
people OF the United States. The OK.
tent OF consumption will be a surprise
20 persons unfamiliar with the stats,
tics OF tropical imports. In a recent
official publication regarding the ba'
mana supply OF the world and the an
nual use OF that article in the United
States, estimating the average mum
Der of bananas ON a bunch TO be l40.
Il appears that the people OF the
United States utilize more than 6,OOO.-
100000 bananas a year, or more than
flve dozen for every man. woman and
child in the country. including Alaska
and Hawaii. The value Of bananas inn
ported during the Gscal year ended
June So 1900, was $5,S77S35; in 1905.
S9,9S7 .S21; In 1910, Sl1.642, 500, and in
1912, S14,36S $50, These figures indi-
cate an increase OF 23.4 per cent. In
the last two years and 144 per cent
H. - years. There is apparently no
danger OF any future failure OF the
banana supply There are great
areas OF untitled land in nearby trop'
ical countries suited 10 banana produc-
ton. II II be admitted that the ba'
mana serves as a partial substitute
for our other daily food, its cheap
ness certainly serves 10 measuTably
reduce the cost OF living.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28

A woman furnishes to a paper a
statement of her household expenses.
Her husband turns over to her all his
wages, amounting to an average of 500
a month. except one dollar a week,
which he keeps for tobacco and sun
dries In her list Of expenses occurs
this item: ITO husband, four dol
lars" That is, out Of his wages
which she gets from him, she allows
him one dollar a month. That is
a mighty good idea-instead of the
husband doling out pittances to his
wife, allow her to take charge Of the
income and let her make such allow
ances as may seem proper This
might be a part Of a prenuptial con-
tract Then is the time to make 1t
and have it understood that the wife
should have charge of the family
purse strings 1t would change the
relation of things immensely Who
ever is in charge of the exchequer is
the ruler. The man may pride him
self much upon being the bread win
ner That's glory enough for him.
When the bread is won, it is the wife's
privilege to cut it up and pass it
around.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28
Mary Frowns Upon Costume Ba.is and
Says Women Should Keep With
In Bank Roll.

London-To the relief OF those
whose pocket-books are not so large
as their ambitions, the word has gone
around in the select circle Of society
which regulates such functions that
this seasons balls are to be of sim
pie character and without tie slight
est suggestion OF "freakiness." The
reason is that no hostess who encour-
ages anything daring" IN the way of
costumes is likely to receive Queen
Mary's patronage.
The queen has not Issued any Off
ciai Instructions but her comments
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28

on several recent eXtravagant costume
balls and other functions of an unusu-
al character have been duly passed on
by the royal ladies in waiting Her
self a simple dresser Queen Mary has
the strongest possible objection to ex-
travagance and extreme fashions. For
this reason the hobble directoire and
panier skirts are never seen in her en-
tourage.
She has no real objection to fancy
dress balls. but the queens caustic
comments on what she termed the i'm
modesty Of the costumes worn by
dancers at the recent Arabian Nights
Post-Impressionist and Four Arts balls
gave little pleasure to the culprits, but
great Joy to the retailers Of court gos-
sip
mo woman should dress beyond the
limits of her bank role" is Queen
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28

Or. +. II. Green, the great lecturer
gave this beauty recipe" in one OF his
addresses: Hear some beautiful
music, see a beautiful picture, read
some beautiful literature every day,
All this. recognizing the close rela-
tion between soul and body, is perfect
ly reasonable. 1t is better than all
cosmetics. rouges or drugs ever heard
c. The picture the music, the litera-
ture impresses the mind, which gives
form and tone OF the physical express
sion. OF course. this little expert
ence must be sincerely considered, un-
selfshly and lovingly done. A put-on
appreciation Of the art will not avail.
The true love of the beautiful makes
beauty. This is scientific fact. as
sure and steadfast as that sugar will
sweeten coffee. But one has TO get
meanness. i'll viii, suspicion, revenge
out OF the heart, to make good use
Of the recipe; to give play to the
beauty. The starry sky, the songs
Of the birds, a glimpse Of woods, a
1ower-sprinkled lawn-these have the
same effect They make beauty for
whoever loves them sincerely.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-03-28

r. THERE is an untraveled section Of
L the Pierce Mill road which invites
to a picturesque walk. This ancient
road rambles along through an inter
esting country from Wisconsin avenue
to Connecticut avenue, but east of the
latter splendid highway the traveller
who would enter Rock Creek park will
turn southeast along Connecticut ave-
nue. till coming to Tilden street, which
leads to the park edge. Then, by
passing the more than century-old
spring house, gray stone structure
rooted by green and mossy shingles,
which was erected by Isaac Pierce in
1901, you enter Rock Creek park at
Pierce's mill by way of the Pierce
Mill road.
On the east side OF Connecticut ave
nue. grading and building have effaced
the Pierce Mill road, but strike east
ward, and opposite the south front Of
Holy Cross academy look to the right,