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The Washington times., 1913-12-26
"Sari" Named for Mother
Of Mizzi / IIajos, Its Star
By JULIA MURDocK.

NE day last summer. Henry w.
III Savage stepped from the
NJ gang plank Of an Atlantic
liner bringing with him,
among other things tucked away In
his trunk. the rights for the American
production of q new opera. Der zie-
geunerprimas." the Hungarian oper-
eta which had been (and still is) the
| reigning success in, the continental
European capitals.
The members Of his executive staff
were enthusiastic over his coup in
having acquired the rights to the new
operetta and he Immediately an
nounced his intention Of inaugurating
preparations for the production Of
the piece at once.
J For the next twenty y-four hours. the
office Of Mr.. Savage was the busiest
place in New York. Buzzes OF ex-
citement as to who should make the
English adaptation OF the operetta,
who should paint the scenery. who
should do this and that, and most Inn
portant Of all-where could be found
the prima donna with sufficient per-
sonality Of the right sort to assume
the leading role
Only Mini Hajos Could Fill
Role to Satisfy Mr.. Savage.
'Now that you have read the manu-
script" the manager asked, "of whom
are you thinking to play the leading
part?" :, al a. 81, go z-. =. sss
Hfs answer came from four; men at
once: X. ~ =
you wfn," Mr. Savage said ,'.Mizzi
Hajos is the proper person. the only
person. The operetta was made for
her"
The verdict thus being made unani-
nous, the rest seemed plain enough.
Simply engage Miss Hajos- But this
plan was blocked by the fact that the
sprightly little Hungarian was just
then touring the country in another
musical organization.
Months bfore the little actress had
signed to embark on a starring venture,
, and when this was learned the men who
are responsible for doing things in the
Savage offices said, THAT settles 1t.
She would have been ideal in the part,
but what's been done can't be undone.
We shall have to look for some one
else"
To find an acress with the chic, the
beauty, the talent, and the personality
Of Miss HaJos was something Of task.
After the capabilities of a dozen or more
soubrettes of several nationalities. in
cluding American, German, Italian,
French. German. and one Russian had
been tested, the searchers were Just as
much up a tree as ever.
Then good luck came. The managers
who had produced Miss Hajos. starring
vehicle turned their thumbs down on
the idea of a reproduction, and Mizki
was left free to accept the Savage offer
which she did with haste an denthus-
iasn. And In Der Zigeunerprimas.
or "Sari." as it will be known on this
side. Miss Hajos will come to Washing
ton as one of the leaders OF a big and
distinguished company to the National
Theater next week.
The operetta had its initial perform
ance in Atlantic City last evening. and
the verdict of the audience. Judged
by the enthusiasm and applause NAV
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The British Ambassador and Lady
,pring Rice will be honor guests Of
lieut.. Col Stephen LII. Slocum. L. S.
\, and Mrs. I:locum at a dinner on
January Is
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the cold AS he reached the upper land
and entered the Kingdom of Ice he felt
q peck on his cheek. Turning he saw
ON his shoulder the little bid.
Rub your face with SNOW it said,
''and ride fast, for the castle is far
yet" The Prince rode furiously on to-
ward the palace of ice which he saw
glittering In the distance, but the weary
horse soon fell from fatigue. The Prin-
cess saw the Prince coming and waved
her handkerchief to cheer him on as he
stumbled through the snow Once he
fell. and as he rose he noticed that the
bird with him had turned white from
cold-and a snowbird 1t has been ever
since.
Then his gaze fell on the sky. 1t was
turning from an icy blue to a warm
pink glow. Faster and faster II spread.
The air grew warmer. the snow began
to melt and the palace 10 crumble;
You left the gates of your father
The Washington times., 1913-12-26
Record Breaking Tree
For Prisoners At Jail

A Christmas tree, larger by far than
any ever before given the prisoners con-
fined in the United States Jail during
the last fifteen years. is decorated Law
lshly today. having hundreds of candles
on its branches. and tonight these will
be lighted, and the men and women in
the prison will engage in Christmas
exercises for the second time in twenty
four hours.
Hundred of small boxes of candies.
aprons, and dresses for the women pris-
oners. and cigars, tobacco. and fruits
for the men have been sent to the jail
by the friends of the inmates, and are
being distributed today.
The Washington times., 1913-12-26
For the Children
Just. at Bedtime
THE ICE-PRINCESS.

nee upon a time many million
years ago the whole world was
ice. And at the end Of the
earth at the very foot of the
The Washington times., 1913-12-26

A number Of prominent people have
arranged tables for cards on the after
noon Of December q, when q tea and
dance will be given at the willard for
the benefit of the National Junior Re-
public There will be competitive dane
ing. wittf prizes given by well known
The Washington times., 1913-12-26

There were a number of dinner parties
. at the Shoreham Christmas night. A
huge Christmas tree formed the princi-
pal decoration Of the rose dining room.
The Turkish ! -nbassador. Youssouf Zia
Pasha, had several friends dining with
him, as did the Netherlands Minister
and Nine. Van Rappard and Mile Van
Rappard, and Mrs. and Mis-. Borden
Hartman and Miss Hartman.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-01

petitions in England and Australia
attracted little attention among poul-
trymen in America. Such demand
for them as arose here came from
those who were influenced by the al
lusions Of newspaper writer's, whose
opinions upon such a point were of
no consequence, to the disgrace to
America of allowing the "records"
of foreign hens to remain uncontested.
Without going into the subject at
length, we may state here that the
most important thing in a laying
competition is to have the hens enter
ed ready to lay at the start. Those
that start with good lead may not
hold it through the year, but-barring
accidents -they are likely to do SO.
Where there is no marked advantage
at the start, competing pens may
change positions several times during
year.
An expert report upon the work of
pens in a competition should be
valuable if all matters relating to re-
suits we're properly brought out, but
in no case has any attempt been made
to do this. Unless the institutions
that are promoting competitions in
this country are going to place them
on a more dignified and scientific
footing, it will be much better for
them to drop the competitions at
once. Otherwise it will be but a few
years until they will be in the same
unenviable position as the breeders
who take up variety as its boom is
on the decline.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-01

breakage we're materially reduced.
The bureau, through the food re-
search Laboratory, is now engaged in
shipping eggs handled in different
ways on long journeys to different
points in the United States, and is
carefully noting their condition on
receipt at their destination. Ship
pers, railroad men, and commission
men are cooperating heartily with
the Investigators of the government,
through other joint conference COM
mittees composed of representatives
from the National Butter, Egg, Poul-
try Association, the Traffic Managers
Association of Chicago and the United
States Department of Agriculture.
The situation is growing very acute,
because the railroads are claiming
that their damage losses are such as
to make the carrying Of eggs an un-
profitable commercial proposition.
The shippers and consignees have
large sums OF money tied up in claims
and litigation with the roads. If the
Department of Agriculture succeeds,
as it hopes to do. in devising a sue
cessful method OF shipping eggs, it
will contribute Importantly to the
poultry industry in which the little
grey hen produces food worth half
billion dollars annually.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-01
O-W. R. & N. CORN SHOWS.

The premium list for the Corn
Shows to be held at Colfax, WASH,
and at PeDdleton, Ore, next Decem-
Der, under the aupices of the Oregon
Washington Railroad K Navigation
Co., have just been issued and offer
many valuable prizes, in cash and
implements, for a large variety of
exhibits that relate to corn culture.
That the shows, the first of their
kind ever undertaken west of the
Rocky mountains, are to be a great
success is indicated in the fact that
the O-W. R. & N. has distributed a
great quantity of seed to farmers ask
ing for it and interest in the contest
has grown rapidly in the agricultural
sections.
Mr.. r. B. Liller, traffic manager
of the O-W. r. & NJ, has given the
campaign of corn raising his constant
and enthusiastic attention. In a
recent interview he said: 1.-The
growing of corn means more and
better livestock and greater develop
ment of agriculture generally, which
is essential to the future growth and
welfare of the Northwest. We hope
to see the time when the corn crop OF
Oregon and Washington will be as
large as the wheat crop, and the latter
even larger than 1t is at present. "
The premium list announces prizes
to the value of $1,000 in cash and farm
implements for the best exhibit of
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-01
corn grown in the territory tributary
to the Oregon Washington Railroad &
Navigation Co., during the season OF
1913.
LAW OF CORNER POSTS.

Mr.. A. V. Ross, of Colby, WASH,
writes The Ranch stating that there
is disagreement in his neighbor-
hood over the rights of the govern
ment established corner posts, and de-
sires some infor nation.
The corner posts as set by the old
government surveys are the establish
ed monuments to which all later sur
veys must tie, regardless of whether
they are found to be correctly located
or not. In fact SO many of them were
wrongly set that great deal of con-
fusion has arisen when later surveys
we're made, and for this reason the
government in describing its property
adds the words "more or less' to the
description to cover this very matter.
In fact, so many errors are found that
in some townships the west line of
sections varies greatly. Sometimes a
section which should contain $40 aces
will contain less than half that
amount, and at other times the west
line of sections on a township will run
many acres over the mum Der required
for a section. The fact that survey
ing is not an exact science, as we sup
pose, has caused endless discussion
and litigation, but the old establish
ed corners, or monuments, as they
are called, govern all later surveys.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-01
GOVERNMENT TO LESSEN BREAK
AGE OF EGGS.

To reduce the enormous breakage
of eggs in transit, which yearly causes
a loss of millions of dollars to pro-
ducers, and raises the price of eggs
for the consumers, the United States
Department of Agriculture, through
it's Bureau of Chemistry is conduct
ing extensive experiments to deter
mine the safest manner of packing
eggs for long and short shipments by
rail. The waste from the breakage
OF eggs, according to Year Book
Reprint $751; "The Effect of Present
Methods of Handling Eggs on the
Industry and Product" in New York
City alone in 1909 was over 137, 804,
1853 eggs, or over 11h million dozen,
out of a total consumption in 1909 of
127, $50, 600 dozens of eggs. In other
words, about nine per cent Of all eggs
received in New York were cracked
and of these large number we're unfit
for food use. The egg supply of large
cities, and particularly New York,
has to come from a long distance,
because according to the 18th census,
the Middle Atlantic States in 1909
sold only about 10000, 600 dozen
eggs. or not enough to supply New
York alone if every egg had been sent
to that point. For the eastern coast
cities the distant corn districts are
practically the sole source of supply,
because the little grey hen does not
have to scratch so hard for a living
in the corn field as she does where
grain is scarce. Increasing consump-
ton of eggs adds to the distance from
which eggs must come, and makes
the safe shipment of this valuable
food product more and more essential.
The bureau of chemistry regards
the investigation of the method of
preventing egg breakage as particular
ly important because the many mil
lions of dozens of eggs now broken in
shipment naturally tend to keep the
price of this valuable food higher
than II there we're no breakage, OF
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-01
Poultry Department

poultry press, that the competitions
at Roseorthy and Kybolite are to be
discontinued "owing to their remote
ness from Adelaide. This informa-
ton states that the same objection
applies to the Hawkesbury competi-
ton, and concludes with the state.
ment that "the South Australian tests
are to be carried out at the Parrafield
Experiment Station-at least so says
the Sydney Mail"
To those who can read signs in the
poultry world, this signifies that lay
ing competitions in Australia will
soon be thing Of the past, and that
they will quickly peter out elsewhere.
A laying competition at an agricultur
al college or experiment station, or
under the auspices of a government,
is sad spectacle-a degradation of
high function to superfiuous work,
of large facilities to trivial matters !;
and a prostitution of service that
should be on strictly educational
and scientific basis for the exploita-
ton of various individual interests
Those who promote laying COM
petition put themselves in the posi-
ton of propagating a fundamental
error. Instead of going seriously to
work to remove popular error, they
foster methods which strengthen and
extend it. AS we pointed out when
the Australian contest first began to
attract attention in this country,
such comparison of breeds, varieties
and strains is simply an elaboration
of the custom of novices in poultry
keeping of beginning with number
of different kinds of fowls that they
may determine for themselves by
actual observation the relative values
of the different breeds. The idea
that any particular degree of laying
capacity is fixed character of breed,
variety or stock is a fallacy due to
ignorance of the nature of "breed, "
of the persistence of qualities in
animals, and of the influence of
environment upon egg production.
There was no need that the sex
perts' at any college or station any
where should conduct laying competi-
lions to find this out. 1t was mat
ter of common knowledge among we'll
informed poultrymen before competi-
lions were inaugurated. If there was
need of competitions that the experts
might demonstrate the facts plainly
to novices at large, and if that was
really the object of competitions,
they should have been conducted on
a very different basis.
AS matter Of fact, the laying COM
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-07-01
100000 A Year
Wasted On Trusses
Wrong to Buy Anything For Rupture
Without Getting Sixty Days Trial

conservative estimate shows that nearly
ten million dollars q year-in this country
alone - Is practically wasted on worthless
rupture appliances-a1l because people trust to
a mere try on instead of making thorough
test
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-04-10
Twenty SIX
YEARS IN M|N0T
g. o. Frank, Prominent Merchant.
Arrived Here April 10, More Than a
Quarter Century Ago.

Guy o. Frank. Of the Leland De-
partment store, arrived in Miuot Just
26 years ago tolay. Guy had just
come of the farm back near Oil City,
Pa. and after paying his way here
had only a hundred dollars left. He
arrived at night, there being but one
train day from st. Paul and the g.
n. lie extended only as far west
as Minot. MIR. Frank worked for MI
not's first postmaster, man named
Mcnamara, who afterward went wrong
and skipped out. Guy received $50
a mouth at first and to eke out an
existence, did his own cooking, man.
aging to save a little money from the
small wages when nany were spend.
ing more than $50 month for board
alone. Mr.. Frank acted as postmas.
ter for McNamara's bondsmen and
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worked for VIM. Hope, who followed.
w. l.. Mansfield was our next post
master, then j. J. LonA. G.. o.
Frank, Peter Fugelso. A. J. Brunner
and Mrs. J. S, Murphy, the present
incumbent.
Mr.. Frank engaged in business for
himself at the ole New York store
site, year or so after his arrival.
His first partner was Andrew Jacob
son. now a banker Of Alexandria,
MINI. After year or 50, Mr.. Frank
and julius Fauchald became partners
and conducted the business with 70.
markable success FOR many years.
Mr.. Frank Is enc Of our most sub.
stantial businessmen. What he has
made he has invested here. He has
made his success by hard ticks. In
the old days when working in the
postoffice, he was up at O'clock
every morning to distribute the mail
that came in during the night. In
those days the residents In the coun.
ty We're few and he knew every man
that lived here. Mr.. Frank asserts
that he likes North Dahta 80 we'll
that hell be here 2e years hence II
his life is spared.
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bank every night for weeks. 1t did
not cause comment. 1t was like War
rem Blake. people thought. to be work
Ing early and late. No one who had
not the key would have detected IN
the wIdened eyes and imperceptibly
twitching nostrils hint of the racking
anxiety within. His pallor would
have been attributed to the garish gas
light overhead. Quite deliberately he
added up the column of figures before
him. They spelled his crime.
Very cleverly. very characteristical-
h. he had gone about it. Hampden.
he knew. caught in the big deal into
which Warren had followed him. had
drifted into it-had hardly realized. as
In the heat Of necessity he asked the
cashier to certify checks for which
there were no funds. that 1t was a
crime Not so with Warren. In cold
blood, with nice calculation of the
chances. he had stepped over the line
that he had never before crossed,
Once over, he had gone far 1t had
been gamblers chance. the kind
that many men take safely, and, when
taken. had seemed all in his favor.
But now the luck was running the
other way. II the market sagged fur
Their, he would be done for.
No one. II told. would have believ-
cd why he had done it-because the
hank was breaking nyhow under the
load Of worthless paper. most Of It a
legacy from his predecessor, and only
q great deal Of money could save 1t.
4 e had been his pride to carry along
IN institution for the shakiness Of
which he was not responsible It had
become his life He had risked all.
even his own little carefully accumu-
lated fortune. to save all. though he
had made it point Of honor not to
llsk the trust properties in bis keep
hg-he somehow made a distinction.
II the market should sag, how should
- pay7 Hampden. though bankrupt.
would be able to work out of the hole
He could always get money some
where But Hampden could not.
hence would not. try to save both:
How then should he. Warren Blake.
NUASae-A~ -s.rssN.rNn....-,s -.lIaIEDsans
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LYNCH|NC AT
MONDAk MONT.
MOB BREAKS DOWN CELL DOOR
AND HANGS COlORED DESPERA.
90 TO TELEGRAPH POlE-..BODY
CUT DOWN AND SENT ADRlFT ON
ICE,

Thos. Courtenay, sheriff of the
new county of Sheridan, Mont,
was instantly killed and his dep.
uty, Bul meister was fatally
wounded by j. E Collins, a burly
negro whom they attempted to
arrest at the camp of the Union
Bridge and C Construction Co.. two
miles below Mondak, Mont, The
negro was captured and that
night lynched by an Infatuated
mob of the friends of the off,
cials This occurred Friday aft
ernoon and instantly the news
were flashed over Montana and
western North Dakota where the
sheriff and his deputy had q host
Of friends
Collins was wanted in Iowa on
the charge of murder and the
sheriff of Sheridan county went
from Plentywood that day. COL
Inns was in the act of drawing
his check when he was informed
by Constable Williams that he
was wanted for gambling. He
pulled an automatic Colts revol-
yer and compelled Williams to
give up his own gun. The sheriff
was just coming in the door when
the negro shot him through the
heart. Death was instantane GUS.
He then walked out and shot
Deputy Burmeister six times
through the body, legs and arms
and then ran into the woods, Sc
creting himself. The deputy
was shot at 3 o'clock in the after
noon, but lived until 9 o'clock
that night, passing away at the
Williston hospital where he was
taken immediately. He remain
ed conscious to the last.
A posse was formed and sur
rounded the woods, and the
negro, seeing that the jig was
up, surrendered to Constables u.
W. Drake, editor of the Yellow
stone Times, and Williams. The
frightened negro was taken to
the Mondak jail. AS soon as the
sheriff s friends in Medicine
Lake heard of the tragedy, they
started for Mondak, five auto
loads of them, and upon their
arrival battered down the cell
door and dragged Collins thru
the street at the end of q rope.
The negro was more dead than
alive when he was strung up to
q telegraph pole, where he re-
NAMED until after No 4 passed
the next morning. The body
was cut down and placed in the
Jail, but someone stole it and
sent it adrift in the Missouri on
q cake of ice.
Collins was known in Minot.
where he stopped a few weeks
ago. He had a bad reputation.
Sheriff Courtenay was years
old. and had held Office but ten
days. This was the first arr est
that he had attempted to make.
His father resides at Medicine
Lake. Burmeister's home had
been at Culbertson. He was an
old settler in the west.