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to be noticed by the critics, and arrived
at last to a point where my art pro-
vided me with food, raiment and certain
satisfactions," as he puts It.
"Since then" he concludes. my paint
ings have been well received in the
salons Of Paris, Madrid. Lausanne and
other cities. l have received medals and
honors, but fear that / shall never be a
really fashionable painter, for what at
tracts me chiefly in the human being are
the eyes and hands. If the eyes are mir
rors of the soul. the hands are Its ex-
preston
Where did you get that?" asked.
"In Morocco was his answer. There
they don't paint, but they know enough
to look at eyes"
Such is the modest self-account of the
man whom all Europe calls the painter
of eyes and hands.
How wonderful are our lamps. says
Morerod. by them we know the uni
verse Surely, Divine wisdom could have
made a similar organ. receptive TO other
octaves in the mighty gamut of vtbra-
tions between sound and light An eye
to catch UP heat waves would make hot
night bright as noon, and we'd put hot
air registers on street corners for lamp
posts 1t would still be seeing Seeing
Il to perceive the universe adequately by
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Really Delightful.

WrLLIAM II, maxwell, superin-
" tendent of New York's public
schools, quoted with no little zest at a
recent dinner, a composition, based on q
moving picture play. that had been
written by boy of ten.
The composition was very long and
very delightful The best paragraph ran:
The villun curled his mustarsh, and
seeing the pure vurgin shreeks ha ha be
mine or deaths blud is on my head this
dagger stabs thee to thy utermost sois
ha ha ha yengunZe vengunze. But the
good hero kurses and SAYS O hevins-
hevins stur won step and thy ded body
lies at my door. lay won parm on the
vurgins korpse and II was better IL you
was drownd with a milestone. Avarnt
avarnt from this sweet korpses pres
unz."
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woman is seldom. When you get the two
combined. you have Semiramis.
And the superman?" 1 suggested. !.
There won't be any more supermen,
mold" AS a mere indication, he has
only met three men with supereyes. all
Of low condition. But the women, ah"'
He tells of a half-caste Spanish girl In
an oasis Of Morocco who has subjugated
an entire tribe. has her camel-runners
has plan for the regeneration of the
Moors. Morerod says that the world will
hear from her.
He mentions Gaby Madry, beautiful
Parisienne artistic. with a charming voice.
but no one would call her grand opera
soprano Yet, as joke. she so para
lyzed either Manager Messenger or Brous-
san with her eyes that she came away
with one Of those perfectly legal notes
for contract by which nearly all Paris
opera singers are, at first, engaged.
Gaby Madry looks a FESTIVE horse in
the eye for half minute, and ne De-
comes docile If she takes a spite against
a sister actress, she can kill her role,
or make her forget her lines. In a
restaurant she can SO 5angle the init
mate vibrations Of any unknown woman
at a neighboring table as to make her
get up and quit the place!
And SO on.
ridden somewhere behind the iris of
the eye" says Morerod. lies the mys-
terry land of the human being. Do you
wonder at my passion Tor IT? 1t is not
resent. / must read behind the surface.
1 want to paint eyes that flash and
beam with the secret of the soul!
IT paint chiefly women" he adds, be-
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An Impressive Truth.

A 7 the booksellers recent annual con-
vention in New York. Irwin S. Cobb
pointed out the great help to bookselling
that advertising affords.
"A book" he said. gets good re-
view-the author. perhaps, Is called .
genius. That review of itself sells, per-
haps, 100 copies. But that review. quot
ed in a good. big advertisement, might
easily sell 10000 copies"
Mr.. Cobb paused, then added impress
sively:
THE temple OF commerce, gentlemen.
is supported by columns of advertising"
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DO you know who is behind your own
eyes? Morerod will then ask you. IF
SO. you know yourself, admirable knowl-
edge. recommended by Scion, sage Of an
dQue Greece. You can know yourself
until the cows come home, my boy, 1t
doesn't matter who's behind those lamps
Of yours. But the eyes of a Chicago
girl l met at Helleu's studio-I tell you.
were the soul of Jeanne d. Arc or Semira-
mis- behind them, they might drive half
the world to blessing or cursing the
them twice in a thousand times. 1t would
be too much. The world couldn't stand
it. The world would explode. All. me.
the eyes of that Cincinnati girl. She Is all
vanity, frtvolity, Incidence, fragility and
yet she Will upset hundreds of men and
women, turn the meritorious OFF the
track, set worthless souls afiame with
impossible aspirations and unrealizable
ambitions!"
But, wait. perhaps / had best tell you
what il is all about
Edouard Morerod was born thirty-three
years ago in Geneva Switzerland, the
son of rich banker. Early in life he
developed love OF painting and studied
both at home and In Paris. At the age Of
twenty he went to Morocco on a pleas
ure trip. and having become enamored
OF the types and scenery. he settled down
there to paint. and acquired the begin
nings of a haunting OF beautiful eyes
which never left him, and has made him
famous
I'm those days painted because
loved painting" he says. Then, sud
denly. came a change of scene. 1t was
about seven years ago that found my
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cause mems eyes are dulled by sluggish
possession OF the right OF might. dur.
ing centuries"
Morerod's studio is unique-its walls
are not hung exclusively with the pro-
prietors own works. Beside Morerod's
sketches, studies and paintings hang
life-size photographs and etchings and
portraits by other artists. of particularly
happy eye effects. Parisiennes, whose
eyes win Morerod's admiration.
Here's that half-caste Spanish girl.
he shows you. Her eyes are cold on the
surface. Their shape is not pretty; their
glance Is somewhat cruel; but look into
them more deeply, and you will see in
them memories of past glories, the lust
of power, resentment of humiliation.
The Spanish woman is still a slave to the
men Of her family, but In her eyes you
may read the dormant power within
her. Her hour of awakening is near:
and men will have to face dreadful
reckoning"
beauty and favorite of the laughter-lov-
ing Paris crowd
'Her eyes smile he says. but behind
the smile one reads the bitterness OF
the Parisienne who feels herself the toy
of the moment to be cast aside when
the toy has ceased to please"
Before Regina Badet.
She's a mime" he says. '.mut | have
seen her hold every individual person or
q mighty audience. as if she had a string
tied to them. With another public and
a purpose. she could stir crowds 10 her
will. Should one trace her ancestry back
far enough. I am convinced that YOU
would find Roman warriors who came TO
France under Caesar. In that eye
read power and arrogant insIstence ON
the joy of living. She has no great pur-
pose
Here is Lydia Lipkowska. he con-
cluded. Lydia, the feted queen of song
She is happy; / happen to know II But,
look into her eyes and you will see that
steering her soul are the mournful winds
Of the steppes Somewhere in the TAR
recesses of her there sounds the echo OF
the grooming song of the Slav woman,
shivering in dread OF the Tartar insa-
sion All, the eye Of LYDIA.
mo super-woman. she?' | said
Lydia is of the east" said Morerod-
1.-The east sleeps.
But Japan | queried.
1.-The east sleeps" he insisted. super
women are OF the west I'm sailing
west, to find Semiramisi'
STERLING HELLO.
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SAYS MOrerod, does not only see, Dut
speak 1t not only receives rays, but
sends them out. Have you never. seated
idly in a parlor or public place. felt
the indef1nable sensation that some one is
looking at you? Why, even the burglar
carefully turns his gaze from the Sleep
ing victim, lest he wake him! Have You
never asked a question with the eyes-and
received back a twenty-five reply in
flash?
.sWell, the supereye is more So"
Pzson has a lion tafner, for example.
who never strikes blow. Holding the
beast with his eye. a mere crack Of the
whfb in the air sears him like red-hOt
iron! Morerod has painted that lion
tanner three times.
such eyes / seek the world over" he
says. II am going to America because
SO many of your beautiful, beautiful
women have them. I try to paint them.
but who can produce those darkly blazing
little suns or living stars Of blue? They
are the eyes that turn men into jumping
jacks"
Dangerous I said.
"Oh, q few vague humanities. 1t is
naught that some thousand meI with
money-or without it-melt into doting
imbecility. The remainder are wounded,
but recover. 4 beautiful woman never
exerts her whole force. either for good
or ILL.,
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the beautiful women of Paris and London
are all wild 10 have their portraits paint
ed by Edouard Morerod. son OF the Swiss
banker.
At this moment he is making a wide
splash I'm London. with an exhibition pa
tronized by Princess Henry of Batten-
berg, Mrs Meyer Sassoon and other high
Games, who. patronesses, ought TO
have their eyes done by him. Well il is
by no means certain. Morerod is just the
kind of genius. to turn down. a prin-
cess or a bankers lady.
Eyes are the windows of the soul.
said one pretentous fair. imagining to
make a good impression on him.
Put up curtains, folks might look in.
Was the subtle Switzer's answer. When
the frivolous say windows" he replies
Sshow windows and Beware the sun,
damages the goods" When lady
reeps. he says she's washing windows"
He is not cruel, but everybody in the
srst five minutes tells him that the eyes
,re windows of the soul They are, says
norerod. but so many souls are not at
nome: they're probably out shopping. He
knows that the eyes are windows, but he
SAINTS to look into the right windows.
cor. rather" he says. Il want TO sit
..iy and watch who looks out Of them
.sThe wireless stations OF the passions
,xclaims the famous painter. "A gypsy
xirI ignorantly practices the secret. A
london beauty may have eyes as calm as
naIe blue lakes Helen, Cleopatra, Lu-
.retia Borgia, Catherine de Medicis. Lola
Nontez Cora Pearl. all had 1t. Because
Marie Stuart had IL. ElZabeth-who also
had it-cut her head or
What" you ask him.
The eye, the super-eye, he answers
.omberly. 1T appalls to think how
many American women have the super
we I'm going over there 10 make a
,fudy on the quiet. Dangerous novelty
threatens American civilization, wild en-
thusiasms popular risings. crazy devo-
ions, leading. perhaps, 10 abysmal disil-
aIsfons and cataciysmal despairs. unless
auIess CHS face lights with hope that
sever was on sea or land)-unless."
He gazes into vacancy, affrighted by
he immensely of his conception.
loan of Arc had the super-eye," he
tays 1.-The chronicles are full of 1t: she
terminated rude captains by glance, al
,nce gentle and penetrating Semiramis
had the super-eye. An antique writer
,ays: 1T famed men with love and fury.
have seen il The whispers) in eight
rirls and married women of the Amer
can colony of Paris. 1t Is pr0diSious,
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EARS eyeglasses?
Near : sighted? ]
won't paint herr"
he says
That is nothing.
Her eyes won't
do is his frequent
objection, after CIV
ing S e eral sit
tings. II is only
for the lady to re-
tire.
In consequence,
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agitations Of the ether which composes
it. Matter Is but a knot tied in the
ether"
Yes, SIR" says the lady.
"Well, all that is nothing to you. Do
not brood over 1t. Forget 1t. 1t concerns
the superwoman, and you have only a
second class supereye. 1t is already mag
nificent. All, do not blast your servant
with those divine glances which you
don't know how to launch! Few supereyes
know how to handle themselves. They
are miraculous because they not only re-
ceive vibrations, but also send them
out!'
He speaks Of the eyes Of Cleopatra and
Jeanne dare. What are our eyes. again?
The wonderful thing about them is that
they are prolongations Of the brain. Ex-
actly Optic nerve and eye are parts OF
the brain-the brain which. we know,
sends out telepathic messages at a dis
lance, even with the eyes shut! Is it
brain or soul which sends the message?
Inextricably mixed up. they are hidden
in the ball of bone we call the skull. But
Imagine an exterior brain-to act as di-
rectly on the world as a hand! What i'm
passioned purposes might not fly from
soul to soul, from soul to crowd?"
That's what the supereye does-when
the superbrain is behind IL!
Even the common or garden eye"
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Also, 1t seems, most Of the women who
possess supereyes cease to use them when
they marry-or else waste their power in
driblets, to obtain trifles.
Then, what is he afraid Of? AS far as
I can make out. the supereye is compare
lively frequent. in its lesser-may we say
dimentary-examples. But the SUPER
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Z - = - :
4QssaksEfAdillkbss g. BY
Your Grandfathe1
your grandfather managed to make uine why can't you?
He dealt with thousand handcaps not called
to face.
has been tremendously sin1pied his day. The
1Uord which live rplte with advantages beyond the
reach of his arms and his imagination.
This of labor saving machinery-of saving
methods and time SAVING systems
Exertion has been n,ininized in every direction.
Pneumatic, electric hydraulic and steam have reduced
the physical of mechanical tasscash registers adding
machines and countless devices multiplying the efficiency OF
clerical specaes telephones elevators and rapid transit
universal use.
Your day three times long Abraham Lincons and A.
T. Stewards and Jay Gous because have three times
facilities they enjoyed and therefore three times the amount of
force to apply to your undertakings.
There still sixty minutes the hour but do
much within sixty minutes with the tools Of
that merely equal the achievements of eighteenth century
confession Of nineteenth century nferiority
You're spoiled has been made soft for you
you obtain results easily.
The spur of necessity be digging hard but its roes
sharp a those which pricked your ancestors.
The community constantly grows paterna Your 0eL
fare protected by safeguards than nobenaan could
nand in the prerepubican cycles
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A RTISTS' Only Books Are
"A Women's Eyes Strange
Principles Govern Art Which
Has Become a Fad in Paris.
Swiss Bankers Son Talks
to Sterling Heilig Regarding
His Ideas and His Peculiar
Search-Says He Has Conf
dence of Finding the Super
Eve of Semirannis" in America.
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PARIS. June Is, 1913.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14
HALIFAX HAS KEY
To THE TONOPAH
TREASURE BOX
THOMAS KEARNS ENTHUSIASTIC
OVER THE OUTLOOK ON
EAST EDGE OF BELT.

That the management of the Hall
fax Tonopah company has struck the
to the treasure vaults
of the property seems evident from
the news that Director Thomas
Kearns received from Tonopah on
Friday. A message brought the well
come information that on the 1000
foot level full face of sulphide ore
was encountered, the value Of which
was not less than $50 per ton.
A successful consummaton of the
energetic campaign of development
work on the Halifax has been deem
ed certain owing to the results on
neighboring mines, especially the
Belmont, which adjoins the Halifax,
and it has been a question OF work
to bring the Halifax into the coveted
division. There has been no better
york done or better equipment add.
ed in Tonopah than the directors OF
the Halifax have seen fit to do, and
the results now being achieved are
certainly due those whose faith has
been pinned unalterably upon th'
merits of the propositions LAX
Tribune.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14
FAIL To SHOW Up
FOR THE TRIALS
ATGOLDF|ELD
TARGETS
ToNoPAH MARkSMEN ARE DIS
APPOINTED BUT AGREE TO
FRIENDLY TEST OF SKILL.

A match shoot was arranged yes
terday between Tonopah and Gold
field and eleven representative gun
men from this camp autoed over in
machines furnished by local en-
thusiasts On arriving at Goldfield
It was discovered that several of
the best shots of that camp ia
been summoned away on business
trips so the competition was called
off and the boys divided forces to
finish the day at the targets, Teams
consisting Of men from both camps
were dawn and good time was
enjoyed. After the shoot everybody
adjourned to the Goldfield hote
where the guests We're entertained
until late hour.
The members of the Tonopah team
who made the trip were; Scott Mul
Inns, Bob Prouty Martin Johnson
Vail Pittman, Ed Regan, A, II, Jones
E. X. Smith, Charlie Coble, Thoma
J. Dwyer Ed Addison and DR.. Cow
den.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14
LITTLE BOYS BEAR
Up WELL UNDER
OPERATION
TREATED THIS MORNING AND
AFTERNOON AT THE MIN
ERS UNION HOSPITAL.

Lawrence Metts, a nephew of Mrs.
F. j. Metts, was operated on this
morning by DR. Masterson at the
Miners Union hospital for hernia and
this afternoon Alton L. Parrott, from
Millers. was treated by Dr. Mcleod
for appendicitis. Both lads are only
ten years of age and bore their ex-
perience bravely
Mrs. Gus Peterson who was brought
to the hospital three weeks ago
threatened with appendicitis was re-
moved this morning to Pasadena for
the benefit of a lower altitude. This
is one of the most pathetic cases
that has claimed attention recently
Mrs. Peterson was stricken after hei
husband had left for his old home il
/ Sweden and she had to be removed
to the hospital without further delay
Attempts were made to reach Peter
son at the steamship office but hi
vessel had started on the long voy
age and nothing could be done unit
arrival in the old country when h
was advised of the critical cond
tion of his wife, whom he left in al
parently good health,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14

The annual memorial services OF
the Fraternal Order of Eagles held
last night at the Nevada theater was
attended by full house which took
deep interest In the proceedings
under the auspices Of the Tonopah
aerle. The local Eagles and several
visiting brothers attended in body
headed by the drill corps in full
uniform. The stage was prettily
decorated
The exercises opened with a selec'
tion by the Catholic choir and an
overture by the Eagles orchestra fol
lowed by the ritual, rendered by the
officers Of the order at their re
spective stations as follows
Worthy president. ]. p Murphy
vice president Henry Kelly; chap
lain, N. M Mccormick; secretary
G. L. Richards; treasurer, w G
Walker; conductor, r. A. Brooks; in
side guard, Robt. Temple; 0utsid,
...ss~~~neSeeNS@~S @~SeSSSS$Ss@SSSSSsS
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14
HORRIBLE
OUTRAGES
ENDURED
MEN AND WOMEN cRUclFIED,
HACKED AND BURNED BY
BULGARlANS.
oBy Associated Pre-so

SALONIKA, July 13-The sacking
and burning Of Seres by Bulgarians
before they fled was fully confirmed
today Women of all ages suffered
incredible outrages, many dying from
the effects Men and women were
cruoified, hacked and burned.
The retreating Bulgarians shelled
the town with field guns and drench-
ed the buildings with petroleum
which they fired.
The Austro-Hungarian and Italian
consulates were sacked and burned
and the American Tobacco company's
loss is a million dollars Rich and
poor are dying of hunger.
LONDON, July 13.-King Ferdinand
of Bulgaria in long message today
from Sofia informs the evening news
that reports that Creeks and Servians
have been circulating in Europe that
outrages alleged to be committed by
Bulgarian troops are absolutely un-
founded. and published with the OBJ
ject of creating a bad impression.
/ He says Bdgarians have been sub
iected to ipdignities from Greeks and
Servians and he courts an interna
tional inquiry.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14
RAILWAY
STRIKEIS
RATIFIED
TIME FOR CALLING LEFT TO
DISCRETION OF TWO LA
eoR LEADERS.

NEW YORK, July IA confer
ence committee of railroad managers
received today formal notification
from the unions that the strike vote
was ratified yesterday
Presidents Lee and Garretson are
in Washington today to attend con
ference between the president, rep
resentatiyes of railroads and con
gressional leaders
The railroads involved in the strike
announced through the conference
committee that the managers are
willing to arbitrate under the provi.
sions of the Newlands bill now be
fore congress, but unwilling under
the Erdman act,
WASHINGTON, July l3.-The ires
ident, democratic and republican con
gressional leaders, representatives. Of
eastern railroads, and union leaders
began conference this Afternoon
in an effort to prevent strige Sc
cretly decided by a vote of the EN-
ployes OF AZ roads,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14

Four of the greatest events credit
ed to any mining district eliminated
in Tonopah yesterday and this morn
ing. That they are pregnant with
Importance to every man having a
dollar invested in the camp is be-
yond contradiction. The foregoing
epitomizes in a nutshell the doings
Of a day, Other important develop
ments win follow
Retirement Of Parker
According to well authenticated re-
port the retirement Of A. D. Parker,
one of the original stockholders Of
the Tonopah Extension, has been de-
termined by that gentleman dispos-
ing of his interests to John w.
Kirchen and Charles NJ. Schwab Mr.
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general sample which | had taken
this morning Reports are likely to
be misunderstood, but when | find
the returns from this mornings sam
pie can speak definitely of the
value of the find"
While this is a modest statement
of the discovery that sent Merger
stock ballooning this morning, it is
well to state that on the street the
story is told that the ore will run
close TO S120 ton as an average of
the vein. One piece of gouge from
the wall went $500, but of course.
that cannot be taken as a criterion
of values. But a little of that sort
of stuff would sweeten lot Of low
grade and furnishe dividends.
kkN4R%RNSSS~SsS<-~
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14
WEDDING CELEBRATED BY
JUDGE DuNsEATH SATURDAY

Justice Dunseath had full house
Saturday night when he celebrated
the marriage of Cliff Worth, of the
Tonopah Extension and Miss Carrie
Painter. The witnesses were Mr.. and
Mrs Martin and the court room was
filled with friends who joined in con-
gratulations. The couple are keep
ing house at 4SO Florence avenue.
Last night charivari was conducted
by the younger friends Of the cou.
pie and the bridegroom responded
CALAMITY to the demands Of the crowd.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-14
FORMER PARADISE VALLEY
GIRL DIES IN SEATTLE

In a letter to the Silver State,
written at Seattle, Mrs, II. M, Burge
says that Mrs. Hattie Sperry, wife
of Fred Sperry, died at her home,
in Seattle, July 5, of heart disease.
Mrs. sperry was the daughter Of
the late Charles Nichols and spent
her girlhood days in Paradise Val
ley
Mrs Sperry leaves to grieve for
the loss of a devoted wife and moth
ar husband and six children: Les
lie NJ Hazel NJ. Mrs. Jack Callahan
Mrs. May Linn, Charles and Marion
Sperry.