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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-11-03

torial detail and finds sympathetic
response in every heart. All the
Sondrous beanties OF the ancient city
Of. Pompeii and its SURROUNDINGS. 81
thrillingly described in Bulwer's no.
vel. are shown upon the screen ant
comprise a series OF pictures that are
Q delight to the eye at all times. "The
Last Days of Pompeil as produced
by Mr.. Kleine ranks among the big
photo drama achievements OF the age.
t i i
Fay Wallace. of the Poll Players,
received her first engagement from
James o'Neill, at the suggestion OF
Louis James. Miss Wallace has APP
peared in stock organizations in Mil
waukee, San Francisco and Portland,
Ore, with the famous Belasco com
pany in Los Angeles, and with the
Gebrge Fawcett company in Balti-
more. She asIo played leading roles
IN such plays as Polly of the Circus
and The Man of the Hour
~ i i
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, author
of many familiar New England stor.
les, among them "Rebecca of sunny
brook Farm, from which she and
Charlotte Thompson made the highly
successful stage version, is a native
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Ter describe similar characters. Ger.
.tainiy Ben Hur" Is by far the great
est religious play that has ever been
staged in America and we seem TO
live in It's very atmosphere. It's ac-
ton moves steadily and impressively
and unlike so many dramatized nov
els. the auditor follows the characters
and plot. Ben Hur" depicts real
human men and women; yes, going
deeper It transfers their pulse beats
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TIE THEA TER 9

Drama to be Of value must be OF
some benefit to mankind either to en-
stefta1n or to instruct and "Ben Hus,''
which opens an engagement tonight
at the Robinson Grand, with its pic
tnresque garb and groupings, thrill
Ing clImaxes and Oriental atmosphere.
both entertains and instructs To be
valuable as means Of learning the
habits and customs Of our ancestors
tho story. must be true to life, or rath-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-11-03

of Maine and has her sumner home
row at Hollis, in the Pine Tree state.
Her residence is called Qpillcote, and
s as handsome an estate as is owned
by an American author.
~ i i
For the first half of the week the
odeon theater offers that ever pop
ular musical comedy. "a Day in Par
Is, with such old time stars as Win
ters, Harris and Proy at the head OF
1t and bunch OF the prettiest girls
ever seen on the odeon stage There
are ten people in this popular COM
pany and every one is a star. If there
IS laugh in your system they will
get it.
Today's program includes three
dandy photoplays entitled 1.-THE Stolen
Model" an Edison drama; dandy
Biograph entitled with the Aid of
Entomology" farce COMEDY, and a
Vltagraph story.
/ I i
A marvellous display OF intelligence
is given by Cora, trick dog billed
as the Canine Mental Marvel. in a
feature yaudevttln act-that is included
Continued ON page eight
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played the verdict of critics and pub
lie conceded exactly with the dictum
OF the New York Herald. If allgthe
good things that have been written in
the newspapers throughout the coun-
try and in musical magazines about
the marine band could be put to-
gether, they would constitute a grand
symposium of acculamatory commen-
dation of the work OF the band.
The band will give two concerts
here Friday, November Z in the new
Masonic temple on West Pike street
+ i i
George Kleine, whose name has be-
come household word all over this
country since he first launched his
marvellous photo drama production of
"Qou Vadis" is also sponsor for the
beautiful six part photo drama "rhe
Last Days of Pompeii,". which is an
nounced for three nights at the Rob-
inson Grand beginning Monday, No
Vember 10, with .matlnees daily. This
new production is photo dramatiza-
ton of Lord Bulwer Lytton's famous
novel of the same title and adheres
closely to the text. The pathetic vet
hopeless love story of the lovely blind
flower girl, Nydia, is related in pic
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70 the eager auditors true to iifs
are they and the auditors are at once
IN sympathy with them.
Ben Hurn Is the big success Of the
decade, It Is drama the locale Of
which is Judea during the ehrist,s
life on earth, spectacular in the man
bit It is the kind OF play admirers OF
the spectacular enjoy seeing, and such
admirers are numerous; in fact, play
goeTs who do not like to watch q
rouaing dramatic presentment OF
good story literally spiced with hero
les, 10 dip into the past and learn
what was customary and true to ma
tuTe III the days gone by. are exceed
ingly few. Now in It's fifteenth year,
and still at the head of all dramatic
spectacless is tribute which but
mildly implies the wonderful possi-
bilities Of the Wallace romance and
Its universal appeal.
t IT t
Better band music than Meuten-
ant William II. Santelmann and his
red-coated instrumentalists put to
their credit had not been heard in
New York in many long day. Thus
wrote the musical critic OF the New
York Herald In a notice OF concert
given by the United States Marine
Band in the metropolis not long since.
That this praise was we'll deserved
Is proved by the fact that in every
city in which this famous band has
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-07

| then came the old cry: Ayes and
noes, ayes and noes, Mr.. Speaker,
ayes and noes, damn you, don't you
dare shut off debate' But 'Zeke only
smiled and his gavel cracked-and
they were still Then in the stiffness
he said:
Gentlemen are as familiar with
the rules as is the chair. They are
we'll aware that the chair is powerless
to order a roll call after viva voce
vote, unless he is in doubt as to the
result, the demand for the yeas and
nays NOT having been preferred before
the question had been put to the
house. In this instance'-and the
splendid old fellow swung his gavel
to his ear, and the smile fickered out
of his face-'in this instance the chair
is not in doubt The ayes seem to
have it, the ayes have it, and the main
question is ordered The hammer fell
! like bolt, and then calmly leaning on
it. his eye travelled around over the
turbulent mob, until it lit on George
| Herrick and his little band of daZed
reformers-and | knew he was think
ing of the old man over in the mansion
whom he hated with an Indians hate
and as he looked George in the eye
the cold smile came back, and he
said:
''The question is: Shall the house
concur with the senate in the pas
sage of senate bill No. 100, notwith-
standing the objections of the gov
ernor. Upon this question those in
favor of the bill will vote aye,
and those opposed will vote no,
when their names are called,
and the clerk will call the roll.
The gavel fell, and the speaker, hold
ing it where it had fallen, leaned half
his length over his desk, and motioned
to Hen Harvey. Hen had taken off his
| coat and vest and collar-he would
call that roll himself-and as he I'M
buttoned his cuffs, inclining his head
toward the speaker, 'zeke yelled IN his
ear:
Now, Hen. damn it. call that roll
to beat all hell.
''Then we knew that the Bailey bill
fight was on to finish. We had had
our first big battle with the reformers,
and were down together in the last
ditch. Whenever a bill with some
thing in it is about to pass the legisla-
ture, a strange quality steals into the
atmosphere, just as there does in the
council chamber in Chicago when any
thing is to be pulled off-don't you
know? There is a forebodement, an
apprehensiveness, that electrifies the
nerves and Expresses the lungs. l felt
it there that night. We had had a
heavy fight to pass the bill in the first
place, and now We had to override a
veto, It's hard enough to get the
seventy-seven votes that constitute a
majority, with the people against you
men are such cowards-but when it
comes to rounding up two-thirds-a
hundred and two-it's an entirely diff
| ferent problem. We had been work
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SIZE.
Cadet Life at West Point.

Briefly: Eat S:45 p. m. the academic
work is over for the day and drills for
all classes occupy the hour from to
5, followed by a dress parade at
5:25, excepting Wednesdays and Sat
urdays. This is the schedule from
Sept. / to Nov. / and from March 10
to June. On Saturdays academic
work ends at 1890 and with the ex-
1ception of inspection at 1:50, the aft
ernoon of the cadet is free until 6:25
supper call. His amusements are
much like those of college students
generally. Football is perhaps the
most popular organized sport. Games
are played on the West Point grounds
with teams from many colleges, and
the season closes with the annual
army-navy game, when the West
Pointers meet the midshipmen from
Annapolis on Franklin field, Philadel-
phia. Basketball follows during, the
winter months, many contests with
teams from other schools occurring
during the season, and then, in the
spring, comes baseball, OF course
Popular Mechanics.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-07

there, and whispered in their ears.
supposed that, they were doing great
things in the fight against the bin,
but that was only another time when
they deluded their precious selves.
They did their reforming chiefly at
banquets, but George and the old
man knew a thing or two about poll
tics themselves, and George. standing
back by the Democratic cloak-room,
smoking his little cigarettes, was di-
recting that fight with the party lash
in his hand, and some Of the best
men on the floor of the house to do his
bidding. He was the only private Sec
rotary | ever knew who could set an
army in the field.
"But throughsit all old 'Zeke stood
there, game as ever, with hard, cold
smile on his face, and you could hear
the sharp, monotonous rap of his CAV
ell, rap. rap, rap, neither fast nor slow
The tumult did not die during the
reading of that scathing message, and
when Hens ruined voice ceased, and
he rolled the message up again and
thrust it in his desk, 'Zeke smashed
his gavel down and l heard him say:
"'Will the house be in order?'
"And 1t was in order, for 'zeke
knew how to compel order in that
bear-pit when he wanted to, and he
never raised his voice to do it either
only his eye and the gavel. And So
when they were quiet, he said: The
question is: Shall the house concur
with the senate in the passage of sen
ate bill No. LOG, Notwithstanding the
objections of the GOVERNOR
1.-The house tried to break away
from him again, but he held it in his
gavel fist, drawing the curb tight, and
turned to recognize old Long John
Riley, who was standing like a tall tree
beside his desk, with his hand up
raised.
1.-THE gentleman from Cook
"'Mr Speaker said Riley, / move
the previous question.
There was another roar, but 'Zeke's
gavel fell, and his eyes blaZed black
again, and he said:
1.-The gentleman from Cook moves
the previous question, and the ques
ton is: Shall the main question be
now put? Those in favor Of this ques
ton will say aye'-there was roar OF
ayes-'and those opposed will say no.
There was a heavier roar of noes, and
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anxiously along In her Tapping skirts
beside her tall and somber husband.
She had never been away from home
Before, and the boys had many laugh
over her wonder at the trolley-cars
purring along under the maple trees,
and her fears of the elevators In the
state house-though. for my part,
could see nothing ludicrous in it all.
She stayed three or four days and
Ridge to see Lincoln's tomb, over to
Eighth Street to visit his old home
stead, up to the Geological Museum
where the moth-eaten stuffed animals
are, and out to Camp Lincoln. They
took many trolley rides. and even
climbed to the top of the state house
dome, whence, they say, you can
see Rochester and the prairies for
thirty miles around. He brought her
over to the house one or two morn
ings, but not on to the floor as other
members did their over-dressed wives;
he sent her up to the gallery, where
she sat peering down over the railing
at the gang-and her husband, who
took no part in all that was going on.
1.-The old woman's interest In all
these new things that had come into
her starved life, her ill-concealed
pride in her husbands membership
In such a distinguished body of law
givers, were touching to me, and as
looked at him that last night of the
session, and thought of her. the wish
to do something to tighten their lives
came into my heart, but just then,
suddenly, old 'Zeke started from his
chair, grasped his gavel firmly. and
leaned expectantly over his desk. At
the same instant the older members
dragged their feet down from their
desks and sat bolt upright. The news
paper men flung away their cigarettes
and adjusted their eyeglasses. The as
sistant clerk, who had been reading,
looked up from the bill then under
what suppose they would have called
consideration, and hurriedly gave his
place at the reading desk to the clerk
of the house. | knew what was COM
ing. l knew that the Bailey bill was
on its way over from the senate. And
| heard Bill Hill call:
'Mistah Speakah.'
'At the sound of that voice tho TIP
roar in the chamber ceased. 1t he
came so still that the silence tingled
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-07

like a numbness through the body
nine o'clock that morning, when they
had paused for the chaplain to say
his prayer. The gang turned around
and stood motionless, painting, in it's
shirt-sleeves, as though a fashlight
photograph were to be taken. Half
way down the aisle stood Hill. You
know how he would look at such a
time, in his long black coat, his wide
white shirt bosom with the big dia-
mond his rolling collar and black
string tie, and his long black hair fall
ing to his shoulders You know how
he would love such a moment-and 1t
was his last chance that session He
stood there quietly whole minute,
and then putting foot forward, said
in his great bass voice:
'Mistah Speakah.
"Old 'Zeke rose and said:
"'Mister Doorkeeper.'
GA message from the senate. Ly it's
secretary
GA message from the senate by its
secretary repeated 'Zeke, and then
Bill had to give way to Sam Pollard
who stepped forth and said:
Mr.. Speaker, l am directed to in
form the house that the senate has
passed senate bill No. 1861 never
shall forget the number of that bill
after all the sleepless nights it caused
me, and the anxious mornings scan
ming the calendar to see if its black
figures were there-Senate bill No
106 A bill for an act to amend an act
entitled: An Act concerning the exer-
else of the right of eminent domain
notwithstanding the objections of the
governor'-you know the lingo
Then. as the speaker said, The clerk
will read the message, Hen Harvey
who was clerk of the house, stretched
his arm over the narrow desk and
took the file from the page. The old
man was mad when he wrote that
veto message, and he gave both
houses the d&il. | never knew the
legislature to get such an unmerciful
lamming in my life; Ii was outrageous
for it was good b!n, and
Ought ter pass" interjected Jen-
nings, repeating the trite phrase sen
tentiously.
But nobody heard it, for when Hen
began to read, the gang took deep
breath and began to howl From
both sides of the chamber broke forth
a clamor of Mr.. Speaker, Mr.. Speak
err until in the din even these words
were lost, and there was just that
long, heavy roar. The boys came over
from the senate, for they had done
their duty and had done it nobly, in
the face of a great storm of criticism
combined with the abuse of the Chi
cago papers, and they wanted to help
lift in the house. And with them
came the crowd of reformers from the
Municipal League, and stood about
with George Herrick. the old mans
private secretary The reformers. as
| George pointed out members here and
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II You plan TO Fish.

In order to be perfect trout fish,
erman, you should not have any no
tons or prejudices whatever. You
will learn in Outing that you should
carry specimens of every kind of fly.
and your mind should be closed to
every sort of superstition there is.
You should make up your mind when
you sally forth that you are going to
catch fish, and that all you have to do
is present to the trout sufficient as
sortment and the trout will at last
take hold.
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This garment is called an apron be-
cause 1t can be worn over the dress,
but 1t can also take the place of the
dress as 1t is made just like one.
1t has an empire waist line, with a
plain blouse and plain gathered
skirt, short sleeves and patch peck
cts. The closing Is in the back.
Bingham, calico and the like make
neat aprons.
The apron pattern (6SOO) is cut
In sizes "a to AZ inches bust measure.
Medium size requires 5% yards of q
inch material.
TO procure this pattern send 10 centA
to Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number OF pattern.
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This skirt may have two cores, or
three, according as a seam is placed
down the center OF the back or not.
The raised waist line is used, and the
skirt is gathered across the back. At
the lower part of the front gore Is
square extension overlapping few
gathers on the other cores. This style
is excellent for cotton crepe, ratine,
gingham, linen, crepe and silk mate
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The skirt pattern (6292) is cut in
sizes 20 to 80 inches waist measure.
Medium size requires yards of ~
inch material.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be-
sure TO give size and number OF pattern.
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Toll ID
Copyright By The Bobbs- Merrill Company

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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-24
ENGINEER
SAYS CANAL
/
IS NOT RIGHT
ALSO DECLARES FUNDS ARE
INADEQUATE FOR REPAIRS
DEEDS TO LANDS DELIVERED
WHILE CANAL WAS iMPASsA'
Bile IN MANY PLACES AND
PEOPLE ARE DiseusTED.

Mere light is being thrown upon
the transactions which resulted IN
the deciding OF the last III. 900 acres
OF land 10 the constructing company
before the work OF digging the East
Coast canal was completed; but $751;
coo was reserved when the deeds
were delivered to complete the can
al. and already Acting Chief Drain
age Engineer f. c. Elliott has made
surrey and report upon the canal
IN which he SAYS there Is not money
enough On hand to repair the canal.
let alone complete Il
Some 20 years ago the state con-
tracfed with the Florida East Coast
to dig = naYigahle canal from Jackson
vile TO Miami for the consideration
OF about 500. GOO acres OF land. This
land was decided to the company in
large blocks from time to time
On February 5. Of this year, the
chief drainage engineer made q re-
port to the Trustees OF the Internal
improvement Fund in which he de-
clared that the canal route had not
been properly selected. that it had
not been properly dug and that It
would hare to be reconstructed II
the state was to get any good from
lit
Ensineef Elliott declares that when
the canal was laid out some % years
80 Il vas planned to construct the
141he along the easiest route without
paying any attention to the tides.
- erossing OF rivers or anything.
I4n4 thAk much Of the canal which Ia
beeA du8 had been filled up with silt
He also states that the sand was
dredxed ont OF the canal route and
dumped on the banks, which banks
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-24

were under the water. This sand
was washed back into the canal AZ
once and has rendered the canal un-
IN many places
The engineer declares that TO put
the canal in proper shape 1t would
% necessary TO re-iig it for several
miles. He states in his official re-
port that the company constructed
the canal along the route where the
least work Was necessary. He also
states that the fun available for the
work is barely sufficient to remove
some of the largest shoals and not
20 redig the canal as II should be.
Capt. George Gleason. one OF the
best posted men IN the state upon tia
affairs OF the East Coast canal, de-
clares that It viii require at least
$3.50. 900 co restCre the canal TO its
proper condition He was formerly
an officer in the company which con-
strncted the canal. and says that the
company received its pay for the
work before the work was completed.
He also declares that the state viii
have 70 complete the work of con-
stracfion at IT'S own expense.
December I. 1906, 3 contract was
entered into between the Internal I'm.
proyenaent board and the company
which provided that the deeds for the
last 117.os0 acres OF land should be
held IN escrow until the work was
completed, but tie trustees delivered
these deeds last December TO the
company. reserying but $4,000 &c
complete tie canal. make repairs and
maintain the big ditch.
In the March issue Of Motor Boat.
ing. Bradford Durham describes :
trip down the canal IN his motor boa
Speaking OF things 10 be seen en-
route Mr. Burnham says:
We guarantee the aforesaid scion
fists : fun and complete opportunity
for determining the ingredients and
composition OF the bottoms OF every
river. lake. bay. lagoon and canal tina
lies between Jacksonville and Miami
while the dredging gentlemen win b
filled with awe and admiration as
he watches the wise old captain o.
the passenger boat calmly turr
around when reaching spot where
the bottom almost peeks up through
the top. and with propeller whirring
busIly in advance like a rotary snow
plow. dig his way through the vas
depths OF mid-channel -four feet.
What puzzled Is most as ne shor
ed OF our 2Ist bar was why so man
pleasure craft OF all kinds should en-
dure this narrowing, burrowing ordea
twice annually year after year and
not giye it up in disgust and go else
where or nowhere through the win
ter