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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
FREAK PERFORMANCES ONCE
PACKED THEATRES TO DOORS

/ performance was about as enlivening
as a funeral The theatre was half
empty before the act ended. Gabei
said next day that he would gladly
give back the $4,000 it yielded If he
could forget the experience.
1t was fiftean years before any
thing of this nature was attempted
again. This time it was the late
Maurice Grau, who had suffered
many reverses, that the benefit was
organized at the Academy of Music.
Grau himself arranged the pro-
gramme, the feature of which was a
travesty of the first act of LIE
Grande Duchesse." The great Aimee.
queen of opera bouffe, was cast for
General Boum; the ponderous Nj.
Duplan played the duchess, and the
droll M. Mezieres was Wanda. Seats
brought as much as SIS each. The
house was crowded, but, alas, the
fasco was even more complete than
at Gabels benefit.
Booths Theatre, then at Twenty
third street and Sixth avenue, was
the scene Of the next freak perform
ance. George Rignold famous as a
matinee idol, was attracting all New
York to see his Henry "" Jo-
seph Tooker, an ingenious Snowman.
if ever there was one, conceived the
idea of a special matinee of Romeo
and Juliet with six amateurs Sc
lected to appear as Juliet. Rignold
was the Romeo. Such a scene as was
on view in West Twenty third street
that matinee day was never witnessed
before nor since. As early as 9 O'Clock
in the morning the lobbies were
packed and the line to the box office
reached to Broadway.
At noon at least 5000 women were
congregated In front of the theatre.
and the management, fully awake to
conditions. commissioned big Jim
Brown, king of ticket SPECTATORS of
that day. to work the line This
Brown did so we'll that 1900 persons,
95 per cent. women, were packed into
playhouse seating 1900 comfort
ably.
The performance itself was so bad
that Rignold would have quit in the
fourth scene but for lockers plain
tive plea TO stick it out. lockers
idea had been that the Juliets would
be so bad that they would be funny,
whereas five of them were just rank
incompetents. The sixth Juliet was
none other than Marie Wainwright,
who distinguished herself all the more
by the contrast. Miss Wainwright
was Immediately engaged as a pro-
fessional and quickly became a star
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
jaime. J. Hill.s One cloud.

From the Wall Street journal,
In his interview in The Wall Street
Journal last week James J. Hill said
he could detect no cloud in the sky.
He reiterated that remark in private
conversation with bankers, and added,
as an important afterthought, that
there really was one cloud. There
was a cloud of snow blanketing the
ground in the Northwest and insur-
ing a rare abundance of moisture.
Last fall the soil was strengthened
by copious rains, and this winter, in
Mr. HIS opinion, the snowfall has
never been more evenly distributed.
The Northwest, he thinks. has re-
ceived from the rains and snow ample
insurance against the chance of any
such drought as has blighted the
crops at times in the past Although
not so we'll informed on conditions in
the winter wheat belt, Mr.. Hill said
that his advices were all to the effect
that the wheat had been well pro-
tected by snow in the northern por-
ton of the belt and that in the south
ern portion there had been sufficient
moisture. The Modern Miller is one
of the authorities that concur with
Mr.. Hill in his estimate of the condi-
ton of winter wheat That periodical
is more than moderately enthusiastic
over winter wheat prospects.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
STUDIES IMMIGRANT AT HOME

against the provisions OF the law on
contract labor, and whether they
would probably form permanent ele-
ments of the American population.
It is understood that on the first
point a satisfactory answer was re-
celved. 1t would appear, however,
that these Russian emigrants, like
many of the Italians, go to the United
States only with the intention of re-
manning long enough to hoard up a
little fortune which will enable them
to return and live In comfort In their
home country.
Mr.. Husband was accompanied on
his trip by Samuel Harper, son of
the late president of the University
of Chicago, as interpreter. He is now
starting for the Balkans on similar
trip of investigation, and hopes that
conditions Nave now become sum
GENTLY settled, after the wars, 70
enable him to get the information
desired by the depar tment
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
NEARLY HALF MEN SINGLE

soberly, and, therefore. better than
the unmarried When the census
bureau official attempts, however, to
lure men into marriage with the ar
gument that there was never time
when the comforts and Injuries of
life were so easily within the reach
of all as now" he must take his own
case and fight 1t out.
In all seriousness, as most people
realize. this very question of the
ease with which the comforts and
Injuries of life are reached enters
into the economy of the matrimoni-
ally inclined man. Seventeen million
unmarried men and women may be
too many for our nation, and there is
small doubt that the number would
be less if more men could only see the
practical side of that sweet old theory
that two can live as cheap as one.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
All Are Not Money mad.

From the New Bedford Standard.
Senator Burton is inclined to look
on the dark side of things. Speak
ing in Cleveland the other day, he
said; America is money-mad;
lawyers interests are only in the
money they can make. regardless of
ethics; physicians no longer have the
humanitarian instincts of old, and
even clergymen today prefer rich
congregations" Well. it depends,
and the senator and every one who
is inclined to talk as he talks ought
to see and agree to that.
We haven't much sympathy in that
superficiality which masquerades as
optimism and which counters every
reference to evil and wrong by blurt-
ing out the response that " the world
is growing better every day." Many
time this Is sheer f1ippancy, rather
than thoughtful conviction. Yet any
person who goes about with eyes to
see knows perfectly that there are
lawyers with noble interests, physi-
clans with a strong development of
the humanitarian impulse, and clergy
men who faithfully attend their ap-
pointed tasks with small regard to
Tie wealth VI tHS PONSily VI tiltll
congregations. Credit ought to be
given them just as emphatically and
as vigorously as blame is laid upon
the unworthy. You can look out
over the field of American life and
see men and women who apparently
care for little but the reaping of
money, and the things which money
brings. And you make a great mis-
take if you see nothing else. For
there are many and many--a multi
tude-uot insensible to the value of
money, but whose lives are so ordered
that with them the getting of the
principal things is not the getting of
money. These people are the hope of
the nation. If we could see nothing
but what Senator Burton sees, we
should expect-and rather hope for
a grand crash at almost any minute.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09

was her fondness for drawing which
gave the artist his first incentive in
that direction. Her two daughters,
Mary and Theophila, were very dear
to their Uncle Joshua. Theophi1a
was the prettier of the two and used
often to sit for her uncleS She was
the original of the famous STRAW
berry Girl" Mary, however, was his
favorite, and Sir Joshua. having
never married, he made Mary his sole
heir, so that at his death she re-
ceived nearly 100000, about half a
million dollars.
Mrs. Palmer was always on very
friendly terms with her brother, and
when the famous abiter of the lit
erary world. DR.. Johnson. and Sir
Joshua Reynolds journeyed through
Devonshire, England, they stayed at
Mrs Palmer's house.
do you like pancakes?' Mrs. Pal
mer once asked of DR.. Johnson.
Eyes. but 1 never get enough of
them" said DR.. johnson, whereupon
Mrs. Palmer made a specially tempt
ing dish of them and DIR. Johnson
ate thirteen of them at one sitting
and they were the old English pam
cakes made the full size of the grid
die pan.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
By MARY MARSHALL.
FEBRUARY 9
Mary Palmer, Anne Mars
Copyrighted. 1913.

Mile. Mars, the famous actress. was
born on February 5. 1879. Her name
in full was Anne FRANCHISE Hyppolyte
Bontet Monvel Mars Her father was
an actor, and it was from him that
she received her first and most inn
portant lessons in acting. Yet his
advice was simple.
You understand your role?" he
asked her.
Yes she answered.
well, then, act as If you know it,
1t was this advice that Mile. Mars
always remembered when she was
asked to give her theory of acting.
Mile. Mars was greatly admired by
Napoleon. In fact, she received great t.
er homage and admiration than any
other actress of her day. Besides her
undoubted skill as an actor, she had
a remarkably fine voice and that
characteristic which Is so great an
asset to an actress-tact and good
sense Though she made her debut
at the tender age of thirteen, she con-
tinued to appear to great advantage
till she was sixty.
Mary Palmer, who was born 1873
years ago today, was the older sister
of the artist, Joshua Reynolds, and it
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09

According to the census bureau in
formation, 100000 of our popula-
ton are unmarried, which means 80
of every 100 men. The number di-
vides thus: Men of twenty years of
age and upward, 100000; women,
fifteen and upward, 100000 At least
100000 of these men are capable of
assuming the responsibilities of ma
trimony- 1t is argued that married
men live longer and better lives than
unmarried on the whole, and surely
any woman in the land will tell you
that the fair are always fairer If
welded.
Since the marriage state is the nor
NAL condition of life, perhaps it may
not be necessary to resort to statis-
tics to prove that the married man
as a rule lives more evenly, more
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Ford's Industrial Policy.
fraI1,o,.i. xx..,.4.

From Golfers Weekly.
Henry Ford's gigantic plan for an
eight-hour day and minimum wage
of IS per day has been given the no
tice 1t deserves, but our journalists
miss one of the more import ant eco
nomic points of 1t. The facts seem
to be that the plant has been built
out of earnings and that no securi-
ties have been sold to the public.
The capital stock is 5000. 900 and
there are no bonds. How foolish and
wrong this must appear to the avera-
age Wall Street operator when he
notes that last years profits were
about 35.000,000i On this earning
power as a base our talented "finan-
cters" would easily build you a cap
italization of at least $500, 900 00O
They would issue and reissue, sell
and resell. incorporate and reincor-
porate and concoct the old hodge
podge of preferred and common,
bonds and debentures, holding COM
panies and supply companies, that is
so familiar a sight in our business
history.
The sponge of securities" and
rights" which could easily be de-
vised would absorb even these enor-
nous earnings as the Sahara Desert
sucks up the babbling brook. The
business would stagger along and
labor would be paid the ''market
rates" of wages. This is where Henry
Ford is "utopian." He has refused
to burden a great enterprise with the
false and parasitic capitalism which
has blighted so many of our rail-
roads and mills. The business is
enormously successful SO that the re-
suits are startling, but Mr. Tord's
great departure lies in that he has
given the enterprise the benefit of
its own power. In doing so he has
shown us what the business of the
future Is TO be like.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09

manners often react against you in
business negotiations. Convincing,
because you will frequently have a
position to defend and you must ring
with the tone of authority.
And don't be afraid of the helping
hand. nfluence-perhaps you call it
pulls a great help if you can
make good after accepting 1t. But
never lie down" on 1T. Justify it.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Foreign Missionaries Praised.

Ex- President Taft in Youths Companion
I do not wish to pronounce perfect
everything that missionaries have
done No doubt there are among them
emotional persons and persons of little
Judgment But with very consider
able opportunity to Judge from four
years experience in the Orient, and
from contact with many missionaries
in the Philippines, feel justified in
saying that they are generally per-
sons of high character, high intelli-
gence, high standards of living-per-
sons who are willing to make every
sacrifice for the cause they represent.
They are men who know well the
characteristics of the people with
whom they deal. They learn their
language, they study their peculiari-
ties. and they train themselves to con-
ciliatory methods. The very history
of their broadened activities shows
their practical methods. The bishops
and the heads of missions in the va
rious countries are trained diplomat
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Won a Client.

Jenkins-"Didn't that lawyer on the
other side give you terrible over
hauling?" Thompson - Didn't he
though? You can bet If 1 have any
more law business I'm going to hire
him. Puck.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Beyond The Stars y

When the shades of night are falling,
All is hushed-oer land and sea;
In the night watch thou art calling
In my dreams thy face see.
My thoughts go back to childhood days,
Now gone, alas! beyond recall;
You left me at the parting ways,
But still my heart remembers all.
1t was cruel fates decree, love,
That so soon we two should part;
Oh! that your spirit from above,
Could soothe this aching in my heart.
When the dawn is earthward winglng,
Lifting nights mantle as it flies;
Hear then your sweet voice singing,
The sacred strains of Paradise.
Could leave this earthly portals,
Break these cumbrous bars;
Then the songs of the immortas
Id sing with thee beyond the stars.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Smoke Up!

Germany, it Is said, is to start a
tobacco trust of its own. Is that the
proper filing for the pipe of peace?-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Had a Start.

Footsore Decentralization me,
lady, but do yer happen to have a
pair o. shoes dat would go wild desc
strings New York Globe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Oratory To BE Ousted by Dancing q
HoOsier Dinner
Smallpox Sufferer and Sweetheart Have
Long Distance Wedding

SAVANNAH, Feb. ga. D. Jerni-
gan, Valdosta jeweler, was married
Sunday to Miss Bertha Stevens. whom
he is nursing through a case of small
pox. Jernigan went to visit the girl
after her house had been quaran-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
Pennsylvania Woman Celebrates 10th
Birthday; Is in Splendid Health.

Pennsylvania Woman Celebrates 10th
Birthday; Is in Splendid Health.
SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa, Feb. 8
Mrs. Bridget d. Curran celebrated
her 107th birthday here yesterday at
the home of her daughter. She en-
joys good health and is in posses
sion of all her faculties.
Mrs. Curran, who was born in Ire
land in 1907 has four sisters living,
the youngest of whom is eighty-two
Her mother lived to be more than
102 years old.
Bank to Deposit 81 for Every Baby Born
in City.
CHICAGO, Feb. Announcement
has been made by the State Bank of
Evansville that, beginning today, 81
will be placed to the credit of every
baby born within the limits of the
city. Parents are advised to deposit
sums corresponding to the age of the
child on each birthday, making a
total of $3.50 by the time the child is
twenty-one. The bank hopes to COM
bat any tendency toward race suicide.
Oratory To BE ousted by Dancing at
Ho0sier Dinner.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-The annual
dinner of the Indiana Society and the
Daughters of Indiana at the Hotel
Astor on February 10 will be toast
masterless and speeches.. The ser tie
man who hens and haws over the
great honor and privilege of address
ing the Hoosiers will be missing, along
with the person who is gratified that
we have with us tonight"
Horace Hord, secretary of the men
society, says that the Indianans want
the honor of being the first State
society to substitute dancing, auc-
tion bridge and vaudeville for long
hours of dreary speechmaking.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
OPINIONS AND VIEWS FROM
THE EXCHANGES

I lists, and have learned much of states
manship in their study of native con-
ditions.
| | know of many instanceslin which
the greatest self-restraint and tact
have been exercised in order TO pre-
vent an outburst that would make
such a cleavage between government
| tai authority and the representative
missionaries as could hardly be closed
| for a decade. Time was when
the unthinking citizen looked upon
missionary as an enthusiastic sort of
crank, who was leading a more or less
idle life going through the motions of
teaching religion to people who could
not understand it. Such conception
is outworn; it does injustice to the
men and women who carry the lag of
Christian civilization, who give ten
dency to individualism, and thus
to popular government the world
over, and who are putting into prac-
teal operation before the eyes of those
they would influence the beneficent
doctrine of the brotherhood of man
and the fatherhood of God.
Baseball Graduates Big Men.
From Leslies Weekly.
DR.. Albert DAILY. once a member of
tilS fANhlCbleoS iCSClAiy was lllSldilCu
as mayor of Bayonne, N. j. Mr.. DAILY
is a graduate of the Baltimore Medi-
cal College and before playing with
the Mack team was with the Newark
Club of the Eastern League. Some
particularly high-browed college pro-
fessors have been arguing against
students taking up professional ball
as means of livelihood after grad
uation on the ground that the sport
units them for more serious business
later on in life. The cases of Gov
ernor Tener and Mayor DAILY are but
two which can be instanced to dis
prove this contention
Baseball is far more serious occu-
patton than the learned gentlemen
would have us believe, and it teaches
man how to act quickly in an emer-
gency, besides keeping him in first
class physical condition at all times.
In every big city in the country can
be found successful officials, lawyers
and merchants who have played pro-
fessional baseball
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-09
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

tined. He got through the lines all
right, and announced that ne and his
sweetheart would be ma .ried at cnce.
Then another difficulty arose, for he
couldn't induce a clergy man to come
to the house. Rev. A. c. Pyle,
Baptist preacher, finally settled the
difficulty by yelling the ceremony at
them from the safety of the front
yard. having first assured himself that
all the windows and doors Were closed.
Too Much Business Costs saIoonkeeper
$4,000 Damages.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 9.-The r.ios-
porous business enjoyed by a saloon
keeper at Thirteenth and Main streets
put the pavement IN front of his place
in such condition that IL has netted
one woman a verdict for $4,000 dam
ages against the city.
The unloading of beer kegs at the
saloon had SO worn away the pave
nlent in front of the establishments as
to wear a rut directly in the path of
pedestrians, and Susie :. Osborne
tipped and fell, breaking her hip as
result Today, in Common. Pleas
Court, jury awarded her $4,000 dam
ages.
Empire Express Porter Has Travelled
s,osS,so0 Miles.
NEW YORK. Eth. 9.-When the
Empire State express, which left the
Grand Central in New York this
morning gets into Buffalo This after
noon at $50 o'clock, Train Porter
Charles Reed, whose -sood-natured
face has welcomed hundreds of thou
sands of the railroads patrons to the
crack fast train during the asst twcn-
two years, will have covered, he esti-
mates, 3,0s8,S00 miles of railroad
travel, which, he believes. is the big
gest mileage ever made by any man
on earth in that length of time.
In his twenty-five years he has as
sisted to make comfortable turing
their passage in his train President
Mckinley, President Roosevelt, Presi-7
dent Wilson and many other consIic-
uous men and personages. Probably
he knows by sight as many famous
persons as any other man in America
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-12-08

Misses Mary Jackson and julie
Moritz entertained at Five Hundred
party last evening, in honor of Miss
Irene Logan, who leaves the employ
of the county auditor at Christmas
time, to return to her home in Grand
Rapids. The guests were Misses
Irene Logan, Winnifred McDermot,
Abbie Murphy, Marie Burke, Dora
Barrette, Gertie Malone, Esther
Nixon, Ella Parker, Emma Noesen,
Bertha Dicaire, Mary Lyden, Ida De
Rushia, Lucy LaFontisee and Ellen
Quinn.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-12-08

plan is considered advisable. If the
change should be made, one ring
from the central office will warn the
members who sleep at the City Hall
and also blow the whistle at the elec-
trio light plant.
City Attorney Russell Informed
the members of the council that he
had received an answer to letter
written some time ago to 500 Rail-
way officials, requesting that they
engage a fagman for~the~ railroad
crossing on Minnesota avenue. Mr..
Russell was Informed that action had
been taken to avoid accidents;
that all train crews had been in
structed to proceed with caution over
this point and that while switching,
a flagman would remain on guard.
Accept Rhea Report.
George Rhea, city treasurer, pre-
sented his quarterly report for ap'
prevail. His account of the city's
finances was completed in every de-
tail.
The bond of B. B. Lundgren, who
was recently granted license to
operate an employment agency, was
accepted. A. T. Wheelock ap-
piled for a similar license and it was
allowed
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-12-08
INSTRUMENTS REACH BEM1DJ1
New Band Horns on Display il
Schneider Brothers Window.

Two horns, spoken of by band
members as "crackerjacks, have
been received in Bemidji and are
now on display in the window of
Schneider Brothers on Third street.
The instruments are forsthe Bemidji
band and are a baritone and monster
F-fat bass They are low pitch
horns and will be useds Scr tho first
time next week by Tom Newton and
Oscar Nelson, when hespitch of the
band music will be changed from
high to low. The next band concert
will be played in low pitch.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-12-08
INDIAN REPORTED KILLED
Sheriff Johnson Called to Southeast
Corner of County to Investigate
Murder of Redskin.
TWO IMPLICATED IN CRIME

Reports that an Indian had been
killed in the southeast corner of Bel
trami county, at point where the
Mississippi river flows from Cass
Lake, reached the office of Sheriff
Johnson this morning, and he left
Immediately for the village of Cass
Lake from where he will proceed to
the scene of the crime.
While full details of the murder
were not obtainable by the sheriff, he
was informed that the dead body of
the Indian had been found and that
a white man and another redsllin are
believed to be guilty of the crime.
No reason for the killing was
given. The point where the crime is
supposed to have taken place is in
town 14G-30 and only a short dis
tance from the Cass county line.