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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
SHOWING WILD LIFE.
Motion-Picture Drama OF Intense
Interest.
Cinema Has Put on Record Scenes
Which the Average Person fias
Little Opportunity to Observe
at First Sight.

Perhaps the most interesting mo-
tion-picture dramas are those whose
scene is set by nature herself and the
actors. posing without rehearsal. play
out the tragedies and comedies OF
their existence as creatures OF the
wilds. Those who have seen the Paul
Rainey hunting pictures. shown In
nearly every city and town in Europe
and America for the last three years.
have undoubtedly realized their su-
perior thrill over any tame" drama
that has ever been staged for the
screen. There is soon to be a second
Paul Rainey. so we learn from the
Movie Pictorial. in the person OF Capt.
F. Z. Kleinschmidt. & noted big-game
hunter and naturalist. who has lately
invaded the arctic circle with a mo-
tion camera. and who In this maya
zine tells some of his experiences in
the wild life north of sixty-three." In
Glacier bay. Alaska, the first stop, the
party made many futile attempts TO
photograph his excellency the eagle;
always the keen eyes won out against
the lens. there would be a hoarse
scream. and Uncle Sans favorite bird
would dart like rocket into the heav-
ems Persistence was finally victor
however. and the noiseless camera
gunner was at last able 10 surprise
one OF the birds busy Gevouring an
immense salmon. His scream of wrath
when he finally discovered the trick
ayailed him nothing; an everlasting
record OF his greed has been secured.
and will doubtless be revealed in time
TO millions OF laughing onlookers.
The cinema is no respecter of the dig
nifty OF king of birds.-The Literary
Digest.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Was a KINGS Hiding Place.

Discovery has been made in a VII
lage in Hertfordshire. England. where.
hidden in the old oak roof timber OF
cottage a curious construction resem-
bling a beehive was brought TO light.
1t is made OF wisps Of straw. tied to-
gether and held in place by split bram-
bles and is In fairly good condition.
Considering its age. it is yet strong
and rigid This cottage, known as
Double cottage. has always been cred
tied with a history, as one of the
places where Charles ii was hidden
while nying from Cromwell and his
army after the royalist defeat at Wor-
cester The presence Of the immense
straw beehive was unsupported until
now. One theory prevalent in the viii
lage is that the king concealed HIM
self in the barrel until danger
had passed. and another that it
was used as safe place for the
keeping OF the royal jewels II is
known as a matter OF history that
Charles II actually stayed for a short
time at Mornington court. TO which
Double cottage Is adjacent. The cot
tage must therefore have been famil-
lar TO him. This fact gives some color
to the notion that in troubled times
the king might have sought shelter
within It's walls.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
OIL and Gas From Bricks.

Recent experimenting In the Peter
borough (England) brickyards with a
patented process for extracting oil.
ammonia. and gas from burning bricks
is likely to have an important COM
mercial Significance All bricks made
from the Oxford clay in the neighbor-
hood Of Peterborough burn OF them
selves in the kiln, because Of the BIZ
luminous matter they contain. and
that biturninous matter yields oil, gas.
and ammonia on heating in a retort
out OF contact with the air
Patents have been granted to an ex-
scholar from the Cathedral grammar
school, MIR. G.. p. Crowden. who has
invented an apparatus to modify the
present brickkilns. so that the waste
heat from the burning bricks may be
used for heating the retorts. and fur
Their, that the green bricks themselves
may be retorted, and the oil, gas. and
the ammonia recovered from them.
The results are said TO be most aston
lshing
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
TOO OUTSP0KEN ON STAND
Testimony Of Jacob Rlis Won Verdict
for the Right, Though II Made
Him the Goat"

The late Jacob A. Riis was a good
storyteller but there was one story
that he used 10 tell to his friends
with especial glee, even though he was
the goat" Of H.
IL seems that soon after he took up
his residence on Long island he de-
cided TO build a house. He went 10
an Austrian. whom he had known In
the days when he was poor and friend
less. and who had since prospered.
Riis asked for loan on mortgage.
Riis' friend insisted that the money
should be regarded as a gift. Riis
would not consent. and the matter
eventually was left as loan (of which
no written record was made). which
was TO be paid back at the borrowers
convenience.
Years passed" Riis used TO add,
land somehow never had the money
TO pay my friend Then / heard he
was i'll. and went to see him. ! found
that he had become estranged from
his family, and had many talks with
him regarding his expressed desire to
leave his property TO distant relatives
in Austria. incidentally he again told
me that his loan to me was not TO be
repaid. Eventually he made will.
in which the bulk of his estate was
given to the people in Austria.
Well. my old friend died, and. OF
course, the family contested the will,
alleging that the testator was OF I'M
sound mind. The Austrian crowd
learned OF my intimacy with him and
of the fact that had seen him often
toward the end of his life, and was
called as a witness at the hearing
of the suit to upset the will took
the stand and told as fully and as
frankly as knew how Of my relations
with the dead man and Of the talks |
had had with him. making il clear that
he was sound in mind II not in body.
and knew what he was doing when he
left his money outside the immediate
family. Incidentally, in talking OF my
old friend told the whole story Of
the loan Of years before.
And would you believe it," Riis al
ways finished with a chuckle. when
those Austrians won their suit and got
possession OF that estate. the very first
thing they did was to demand from
me payment OF that unrecorded loan?
And. by golly, paid it, too"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

The first printer in New York and
Philadelphia was William Bradford,
who was born in Leicester England.
May 90 1863. He was a Quaker. and
emigrated 10 Americ about 1852. He
set up his press in Philadelphia. and
in 1857 printed an almanac. He fell
under the displeasure OF Philadelphia.
and. after being acquitted Of charge
of seditious libel. he removed TO New
York. where in 1893 he became the
first printer in the American metropo-
lis. His first shop was at 81 Pearl
street, but later he removed TO Han
over square, where in 1925 he issued
the first newspaper printed in New
York-the New York Gazette. Brad
ford died in New York in May. 1852.
having survived his paper by several
years. and was buried in Trinity
churchyard. His tombstone has been
removed 20 the rooms OF the New
York Historical society, but an exact
copy OF the original may be seen by
visitors to old Trinity.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
SPANISH CITIES GAY
Madrid Nigh as Fashionable
as Paris.
Seville, Cordova. Granada. Barcelona,
Valencia, Malaga and Many Other
Places Of Kingdom Can Boast
an Upto-Dste Equipment

London.-For the average tourist
who is in search OF familiar comforts
in unfamiliar surroundings the great
Spanish cities OF today offer every
fnducement Madrid today is WELL
nigh as gay and as fashionable as
Paris Seville. Cordova, Granada. Bar
celona. Valencia. Malaga and many
equipment The food is Spanish. but
the cooking can be French on request
on the main roads the comforts show
a very rapidly descending scale; but
against this must be put the absolute
security. The Spanish brigand no
longer haunts the Sierra Moreno or
the Guadaramas; he has become a
hotelkeeper The old-time smuggler
no longer risks his life as aforetime:
he considers he is defying the law
sufficiently II he grows a few tobacco
plants on the sly. or does a little
poaching in the state forests that the
guarda monies do their best to patrol
Education is still little more than a
name in Spain. but IL is the most elo-
quent country in Europe. and many a
man can make the speech he cannot
read. The Spaniard takes the latest
and most advanced ideas OF govern
ment. accepts the most amazing theo-
ries OF life and law. but. given reason
able conditions OF life and fair treat
ment. is not hard to handle Among
the people speech tends 10 usurp the
place OF action. For the Spanish
woman the outlook is not quite clear
II is said in Spain that the hold OF
the church upon woman's life is not
as strong as IT was only a few years
ago. and Spanish women are begin
ming to think for themselves.
They are the most prolific mothers
in Europe. and have the highest in
fant mortality. II may be sympto-
matte OF their new state that they
are tending TO discard the mantilla,
20 regard national dress as a fancy
costume. and TO look TO Paris for
their fashions. This refers TO the
women OF the thriving cities. the COM
Portable classes OF Madrid. Barcelona.
Seville. Spain tends to become self
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

deformity From that very useful
origin the walking stan became a fad.
IL is now seen at the famous spas OF
Europe
Miss Snow claims the stan. now
owned by her, and which she carries
in The Million Dollar Mystery" is
more than fifty years old peculiar
design. half heroic and half religious.
is engraved on the gold handle. Ac-
cording to Colonel Radaniyich the
stan was an heirloom sold 10 the high
est bidder when political disturbances
had broken up the family and scat
tered its members throughout the
world. This is given some confirma-
ton by the fact that the family coat
OF arms, engraved upon the gold han
die. has been mutilated. so that the
name OF the ruined house shall ever
be secret
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

robbers
silent Jim had killed him. The other fellow
Now a a Jim
all
sand dollars which standing
his rubber
passed through several million miles of red and returned to
Jim with something like this:
In your
mail
nd
HIS robber
lie had killed
And member Of % congressional delegation gets through
special will nrewarded He collect the
bullets he
rohbng mails intends
Washington. general In
"A box
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
STAGE Director Also Fine Actor.

When Jack Adolphi was staging
The Glory OF Whitney Durkel" he
found that he had no one TO take
one OF the most important parts. IL
was the character OF a murderer. for
whose crime Whitney Durkel is ar
rested-and a difficult bit OF acting.
The director surprised the entire com
pany by playing the part himself, and
doing II in a manner which made the
leading men at the studio thoughtful
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

the white powder on some OF the
artificial ladies we see nowadays.
Jim's a train hand OF some sort.
II may be he is an express messenger.
or a conductor-oa his real grade
know naught. All / know is what
Francis John Dyer OF Los Angeles
and other Pacific coast points told
your correspondent. and he said Jim
is a train hand. At any rate. Jim
saw two men crawl into the mail car
OF his train while II was stopping at
Delta Cal ike n truo rnovinq nic-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

In making a film near Berlin. Ger
many. an actor OF the company took
his life in his hands. when he dived
from a platform onto a slide board rs
feet below. BY good luck he was not
killed. although this is one of the
most daring and sensational thrill
ers" staged by the modern circus and
seldom II ever before attempted by
the non-professional diver.-Popular
Electricity.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24


really a
his
shoulder friendly
to be careful in future passed leaving the stranger ecstac
4
a ter.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

arranged that little cousin Virginia
against
the Big Man vas:
Its II OF
household
sestons
the other
Darling considered
The tooth n forwar
I'd rather Virginia ic out"
Virginia doubtless
the Dig
ny on a
PAIR
Sm was expected Of q little
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

leave the cast just few minutes be
fore the evening performance. Beery
rushed on the part 10 do the best he
Gould. and so well did he succeed that
Henry w. Savage. the producer. de-
cided 20 allow him 10 continue in the
star part during the balance OF the
New York run. Not only did he just
play the star part. but became the
star in every sense OF the word. The
program and even the electric sign
over the theater read. Henry W. Saw
age presents Wallace Beery in The
Yankee Tourist" Mr.. Beery starred
In Samuel f. Rork's The Red Wild
ow" Mr. Beery joined the photo
play company with which he is at
present connected to play comedy
and character leads. This versatile
comedian has pleasing personality
and is fitted 10 play and handle most
any role.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

You must take oath that what have stated Il
And said da
a dollar besides?"
emily
The door,
Il reckon I'll till
make me do de wok"
But Lemuel year He next
the outside
could be heard she dragged him the office
s
Now, rihin
she
SO the drted
obedeny
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Rahnon Baby Ihrixea.

st. Paul, Mpn--The baboon born
January 3 in barn at the rear OF 446
ST. Anthony avenue is healthy and
thriving. giving promise Of growing to
full baboonhood. Lew Herschal. an
animal trainer. says that balloons born
in captivity seldom live more than a
few days He is certain the animal
born in st. Paul is one OF the few Of
the species born in America
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Films 70 Show The IunaIe..

Upton Sinclair. writer Of the world
wide famed book. The Jungle" has
recently returned from Bermuda TO
cooperate in the staging OF his great
story. Mr. Sinclair himself plays a
part in the film version and has taken
an active interest in the progress OF
the scenes.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
All Like "rhe Christian. y

The Christian" an elaborate pic
turization OF Hall Gaines famous nov
ell of that name. has scored a big hit.
Ministers and picture experts who
viewed the film pronounced IL an un-
paralleled success not only as a film.
but ms a means OF driving home a
moral lesson.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24


Sander Radiant
vich, the famous
st. Petersburg COZ
lector, a tve-and-
one-half-f foot walk.
ing stan. This
stan is made OF
a peculiar wood.
very much like
ebony, but which
reflects various
colors when IL Is
held up TO the
light Originally.
the walking stan
was seen at the
Russian court. II
is said TO have
been the inven-
ton OF a royal
princess who used
II to disguise her
lameness, conse-
quent upon ankle
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Realism Is Costly.

Persons unfamiliar with moving pic
ture production little realize the enor-
nous expense incurred In the staging
OF film which is known as costume
stories. In one OF the Lucille Love"
series Chinese village. erected at a
cost OF $4,000. was used In two scenes
only
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Ethel orandIn In Boys RoIe.

Ethel Grandin is appearing for the
first time in her life in role that
compels her to dress and act as a
boy. And more than that, she has to
put on fake mustache. wear up-to-
date clothes and act just Ike young
society sport. II is one-reel comedy.
dra ma. entitled "Papas Darling"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Lived In a Boiling Hat.

New York-Ffve Chinese stowa-
ways we're taken from the boiling hot
valve compartment OF an incoming
steamship. where they had lived for
ten days on little rice and water.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

We Nere-hememDerT Inere IL a
young gentleman out Cleveland park
way who had two loose ones, in front.
that wobbled. but would not shed. He
was offered every inducement TO have
them pulled-ice cream and other
lures-Lut as every proposition had a
very literal string TO IT. the young
gentleman hung on to his teeth. And
the teeth hung on to him-as a door
hangs on by one hinge.
The other. day the special Provi-
dence which plays nurse TO small boys
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
DARE ANYTHING FOR PICTURE
Utter Fesriessness Is One OF the First
Requisites Of the Stars Of the
Photoplays.

This is a snapshot Of cinema actors
who suddenly leaped into the Thames
at London. England. from the top OF
a street car as II was crossing Kings
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Took Print of Nose.

New York.-Armless and legless.
Ernest Riley stumped the police when
Ma gistrate Folwell ordered a finger
print taken. As compromise a rec
ord OF Riley's nose ridges was taken.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

edy success, The
Balkan Princess"
has won the dis
tinction OF becom-
ing a star over
night. and a big
Broadway star. at
that. II was like
this: Beery was
understudy for
Raymond Hitch
cock when this
star was playing
The Y an k e .
Tourist" at the
Aston theater.
New York. Hitch
cock became in
volved in legal
difficulties a n d
was compelled to
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

him. President wilson's double Is
also in public life. He is Representa-
tive Mckenzie of Illinois. and they
Mr.. Mckenzie is said TO look more
alike than the president. according to
the wit OF the house press gallery.
who is an Irishman. OF course
AS Representative Mckenzie was
leisurely strolling through the lobby
o. n Washington hotel one evening
last winter stranger approached
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

You do" responded the clerk.
Den" said Lemuel with dignity.
you kin make II out TO me-"
He unhesitatingly gave answers
to the various form questions pro
pounded to him. And when this was
concluded he reached for the paper
which he had signed.
Not yet" said the clerk gently.
mot yet. You must take the oath and
pay the dollar"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

"A Beggar Prince of India" is the
title OF a stirring threereel romantic
adventure play featuring Walter Mil
Ter and Irene Wallace In the leada
nov In couryS "a production
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Gets Amusement Out Of Being "DoppeIganger"

VERY president somewhere his neighbohood
n
who resembles him closely that he is continually being mistaken for
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
-MovIes- "cut. Ardent Love Scenes.

New York-Motlon picture censors
have decreed that hereafter long
drawn-out love scenes. ardent beyond
the dramatic requirements" viii DO
cut cut y 4
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24

conscious. to respond too freely to
com mercial enterprise and Paris. She
is. of course. very much better of as
result OF the Development The
Spanish exhibition may well show a
Spain that was. and that is the Spain
OF yesterday and today. not the Spain
OF tomorrow. That will hardly be
worth exhibiting
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
viii Next Use a Net to Catch Train Robbers

r HERE'S twzt shooting robber
Of
with which the gloom is settled ticky
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
WON SUCCESS AT A BOUND
How Wallace Berry supplanted Rec
ognlzed Star Comedian Playing
in Broadway Success.

Wallace Beery. one OF the leading
comedians in the late musical COM
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
HAS FAMOUS WALKING STAFF
Marguerite Snow, In The Million Dol
lar Mystery" Carries "cane" Of
Much Historic Interest.

Marguerite Snow, Countess olga N
The Million Dollar Mystery" has
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
Shedding of Teeth Is a Most Interesting Subject

shedding
of thought that touches the mmowire
that mkmolars back in the last century when
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-07-24
LemueI Was Wrong-He Came Back Next Day

ONLemue
w his workaday
Does get my license hoah?" Lemuel o
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-10-08
4 PERlIOUs JOB ;
Camera Man in ''Quo Vadis" Takes
Life in Hand in Making Negative
for Great Productions.

How would you like to be the
camera man with a moving picture
producing company? Like the man
who carries the gun, he does the i'm.
portant work and gets the least rec
ignition and credit. With some pro-
auctions the camera man has a very
pleasant and happy time but on the
other hand his labor is sometimes full
of excitement and not little danger
Take for instance that marvellous
photo-drama "Quo Vadis" which has
created such sensation in New York
at the Astor Theatre, in Chicago, Bos-
ton,, Philadelphia and numerous other
big cities and shattered all records fol-
tremendous attendance and receipts
Many of the scenes must have beer
very pleasant work for the camera
artist and then again there are one OF
two where he must have had firm
grip on his nerve and his heart must
have jumped out of his mouth. For
instance that scene just before the
lions are turned loose upon the Chris
tians in the Arena. It represents a
den of wild beasts being lashed into
proper fury. Here we see tanner
with great leather whips thrashiug
away at these enormous cats appar-
emily without fear of harm. The cam.
era man must have been close at hand
to take that picture and while the
tanner may have had the fear of him.
self and his whip stung into the brains
Of the animals, not so the camera
man. He was stranger to them and
easy prey. 1t was no sinecure pc.
sition and not every photo artist
would enjoy it. The same is true OF
the scene in the Arena where the ami
mails dash toward the Christians fol-
their terrible feast. The camera man
had to be there and in a conspicuous
place to obtain the proper focus and
catch the picture of the action. 1t is
not recorded that any artists persisted
in the making of this picture but
nevertheless they took desperate
chances and might have furnished
food themselves for the beasts. Lions
are not known to show much partial
ity especially to strangers who are
poking funny looking machines al
them. How often do the millions OF
people who see wonderful and dan
gerous specimens of moving photo.
graphy ever think of the chances that
the camera man takes.
This splendid production will be
seen at the Caughren Theatre, Sauk
Centre, Wednesday afternoon and
evening, October 18th.
"Quo Vadis" is generally acknow-
lodged to be the finest photo produc-
ton ever devised.
Admission: Afternoon, children
only, Is cents. Evening, everybody
25 cents. 80.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-10-08
SCHOOL BUYS COAL.

The school board of Sank. Centre
district met at the office Of the supe,-
intendent in the school house Mon
day evening. After allowing bills and
the transaction of routine business,
the bids for coal for the ensuing year
were opened. There were three Did
ders. The Wedge Hardware Co., Of
fered to furnish 200 or more tons Of
mine run Hooking Valley Coal for
$3.50 per ton; the Independent Lura-
Der Co.'s bid for coal of the same
quality was $4.87 per ton. G. Hille-
rud & Co. offered to furnish Hooking