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Newark post., 1914-02-04
Madame Melba In Baltimore

One of the most daring mana
gerial ventures ever undertaken III
this country is the concert tour en-
listing the services Of Madame Mel
ba. Jan Kubelik, Edmund Burke,
the Irish Canadian Baritone, Cab
riel Lapierre, pianist and Marcel
Movse. flutist. In round numbers
the tour will represent about $4OO,
900 gross.
Loudon Charlton is managing
this important attraction, the con
tracts having been let through the
London firm Of Schultz-Curtius and
Powell.
"'I should be proud to announce
Madame Melba or Mr.. kubellk
alone. as either is capacity attrac-
ton says Mr.. Charlton. Ito
present them jointly is manager
| ial privilege over which l am es-
pecially gratified. -
1t is three years since Madame
Melba last sang in the United
States. Since then she has been
touring the English provinces, de-
voting most of her time to her own
opera company in Australia where
she is a universal favorite. Mad
anne Melba has a high regard for
the artistic accomplishments OF Mr..
Burke. and it was by her request
that he was included as the third
member of this trio of stars. Mr..
Kubelik made his last tour OF the
t---4s,vuS. sJuuuUo uuI iItS UIrU ,veosvIi uf
1911-1912, having played before
capacity houses throughout the
country. Lapierre, the pianist,
and Moyse, the fautist, were select
ed as the accompanies for this tour
because of their artistic fitness and
round out a combination which is
well nigh unapproachable.
Baltimore S position as a musical
centre of the first Importance will
enable the admirers of these super
lative artists to participate in the
pleasure which the country at large
is enjoying. The combination will
be presented at the Lyric Theatre
on Thursday evening, February
10Th, under the Baltimore manage
ment of Robert Patterson Strine.
No event in America s musical
history has met with greater sue
cess than the Melba-Kubelik tour.
Many new records of attendance
and receipts have been established
and the closing months of the tour
are being attended with phenomen-
al success and constantly growing
enthusiasm.
Melba is unquestionably the vocal
star Of the world, Of a magnitude
that admits of no rivalry. Kube-
lik has hold on the musical pub
lie unequaled by any violinist of his
time. Mr.. Burke has achieved a
success must remarkable when the
artistic greatness of his associates
is considered and the fact that he
invariably shares bountifully in
the honors of each performance.
Mail orders for this appearance
from Baltimore and out Of town
points are now being received at
Albaugh s, No 2 East Fayette ST.,
where they will be filled in the or
der Of their receipt. The public
sale will open at the same place on
Thursday, February twelfth. The
prices for the engagement have
been fixed at $3.50, $500, $3.50 and
81 according to location, with box
seats at $500. Make remittance
LIZ L. d D Stnirn
Newark post., 1914-02-04
New President Of
Delaware College

The following letter from E. n.
ValIandigham, well-known to the
alumni of Delaware College, Is clip
ped from the Every Evening OF
Monday, February 2:
Editor Every Evening: My ex-
cuse for writing upon the subject
ust now especially interesting to all
friends of Delaware College is that
the detachment possible to one at
this distance and without aught re-
motely personal at stake may enable
me to see some aspects OF the ques-
ton as they do not present them
selves to those close at hand.
DR.. Harter's successor, it seems
to me. should be a man sufficiently
young and vigorous to give the col
lege 20 years Of service; II he
shall prove worthy to hold so long,
He should be man of modern uni
versity training, a man OF scholar
lv attainments rather than one OF
purely technical education; an et-
fectiye speaker and of demonstrate
ed executive ability. The college
is already an excellent technical
and agricultural school, and 1t
one. The Experiment Station has,
| understand, an active and cap
able head liked and respected by
the farmers, and our interests on
that side are thus safeguarded.
What the college has long failed to
do is to present in richness and va
riety such courses as young men
expecting to enter professional life
still demand as preparation for adj
mission to the great professional
schools. We attract to Delaware
College young men seeking technc-
al education, and send them out tit
to compete for important places
with graduates of other technical
institutions. but we attract only a
few of our Delaware youths who
seek a different sort Of education.
The time has come when Delaware
College, while improving its tech
nical and agricultural courses,
should make the direct appeal to
those who would have what are
sometimes called cultural " OPP
portunities. If we are to do this
the new head, like him whom he is
to succeed, should be a man train
ed in such learning, and strongly
sympathetic with that side OF edu-
cation.
Again. we must not forget that
the new president of Delaware Col
lege is to bear an extremely deli,
cate relation to the College for Wo,
men. AS | understand, he is to be
president of both institutions, but
he is expected to leave the dean OF
that institution a large sphere OF
personal authority, as he must
grant personal freedom to his fac'
ultv. Only man of tact and force
can sustain such relations with
firmness and delicacy.
It is of the highest Importance
also that the Board of Trustees
while retaining the power that nee
essarily goes with its responslblll;
ties. should leave in the hands OF the
president far more authority than
if has hitherto been accustomed
Newark post., 1914-02-04
Pleasant Valley School Notes

Perfect attendance: Lee McCor-
mick, Daniel Walton, VIM. O'Con-
nell, Lambert WINS.
Honor grade in department
Kate Rambo, Eleanor Walton, Mil
dred Schwartz, Chas. O'Rourke,
VIM. Walton.
Perfect spelling: VIM. O'Connell.
Highest standing III grade: 7th,
grade, Charles 'Rourke; 9th
grade, Helen Schwartz; 4th grade.
VIM. Schwartz; 3D. grade, Lee Nc
Cormick.
Newark post., 1914-02-04

Mr.. Boldly, tenor, soloist from
Wilmington will sing, accompanied
by Mrs. w. F. Hadley. The public
p. m. The laughable little plays,
is very cordially invited.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-11-05

ment to inspect Hetty's wardrobe, os-
tensibly for the purpose of picking out
a gown for the picture. AS a matter
of fact, he had decided the point to
his own satisfaction the night before.
She should pose for him in the dainty
white dress she had worn on that oc-
casion.
While they were going over the ex-
tensive assortment OF gowns, with
Sara as the judge from whom there
seemed to be no appeal, he casually
inquired il. she had ever posed before.
He watched her closely as he put
the question. She was holding up a
beautiful point lace creation for his
inspection, and there was a pleading
smile ON her lips. 1t must have been
her favorite gown. The smile faded
away. The hand that dangled the gar
ment before his eyes suddenly be-
came ~motionless, as IL paralyzed. In
the next instant, she recovered her
self, and, giving the lace a quick FLIP
that sent it's odor of sachet leaping to
his nostrils, responded with perfect
composure.
Isn't there a distinction between
posing for an artist, and sitting for
ones portrait?" she asked.
He was silent. The fact that he did
not respond seemed to disturb her aft.
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er a moment or two. She made the
common mistake Of pressing the ques-
ton.
why do you ask" was her inquiry.
When it was too late she wished she
had not uttered the words. He had
caught the somewhat anxious note in
her voice.
I'VE always ask that, l think" he
said. ITS a habit"
"Oh," she said doubtfully.
And by the way. you haven't an
swered."
She vas busy with the gown for a
time. ct last she locked hip, full in
the face.
That's true" she agreed; II haven't
answered, have l? No, Mr.. Booth, I've
never posed for a portrait. 1t is a
new experience for me. You will have
to contend with a great deal of stupid
ity on my part. But | shall try to be
plastic"
He uttered a polite protest, and
pursued the question no farther. Her
answer had been SO palpably evasive
that 1t struck him as bald, even awk-
ward.
Pat, disgruntled and irritable to the
point Of profanity-he was a privi-
legged character and might have sworn
if he felt like It without receiving no.
tice-came shambling up the cottage
walk late that afternoon, bearing two
large, shoulder-sagging bundles. He
had walked from the station-a matter
of half a mile-and 1t was hot. His
employer sat in the shady porch, view
ing his approach.
The young man drew a chair up to
the table and began the task OF work
ing out the puzzle that now seemed
more or less near to solution. He had
a pretty clear idea as to the period he
wanted to investigate. To the best of
his recollection. the Studios published
three or four years back held the key.
He selected the numbers and began
to run through them. He was search
! Ing for a vaguely remembered article
on one Of the lesser-known English
painters who had given great promise
at the time 1t was published but who
dropped completely out of notice soon
afterward because Of a mistaken no
ton Of his own Importance. If
Booths memory served him right, the
fellow came a cropper, so to speak, in
trying to ride rough shod over public
opinion, and went to the dogs. He
had been painting sensibly up to that
time, but suddenly went in for the
most violent style of impressionism.
| That was the end Of hfm.
There had been reproductions of his
principal ~canvases. with sketches and
studies in charcoal. One OF these pic
lures had made a lasting impression
on Booth: The figure Of a young wom-
an in deep meditation standing in the
shadow OF a window easement fro.o
which she looked out upon the world
apparently without a thought OF 1t. A
slender young woman in vague reds
and browns. whose shadowy face was
positively Illuminated by q pair Of
wonderful blue eyes.
He came upon 1t at last. For a long
time he sat there gazing at the face
Of Hetty Castletm. . look Of half-won-
0er. half.tximm0A d His eyes. Tha1o
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CHAPTER vIi.--contInued

II say, Leslie, is she staying here!"
cried Booth, lowering his voice to an
excited half-whisper.
"Who?" demanded Wrandall a
cantly. His mind appeared to be else
where.
why, that's the girl I saw on the
road Wake up! The one on the
envelope, you ass. Is she the n you
were telling me about In the club-the
Miss What's-Her-Name who"
"Oh. you mean Miss Castleton. She's
sust gone upstairs. You must have
met her on the steps"
you know | did. So that Is Miss
Castleton."
Ripping. isn't sheH Didn't / tell
you so?"/
she's beautiful. She is a type, Just
as you said, old mana really wonder
tut type. saw her yesterday-and the
day before"
IRE been wondering how you man
aged to get a likeness of her on the
back OF an envelope" said Leslie sar-
castfcally. Must have had a good
hong look at her, my boy. 1t isn't a
snapshot, you know"
Booth flushed. 1T Is an impression,
that's all. l drew It from memory,
pom my SOUL"
She'll be immensely gratifed, I'm
sure"
For heavens sake, Les, don't be
such a fool as to show her the thing"
cried Booth In CONSERVATION. Shed
understand"
"Oh, you needn't worry. She has a
One sense of humor."
Booth didn't know whether to laugh
or scowl. He compromised with him
self by slipping his arm through that
of his friend and saying heartily:
Il wish you the best Of luck, old
boy"
Thanks" said Leslie drily.
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SYNOPSIS.

Challls Wrandall Is found murdered In
9 road house near New York. Mrs. Wran-
nall Is from the city and iden-
titles the body. a young woman who ac-
companled Wrandall 10 the inn and sub
ssquently disappeared. is suspected.
Mrs. Wrandall starts bach for New York
In an auto during n binding snow storm.
On the way she meets a young. woman In
the road who proVes to be the woman
who killed Wrandall. Feeling that the
girl had done her n service In Kidding her
or the man who though she loved him
deeply, had caused ecr great sorrow.
Mrs. Wrandall determines to shield her
and takes her 10 her own home. Mrs.
Wrandall hears the story OF Hetty Cas-
tleton's life. except that portion that re-
iates TO Wrandall. This and the story of
the tragedy she forbids the girl ever TO
tell. She offers Hetty a home. friendship
and security from peril on account of the
tragedy. Mrs. Sara Wrandall and Hetty
attend the funeral OF Challis Wrandall at
the home OF his parents. Sara Wrandall
and Hetty return TO New York after an
absence OF "A year In Europe. Leslie
Wrandail, brother OF Challis. makes him
eelf useful 10 Sara and becomes greatly
interested in Hetty. Sara secs In Les
Hes lnfatuation possibility for revenge on
the Wrandalls and reparation for the
wrongs she suffered at the hands of
Challis Wraudall by marrying his muir
deress into the family. Leslie, In com
:pany with his friend Brandon Booth. an
artist. visits Sara at her country place.
Iesiie confesses TO Sara that he Is madly
In love with Hetty.
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to sift her ~antecedents thoroughly.
He's already done 1t, and he is quite
satisfied with the result. Serve them
all right, for that matter"
But then there was Hetty Glynn.
What Of her? Hetty Glynn, real or
mythical, was a disturbing factor In
his deductions. II there was a real
Hetty Glynn and she was Hetty Cas-
tleton's double, what then:
On the NTH day Of a series OF rather
prolonged and tedious sittings, he was
obliged to conflne his work TO an hour
and a half in the forenoon. Mrs. wran-
dali was having a few friends in for
auction-bridge Immediately after luacA-
con. She asked him to stay over era
takc o hand. but he declined. he q
not play bridge.
GRO BE uoSxTINUEDl
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do you think it like met" she II
CURED innocently.
Amazingly like you" he declared
| with conviction.
She turned the pase. He was watch.
Ing her closely. AS she looked upon
the sketches of the half-nude figure o
warm blush covered her face and
neck. She did not speak for q full
minute, and he was positive that her
fingers frightened their grasp on the
magazine
"The same model" he said quietly.
She nodded her head.
"Hetty Glynn, l am sure" she said,
after a pause, without lifting her eyes.
Her voice was low, the words not very
distinct.
He drew a long breath, and she look.
ed up quickly. What he saw In her
honest blue eyes convicted her.
Sara Wrandall came into the room
at that moment. Hetty hastily closed
the magazine and held 1t behind her.
Booth had intended to show the re-
production to Mrs. Wrandall, but the
girls behavior caused him to change
his mind. He felt that he possessed
q secret that could not be shared with
Sara Wrandall, then or afterward.
Moreover, he decided that he would
not refer to the Hawkright pictures
again unless the girl herself brought
up The subject. All this flashed through
his mind as he stepped forward to
greet the newcomer.
When he turned again to Hetty, the
magazine had disappeared. He never
saw 1t afterward, and, what is more to
the point, he never asked her to pro
duce 1t.
He thought hard over the situation.
The obvious solution came to him:
She had been at one time reduced to
the necessity Of posing, a circumstance
evidently known to but few and least
of all to Sara Wrandall, from whom
the girl plainly meant to keep the
truth. This conviction distressed him,
but not in the way that might have
been expected. He had no scruples
about sharing the secret or in keeping
it inviolate; his real distress lay In
the fear that Mrs. Wrandall might
hear Of all this from other and per.
haps ungentle sources. AS for her pos
ing for Hawkright, II meant little or
nothing to him In his own experience,
two girls of gentle birth had served as
models for pictures of his own max.
ing, and he fully appreciated the ext.
gencies that had driven them to IT,
One had posed in the altogether"
She was a girl Of absolutely ire
~proachable character, who afterward
married a chap he knew very we'll,
and who was fully aware Of that short
phase in her life. That feature of the
situation meant nothing to him He
was in n doubt concerning Hetty. She
was what she appeared to be-: A gen.
tlewoman.
He admitted to himself that he "a
under the spell Of her. It was not
love, he was able to contend; but
it was a mysterious appeal to some
thing within him that had never re-
vealed itself before. He couldn't
quite explain what it was.
In his solitary hours at the cottage
on the upper road, he was wont to
take his friend Leslie Wrandall into
consideration. AS q friend, was 1t not
his duty to go to him with his sordi6
little tale? Was It right to let Wran-
dali go on with his wooing when there
existed that which might make all the
difference in the world to him? He
to a close by relaxing into a grim smile
of amusement, as much as to say:
Serve him right, anyway. Trust him
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CHAPTER vIii.
In Which Hetty Ia Welahed.

m WHICH Hetty 10 weighed.
Booth and Leslie returned to the
city on Tuesday. The artist left be-
hind him a memory sketch" of Sara
Wrandall. done in the solitude OF his
room long after the rest OF the house
was wrapped in slumber on the first
night of his stay at Southlook. 1t was
as sketchily drawn as the one he had
made of Hetty, and quite as wonderful
In the matter of taithfuiness, but ut
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TX.
The Ghost NJ The Feast

The next day he appeared bright
and early with bis copy Of the Studio.
There" he said. holding 1t before
her eyes. She took il from his hand
and stared long and earnestly at the
peDroAuction.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-01
Legitimate Public Investment

IN CONNECTION boulevard be borne in
public is proposed would be invested first
make the drive absolutely
second smoothing passable and making
erecting paviOns; fourth light installation
light maintaining
ing; scenic drive that circles the
point
public would be hereafter
items Improvement
bu6ng The
abuing things for
There cooperation by the individual property on the
administration the project feasible But there must
full recognition the citizens generally having direct interests
the fact that this project and for the perpetual
people Of the whole city, remarkable and that the city
making
should be made
the council
public
this improvement has done for great
considerations public
authority connected with this
Ownership real estate to be benefited by the proposed Improvement
the
pushing this final they deserve the
enthusiastic Of all taxpayers and citizens generally
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-01
100 Years Ago Today

One hundred yrars ago today the
Prussian army in command of the eele-
brated Gen. Butcher crossed the Rhine
at Mannheim. Paris was the objective
point of the army The birth of the
year found the allies gaining the as
tendency aS all points and the power of
Napoleon was crumbling in consequence.
The allied army now amounted to about
100000 men. On learning the news from
the Rhine the emperor had sent as quick
" IS possible his conscripts to the mar
shals whom he had selected to defend
the Rhenlsh frontier. At the same time
he was organizing another army for the
purpose of blocking the roads from
Switzerland and Savoy and he himself
was preparing to start for the front.
But many of his most trusted followers
were now deserving him and those who
remained faithful were not deeeifed rs
to the uselessness of these last efforts
winch the great Corsican was putting
forth to defend his lettering power.
(Arrieles by this noted writer are re-
ui0r features of The FL PasO HeraId.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-01
Reciprocity That Pays Everybody

selling Phoenix carloads month It
81 of expansion promises profitable
parties To Phoenix
complying with fundamental rule good business Pracceredy To
Phoenix transferring wholesale Angeles
points interests with Arizona and
with Phoenix which oveOOk opportunity boost Phoenix
Arizona and everything
allowed elsewhere
local after t.
trading
ed by her splendid railroad facilities that other southwestern cities Lack
sharing
all while beneItng herself
cultivation
fold money
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-01

Germany during the 18th century, and,
also, in Rome and other Italian cities
in the 18th. 14th and 18th centuries.
In France, under the third race of
kings, New Years day conceded with
Easter
English authors have always reck-
ing with January 1, and the French
January, 1868, Ordaining that the be-
ginning of the year should hencefOrth
take place upon. January I. The gen
eral practice, however. of considering
the year as beginning with January
1 was not established until after the
acceptance of the calendar as reformed
by pope Gregory XIII
This reform was made and accepted
by the Catholic states in 1882 Protes-
tant Germany and Denmark were
slower in accepting the reform, adopt
ing the GregOTian calendar first in
100, while the English, Influenced by
their bitterness toward the Catholics
due to the years of bloody struggle
between these faiths in that country,
delayed their change from the Julian
calendar until 1852. The Russians,
members of the Greek church which
was early estranged from Rome have
never adopted the Gregorian reform,
and at the present time there is a
difference Of 10 days between the be-
ginning of the new year in the Rus
sian calendar and the New Years day
of the common era
(Artieles by this noted writer are reg
ular features Of The II Peso HeraId.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-01
The Year 1913
BY GEORGE FITCH.
Author Of at Good Old sfwaSh. -

THE year 1913, which closed a
reasonably successful engagement
last night, viii 20 down in history
as one of the most hostile vo1rs -
modern times. With one war, two revo-
utlons and a suffraget campaign in
progress at the same time. it kent the
world buster looking on than small
boy IS at a circus which has three rinos
and two platforms.
The late year began depressinolv
with the thermometer suIkinr in tbo min
Tor much OF the first three months. If
then warmed up by easy stages until by
july, citizens were saving fuel bv FRY
ing steaks on the sidewalks and ice-boves
were being fitted with steam gaoes in an
parts OF the country. In November. the
year distinguished itself once more
meteorologically by blowing the sbiDDino
off OF Lake Michigan instead of aUowinS
1t to withdraw by easy stages. IF tho
crops of 1913 had been half as plentiful
as the weather, automobile dealers would
not now be scratching their heads with
distinctly worried expression.
In England, home rule. votes for
women and the Olympic games fund
ragged to such an extent that number
OF new battleships had to be sworn in to
keep the peace at home. In France.
Sarah Bernhardt began her S0th farewell
season In Germany, owing to careless
ness IN not manning airships with I'M
desIrables, no benefits were accomplished
by the appalling accidents. In China
L 'UUO,UOO people were for the govern
ment, 100000 agin it and 37S.0OOoOO
haven't yet looked up the word in the
In Mexico, Is life Insurance
companies went out of business and so
did a large number of federal and insur-
gent leaders, by urgent request of the
enemy.
In the United States, a Democratic
was installed without the aid
Of an inaugural ball and a tariff bill was
passed IN Washington instead of in
Rhode Island. as has Oeen customary.
The export business has been unusually. \