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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-04

Ben Wilson, leading man Of the
Eastern victor-U Universal, has COM
menced work on Raymond X.
IShrock's great detective series, THE
Etrange Exploits Of Xavier Queen.'
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-04

make things hum. Pathe Daily News.
No. 81. sHer Sister" Selig drama,
and .sThe Woman Always Must Pay, =
will also be shown. 4
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21
CRUISER
HOLDS UP OIL
TANKER

Detained for "a hours on the higl
seas of Tocopilla, Chile. by the British
converted cruiser otrento, which was
a. r. & o. liner before the war started,
Is the unusual experience which befen
the Union oil-tanker Santa Maria, In
port today unloading her cargo OF 49,
900 barrels OF crude oil from Port San
Luis, California
According to officers of the Santa
Maria. the Otronto came alongside 40
miles off Tocopilla at $3.50 O'Clock the
night OF November u. and ordered
the oil-tanker to stop. Her skipper.
Capt. George Curtis, obeyed, and the
cruisers commander came aboard and
examined the ships papers.
After learning the nature OF the
Santa Maria's cargo. which was entire
ly oil for Tocopiila and Taltal, Chile,
the Otronto's commander went back
to his ship. Through all that night
and the following day the ships lay at
anchor, until at $50 the following
night, November 13, the Otronto sig.
nailed the Santa Maria to proceed to
her destination The cruiser was
painted the regulation war color. a
leaden gray.
The Santa Maria, after discharging
her oil cargo at the Chilean ports, pro-
ceeded to Port San Luis, and thence
here. a fine and uneventful trip from
the oil port to Honolulu was reported.
The oil-tanker, neat, trim steamer,
has crew OF 80 men. She is at the
Railroad wharf.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21
FIVE Of SUGAR
STOCKS TO PAY
FINE PROFITS

Five OF the sugar stocks listed on
the local exchange will distribute TO
shareholders monthly in 1916 total
of $116.250, according to regular
monthly dividend rates adopted this
morning at meetings held by the diff
ferent boards Of directors.
.Honomu, on the 5th of each month,
wiz pay 11z per cent, or $11,25o.
Waikiki. which pays on the 10th OF
each month, will have a dividend rate
of 81 per share, or monthly disburse-
ments of $4,000.
A 50 monthly dividend, at the rate
of 2 per cent monthly, will be paid
by Pepeekeo, totaling $4,000 on the
18th Of each month.
Onomea will also pay per cent, or
40 cents q share, which viii total $780,.
600 each month. Onomea's dividend
day is the Goth.
Hawaiian Agricultural, also paying
on the 10th, will disburse $1.59 per
share, or $4,000 monthly, IL per
cent rate.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21
BANDIT
Done ON STAGE

~ u 4
Yee 70 Kenk's career as bandit
was Reproduced with more or less f.
deity and all sorts of fun-Alor the
Occidental spectator last night at the
Asahi theater on King street by the
Japanese Actors Society The actors
got through six of the IL scenes last
night, the Korean bad man killing or
wounding several people in each scene.
The other six acts will be given to-
night, ending when the Korean gets
his" at the hands of Captain of De-
tectives McDuffie and others.
There were about ID Americans
present last night, their chief enjoy
ment coming from the side-splitting
make-ups of the Japanese representing
local police characters. The theater
was jammed with Orentals, mostly
Japanese. Apparently they found
comedy all through the burlesquing,
for their laughter was frequent.
The Occidental visitors found the
conglomeration of faces and the spec
tacle of japanese family parties in the
theater quite as interesting as the
show itself. The show is extremely
melodramatic and the williams" are
done with zest which is not the
worst part of the performance
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21
MEATRICAL8
9FFERlNG5
teal SHOW Is
LAUGH-MAKER

II there is any truth in that old say
ing about Laughing ones self sick"
the Raymond Teal Comedy Company
came dangerously near putting several
hundred people in the hospital last
night with their initial performances
CT The Bargain Hunters" and The
Battle Of vanilla"
To begin with, Cohen e Maitland,
better known as Roy Kinslow and Ho-
mer Long, own a department store.
Maitland also owns wife, secretly
Hazel Lake., and an old sweetheart
madeline Rowe), who comes to the
town and causes trouble.
Maitland wearies of the department
store and wishes 1t off on one Jerry
Casey Claude Kelly for $500. Then
Casey and the Jew start out in bust
ness, Cohen leaving Casey to tend the
store, and write it in the book" when.
ever business transaction is carried
through.
Seven Songs All Good.
Each of the seven songs is good.
Pansy DeLacour sings Let's Go
Where We Can Have Some Fun" and
Close to My Heart" with the chorus,
and Hazel Lake, also with the chorus.
sings I'm Looking for Warm Spot.
Madeline Rowe and Claude Kelly give
a comic loye-making scene In the song
do Little Something for Me-" and
Roy Kinslow's Interpretation of Wrap
1t Up and Take it Home" is sung in
Hebrew dialect with the Ducklings in
Hebrew clothes. This number brings
forth lot of encores.
Skit No. 2, "The Battle of Vanilla, y
staged by Fritz Fields, featuring six
characters besides the Ducklings,
keeps the crowd In continual fit OF
laughter, despite the fact that the
scene is laid upon ship in mid-ocean
and beset with storms, hostile fleets
and seasickness.
Fritz Fields is whole bundle OF
fun as he plays the part of Louie
Schultz, seasick, lovesick, homesick
Dutchman, who makes love, when
possible, to Miss Carter madeline
Rowe). Claude Kelly is Mike Dugan, q
sailor who works at everything from
scrubbing the floors to serving cham
payne, and never sets foot on deck
without putting the audience into con-
vulsions. !.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21

Young lady for office work; must be
good penman and typist. Apply p.
o. box 1857. 6351-tf
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21
Light YOUR Tree
ELECTRICALLY

Christmas trees lighted with the old
fashioned candles are dangerous. We
have strings of small yart-coiored In
candescent lamps. in faneiful ana now
ell shapes, Santa Clauses. snow-men.
clowns, etc. These win beautify your
tree and Also make it safe. The Ha.
waiian Electric Co., Ltd.-Adr.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21
sssssEHaEsaaKGEsI
! DR.. HoRoY EXAMINES
WILHELMiNA AT SEA;
SHIP GETS IN EARLY

4 Examining everybody on board
4 with all the skill and speed for
< which he was noted when he was J
= chief quarantine officer here a
< few years ago. DR.. w. c. Hobby
z gave the Wilhelmina's passen-
( gers and crew medical inspection =
Z at O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
Z making it possible for the liner J
2 to dock at Pier Is half an hour J
< ahead Of time this morning, as
2 his examination made the usual
( inspection of quarantine unlec-
< essary.
q The physician and his family ;
& returned today on the steamer
4 from an extensive trip around the
Z mainland. in the course Of which !
( DR.. Hobby visited the Mayo
< brothers, noted surgeons OF Roch-
3 ester, Minnesota, for week,
Z and inspected hospitals In Chi
( cago and Philadelphia. DR.. and :
{ Mrs. Hobby visited their old :
Z home In Lexington, Kentucky,
Z while on the mainland. They J
( have 4been gone exactly two 3
Z months and a day.
Z q E@@R n q E4 2
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21
.HE is WONDERFUL"

declared one of the men who came
to have a nerve taken from the root
of a: molar preparatory to a gold
crown. Before DR.. Clemmens started
the operation this man confided in
me that he was skepticaI. Now he is
ones of our pedestrian ads, booster
He will tell you about 1T himself in
the next few days. BlaisdeIl, block
Fort street-Ady.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21

Hawaii will receive unlimited pub
licity in San Francisco accc riding to
H. p. Wood. who has stated in a let
ter to A. p. Taylor of the Promotion
Committee that San Francisco win re-
tain the tropic atmosphere in the Ha
vail building. According TO Mr. Wood
the statue of the surf rider and the
Hawaiian exhibits viii be featured in
the new aquarium.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-21

C. T. Csia, an engineer OF the Chi
nese ministry OF communications, ar.
rived at Pittsburg to purchase railway
equipment for China.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-06-18

She could not analyze the mixture of
emotions Juggling at her very heart
strings, the joyous ache, the leaden
ecstasy, the torturing delight all
struggling there for mastery.
Europe, Ann! The greatest teach
ers Of the world! Just think of it!
Why, it seems impossible Wealth,
fame, honor, everything"
The tear that had trembled so long
a time upon the fringe of her lashes
dropped to the tiny shoe upon which
she was knitting, chung there until his
eyes rested upon it.
Aren't you happy, ANN" he re-
peated.
She nodded trife jerkily, then
slowly lifted her eyes to meet his own.
Honest eyes they were, loving, wor-
shipful eyes they were, patient eyes,
the eyes that belong to women whose
souls are so sensitive they chill before
the mere shadow of impending trag-
edy.
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curtain as it slowly descended upon s
wildeye6, soothing tenor, who glared
piteously at the back Of laughing
woman In the box at the head Of the.
diamond horseshoe.
With the ready efervesceni syn
patty Of the Romance people the al
rector piIlowed the head Of his great
@fnd" upon bis shoulder. But over
that head his eyes sought those Of
Doctor Holbrool. the world renowned
throat specialist who had been treat.
ing Merwin now for months. And d
hard expression, 4 look Of flint was ID
the directors eyes al the specialist
shook bis head % Indicate the death
Of another voice.
TT Is the fault Of the atmosphere,
the early training. coolly declared
the impresario later that evening to
the reporters. NOW, Merwin, with
the proper, early training would have
proved the greatest tenor Of our
time" He shrugged a bit contemp-
tously. "You call it here, / believe, q
fash in the pan"
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fore, the woman who had seemed 50
DESTROYS Of being with him alone, de-
spite the gallants besieging her. And
Olga Drake, mistress Of wealth and
beauty, was not less famous as So
cial dictator that he was as q singer.
In the carriage he could not drive
that contrast from his preoccuDied
mind. He felt himself already a bit
irritated at the insistence Of Ann that
the tiny cottage, the humble little
home in Los Angeles should not be-
sold, that not a stick Of the furniture
be changed.
He flushed holly as she stumbled
upon her train as they made their
entrance at the Van Rolphes', angry
with himself for the impulse which
made him seek out the eyes OF Olga
Drake to find whether she had noticed
the slip, more angry to know that he
mad smiled with her at his wife's mis-;
hap. Ann was his wife, the woman
ne loved, and no one had the right
to smile at her.
He turned toward her, assisting her
to their hostess, bracing his shoulders
against the gibes he knew her man,
ner occasioned, with a smile upon
his lips. And then the guilty feeling
came upon him that he was feeling
the martyr, that he was taking pride
in his attitude of suffering.
In the modification of the moment
he found himself offering his arm to
Olga Drake, passing his wife without
a glance.
I'm afraid we frightened your poor
wife" Miss Drake murmured in his
ear.
He looked furtively at Olga Drake
at the note of sympathy in her voice.
And yet he merely smiled and sought
out his wife with his eyes, dropping
them more swiftly as they met the
mute appeal In AIMS own eyes. He
was conscious of chattering volubly
about nothing in particular, was aware
that his face was burning.
A farmers daughter he had mar
Red. A milkman's wife he had made |
Ter. And, equally Indifferent to aught
The was one still.
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for Cabosso! What is your trainingf
Who coached your"
"Spreglia, Lamperti-"
"But who coached you in Canio?''
Though his interruption was harsh,
Merwin could see a light of interest
in his eyes.
de Retsky-Jean himself, coachedg
Make up quickly" the director de-
cided sharply.
He heard nothing Of the stage man
ayers instructions, was numbly con-
scious Of getting into the costume Of
/. the pantaloon, heard nothing Of the
directors instructions as, in a cold
perspiration he waited for the bari
tone to finish with the prologue.
Fear was upon him. cold, dank
fear. Could he have run from the
place, could he have put finish to
every ambition he had pressed SO
closely to his very soul, could he have
thrust it all aside at that moment,
he would have done so rather than
suffer the fiery heat alternating with
icy cold that seized his body, be tor
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forgotten him-you see he was nothin,
but a voice to me-but when he re
called that evening and the scene
He shrugged alphabetically, sheepish
ly. well, knew that it was Fate
offered to cultivate his voice and take
my pay In the future, when it had
proved itself"
"And you wish me to listen when he
comes?"
He is waiting now" De Retsky
! smiled as he consulted his watch. "He
is always early for his lesson, unwil-
ling to lose moment of the time" He
nodded to the maid, who ushered into
the room blushing, roughly-clad
young man, who flushed holly as he
returned the friendly pressure of the
great vocalist's hand, then turned nat
urally to the piano as she expressed
the desire to hear his voice.
Her critical sense was swept away
even as De Retsky's had been before
her, and the Judgment of the artist
upon a tyro gave place to unmixed de-
light as Merwin lavishly poured forth
his song.
She sighed as De Retsky turned upon
her, smiling delightedly at the obvious
impression his pupil had made.
You were right, De Retsky, right"
she murmured. 1T is a voice that
belongs to the world, voice that
does not belong to you any longer
You are the singer, old friend, more
than the great teacher of voice pro-
duction. The is The Voice. 1t belongs
to Spreglia of Paris, Lamperti in Ber-
lin, old Vanuncchini of Florence. Syn
ney Dalton, here in the United States,
In New York, shall have it finally. And
he will coach, will make the opera
singer out Of the man with The Voice.
Oh, / shall attend to all that. must
have my share in this discovery, De
Retsky."
She turned to where the singer had
been and De Retsky frowned as he saw
his protege had slipped away under
cover of the great vocalist's enthusi-
asm. He looked at her uneasily for
some sign Of irritation, but a smile
lurked about the corners of her mouth.
"The little country girl who was
feeding the turkeys" she said softly,
a curious glitter in her eyes as though |
a vagrant tear had somehow found
resting place there. "Ah, well, it will
make her happy, De Retsky. And hap
piness should be crowded upon her
now"
The two who had eaten of the fruit
avoided meeting her eyes, as If in fear.
And their fear seemed by some odd
freak to have transferred itself to a
tiny cottage in the outskirts of the
city, where little woman bent her
head lower over her knitting while
her husband joyously, eagerly told for
The twentieth time of his experience.
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VII

Merwin felt a curious citation upon
him, sudden lightness of heart, one
OF those miraculous sensations Of ut
ter delight that come at the most I'M
expected moments when one is per-
forming ones work a little better than
ever it has been performed before.
Arrogant with the delightful AFRO
gance of the artist who has worked
hard for achievement his eyes sought
those Of Olga Drake in her box at the
head of the diamond horseshoe. That
very day Ann had been granted her
1nterlocutory decree of divorce; that
very day sensational newspaper had
whispered the name of Miss Drake
in connection with it; that very day
he had boasted to her that he would
make amends for that; and now
now, in the first performance Of the
widely heralded new opera, he was
singing as he had never sung before
Clear, ringing, sweet toned as any
bell, holding the audience spellbound,
with eyes aglow the voice of Merwin
rang out, And then the song died in
mid-air, seemed to halt upon it's
course. The singers hand clutched
at his throat, clutched desperately
there as though by sheer brute
strength he would force out the
sounds that the vocal chords refused
to give His lips opened and closed,
closed and opened. A mute he stood
there a ludicrous mute, saving the
air with his hands, desperately, Wild
ly-
A laugh hurled from the gallery,
the laugh that was sufficient to guide
the mob. 1t grew in volume, grew so
that its sound penetrated the heavy
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He waited In the library, listening
to the sounds of delight from AIMS
room.
In the week he had tasted the fruit
OF success and laughed at the fear he
mad entertained of it. To be sought
out by the great director and placed
under a contract at figure he had
only vaguely dreamed Of ever earning;
TO be the toast of town and press, to
be invited into the very heart of So
ciety's most sanctifed circle: to know
that 1t was all deserved-surely they
were fools who had told him the price
to be paid for fame was heavy.
And now Ann was here, was so
close to him he had but to tap upon
the adjoining door to see her, so
close to him he could hear her de.
lighted EXPLANATIONS over the gown he
had bought for her to wear at Mrs.
Van Rolphe's reception that very
night.
Slowly a frown crossed his fore
head, perplexed and anxious frown.
Ann-would Ann be able to live I'D
to the position he had created for
her?
A little cry from the doorway, and
he clasped her to his heart, fiercely,
for the doubt that had been his. But,
as he held her away from him, he
was filled with the bitter realization
that the doubt remained.
Pretty, fresh, wholesome-yet she
was obviously uncomfortable in her
fnery. There was something of the
out-of-doors about her that did not
seem to fit into the new life. He felt
himself guiltily contrasting her with
the dark, exotic beauty of Olga Drake,
the woman who had made so much
Of him at reception of the day be.
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~.

Strange the quips and WITNESSES Of
Chance, elusive Chance.
Years that seemed interminable,
years of goading desperation, dis
couragement, self-sacrifice, endurance
stretched behind Henry Merwin as he
halted a moment at the stage door of
the New York Grand Opera house to
allow one Of the stars to enter. A
bitter smile curved his lips, lips that
had frightened since the days when
the milk route alone oppressed his
mind, as he slowly made-up in the
male dressing room for peasant in
the opening act of "Pagliacci." He
was chorus man-only chorus
man.
From below he could hear the
strains Of "Cavalleria Rusticana"
which preceded "Pagliacci" and the
voice of Cabosso, greatest of all ten.
ors. Cabosso who stood where the
ignorant young milkman had dreamed
of standing; Cabosso, the announce.
ment of whose singing was sufficient
to pack the great house.
The soul of the artist within him
struggled impotently at his situation,
the difference between the dream and
the reality. Cabosso singing Canio,
the bitter, disillusioned pantaloon,
when everything that life could hold
was his: and he, Henry Merwin, with
voice no less than that Of the star,
sang among the peasants. Uncon-
sciously he threw himself into the
role of the man, compelled to amuse
the public with his antics, compelled
to don grease paint when he wished
to smear his face with the blood Of
rival and unfaithful wife. His lips
opened and the tenor aria at the close
Of the first act poured from his throat
He stopped abruptly as hand fell
upon his shoulder, biting his lips in
mute embarrassment as he looked up
into the eyes of the stage manager 1t
dawned upon him that he was trans
crossing the rules of the house in
singing, that in all likelihood, he
would be discharged. And suddenly
he was seized with a vast, overwhelm-
ing desire to hold this position that a
moment before had reused all his re-
sentiment.
Are you up on the role - on
Canio?" The words were crisp, brit
tie, mandatory.
For a moment he did not under
stand, then quick flush mantled his
cheeks at what he took for sarcasm.
A hot answer was on the tip of his
tongue, checked only in time as he I
read upon the faces about him that
the man was really in earnest. He
rose swiftly, his hand gripping at the
lapel of the stage managers coat even
as the man fairly dragged him down
the narrow, iron stairway toward the
director, who ragged about in the
wings, his face the picture of misery.
He laughed ironically as his under
ling whispered to him, sizing the
chorus-man up and down.
"Canio!" he laughed. Substitute
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III.

III.
Ann shivered again under some
thing she read in Madam Holmes
eyes. She had felt it even before tn
woman crossed the threshold. ha
been feeling it In ever increasing vol
ume while De Retsky and her hus
band outlined plans for his operati
studies abroad. The great singer ha,
been silent, strangely silent since /
was she who was doing the financing
of that voice. And now the wife
knew that madam was about to speal
and with her eyes pleaded to thu
celebrity-as woman to woman-fol
pity, for charity. And madam shranE
before that look, even while her lips
frightened.
"Of course" she said slowly, II shall
provide for your wife while you are
abroad, Mr.. Merwin."
Though she had been expecting a
blow, though she had nerved herself
for the worst, Ann could not repress
the little cry Of incredulous pain that
leaped from her lips. Her hands
sought her heart gropingly, the hands
that still gripped the unfinished shoe.
"You mean-you mean that l am
not to go-that Henry is to go alone
to leave me and-and-"
ga ct11dapf cbo,,Id horo J;oAaoa
tion in his studies"
Ann felt something go dead within
her Her hands went out in cropping
fashion toward her husband,
Henry you-you want to leave"
She could not finish for the great,
choking sob constructing her throat,
suffocating her.
He wheeled upon her fiercely,
plunged into rage of his own Great
ing, but madam flashed him warn
ing look as Ann sank back in her
chair
my DEAR" in the great sopranos
voice were all the tones that had
quickened tears in the hearts of au-
diences throughout the world, you
must not make 1t any harder than it
is already. Don't you know that I
understand; that l am a woman, and
that l understand your pain at part
ing" She moved a step closer plac-
ing her hand upon AIMS shoulder and
turning upon the two men.
"You have your choice, Mr.. Merwin
-milkman or a Voice. l had the
choice and Voice won. 1t has brought
me fame, wealth, honor glory; it has
lost me all that my heart would have
chung to did consider happiness
alone. do not say that it is always
so, but the price of fame is often mis-
cry. The price of Fame must be paid
and Fame is hard bargainer."
Ann looked up eagerly, timidly, yet
with a strange ferocity to catch the
upon her husband. What
she read upon his face filled her with
swift self-reproach.
II think I understand" she whis.
pered softly. II want the fame for
him."