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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-03
MRS. WIGGS TO BE AT
 THE BIJOU THIS WEEK
Kate Douglas Wiggin's Laughable
 Comedy Will Be Presented by Grayce Scott Players

In presenting Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch as the attraction at
 the Bijou theatre this week, Manager
 Newing feels that he is offering a play
 that will appeal to all manner of peo- pie, old and young, men and women
 There is a very good reason for this conclusion, as Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab
 bage Patch' has amused audiences in
 almost every known cline It is a
 positive and impressive sermon upon
 the subject of optimism If there is
 human being in the world who has
 suffered Mrs. Wiggs is that person.
 and yet she can smile, such a con
 tagious, compelling smile, a smile that
 would even dissipate war clouds.
 With 1t al lthere is the philosophy
 that what Is is right. That's the story
 Mrs. Wiggs and all of her friends and
 all or her progeny are continually tell Ing. Just IS Turner, the picture paint CT, found glories in the ungainly sights of East London, so Mrs Wipgs Finds happiness and Joy in the alleys Of the cabbage patch. It's a wonderful thing to be able to abide by the
 thought that you don't know how good anything Is until you have tried it. Yet that Is what Mrs. Wiggs teaches She helps Miss Hazy. the morose and unprepossessing spinster, get a hus- band because Miss Hazy wants a hus- band. Of course they have to take in the matrimonial agency to accomplish the deed, but they get the husband. And even if Miss Hazys matrimonial venture is not what some might call successful, it teaches it's lesson. There Is run and there is laughter and there are just few tears for the thinking in Mrs. Wiggs' story. But all of them will be on hand Monday night at the Bijou theatre to tell their own stories In their own way.
 Miss Scott will be seen as Loyey Mary, part that will fit her like the proverbial glove. while John Warner VIII once more appear as the hero As Mrs. Wiggs, Miss Soule vii. receive her first opportunity of the season Mrs. Wiggs is one of the most delight Iul characters ever put upon the stage MT. Craddock, who scored such a de- cided hit in last weeks production as the police inspector, will be seen as
 Hiram Stubbins. MT. Lane will play
 part somewhat different to that, which
 usually follows the line of second
 man. He will be seen as Mrs Schultz.
 the round German lady and to ade-
 quately present Mrs Wiggs a large cast Is needed
 Manager Moving has supplied that and promises production equal to the smallest detail of that seen here When Mrs Wiggs hade her last successful visit in this city
 Usual matinees will be given on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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new play, which they will present. at fh| Jefferson theatre for two times, Thurd day matinee and night, November 4. Th| authors of .s1t Pays to Advertise ar| Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hack ett MT. Megrue has already had on| big success in Under Cover, while MI Hackett is also well known to dramati fame. The new play is in three actd and besides promising a thoroughly add quatt scenic environment, cohan an| Harris announce the following playerI fer the cost: Adele Roland, Elza Fred eric. Olivia O'Neiil, Celene Kirk, Ha1 old yermilyea. Frank Aliworth Robe1 Watt, Elmer Grandin, H. H. Forsmarl Cfauncey Causeland. Cliff Norman an| Kenneth Loane. ' Henry Miller, always one of the shrewtl est of producers, while waiting for train two years ago, picked up at be ok stall Jean Webster's novel, "DaddI Long Legs He saw at once that thl book would make a real play. He wal charmed with it's quaint humor and witt It's appeal to those who like wholesom| sentiment and young girls fight for chance in the world. He persuaded Mis| Webster to dramatize her story, ana few months later. while starring in '.Thl Rainbow and playing in San Francisco the manuscript arrived. Within a feJ week- the play was in rehearsal and wen1 into Chicago for trial It remained ther| for halt a year. and last season ran al the Gaiety theatre, New York, for the en| tire season. His special company vii present 1t on it's first road tour and vii be seen here at the Jefferson theatre.
 One of the most humorous hits in ''Th' Only Girl" is telephone scene. and whaI would the modern play be without a tele
 phone? This particular scene is general ly conceded to be one of the most ex
 crutia tingly funny ones that has ye
 been written. "The Only Girl'' will b the offering at the Jefferson soon.
 Local theatregoers can prepare them
 selves for number of hearty laugh and several hours of keen enjoyment d tho Jefferson shortly, when Al H. Wilson the celebrated singer and comedian ans his company will present a new periodil comedy song-play. AS Years Roll On. which introduces in succession touch os Holland life and several scenes in Nev York There is a heart story revcaies in a novel manner while comedy abound. lentifully to lend additional interest tt the performance. MT. Wilson's new sons nun bers this season include ,'YesterdayS
 'As Years Roll On.' ''MothJr Mine, |" .'Hs Left Me for a Teddy Bear" and a mum Der of others.
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COMEDY AND TRAGEDY
 BY MRS. CAMPBELL
Will Present Shaw's "Pygmalion'' Two Nights and at Matinee "The
 Second Mrs. Tanqueray"

Next to Sarah Bernhardt, Mrs Patrick Campbell is the actress who most per feotly' understands how to portray Ia grande passion,' be it ugly or beauti- full.
 Half an ltalian-through her mother Mrs. Pat understands extreme emotion as no other English actress is capable of doing, and it Is just because she herself has the passionate, sensitive tempera- ment of the neurotie. combined with the Knowledge of the wiles and ways of the modern woman, that she is able to DOT
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'It Pays to Advertise is a farce. Conan and Harris are sponsors for this
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Joan Vernie, who is billed as the American girl premier danseuse in dance varieties She is said to be clever and wonderfully entertaining
 Lew and Mollie Hunting are old time favorites who will be seen next week. They were formerly with the Four Huntings and many can remember the high class amusement that was af- forded by this popular quartet. Lew and Mollie have the old-time punch and put over an act that brings forth the encores. They will be seen in comedy singing and talking.
 Young and April will present a jug gling act and Denney and Doyle will complete the bill which all in all prom. ises to be an attractive one.
 Pathe pictures and Heezaliar films will feature every performance at the Lyric as usual
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tray so realistically theatrical characters such as Paula Tanqueray.
 Curiously enough, Mrs. Campbell has never had any so-called technical train ing for the stage her graceful move inents, wonderfully expressive eyes and face. and above all. her fascinating voice, having been her passports to the footlights. But the real reason of her success has been her ability to under stand and realize the authors meaning, and to throw herself heart and soul into living the part created by the dramatist S brain.
 For her engagement in this city at the Jefferson theatre Mrs. Campbell will appear in two widely heralded plays, the gifted Irish author G.. Bernard Shaw S comedy, Pygmalon,' which he perverse- ly calls a romance, and the strikingly dramatic '''rhe Second Mrs. Tanqueray, the play that brought Mrs Campbell for
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ward as great emotional actress, and incidentally added to the fame of A. w. Plnero as an author of modern drama.
 Pygmalon' will be presented on Friday and Saturday evenings and at the matinee Saturday "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray' will be the bill
 "Pygmalion'' revolves around a bedrag- sled guttersnipe. Henry Higgins man of science. hears the whiny, nasal voice and the gutter talk of the girl, and on wager declares that in few months he can endow her with correct enunciation and the manners of duchess. Gradu- ally the girl of the slums becomes the beauty presented at court. 1t develops
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Lots of Variety

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Why must all the young people go crazy over these new dances? Amt the old dances good enough?'
 You can't blame the young people for taking up the new dances. They afford variety"
 They afford variety, all right Just look at the floor now. No two couples dancing alike"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-10
FOREST FIRES FEARED
IN The NORTHWEST
Dry Weather For Months Has
Made Conditions Dangerous.

Washington.-EXtra precau'
lions are being taken by the United
States forest service to prevent the
spread of fierce forest fires in the ma
tional reservations, especially in those
of the northwestern states. There was
such little snow last winter, and the
rainfall has been below normal in the
mountainous countries, that the woods
are dry as finder. Field agents and
forest riders have reported to the serv-
ice here that not in years have condi-
tons been so dangerous.
August, September and October are
the most dreaded months, and it is in
this comparatively short space of nine
ty days that millions Of dollars in
trees in the national forests are ready
to flame into infernos when lightning
fash or a spark from a careless camp
er's fire furnishes the excuse
Forest service officials, while admit
ting their anxiety, said they were bet
ter prepared this year than ever be-
fore During the past twelve months
hundreds of miles of trails have been
built through the forests, and the tele-
phone system has been greatly in
creased and improved The service
also has drilled its men after a new
fashion, so that systematized fire fight
ing hereafter will take the place of in
dividual effort.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-10
$4,000 LIBRARIES IN U. S.
HAVE 100000 VOLUMES.
Number of Books Has Increased co.
100000 Since 1908.

New York. There are $4,000 establish
ed libraries in the United States, con-
tanning more than 100000 volumes,
according to statistics just compiled by
the United States bureau of education.
The number of volumes is an increase
of 100000 since 1908.
Of the 2,S49 libraries containing 5000
volumes or over 1874 are classified as
public and society libraries. and 1005
are school and college libraries. Pub
lie and society libraries have an aggre-
gate of over 5O,000,O0O volumes, with
100000 borrowers cards in force;
1,446 of these libraries were entirely
free to the public.
Libraries reporting from 1000 to
5000 volumes numbered 5,453, of
which PISS were public and society
libraries and 1926 school libraries.
These libraries contained 11,6S9,942
Volumes Another group of still small
err libraries. comprising those that re-
ported from 300 to 1000 volumes, in
creased the total by 2,901,0O volumes.
The distribution of library facilities
is still uneven. OF the 1874 public
and society Libraries reported for the
entire United States more than half
were in the north Atlantic states, and
they contained 24,627,921 volumes out
of the total of 100000, and of the
100000 volumes added to library col
lections for the year 1913 almost one
half were for the same section.
New York state had 7,S42,621 vol
umes in her pa libraries; Massachu
sets, 7,3S0024 in 2SS libraries; Penn
sylvania, 3,728,O70, and Illinois, 3,16S,-
7G5 volumes. Four-fifths of the Dor
rowers' cards in use were in the north
Atlantic and north central states.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-10
JOAN SAWYER DANCES
TO AID THE CAUSE"
Tours Continent In Automobile
to Help Woman Suffrage,

New York.-From dancing for the
delight of the public to touring the con-
tinent in a decorated automobile for
the cause of womans suffrage is Joan
Sawyer's recent change in vocation.
In a car presented by Mrs. o. II. P.
Belmont, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, with
gay suffrage banners floating over it,
this modern dancer left New York for
San Francisco, bearing a message of
good will and congratulation from the
eastern suffragists to their sisters in
the west.
In every town she dances for the
crowds which always gather about her
little car, and in many cities the ma
chine blocks all traffic.
81 have never been able to do any
thing for suffrage before" she says,
because l have always been busy.
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Photos by American Press Association.
MISS JOAN SAWYER AS SHE LEFTNEw YORK.
But felt If this pilgrimage would help
in any way was perfectly willing to
undertake it,
Miss Sawyer carries her pilgrim
scrip. 1t is signed by Mrs. James Lees
Laidlaw, chairman of Manhattan Bor-
ough Woman Suffrage party. 1t fol-
lows:
We are intrusting to Miss Joan Saw
yer a Nov. 2 New York state victory ban
ner and are sending by her a message
to our voting sisters across the continent
to help in every way possible in New
York state. We ask you who have obtain
ed the franchise to send some of your
splendid women to the east to tell our
voters what you have done and what you
plan TO do, and how much more effective
your womanhood. wifehood and comrade-
ship are since you have become enfran-
chised
Our chance for winning in New York
state grows brighter every day. We feel
that victory is certain but want you all
to help make assurance doubly sure.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-10

Captain trained horse on the great
Panama. Pacific international
model of the horse used to
thoroughfare THE Captain
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HENRY FORD CRIES
FOR WORLD PEACE
viii Devote Life and Fortune
to Cause Of Amity.
WAR USELESS SLAUGHTER.

Asserts That isolation of United States
Is Sufficient Insurance Against In
vasion and Warns Country Against
Preparedness, Which He Calls the
Root of All War.
Detroit, Mich.-Henry Ford's wealth,
gained in the pursuit of the things of
peace, will be offered to the world to
aid in its effort for an amending peace,
to oppose the spirit of militarism in ev-
cry form and to challenge the Ameri-
can who cries for more armament for
his country.
81 will do everything in my power to
prevent murderous. wasteful war in
America and in the whole world; will
devote my life to fight this spirit which
is now felt in the free and peaceful air
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stereoscopic Surveying.

There is in use stereoscopic method
Of Photographic Photographs
are taken at two points with IL survey
ing camera. the plates being exposed in
the vertical plane passing through both
stations. The developed plates or pos
itives from them, being then placed in
combines the pictures, IA brief calcula
ton gives the exact position of any de
sired point. The effective range of the
instrument is put at about five miles,
and the method is said to be of particu
lar advantage in mapping large areas
of mountainous country.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-10
UNITED STATES CASH NOW
SETTING WORLDS STANDARD
Eagle Is the Ruler as Exchange Falls
to Lowest Level.

New York.-The American dollar is
ruling the world today with an iron
grip. Pounds sterling, francs, lires,
and virtually all foreign exchange
have gone down to new depths in
torrent of bills that poured into the
exchange markets from American
manufacturers seeking pay for the big
war contracts of munitions and other
supplies purchased here by the war
ring nations of Europe.
Coincident with the startling decline
in exchange rates comes the assertion
from an unimpeachable source that
every contract made by the American
manufacturers for supplies sent abroad
called for payment in American dol
lars and not English pounds sterling,
which heretofore have been the stand
ard Of finance the world over. The
immense losses, therefore, due to the
decline in foreign exchange rates will
be borne by the foreign buyers and
will not be sustained by the Ameri-
can manufacturers.
What to do to remedy the situation
engages the attention of bankers with
international connections. 1t was de-
cided to do nothing, chiefly because
the remedy lay across the ocean with
the foreign buyers.
1t was generally believed that the
present abnormal situation would not
be permitted to continue long. The
obvious remedy seemed to be to sell
American securities held abroad. Els
adjustment here of q big foreign cred
it, estimated conservatively at $780,
100000, was thought to be absolutely
necessary if exchange rates are to be
restored to anything like normal fig
ures.
The amount of war contracts on
which full or nearly full payments will
be due on or before Oct 1 approx
mates $40OO0O,O0O to $500O00,000.
This is in addition to the huge total
of more than $1O00,000,000 owed by
Europe to the United States at the
close of the fiscal year, June 30.
An optimistic feature of the situa-
ton was the general belief that sec
ond large shipment of gold is on its
way to New York.
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GIVE MECHANICS TO BOMBS.
Allies Have the "Hairbrush" and the
"Cricket Ball."


London.-The various kinds of bombs
now used in France and Flanders are
described by an English officer in
letter from the front There are, he
says, four main types-the hair
BRUSH" the cricket ball." 1.-The police
mans club and the Jam tin" Bomb
throwers are known in trench slang
as anarchists"
1.-The hairbrush," explains the writ
er, SIS very like the ordinary hair
brush, except that the bristles are re-
placed by solid block of high explo-
sive. The policeman's truncheon has
gay streamers of tape tied to its tail
to insure that 1t falls to the ground
nose downward. Both these bombs ex-
plode on impact and it is inadvisable
to knock them against anything-say
the back of the trench-when throwing
them.
"The cricket ball works by a time
fuse. The removal of q certain pin
releases a spring, which lights an inter
nal fuse timed to explode the bomb
in five seconds. You take the bomb
In your right hand. remove the pin and
cast the thing madly from you. The
jam tin variety appeals more partic-
ularly to the sportsman, as the ele-
ment of chance enters largely into its
successful use. 1t is timed to explode
about ten seconds after the lighting
of the fuse 1t is. therefore. unwise
to throw It too soon. as there would
be ample time for your opponent to
pick it up and throw it back. On
the other hand. it is unwise to hold on
too long, as the fuse is uncertain in its
action and is given to short cuts"
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of the United States-the spirit of mil
itarism, mother to the cry of Prepared
ness the root of all war;
These words, uttered by Henry Ford,
mark the beginning of what henceforth
will be the life work of the man-to
strike with everything he commands
at what he declares to be the direct
cause of all war and all national an
tipathies that breed war-prepared-
ness.
81 would teach the child at its moth
er's knee" said Mr. Ford, what a
horrible, wasteful and unavailing thing
war is. In the home and in the schools
of the world | would see the child
taught to feel the uselessness of war,
that war is a thing unnecessary, that
preparation for war can end only in
war.
81 have prospered much, and l am
ready to give much to end this con-
slant, wasteful 'preparation'-not by
building peace, not by inspiring fear
full peace by powerful armament, but
by teaching the men, women and chill
dren of America that war does not
threaten us, that war will not reach
us, and that the fullness of peace is
their inheritance, not the burden Of
militarism.
'They have called in Thomas Edison
to help their war plans. Let me say
that Mr.. Edison never has had and, in
my opinion, never will use his great
brain to make anything which would
destroy human life or human property.
He could destroy nothing. His mind
is a constructive mechanism that alb
hors destruction, and war is destruc-
ton. He is q man of peace, for he
realizes the true meaning of war-wan-
ton, unnecessary and unreasoning de-
struction. death and disruption of all
that peace has builded.
1--WE build a vast naval machine to-
day. A few months hence it is sur
passed by that of another country and
is practically useless. We give our SOL
diers a death dealing rife. Tomorrow
another nations soldiers have sweap-
on that surpasses ours.
1.-THE United States has spent more
than a billion dollars on a navy and
army that were to cope with an inva-
sion that never occurred and never
will occur. And yet the very war ex-
perts' who are responsible for that bur-
densome army and navy admit that
our army and navy would never have
been able to meet with any hope of
success those of other so called pow
ers."
Il could today make vast sums from
warfare If | so chose, but it would be
better to die a pauper than that any
thing / have helped to make or that
any thought, word or act of mine
should be used for the furtherance of
this slaughter.
81 know of nothing to which would
rather give my life. nothing that would
give me moro certain feeling that l
was doing mans work, nothing that
would make me feel more content in
the knowledge that had done a great
duty that had been placed before me,
than to use that which | have TO help
bring to an end COCO years Of this I'M
justified hatred. ruthless waste. de-
struction and muir Ter"
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Naturally So.

She's been so conceited since they
managed to get player piano"
"Well dear. player piano owners do
as a general thing put on airs."-Bal-
timore American.
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The spelling books all wrong. man.
ma"
why So Ethel?"
Because il don't look right for lit,
tie thing like kitten to have six let
tiers and big eat to only have three"
-Yonkers Statesman.
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Cause and Effect.

when | sing gets tears in my
eyes. What can do for this?"
STUFF cotton in your ears" Chicago
Tribune
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-10

The one prudence of life is concen-
tration; the one evil is dissipation
Emerson.
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A Real Grievance.

Magistrate-How comes it that you
dared to break into this gentleman's
house in the dead of night? Prisoner
Why, your worship. the other time you
reproached me for stealing In broad
daylight. Amt J to be allowed to
work at all?-London Telegraph
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-03-12
Notice

Notice is hereby given, that all
qualified electors, who desire to
vote for the following hereinafter
named officers, at the general viii
lage election, in the village of Cot
tonwood, Idaho, to be held on the
27th day of April A. D. 1915, I'M
less registered heretofore, according
to the laws of the state of Idaho,
shall appear before me, the under
signed, and register, so as to entitle
you to vote, on or before the 18th
day of March, 1915.
That all qualified electors that
have heretofore voted within the
village of Cottonwood, Idaho, at
the last village election, need not
register.
That the following officers will
be voted on, on the said 27th day
OF April, 1918: Five village trus.
ees to hold office for the two years
thereafter ensuing.
Dated at Cottonwood, Idaho,
March I, 1915.
M. M. BRLKNAP, Registrar.