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WHO LEAKED" INFORMATION
OF PRESIDENTS PEACE
PROPOSAL2

President wilson's note ID the
European belligerents was sent te the
newspapers at eight o'clock in the
evening of Wednesday, December &c.
1t was not to be released for publ
cation until after midnight. Yet
about two o'clock on that lag = news
ticker in Wall street carried a report
thai the President was about to dis
patch a note urging the warning ma
tons to work out the terms of peace.
These statements were printed in
the New York Times of Thursday,
December q, in the course of IN ~
ticle dealing with the crisis in the
stock market; and there is a n~atar'l
inquiry as to who leaked" the infoI-
nation.
The Presidents note was dated
Monday, December 1.-two days be-
fore it was given to the, press; it was
prepared, all reports agree, several
days before that. Consequently, its
contents must have been known to a
fairly numerous group. Washington
gossip has been busy trying to iden
tify the men who could have had
knowledge of the Presidents purpose
and there are sinister rumors 10
the effect that some people who wert
lin the know did not let the oppor-
tunity pass to pick up some Easy
profits in the stock market when
securities went tumbling, as they
were bound to as soon as The Pf2s!-
dents note became public property.
The incident serves to emphasize
the power which an administration
holds upon values in this country.
What the Presidents note did upon
a large scale which affected every
industries whose securities are dealt
in on the market, can be done to a
lesser degree with individual securi-
ties by any one of a group of officials
whose duties bring them into contact
with the industrial life of the nation.
This power, it is to the credit of
American public life to record, has
rarely, if ever, been abused-and it
is significant that only within the last
few years that anyone has ever scri-
ously surmised that personal gain or
any other private motive lay behind
any course of action on the part of
the government. That such surmises
are now rife is due in part to the
system which clothes officials with
such enormous power and in part to
the askance with which conservative
minded people have come to regard
much OF the activity in some circles
of the present administration.
The remedy is partly legislative
by limiting the power of admlnlstra-
tive oficers-and partly political, by
seeing to it that the government Is
lodged in the hands of men and par
ties immune to sinister influence.
The country, however, has just voted;
and it is a trite observation that a
nation receives that sort of govern
ment which it deserves.
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PATRONAGE IN ILLINOIS

The President is reported to he
much incensed at Senator Jimham
Lewis. believing that the Senator $
recalcitrance over the postofice APP
pointment in Chicago lost many votes
to the Wilson ticket in Illinois. He is
now inclined to name a postmaster
of his own choosing and let the Sepa-
tor do what he will with Senatorial
courtesy" or any other old WEAPON
of defense. We think the President
overestimates the effect of the Chi
cago postofice row. Doubtless there
have been Congressman defeated be-
AUS of issues growing out of pat
ronage. Many people believe that
Benjamin Harrison lost a reelection
because of the accumulated griev-
ances arising from the same SO Irce.
Patronage, to either party, is both an
asset and a liability-with the pre-
ponderance on the latter SIDE. Il
would be well if it could be done
away with altogether. The extension
of the civil service offers one method.
Popular selection Of officials by the
people of the localities whom they
serve is another. A few big rows like
that In Chicago may center public
attention on this question and pro-
duce one or the other of these rene
dies.
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"Carranza asks friendly consideIa-
ton by the United States Ct his dir
culties. Headline. One of his diff
culties is Pancho Villa. who seems TO
have the friendliest consideration Of
Mr.. Wilson, because no eiforf ia made
to get" him.
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WESTERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
EaStbOund.
AUTOMOBILE STAGE LINES

Office and Garage. Sixth and Melar-
key Sts., Winnemucca. Phone 46.
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Paradise and willow Point Line

Leaves Winnemucca (and opposite
points, daily, except Sunday, at Z a.
m, for Paradise, Willow Point and
way stations. 20 lbs. baggage allow
ed; &c ID. for excess.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Llne

Leaves Winnemucea tand opposite
points, daily, except Sunday. at 7 a.
IN, for McDermitt, National and way
stations.
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Celebration 81 StrntfOrii.

The national celebration viii be
held at Standardization. the poets
birthplace. where young girls dressed
to represent Shakospcarc'H hcroines
will dance around the Cover monu-
ment-that splendid memorial set up
in honor of the bard. Stratford-on-
Avon has for years been tho mecca
of tho intellectual of all lands who
come 10 wander about the birthplace
OF the man whose writings have been
translated into every known language.
II is n well known fact that moro of
his productions have been printed
than any other book in the world OK
ccptinC the Bible. The average num-
Der of persons who pass through the
door of Sh~akespearc'S birthplace every
year is thirty thousand. onc-four'h OF
whom are Americans. Tho old house
has been restored as far as possible
and now belongs to the English Gov
eminent. Tho poet was born in a
small room facing the street which is
the real show place OF the house. al
though the kitchen and cellar are also
well preserved. In the garden arc
flowers and trees mentioned in Shakes
peare's plays. The site of "NCw
Place" where the poet died. is also
marked. as is Tudor House which vas
restored by Miss Marie Corclli. the
noted writer.
Trinity Church. where the bard is
buried. is charmingly situated amid
trees on the banks of the Avon. The
poets grave inside the church IS COW
cred with n marble slab ana above il
is the bust by Gerard Johnson, exc
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more ~rcVCrcntly than tho theatres in
England or in America. and the Ger
man pcoplc have ten times more OPP
p~Ortuuity to 500 the masterpieces of
Shakespeare than have the people of
London or New York. in Berlin and
in Munich there is - Shakespeare
season each car where one may see
a'mce+ all ms works, including "Mcas-
uIo for Mcaslre." "Troillus and Crcs-
sida" and "Icriclos." rarely, if ever,
eivcr III En~lish-speakinc countries.
His memory has been honorcd in that
land by the erection Of II picturesque
statuo-thc work of Otto Leasing. II
stands in the city of Weimar and is
one Of the few statues which gives
tho poet Il perfectly easy and natural
pose.
In ENGLAND the precautionary cele-
bration will not be rs elaborate as it
would have been in times Of peace,
hut the memory of the dramatist will
not be neglected. outdoor perform
ancce of such plays rs "Mid-summer
NIGHTS Dream" and 4 You Like II"
will be given for the benefit Of the
wounded soldiers. At one or two of
thc beautiful country estates where
p~agcani@ showing the most notable
characters of Shakcspcare's n'ays. In
London The Clubs will celebrate. while
at tho schools appropriate entertain
ncrtS will he given.
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children came of the union, W of
whom survived their father. The
couple lived in a picturesque cottage,
but not altogether happily, according
to Shakespcare's biographers. Stroll
ing players frequently came to the viii
iage II the young mar ook an active
interest in their performances and
soon came to know the old English
comedies and also the stage business"
OF the performers. lie often wished
to go to London, but with a family
dependent upon his slender purse il
was next to impossible for him to
leave his work ven for n few days.
a poaching expedition. however, set
<fed the matter. II seems that he went
with some others on n poaching trip
TO the deer park at Charlotte and was
recognized and about to be arrested.
In revenge he made a ballade on the
owner which caused hat gentleman
20 redoublc his persecution of young
Shakespeare to such al extent that
the young MAJ was obliged to leave
that part OF the country or TO spend
some time in Jail as the laws against
poaching at Thai time were severe. lie
left his family at Warwichshire ana
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would set him apart from other lads
of his age. He attended n public
chool of the village and was studious,
learning Greek and Latin. n of his
b~iographers describes him as a "chest-
nut-haired, fair, brown-cyed boy, good
HUNDRED and ever ready to wait upon
his parents" Owing to the financial
reverscs of his father young william
was forced to leave school at the age
of fifteen and assist his father In the
butcher shop. Aubrey in his biog-
raphy asserts that the lad often as
sisted in the killing of the sheep and
calves offered for sale. The father
was compelled to mortgage his prop
crty. Taxes were unpaid and finally
the property went under tho hammer.
The young man then became 4 clerk
in an attorneys Office. and how well
he spent his time there is exhibited in
his remarkable knowledge Of law as
shown in his writings.
Married at Eiehtccn.
Al the age OF eighteen he married
Anne Hathaway. Il OF the daughters
Of q farmer of Shottory, n little viii
lage within a milc OF Stratford. This
lady was eight years his senior. Three
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From 1886 until his death he divided
MS time between London and STRAIT
ford. coming TO The latter place to rest
and perhaps 10 get atmosphere for his
work. for in The Merry Wives Of
windsor and The fleming of the
Shrew'' his references to the part OF
he country in which he spent his boy
hood DAYS arc unmistakable. AS You
Like It," TOO. is a play of pastoral
lovers. the heroine Of which Shakes
peare has made one of the mos en-
chanting ome of literature.
A Favoritc Mt Court.
lie was frequently called to Court
in reference to new plays and there is
a tradition hat Queen Elizabeth was
so delighted with the humor Of Fal-
staff in Henry "" that she com
manded Shakespeare TO continue the
story and show Falstaff in love, and
1.-THE Merry Wives of Windsor" was
written. So eager was the Queen to
see the play that she commanded the
poet TO have it ready in fourteen days,
Her request was fulfilled. but many
Shakespearean scholars declare that
VII at1Odii VI - o'Ahc ~ - 'N'' J
written the humor OF Falstaff lacks
the sp~ontaneity and freshness of the
Falstnff of Henry w"
His Merchant of Venice" was writ
ten when the Jew was contemplate In
the mind of Western Europe, where he
was regarded as the personifcation OF
greed. Today the tragic figure OF
Shylock is n of the most command
ing characters in dramatic art.
Toward the close Of her reign the
Queen became eXacting and suspi,
cious. continually finding fault with
tho new plays. When "Richard the
Second was put on she plainly showed
her dislike for the theme. But back
of this dislike for the play was he,
anger at Its author for his friendship
for Essex, whom she had sent to the
block. and Southampton, whom she
condemned to life Imprisonment
These men were his friends and theil
downfall weighed so heavily on hi
mind that when the Queen died ir
1909 he alone OF all the poets re-
manned silent when poetic eulogie.
were filling the air. Shakcspeare's IA
vorite child had died IN 1896. and ir
1901 his father, to whom he was de-
voted, had been laid to rest In the
little cemetery beside the Avon.
The early years OF the seventeenth
century were stormy ones for the
poet and he was now IN the MOOD
! for turning out tragedies. Julius
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Caesar was written during the close
ing years of Elizabcth's reign. and
"~Coriolanus' was finished shortly after
her death. Hamlet" followed, and
is said to be taken from a folk tale
OF Northern Europe of the fifteenth
century. Shortly after the accession
of James | he showed favor to sew
eral actors. among whom was Shakes
peare, and when "Othello" was pre-.
scented he asked that others be givens
Macbeth" was completed In 1906.
and its Scottish background shows
the suggestion of King James. king
Lear was his next work. and in his
the dramatist mounted to the sublim-
! est heights of dramatic creation. Other
plays followed in quick succession and
Shakespeare's fame spread over the
known world.
Retired mt Forty-scven.
He left london and returned u
Stratford in 1911 with an ambition TO
become a country gentleman. He
was but forty-seven years of age. but
men grew old early in those days.
and no felt that the m had come
to retire. His sources OF income had
been from his plays, from his stock
in the Globe Theatre, which unfor-
tunately was destroyed by fire In
1913. He owned valuable land n
Stratford from which he derived q
good interest and one Of his biogra.
pliers Is of the opinion that his in-
come in later life was not less than
fifteen thousand dollars per year. His
family at that time consisted OF his
wife and two daughters. The oldest
was already married to Doctor John
Hall. and the second, Judith. welded
John Quincy. a wine merchant OF
Stratford, shortly before her fathers
death. Early in 1916 Shakespeare had
a draft of his will prepared which
he signed in March. 1t Is related
that he died on April 23rd, 1915. of "a
f~eavour' after "a merry meeting" at
Stratford with his old friend Ben
johnson and the poet Drayton. 1t Is
not unlikely that the cause OF this
fever was the ~unsanitary condition OF
tho street IN which he lived. Two
DAYS later he was buried inside the
chancel Of Holy Trinity Church. Over
his grave are cut in stone lines that
have become familiar to the English-
speaking world:
Good friend. for Jesus sake force
beare
To dig the duste enclosed heare:
Bleste be the man that spares these
stones
An curst BIO he that moves my bonea"
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About this time llamnet, the only son
OF the poet, died. After John Shakes
pearc, his father. had received mate
rial aid he set about to obtain Il coat
of arms The son vas now a rising
author in favor at Court and the ia
Their began to search the family tree
for ancestors who had done good
service for the Crown. After awhile
he discovered that one of his forefa-
theirs had done service for King Henry
the seventh, and the crest was forth
coming. TWO a later the poet
vas styled "gentlcman" in q legal doc
ument. shalespcaro's prosperity con-
tinued. and a year later he purchased
a house at New Place" and set about
10 make 1t one of the show places OF
that time. This property passed into
the possession of his daughter Susan
nah, who became the wife of an emf
nent physician. This house is now
used as a museum for Shakespeare
relics.
Loved His Birthplace.
The poet loved his birthplace and
frequently visited the village where he
had now become n man of importance,
In fact so important that his neigh
bors began to ask him for loans, some
of which are still unpaid, Unlike
most mon of artistic temperament, he
was a fairly good business man, a
shrowd barcainer and n tax dodger OF
tho keoncst type, for he actually
cvadod the restrictions against brew
ing malt liquor for his private use.
--
was careless about his own. He was
continually in litigation with some
body. AS there was nc copyright a,
that time tho poet refused TO have
his PLAYS published as he feared this
might lessen their financial value to
his company.
Aubrey. who was his earliest biog-
rapher, declares that he was "a hand
some, we'll shaped men, modest and
amiable and otherwise ~gentIemanly.'
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started for London, the land of OPP
portunity which his genius demanded,
Goes to London.
ON reaching the city he found him
self practically penniless and for Il
time he eked out n living by holding
The horses OF gentlemen outside the
theatre. Some time later he Gems
to have found some Of his strollins
PLAYER friends who helped him to OBJ
tain work in n printing establishment.
But this did not satisfy his ambition,
and through his acquaintance with
James Burbage he managed to get a
part on the stage. Queen Elizabeth
loved the play and was an cnthusi-
astic patron of the player. Little
wooden theatres began to spring up
in various parts of London and were
crowded to their capacity. Shakes
peare, although he continued to net
upon the stage until a few years be-
fore his death. never attained very
much prominence as Il player.
In 1898 his first work appeared in
the shape of n narrative poem, "Venus
and Adonis," dedicated to the Earl of
southampton. the poets patron and
friend. "Lucrcce" followed n wear
later and was dedicated TO the same
nobleman.
FIRST Play.
il is not certain at what date
Shakespeare's career as n dramatic au-
thor began, as his earliest dramatic
exercise seems to have been whipping
into shape for tho stage PLAYS which
were out Of date. II is generally CON
coded that Loves Labor Lost" was
his first original play and after that
he turned out plays rapidly.
In 1895, after an absence of ten
years. he returned to STAFFORD and
purchased valuable lands and nssIstcd
his father in rebuilding his fortune,
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E2z720~IH//I7L tie AS[o
C2~or2S~ ~SJII7LL2JIS~
A2SGCL Lamar
will also send Il wreath to his grave
AT Stratford-on-Avon.
In Japan.


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In Japan.
Even in fer owav Jonon there vv,l1
be an outdoor ncrformance Of "Aa
You Like II" eivon in .Jananese All
of the Shakesnearo nIavs have baen
translated into the .Japonese language
and have bocome tho Ia ella Of tha
drama course in the schools At Toxic.
Yokahoma and kioto a Shakespeare
play will be given bv native actors.
Grc,tos. C,,,buu u..
ror
noora santa.' 90" ~ oiiahe'
hon, uno,n ~ .oun'ly havo
r,i,n' - vi me centenary
r.on.,. 49,. ~ va ~, enu vi tAprii
o,atar q VIZ on"i' I.Ne,y nave
h,oUa ,"Nespe' Proouc.ionS
haan nS =. 'o"t' H'.I"uy we n.Ve
ae u.a - no'.Die p,ouuo'iot
y,,n,aoD ~ Niei,y wives I,
.U ~ pia'cts' anu
,e"'S me fish,n with Slr herbert
Aieo as Ndrulhai Nooisey. America
Is fortunate IN having this dis
tingulshed player lin our midst" as he
Is as perhaps the best por-
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from descriptions furnished by his
friends. The Zoust portrait came TO
light in 1926. and several others. such
as the Jlnson portrait and tho FELTON,
portrait. all SHOW variations from tho
DroeshoUt Dic:urc-so. after all. We
can only imagine what manner OF
man the Bard of Avon was in np-
peGrancc There is also n death mask
which resembles n portrait owned by
The kcsselstadt family. but neither
portrait nor mask has beer proven to
resemble the poet.
Honorcd in Denmark. Franco and
Italy.
Denmark. Hamlet's land. has hon
ored Shakespeare by a splendid me-
mortal showing the poet seated in a
large stone chair. The figure is both
colossal and dignified. 1t stands in
Copenhagen and Is the work of l.. Has
~;elriis. There will he an elaborate
presentation OF Hamlet in that city
in honor OF the ter-centenary ami
versary.
, In Franco the people are holding a
series of lectures on The art of Shakes
pearc, and in Paris they are especially
we'll attended. Literary clubs arc
planning banquets with readings from
Macbeth, Hamlet and julius Caesar.
In the rural districts the school chill
dren Will give Il series of pageants. Al
Bordeaux they will present one or two
plays with elaborate staging.
In Italy several Of the operas in
Spired by Shakespeare's works will be
produced. Gounod's Romeo and Jul
liette' will be given with an all-star
caste, while "Otello" and "Falstaff"
will also be sung. Italian admirers OF
Shakespeare will have a banquet.
In Holland the Shakespeare Club
will celebrate the day by a dinner AND
readings from some Of his plays. They
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How The Memory Of the
GreatPoet and Dramayist
Will Be Honored By All
Nations On April 23rd--
the Ter CentenaryofH His
Death.

syndicate.
What needs my Shakespeare for his
iionour'd bones,
The labor of an ngc in pil"d stones?
Or tliat his hallOwcd rcliuucS should
be hid
Under II starry pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of
fame.
What ncrd'st thou such weak witness
OF thy name?
iliou in otr wonder and astonislmcnt
Vast bull; tiiyScif u liyr-Iong monu-
mcnt.
For whilst TO III shame of slow en-
d~cavorin@ art
Thy easy numbers flow, and that each
Hath from the leaves of thy ~unvalucd
book
Those DcIphic lines with deep inn
preston took.
Then chou Cur fancy of itself bcreav-
ing,
Dost make us marble with too much
concciving:
And so s~cpu,chcr'd in such pomp
q lie
That Kings for sMch Il tomb would
wish to die.
-Nilton's Epitaph on Shakespeare.
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X9ss ment says he died on April card,
ijl6, in the ffty-third year of his
pg". Tradition has fixed the same
date as his birthday.
lie was the son of John and Mary
Arden Shakespeare, who livcd on Hen
ley street in the little English town
OF Stratford-On-Avon. Their home
vas a poor one, n tho room in which
:hc great poet was born was poorly
furnished, its walls werc whitc-washed
and its ceiling consisted of uncovered
rprtcr3.I His father married Mary Ar
1op. tho daughter Of a well-to-do
farmer. in 1851, and was at that time
- builif and a glove maker. The wife
inherited n small sum Of money from
her father and Will. this they pur-
chased the home Where their gifted
son was born.
tftor q tinl0 Unprospcrous times
camo TO the Shakespeare family and
thc father tried various ways Of maxi
Ing - living such as dealing in corn
nd timber, ana finally opening a
butcher shop. william was tho third
rhild. His early life was passed like
tho village lo'1 OF that age, ana his
tory does not record an act which
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ASketch Of the Life ofthe
Bard Of Avon, and Of His
Rise to the Highest Place
lntheW World Literature.
25I2HF
.luSzIzeo- RICiUTe
rr022 CHano12 2nrRTHI
Iyrieit, t9lG. by Tie international
Syndicate.

@!il. day Of Shakcspeare's birth
cannot be exactly ascertained.
The inscription on his monu-
r ment says he died on April gard,
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and his genius more widely ANA moro
genuinely appreciated. ~ the three
hUndrcdtll anniversary Of his death
approached it was planned 10 acccn-
tuatc his place in the great his'rionic
art 10y having Il special celebration Of
his name By special productions Of
his great plays i'll cvcry Important
part of the world. TAis was not sur
prising. for he wrote, as all great
men do. not for his ago and race but
for al time and for all people. Ito
belongs to the world of literature and
his portrayal of human character is
moro or less an Interpretation of the
human instincts of all civilized ma
tons. and a recognition OF this was
10 be cXcmplitied by "A union Of all
these nations in doing homage to the
memory of this truly illus;riouS man.
But the war OF the European powers
has intcrfercd with this plan and in
consequence the celebration will he
restricted in its extent. and it is fca rcd
much less elaborate and enthusiastic
in The II in which il will be
done.
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% AKESPEARE, perhaps h c
greatest dramatist of all time,
- has been honored every theat-
~ rical season in every large COM
mercial center of the English speak
ing races for Il century or more. The
interest in his great works has grown