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and ordinary, is Of ones own raising
off ones own Plantation, &C., when
there is Plenty of what is ten times
better to be had in the Market. On
the contrary, assure We, my Friends,
that I have procured the best / could
for We, and much good may t do We"
In copying the theater lads from
The Star Of January 1. 1868, the
Rambler took from that issue news
paragraphs and advertisements which
follow:
"Serenaded. - Capt Charles H.
Tompkins, who made brilliant cav
airy dash through Fairfax Court
House at the beginning Of the rebel
lion. was serenaded last night about
IL o'clock at the Kirkwood House by
his friends on the occasion Of his mar
rage"
Church Relinquished.-All the in
mates of the Presbyterian Church
Hospital, Georgetown. have been re-
moved to hospitals in this city. The
church is undergoing a thorough
cleaning up prior to its restoration to
the congregation"
Editor The Star: There is a dead
horse lying at the corner of Ninth and
G streets, which ought to be removed.
1t has been there three days. and our
city police have passed and repassed
the animal and no attention has yet
been paid to its removal"
"Board-No. 495 18th street, be-
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and sore from the bruises and injuries
sustained in our plunge over the
precipice that we could scarcely move.
It was agony for me to attain an
upright position, but little by little
managed to ease my battered muscles
and joints until / was able to move
about once more with no restriction
greater than an occasional twinge of
pain.
We breakfasted, and while meditat-
ing over our coffee, began to plan
how we were to get back into the
desert again. The walls on all sides
were almost perpendicular, and the
floor of the gulch in which we found
ourselves surpassed anything + have
ever looked upon for ruggedness.
There were rocks as big as houses
all about us, fashioned and tilted into
the most weird and fantastic forms
and positions imaginable.
All the crags within our range of
vision were unquestionably of volcanic
formation, and as I observed this /
felt cold ohills coursing UP and down
my spine, for l came to a sickening
realization that we were probably not
in a waterworn canyon at all-but in
all probability trapped in the crater
of an extinct volcano, or in some
tremendous earthquake fault"
I'm that case" / unused, 1--WE are
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more opportunities in legislative job
than in working ON theater.
I ask you to forgive this excursion.
know you are not interested in me.
If you are interested in the rambles
/ am elated. And you are deceived.
Some men insist on thinking that
other persons are interested in them.
I always feel sorry for the poor fish
who fools himself that way. A good
while ago a woman came to my office
and said: II have come to tell you
how much l enjoy your writings"
Soon after that her keepers got her
and she has not escaped since.
y IDING to work-any way, riding
to the office-on the tram this
morning, I was reading Poor Rich
ards Almanack," and in the preface
to the issue of 1747 I saw what fol.
lows. You may lead it:
II know as we'll as thee that I am
no Poet born. and it Is Trade never
learnt, nor indeed could learn. Why
then should / give my Readers bad
lines of my own, when good Ones of
other People are so plenty? IT is me-
thinks a poor Excuse for the bad
Entertainment Of Guests that the
Food we set before them. tho coarse
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year 1910. 1t had not been a paying
investment, and was advertised for
sale at auction at Dover's Hotel on
the first Monday in June, 1911. The
advertisement stated that, exclusive
of the lot, the building had been
erected at a cost of about $4,000; that
it was situated on large lot, and at a
moderate expense could be enlarged
so that it would accommodate double
the number of people. The sale was
postponed to the following Saturday.
but the theater was not sold.
W'THE Philadelphia and Baltimore
= Co. opened the Summer season
June Is. 1911. On July Mr.. Fennell.
who is said to have introduced the
starring system, began a four nights
engagement. He played 'Othello,'
Richard the Third Macbeth and
King Lear The Philadelphia and
Baltimore Co. for several years there
after continued to present tragedy,
comedy and farce in the Summer, re-
turning to Philadelphia and Baltimore
for the Fall and Winter season.
Among the plays performed were The
Poor Gentleman The Heir at Law,
Speed the Plough She Stops to Con-
quer.' The Village Lawyer, Venice
Preserved Raising the Wind 'Matri-
mony, Man and Wife: or, More Sc
crets Than One.' Rule Wife and
Have a Wife The School of Reform;
or, How to Rule Husband, The Day
After the Wedding; or, The Wife's
First Lesson Three Weeks After
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Evening Star for 1861 at Thursday.
January l, The Rambler offers for
your commiseration the following
playhouse ads:
washington Theater, corner of
Eleventh and G. streets. Lessees,
Maeder & Co.. Business Manager J..
Ii. Gosson; Stage Manager. Fred G..
Maeder. New Year-Great Bill for
Tonight. The Performance Commences
with the Great Drama, Dick Turpin.
Jockey Gorsegreen, Mr., F. Drew;
Dick Turpin. Mr.. L. P. Barrett; Betty.
Miss Chestney. To conclude with the
New Burlesque, Bride of Abydos--
Mira, Mr.. F. Drew; Salim, Mr.. G..
Maeder. Prices of Admission: Bal
cony chairs. rs cents; Orchestra Seats,
Circle, IS cents; Private Boxes, S..
Doors Open at 7:15; to commence at 8
o'clock"
Growers Theater, Pennsylvania
Avenue, Near Wizards Hotel--This
Thursday evening. A Happy New
Year! 1868! Inauguration of the New
Year by the production for this night
only of the dramatic version of Mrs.
Southworth's beautiful story The Hid
den Hand" Kate Denim as Capitola.
Mrs. G. G. Germon as Marsh Rookie,
Miss Isabel Freeman as Maria, Charles
Barron as Black Donald, Ben Rogers
as Maj. Warffeld. J. l.. Barrett as Her
bert Friday evening. Jany. 2, benefit
of Mr.. d. Setchell. Admission, so. %
and Is cents"
The legitimate theaters, The
Washington and Growers, were get
ting their share of the war-crowd sill
yer, but the theaters that were not so
legitimate, Canterbury and Washing
ton Varieties. were more prosperous.
Read on:
Washington Varieties, Ninth Street,
Near Pennsylvania Avenue-Proprie-
tors, A. Hamblin & Co.; Acting Man
ager. A. NJ. Hernandez; Business Man.
ager, James Pilgrim. Best Company
in America. Crowded and Delighted
Audiences! Look at the Array Of
Talent! The Wonderful A. M. Her
nandeZ and his Talented Troupe!
First Appearance of the Young and
Beautiful Kathleen O'Neil, the great
Irish Coincidence and Vocalist, who
will appear in her great character,
The Irish Perfect Cure Also in a
characteristic Irish Melange, entitled
Irish Courtship, in which she will
sing her original song, No Irish Need
Apply Mile. Marie Zoe, the most ac-
complished and charming Danseuse in
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Marriage; or, What We Must All
Come To- Love Laughs at Lock-
smiths Lovers Vows How to Die
for Love No Song, No Supper .Ad-
rian and Orilla,' The Stranger The
Gamester.' The Iron Chest The Peas
ant Boy The Founding of the For
est Castle Spectre Guy Manner
ing 'Bombastes Furioso,' Shake
speare's plays, etc. Love and mar
riage a, pear to have been favorite
themes of the playwrights of the
early days.
'Mr. Jefferson, besides being noted
comedian, was also a very successful
songs, which were always received, to
the day, with unbounded applause,
were Giles Scroggins' Ghost Honey
and Mustard Tommy Clutterbuck
Coming to Bury Me- parody on No
were many changes in the personnel
Of the company. Mr.. and Mrs. Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duff, Mr.. and Mrs. Bar
rett. Mr.. and Mrs. II. Wallack, Mr..
and Mrs. Burke, Mr.. Wheatly, Mrs.
Mason, Mrs. Lefolle, Mrs. Anderson
and others becoming members of 1t at
different times
+ y
THE Rambler gave you theatrical
- news of 1861 and 1862 in the story
which the Sunday editor was gentle
enough to use. and in which you may
have wrapped your picnic lunch three
Sundays ago. Opening the file of The
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going to have a fine job getting our.
selves out"
We could unquestionably scramble
out on foot, but il we could not get
the machine out as well we should
be afoot in the desert-an utterly i'm
possible distance from the nearest
water, food. or civilization!
Returning to our camp, i'm
parted my thoughts to Fletcher. He
listened intently, and then, with his
characteristic optimism, he said:
We'll, maybe you're right. but we'd
better go easy on our water and
provisions until We find out. Wen get
out all rightY' For my own part, how
ever, I was not so sanguine.
Before going any farther with plans
for escape we decided to get the side
car outfit on it's wheels, and determine
whether or not the vehicle was be-
yond repair.
We managed to lower 1t to the
ground, partly by brute force and
partly by cutting the brush out from
under 1t. After this there was little
difficulty in getting our shoulders
under the sidecar and topping the
whole outfit over onto it's wheels. To
our great delight the motor started at
the first stroke.
With this much of our task accom-
plished we set out to inspect the bot
tom of the chasm. From north to
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south 1t was so narrow as to have all
the earmarks of large canyon. but
the walls were so high and so steep
that we knew 1t was useless to begin
our search in either of those direc-
tons. Accordingly we set out toward
the west.
An hours walk, however, showed us
nothing but towering rock walls, and
a few minutes later our worst fears
were half realized when we came to
the place where the frowning cliffs
closed in to form the end of the
chasm. There was nothing to do but
retrace our steps to our camp, and
then renew the search in the other di-
rection.
Prospecting this last remaining
lead, it took us just 40 minutes to find
ourselves again face to face with near
ly perpendicular walls of gnarled
rock, and to feel our last hope vanish
ing!
We were trapped, and we knew it,
but getting the machine out appeared
to be utterly hopeless-and without
the machine we faced no prospect
other than a wild attempt to escape
from the desert on foot, journey for
which we could never hope to carry
sufficient water and food.
Death from thirst or starvation was
only matter of hours ahead, whether
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"A S THE members Of the Amer
~ lean Legion assemble in Paris
n this month, they will visit the
tomb Of Lafayette. On their
giant pilgrimage abroad some
of the American boys will carry Amer
lean earth to mingle with soil where
their brothers lie buried.
How few Americans know that
Lafayette was buried in American
SOIL" Gen. Thiebault writes in his
memoirs. "Lafayettes tomb Is at
Picpus. 1t was at this spot that he
had placed dozen barrels of earth
taken from some battlefield in Amer.
lea, which he himself brought back"
Thus, at his own request, earth from
America was treasured for the express
purpose of being mingled with the
French soil under which he is buried.
SO it is two-fold American pilgrim.
age to the memory of the great
French-American friend of other
days, Of our homeland, which he
helped to make independent. There
are other American monuments to
Lafayette in Paris, but the pilgrim
age, year after year. is to this silent
spot where he sleeps.
The tomb is at the east end of Paris,
i where Americans seldom live. 1t is
in a garden inclosed by convent build
ings. Lafayette lies there by right.
Only the low wall behind his grave
| separates his remains from the COM
mon burial trench Of 1910 victims of
the guillotine, which was set up close
by during the reign of terror Of the
French Revolution.
Americans have remembered La
fayette in other parts of Paris. In
the Place des Etats- Unis-"United
| States SQuare"-surrounded by rich
residences, in one of which President
Wilson lived during the Peace Con-
! ference. there Is the group statue of
Washington and Lafayette by Bar
| tholdi. sculptor of the Statue of Lib
erty in New York Harbor.
In the vast interior. oblong court
yard formed by the buildings of the
Louvre Palace of the Kings of
France (of whom one, Louis XVI,
| was himself to be guillotined for
| liberty, although he countenanced
Lafayette's crusade for American in.
dependency, there Is the Equestrian
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YHEN the BakerSneld MOtOr
IA Cycle Club of Bakersfield,
NM Calf. announced its inten-
V ton of staging an en-
durance run that was in
tended to be the worst ever" the
desert was chosen as the region where
Nature shows her teeth most menac-
ingIy to both men and motor cycles.
Therefore. it was decided to lay out
q course to cover a trip of 500 miles
through the least frequented portion
Of the Mojave Desert.
AS a motor cyclist Of extensive
desert-touring experiences, the writer
was called upon to assist in laying
out the most formidable desert route
that could be chosen.
Carrying sufficient food and fuel in
che sidecar to last for five days and
enough water to take US over the
longest stretches between water holes,
barring unforeseen delays, my friend
Jack Fletcher and / set out from
Bakersfield. travelling east through
the desert after topping the Tehach-
apai Pass. over the range of precip-
itous mountains which separate the
San Joaquin Valley, in which Bakers
field is located. from the desert be-
yond.
Fletcher, whom I have known in
experienced desert man, as well as an
expert motor cycle mechanic, thor
oughly congenial fellow for a COM
panion on such a trip, and giant in
power and physique.
The club had assigned to us the task
of prospecting the endurance run
course through what was consider ed
to be the most dangerous, waterless
and trackless portion of the desert, to
the west of Death Valley. where It
is doubtful If any other motor vehicle
had ever been before.
For three days we made our own
path through the desert. covering 900
miles of the course, which we consid-
cred was severe enough to eliminate
all but the stoutest hearted con-
testants.
Fletcher and ] discussed the un-
pleasant fact that we ourselves were
taking the longest chances Of any Of
the pathfinders or the actual con.
testants in the proposed run, for we
were prospecting alone in a region
where a machine failure would be
disastrous. with no advance arrange
ments for a rescuing convoy in case
we failed to put in an appearance at
Bakersfield in due time.
X r
TT was near shutdown Of the fourth
day Of the trip. when we were al
most on the point of turning back to-
ward our starting point.
The sun was now getting so low
that we knew it would only be mat
ter of minutes before nightfall, for
there il little or no twilight in the
desert. We had been plunging across
the desert at q speed Of between 80
and 35 miles an hour. when we came
to the foot Of fairly steep sandhill,
where our headlights showed the sand
to be unusually soft and loose. Think
ing to get over this dune without los
ing speed and possibly stalling the
motor, 1 opened the throttle wide, and
we roared UP the side Of the dune. We
topped the summit-and then, without
the slightest warning. the machine
dropped out from under usi
felt my feet leave the footboards
fat the handlebars twisted from my
Erfsp. and caught . glimpse Of
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The author Is one Of those men to
Ek0m an unusual share of adventure
falls. among his exploits has been that
o. hunting from q sedptGne.
The Joii0tcin0 test Of pluck and stdm-
ina came schiie he and a hardy COM
pdnioH scere planning a route for a motor
cycle endurance ran through the Moidue
Desert Of California in a Summer tenn
perdture betsDeen 100 dt0yees and $50
degrees.
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Between 1000 and 5000 samples of
road materials are tested each year
in the engineering laboratories of the
Kansas State Agricultural College.
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BY JOHN EDWIN HOGG.

w WHEN the Bakersfield Motor
~ Cycle Club of Bakersfield,
Wv Calf Cali announced s.a need its int en-
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Legion at Lafayette Tomb

S THE members of the Amer
| lean Legion assemble in Paris
Y this month, they Will visit the
tomb Of Lafayette. On their
giant pilgrimage abroad some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-05
MRS. WEISS
CANDIDATE
Druggists Wives Will Elect
Tuesday.

Indianapolis Chapter, 20, Women
Organization National Association of
Retail Druggists will observe Presi.
'dents Day with luncheon and bust
ness meeting Tuesday afternoon in
the Chapter Room. Luncheon will
be served at 1890.
Officers will be elected. Mrs. w. C.
Freund was eligible for reelection
for president, but declined the office.
The nominees are:
President, Mesdames w. F. Holmes,
Mrs, Lloyd C. Weiss; first vice presi-
dent, Fred Huntington, J. l.. Sim
mons; second. vice president, j. I.
Gelly, F. r. Keiser; corresponding
secretary, Ed Hall, Rex Rudicel;
recording secretary, Walter Sted-
feldt, M. T. Waddell; treasurer, Ed
ward M. Crawford, James c. Heard;
membership secretary, w. A. Oren,
Mark Jet; parliamentarian, Edward
Ferger, Adolphys Hoffman; auditor,
Norman Rowson, j. T. Fogas.
The polls will be open from II
till 2.
Mrs. Edward Ferger will be in
charge of the luncheon, assisted by
her committee, Mesdames. J. c.
Mead, G. 3. Stoltz, w. A.. Oren,
Lloyd Weiss, John Painter, C. G.
Mueller, Adolphys Hoffman and
Mark Jott.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-05
-HOnOred at
South Bend
Mrs. Sherman and State Of
fiCerS There.

BIZ Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March s.
Mrs. John ID. Sherman. president of
the General Federation of Clubs;
Mrs. Edward Franklin White, first
vice president: Mrs. Edwin +. Mil
Ter OF Peru, Ind, first vice president
of the Indiana Federation, and Mrs.
John Edward Moore, president of
the Kokomo Qnd) Woman's Depart
fent Club, were honor guests at the
annual State day luncheon Of the
Progress Club of South Bend today.
In an address to Howard County
clubwomen at Kokomo Friday night
Mrs. Sherman stressed the impor-
lance of the home in American life.
She said, You can no more buy
or sell a home than you can buy or
sell an immortal soul. You can buy
or sell house but never a home"
Mrs. Sherman complimented the
business women in their occupations
as home makers. She also stressed
the importance of studying about
our own country as well as interna-
tional relations on the club pro-
grams. She urged every club wom-
all to be active in her club, as the
success Of the General Federation
depends on the activity of each club
member.
Mrs. Sherman said she believed
the young people today are in dan
ger, but that they will come out all
right with the aid of parents and
elders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-05
WILL HOLD
ANNUAL
ELECTION
Woman'S Department Club
to Hear Indian Editor
Also.

Syud Hossian of India, journalist
and editor of THE New Orient" will
speak at the general meeting OF the
Woman's Department Club Wednes-
day afternoon on Eastern and
Western Ideals; A Contrast and
Comparison" The program is under
the direction Of the literature de-
partment.
Wednesday will also be election
day at the club when the polls will
be open from 10 a. m. to p. m.
Mrs. Walter Mayer, chairman OF
the hospitality committee for the
afternoon will be assisted by Mes
DANES, George S. Olive, Pearson
Menhenhall, Francis Hamilton, o. y.
Ent, Floyd e. White, Oscar Bueh-
Ter, Charles Trowbridge, r. c. Fur
gason, Frank Wampler, Maurice
Moore. John Downing Johnson, Til.
den Greer, Frank Shellhouse, Ed
ward Ferger, William Helfenberger,
J. r. Cavanaugh and w. d. Long.
The board meeting Of the Depart
ment Club will be held at 10 a. m.
Monday morning. The civics class
on that day has been indefinitely
postponed and the current events
class announced for Wednesday will
be omitted. Because OF these can
celations the ways and means com
mittee will not serve luncheon at
the club on those days.
The art section will meet at the
Heron Art Institute Monday to
hear a talk by Miss Anna Hassel-
man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-05

SPONSORS
Reservations Made for Mu-
SiCaIe Benefit.

Additional patronesses for the an.
nual benefit card party of the Mat
inee Musicale to be given March 16
in the ballroom of Columbia Club
have been announced. They are
Mesdames Charles Pfafflin, Dwight
B. Aultman, James w. Pearson,
Franc White Weber, Clifford II.
Foltz, Roy Adams, Leo NJ. Kappa
port. f. M. Ayres. Clinton Lasher.
Louise D. George, e. G. Hesser, and
Misses Ida Belle Sweenie and Flor.
ence Howell.
Reservations have been made by:
Mesdames Hugh McGibeny. G. ]. Sum.
mer s,D q {or Harold Td L lar d. chqpm7an F.
Fleming Jr,. Webb o. Bell, Ralph Chappoll.
Henry Warrum, Dwight Aultman. Roy
G. Waes ssc john 'f B6bc so Rufus w pE Mum r.
ford; George Toby, VILLA m Hanning,
John 4. simmons, Cora Tnin schoen.
william Stein. Henry D. Hamilton. Byron
SSunderland Russell Raster; Frank w.
FoSc Martin be oE oss A f John I T@
~, Scott Brewer J. !, Holcomb Clyde
titus; Charles Charles shaw Emile II; scgfiiot,
Richard Coleman. Allen Lewis. Gaylord
Rust. Isaac Born. Phil Wasson.
=, Irving lie Meaux. Everett johnson,
Glenn Frermood. James II. Lowry. Kin
heard Herbert Barr, o. NJ. Jones y A,
Warrender Arch Grossman, Clara Nutz.
Bertha schellschmidt, Harry y, Freyn, ",
o. Bates. John Volbrath Sr.. William Birk
Ne s7dto Se9Trey, Roy Goodwin Frank L2rsh
Fleming. Allen johnson. Alex Hugh Scott
Florence Martin, A, i. Roberts, Fred
Baker. Grace Watson Ducywall. Virgil
Moon. Henry Schurmann. Yuba white
Robert Bonner. Louise s. Koehne. Louis
Stockton, Edwin Crawford. A. c. Earring
Chantilla White Jack Goodman. Albert
Sterne, Henry Campbell. NJ. j. Cornelius
and Laura Martin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-05
VIII Confer on
Convention Plans

Mrs. Frank Fl. Streightoff. pres
ident Of the Indiana League of
Women Voters, will visit the South
Bend and Elkhart leagues, Tues
day and Wednesday. After speak
ing at the South Bend league,
Tuesday, she will go to Elkhart to
confer with other State officers
concerning the State convention
to be held there. The date will be
changed on account OF other
regional meetings and the national
council meeting the last week in
April.
Miss Florence Harrison, re-
gional secretary, who will accom-
pany Mrs. Streightoff on her visits.
will be a guest of the Michigan
City league, Thursday. Mrs. II. J.
Misener. president of the Michigan
City league. is chairman of the pro-
gram committee for the State con-
vention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-05
Honor President

Miss La Vaun Morsch, the retir-
ing president of Phi Sigma Delta
sorority, was honor guest at a party
given Friday evening at the home
of Miss Nell Denny, 1914 Graceland
Ave. The sorority will elect officers
Sunday afternoon at the home of
Miss Shirley Baumb, 1715 Ashland
Ave.
White tapers tied with tulle in the
sorority colors of maize and orchid
were used to light the tables for the
party Friday evening. Miss Morsch
was presented with sterling silver
bar pin with Greek letters of the
sorority on it, as a gift from the
members. Recently the following
retiring officers received orchid
handkerchiefs with the sorority crest
in gold in one corner: Misses
Morsch, Helen Marie Davis, Betty
White, Thelma Gahan, Shirley
Baunb, and Mesdames Melvin T.
Goode and Raymond Keaton.