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SEPTEMBER CIIICTLATtON
The paid circulation of The Ran Antonio Light
during the month of September. 1923. day by day was
•a follow*:
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k Sept. 2 30208 Rept. 17 28.R56
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" * C. L. BUCHANAN.
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Of October A. D. 1923.
FRED J. BOMMER JR..
Notary Public.
FORERUNNERS OF NORMALCY
f r “It is just as much the sworn duty of
t the courts and United attorneys
. to preserve to the people their rights
~of domestic privacy and personal pro-
~ tcction secured to them by the fourth
* and fifth and other amendments as it is
; to enforce the eightenth amendment. It
7is just as much the duty of the courts
’• to hold any over-zealous or untrained pro-
; hibition agent within the law as to see
that the bootlegger is punished.”
• Thus spoke United States Attorney
Robert O. Harris at Boston in reply to
attacks which “prohibition” officials had
made on his administration of his of-
fice. Time was when such statements
’ would have been regarded as an un-
‘ necessary recitation of the obvious. But
'in abnormal times many people are
prone to lose whatever sense of pro-
portion they ever possessed; they look
neither forward nor backward; their
minds run on a single track which cir-
cles in the present.
It is easy too for government officials
to foil under the influence of “move-
ments” and to forget their broader re-
sponsibilities. There is a temptation for
। • prosecuting attorneys to regard “the
p- law” as a facility for their own advance-
• ment; to get convictions regardless of
the nature or justice of the charges
brought against those whom they are
< called upon to prosecute.
Since the enactment of the Volstead
law many judges and prosecuting at-
£ torneys in the United States have for-
-7 gotten the broad responsibilities they as-
f- sumed when they took their oaths of of-
t “ fice and have proceeded to violate other
.' parts of the constitution in their at-
£ tempt to enforce an over-zealous or fa-
natical interpretation of the eighteenth
I* amendment.
2- But this tendency was more In evi-
7. dence a few years ago than it is now.
" Although there has been no general pe-
* turn to sanity no complete restitution
* of the lost sense of proportion govern-
-5 ment officials here and there are becom-
* ing conscious again of their full respon-
* sibilities as chosen agents of the people.
- Basic principles whereon this republic
was founded are being recognized anew.
" United States attorneys are refusing to
i- regard the eighteenth amendment as the.
nation’s entire organic law; refusing to
regard “the law” as something which
: takes away the rights of the people
rather than something which defines
* those rights and facilitates their exercise.
The declarations made by the Boston
attorney represent the process of re-
turning to “normalcy” in the philosophy
of American government.
/( ...
MURDER FOR MONEY
The coldblooded assassination of two
enginernen and a brakeman by train rob-
. bers in the Siskiyou mountains the other
day is one of the most brutal crimes per-
• petrated in the annals of American train
• robberies. Thfte bandits are not ordi-
nary’ criminals. They are exceptionally
vicious murderers who would hesitate at
. nothing. They have put themselves not
only outside the pale of the law but nut-
side the pale of common decency. They
4 should be hunted down like the wild
। animals they are.
f One of the enginemen killed had been
t employed for more than 20 years by the
MONDAY.
Southern Pacific railroad. The other en-
gineman although younger also had
been long in service. Both of them left
families. They were hard-working me.)
engaged in a calling perilous enough
without the addition of banditry. Re-
ports indicate they were unarmed and
unprotected. They were engaged in sav-
ing the lives of the passengers aboard
the train when they brought it to a stop
as dynamite placed by the caved
in the mouth of a tunnel before the pilot.
Then the bandits cold-bloodedly
them down as they sat in the cab of
the locomotive. The mail car was dyna-
mited and robbed and the explosives
apparently killed another faithful em-
ploye the mail clerk on duty inside.
American train robbers for a decade
nave been surrounded wiQi a certain halo
for dai edeviltry and adventure. There is
something appealing to our sense of
dramatic in the nerve of a few armed
men holding up a passenger train at the
point of six-shooters and dashing off on
their hoises with the loot.
And it can be said in mitigation of the
crimes the old-time bandit committed
that he usually was a “man” in the gen-
erally accepted sense of that expression.
He never shot if he could avoid it and
he did not kill except in self defense.
True his motives were not altogether
altruistic in that regard. He did not
wish to place his neck in jeopardy with
a jury in the event of capture. He
knew that as a usual thing he could get
off with a prison sentence if convicted
of train robbery although under the laws
of most western states robbery with
arms is a capital offense. If he killed
however he then fated the probability of
being hanged.
But these Siskiyou bandits apparently
planned these murders premeditatelv.
To shoot down those honest hard-
working enginemen was a part of their
carefully laid plan for robbing the South-
ern Pacific train. They went about that
piece of fiendish work as calmly and de-
liberately as a hunter goes about shoot-
ing a squirrel. It is one of the blackest
crimes of the sort in the annals of Amer-
ican train robbery and both the state and
the railroad ought to bring those bandits
to justice regardless of time or cost.
The engineman on a transcontinental
run faces dangers enough without such
outlawry. But a few days ago an
engine crew faithful to the trust went
to death in the raging torrents of a river
which had swept out a bridge. Those
men on that engine stood at their posts
in a vain effort to stop their train before
the coaches were wrecked and gave their
lives as proof of their fidelity to a high
trust. Every engineman on every rail-
road in America is a potential hero. Few
of them in the history of American rail-
roading have proven faithless to duty.
Faults they may have but cowardice is
not among them. The story of railroad-
ing in this country contains one thrilling
chapter afttr another of the bravery and
heroism of enginemen.
The bandits who killed these inof-
fensive workers at their post of duty are
beneath contempt. They have wrested
from train banditry any particle of the
mantle of romance that may have
shrouded it. They stand forth as delib-
erate assassins seeking money at the
cost of blood and broken hearts. They
have left vacant chairs by two firesides
and they have brought down upon the
heads of their ilk a condemnation that
we hope will make train robbery the
most hazardous undertaking on earth
hereafter.
DICTATING TO GOVERNORS
When is a conference not a confer-
ence? That question will be answered
on October 20 when the governors of
“the several” states assemble in Wash-
ington to hear what the national ad-
ministration has to say to them about
prohibition. That is. the secret will be
divulged then if somebody has not been
“kidding” the Washington correspon-
dents.
The governors it is reported will
simply be told what is wanted by the
national administration and will be giv-
en no time in which to express their
own views. Instead of conferring they
will defer--or will they?
When the call for the “conference”
was issued the logical assumption was
that the federal authorities had in mind
a free discussion of the matter of en-
forcing the laws of the land particularly
the Volstead law. It was logical to
suppose that inasmuch as the federal
authorities had made a failure of en-
forcement they would be pleased to
have the counsel of the chief executives
of the states.
But no; it is not advice that the fed-
eral authorities want. They are going
to tell the governors what to do just like
that and then the “conference” will be
adjourned before some conceited as-
inine self-starting governor gels up and
tells the world what he thinks be thinks.
The federal authorities will crack the
whip and the governors will be expected
to buckle to the load.
It wouldn’t be surprising if there
should be some free-born spirit in the
audience: someone to give a less oblique
definition of “co-opcration” than that em-
ployed by the would-be taskmasters.
Not that any governor responding to
the call would have warrant for taking
advantage of the occasion to advocate
the cause of the “wets.” As a matter
of course the federal government’s ob-
ject in calling the governors to Wash-
ington is to bring about greater effi-
ciency in the enforcement of “prohibi-
tion.” But though a governor who un-
reservedly opposed any attempt at en-
forcement of the Volstead act would be
out of place at the meeting it would
seem that those who respond to the
call for the conference would have to
leave their self-respect at home if they
should go to Washington fully- resigned
to the prospect which according to ad-
vance reports awaits them there.
If their respective opinions are held
in such low esteem that they are not
to be given an opportunity to express
them but must simply listen to what
the federal government tells them they
must do the trip might easily be re-
garded as a waste of time and money.
It would be far less expensive to instruct
the governors by mail. It is to be ob-
served as probably significant that
President Coolidge is reported to have
contemplated use of the latter method
until he learned that a “conference” had
been promised.
AN OUTCRY OF IGNORANCE
Doctors have to combat not only
disease but ignorance as well. They
encounter ignorance not only in the
practice of their profession but also in
the piocess of getting their degrees. One
might have thought however that the
anti-vivisection agitators had become ex-
tinct in this country. Perhaps they are
rare. But that Texas still has a. surplus
of them is indicated by the that
half of the voting members of a humane
.society objected to the use of dogs for
clinical purposes at Baylor Medical
College.
"Unnecessary cruelty to animals” was
the charge which these people bore in
their minds against students who per-
form operations on dogs as a means of
gaining surgical knowledge and skill.
What is necessary and what is unneces-
sary is a question that can be answereef
only after certain facts have been agreed
upon. Some people would say that it
is never necessary to operate upon the
human body; it is futile to discuss vivi-
section with them. But if scientific sur-
gery be accepted as a means of saving
life then there should be no argument
concerning the value of vivisection for
training purposes. If men who are learn-
ing to be surgeons do not practice upon
lower animals they will have to do a
lot of practice on human beings before
they can become expert —and safe—users
of the scalpel when the lives of their
patients are at stake.
But how about the “cruelty” charge?
It is entertained by those who know
nothing about the mechanics of vivi-
section —people wlio apparently have
visions of a dog pig or other dumb
creature being ruthlessly tortured by
heartless knife-wielders. As a matter
of simple fact operations on lower ani-
mals are performed under conditions al-
most identical with those which obtain
when a human being is put under the
knife. This is necessarily so as other-
wise the student operator would get
little if any useful knowledge or train-
ing from the experience.
In the first place dogs selected for
clinical purposes are usually those that
have already been condemned to die—-
strays that fall into the hands of the
dog-catchers and Ure not reclaimed.
If they were not taken by the clinics
thej would be shot and sometimes a
shot dog suffers before its life be-
comes extinct.
Placed on the operating table a dog
or other animal is given an anasthetic
which renders it unconscious. There is
no pain no suffering and consequent-
ly no cruelty. The student operator
even takes precaution? against infection
of the organs operated on; if he doesn’t
do that while he is learning to be a
surgeon he may forget to do it when
he comes to practice upon human beings.
Although these facts are generally
known there arc still some people who
are not aware of them. As long as
such ignorance prevails in any /degree
outcries against vivisection will be made.
What puzzles the fire prevention edi-
tor of this newspaper is that a care-
lessly thrown cigarette can be blamed
for burning down a big building when
he tries to start a campfire with only
one match it promptly goes out without
help from a fire department.
I NDER THE RED CROSS.
She came and went ns comes and rocs
A frauranee in the morning air
Where lay the shadowy shapes of those
Who died in her sweet care.
Some doubted when her face had flown
Whether it was or only seemed —
Whether one saw what he had known
Or something he had dreamed.
And near a trampled field at night
Wan eyes still following her afar.
Saw round that head a saintlier light
Than eame from moon or star.
The wreck the roar the murk the glare
Were nought to her; she simply knew
God's brokeu images were there
Where heeling bands were few.
—Chauncey Hickox.
* the san 'Antonio light.’*
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-MrsWilson Woodrow _ •
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Begin Here Today.
Hope Ranger is missing after
eating luncheon with friends at the
Plata. Loring Ranger offers a re-
ward of one hundred thousand dol-
lars for the return of his daughter.
Hope is a jirisoner in the sanita-
rium of Dr. Bristow. Dr. George
Kelsey also is detained there be-
cause he knows of criminal trans-
actions of Bristow.
Hope and Kelsey manage to es-
cape in Bristow’s ear. They drive
to an abandoned house. Kelsey falls
asleep and Hope hears Bristow's
voice in the yard and knows they
have been followed.
Hope surrenders to Bristow and
tells Him that Kelsey has abandoned
her. When Kelsey awakens he
finds Jun rex Charlie adventurer
and close friend of Ranger in the
room with him. Now go on with the
story.
“Now this is where you sit up
and listen.” Charlie tapped Kelsey
twice on the chest with a hortatory
fore-finger. “While I was eating
breakfast an unexpected caller
dropped in to the jail to sfe me an
old bird that I sized up for a doctor.
I win. He is one named Creamer
the original man who wandered nil
around Robin Hood’s barn. But
what I made out of it was that my
man-eating constable had got word
to him about- your accident and
Creamer’s doddered off to the aceno
of disaster about three hours late.
“There he finds Bristow' who has
recovered from a desperate attack
made upon him by a .violent homi-
cidal maniac. That’s you.'
“Well of coursd? i'reahier had to
get all the gruesome facts; anil then
lie remembered — he’s Main Street’s
walking historical society—that this
place the old Hose house he called
it had some ifook built into it where
in the cheery old times the family
used to hide when the Indinns
wnnted to put n Mick in their parties
by having a friendly little massacre
of the palefaces.
“That sets Bristow afire. He’s nil
for finding it when just then the
girl turns up. No doubt but what
she's been trailing around through
the woods; her skirt and shoes were
wet and muddy.
“Creamer says you stole a boat
nnd got off. and must have capsized
in the storm. Several boats were
found julrift this morning two of
them bottom up.
“The minute that Frank Bryan
enme in I saw thnt he wns in bad
shape. He’s n cold fish and I
couldn't flatter myself that he had
worried to skin and bones overnight
about my fix. I’d been nursing a
hunch about him for some time
though and this looked liki- a pio-
ment to put the screws on him. It
worked.
“There he sat shaking nnd crying
calling himself bad names and mut-
tering about suicide.
“I told him that was all right; ro
to it. Birt first tell me what he
knew. Little by little. I got it out of
him.” Charlie's thin mouth clnmped.
“Kelsey he was in on that damned
abduction.”
“What?" Kelsey cried “Mr. Ran-
ger's private secretary?”
“Yes; just that. Yet Frank's not
bad nor is he particularly weak
either. Frank was caught with all
four feet in a trap. He’s the good
young man with the bad younger
brother.
The Combine — that’s the gang
thnt’s got Hope — needed him: so
they framed the brother which
wasn't hard to do as the goods on
him were there to got. Then they
closed down on Frank. He was told
that all they wanted wns fifty thou-
sand dollnrs which Ranger would
never miss nnd the girl would be
held in comfort until it wns pnid.
If Frank didn’t care to nssist. brother
would go to Sing Sing for thirty or
forty years. Frank caved. Some
dope wns slipped into Hope's ice-
crenm sodn while she and every one
else in that fruit shop wns watching
a row in front of the cashier’s desk.
And when she walked out the drug
wns beginning to work. She wns
growing groggy. nnd naturally
when Bryan enme forward she let
him help her into the limousine at
the curb?”
“But I still don't see—” Kelsey
had followed every word his brow-
growing more furrowed as Charlie
went on. "How could they know that
she would ro into that shop and
order the sodn?”
“They didn't. But a thinß likn thnt
wasn't pulled off in a hurry. They
had nn inside man. Rryan snys.
named Fitcb. whose business it was
to find out about Hope's movements
nnd tip them off when she was tn
be out alone. Then they were ready
to spring nnv one of hnlf n dozen
schemes which over was the best
under the circumstances.
“Well to go back. 1 told Frank
about the escape nnd them pelting
her again: and he said it was funny
if the girl really was Hone that she
didn't make for the hid’ng-nbicc in
the old house instead of taking to
Ilie woods. I irot keyed un then nnd
he fells me nil about it. Ranger had
showed it to him once when they
were down here together. Then he
falls to moaning nnd sobbing again
and I tell him that I am going to
Ret the Rirl. but I don't wart Ran-
ger in on it vet; nnd if he'll keen
bis month shut about what he
knows. I’ll nndlock mine about him.
Silence for silence.
“Just ns we weep stepninn out into
the blessed sunlight of freedom —
oidr it was raining—mv eye fell on
it high board fence across the st-eet
feorn the hoose-gow; and’there life-
sized nnd prominent a glnd messnee
of ‘Welcome to Our City.' stnres
back nt me; and let me tel! you. that
he who read was very apt to nin.
It said: 'Beat it for the Far West
rt once or you'll have your throat
slit.’ *
"There wns n nice little khot of
bn-lookers there waiting to see the
shake off Ids chains: and
T knew the Combine would bnve
some innocent bvstnnder on band to
make sure I got the f**iendly word.
So I fell over ngainst Bryan. a<-tinr
sco’-ed to death nnd n minute later
told Simonds that he wouldn't see me
again in parts*. a u T wn* of> for
®nnTiy California and intended to
Mn’’ there. A
"Then I went with Bryan to Jhi(
train checked mv motorcycle to Now
York rode un the line for three sta-
tions hopned* a freieht back again
dropped off. and making my wav
through these rain-soaked woods
sneaked Into the house.
“Look here. Kelsey is there one
human soul in that hosiptal you can
trust or think you can?”
' Kelsey reflected.
"Morton” he said “the house phy-
sician. I could trust him if we were
able to convince him that Bristow is
crooked.”
"We’ve got to get him here then
without his knowing who we are;
and I’ll undertake to convince him
You ace we must have some one in-
side the place who'll find out for us
what they're planning. Think hard
Kelsey; what will bring him here?
Some girl he is interested in?”
Kelsey dismissed this palms down.
“Thnt wouldn't bring him; science is
nil he cares for. Wait a minute.” a
light flashed over his fnee. “I helpej
him write a letter to one of the med-
ical journals rebutting the statements
in an article by a Dr. Jonas Cray-
shaw; He was tremendously worked
up about it. Why couldn't we get
word to him that Dr. Crayshuw ia
down here writing an answer and
would like to have a talk with him?”
“Great 1” Charlie thumped Kelsey
between the shoulders. “I'll take a
chance and sneak out to the nearest
farm house and telephone him in the
character of Dr. Crayshaw asking
him not to mention my presense here
to any one as I am working against
time and must have the strictest se-
clusion.”
"But it’s dangerous for you to
show yourself around here” Kelsey
said. "Maybe. I—?”
“I'll show just as little of myself
as possible believe me.” Charlie an-
swered. “And if I don’t come back
you'd better just lie low here until
night and then try to reach Rnngcr.
He paused and ran his bands
through bis hair.
“I don’t know but what I’d better
call up Lorry after all.” He wav-
ered. “We’ve got to have money.
Morton may need it in the hospital
to buy a spy or so. Lord I I hate
it. Lorry might queer everything.”
Kelsey gave a little jump and
smiled for the first time.
"Don't let the lack of funds worry
you” he said; and drew from his
packet the package of bonds spread-
ing them fan-wise on the table.
“A hundred thousand dollars I"
Charlie gaped at them. “Jumping Je-
hosophat! Why it's Ranger's ran-
soin money. Where did you tgot it?”
Kelsey told him. Charlie jigging
the while and cutting fantastic pigeon-
wings.
CHAPTER XXIII.
When Hope drove back through the
hospital grounds and walked between
two men up the stops down which
she had flown a few hours before pal-
pitating with her splendid dreams of
freedom she was hardly conscious of
the ignominious contrast.
Anita Copley met her in the hall
and in that full dazzle of light sur-
veyed her gloatingly a cruel sweep-
ing glance-that took in the girl from
head to foot.
She caught Hope by the arm and
led her upstairs to her room thrust-
ing her in through the door before
her. Hope tottered to a chair and
fell into it. *
“Come get undressed” Anita or-
dered.
Hope twisted petulantly and let
her head fall back again. But Miss
Copley caught her by the wrist and
jerked her to her feet.
Whimpering. Hope rubbed her arm.
“So dark in the woods” she
sighed. "We walked and walked and
ran and ran.”
Hope lay down docilely and almost
immediately seemed*to fall asleep.
Anita after lowering the light
seated herself where she gould keep
her eyes on both her charge ami the
When a Feller Needs a Friend
door. She sat upright nerve* and
muscles rigid liateuitig for some ac-
tivity below. Once she rose precipi-
tately nnd stepping softly past Hope's
bed- opened the door and listened
Coming back she took up the same
waiting attitude and pressed Her
hands distractedly to her temples.
Over an hour surely almost two
must have passed; and they had not
brought Kelsey back.
At last the woman could bear her
vigil no longer. She got up again
bent over Hope to assure herself that
she was asleep then turning down
the light to a spark went out lock-
ing the door behind her.
(Continued in Our Next Issue.)
RESERV ED SEATS ON TRAINS.
It isn't often that railroad in the
United States has anything to learn
from England but perhaps there is
found such an instance in the recent-
ly inaugurated system of reserved seat
sales on certain of the British train
runs. To be sure we for many years
have had our reserved Pullman aer-
vices. but the new undertaking “over
there” is to sell the passenger in ad-
vance numbered seats in the regular
day coaches.
A small charge is made for the
added service but to willing has the
traveling public shown itself to make
the extra payment that it usually has
been found that the unreserved seat«.
on which n certain number have been
left for the general scramble have
frequently been left vacant. The old
custom of first come first served in
the matter of train seats led to so
much crowding and ill-feefing. caused
such loss of time by those who were
willing to stand in line to get first
choice of position and generally was
such a nuisance that the public wel
corned the change.
We imagine the same would be true
here in America at populous centers
and on trains which carry daily
throngs. It might even be made pos-
sible to secure in advance regular
seats over weekly or even monthly pe-
riods. The advance reservation of
numbered seats would make known
rnther closely the number of passen-
gers to be carried so that the need-
ful train equipment could be prepared
without a last minute rush to add an-
other car or worse still without forc-
ing the overplus to stand.—New Or-
leans Times-Picayune.
EMBRACE-PROOF CIGARS.
Thomas R. Marshall is known
wherever tobacco is worshipped as the
chief advocate of a good five-cent ci-
gar asserting that it is the crying
need of the country. Hoosiers take
special pride in the achievement of
Mr. Marshall in thus putting his fin-
ger on the outstanding desideratum of
the time and hope that it will de-
velop into more than a consummation
devoulfly to be wished. With all due
respect to him. he only ut-
tered n half truth and it has remained
for comparatively obscure professors
of chemistry to confer the greatest
boon on the -smoking fraternity.
Two members of the Lehigh frater-
nity after a year of research have
apparently succeeded in perfecting an
unbreakable cigar. '
* The discovery will prove a great
boon to the married man. The lover
will cheerfully sacrifice his cigars in
the rapture of a fond embrace hut
the less romantic married man may
cool the ardor of his morning farewell
if he finds.th.-it it is usually accompa-
nied by the destruction of his smoke*.
Many n family tilt may have origi-
nated over an undue zenl for the wel-
fare of a common black cigar. Much
of this will be avoided through the
discovery' of the Lehigh professors.
The wrapper may crumble but the
filler will remain intact. Only one
fear remains. The application of the
process may tend to retard the trend
of prices in the direction pointed out
by Mr. Marshall.—lndianapolis Star.
CATS AND DOGS.
Scientists report that an excellent
flour can be produced from cat-tails.
Ought to make good bread for hot-
dog sandwiches!—Trenton Times.
OCTOBER 15 1923
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Pungent Paragraphs
A swell year for peaches in the or-
chards and on the beaches.—Cincin-
nati Times-Star.
Mussolini to the League of Nations t
Corfu shsll not ring tonight!— The
Chicago Daily News.
A political bandwagon should al-
ways have a clear vision windshield.
Detroit News.
Curiously enough the people who
are shocked by modern bathing suits
seldom miss an opportunity to look.—
Birmnigh.un News.
War in two nets. Act I. Fight
money. Act 11. Fiat money.—Forge
Forum.
Lightning doesn't strike twice in
the same spot. After one strike t-ere
“ain't no spot.”—Lafayette Journal
and Courier.
No sensible woman ever wastes *
perfectly good rollipg pin on a worthr
less husband. —Milwaukee Sentinel.
A complete set of horse armor has
been secured for the Metropolitan mu-
seum of New York but what the chil-
dren of that city probably want tn
see is a horse.—Decatur Herakl.
An exchange says when you get
down on your knees to say your pray-
ers and find on getting up that you
ore stiff that is a sign you're getting
old. Fine but how arc we para-
grnphers to tell? —Evansville Courier.
One trouble with the world is that
several women whcsc mothers used to
sweep their houses with heavy brooms
now have daughters who must fairs
maids to run the electric cleaners.—
Indianapolis News.
Where to Go
Vaudeville.
Majestic: Big Time Vaudeville.
Motion Pictures.
Palnce: “Rupert of Hcntzau.”
Empire: Harold Lloyd in "Why
Worry.”
Princess: “Motbers-in-Law.”
Rialto: “Forget-Me-Not.”
Stock.
Royal: Edna Park and Players in
‘Why Men Leave Home.”
Musical Comedy.
Grand: Bob “Casey” Greer in “A
School Girl.”
Distinguished Artist —Perhaps If you
coni* here you will get a. better light on
the picture. This studio is not nearly
large enough. Fair Visitor (desirous to
understand)—Yc«. yee; I know. One can’t
get far enough away from your pictures!
—Punch.
—By Briggs
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