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DOUBLE THE LOCAL CIRCULATION
OF ANY OTHER PAPER
MONDAY DECEMBER 16. 1912.
THE “ENGLISH” RAILROAD
In al! probability there is not one man
in five in the city of San Antonio who be-
lieves that the San Antonio Rockport &
Mexican railroad as projected last spring
will be built. They have given up all idea
of ever seeing it. The fact that some of
the committees sent out by the Chamber
of Commerce to raise the bonus of the
Fredericksburg road used as inducement
the alleged fact that it was safe to sub- 1
scribe to this proposition "because no call
will ever be made for the subscriptions of.;
the English’ road” shows the prevailing i
opinion. . i
For the existence of such a condition -
the backers of the railroad are largely re- ;
sponsible. Immediately after San Antonio
had raised its bonus they left the city
and from that time unto this they have -
never sent one word of information re- ;
garding the railroad to San Antonio or to
the people along the proposed line who
are interested in it equally with San An-
tonio save what The Light has forcibly
extracted from them. A more deplorable
lack of entirely legitimate "press agent”
work was never seen. Not the slightest
effort was made to keep in touch with the
people who had worked to raise the ।
bonuses. Such a line of procedure was
unfair to the people and it was unwise and
injurious to the railroad itself.
There are however many things to be
said on the side of the railroad. \\ hen
the question of raising a bonus in San An-'
tonio was first broached the gentlemen in.
charge of the railroad declared that it was
necessary that the bonus be raised speed-
ily because it was almost impossible for|
them to conduct financial arrangements of
any magnitude in London during the
summer months. They made this fact
plain to San Antonio.
The city entered into a contract with
the railroad people to raise the bonus.
They city later found itself unable to raise
the bonus according to the terms of the
contract into which it had entered. In
other words the city was not able to
“make good.” It was therefore found nec-
essary to enter into another contract which
was far more favorable to the city and
far less favorable to the railroad syndicate
than the first contract. Under the second
contract the money was not raised by the
city until the season had arrived which
the railroad people had repeatedly declared
most unfavorable for financing a project
in England. The railroad people were not
responsible for this delay.
Then came the speeches of President
Lovett of the Southern Pacific and Pres-
ident Ripley of the Santa Fe. at Dallas
in which they virtually declared that no
intelligent man would build a railroad in
Texas because of the state laws which so
greatly hamper intelligent and profitable
railroad operation in this state. These
speeches were made at a time when their
effect against the financing of the Eng-
lish road would naturally be great. It is
in fact a very open question if they were
not made for that particular purpose. The
speech of President Ripley was in fact
remarkable in its inconsistency. He made
it at a time when his road was laying
more new track in this state than at any
previous time in its history. It is there-
fore only fair to assume that President
Ripley either did not say what he meant
or did not mean what he said.
speeches made by these two rail-
road presidents were taken to London
and inserted as advertisements in some
of the leading financial journals. This
was done for the express purpose of
frightening off some of the investors in
the San Antonio Rockport & Mexican
railroad. It was to a certain degree ef-
fectual and the syndicate was compelled
to reorganize. While it was in process of
reorganization the Balkan war broke out
and English and continental financiers
locked their vaults and hung tightly to
MONDAY
their money. That is the condition to-
day. but with the passing of the proliabil-
in that any of the great powers of Europe
will be drawn into the war the financial
sky is rapidly brightening.
There is still ample time for the proj-
ector- of the railroad to make good their
contract with San Antonio. They seem to
have surmounted many of the troubleiTand
it i» doubtful if the enemies of the rail-
road can do more to prevent its construc-
tion than they have already done.
The mere fact that the enemies of the
road are renewing their attack by spread-
ing such untruthful stories as the report
that the English railroad has been trying
to sell out to the M is o u ri Kansas &
Texa- is ground for the belief that the
railroad is again forging to the front anil
that there is an excellent chance of its
construction. If it was a dead proposition
its foc« would not bother with it. The
fact that they are trying to fight it proves
that they are afraid of it.
If its enemies are afraid its friends may
feel confident.
STREET CAR SERVICE
In a statement recently published in
The Light General Manager E. E. Eysen-
bach of the San Antonio Traction com-
pany. declared that 95 per cent of the peo-
ple of San Antonio are satisfied with the
sen-ice they are receiving. He has also
declared that the company is anxious to
do all things in its power to improve con-
ditions and that it is now doing its utmost
to eradicate the evils that exist.
Mr. Eysenbach is the victim of gross
misinformation when he declares that not
more than 5 per cent of the people of San
Antonio arc dissatisfied with the street car
sen-ice they receive. If he doubts this
and desires to inform himself he has only
to ride in his own cars and ask questions
of passengers. It is highly probable that
he would obtain a fund of information that
would cause him to revise his percentages.
Mr. Eysenbach declares that the main-
tenance of a seven-minute schedule during
the rush hours and the “no-seat-no-fare”
proposition are impracticable. The former
may be and the latter certainly is imprac-
ticable. It has been tried in many cities
and has invariably proved an entire fail-
ure. It has not succeeded because there
are always people so anxious to reach
their destination that they prefer stand-
ing in the car to waiting in the street and
these people naturally persist in entering
a car if there is a chance for them to force
their way.
The service bn the Tobin hill car line
may fairly be taken as a test of the street
car sen-ice in San Antonio. It is average
service. It is not as good as the sen-ice
on the San Pedro nor so bad as that on
Nolan street. There are however many
times when the sen-ice on the Tobin hill
car line is as poor as any service can be.
There are times when apparently not the
slightest effort is made to maintain sched-
ules and there is not a patron of that line
who would venture to make a guess as
when he will get a car unless it is in sight
and coming toward him.
According to some of the conductors on
the Tobin hill car line the last car is sup-
posed to leave Houston street and Alamo
plaza “about 12:07 o’clock.” There are
many nights when there »is no car be-
tween 11:30 and 12:07 and when the
“last” car arrives it is not the “last” car
from the viewpoint of the passenger but
the “last” car from the viewpoint of the
conductor. According to the natural reck-
oning there should be several cars going
through to the end of the line before the
“last” car goes into the barn. However
the conductors of the "last” car always
claim that they have no idea what has
become of the cars that should have pre-
ceded them. All they know is that their
car is headed for the barn. Into the barn
it goes and the passengers are turned out
to walk.
In stormy weather the Tobin hill car
line often suffers complete collapse. On
one of the recent rainy days would-be pas-
sengers waited for thirty minutes or more
in the rain and then many of them made
their wav down town on foot.
It is not a week since the Tobin bill
line “fell down” just at the time when peo-
ple were bound for the theater. One car
came along and it was jammed to suffoca-
tion before it reached Madison square
park. The motorman of this car declared
to the passengers that there was not the
•slightest reason for the congestion as there
were three other cars standing at the
northern end of the line when he started
on his trip.
The management of a street car line is
a weighty proposition. There will always
be critics even when the service has
reached absolute perfection. It is a safe
proposition to say that there is not a car
line in America where 95 per cent of the
people are satisfied with the service. It
is an immortal truth that the line is not in
San Antonio.
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CONSCIENCE OF A CITY
'I he municipal authorities of Chicago
are greatly distressed because the roof of
a theater has fallen in. They are now
conducting a drastic inquiry for the pur-
pose of determining who is to blame for
the erection of such a theater. When the
culprit is identified the chances are that
it will go hard with him.
There are some things in the history
of large cities that arouse such painful
memories that the mere suspicion of their
possible recurrence is sufficient to set all
the machinery of the city in rapid motion
to prevent them and if possible to punish
anybody who might make repetition of a
former calamity possible.
New York will never see another riot
between the followers of the Orange and
the Green although it is more than forty
years since the bullets flew through her
streets to put down the mob that attacked
the procession formed to celebrate the
Battle of the Boyne. St. Louis still mind-
ful of the tornado that swept down her
buildings and dashed out the lives of her
citizens becomes panic stricken every time
the sky shows the black of an approach-
ing storm. The awful fear of the tornado
I will not be lifted from St. Louis during the
I present generation.
j Two things arc indelibly grafted upon
; the memory of Chicago ever deeper
than the recollection of the great
fire. Those are the riot in Haymarket
Square when eighty-seven policemen went
down before the explosion of an anarchist
bomb and the slaughter in the Iroquois
theater. To this day there is nothing that
a Chicago policeman will attack so quickly
and suppress so energetically as the red
flag of the anarchist. Chicago has had
her experience with the anarchist ami it
will'be many a year before he obtains an-
other foothold in that city.
Even keener than her resentment over
the killing and wounding of eighty-seven
brave men is the memory of the 563 lives
that were taken in three minutes in the
Iroquois theater. Chicago has never for-
gotten that these lives were sacrificed to
the greed of theatrical managers who could
not wait until their theater was completed
before they threw it open to the public
so eager were they to be making money.
With an adequate fire inspection to guar-
antee that sufficient protection against fire
had been provided all or nearly all of the
lives lost in the Iroquois theater would
have been saved. Nearly six hundred peo-
ple suffered death because Chicago failed
in her duty to her people. In the last
analysis that is the fact that Chicago has
been compelled to face and to acknowl-
edge and she has never forgotten it.
Therefore it is not to be wondered that
Chicago is up in arms and making a
wrathful search for the man who con-
structed a theater of such flimsy fashion
that the roof fell of its own weight and
without apparent cause. Likewise a hunt
is being made for the building inspector
who allowed such a job to go on to com-
pletion. The fact that the theater was
unoccupied at the time the roof came
crashing down makes no difference. It
might have come down when the place
was filled and whoever is responsible will
be obliged to answer to the law for what
might have happened.
The people who died horrible deaths in
the aisles and doorways of the Iroquois
theater will have died in vain if Chicago
fails to find the man who built another
flimsy theater inside her bounds and if
she fails to make an example of him and
of the building inspector who allowed him
to erect it.
Turkish War in Prophecy.
More than 100000 Seventh Day Adventists are
watching the war in Turkey. They see in the
driving out of the Turk from Europe a fulfill-
ment of the prophecy which declares that the
Ottoman empire is to be destroyed and that
its downfall will bo the signal that the end of
all things is Impending.
This view of the war was given by Elder
G. R. Thompson one of the leading ministers in
the general conference the governing body of
the Seventh Day Adventist denomination.
“Turkey occupies a prominent place with other
nations in the prophecies of the scriptures" said
Mr. Thompson. “The prophecy of Revelation
foretells the rise and developjnent of the Turk-
ish empire and the prophecy of Daniel fore-
tells its downfall and extinction.
“Turkey is now enacting its part in the final
stages of history’s great drama and when it goes
down it will be the signal that the end of al!
things is impending.”—Washington Post.
Jail in Solid Quartz.
One of the oddest of jails is that at Clifton
Graham county Arizona which Iles in one of
th»* copper mining centers of the new state. This
jail comprises four largo apartments hewn In
the side of a hill of solid quartz rock. The
entrance Is situated in a boxlike vestibule built
of heavy masonry and the gates have three sets
of steel bars. At intervals in the rocky walls
holes tn serve as windows have been blasted
and in these apertures a series of massive bars
of steel has been fitted firmly in the rock. The
floor of this rockbound jail is of cement. The
prisoners are confined wholly In the larger apart
hunts. In certain places the wall of quartz about
the jail is no less than fifteen feet in thick-
ness. So solid and heavy are the barriers to this
institution that no prisoner has ever attempted
escape.—Harper’s Weekly.
And tlic Lawyer Got It.
A boy was arraigned In the police court on a
charge of stealing $2.75 from his employer. Se-
curing a lawyer the boy stood before the court
and entered a plea of “not guilty.”
Relieving in the innocence of the hoy the
lawyer after all of the testimony had been
heard during which the boy declared he knew
nothing of the disappearance of the money
spoke at length on the Injustice of the arrest
<>f the boy what it would mean ter tIW"W tn
future life if he were sent to prison and urged
the court to dismiss the case. This the court
did.
After the boy and lawyer had reached the
outskle of the court building the former asked
his attorney how much his fee wu.
"How much have you got?” Inquired the law-
yer.
“I’ve got that $2.75" replied the boy.—Eos
Angeles Times.
Merchant. Not a Beggar.
An American lady in Rome bought some
matches from a little match vender. They were
wax matches in little decorated boxes.
She handed the boy a 5 soldi piece and ex-
pected to have two sold! in change but the little
fellow shrugged his shoulders and held the
change tightly in his hand with a begging ex-
pression on his face signifying that he wished
to have it given to him whereupon a second
American lady who was accompanying the first
straightened herself looked intently at the boy
and said: "Mercante non mendlcante!” (you
are a merchant not a beggar.)
That was an appeal to the boy’s self-respect
and it so inspired him that he actually laughed
and pressed the change upon his customer. —
Christian Herald.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
THE CHAR AND THE NIHILINT
WOMAN.
"You want to see mo?”
"Yga your majesty. 1 have some-
thing of th. Krr.ir.t Importance tu
1011. Your majoaty must bn pre-
pa rod tor a ealamlty. Ivanoff baa
escaped from prl«>n and la now at
La rill.
"W. have had alx tolosraniK about
It. and thr nlhillata mo.t llk.ly havo
plannod an attempt which I. to bo
carrlrd out tonight.
"What ar. w« to do?"
"HI. majoaty mu.t not take part
In tho procoMlon or w« mu.t give
It up."
"My aon will never permit that.
A figure ilrened In hla uniform will
take the cur'a place In the car-
riage. Leav. everything to me.”
...
It waa In the evening and the
whole town waa celebrating Thou-
xand. of people had gathered to >ee
the egar enter hl. carriage. Then
mw him. too but nobody noticed
that he left the carriage through tn.
opposite door wrapped In a dark
eloak and hurried to the hotel.
Twenty minute later ho came out
droraed In cltltcn's clothe and
walked toward the palace.
A ladder waa rained agalnat a
•tatue and a few kopek admitted
you to the top of the foundation.
The <-iar paid the price and climbed
up the ladder. He had not been
kitting there long when he heard
the voice of a young girl: "la there
any more room up there?"
The czar found a apace next to
him and helped the young girl to
It. She had largo dark eyea beau-
tiful feature! and wa> dreund in
black while a large feathered hat
partly concealed her face.
"Will the exar pane close by
hero?" »ho a.ked.
“No I do not think so."
"Oh but I would like so much
to seo him" she exclaimed. “I
have never seen him and I came
here just to see him. Can't you
help me?"
"I may get you a good place when
he cornea back."
They climbed down the ladder and
walked towards the triumphal arch.
He offered her his arm and they
worked their way through the crowd
to secure an opening. They found
one just behind a row of dragoons.
The young girl patted a horse and
spoke a few words to the man on its
back. At last she asked him if he
would not move a little aside when
the procession came that the might
get a better view of the carriage.
The soldier did not answer yet the
czar saw that the young girl's beauty
had made an Impression on the
horseman.
Suddenly there was a commotion
the dragoon sat up straight and a
stir of expectation went through the
crowd. The procession came nearer
a troop of cavalry in front then the
imperial carriage surrounded by a
stt ong escort.
Inside the carriage the young czsr
waa seen. The dragoon moved his
horse a little aside leaving a wide
opening In front of the young girl.
Suddenly she rushed forward
raised her hand and threw some-
thing at the carriage. There was a
deafening explosion and the carriage
was totally wrecked. A shout of in-
dignation arose from the crowd
which surged forward to seize the
nihilist. Nicholas forced his way
through them until he caught hold
of the young girl.
"For God's sake" ho cried "let
me through my wife has fainted”
The crowd gave way as much a®
possible and he carried the girl to
the park of the palace where he
placed her on a bench. She tried to
tear herself loose but he held her in
a grip of iron.
"Who are you?" he asked.
“I am Ivanoff."
Nicholas fell back a« if struck by
lightning.
"Do you know what you have
done?"
"Yes I do. I have freed my coun-
try of a tyrant."
"You call him a tyrant. He bas
ruled for two years. Can you nami;
a single tyrannical act he has done?"
"He is accused by all the banished
martyrs whose voices have reached
the throne of the Hhlghest Judge."
"Do you think you have pleased
God by killing an Innocent man and
crushing his mother's heart?"
"His mother's?"
"Yes his mother's." Nicholas said
bitterly. "This blow will kill her."
The girl threw herself down on
the bench and wept. He felt sorry
for her and took both her hands.
"What would you give now not to
be his murderess?"
Tht Light'a Daily Story
"My life" she sobbed
"Good" he said "you have not
killed the czar."
Then he told her what had been
done.
"And I wanted to kill you!" she
groaned.
Outside the gate they took a cab.
which drove them to a small hotel
Here he left her. asking her not to
lose courage. An hour later a court
functionary came to take her to the
train.
He was told that the young lady
hud gone out but left a letter. When
the czar opened this he read:
"My friend: It Is better we should
never meet again. When you get
this I stand before a Higher Judge.
Goodbye."
And all the world wondered how
the czar escaped and why the ni-
hilist was never discovered.
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Ought to Try Something New.
•The Bryan-as-a-dictator bugaboo
la being used for all it is worth by
the republican press. But scarce-
crows don't scare any more in poli-
tics.—Baltimore Sitn.
Election Hay the Day That Counts.
in most cases a president soon
realizes that inauguration day was
the least of his troubles.—Washing-
ton Star.
But Bill Gets There Just the Same.
W. J. Bryan's fame does not al-
ways arouse the same enthusiasm tn
a political conference that it does ar
a Chautauqua meeting.—Washington
Star.
Obtarvant Citixan
The laurel Heights man who tells
thia story professes to be In doubt
as to whether the joke la on him or
hla wife but since he has care-
fully ovadml telling hla better half
about It. It Is safe to assume he Is
not m> much In doubt after all.
It appesra that some time ago hla
wife prepared a dish of pickled
beeta which la a sort of gastronomi-
cal pet averalon of the husband.
Thia the wife did not know however
and the husband said nothing fear-
ing It would wound her feelings.
During the progress of the meal the
doorlwll rang and while the wife
was out of the room the huaband
slipped out the back way and dump-
ed the offending beets In the garbage
can. being buck In his seat ere his
wife returned.
The next evening at dinner he
found an even larger dlah of beeta
placed near his place and hla wife.'
with a smile of devotion remarked:
"John you liked thoae beeta ao
much last night I thought I'd fix
you another dish."
"And ns the doorbell didn't ring
again that night. " sayu the man In
closing the tale ”1 had to eat the
confounded things."
READ EXPERT TESTIMONY.
Wisconsin can with good reason
feel proud of the record she has es-
tablished in trying and disposing of
John Schrank who on October 14
attempted to assassinate Colonel
Roosevelt and on November IS ex-
actly six weeks later waa committed
to thr* Insane asylum. Those who
have complained of the law's delays
the endless technicalities the J erring
"expert witnesses." the motions for
new trials snd the appeals on flimsy
pretexts that have characterised
moat criminal proaecutiona ot late
years will read with relief and new
hope the record of the almple uni
and thoroughly dignified procedure
followed by the trial judge. The
court appointed a commlsaion of five
well known alienists to examine the
accused and report to the court us to
his sanity. Aa noted laat week in our
newa columna the commission after
careful investigation reported unan-
imously that Schrank waa Buffering
from insane delusions that he was
Insane at the present time and that
he waa Wnable to conduct his defense
intelligently. As a part of the re-
port they submitted a statement pre-
pared by Schrank to be read to the
jury which statement alone con-
tained sufficient internal evidence ot
Schrank's mental irresponsibility.
According to the newspapci»
i Schrank showed keen dlsappoint-
ment in not being allowed to pose as
a martyr to the satisfaction of his
paranoiac delusions and the inspi-
ration of other Insane cranks. The
entire procedure says the Journal ot
the American Medical Association. Is
in gratifying contrast to some of
our "celebrated" murder trials and is
an unanswerable reply to the argu-
ment that such spectacles are neces-
sary to protect individual rights or
are unavoidable under our laws.
Judge A. C. Backus the trial judge
deserves the approbation of all good
citizens and especially ot all prac-
titioners of medicine and law since
it is on these two professions that
the scandal and disgrace of the
abuses of expert testimony have fall-
en most heavily.
Imcky Wo Still Have Bryan.
Some doubt may arise as to wheth.
er the Bermudas will be wining to let
Governor Wilson go when the time
comes.—New York World.
Got to Have a Football Game.
Everybody recognizes annually the
need of an army and navy.—Phila-
delphia Rec&rd.
THE MAN FROM MONTCLAIR
HtM for Salt
One of the most Intereating and
Important papers presented before
the fourth National Conservation
congrree which met laat week in In-
dlanapolla. waa written not b> r
phyalclan or a aanltarlan but by a
bualneaa man. E. E. Rlttenhouae of
the Equitable Life Aaaursnce com-
pany. Mr. Rltlenhouae. In the vpin.
Ing paragrapha of thia addreaa rac-
ogniied the crucial point In the pree-
ent altuatlon. He aald: "It takes
money to 'carry on a great educa-
tional movement and It takes injury
to conduct a public health service.
The war between preventable dlaaaae
and death la therefore u atruggl* be-
tween the dollar and the death rale."
Three worda ahould be placed before
every citizen tor hla Inalructlon anil
aa a warning. With our present day
knowledge of diaeaae. good health la n
commodity which can be bough;. If
our Cities counties and atatea are
willing to pay the price. For 11.50
per capita per year any community
can practically banlah thoae dlaeaaes
which we now have the mcana of
preventing and can greatly reduce
the numlier of deatha from alt
causes One dollar and a half per
year! Not quite half a cent a day
to eave life from deatructlon by
known cauaea! Three centa a week
twelve and one-half centa a month
to protect each man. woman and
child from dlaeaae which we know
how to prevent and which we know
will exact a toll of many lives dur-
ing the next year and all succeeding
years until proper preventive meth-
ods are Inaugurated! A pitiably
small sum one thinks. Yet how
much are our most advanced com-
monwealths spending for thia pur-
pose? Pennsylvania hcada the list
with 48 cents per capita per an-
num; Arkansas at the bottom does
not spend a cent; New York spends
1.7 centa; Massachuaetta 4.2 cents;
Indiana. 1.8 cents and so on. In
1911 fifty of the largest American
cities with a total preventable death
list ot 117724 spent an average of
30 cents per capita to prevent dis-
ease and 11.45 per capita to prevent
fires. According to the Journal of
the American Medical Association if
we could have in every city as good a
sanitary service as we now have fire
protection many lives that are now
needlessly sacrificed could be saved.
The people can have such protec-
tion if they wajit It and if they will
pay for It. Safety from disease can
be obtained just as we obtain safety
from fire and from thieves. Health
can be secured If socety will foot the
bill.
JEWEL OF ILIi OMEN.
From the Indianapolis Newa
One ot the Ixindon papers has
viewed the death of Mrs. J. R. Mc-
Lean in a superstitious light. Mrs.
McLean as is well known was the
possessor ot the famous Hope dia-
mond valued at nearly 1200000.
which has a history black with death
and suitering. Tradition has attached
to this stone a baneful influence
hence Mrs. McLean's death from
pneumonia has in the English eye.
a particular interest.
The Hope diamond was taken to
England from the east in 1688 by
the great traveler Tavernier whose
affairs at once took a turn for the
bad. At the age of eighty-one he
set out on a fresh voyage to retrieve
his fortune and died of fever
abroad. Louis XIV bought the jewel
and gave It in turn to Madame
Maintenon and Marie Lepczinska
and each of them soon lost favor.
Marie Antoinette preferred it to all
her jewels and perished on the scaf-
fold. It was stolen in the French
revolution and when it reappeared
it had been cut down to nearly half
Its original size by the jeweler Fala
ot Amsterdam. His son stole the dia-
He’s Such a Nice Man When He’s Home
DEC. 16 1919.
At tha Thtattrt
The llaaa.
Making an effective appeal to al.
most every temperament the play
bill that opened the week'e enter
lalnment at the I'laxa theater lasi
evening taken rank among the bee
presented this season al that populai
little playhouse.
Hanging from the llghteet kind oi
stage patter to teals of daring aac
skill seldom seen outside ot a largt
circus the seven acta comprising ttu
program not only offer variety bui
each of them with few exceptlona
la of such Individual excellence thai
It sirlki'c the "universal" note and u
correspondingly appreciated by th<
theatar-goer who has not becomt
blase or hypercritical. Not thai
there Is anything absolutely naw or!
the bill for "there is nothing new
under the aun” but some of tha acu
are new to the vaudeville stage ant
others are presented in such a clevet
way that they cannot but imprest
one with their freshness. I
The headline act possesses the lat-
ter quality to a marked degree. Il
"The Auto-Suggeetlon Club" a comt
edy yklt. Milton and Dolly Noblet
reverse a altuatlon that has been used
more than any other vehicle. In thh
case It is the husband who stay*
home while the wife goee "out" tc
lie elected president of a club. The
Nobles are artists and their net la
full of genuinely humoroua moment!
Elegantly costumed the Gray Trl<
sing hlgh-dasa conga With such ef-
fect that they receive round aftei
round of applause. They are aq
complished composers with a reputa-
tion in aongland and they know
music as a profession. The pleaslni
effect of good voices and handsomt
costumes ba augmented by persona
attraction.
Two features new to a local vaude-
ville are presented by Lee Silvas. 11
a Portuguese ladder aeL and Dolorei
Valleclta with a cage of trainee
leopards. In watching l.ea Silvas—-
tw& men and a woman—manipulate
a free-standing ladder as it the]
were fighting fire one cannot hel|
thinking what a valuable addlttoi
they would make to any tlre-flghtlnl
force. Dolores Valleclta’s act Is fas
clnatlng tor the leopards. In phyaleu
appearance suggesting all that I
ferocious In the beasts of the jungld
obey their mistress without th<
slightest sign of demur. .
Holden and Harron. with a line o
"footlight conversation” that create
ripples of laughter every other mln
ute; the Caits Brothers "soft pedal
artists with their buck-and-wlm
dances and all sorts of novel stepi
and Wright and Lawrence in a dla
logue furnish the seasoning require
to give the bill a satisfactory vaude
vllle flavor.
mond ruined his father and com
mltted suicide. Before dying he gav
the stone to a Frenchman name.
Beaulieu who died of want withou
being able to sell it.
In* 1830 Lord Hope bought it fo
390.000 and was the only owner t
whom it seems to have brought n
harm. He sold it to a Russian prln
cess who lent it to a French actresi
who was shot the flrst time she wor
it. The next owner went mad. an
the succeeding one fell with hi
wife down a precipice and wa
killed. It was then bought by th
ex-sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamli
who sold it to a rich Persian met
chant called Habib who was drown
ed in a shipwreck off Singapore.
I-ast January Mr. McLean th
English press has It bought it fo
3180.000 on condition that if anj
body of his household died with!
six months the diamond should b
exchanged for jewels of equal valu<
But two of his servants having diei
and his mother having fallen ser
ously ill. Mr. McLean refused to pa
the flrst installment of 340000 an
a law suit was begun.
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