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In presenting ‘Turn to the Right!”
on the first night of the Chautauqua
Mr. Whitney will impersonate thirteen
characters as presented during the sen-
and Chicago.
I ae MOTHER who prayed eachdag
The Wandering Bog whohad foe stig
Would TURN TO THE RIGHT!
It is interesting to note in this con-
nection that Mr. Whitney is the only
monologist who has the privilege of
presenting the story—in fact. the pro-
sational run of the play in New York | ducers are authority for the statement
that outside of New York and Chicago
Mires DEACON whowanied bis pag
And worried The Sister working away
Hho Tether moped
who had oneastray
Yo TURN TO THE RIGHT! :
Mr. Whitney.
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the play has not been given except by| months that it has been presented:
“Best play of the season.” —New York
The comments which follow give a| World. §“The audience called it bless-
definite idea of the enthusiastic recep-
tion which the story has received from
an appreciative public during the few |
éd.”—New York Sun.
Morning Telegraph.
“One of the
loveliest plays of the era.”—New York
§*“Assuredly a
to Be Given by Edwin M. Whimey, First Night of Chautauqua
big hit, and deserves to be.”—New
York Tribune. “Something you can
and will go to see.” —Chicago Tribune.
“A peach of a play—audience actual-
ly cheered.” — New York American.
“First nighters went into hysterics | Post.
American.
smiles or exploding
hiss THE » M. WHITNEY
Beat
fre Doan vivre
worried The Sister oy
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with ‘laughter and tears.
“Audience
of bubbling expectancy—wreathed in
comes This
HAN who way
“TURN TO THE ERIGHTI
” — Chicago
in a state
with delight-
ed laughter.” — New York Evening
Be
the Affair: of Men”
By OSCAR COX
I am not an educated man and have
no knowledge of literature, but I once
beard or read the following state-
ment: “There is a tide in the affairs of
men which, taken at the flood, leads or
to fortune.” Thi§ is my literary stock
in trade. Since it applies especially
to my case it is quite sufficient for me.
From my boyhood I was averse to
bard work. By hard work I mean
drudgery. I think that if I had been
born the president of a manufacturing
company I might have managed it ad-
mirably. 1 question if even lack of
experience would have downed me. |
The reason I believe this is that when
fate finally boosted me into a respon-
sible position I took to the duties as
a duck does to water.
My inclination, so far as 1 was’
aware of what I wanted, led me to
adopt the profession of a tramp. I:
began my career in this line at eight-
een years of age and followed it for
four years. There was something so
attractive for me in it that even now
I don’t look back to it with the hor-
ror it merits. Its very discomforts
were at times attractive. Real tramp-
fng—I mean on foot—did not interest
me. My favorite method of getting out
of a district I had worked dry into
“There Isa Tide In fio
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one sufficiently far from it that I
would not be recognized as an old of-
fender was hanging on to the under
part of a railway car.
And it was here that the tide of my
affairs took me up and carried me on
to fortune.
One day I was riding on the bottom
of a car. I was located under the bag-
gage car, which was next behind the
express car. Suddenly while passing
through an open field the brakes were
applied and the train came to a stop.
I expected that it would proceed in a
few moments, but it didn’t, I heard a
shot forward. This suggested to me
that the train might have been held
up. I put my head out where I could
get a glimpse of what was going on.
I couldn't see much before or behind.
but one thing I saw very plainly—a
masked man with an enormous revol-
ver in his hand hurrying past to the
Tear.
A short distance ahead of me—the
express car was directly over it—was a
cattle guard. It occurred to me that
from it I could see without being seen. |
I made my way.to it, dropped down
and hid behind a fence beside it.
From between the boards I had a good
view of what was going on.
The engineer and fireman were climb- |
ing down from the locomotive cab, be- |
ing induced to do so at the point of :
two pistols in the hands of one man.
He drove them back, where he was
Joined by another man. I could see
no more train robbers and Relieved
that the rest of the gang were going
through the passengers for their valua-
bles. One man was hammering at the
rear door of the express car. It was |
evidently locked, and he could not
open it. Another man climbed up be-
side him, and they consulted as to
means of forcing the door. Both scan-
ned the ground beside the train for
some implement by which to effect
their purpose. One of them spied about
100 yards from the car a log.
Both men jumped down and hurried |
toward this implement.
Here came the opportunity of my
life. What other robbers there were
were in or about the rear cars. The
engine and express car were unguard-
ed. Like a flash of lightning an idea
entered my head. I was not ten yards
from the rear end cf the express car.
Leaving my hiding place, I got under
the car, crawled to the rear end, mount-
ed the platform and released the brake,
This I accomplished without the men
who were going for their battering ram
seeing me, for their backs were still
toward me.
Jumping down on the side of the
train that put it between them and me,
I made a dash for the locomotive,
climbed into the cab and turned on the
steam. The men had reached the tie
and were lifting it on to their shoul-
ders. They had barely succeeded in
doing so when they saw a widening
gap between the express car and. the i
, ness is not necessarily slow.
: gesture of the mind and may be just
as quick as gruffness is.
| reasons that men who have been pros-
| rarely be remembered.
train. Dropping their burden, they ran
fir the part that moved. One of them
ran so fast that he tripped and fell.
7 kept on and, catching the
handrail on the rear platform of the
express car, managed to swing him-
self on.
It seemed reasonable to suppose that
he would elimb over the car and shoot
me as he came. I had no weapon; so
I prepared for defense with a chunk of
coal. But I did not need it, The man
did not appear. The noise of the en-
¢ ine and car prevented my hearing any-
ting that might be going on in my
roar, but after hati: run some five or
six miles nly niles an hour tlie
gene in the eab soundod a sisnal th
stop. Not knowin« who had given it.
I kKert on, but presently rounding a
curve I saw rhe express agent on the
platform of his car. [I slowed down,
and he came forward. He told me that
when the train moved he ventured to
open the front door and then the reh
door o: his car. He held a cocked re
volver in his hand and, searing a robber
i on the rear platform, shot him before
he could defend himself.
I had saved 250,000 dollars from the
robbers. Being asked what the com-
pany could do for mre, I said I.would
like a job that would keep me movin~,
They made me conductor of a grave!
train and boosted me rapid. I am
now president of the road.
0
opie READ ON POLITENESS
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“LIMUEL,” said
Brizintine.
“what do you re-
gard‘as about the
most necessary
quality in man?”
The two old
men were sit-
ting in the sun,
the . May side of
an April day.
discussing that
ever present sub-
ject, the world.
“Well,” Jucklin
replied, “there
are so many
qualities that
thaw and run
into each other,
like snowbanks
tricklin’ down
into the creek,
that it wouldn't
be easy to deter-
mine which. But
the one that oc-
curs to me at
this moment is one that has been
preached on time and again—one that
mothers try to enforce on the minds
of their sons. It is politeness.”
“Useful enough in its way,” said
Brizintine—*“‘that is, at parties and fu-
nerals—but de you think it’s business?
OPIE READ.
Here Third Day of
the Redpath Chau-
tauqua.
! In these days, you know, a man niust
be quick But politeness is slow.”
“You've said just about what I want-
ed you to say,” Lim replied. ‘Polite-
It is the
One of the
perous begin to fail along in later years
is because they have forgotten the nec-
| essary politeness of the earlier day.
| Politeness
when once forgotten can
It ought to
come when a feller is young in order
to seem natural. The fact is, it must
be natural, for there's nothin’ that is
| much more awkward than a man in his
| maturer life tryin’ for the first time to
be polite. If a young feller just start-
pi out in business would sit down for
| ten minutes a day and give his mind to
| the study of politeness, not from a book
or any set form, but from his own re-
flections, he would find it the best in-
vestment of time he ever made. Po-
liteness is the actor of kindness.
intended to picture the even and well
intended mind.
set in visible motion.”
It is
It is a pleasant thought
“Lim, as the old nigger preacher said,
you are now puttin’ the fodder a little
too high for the calves.”
“Not at all. I'm simply speakin’
common sense as 1 see it, and if I see
it anybody ought.
of polite old men,
polite young fellers than old ones.
ments and disappointments make the
old man gruff unless he has kept com-
pany with books,
has lived to see the uselessness of po-
liteness, while with the young chap it
is still a matter of advancin’ experi
ment.”
We very often hear
but there are more
All-
He believes that he
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Chautauqua Needed Abroad, Says
Noted Chinese Staicsimau
THAT the Chautaugua movement
would be the greatest boon to the
Chinese people in opening to them a
new world vision is the belief of Dr.
Ng Poon Chew, famed internationally
as statesman, orator, humorist and au-
thor. ‘At the present time the Chau-
tauqua is impractical in my country,”
says Dr. Chew. “The proper environ-
ment of intelligence is wanting. My
people are not sulliciently developed to
appreciate the work and not public
spirited enough to support it, but the
time may come in the distant future
when the Chautauqua movement may
be inaugurated with snccess.”
Dr. Chew, who is to be here on Pa-
triotic Day, during the Chautauqua,
considers the Chautauqua movement the
most remarkable institution in Ameri-
ca. He asserts that it is the: direct
product of American spirit and at the
present time can exist only in Ameri-
ca. “Its continued existence,” he main-
tains, “requires democratic atmosphere,
public spirit in the communities, lib-
eral policy along religious lines, politi-
cal principle and broad mindedness on
the part of a country’s citizens.
“The Chautauqua movement presents
the world thought and the world force
to the most remote and secluded village
in the land and makes it feel the pulse
vibration of all activities of all man-
-] acturer
By Rex Beach
Filmed by Selig in Ten Stupendous Acts with
Kathlyn Williams
and
“The Spoilers” Cast
DR. NG POON CHEW.
kind. Its moral, religious and intel-
lectual power is beyond estimation. The
community which continues to demand
and support the annual visit of the
Chautauqua is to be congratulated, for
the Chautauqua institution is just as
much an asset as a school or a church.”
POTATO CROP MAKES RECORD
Heaviest In History of Country Depart
ment of Agriculture Says.
The largest potato crop in the coun-
try’s history is predicted by the de-|
partment of agriculture. The crop |
will reach 467,000,000 bushels, Leon |
Estabrook, chief of the crop estimate |
bureau, estimated.
The figure is 100,000,000 bushels |
above the average of the last five |
years and 104,000,000 bushels above]
last year’s crop.
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NOTICE TO HOG OWNERS.
All owners of hogs within the
Borough of Meyersdale, are hereby
notified that they must comply with
the Law in regard to pens and other
regulations of the Health Board,
| otherwise they will not be permitted
to be kept in the Borough.
W. H. Clingaman,
Health Officer.
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