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tiiz - c zircon c"-in"-Y - jouniiAu roRTLAiir, ;::day ::::mjng; November e. yd J " ' ' "! 1 i CORD RAT'S MOSEB AND THEATRE. f . . . , ' When ;Trou , pick -up . th t paper - thl normnr nlda this pag from the chll drea They will- think Rlnglm' howe have- returned,' end they, haven't This la mereljr a picture 6t the original Cord ray theatre In Portland. ' where now ' atanda th Baker, on Third and Yatn - hill. If the Illustration awalrena food aieraorlee Jfor' The Journal'! readera It . will have served Ha purpoee. . . ' The sale of Cordray'i Uleatre the other day prompted a talk with the man who owned It, on his career' in the the Metrical buelneae career.' that be ran when he took a clock on a afarrina; tour and which will reach ita climax perhapi - in the proprletbrahlp of a g reat bis Arajl - rlaa theatre here on the banka of the Willamette- , ".' ,', It la a very lntereatlnc story the life . of John F. Cord ray, and such a one as few men ma boaat'pf, when it cornea to . "building a tannery out bf a shoe- atrlnc" ' v. v -.a--.-..' The Cord ray family lived. In Ohio, in ' the town, of Lancaster, and when .their first son was born, loi they called him John. The youngster 'had an amaalna ' desire for mechanical science.' " He used ,to build miniature railroad trams and passencer elevators. He operated them between the barn -and the house and the loft and the basement, resnectlvelv. The only time he could get to work on his ingenious, contrivances was after working (hours. - for , he had taken the position i of office boy with Theodore Morris, k-theatrical manager, to earn '. money with: which to buy juvenile ma- - chlnery- y': : ' '. .'-' ' ' Appreciating the lad's penchant, his father sent John to Columbus to learn ' jewelry and watch-making. and he was ' eminently successful -In that . line, One ' day lis caught sight of a Straussberg dock ' that had been Imported from -Europe by a jeweler."He studied lt carefully and concluded - that he could Improve upon ft by the use of electricity and toys. He went to' work on it and - the famous electric novelty clock, which has been exhibited In nearly every town in the United States, was the result. . -.-vAll this by way of. Introduction. . i ,-(Continued from page Fourteen.) be united In marriage to Miss Clementine : Hahn pn November 11. He Is accom panied by ' his sister, Mrs. D. P. Lewis, ' her daughter, Ruth,, and his brother, Al bert A. Stenger. ." . .;.('' r-v- --U.:-- ' '' The engagement of Dr." Albert Cohen ' to Miss Carolyn Beruch. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Baruch of Ban Francisco, la announced. i : Invitations are out for the marriage Of - C. Hunt Lewis and Miss Gertrude ; McClintock . Wednesday. . November 1. Miss - McClintock . returned yesterday from the east and is - now . with her ' sister, Mrs. Jl. H,, Brooke, at 57 . Everett . street , : 1 CHURCH-NOTES. The Pleasant Afternoon club of Cen tral Baptist church had a very success ful meeting with Mrs. Emery Oliver last ' Wednesday afternoon, - - .v The annual birthday . social of the Foreign Missionary society of the Seo . Ond Baptist church was held Wednes . day afternoon at the home of. Mrs. D. Chambers, 761 East Burnslde street. The parlors were filled with the members - Of the society and their friends. . Vocal solos -wers rendered by Miss Mary Chambers and Miss Knapp. Mrs. Cham- - bers ' furnished instrumental music. Short addresses- were given by Mrs. Alyesworth, president of the society, and Mrs. Drlggs, state president for the ' past to years. .Dainty refreshments were Served. The offerings amounted to . a goodly sum. i ... ' - '-' it -k -rVt The Ladles' .Aid society -- and the 'Woman's Missionary society of Ml spun Presbyterian church met In joint ses- Sinn last Wednesday- - afternoon " with Mrs.- W. H. Eastman In Brooklyn. Korsa was .the subject t of discussion. SOCIETY CLOCK MTO; --------- sa . -. j - 'ii t THE FIRST iO-CENT AMUSEMENT HOC8B CONDUCTED IN" PORTLAND. THHT ABOVE ENORA VINO WAS MADE . : - w -. PLAY-HOUSa OR PLAT-TENT. WAS OPENED. . , . : ... . , - - . !, "How- did you. happen i to go Into the show business T I asked Mr. Cordra'y. irwas the clock." ha replied. "Tou see, I had put the thing together .solely for the purpose of placing It In the beck of the Jewelry shop where customers eould look a it, Well, It. waj . a,. jep? saUon. The newspapers devoted columns of space to 'descriptions: of the work: and the first thing I kneW the whole town was flocking in to see. ,'. ' ' . ' y: .'This, was too muck of a good thing. I mistook myself for the inventor of wireless -' telegraphy or something and swelled around there like dried apples. When I aaw the crowds coming and coming, to get. a look at the clock 1 turned its face' to the wall, put on my hat ana rushed down, -the street look ing for a vacant halL I found one Anally, moved the show Into it and set up in business at IP cents per look. : It was successful. The first day I took In about"! 10 and that continued until every, body in Columbus had seen the thing. Then some one . tojd me to take the clock on a tour end there you, are. I mean that -that Is - the way I got into the show business. . Isn't that what you asked T" .... -' --..-' - True, It was what had been asked. But did Mr. .Cordray consider the ex hibition of a clock far 10 cents "show business r Could he not eontlnue? "Oh, I traveled around from town to town, showing the clock in the sum' kmer season and working around theatres In the winter. A big fair was coming off In New Orleana and I had In the meantime accumulated some optical Il lusions, . which . I combined : with ..the clock, and went down there. 1 had- ex perience by this time and made a bushel of money In ' New Orleans. Then I started west and at Denver fell in with Keeler and Kellogg, who made me man ager of the Denvor. Museum theatre in cluding the clock. .Dick French, by the way, well known In Portland, - waa one of the actors. - Things didn't go on very well after a while-and me for the clock again. ; I made a western tour with it, coming through Salt Lake, and in the The time waa spent in sewing and mak ing preparations for the basaar In De cember. There was a very large at tendance., Refreshments were served. ' Rev. Earl M". Wilbur of Oakland. Cat; formerly pastor of the First Unitarian church of' Portland,' is lecturing In Ore gon towns - In the - Interests of a new school of liberal - theology to be estab lished somewhere In California. .-, 3 STRAY BITS. Mr. and Mrs. Loura Rosenblatt, Mr. and Mrs.' B. - M. Blumauer and Mrs. Frank Rothschild were among the St. Louis visitors this week. Mrs. Blumauer attended the national convention of the Council of Jewish women. ' . U- V. t ' ' ' 2;Mlss. Bessie ;MerrllU.t)l-Albanygave a -tea last-Tuesday afternoon in honor of her cousin. Miss Katherlne Falling, of Portland. -- -.- ,.-.. -- . .- --,t... . . . ..' .', ' .- ' Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jacks and ' their little son. of Portland, have gone to Brownsville to visit Mr, Jacks parents. His father is ex-County Treasurer F. M. Jacks.' . of . Linn county. During their stay they helped celebrate the old peo ple's twenty-eighth wedding anniversary. Mr. Jacks, Jr., Is now In the department of commerce and labor, associated with J..' P, tJalbValth, Jn Portland. ,. . , -". .: 4t ..- '..j...,-.-- L. ' Hon.. and Mrs. John T. Long, of ftoae burg, who were married last Wednesday, are apendlng their, honey moon law-Portland. . Mr. Long Is Justice of the peace at Roseburg. . . ---,--w- Mrs.. Ida1 P. Grayson of New York, who, with her little daughter, has been visiting Dr. and Mrs. A. C Panton on Portland heights, will leave the end of the month for a visit to New York and will sail with her mother In early spring for Europe, te remain a year. Miss Bryant, the niece -of Wirt Minor of Teal, Minor law flrm.-hae arrived from Virginia to visit, fori some time with friends. --- - i ''''''-' Mr. and Mrs. U. O. Lofe, who .were THEATRE THAT SOLD - -i i -i H i n - i 1 -i ii -njixi'UJUii w sn .sa.Nr.gs- Ti summer of in landed here ' In Portland.- - ... -iri:... i Mr. Cordray . paused Jong enough to look at that SSO.OuO check and ask Raatus where hl nat waa. Raatua' Is the house mascot,- no larger than' a small kitten and black as the ace of spades. Rastus didn't- know about -tkw-hat. f waa- glad of that, tor Cordray , was - trying Ms hardest . to get - away. Theatrical man agers are se reticent! , They all have that "don't mention my name, here's my pic ture" attitude just now, and especially Manager Cordray, amtoe everybody wants to know what he's going to do with the Stair and Havlln ahows. ' ' ' . - The hat being mislaid, escape waa hopeless. Mr. Cordray glanced at his (60,000 check, and resumed: "I put, up the clock in a little place on. First street "and for a year business was good. Do you remember the clock? It's out la my barn now, but I have a picture of it," with which the manager went to a closet and produced. - a four-sheet lithograph of the treasured nucleus of his fortune, and spread It out on the floor, while Raatus found a six-foot curtain pole and with grave salaam handed it, to the boas, and cleared the office for action. ''Here," said Mr. Cordray,. adjusting his glasses and indicating with the cur ta In pole' ere, around the.. edges,1 all was gold and marble. This dial told the time of day where the clock "was. Thls4 ons gave tne nour in Lionaon ana mis one t ah. but let us pass on. ladies and ge I beg pardon. What I mean Is that the Interesting feature of all la these appliances that were worked by electricity--The wires ran out Into the aud ience and anybody out there might start or stop the little contrivances by pressing a button. This was proof that the clock waa operated by electricity. . And here we have the moon dial;" ha went on. In dicating somethings that. -resembled a sailor's eompaasv "If some lady or gen tleman will kindly step to the platfor confound It, what am I thinking of T Tou see. when the first quarter of the hour struck, this little, electrla train would move slowly by and pass all the way around the clock" trying vainly to walk around to the back of the clock "and on married la Chehalis,- Wash., last at urday, are spending their honeymoon In Portland. The bride was Miss Ethel Griffin of Centralis. ' ' ..'.' :."y:V rti-.:''' Mrs. Bertha .Myers of this city, who has been visiting in California with Ifer daughter, waa at home Monday after noon from t until J o'clock In San Fran cisco, at 1111 Taylor street. A large number of friends called during tha, re ceiving hour. ; , .. ill - .i'j .Miss Anna. Epstein passed a day or two with her aunt, Mra. R. Abrahamson, In Portland during the week. 8he Is just returning from a visit with her brother In Oakland, Cel., and Is on her way to visit her sister, Mrs. Bchoen, In Seattle, whence she goes east , to her home. -. k it - '-Mrs, Hayes ana her daughter, Miss Elbryanna, of Pendleton, are here for a ?ew days visiting Mrs. Hayes daugh ersvMrs. C H. Lewis and Miss Frances Hayes.- Miss Elbryanna will leave Wednesday to spend the winter In Ali sons for her health. " . , ' . ' Mr. and' Mrs. Jerry C BronaugH'have given up housekeeping and have "taken rooms at the Sterling, i3 Couch street, corner "of Sixteenth. . . . '-'. - , - - -Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe R. Olltner and Miss Nellie Hemenway spent last Sunday at Fir Glen . cottage at . Columbia, the Glltner's summer home. 1 " ..' Mrs. H. M. Walthew of Seattle arrived Monday to visit her mother. Mrs. James Steel, at the Oullllaurae. Mr. Walthew arrived yesterday for s short stay and they will both return boras nest Wednes. day. , . '.-. -v- ..- - -. -:. r ' Miss Strowbrldge of Portland, who la visiting Albany friends. Spent a few days at Newport beach with a party Including Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stone. Mrs. E. Back, and Miss Anna Fllnn. .. ' , , s - ' , ' ':.''" " Tha Corvallls Oasette speaks highly of Mrs. Cheater V. Dolph. In the following terms: "Mrs. Cheater V. Dolph, who has occupied the Snell cottage during the past summer,-has fitted up one of the Dolph cottages an College street at Port land, and left for, that olty on Monday's. .' ' ' i . ': the second qeaxter, the Twelve Apostles, shown here.- would come, out of these doors; all except Peter, who enters from this door, with the Master. 'If you will notice carefuly, you will see the Savior bend his head In recognition." ; At - this 'unfortunate moment,- Rastus detected -the sound- of -aquartef on the stage, and In making his spectacular exit managed to place his foot in v Peter's faoe, at which Manager Cordray held his breath and counted ten. He went on.' v J "To me the little train of cars here was most Interesting. I used to tell my aud iences that some day we would be able to ride on electrlo cars, moving on the same principle as that miniature train, and they laughed at me. I didn't think so myself, but it had to be In the lecture." Having now- heard the story of "John and His Wonderful Clock.'" I asked Mr. Cordray to return to his theatrical ex perience. He said" he had early discov ered that Portland needed a dime mus eum and theatre. , He met C. A. Wasa and talked It over, both agreeing to take a chance on such a proposition. "We each put np 11,000 and kissed It good-bye, realising we were taking an awful chance. We secured tha corner at Third and Yamhill and put up a large' tent. In one side we had a museum and vaudeville anl In the other-a theatre, which you enf&ed from the muaee, but did not necessarily have to buy admission to both. We were making plenty of money and grew ambitious, ' I wanted to put up a- permanent structure at once, the cold weather being near at band, but we could not stop the shows long enough for that. Money was coming too easily. . So we had forces of men working all night, night after night, gradually building walls of corrugated Iron .and wood around the Inside edges of the tent. It grew' and grew, and nobody knew It until One " Saturday night, , after the show. we. tore down the tent and when the people came down town Sunday morn ing they didn't know the corner. After wards we put In the roof. And say, maybe the authorities were hot crasy over that! It was in the fire limits and they had refused to give their consent to a frame building.- The police depart train. She will remain In Portland until the close of the Lewis and Clark fair, when she will travel abroad for- two or three years. During her long residence here she and her Interesting family have made hosts of devoted friends who re gret that "'they - cannot ' remain here longer." .. r-""- , . '' s.'i Mrs. Carrie Goudy : and -mother, who came here from Corvallls en route to their home In Bedford, la., left Thurs day. They are much pleased with Ore gon and anticipate visiting Oregon again during' the Lewis and Clark fair. ... - . r---r 1 ir it - :' Mr. and Mrs. Edward Upham of Al bany attended- the wedding last week of Miss- Ida Slmmona ? to 1 D. C. Day, a brother of Mrs. Upham. They returned te Albany Monday. . . . ...., . . .. . . j. i a. ' ... . List week Miss Edna Irvine of Cort vallla was In the city taking a Shakes pearer lessonv-MIss Emma Sox," a prom inent young pianist of Albany, returned home with her, after a visit In Portland. PERSONAL' Miss Harrietts Thompson of Pendle ton, is the guest of Miss Frances Hayes at IN Hoyt street. - , Mrs; 8. Heckman of Salem - was hi Portland last week on an over-Sunday visit ' (if Mrs. H. K. McCulIy Is visiting Mrs. E. E. Waters of Salem. . Miss Alice' Brefhertnn and Mine Ella Doble, juniors at the University of Ore gon, epeet last Sunday- at their Portland homes. ' ' , .. , Mrs. F. R. Mitchell has returned from Salem.- after a visit - with Mrs. J. W. Durette. - ' - Mrs. Minnie L. Washburne, one of the leaders of Eugene society, . la visiting Portland friends. . , Miss Anna Clark of Salem ts visiting her sister, Mrs. A. W, Beldlng of Jort tand. , ... ..'. Mrs. L. A Whittlesey of 771 North rup street Is visiting her son Walter In Eugene, Where he la assistant Instructor m the department of economics and so ciology In tha University of Oregon. . - Mr.-and Mrs, C. W. Moll wain of Salem FOR $50,000 .. .. 1 ' - - -, ,i - in niwj-i,-ii-il IN . 188, 8HORTLT . AFTER-THU : ,.r:.w.. -. ment' never did get over if. but they oouldn't molest us, once It was up. It Is the only theatre ever built witboutloslng a single Performance. ; "It. was July 1, 1889.1 that we first opened, the attraction being the Russell and Jewell company, with Essie Tttteji, !n -xynewood . .: , . - From that day to this the present Baker has not lost, money.. Mr. Cordray some time later went to Seattle and built the Third avenue theatre, now owned by W. M. Russell. Later Cordray and Rus sell .formed their partnership. He w almost ruined by the breaking up of banka in the panlo of IStt, but still per severed. In 187, after varying expe riences, he had enough money to acquire the present Cordray a.. theatre. , It was formerly known as the New Park theatre, managed by John P. Howe. For -seven and one half years after Howe released this playhouse it had been aa absolute failure. One man lost-120.000 trying to make It go and counting losses tor others, the amount It had cost, was enormous. When Cordray went Into It, his friends wept for him. Etwrywhere the place was known as a hoo-doo. When be tried to book in shows, the managers would give him a wide berth. Telegrams were pouring in all the time from attractions, saying, "please cancel ovfr- contract." These were not the most encouraging condition! to work under, but Cordray would stake his life on his judgment In those days, and he remodeled the place and advertised It as few . houses have ever been advertised. The first two at tractions that played at Cord ray's "A Prodigal .Father.- and "The Heart of Chicago" had to be guaranteed. "But we opened up to standing room only,'.' declares the manager, "and we have not lost money on any season. We had no desire to sell out, but we were asked to place a figure on' the property ana we fixed What we thought was pro hibitive, out wnat turned out to be sat isfactory." ' :. And - now Portland witnesses ' the founder' of the dime shows In this city retiring irom ownership in ravor of that same system today a erase. RACE WHITNEY. have Just arrived In Portland to make their permanent home. Miss Mary Rader. a Willamette Uni versity student,-visited at her Portland home over Sunday. .' .. Mies May Trimble' is visiting her brother. Dr. W. A. Trimble of Albany. Miss Henrietta Savage of Salem Is a guest In the city. . ? - Hon. George T. Myers ' has gone to California for a short slay. . Mrs. George A, Waggoner returned to Corvallls last week, after attending the Shearer-Houck wedding In Portland. s Mlsa Ina McClung has returned from a visit . with her slater,- Mrs. - Charles Fridel, In Eugene. Dr. Fridel Is head of the physics department of tha University of Oregon. - ..',',' Mr. and Mrs. Mark Broneon and their two sons are visiting in Albany with Mr. Graham, the children's grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Simon have left for a visit to St Louis,, going later. Jo MrsT Simon's former home, Albany, N. Y. . '' Mrs. Mark L. Cohn snd her daughter of San -' Francisco have been - visiting Mf. and Mrs.' Maurice Relnsteln, lit Overton street. l v ' - . Miss Dora E. Smock and her little niece. Ivy Morback, Of Sherwood, re turned Thursday- from a two months' visit to the world's fair and other east ern points. Mrs. I. Frohman, who has been visit-1 lng the 8t Louis exposition and other eastern points for the past month, re turned to Portland Tuesday. Hon. and Mrs. 8. H. Friendly arrived from Eugene Monday Tor a few days' visit , .Mrs. Florence Mlnot returned), Friday f mra an extended eastern trip. H. Ai Holmes of Portland is the guest of Senator, and Mra.' Welty of Chehalis, Wash. ' ' . ' . - On Wednesday C. N. Nottingham and his son, Harry, left for a trip to St! Louis, Chicago and Mn Nottingham's old home, near Springfield.' III. Mrs. J. V. Stoddard Is visiting friends for a few days in Salem before going to California, where she will, spend the Winter. - i . . . Miss Lucy Chamberlain Is tha guest of Mr. C K-Fullr of Salem. - , 1 'r Mrs. f. O. Clark Is the guest Of her cousin, Mlsa Knight of Salem. v Rev. W. S. Gilbert and Rev. W. H. From the 'New York Sun. FRIEND of mine' who write plays came to me the otoer day and told - me that be wanted me to do a lUtle collaborating with him." said an expe rienced racing man. 1 i ' - "When he unreeled what he wanted of me. I got In willingly enough, for It looked kind of interesting. ' "He's writing a horsereclng play and he's -making the big feature a poolroom scene. What ne wamea oi me waa vi a. the poolroom color. "The work got me Into a smoke dream over some kinky eell-offs that I've listened to In poolrooma the country over since I first found out wnat past per formances meant . , The biggest dump tnai i ever saw a whole roomful of men stand for hap pened In a poolroom tn Sausallto, across the bay from San Francisco, seven or eight years ago. It wasn't the biggest lit the bundle that" all - hands. - dropped though that was a heap Item, too but m the ornery way that tne saiue K were pulled from beneath the bunch. ' ; "There, was a . race at Louisville In which the afterward famous Banaatar, than a. two-year-old, was booked to go for the first time. Tha Up on Banaatar was all over the country, ana particularly strong on the coast. ' t "There were about 00 men in tn room when the first line cam In on that race, and when- Banaatar was chalked up at to L they buffaloed each other tq. make the ticket-writing counters. The favorite In the race., was a tried trick named Banished, that later On, couldn't beat a hair In Banaetar's hide. Banished was a 4 to I thing. But the crowd was all for the Banaatar soft money at a-to L "I don't believe the room took In a It net on the favorite. . But when post time came around the roem stood to disconnect the wires, turn of the electrlo fans, slap up the shutters, and go right Into sudden and eternal liquidation in case Banaatar oopped. ' ' .-... I . "And that's the way It waa rigged when the key trouncer, a big roan with a more leathery throat than Jack Alder owns, gave the They're off at Louisville bawl. "Banaatar was leading all the way by four lengths, and when he was still four lengths in the stretch the proprietor of the room petulantly tossed' a paper weight through the glass door of his private -office, and growled at hla man ager that he could be hunting for motor man's work on the morrow. - "The 800 chaps who had gone to the Banaatar twist-up with all the rags and old Iron ,and bottles coin they could dig were just rolling on the floor, a lot of them, with the pure ecstacy or tne situa. tlon. The cautious- ones who had to be shown were watching the mouth of the slnger-out as if he'd been a judge about to dish them ,out their sentences. 'After Banaatar led Into the stretch by four lengths, the key stopped working for a few seconds.' Then the operator got to trilling again. ,; " 'Winner, Banaatar t yelled the op erator. j .'" '. , ' v: '. . "About half of the 100 started to box and wrestle and Jump on each other's hats over the success of the great thing. But In the middle of all this they heard thbull voice of the operatorr-whd" Stood up on bis platform tovglv hla lungs full playi -- . ' '-'- - ". " ' , " 'Banished gets - It - by - a- Up! . he shouted. 'Banaatar second! . 'Tve seen 'em rolling out of the gate and toward, home with a lot of the baby blue tint on their maps In my time, but I never saw 100 men curl up Ilk, cater pillars before a grate fir Ilk those goe did. . U was the quicxeat transTormanon from rapture to gloom that ever came under my notice, and there s good reason why the recollection of it should stick along with me, 'for I had gone to the Banaatar tip with the kitchen stove and the bathroom oilcloth. : "I went over from Cincinnati to Cov ington once to get- a be down on Bill OUve'a horse, Warrenton. It was a long distance race on on of the New York tracks. . . . "Warrenton didn't look the winner on paper- figures, but I bad heard some thing, and I decided to go to It with all the loos Jupk then on me. When I made the Covington room I found that the whole push bad the Warrenton steer, but ' that dldn'tsmake It look any the worse, although It- put A crimp In the price.---:- f-- -t "Warrenton was a 10 to 1 whls at the track, but the best the Covington people would scrape on the board, in view of the all-hands-around tip, was to 1. I took that with all the , change I knew, and figured, to put the room tl,00 to the worse on my own little ticket If War renton should connect- : "The room shut down on Warrenton beta when the sheet writers had written $60,000 worth of the thing. The Coving-1 ton room was then one of the biggest In the country, . but they knew when they had enough of a good thing. ; "The . operator hurled It at US 'that they were off when the key began to fuss, and named us the three cockroaches that had sailed out to do the landing. Those three were still Juggling for the front at the quarter, when, after calling off their names, th. operator made a morgue of the room and a slab-stiff of me partic ularly, by howling: - . ' 14 ,- "Warrenton was left at th post!' "The keno . cracks that those Pork opolls players let out of their systems over that announcement didn't serve to get me out of my stup. I was walking toward the poolroom door, babbling to myself about ' shoemaker starters and barrier bulldosera and things like that when, with my hand oik the knob to go out, I decided that I might as Well wait -few seconds to flndout th name of the winner, anyway. - - ' "I'll let you fix up your own .mental, pastel of the kind of t mob there was tn T7 TT, : Holt attended th installation last week of Rev: H. N. Mount as pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Eugene. Dr. R. B. Loverldge ef Eugene Is vis iting his daughters. Miss Loverldge, at the Good Samaritan hospital, and Mlas Myra at St Helen's hall.' Miss Maude Shelley has gone to Eugene- to1 visit -her- father.-"' u77""7" JTOT SXACTX.Y OmASY. He Iowa City, Ia,--Proressor. Wilcox, dean of the department of history In th State university. ' might have said that the people of western t Kansas were crasy more then half the time, but he didn't What he did tell hla clasa was that environment particularly geo graphical and cllmatlo environment, had a pronounced effect on the thoughts, am bitions and activities of a people. In explaining his attitude - Pro fessor Wilcox said: "In our state of Iowa th stability of the public sentiment th large sums of money expended for education and the uniform prosperity of the people are tn large part the result of geographical conditions. In Western Kansas, by wsy of contrast, droughts have occurred from time to time to Impoverish and dis courage Out people. The normal rainfall Is below the average and In many years land values' have fallen and farms have been abandoned. ? . . , 1 "In other words, purely material con ditions in the western portion of Kansas will explain why discontent has at .time been uppermost The tendency to es pouse unsound schemes, to advocate tn wise remedies, like th free coinage of sliver and th hostility to mortgage, can be traced In large measure to th phys - riuu that Covington 'room wtu 1 ' with a look of astonlahme 1 and a mouth all drawn a . utr- : .. .:. . 'Warrenton wins, - easy, t - kragths!' . 11 'was the bign kite, ins.. every man In the-room, but yet It e unbelievable. The operator nlmse-f t look a If he believed It - Oet that again!' the. proprietor " th room bellowed at th operator. . 'C . out the dossing and get It rlghtr "The operator began to- hammer T..I key, and tn a minute he had the reply. . 'It's sll right he sung out 'Warren ton wins. He waa left, at the post at that and standing still turned the wrong way, but. he snags by th four lengths.' "Nobody going out of th Covington ' room that aftemftn looked aa If he had ' been made the Patsy exoept th propria ', tor of the plant. , - . J 'In a South Chicago poolroom five or . lie 'years ago I saw a red-beaded nat- ; ural. born financier take chance and Stand to haul down a large thing or tp ' accept a deep dent on a twist that was ' going on several hundred mile away at '--the. old fair grounds track In 8t Louis, ' "Th town had -been rocking with on 1 ' of those go-to-lt-tke-flrst-tlme-out tips ' on Tula Fooso, a mare that spent her ' days Jogging around th Bt Louts tracks ' and such a.erasy actor that -during a i good part of her career she was barred ' tn th betting. ' ' . ) : .. , v . "There were about 1.100 men packed lit th hug South Chicago room on the day I the Tuila Fons .mare went after a long ' retirement and when the chalk ' showed 1 - her to be a 60 to 1 grab they all loped for i ' th price until tha book was filled to th j gun'la and the room refused to take any j more of It When th shutdosm cam t around, the room stood to get at least j a 176.000 gouge should th craxy mr connect first with the tap line. . .... . !' "She connected, all right but Iramed-. i . lately after th announcement of the re- ( suit th operator gave the screech: , " There's a kick on that Bt Loo race, I - foul claimed against Tulla. Fonso.' . ' The red-topped financier hadn't bet a ' dollar on the. race. . He was a notea hand-book man.- and.-atlU Is. out In th big mud-mug town, and a' chance, taker 1 from away back In th deep embowered. ; 'He aaw the Tulla Fonso people shriv elling under the announcement' of the. kick against her at th track, and he saw some business.- ' "They'll hand.lt to Tulla where she , wears the throat-latch,' the bunch were j saying to each, other. 'She's a bum and a bug at the post and in a race, and I , probably she's knocked eight or teq ! ' horses down. Tulla's name is glue. "It sure looked that way, at inau , There was no reason for anybody familiar '. with th character and conduct of Tulla ; to. suppose that ir trier naa oeen ay i kind 'of offence In a race Tulla hadn't;, been the offender. But the red-headed -hand-book man waa born with cowlicks,, and) he -was stubborn. H got up on a chair. , 0 ' - - -. -. " 'All of yo fat-heads' and quit-easy gums that'v got '.Tulla . Fonso tickets that you're a-skeart of, listen to me.. I'll glv yon half of what your paste. ,' boards stand for. on the face or thent; and atand for th knockout myself if Tull Is sat back. Get busy.-- . . "He -was well known to every man In the room as a fellow whose word was aa good aa his certified John Hancock, and the trampled on each other In rushing to where- be ' stood on . his chair. They passed their tickets up-1 -him 4n -bunches, and he was still recording their names and the sis f their tickets In hi book and that moment standing to take down - or lose about f 20,00 oa th spilt when th operator let out these chest notes: - -' - ' , " 'Foul .not allowed; TullaFonso la the one. v- 1 ... ' : 1.,1-s... .. "Three or four years ago a rule that' ' Was new en th California turf and that Isn't allowed anywhere els In th world all but cleaned out a number of the big gest poolrooms in Hot Springs. "A number of th no limit plungers v down at th springs had received Individ ual tips on the old coast sprinter Yellow . TalL . All th wires that reached th Hot Springs high money - player Instructed them not to go, on Yellow Tall etralght -or place, but to unllmber on th thing for th limb boaltlon. - ' ' 'Yellow Tall was a 10, 4 and S skldder , when th betting -came along, and tens of thousands went down In th Hot , Springs rooms for the horse to show. ' "Yellow Tail wine!' sung out all th room! operators at th finish of th race, and then th big players were knocking their heads against the walla because -they had been advised to play th bore only on th branch or to connect .with the third position duff. . " 'Kick at Ingleside.' called out the op erator a moment later, 'and It's against Yellow TalL . Then th plungers who had gone to the Dr. RoweU horse did th fin shaka witti themselves over the fact that they hadn't bet even more money on Yellow ' Tail. It looked all oft with th old sprinter. v ..-..--- .' " -Yellow - Tall Is disqualified.' chir ruped th operator a little while later -and then the room proprietors and man agers stood up on the counters and gav th glad yell they stood to be mangled a lot on the Yellow Tall horse to show, and they couldn't hold themselves In. " 'Tel low Tall Is disqualified.' repeated the operator, -and Is placed third.' 'And that's the way it had happened. ' It. was the new California disqualifica tion rule put Into operation for the first, time. Yellow Tail had only Interfered with th two other placed horses, and so . he waa only placed . behind those two, which mad hlra third. Instead of being punched dbwn to th bottom - of th field." - . V. .. " . ." ... . ': ical environment of tha people.' ' . Th people of western Kansas would prob ably be as stable In their opinions and as Orthodox members of th RepubUoan," party aa the majority ar la Iowa It ' their material .environment were the ' same. ': .- -' . ; ? ,' . -v- . . - . . ."Mrs. NatloiCMrs. Lease. Jerry Slsnp--' son and other prominent persons In Kan- ' sas- whd have seemed to outsiders 'to -advocate unwise measures have done so. to a large extent simply becaus they -have at times represented constituencies , which have been mad discontented by . mere physical facta, 11k la ok of rainfall. Inferior soil, failure ot crops or Insuf. v flclent food supply. ., "Some peopl hav th Idea that th moment a man goes to western Ksssas v he becomes erasy. Just aa If there were something In the situation to unbalance hla mind. Th fact, however, that - h may become so dtsoouraged from failure of oropa that b Is willing to- ad v mat any new idea which seems to offer a remedy, -.-..;..' "The rivers, the mountains, th rain fall and other physical conditions hav rendered Inevitable certain results. A state With deep, rich soli, another with lack of rain, or still a third with larg mining Interests will differ from one another In social life because of thee physical facts." . , ... Qaiek Arrest. J. A Onlledse of Verbena, Ala., we twice lit the hospital from 4 sever r of pile esuslng t tumors. A'"r i tors snd all remedies f.lled. Arslca Pdlve quickly err- led i , nflmmtl"l and cured I...'. Ii quers aches snd kllis (''. J" i Red Cross Phsrmary, i 1H streets, ea th way 4 l-a I X V