The Morgan City daily review., May 07, 1917, Image 4

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Scotch Baritone Coming Chautauqua Week
"* HE Rpdpath ball secured for Its
music lovers this season a great
treat in the person of Knight
MacGregor, the Scotch baritone. This
will be Mr. MacGregor's Initial tour of
the United States, aa heretofore bla
conceits have been confined to Canada.
Mr. MacGregor . Is an artist of great
versatility. Ills wonderful rich voice
with its wealth of feeling masters the
SATURDAY'S RAINFALL
As with fulfilling the partial pre
diction and partial wish as set forth
in the The Review's monthly weather
report published last week, the
Weather Man came to the farmer's
relief with a three-quarter of an inch
rainfall Saturday morning. Resi
dents of the City can hardly realize
the widespread'good this rain did.
With one more such downpour with
in the next two or three weeks, the
1917 corn crop will be made, while
the cane crop will have such a start
August Soumeiitah
Charles Delas
Home of the Best in Photoplays. Railroad Avenue
TONIGHT
A Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Feature
"BLIND JUSTICE
With Benjamin Christie
Many gowns make scenes veritable
Fashion Shows
TUESDAY MAY 6
Triangle Night *
"A LOVE SUBLIME"
With Wilfred Lucas and Carmel Meyers. There are a
hundred thrills to the inch in this play.
Also a K-B Komedy "BOBBLE HEARTS'
WEDNESDAY MAY 9
Clara Kimball Young In
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The great Stage Speaking Success
And Thé Famous "GRANT" the Pofice
Reporter
Admission 5 änd 10 cêiîts
"Prologue to Pagllaccl" aa well as the
simplest ballad.
His manner is decidedly prepossess
ing. His enunciation la clear and dis
tinct. thus enabling the listener to
share In the poetic sentiment as well
as the vocal Intonation.
His voice is resonant, flexible, wide
in compass, subdued or powerful at
command, rich in all the registers.
j as will ensure another bumper crop,
! unless an unprecedented drouth de
! velops during the coming summer.
Saturday's precipitation went far
toward assuring truck farmers of a
successful late growth on garden
products, with roasting ears some
weeks earlier than was recently ex
pected. Weather conditions for 1917
have been almost ideal, which means
much to the local merchant.
Mr. Joseph Budge left Sunday
morning on Train No. 8 for Naw Or
leans where he will enlist for Army
Louis Joseph Wmce
The Great Romance
of Preparedness •
NOVEUZATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE PLAY OF THE SAME)
NAME. PRODUCED fOR THE INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE. INC..,
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF WHARTON, INC. copyright; star company
THE CAST.
MRS. VERNON CASTLE as
Patria Channing.
M 1LTON SI LLS as Donald Parr.
WARNER OLAND as
Baron
Huroki.
DOROTHY GREEN as
Fanny
Adair.
SYNOPSIS.
On ner twenty-first birthday, when ah«
ia to take ovtr control of her fortune,
Patrla Channing finds her guardian as
sassinated by Japanese in her New Tork
home. A letter written by the .murdered
man tells of a secret vault beneath the li
brary containing $100.000.000, hoarded by
Patrla's patriotic progenitors to combat
the perils of national "unpreparedness"
—of which trust Patria is sole executrix—
and warns against Baron Huroki, alleged
head of the Japanese secret service In
America. Japanese Invade the house and
set It afire while Patrla Is inspecting the
treasure vault with Capt. Donald Parr of
the United States secret service. The two
esoape by an underground passage to
garden behind the house.
EPISODE THREE
"Winged Millions/
When, some thirty minutes later, Pa
tria Channing and Cnptatn Parr re
entered the walled garden they were no
more alone; three men accompanied
them, plain citizens all. of manner and
appearance so little romantic that the
girt found It somewhat difficult to ao
cept them for what they really were,
on the word of Captain Parr—highly
efficient operatives of the United States
j secret service.
None but would have been readily
lost in a crowd ; and he whom Parr pre
sented as a Mr. Ryley, his most valued
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personality so colorless and unassum
ing that be might have moved unques
tioned In aUnost any stratum of society.
Yet it wasUits one who took over tem
pomry charge ofrthe treasure with the
utruost«aag froid —for all the worftl as
though hg were asked to safeguard a
hundred cents Instead of a hundred
; millions at dollars.
Though by this time the firemen had
extinguished the flames, the 'first and
second stories of. the house were 'a
fmoMng, steamlnf qmi* of wreckage
|£|t. precluded utterly any attendit te
~ae the approach lo tile treasure
via, the. librar^ Pofloe sëU
ed in front of die bouse and
would. Ryley guaranteed, dU the last
of fhe treasure bad been removed
through the garden. . . .
"It's safe enough;" he said, return
ing from exploration of the under
ground way in company with Parr,
"almost too sate, if you ask me. That
door down there is shut for keeps;
we'll want an acetylene torch to ent
through It before we can calf this a
moving day. m be going after that
now. if you don't mind. Burgess and
Harvey here will stop on the job and
see that nobody makes trouble before I
get back.'' *
Approving this arrangement, Patria
turned to Captain Parr.
"And now," she said with a weary lit
tle smile, "you may take ine to break
fast for I'm famished. And I'll call
Newport on long distance and soothe
Aunt Amelia down and get her to
Mod my maid in with something
etoe for me to wear." . . .
After breakfast they taxied back to
the walled garden.
Ryley himself had only Just returned
with a mechanic and the acetylene
tenth apparatus.
His fellow workers In the secret
service remained In undisturbed pos
Lit a 8puttering Fuss.
session of the garden with nothing
mote to report than that they had ob
aarvsd no suspicious circumstances of
any sort
. It was. Burgess who offered this re
assurance—a tubby .little man with a
low-pitched, pleasant voice, and mild,
friendly eyes. He had just finished
■peaking when he started violently,
cried out In slurp pain, clapped a hand
te his left breast, stood for a moment
swaying while a look of acute, amazed
protest widened on his countenance—*
and dropped dead at their feet shot
through the heart
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loot.
As one man. Ryley, Hurvey and the
mechanic ducked to cover behind the
wall, while Parr delayed only to grasp
Patria almost roughly by the waist
and drag her with him.
"That corner house," he said sharp
ly to Ryley, indicating an unoccupied
dwelling which adjoined the Channing
residence on the Fifth avenue side—
"somebody stationed in an upper room
—behind those shutters—with a gun of
some sort, Maxim-silenced. That shot
couldn't have come from any other
quarter. Here : take care of Miss Chau
nlng, please; don't let her expose her
self. I'm going to have a try for our
gay assassin."
Bent almost double, he ran in the
shelter of the wall to the rear of the
half-burned house, and. catching the
low sill of a window, easily swung him
self up and into the library.
The room had barely escaped becom
ing a total wreck—was in truth little
better; yet there remained of the floor
ing a web of charred and greasy tim
bers strong enough to sustain a man's
weight. Parr picked a gingerly way
out to the entrance hall, found the
stains negotiable, and within a very lit
tle time was climbing out on the roof
i through a broken skylight. Nor was he
! In any way surprised to find the scut
tle on the roof of the corner house
open—recently broken open, If he read
the signs aright.
Stealthily, then, automatic in hand.
Captain Parr let himself down Into
the ostensibly vacant residence, stole
back through the upper hallway, and
suddenly threw open the door to one of
the rear rooms.
Simultaneously a little man who had
been kneeling at one of the shuttered
windows swung round, and Whipped
two shots at Parr from tfl heavy re
volver furnished with a Maxim si
lencer. Purr's answering shot rang
brutally loud. The little man dropped
his revolver and subsided into a curi
ously dlshevelsd heap, quite dead. The
captain delayed only long enough to
moke sore that there was no other
occupant of the room, and to verify the
fact, which he bad all along suspected,
that the murderer was a Japanese.
"Left here to dtseourage any attempt
of owe to break into that vault," he
surmised. "That means the enemy has
surprised our secret—is probably even
now trying to get away with the
Throwing open the shatter, he called
to Ryley In.the garden that the danger
had beea done away with, then turned
aqd set himself to hasty exploration of
the corner nous*.
He found no living soul therein, but
every evidence that many had been in
lawless possession of the premises not
long since. *Hie place had been gutted
of Its furniture the trail of whose
hasty removal led Parr to and through
the front door.
^ he ran out into the avenue a cas
uareulnded
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policeman, strolling pusl
"Have yon noticed anybody leave
this house?" Parr asked.
"I've noticed about two dozen leaving
It—aud that's about all they did leave.
A big guy bousin' the Job tells me the
Japanese consul has purchased the
property and is moving every stick out
before refurnishing. Three vanloads
they carted away—and in a hell of a
hurry they were, at that."
"Which way did they go?"
The policeman obligingly Jerked a
thumb westwards. "They made off
that way," said he. "But where they
were bound, I dunno."
Parr fancied be could hazard a
shrewd guess. He ran hastily across
the avenue and down the side street.
And, so running, be disappeared for
a time from human ken.
THE HOLE IN THE WALL.
Ignoring the protests of Mr. Ryley,
Patria crept along under cover of the
wall to the window through which she
had watched Parr disappear, and
climbed through.
Just why she elected to follow him
she could hardly have said.
She was inside the house before she
appreciated that she had yielded to
what was most probably a foolish Im- j
pulse.
The first thing to greet her as she
hurried through the upper hallway was
the grinning mask of a dead Japanese
huddled up on the floor of the back
room; and turning from this in dread
and disgust she ran blindly down the
stairs. But she discovered no sign of
Captain Parr—or indeed of anybody !
else—and though she stopped at the !
front door long enough for a hasty |
glance out into the avenue, the man I
she sought was by that time several !
blocks away.
Bat this she couldn't know ; and be- i
lleving that he mast still be somewhere <
in the house, she pursued her investiga- j
tlons ; in the coarse of which, descend
ing to the cellar, she discovered irre
futable evidence of what Parr had sur
mised to hts own satisfaction, If he
hadn't stopped to verify It, that the
treasure vault of the Channing house
had been looted through a breach In
the connecting wall.
Or was it empty altogether? Hucj
her quick ears canght the sound of a
footstep beyond that breach? If so. it
must be Captain Parr's beyond a doubt.
In the utmost confidence that this
(Contniued Tomorrow)
JACK PORCUPINE AND
JIMMY SKUNK
of the
(By Thornton Burgess
Vigilantes).
The first law of Old Mother Na
ture ever has been, is, and ever will
be, self-preservation. To this end she
has devised countless expedients for
protection and defense. She is the
original exponent of preparedness.
In every phase of life you will find
it. It is one of the most impressive,
manifestations of life in what we
are pleased to term the lower orders.
Last summer I encountered a por
cupine in the depths of the woods.
blocked his path. Did he meekly turn
aside? Not a bit of it. He was in
his own demain wherein he had de
finite rights. There was no manifes
tation of an^er. merely a slight lift
ing and rustling of uie barbed quills
with which he was armed. It v osn't;
a threat; it was a warning. He was
prepared, not for offence, but for
deie.if< I decided 'iot to ?^ed- J !o
with his affairs and stepped aside.
He went his way calmly and un
afraid.
On several occasions I have met
Jimmy Skunk. We always parted
friends. I trust we always shall. I
cannot recall a single occasion on
which he manifested the least fear.
He was peacefully inclined, with no
desire to interfere with me and su
preme confidence that I would not
interfere with him. At a suggestion
of an overt act on my part which
might be constructed as unfriendly
there was a polite lifting of his ban
ner. Nor was this a threat. It was a
courteous hint that he was prepared
He is the most perfect example of
the efficiency of preparedness of
which I know. He is powerfully
armed, but the sole use he makes of
his armament is in defense of his
rights.
We as a nation may learn much
from Mother Nature and her provi
sions for the safeguarding 0 / the in
dividual and the race. The only
assurance of peace is the absolute
conviction that we are fully prepar
ed instantly to meet aggregation, be
lieve that Universal Military Train
ing and service for a limited period
would make for both the oral and
physical unbuilding and welfare of
the nation. It would impress as
nothing else could upon every indi
vidual the democracy ifor which our
flag stands; the democracy which
can eome only from , shoulder-to
shoulder service in a common cause
—the cause of all.
The history of every war in which
this nation has ever engaged is a
pitiful arraignment of the stupen
dous folly of unpreparedness. Peace
and the blessings of peace are for
those only who are strong enough to
command and demand them. We are
once more at war. It is safe to say
that we should not have been forced
into war if we had had some form
of universal military service which
would have found us instantly pre
pared to maintain our rights and our
self-re3pect. Might may not make
right, but it goes far to maintain
right.—Thornton W. Burgess.
New Orlenas, La.
April 23, 1917.
Mr. Henry Poncio, Secretary,
Berwick Board of Health,
; Berwick, La.
j Dear Sir':
The 33 samples of water from
school cistern, collected by you
April 17th, have been received and
analyzed.
We have pleasure in advising this
supply meets the requirements and
may be considered safe for potable
purposes.
Assuring you that we are very
glad to render this service, I am,
Yours very truly,
OSCAR DOWLING,
President
RUMMAGE SALE
j Building at corner of
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The King' Daughters will hold a
Rummage Sale in the Shannon
First and
Everett Street on May 18th. The
general public is requested to make
donations of articles to go into the
sale. tf
Are Yon a Woman?
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30c can
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30c can
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can
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Creole dinner 10 oz. can lOc
Shaker Chow-chow 22 oz. jar 10 c
Oscar sauce bottle 35 «
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FOR SALE
New six roo-vt cottajre « on
lot 11, in block Z, in ditch
aunex $1400. Terms: $200
Cash and $2tX> per. annum
6 per cent interest
Address
The Union Bank
l?atterson, La.
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( A LADY FAIR*
BUY YOUR MEATS
with:
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Phones: Market 147. Res. 153
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Fresh Meats
OF ALL KIIDS
You can send your children to
my market and get full weight
and best quality. My aim is to
treat my customers the aame as
I would like to be treated.
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