THE DAILY BRITISH W oa HIG THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1038 ¥ | NO ADVANCE STRAND | IN HER LATEST PRODUCTION | "THROUGH. THE BACK DOOR" EENERNEERNENERRNNENNNEREEEEEEEE CINGSTON PURE MILK AND CREAM 'FRIDAY ] 5 see sons rier wr JUNE Place your order with Willow Park SHARP BROS. Phone 1300 r 3. CATARAQUL ha [Brix Shawl," now playing at IN PRICES {Clavel, the dancer, gives the shawl [to Charles Abbott, a young Amer: : jcan, played by Richard Barheimess, : las a final remembrance of her aftec. iSpy. jdanzan and its brilliance helps to -- AMUSEMENTS | [DARING ENTERTAINERS Whi a Ayan Sy : | saraniEs PAID" TO MEN AND | WOMEN IN CIRCUSES. | Many of the Foolhardy Exploits Are Rewarded by Big Money--There Is a Woman in New York Who Receives $500 a Week for Wrest. ling a Bensal Tiger. Circus time approaches, preceded as usual by articles concerning the salaries paid the various star per- formers. Madison Square Garden, » is at present housing a circus that contains an unusual num- ber of extra people who earn their living by extracardinary exertions. There is a woman, for instance, who is paid $500 a week for an apimal act, the feature of which js to wrestle and throw a jungle bred Bi gal tiger. Since the lady weighs about one hun- dred pounds, and the tiger, at a mod- erate guess, would weigh 300, it is dificult to understand how she is | able to put him down. But she does it twice a day, six days of the week, Just because it is neceasary, for the lady says that it would be extremely dangerous to permit the tiger to down her. She says that captured tigers are much easier to train than (AMAZING PHOTOPLAY IS; WOVEN AROUND A SHAWL. But it was also the token ot a {great love, the messenger of death, |the cloak of a épy, and in the ead | thie harbinger of lasting happiness. | It is "around this dazaling gar- {ment, worn by a vivid Andalusian {dancer in Havana in the days of |Spanish oppression against Cuba, |that the plot of the highly dramatic {and romantic photoplay, 'The the Allen Theatre to crowded houses, is woven, { Dying from a knife wound, It was just a bright shawl. La | tion. In turn, the bloodstained gar- ment is found by La Pilar, female She wears it to the negro | [lure a young Cuban patriot to his | death. She kills him and throws pei bc have more intelligence. The the bright shawl over the body. | omestic tiger with which she wres- The American, after losing con- | claws, but this, she explains toler sciousness in a duel, awakens aboard | antly, is the result of nervousness, ship to find the woman he loves | pot viciousness. and--the bright shawl. So Joseph! We learn from the New York Her- Hergesheimer wrote it; so, too John | ald that the highest paid performers S. Robertson, pictured it as a First|in modern eircuses -are the animal National attraction--and one of the | Hiinerd, the daring riders, the, cham- most important productions of the ya relics, Bd the Sap tieiite GIANT BIRDS OF THE PAST, In that long, narrow triangle Which forms the southern extremity of South America, and which, since the first visits of Magellan and other early navigators, has been associated In the imagination of many persons with the storms of Cape Horn and the mysteries of Terra del Fuego, geologists have discovered the re- mains of a class of gigantic yids which, in many respects, differ m all birds that are known ever to have existed elsewhere upon the globe. These birds, it is believed, could not fly, and their. great jaws were s0 like those of some four-footed beast that when. one of them--an under jaw about 21 inches in length--was ex- hibited in England, many naturalists would not admit that it had belonged to a bird at all, and asserted that it must be the jaw of some animal re- sembling a gigantic sloth. More recent discoveries, however, have proved that no mistake was made in ascribing the jaw Tn question to a bird. Specimens of entire skulls and of other parts of skeletons have been found in Patagonia, wh show that long before the reco f hu- mah history began, and fore man had made his ap, ance those born in captivity because they ! tles occasionally rips her with his | | i | on the earth, such birds inhabited that country. Their leg bones were proportionate in size and strength to their Jaws, They had wings, but naturalists think that these wings, like those of the ostrich, were not used for-flight, but simply as an aid in running. Gigantic flightless birds, some even larger perhaps than those of South | America, are known to have lived in other parts of the world, but there are certain peculiarities of structure MARY PICKFORD AFFORDED © UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITIES In "Through the Back Door," | home of our late Bro-| Michael P. Corrigan, 58 Lower Bagot Street, Thursday evening, at 5.30 250 TAR ey ILE 700 Ithe St 9 | production beginning today. It 1s the first picture in which | Mary Picktord's forthcoming Unit- od Artists' release, this clever little artist will be afforded an opportun- | ity for the display of talent equalled only in such previous product.cns as "Pollyanna" and "Daddy Long Legs". Arrangements were recent- ly completed by Manager Abbey of rand Theatre to show. this Little Mary ever worked under the 8 (guidance of two directors. . Alfred E. Green and Mary's brother Jack sponsored this production, and the result is sail to prove further ide truth of the old adage, "Two heads are better than one." The outstanding feature o: "Through the Back Door," is tne year. | sword swallower who reaches the | LIGA Separate the extinet Patagon- 4an birds from all others. This gives | $50 1 A ne Sasa. Une of them a peculiar scientific interest, be- fw a 10 be oh a8 'wdna Pr! a { cause it has been found that many of © bald to be nineteen, rosy =n | the four-footed animals inhabiting pretty, the latter two perhaps because | South America in ancient times were | she is able to give an Afirmative an- | |). 'enone of the 'other continents. Swer to the health query "Had your | | Such discoveries are as full of | iron to-day?" No doubt these per | : i - | tormers are so: hig | meaning to the geologist who is try hly paid because | of the morbid hope y P | Jag to read in the records of nature of the crowd that |, i . fie bistory of the globe as are the { some day one of them is going to! anclent inscriptions and nvman :e- make a miscalculation ana provide | i the audience with a thrill that comes { pains luna 2 oma aud are j once in a life time. For our part, | history of man it would seem more remarkable for Sein ---- | & man to balance one egg on another | Knew His Business. | than to swallow a foot or two of | sword, yet we doubt if the egg bal- | Waters walked down the street in | ancer could earn as much by his trick | the res Jus, suloyiug Bis Sigur. | as he could b; 1 1 t . | He stopp 0 look at a window dis- 7 Selling tickets or dir play. A hand touched him on the | ecting people to their seats. We | wonder if thousands of people would | Shoulder. Waters turned around hot have paid ten dollars apiece to Quickly. - have seen the unfortunate "human | Begging your pardon, mister." It fy" fall from the New York building | Was a buman derelict, about to make a short time ago? | @ "touch. on The clowns are not paid as highly | What is it?" Waters asked, not | as they once were, though a circus | Sakindly. : i. a clown would be like a cir- | I'm up against it, mister, the ee -- PRESB FICES OF MANY Port Arthur, June 14.--Only two men have I met among Presbyter- ian ministers who automatically im- pressed me with their native and complete contempt for money. Doubtless there are others of a sim- tlar make up. The two referred to present Knox College principal remarkable in this respect because he is the mgst dexterous and relent- less money-monger in the church for any good cause except himself. Merciless as a highway man when seeking pelf for any noble purpose, but simply unable to understand any man conveting it for its sake or his own. Wherefore there was some- thing of a wild wail in his voice yes- terday morning when in pleading with the assembly for the appoint- ment of C. A. Myers as an extra professor in Knox College, he ex- plained that the salary wag guaran- teed for three years, the cash actual- ly in hard, and then concluded with the agomizing ery: "If the appoint- ment Is not made we have got to hand back that money." The scene was one of deep pathos: But an ob- durate assembly, rising up and sitt- ing down in the valley of the shadow | of shortage, steeled itself against i { handing back cold cash awaits the | ardent Gandier. | The scene, which will be a terrible {one, should be preserved by the | painter's brush. Principal Fraser was | sitting close to the. tables whereat | the apostles of the Press ply their | plous profession, and I overheard | him murmur: "Chickens come home | to. roost." Some unsophisicated rural | brother enquired with an air of per | plexed simplicity as to why | church should 'stock up" on pro- | fessors when union was waiting jus: | around the corner. The question is a rather peculiar one, in view of the fact that several of the colleges, with | fervid unionists at their head, are | asking at this juncture for brand new theogolical teachers of the good old Presbyterian doctrine, and by | the way the question has not been answered yet. | Most of this day was given to the Dr. Gendier. The latter is the more | {the appeal and the gethsemane, of | YTERIAN KIRK IN CONCLAVE | THE MOMENTOUS ASSEMBLY AT AN END--GREAT SACRI- | DEVOUTED MEMBERS OF THE GOSPEL, (BY R. E. KNOWLES) | I i are the late Principal Grant and the! { i i | be and his fellow soldiers are pré pared to go over the top with a sub- stantial reduction of their salaries, meagre and emaciated through the war as they already are. MacVicar, of Honan, told 'me to-day of such yonder as had given $400 out of all H their poverty to the deficit, the lit- tle band in tnat 'oasis of the east having given $2000 among them to help in the great crisis. MacVicar's own salary is so small, due to ex- change and excision, that a sense of shame bids me forbear to set in down. And this now exiled scholar and gentleman of Christ renounced the largest Presbyterian stipend in New Brunswick to carry the torch altield. A motion by Professor Shaw, was carried this afternoon, pledging the ministers and elders to a further sacrifice to meet the ortage. The amount suggested, although I am not absolutely sure of the figure, is an additional gift of ten dollars per month from those modest Jncomanj If there are any men in the worl who can look each other in the face those men are the ministers of the Presbyterian church in Canada. 1 must now lay down my pen. The assembly is melting like the ice of the oceanic lake upon whose shores it met for the most momentous task of its history. Drummond, like a captain of the bridge, stood té his Post yesterday afternoon till a third blast from the steamer, for '80, it had been previously arranged, tore him from the platform as he hurried | to thé pathway of the deep. Others | the | f | | { { | | were summoned by calls undeniable { and only a remnant is watching by the dying court. And one could not but think of all the brave men and true who through the years have bidden quick farewell and gone forth to come back no more forever. A sterner voice had summoned them from these and all other labors and set them on a longer and more shad- owy voyage. Of Cook I thought, and Topp and Reid, and Cochrane, and McRae, and MacDonnell, and Graat, | and Robertson, and King, and Cav-& en and formost noble elders like | MacLelland, and Hay, and Charlton | and Taylor and Paul. They are ggne, not the less the glory of the churcn PEOPLE report of the general board and the | grim ogre, in the form of a colos- | still because they dwell with God, sal deficit -about which all*its feat-| standing in His sight and walking in | Gus without a tent or an elephant. ; Man, explained. "I haven't any | | Ran Rice was the highest paid of the ' Money. Coulda't you help a fellow clowns. He began his circus out with a dollar? delighttul comedy sequences sent- tered' throughout the picture. In career | y _ |G fhe T PARADE AT 11 AM AN [oY ATW; v ND 7PM, ART 2 AND 8PM Ch How is this man courting injury? The answer will be found among today's want ads. ot CISY i ATER TENG I SOUTH CABO ties' Conference held ' this Week at Queen's University, a Pub- Oklahoma City Is in Danger of a Break in Reservoir Meeting will be held in Convoca- Dam. Hall at 8.30 p.m Oklahoma City, Okla., June 18. -- y, June 14th Mood waters of the north Canadian _ Addresses will be delivered by river are rising rapidly in southern t Tory, of the University of : and by Dean Laing, of leGill University. \ The public is cordially " Oklahoma: Sections inundated two weeks ago again are under water and hew areas gradually are being claim- ed. The crest of the flood swept over the city reservoir dam, ten mil- '|8s west of the city. : Tulsa is emerging from tha grip of the Arkansas River flood. It will be several days before five thou- sand refugees from the flooded area can return to their hones. Three lives were lost with damage to pro- verty of one million dollars. -- een Wife of Four Safe Robbers. Chicago, June 14.--Mrs. Fiorence Shomo, who gave birth to a child while in jail here and who is said to be the wife of four safe robbers, was 'sentenced to a year's imprisonmeat for being in possession of $17,500 worth of Liberty bonds, proceeds of two robberies. ------------ Not So Slow A visitor was teasing May about ber little baby sister, "She isn't as Smart as my dog," said the visitor. "My deg isn't one lear old yet and be can run." "Wl, your dog has twice as many legs," said May. -- E & mvited. to elect me at the coming le &8 your representative for ® County of Frontenac. re-elected I shall in the future in the past--serve you to the of my ability. . {Is a foul a chicken or is it a bird? a little girl role Miss Pickford nus a chance to become involved in u- numerable complications all pro- Vocative of mirth, yet touched with that pathos which stamps this great- est of all ingenues as mistress of her art. In addition to the clean, wnose- ome fun with which this feature abounds, there is found running through it a counterplot of gripp- ing drama in. which nurial devouon becomes a dominant factor. The struggle of a child to win recogni- tion from her mother and the seem- ingly insurmountable Obstacles Nat intervene furnish the motivating impulse for the story. Professionas blackmaclers, a designing ' "'other Woman," a "misunderstood" De band and an "abused" wife all Play | tion were Dan Gardner, a Sx shelf respective parts in this wu-| Billie Bude father of the actress usual Photoplay which opens in of the same name, picturesque Belgium, Al Miaco, Shakespearean jester. One of the unpleasant features of circus life for t | performers | with a trained pig | horseback riding | circus. He would have become a | famous rider had he remained in this | branch, but he was so versatile--a ! singer, a mimic, a spontaneous come- | dian--that he became a clown. received from and in one season was paid $27,000 by Adam Forepaugh. It is said that made more money than other circus He made several fortunes and at one Ume he owned the Walnut Street theatre in Philadelphia, bu & weakness for bedroom. One of his famous contem- Doraries was George L. Fox, the or- iginal 'Humpty Dumpty, a role he Played in New York for 2,000 nights. Other noted clowns of SEPP IPIIEIRIIIEISIOSTTS > + CHINESE +> have the inventiveness to appear ¥' season with new f, 4 to nd half a dozen rivals © | ready to do their acts at cu | There is nomonopoly of skill | Ing; indeed one | is hardly a limit mah has perfect: $ attempt, and perhaps 'a dozen will succeed in accomplishing. But the pioneers are remembered in the Profession if they are not PRESIDENT HAS RESIGNED t prices. --- and dar- London, June 14.--Presi might say that there dent Li Yuan-Hung of China + has resigned and turned over to ® bis captors, boobs + Evening News from its Tiemt- 4 sin correspondent. * tLe P0200 0 02 'ee ---- Just For Sport Can you start a fire with a baseball match, Or mend your glove with a cabbage patch? 'Do they call it & strike ¥ you bat your eye, Or give you a base if you "swat a fly"? Yo Js a tennis racket just noise and clatter? It you broke the home plate could you use a platter? Is the pitcher made from silver or glass? Are the golf links iron or gold or brass? Is @ caddie used for storing tea® Is a locker simply a great big key® * for which he received $750 a week r wl a week. The original Frank Melville was rival as a rider and was the first cus performer to carry a head while racing around the back of a horse. . earlier acrobats received aries. am: *e * hd Ege Do they arrest a player for stealing third ? and then took up. with the Robinson ! He | tory here to-night. $500 to $750 a week, | need a dollar.' t he had | 9ollar, all right, mister, whiskey and whey he | Put don't try to give me died in New York it was in a hall | ters on begging! Billy Wallet and | | i he most highly paid | Scien fact that their acts | the are quickly imitated, and unless they | the fi "Why don't you go 'te work?" Waters asked. "There you &o with that fool ques- tion!" the man exclaimed. "Mister, there are a hundred reasons why! I ain't got time to tell you my life his- * I'm broke and "You ask for tov much," Waters said, "If you had told me you need- ed a quarter I might have felt like performer of his time. | S1Ving it. The man turned away with a snarl. "If you don't want to give me a " he said, any point- --Kansas City Star. Census of the Sea. Many interesting results are ex- ted from an expedition which left Hull, England, recently for the her- ring-fishing grounds of the North Sea and the Skager Rack. - The expedition will trawl for fish, and everything that comes up in the net will be examined carefully. tists will endeavor to discover best spawning grounds, and also distances' covered by the fish ia For this purpose they will label all e fish that are caught and let them lose again. Celluloid discs attached to a strip of elastic will be used, and prizes will be given for information as 'to the locality in which these labelled fish are caught. The cruise, which will last for six weeks, is under the direction of Dr. --_---- Microbes Killed by Tears. When i » ! il fy ii § i of } j i ¥ 5 § i A | | ures revolve in sombre procession. | Dark and formidable this great short- | coming certainly is--but the church is looking into fits face determined | hearts More than double | through these recent history-making and unafraid. | his presence with acceptance | for- ever. So shall it be henceforth. So may it be. One by one the eager that have beat so fast | the population of all Canada are the | days will cease to throb. But for # | souls in heathen darkness for whose | Highting the church still owes her | responsibility and girds her loins for | sacrifice and prayer. The missionar- {ies lead with enkindling example. { I mention spectally the foreign toil- ers. Donald, of Central India, thrill- | ed the house with the story of how ETT Late Mrs, S. Sutherland {! The death oocurred om Monday, {June 11th, of Mrs. Samuel! Suther- and at her late residence, 32 Syd |enham street, after & very short ill- ness. The deceased was 74 years of age. The late Mrs. Sutherland {was a Presbyterian in religion and ia member of Chalmers church, and |had formerly an active worker in church and ¢ table affairs. Be- sides her husband, she is survived by one.daughter, Mrs. A. W. Horsey, Montreal, and one son, W. Keith Sutherland, Oregon; also one sister, Mrs. E. Moore, Kingston, and one grandson, A. Sutherland Horsey, Picton. | mp Late Mrs. Katharine Cragg Mrs. Kathar'ne Cragg, a former resident of Pesth and Smith's Falls, d awav very suddenly in the House of Providence on Wednesday morning, following a stroke of para- iysis. 'The deceased was sixty-eight | long years yet to come will their children and their children's child- ren turn their eyes back to - these golden summer days when a great growth of time flowered into what friend and foe alike must hope and pray will be a crown of streagth and beauty. ------ vears of age and had been in the House of Providence for about two years. Although born in the vicinity of Perth, where she had lived for Tiany years, the late Mrs. Cragg had also resided in Edmonton, and Vic- toria, B. C., where her husband now lives. Her husband and one sister, Mrs. Clyne, Perth, survive. ' ------------------. Tomorrow's Circus Paeade The parads soute for the John Re- binson Circus tomorrow will be as follows: starting at Fails Grounds at 11 o'clock i m.; Stanley stredt, to Division, to Brock, to Clarence, to King, to Priucess, to Division, io Staniey, to grounds. The doors w'll be opea at one and seven; show starts at two and eight p.m. ---------------- South Africa, imported more mot- or cars and trucks from Canada during January, 1923, than trom any other country. Of the 494 motor vehicles comprising the Jau- vary, importations, Canada furnish« ed 250, the United States 233, Great Britain 6, France § and Germany 4. Buy Dad a gift--for Father's Day, June 17th. The president of China is held a prisoner.