CHANGES IN NEXT 75 YEARS SEEN BY PROMINENT MEN IN THE UNITED STATES. Ships to Be Driven by Wireless From the Bhore--Machines to Hurl Elec- tric Waves. The Brooklyn Eagle a few days ago observed its 75th anniversary by pub- lishing an 180-page editon. One of the features was a list of the chang- es within the next 75 years, as pre- dicted by prominent persons, Some of these are as follows: -- It will be possible to send ships across the ocean without either en- gines or steam, their motors being operated by wireless from the shore. It will be possible to estavlish a magnetic field with a radius of many miles, and any battleship com- ing within that radius ean be drawn right under the guns of a fort and destroyed.---E, C. Moore, -.- Transit, Flying machines will undoubtedly become an important factor in carry- ing passengers, mail and packages over considerable distances, but I hardly see how they can become of much practical use in local urban transportation.--~Timothy 8. Wil- liams, I prophesy the full bloomer, the loose washable blouse "and em- broidered bolero with a long coat. There will be no fat women. - The corset will not be needed. Men and women will wear their hair as Dante and Shakespeare wore theirs.--Dr, Alma Webster Powell, The great cures of the next two generations will be medical dis- coverfes, not surgical feats. Pneu- monia and tuberculosis will yield to medical science ~Willlam Brady, M.D, > sri Religion. Protestantism will sub-divide into two important groups--Orthodox Protestants and liberal Protestants, Christian Science as a religion will play a smaller role than at present, hut as a competitor of the achool of medicine it is destined to flourish, Between Judaism and all the other faiths there will be a more fraternal spirft.-- Nathan Krass, rediet that in 1991 the various A of white bread and breakfast foads of: all: kinds will have disap- i pea¥ed from the surface of the earth. In the future we will not eat brands nor drink Jabels.--Harvey Wiley, M.D, -- id Land Warfare, It is conceivable that ~ machines may be placed on the field of battle capable of generating electricity and discharging it in sheets toward the enemy.--Evan M, Johnson, Colonel, U.S. Army. To-morrow will bring church unity with all the great denominations marching as a solid army---Newell Dwight Hillis, | FIRST POTATO KING English Cobbler Won Over Raggec Boys With Hot Tubers. Joli Pounds, an English ¢obtles was fhe original Potato Kix He cobbled shoes for sailorséem Ports- mouth and was grieved by the of the ragged boys Who ran about the quays. He set himself task of rescuing 'them. Finally, he lit upon the right scheme, A hot potato was a wonderful deli- cacy for these yolngsters. John Pounds set his bait.. He offered hot potatoes to boys who would come to him to be taught to read and write. Often he was seen pursuing a boy along thé wharves, holding out a potato like a farmer trying to catch a colt with a feeding of oats. Usu- ally John Pounds and the hot pota- toes won. He erowded his narrow workroom with his charges. When he died it was reported of him that he saved five hundred children to useful citizenship. JAMES BARRE TO HANG ! ON JANUARY 16 For Murdering His Wife--The Jury Recommended Him to Mercy. foe L'Origual, Nov. 10.--James Barre, farmer, of Rose Corner, Ont, was found guilty of murdering his wife by a jury before which he was tried here at the fall assizes of the crim- inal court of the united counties of Russell and Prescott Unless a re- commendation for mercy which ac- 'companied the verdict, and. which will be forwarded to the Goyernor- General, results in a communtation of the death sentence passed by Judge Britton, Barre will expiate his erime on the gallows at L'Orignal, the county seat, on Jan. 16th, 1917 The jury returned their verdiet after 66 minutes' deliberation. Dr. J. B. Chamberlain, formerly inspector of prisons in Ontario, was produced as a witness for the de- fence, He said that on examining Barre on four different oc casions, "he ascertained that he is very deficient in both mind and common intelle- gence. 'He advanced the theory that, as the prisoner had on many ocea- sions been heard complaining of in- fidelity on the part of his wife, and as constant brooding on one subject will produce insanity, he might have been temporarily insane. Dr. Mitchell, of the Brockville asy- lum, and Dr. Ross, of ghe Rockwood asylum, both experts on insanity, were produced as crown 'witnesses. Both declared that, in their opinion, Barre understood the difference he- tween right and wrong when he shot his wife, China Buys Aeroplane, An aeroplane of American manu- facture, purchased by the Chinese military authoriffes for army use, has arrived at Swatow, China. A Chinese aviator, trained in the United States, has been engaged to operate it. | ' | | | Le With the Players In Movie Land. The bureau of immigrati of the United States is to engage i a mo'- ion picture enterprise, Its film, "The Americanization of Stefan Skoles," will have to do with tending 'ue melting pot. Earl Schenck, a rele- brated cellutoidist, will 'be the prin- cipal actor, Ethel Mantell, who has an im- portant part in "Romeo and Juliet," the Francis X. Bushman and Bever- ly Bayne phofoplay feature, 3 a daughter of Robert Mandell, the tragedian. Margaret Shelby and Mary Mies Minter, sisters, are playing together for the first time on the scree: in Director James Kirkwood's picture, "Faith." { It is said that it cost $250,009 to make the Bushman-Bayne produc- tion of "Romeo and Juliel," 'L.e costumes alone came to $35,000, Edward E. Rice--you remember him if you are an oldtimer in tlie theatre---is negotating with produce ers with a view to reviving "Evan- geline" in pictures. Several girls, expert swimmers and divers, who were with Annette Daughter of the Gods" was mafte, appear in a swimming seeéne i1 "The Brand of Cowardice," a Meiro jic- ture, starring Lionel Barrymore ang Grace Valentine. Tom Mix has an already firmly established reputation as the dare- devil rider of the movies, but in "The Light of Western States" will fairly eclipse his past thrillers, He is an absolutely fearless horseman, and some of his feats in this feature will make any audience gasp. A slide down an almost perpendizvias n'ona- tainside on horseback, a tean from a high cliff and numerous. other haz- ardous deeds are among the thrills he will pasg out Alice Brady, who has addea '"The Gilded Cage" to her long lisi of mo- tion picture hits, has som: jueer no- tions for a star actress. She never owned a pet dog, never lost a string of valuable pearls, never gave out a cook recipe, never was born in all the cities where she was about to play. Having finished with Mary Pick- ford's play, "Less than the Dust," which he staged, John Emersi hes returned to the [Pine Arts fold to take charge of the future Douglas Fairbank's productions. George Beranger, former Trian- gleite has affixed his signatuce to a Universal contract and will be seen soon in a play with Betty Schade. To make certain of her successful entrance into the "movies," Miss Jenny Dufau, soprano, formerly with the Chicago Grand Oper): coms pany and since a luminary of ile varieties, has written a scenaris call- ed "The Prince Charming," 'which the contemplates transferring to the screen, nn ' | _THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1916. Hobart Bosworth Has bgen cast for an important role by a B. De- Mille for the forthcoming film dru- matization of "The Darling of ihe Gods," which David Belasco pro- duced in the theatres several! years ago. Flora Finch, who will be remem- bered in Vitagraph comedies c-pe- cially with the late John Bunny, has been included in thé cast whieh will dence, the Pirate." The lay: ic of Thanhouser fabric and will anpear on the Pathe programme. The Morosco-Prllas organization has closed wita G. Vere Tyler, wcll known assayist and fiction writer, for the motion picture rights of 'The Wax Model," a novelette that creat=d something of a senation when it was published in an eastern society magy azine a year or so age. wd England placed a-ban: on "The Cheat," Fannie Ward best play {ron the Lasky studio, out of deference to the wishes of the Japanese c¢in- bassy, and the picture will not he shown in England unless the pro- ducers ¢an convince the Japanese that Sessue Hayakawa's preseria'ion of the Japanese is not a rejection on the race. The objection was raised because the villian of the story is Japanese. In Paris, on the other hand, the play is being liberally attended. Charlotte Burton, a§ a maid of the mountain, and Willem %, us: sell, as owner and editor of a pow- erful newspaper, are featured in "The Torchbearer," an American Mutual photoplay, depicting a newspaper ex- posure of political incrigue and boss rule, "The return of Eve' telis a new kind of eugenics story. Two unre- lated orphans, raised in the wilder- ness undeer the care of a tutor, wre brought into contact with the world. The boy soon tires and returns to his retreeat, The girl is delighted with her experieces until accused of a wrong she did not commit, when she, too, returns, World's Highest Chimney. The tallest chimney stack in the wdrld will be completed shortly at the Kuhara refinery, Saganosekei, Japan. The stack, when completed, will be 567 feet high and 26 feet in diameter the top. At present Japanese claim the highest smokestack world is andther belonging ame company at Sukegawa, which is 617 feet high, the second highest being the chim- ney at Great Falls, Mont., which has a height of 508 feet. Orinectal Confectionery. It is acknowledged that the Chin- ese are very skilful in making con- fectionery and possess the reputation of having many secrets, They are at papers in the te the -ahle to empty an orange of its pulp entirely, then fill it up with fruit jelly without one being able to find the smallest cut in the rind or even a tiny hole. Indeed they even empty an egg in this manner and fill it with a sort of almont nugget with- out one being able to find the slight est break or incision in the shell. | Plays and Players Richard Bennett, the retowned ac- tor of stage and screen, has com- pleted his work in tWe principal role of "And the Law Says," an Ameri- can-Mutual feature film, which deals a sevére blow to the practice of capi- tal punishment. Mary Miles Minter is featured in a newly completed drama directed by James Kirkwood for the American- Mutual! corporation, and entitled "Faith."" The play illustrates a little foundling girl's faith in the world's goodness and in her own ultimate re- demption from the ills that beset foundlings. Lou Tellegen, who has established the unenviable record of being hurt in every production in which he ap- pears, declares that the only re- compense for all these injuries is the tender solicitation and care which they elicit from Wife Geraldine. Lou Tellegen's latest picture for the Par- amount programme is "The Pack Wolfe," in which he very nearly lost his well-known, not to say, Grecian, nose. Surmise has it in New York that Henry Miller intends to try his for- tunes there this season with a resi- dent company appearing in' a suc- cession 'of plays in a single theatre. Miss George's experience with a simi- lar undertaking last winter is said to encourage him to the venture, yet so far it has not persuaded her to renew her own. "Shirley Kaye' is the second title announcéd for Elsie Ferguson's new play originally called "A New York Girl." Shirley Kaye is thé name of the character Miss Ferguson will portray, and the change was made because it was discovered that a bur- lesque show once used the first title. Miss Ferguson's company includes Lee Baker, Mrs. Jacques Martin, Wil- liam Holden, Kitty Brown, George Backus, Ella Rock, Leslie Austen, Corrine Barker, Victor Benoit and Douglas Paterson, the last named be- ing a Toronto actor. Miss Gertrude Kingston, the' Eng- lish actress-manager, who is now trying to gain a footing in New Yo announces at the Neighborhood atre theve, the first performance of "The Inca of Perusalem,"" a new pl.y "by a Fellow of the Royal Society cf Literature." Now the person so le- signated happens to be no other than George Bernard Shaw, while "The Inca,'" is a short piece that he lately written in satire upon the German Emperor. No reason for the mysti- fication appears since the existence of the little play and the probable performance of it in New York have been known for months, Alopg with #The Inca" Miss Kingston wi.. pro- duce "Great Catherine," as yet un- a ---- The Dutisany, Lord mies," Ques lines Mme. Alla Nazimova, tha Russian emotional actress, is to become a manager, and she plans to produce several new plays in addition tc pre- senting her old successes. Her-sea- son will open with the premiere of '"'eption Shoals" by Austin Adams, a young' American . dramatist, who wrote. "God and Company,' which was produced last season for two per- formances under the auspires of the State Society of New York. The ther new plays are "The Price of Life," a drama which is now in its nineteenth year of popularity in Rus- sia, and "Thd Fairy Tale," by Dr Arthur Schpizler! "The Price of Life." by Viadimir Dauchenko, for many years a dominant [igure in the Russian theatre, and with Stanisla- wski, the founder of the Artistic The- atre, of Moscow, is a play in which Mme. Nazimova frequenily appeared before coming to this continent. Tha author was her dramatic tutor, "The Fairy Tale," by Dr. Schnitzler, author of the "The Affairs of Ana- tol," has hee played on toar by Mme. Nazimbva, but only for a few performances. In addition to these plays, the actress-manager promises revivals of Ibse "A Doll's House," 'Hedda Gabler" and "The Master Builder," in which she first appeared on the English speaking stage, BAD FORM OF ADVERTISING Letting Patent Medicine Men and Circuses Placard a Detriment. Farm and Fireside. "Why in the world will farmers lease to advertising concerns the right to erect lines of billboards along railroad rights-of-way? It is one of the most excuseless' and un- profitable , disfigurements of the country. It breaks up the tiling plan of the field amd it leaves a 'had taste in the mouth of the railroad travellers. The. farmer who lets his barn be used as a signboard for pills in con- sideration of having had paint put on it advertises himself as thriftless The man who cuts into a good field in order to get a few dollars from a liver cure or a blend of booze is losing sure money to get what he foolishly regards as easy money. One of the advantages of owning a farm that thousands of railroad passengers see every day is the pos- sibility that some of them will fancy and want to buy it. If statistics on the subject could be had it would be astonishing that so many sales come this way. Well, the farmer who plasters his land over: with circus paper and patent medicine propa- ganda is in effect saying: "I can't make this land pay just farming it." Experienced. Washington Star, "Have you the firmness thdt en- ables you to go on and do your duty in the face of ingratitude and un- generous criticism?" "I ought to have. I once cooked seen in New York, and a new play by, for a camping party." PAGE SEVENTEEN .' GIRL'S HAIR CUT OFF ' BY REJECTED SUITOR Did It Because He Wanted to Make Young Lady Less Attractive. Toronto, Nov. 10.---Because Miss Alice Baughan, 617 Davenport road, rejected - his proposal of marriage, John H. Simons, 32. St. Albans avenue, sheared off her beautitul tresses. Arrested by Detective Carts er 'on a charge of assault, Carter says the young man told him that he had cut off the girl's locks because he thought that the loss of her hair would so detraet from the young lady's appearance that she would then consider Simons' proposal. The latter is of the opinion that no other will be willing to marry a girl" who has had her hair clipped, The hair-cutting incident occurred at the young lady's home Wednesday night in the presence of the girl's mother. According to the young lady, Simons had frequently made himself obnoxious to her by persist- ent offers of marriage. He continu~ ally followed her and tried to.force his suit. She would have none of him. When he visited her at her home all her exhortations that he should not bother her any longer fell on deaf ears. Finally as the girl turned away from him to go over to her mother, Simons, she says, snatch- ed a pair of scissors from his pocket, evidently specially brought along for the occasion, and rapidly unknotting the girl's hair, deftly sheared it off (near the head. Followed by the screaming girl and her mother, Simons rushed out into an adjoining lane," where he continued to cut the hair Into shreds. He then made his escape. The Time to Make Friends. 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