Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 340, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1901 — Page 3

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STORE OTB. !&535CLE ACTS. B'JT TER:CK PATTER'l Indiana Greatest Dry Ooods Emporium Christmas Furniture What more appropriate or servic eable present could you s;lvc th;in pi.e f furniture, and whfrecanyou eet irn-siter aortnients lt variety of thw n vMi tlwn liert-. Our great furniture stock is fairly n aming with suczc.stlon f-r the holiday Kilt buying. Make your selection early. e will lay them aside, to be deiivereu when you want the hl. Writing Doks f l.ot) to tw.00 Toilet Table to iö.0 Dresser I"-00 to 73.00 Parlor Table to 00 Parlor .Suites W-00 to IIÄ0O Parlor Chairs SUO to 110.00 lloman Chairs- to w",-0 Hockers l-to HO.00 UuffeU auJ Sideboards $3.0) to $.00 China Closets 110.00 to 00.00 Bookc&se S3.0O to $.V).0O Iron and Brass Beds 92 J to f 1JÖ.0O Jardiniere Stands 20c to $10.00 Pettis Dry Goods Co. DID YOU GET YOUR CASE OF ASSORTED CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES WORTH $4.40 for $0.75 MONDAY IS LAST DAY. Assortment consists of one can each of different varieties PRINCESS and FAVORITE brands. We make offer to teach you their goodness. We have several carloads. COXSID RING GENERAL HIGH PRICE OF CANNED PRODUCTS AND SCARCITY OF GOOD QUALITIES THIS IS A MOST LIBERAL OFFER. MONDAY IS IAST DAY. The N. A. MOORE CO. GKOCUWS . Nos. 162 and 164 North Illinois Street. 'Phones Ö92. TRADE TOO BRISK and work too heavy for regular hours. Until Christmas, therefore, you will find my store at 15 NORTH ILLINOIS STREET. CP"OPEN EVENINOS-4J My window will suggest a gift for any one. You will find upon inquiry inside prices arr MUCH LESS THAN YOU'D EXPECT. C. L R0ST, Diamond Merchant Across from whom WAS the Bates. SEE SOME OF THE NEW EFFECTS! O 0 VANTED-$5,000 in Gold We par hlht eiwh price for oM and broken solid Gold Jewelbt, Rixos and Watches of any kind. FLETCHER M. NOE LICENSED LOA! OJTICE XXO WEST MARKET STREET. 8 a 8 8 IS 8 THE DRAMA. At the Theaters To-Day. ENGLISH'S "Florodora," 8:15 p. m. (5 RAND Vaudeville, 2:13 and 8:15 p. m. PARK "The Flaming Arrow," melodrama. 2 and 8 p. m. EMPIRE "The Dainty Duchess," variety, 2 and 8 p. m. "Florodora" at English'. "Florodora," a musical comedy Imported from England, was presented at English's Opera House last night by one of several companies that are playinp It. News of its popularity elsewhere, and especially the fame of the "double sextette," called "Tell Me. Pretty Maiden," In Its second act, had long preceded it. It had been reported that the success of the entertainment lay In that "double sextette." The feature proved to be one of the cleverest Inventions that have been shown in pieces of the kind. It was sung by six young men and six young women and the words and music were full of ,the spirit of flirtation. The possibilities of. the trick are unlimited, and the twelve singers that had it to do in this instance so pleased their audience that they were asked for several repetitions. A solo and chorus in the second act, entitled. "I Want to be a Military Man." also stirred up a great deal of euthuslasm. "Florodora" consists In two Ions acts, th first showing a tropical island and the second the exterior and interior of an old castl in Wales. The comedy is neither notably original nor humorous, but Leslie Stuart's music sparkles and Is played by an orchestra double the usual size. Several Of the song?, especially those of Lady Holyrood, are brisht in their cynical comment. Grace Dudley, who has the part of Lady Holyrood, was deservedly mora favored than any other member of the company She appreciatively caricatured a soci-ty woman with a mechnical manner. Her singing of "Tact" was a delightful bit. - T. Otrleton. an old acquaintance, was Cyrus Ollfain. millionaire proprietor of the Island of Florodora and the perfumery manufactured there and later the owner of the Welsh ca-tle. M. J. Smith and Charles H Bowers were two young men in love with Gilfaln s daughter and Dolores, an orphan, respectively. The girls were impersonated by Frances Gordon, as Angela Ciilfatn. and I .aura Millard, as Dolores. Philip rtylev was a phrenologist. Anthony Tweedlerunch by name, who was not particularly funnv until he disguised himself as a French musician and jcot drunk. Ida Ioer?e and Charles Lloyd, as servants, contributed an Interesting song and dance. "We Get I't. at 8 a. m." M Be-ides these Individually conspicuous persons there was a croud of girl jn pretty costumes and a considerable number of Rood-lookinsr young men who helped immeasurably in the evening's amusement by singing and dancing in corps. The company will irlve performances at Knsllh's until the end of the week. "Flamin: Arrow" at the I'nrk. Co-Won-Go-Mohawk, an Indian actress. nd a company that suggests one of the c!d-ttme wild West troupes, are paying their annual visit to the Park Theater. The play they are seen in is one of Lincoln J. Carter's, and. as usual with him. he has arranged elaborate tae pictures. The first of these is an Indian carnp near Fort Reno, the second a council lire, the third the interior of the fort, the fourth a wild place in the mountains and the fifth the fort at night. Part of the largo company Is a band

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of real Indians, who wear native costumes. The principal personages of the drama ride on the scenes on horses. An Indian brass band plays In the fort. The story is full of adventures and combats between the whites and the Indians. Go-Von-Go-Mohawk, impersonating White Eagle, an Indian boy. Is friendly to the soldiers and performs heroic deeds in their behalf. Colonel Fremont and his daughter Mary and Lieutenant Rrlghtly are most prominent In the fort. An Irishman and a negro make the fun.

PERSONAL. AND SOCIETY. Dr. J. M. Rhodes will return from Chicago to-day. Miss Louise Gerrard will sail for Europe on the Columbia Tuesday, Dec. 10. Mr. and Mrs. I). P. Krwln have gone to New York to remain three weeks. Miss Elma Igdrr.an will go to Richmond on next Tuesday to sing in a concert given at the Lutheran Church. Mrs. I. X. Walker will leave next Tuesday for a three months' visit with her daughter, Mrs. Rlack, In New York. The regular monthly meeting of the German Ladies' Aid Society will take place to-day at 2:30 o'clock at the German House. Mrs. E. J. Heeb will give a luncheon at the Columbia Club Monday in honor of her sister. Mrs. T. M. Greene, of Walnut Hills. Cincinnati. Mrs. C. F. Zener and Mrs. E. J. Foster will entertain the ladies of the Social Circle of the First Baptist Church this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Miss Anne Hurty's visitor, Miss Adele If. Adams, of Portland. Me., was the guest of honor at a small luncheon given yesterday by Miss Martha M. Foster. Invitations have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hanna for a lecture to be given at the Propylaeum Dec. 10, at 8 o'clock, by Dr. H. B. Friasel, of the Hampton Institute. Hampton, Va. Miss Mannheimer, of Chicago, who has been the guest of Miss Irma Rosenthal, left for Cincinnati yesterday for a three weeks visit, when she will return to this city for a second visit. MUs Carrie H. Speedy and Mr. Walter A. Lombard were married at the home of the bride's parents on Wednesday evening. Rev. J. H. Knowlton performed the ceremony. They will reside at 16oy Spann avenue. Owing to the illness of Mrs. T. A. Kimberlin the reception which was to have been held in honor of Miss Floss Newby, of Knightstown has been postponed indefinitely. Miss Newby has returned to her home. Mrs. John H. Holliday was hostess yesterday for a luncheon given in honor of Mrs. W. C. De Pauw and her daughter. Miss Florence De Pauw. In the afternoon Miss Harriet Nesbltt gave a programme of Scotch songs and readings. The ladies of Meridian-street Church were busy yesterday decorating the interior of the church for the Christmas fair. The vork of decorating will be lnished this morning. The doors of the church will be thrown open to the public at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The Hoosler Magazine Club will be entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Hereth, of North New Jersey street, Monday evening. Dr. R. O. McAlexander has the paper and Mrs. I. R. Bugbee will lead in the discussion. Subject. "Trusts as Represented by the Steel Trust." State Auditor Hart and wife last evening entertained at dinner at their home Governor Durbln and wife. Attorney General William L. Taylor, R. A. Brown and wife, Frank L. Jones and wife, Charles F. Hemy and wife. Col. Charles E. Wilson and wife, Dr. Edenharter and wife and Frank Martin and wife. Mrs. J. K. Cooper, of 2139 Talbott avenue, entertained for her daughter, Mrs. W. K. Cooper, on Wednesday afternoon. The parlors and library were decked in green, and the dining: room was in yellow and white chrysanthemums. Mrs. Cooper was assisted by Mrs. George Pangborn, Mrs. Homer Cooper, Mrs. Ransom Griffin, Miss Winifred Harper, Miss Alice Somerville and M,'ss Hattie Allard. Mr. H. P. Wasson, a member of the Harrison monument commission, entertained the other members at dinner at his home last night. Plans of the commission were discussed and an additional committee appointed which will report in a few days. Air. Wasson's guests were John G. Williams, S. E. Morss, Charles R. Williams, W. H. H. Miller. A. A. Rarnes. H. C. Adams. Hugh H. Hanna. W. C. Bobbs, Louis Hol weg. Smiley N. Chambers. Evans Woollen. Charles W. Smith, H. S. New. In her exhibition of china painting at her home, College avenue, Mrs. C. B. Ford is showing some very commendable work. Pieces of especial beauty are a tea set of dainty light-blue color, a plaque with figure on a dark background, and any number of plates. Several vases are of exquisite workmanship, one having - an angel and cherubim on the most delicate background of blue. Mrs. Ford also does work in burnt wood, having several plaques that are extremely artistic both In design and execution. "THE PUPPENFEE" TO-NIGHT. To-night and to-morrow afternoon, Dec. 6 and 7, "The Puppenfee" will be given at the German House for the benefit of the Katherine Home. The entertainment, will be in the nature of a German doll fair, and will begin with the comedy "In Puppenlauen." The scene represents the interior of the doll shop of Sylvanlus Smifkins, and the plot deals with the inventions and exhibitions cf his wonderful mechanical dolls. The production has been arranged and Is under the stage direction of E. A. Morris, who promises, with the exceptional talent ha has in hand, an interesting and entertaining production. Miss Una Clayson will be the accomplanlst with Hart's Orchestra. After the play the sale of dolls and the dancing will take place. The following is a complete cast of characters: Mortals Sylvanlus Smifklns, the inventor, Mr. G. E. Hunt; Billingsgate Bumble, Mr. Ed Seguin; Lolly Popp, the clerk, Mr. Sidney Gray; Billy Coddy, another; Mrs. Bumble. Mrs. Samuel E. Mores. The Dolls Baby Buntln', Mrs. John T. Brush: Dotty Dimple, Mrs. G. E. Hunt; Ellfinn. the fairy. Mrs. J. M. Leathers; Otoyo San, Miss Josephine Robinson; Cho Cho, Miss Mary Anna Wheeler; Kate Greenaway, Miss Margarlte Lilly; Sis Hopkins, Miss Natalie Brush; Peggy Brown, the rag baby. Miss Josephine Shaw; Miss Colliss. Miss Mary Williams; Hoot Mon, Miss Marie Catterson; Totty, Miss Josephine Parrott; Lottie, Miss Dorothy McOrew; Dotty, Miss Frances McGowan; Notty, Mtes Dorothy Deschler; Faith. Miss Jeanette Harvey; Charity. Miss Mildred Brown; Choo Lee, Master Benjamin Nysewander; Topsy Turvy, Alfred Ringham. The German Band Swartch Geigle. the clarinet. Donald McGibeny; Hans Ach, the bass drum, Wallace Hamilton; Blitzen Donnerwetter, the cornet, Morris Hamilton; Snyder, the leader. Harold Megrew. Dolls, buyers, pedestrians, clerks, etc. MRS. VORIESS CARD PARTY. Mrs. Hervey Daniel Vöries entertained a large card party at her home, 601 North Capitol avenue, yesterday afternoon in honor of Mrs. John Oscar Henderson. The mantles in the double parlors were banked with ferns and small palms, and pink roses decked one of the rooms, while the other was redolent of American Beauties, which also filled a jardiniere that stood upon a white pedestal in the archway between the two rooms. The colors in the dining room were white and green. Mrs. Vöries was assisted by Mrs. Oliver P. Knsley, Mrs. John S. Briggs and Mrs. J. R. Fansler. Out-of-town guests were Mrs. John C. McNutt. Miss Margaret Neely, Misses Mary and Kathcrln Bain, of Martinsville; Mrs. Horace A. Dill, of Richmond: Miss Kate Moore, of Ashland. O.; Miss Irene Bulman. of Terre Haute; Mrs. John Wesley Kagsdalc, of Franklin, and Mrs. Charles M. Zion. of Lebanon. A harpist played during the afternoon. The prizes were four embroidered pillows and two lace dining table covers. LOG A N S WAD LEY. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind., Dec. 5. Otto Logan, formerly stenographer of the Wabash Circuit Court and now employed in a similar capacity at Colorado City, Tex., and Miss Maud Swadley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Swadley. were married here this evening by the Kev. M. S. Marble, of the Methodist Church. Only a few relatives and friends were present at the nuptials. Miss Swadley has long been popular in local society circles. The young couple lft Immediately for their new home In the Southwest. ROWK-Rl'NNKLS. Sjerlal t' tlie In!i.na joli Jourr.nl. BEDFORD. Ind.. Dec. 5.-The marriage of Mr. Frank Richardson Howe and Miss Pearl Runnels took place at the First Methodist Church in this city last night, the Rev. R. Scott Hyde officiating. A large number of guests w re present. The groom Is a brother of Mr. John A. Rmve. a prominent stone dealer of this city, and the bride

is the daughter of Mr. S. F. Runnells. superintendent of the Robin Roost quarry. Hints for Holiday Shoppers. A new belt has a narrow laced girdle In the back and buckle In front. XXX Of the popular articles in the shops are embroidered linen turnovers. These come in colors and are worked in white. They are to be worn with silk neckwear. XXX In gloves there are the reindeer, outseamed, with one large pearl button fastening. The "Dent" saddle server glove is for men and women. Another is the black glove with fancy wrist trimmings of white and large white button. XXX Of stock collars, there is an endles3 variety. For common wear, a pretty one is of linen with the four-in-hand tie. Dainty silk ones are of white with ties stitched in pink and blue. A handsome stock is of white silk panne velvet with embroidered ends. All collars must go twice around in order to be the proper thing. XXX In the furniture stores, one finds things that are entirely new. There are tables and desks in burnt wood, and odd Jardiniere stands in Oriental designs. A piano bench that is a decided novelty, found in a department store, is of dark wood etched in pyrographic work, and polished. The top raises, disclosing a charming place for sheet music. XXX For the dining room there is the handsome buffet, with cabinet top, which really comprises two tops. This is sometimes enhanced by glass apartments and mirror backs, though the plain ones are quite elegant. The most popular wood for these convenient dining room accessories are in the weathered oak with dull finish, which is certainly an improvement over the polished oak which has so long been a fad. XXX This year there seems to be a greater variety than ever in the shops, and as the city grows, in wealth, the stores are enabled to carry each year, a higher grade of goods than the year preceding. This is especially true in regard to bric-a-brac and those household appointments that are chiefly ornamental. Indianapolis merchants are showing some lines of goods that they have never carried before, much of this being imported. For instance, there is the Dutch silverware which is hand-made and very heavy.

Quaint spoons of various sorts have odly fashioned bowls all with the characteristic wind mill or dyke. An Indianapolis firm was the first in the United States to import old Dutch silver. Her .Monogrnm. Philadelphia Record. "Will you have your monogram on it?" asked the saleswoman. The purchaser, a middle-aged woman of -sensible demeanor, looked puzzled as she gazed at her purchasean article of underwear. "My monogram?" she asked. "Yes; of course." replied the saleswoman. "Monograms go on everything this season. We have them all made up; any combination of letters that you could think of. They go on practically everything a woman wears. On stockings they are generally placed either Just below the knee or on the Instep. On underwear it doesn't make much difference where it goes, but it generally goes somewhere. The fad for monograms even extends to gloves, where it is stitched in the back. Everybody Is wearing them." "Well. I think it's foolishness," retorted the middle-aged purchaser. "I know who I am without a monogram to tell me. and I don't care whether other people know who I am or not." And that settled it. Concerning: Kconomy. New England Farmer. If a substltuto or sham is all that you can have, it is well sometimes to accept it if it be a needed comfort or convenience. That is. provided it does not cost as much as the genuine article. Making a table of a cheese box and broom handles, covering a peach basket with chintz for a scrap basket or making a work basket by shirring silk over a grape basket are doubtful economies because a dollar will buy a small table or stand and a good scrap or work basket can be found for 30 cents. But if a drapery is to be hung over a closet door or between two attic rooms, or a mosquito netting between dining room and kitchen, an old broom handle and two common clothes hooks will answer the purpose well. Make a hem in the top of the cloth, slip the broom handle through and rest the ends on the hooks, which have been fastened to the door casing. For the Card Player. New York Commercial Advertiser. Card-playing is so popular a pastime that it is worth while to record a way to improvise felt card-tables. In a certain card club in a neighboring city every hostess has her set of felt tops. These are pieces of felt cut larger than the table which they are intended to cover, the edge finished with a hem, through which a stout elastic is run. This Is spread over the table, fitting itself smooth when the rubber Is properly adjusted. A large round dining table is covered in this way for various games that would deface a polished table or In which the smooth surface would interfere. The tops, of course, can be cut to fit any table, and it should be added that the Idea Is most successfully carried out with round tables.' Sensible Stigg;entlnu. Chicago Evening Post. One of a sensible and economical turn of mind urges that the Dutch treat be made popular. Our friends like to be with us for our society and not for the refreshments we give them. Organize a theater party on the basis of the Dutch treat. Just for the sake of the Jolly party going together. Go to supper afterward and instead of one unfortunate man cutting down his luncheon money for a whole week to provide extravagant dishes for the crowd, let each order hi3 own bill of fare and pay accordingly. A custom of this kind started in a community is sure to be popular. AVhen Tto Men AVere Broke." Kansas City Journal. "Let me tell you an amusing story about two of the bis men of Kansas," Faid an oldtimer yesterday, after reading an item about the swell wedding of Jeorge R. Teck's daughter In Chicago. "Many years ago, when Albert II. Horton and George R. Peek were having a hard time to keep the wolf from their doors, they happened to meet in New York city, where both had gone on business. Horton had just $18 and his transportation home. He had paid his hotel bill and felt that by close figuring he could pay his Pullman fare and get his meals on the Ion.-: journey back to Kansas. " 'Hello. Horton.' said Teck. Tm mighty glad to see you. Haven't seen a man I knew since coming to town. Been looking everywhere. Let's go down to Delmonico's and have lunch.' "This suited Horton, though it struck him as a little surprising that Peck should be flying so high, and the pair made their way to New York's great restaurant. There Peck ordered a meal fit for a millionaire. It came to $26.75. When the check was handed to Peck he turned to Horton and said: 'By the way. Judge. I'm a little short; lend me fifty till we get back home.' " 'Fifty?' said the judge, solemnly: 'why. George. I haven't but ?K to my name. 'You don't mean to tell me that you came down here broke?' " 'Broke flat!' said George cheerfully. 'Don't you spose we can stand off this shack until we get back home?' " 'If we try it there will be a scene, sure.' said Horton. 'I'll tell you what we'll do. You pretend to be very busy eatingcoming up for the second round, as it were and I'll slip out to a mortgage company I do business for and borrow the money.' "And that." concluded the oldtimer, "is the way Delmonico's bill was paid. And If Peck remembers It I'll bet he will confess that never In his life was he so flabbergasted as when he sat at that table trying to pretend that he had not finished, while waiting for Horton to reappear." Xnturul Inquiry. Philadelphia Inquirer. According to a Copenhagen dispatch, the decision to sell the Danish West Indies was made against the wishes of the royal famiiy, of the Ministry, of the Rigsdig and of the people of Denmark. Who was it made the decision? The office boy? YVItHt Mm II We llnv for Denaert f This que.-tlon arises in the family every day. Let u answer It to-ilay. Try Jell-O. a delicious ilr!ert. Prewar".! In two minutes. No baking! Add hot water ar.'l hrt to cool. Flavors; Lernen. Drange. RaypLerry and Straw btirj. At your fcrevvre. 10 eta.

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RESOLUTION ADOPTED AGAINST THE GIlOt'T OLEO HILL. Proposed Legislation Relative to Cloth Roods Label New Executive Committee Indiana Sales. CHICAGO. Dec. 5. The recommendation of tha executive committee that resolutions condemning the Groute anti-oleo bill be adopted, gave rise to a long and spirited general debate among delegates present at to-day's session of the live stock convention, Leonard Pearson, of Pennsylvania, speaking for the dairy interests, who uphold the Grout bill, led the debate with the plea that with oleo selling under its own colors, butter could hold its own. After a spirited discussion Judge Cowen brought the speaking to a close by moving the previous question. The resolution was adopted, but over a good-sized minority. Colonel Simpson, following the reading of his regular paper, made a brief plea for a ship subsidy. A resolution to admit Oklahoma to statehood was adopted. Ambassadors and other representatives of foreign nations enjoyed the hospitality of General Manager W. E. Skinner at the exposition to-day. Count Quadt, secretary of the German legation at Washington, Count Komatz, of the Japanese embassy, and Senor Alberto Serantes, representing the Argentine Republic, together with many resident consuls, were in the party. The papers of the day were by Dr. J. H. Senner, of New York; Prof. Andrew M. Soule, of the Tennessee Agricultural College: Hon. F. F. Warren, of Wyoming; A. F. Doremus, state engineer of U-tah, and Col. W. G. Simpson, of Texas. Bills to be urged upon Congress to provide for tagging cloth goods to show its exact composition and to provide for a, classified assessment of cattle were approved by the convention. The executive committeemen for 1902 were then appointed. Among them are: Illinois, G. W. Baker; Indiana, Mortimer Levering; Kentucky. Gen. John B. Castleman; Michigan, G. C. Lilly; New Mexico. Sol Luna; New York, G. H. Davison; Ohio. W. E. Fulton: Pennsylvania, W. B. Powell; Tennessee, Overton Lea; Texas, R. J. Kleeburg; Virginia, J. P. Cowan; West Virginia. IL E. Williams. The first sale of fat cattle was the Angus steer Steadfast, exhibited by M. A. Judy & Son. of Williamsport, Ind., and winner of the second prize. The steer went to Armour & Co. at 25c per pound. At the shorthorn sale In the afternoon Missie, the famous two-year-old recently Imported, the property of E. W. Brown, of Delphi, Ind., was sold to A. C. Edwards, of Rockland, Ont., for $600. Much disappointment was expressed at the result of the sales, the prices being much lower than last year. In some cases the steers brought less money than at an ordinary sale and many feeders present declared they would not compete next year. Peter Hopley got $3 per hundred, the highest price of the day, for fifteen Angus animals which went to Swift & Co. The average price of the entire sale was about $7, which is less than the market price of steers of the same quality. J0ITES OPPOSES KILLING. Toledo's Mayor Resigns from Humane Society Directorate. TOLEDO, Dec. 5. Mayor Samuel M. Jones has resigned from the board of directors of the Toledo Humane Society because its president, Hon. James M. Brown, who is also president of the American Humane Society, declared that a man who abandons his children should be put to death. The declaration appears in the annual report of the Toledo Humane Society and is as follows: "The man who will bring children into the world and in their helplessness desert them is unfit to bear the image of either brute or man, is an enemy to his race, a traitor to his country and should be put to death. Yet, the Legislature of Ohio will send such a man to a stoneyard for three months, and give the man who steals a cow from one to seven years in the penitentiary." Mayor Jones, in a letter to Mr. Brown, expressed his respect for the society and its ofilcers In an attempt to benefit mankind, but said that if it were the purpose of the society to kill men for abandonment of children he could not serve as director, and therefore tendered his resignation, as he did not believe in killing anybody for crime. A SHOCK TO THH ENGINEER. Always Unnerved If Ills Locomotive Runs Down n Man. ' Denver (Col.) News. Some one with a fondness for the compilation of statistics has evolved the theory that engineers hold their positions on an average ten years. Denver knights of the throttle must be superior to their brethren in other places, for it is not at all unusual to encounter men here who have labored for the same corporation from fifteen to twenty years and feel that they still have many years to toll in the harness. Charles Frye, of the Rio Grande, is one of these. Last year he completed his twentieth consecutive year with the company. He is a splendid specimen of the engineer. A man of brawn and brain. Ills hair Is quite white, but his physical and mental vigor has not decreased, rather has it grown with the flight of the years and the assumption of greater responsibilities. He bubbles over with good nature and laughs at the suggestion that anything in his career would prove of interest to the general public. He was born in Franklin. Mass.. April 11, 1S4G. He began firing on the Boston & Albany in 18G2, but the war fever was contagious and he enlisted with his father, but the authorities discovered that he was too young and his father too old and both were compelled to return to peaceful pursuits. After three years' shoveling of coal he was graduated to the upper side of the cab and pulled trains all over the Bay State. In 1S78 he came West with an engine from the Taunton works and ran between Cheyenne and Sidney, Neb. Two years later he came to Denver and went to work for the Rio Grande. For the last eighteen years he has pulled a. passenper train out of this city toward the south. He has been unfortunate enough to kill several persons who got in front of his engine, which is one of the speediest on the system. "What were my sensations after the tragedies?" he was asked, and the smile faded from his face. "1 can't describe it. I suppose a. fellow of my size should be ashamed to confess thatanything caused him to collapse, but after we crash into some one and I know that a fatality has resulted. I am unable to stand. When I see the danger I concentrate every energy to avert the catastrophe. I am not nervous then, but when It is over I collapse. About five years ago a few miles below Colorado Springs on a clear day we were bowling along at forty miles an hour and I observed a man walking down the middle of the track. I pulled the whistle, but he did not pay the slightest attention. I thought he would get out of the way and we were upon him before I realized that he did not intend doing so. I reversed and put on the brakes, but the cowcatcher caught him and hurled him against a telegraph pole. Life was extinct when w reached him. We turned him over to the coroner and afterword that official told me that the ded man was a fugitive from justice. He had murdered a man in Oregon and for months he had evaded the authorities. That day he had learned in Colorado Springs that the local police were looking for him. He had evidently grown weary of feeing from place to place and determined to commit suicide. "Some time later I narrowly avoided running down an old man near Manitou. I Intended' spending the day in the resort with my wife, but the shock was so great that I was ill for the entire afternoon. If I had killed the poor fellow I believe the effect urn me would have been serious." The kind-hearted engineer spoke with much feeling and it was evident that the tragetiles had made such an impression upon his mind that they could never be forgotten. He is Justly popular with the managment and employes alike. A Prnfeanor's Idea. New York Commercial Advertiser. Mark Twain, we believe, has written a book which is to be published in a hundred years. His purpose, doubtless, is to let our descendants know about us in a way that the literature of this day would not

allow. Rut the American humorist has been quite outdone by an Austrian professor. The professor will leave to the museum of Prague 115 with an interesting condition. This is that at his death all his personal belongings, including his clothes ami furniture, shall be packed in air-tight cases and preserved for two hundred years, so that the ieoplo of that future age will be able to know exactly how a professor at the beginning of the twentieth century lived. ZUNI MAGIC.

i:x(rnortllnnr.v Font Which White Men Cannot Kxplain. New York Times. Xearly everybody has heard of -and wondered at the mango-growing trick of the Hindu, by which he makes a seed sprout before the astonished eyes of the European and reach maturity in a very short time. But few are aware that an equally amazing feat is regularly performed by the Zuni Indians on this continent. Their medicine men, at the annual "corn festival," do a "stunt" of which no satisfactory explanation has ever been advanced. Scientists, seeing it, have been made, as a cowboy described it, to "look like 30 cents." Preparation is made for this extraordinary Zuni performance by spreading a large square of clean yellowish sand on the ground before the southern aperture of the medicine lodge. This sand is carefully smoothed and packed so as to present a firm, level surface. Around the edges of the sand square are then drawn, by means of a ceremonial arrow, figures representing the Great Spirit, the earth, the sun. the sky and the rain. There are also the symbols for corn and for a bountiful harvest. The indentations made by the arrow are then filled in with pigments, the clouds and sky with blue, the earth with black, and the harvest with chrome yellow. The center of the square is left vacant. When completed, this sand painting is a fine specimen of barbaric art. and is far from displeasing to a civilized eye. When the hour arrives, the officiating medicine man takes his seat in the opening of the lodge facing the sand square. On his right and left, extending out around the square, the chiefs and warriors range themselves according to rank. When all are in position, the medicine man fills the ceremonial pipe with tobacco, lights it, and blows one puff of smoke to the east, one to the west, one to the north, one to the south, and two to the heavens. He then addresses those assembled, recounting the religious history of the tribe, its wanderings and famine, and the benevolence of the great spirit in the past. He closes with a prayer for the continuance of fatherly care. Then he takes a grain of corn from the medicine bag at his waist, thrusts the sacred arrow into the center of the sand square, withdraws it. drops the grain into the opening, and carefully smoothes down the sand. Resuming his seat, all the assembled chiefs light their pipes and smoke in silence. If the Great Spirit condescends to answer the prayer of the medicine man, as generally happens, the grain of corn will sprout and send forth a shoot. After an interval of fifteen or twenty minutes the sand eems disturbed at the spot where the corn was buried. Soon slender light green blades of sprouting corn appear above the surface. The plant rises naturally and rapidly during the dav. By the next sunrise the silk and tassel appear. By noon the ear and stalk have reached full maturity. Then ripening begins. Finally the blades and husks turn yellow and rattle when they are shaken by the wind. All this, mind you, has been done in thirty-six hours. On the morning of the second dav the torn growing is complete. The medicine man now addresses the watchers, who in company have "watched" the plant grow, for it is never left alone. With appropriate ceremonies he symbolizes the harvest by stripping the ear of its husks. The corn he places in the medicine bag for future ceremonies, while the stalk is pulled up by the roots and hung over the door of the lodge. The long vigil of the watchers is now ended and they seek much-needed rest and food in order to be ready for the rain dance on the following day. Every white man witnessing one of these ceremonies is deeply mystified. Above all. he is filled with admiration for the old medicine man. So natural and mysterious has been the process that the spectator feels at times disposed to believe in the presence of some supernatural power. Yet every sane person knows that this performance has nothing unnatural about it. Xo white man. however, has discovered the secret. The absence of stage paraphernalia and the crude mechanical knowledge of the Zunis add to the mystery of the whole thing. Various theories have been advanced in explanation. One is that some shrewd old medicine man discovered by accident some peculiar natural chemical that has the power of forcing the growth of a grain of corn and that this secret has been handed down from one generation of priests to another. Another favorite explanation Is that by great skill the medicine man is able to hypnotize the entire circle of spectators and so produce the result without apparatus of any kind save a yellow stalk of corn from the last harvest. Others say the feat is accomplished by elaborate machinery concealed in a pit. But nobody knows exactly. MANSFIELD'S PLAYS. They Are Remarkable for Their Unpronounceable Names. Baltimore Herald. "Mansfield." said a Bald-Headed Man in the lobby of the Academy last night, "seems fated to enact characters with unpronounceable names. Of course, all of those In his repertoire are not of that sort, but some of them" "For instance?" said the Callow Youth with the Bald-Head Man. "Well, look at Andre Rossini Mario de Jardot. in "Monsieur.' How do you pronounce It?" "Ondray Row-see-nee Mah-ree-oh" began the Callow Youth. "But how do you know that you're right?" asked the Bald-Head Man. And then he went on without waiting for an answer: "Look at Captain Blutschll, in 'Arms and the Man." and Don Pedro, in 'The King of Peru.' Most people pronounce Pedro just as they pronounce the name of the card game. It should be Tay-drow," my son. 'Pay-drow.' And then consider Sir John Sombras, in "Castle Sombras.' and Eugene Courvolsier, in 'The First Violin or, to go back a few years, take, for instance, Raron Chevrial, in 'A Parisian Romance.' "And then come down to Cyrano de Bergerac. You remember how long it took the hoi polio! to twist Its tongue around that name, don't you? First it was called plain Ber-ger-ack, then with the "g" hard, and then It changed to Rare-sher-ack, and finally to Bare-schalr-ock. And. for that matter, consider Beaucaire." "Bow-care," said the Callow Youth. It's a cinch." "Hut how about Monsieur?" asked the Bald-Head Man. "It's been dropped from the name of the play." replied the Callow Youth, evasively. "Rut why?" demanded the Bald-Head Man. "I don't know." answered the Callow Youth. Til tell you, then," said the Raid-Head Man. lowering his voice. "It was simply because Mr. Mansfield knew that the public could never hope to pronounce Monsieur." "Moun-seer." ventured the Callow Youth. "Wrong," said tho Raid-Head Man. "Mush-sheer." "Wrong." "Mush-shoor." "Wrong again." "Mun-shure." "Wrong another time." And then the Raid-Head Man proceeded to tell a story. "Once upon a time." he said. "Wilton Lackaye was holding forth rather scathingly upon the subject of modern dramatists, when some one asked him if he had ever written a play himself. " 'I have.' he replied; 'I have dramatized "Les Miserables." but I have never yt found a manager who could pronounce it " Whereupon the Raid-Head Man and the Callow Youth gave up their checks at the door. Tlie Difference. New York Times. Friends of Senator Stewart, of Nevada, are wondering whether he will wear his straw hat this Christmas. He wore It last Christmas and a newspaper reporter who knew him well, meeting him, sighed whn envy. The reporter is fat, and he was perspiring at every pore. "Senator," he said, "I wish I could do that." "I know you do." snorted Stewart, "but you can't. I can. but you can't. If you were to wear a straw hat at Christmas everybody would say you didn't have the price of a derby."

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