Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 4, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 April 1908 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banney

LIGONIER,

NEWS OF AWEEK TOLD IN BRIEF

“OS'[ IMPORTANT EVENTS GATHERED FROM ALL POINTS OF THE GLOBE. :

GIVEN IN ITEMIZED FORM

Notable Happenings Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man—Summary of the Latest Home and Foreign Notes. IN CONGRESS. : Suppression of anarchy as the greatest question before the nation was called to the attention of congress by President Roosevelt in a special message. The executive submits what has been done under existing statutes, but says there should be further legislation. " . In the house both the army and the fortifications appropriation' bills were sent to conference; the senate bill to increase the efficiency of the revenue cutter service was, with Democratic help, passed, and the bill to promote, the safe transportation in interstate commerce of explosives was considered. The Democrats prevented the adoption of the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill and caused it to be sent back to conference.

During a session full of violent talk the house adopted two new rules designed to prevent filibustering by the Democrats. It also passed Speaker Cannon’s two resolutions that call on the departments of justice and labor for information concerning the socalled paper trust. '

The naval appropriation bill authorizing the construction of two instead of four battleships and eight instead of four submarine torpedo boats, and carrying ‘a total appropriation of $103,967,518 for the naval service for the fiscal year -ending June 30, 1909, was reported to the house by Chairman Foss of the committee on n\aval affairs.

As an aftermath of the passage of the army appropriation bill Senator Hale, chairman of the committee on naval affairs, warned against increases of the military establishment; saying they were inviting a deficit. He moved the reconsideration of the vote by which the army bill was passed and his motion was then laid on the table at his request. Senator Burkett characterized the proceeding as one of bad faith. The senate passed the fortification appropriation bill carrying an aggregate of $12,106,187: The special house committee investigating Mr. Lilley's charges against the Electric Boat company learned that some one in the navy department had been giving out parts of navy reports. '

PERSONAL. Robert M. La Follette captured nearly all the Republican delegates-a’-large to the national convention in the Wisconsin state primaries, the slate put up by the Taft men meeting general .defeat. Virginia Republicans elected Taft delegates. Rear Admiral Evans will not rejoin the battleship fleet at San Diego or participate: in any of the functions and celebrations in the ports of southern California. . Dr. Koch of Berlin, the famous bacteriologist, arrived in New York. - Secretary of War Taft, addressing the McKinley club of Omaha, declared W. J. Bryan was insincere in his criticism of Republican policies in the Philippines. . William-J. Bryan - was the chief guest of the Bryan Democratic club of Colorado at a banquet in Denver. The waiters all struck and club members served the .dinner. : . Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the prime minister of Great Britain, resigned and his resignation was accepted by the king, who summoned Herbert H. Alquith, chancellor of the exchequer, to Biarritz to form a new cabinet. :

GENERAL NEWS. ; :Judge Phelan in Detroit scored a jury for acquitting Percy Bowin of a murder to which he had confessed. The “open shop” policy will be adhered to by vessel owners, in the operation of boats upon the great lakes - this season. A stand of this character in degling with organized labor was unapimously agreed to at the annual méeeting of the Lake Carriers’ associat;on in Cleveland, O. “Bix hundred paper hangers and painters in Minneapolis struck for the “closed shop.” There has been a recrudescence of bubonie plague at Lima and other “parts of Peru. . : : - Seven men were severely injured at Huntington, W. Va., in a dynamite explosion at Meadow Creek, where a force of men was at work removing a landslide. : : - Gov, Magoon of Cuba requested all the provincial governors to resign and appointed army officers in their places. The French fishing schooner Cham- ~ pagn was lost off St. Malo, France. the crew being brought to Halifax o> the steamer Volturno. ~ Two" bombs were exploded in the effort to destroy the pier and equir ment used by the MeClintie-Marshail - Construction company in constructin- - a new pier for the White Star line i: - New York. S I S geirely ShS ot s@; -y RS S {1”»&‘:@‘%’&!“{, *m o e A T ot

Lorenzo D. Kneeland, a w'ell-imown broker and club man of Chicago, committed suicide by shooting because of ill health. ;

At a meeting of the board of trustees of Princeton university announcement was made of the gift of $250,00C from Mrs. Russell Sage for a dormitory building to be used by members of the freshman class. : :

INDIANA.

Grover Blake of Anderson, Ind., who killed his mother with a hammer for the: purpose of robbery March 21 last, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Mrs. Catherine C. Tucker, matron of a feline hospital in South Boston, lost her life in trying to save a pet cat from being burned to death. - ;

Gov. Hughes of New York, whose anti-gambling bills. were defeated, told the legislature he would not give up the fight and intimated he would call a special session to adopt the legislation. - :

Col. W. L. De Lacey of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., a prominent lawyer, committed suicide by inhaling gas. . After an .absence of 43 .years Andrew Jackson’'s historic words, “The Union, Must' Be Preserved,” will be restored to the monument. of Old Hickory in’ court square, Memphis, Tenn. They were chiseled out during the civil war. In order to present military service in its most attractive light and in that way encourage enlistment in the army, Gen. Bell, chief of staff, has directed that all officersfand enlisted men employved in the reeruiting service wear their nicest military apparel. Representative C. E. Ward was found not guilty, at Detroit, .of manslaughter in connection with the death of Miss Edith Presley. ~The »Olive Street bank of St. Louis, having a capital' of $130,000 and deposits of $350,000, was closed by the state bank examiner.

The Alabama supreme court held both the. general prohibition and the nine o'clock closing laws to be constitutional and effective.

The Illinois supreme court refused a rehearing to Herman Billek, condemned to death for the murder of the Vzral family in Chicago. - ~Knute Ohnstead of St. Paul, Minn,, starved himself to death in an attempt to fast 40 days. : Because his mother, Susan Carlin, had sent him to various reformatory institutions in which he was a prisoner Tor many years, Bernard Carlin shot and instantly killed her at her home in Brooklyn. Because of the error of a western court:in divorcing him from the wrong woman, Calvin S. Wright, a baker of Jeanette, Pa., will have to stand trial on charges of bigamy and perjury. : There is reason to believe that measures are being taken in Port-au-Prince; Haiti, to force the intervention of the United States if possible. Apparent tranquility prevails, but there is good. authority for the statement that hostility against the present Hai. tien- government is growing more intense. :

Three hundred and five students of Clemson 'college, in South Carolina, were- expelled for an All-Fool’'s day escapade.

Albert Heiser, a baker of New York, drew a revolver at the dinner table, fired two shots at his young bride and then killed himself. Mrs. Heiser is not expected to recover. : Public .and private funeral services were held in Washington over the body of ‘the lateé Durham White Stevens, adviser to the Korean government, who was killed by a Korean in San Francisco. - : ; The American government has accepted thé invitation of New Zealand for the American battleship fleet to visit Auckland. Lol

M. A. Johnson, a bank cashier at Stoughton, Wis., committed suicide by inhaling gas. £ President Roosevelt made public his letter of April 2 to the attorney general directing proceedings by injunction to compel certain railroads of the south to furnish equal accommodations to white and negro passengers. Archbishop Ryan announced that a

$lOO,OOO gift had been made by a woman, believed to be Mrs. Frederic Canfield Penfield, for -the proposed Catholic High School for Girls in Philadelphia. A rumor that a big public school in the Italian section of Newark, N. J., was blown up by Blank Hand blackmailers as an act of revenge for failure of parents of pupils to pay tribute resulted in a.panic in which two children were injured. The great liquor contest in Illinois resulted in - a drawn battle, with the saloons winning decisively in most of the largetr cities;, but losing in scores of smaller ones, 1,014 saloons being voted out of existence. The returns, as collectéd by townships, are even more impressive from the prohibition viewpoint, 828 townships, or threefourths of the total number, being closed to the saloon. Samuel L." Gardner, a well-known civil engineer who lived at McKees Rocks, a suburb of Pittsburg, shot and killed Miss Dorothy Yost, 17 years old, and then shot himself in the mouth, dying several hours later. ' OBITUARY. : * William Lassen, Danish minister of finance, died at Copenhagen. : William E. Shutt, BSr., of Springfield, 111, died at Hot Springs, Ark. He was former mayor of Springfield, twice a senator; and under Cleveland’s second administration was United States district attorney for the southern district of Illinois. : Aunt Becky Young, '.:e first woman to offer herself as a n when the civil war broke out and famous as a leader of the Red Cross nurses in the war, died at her home in Des Moines. Charles Quarles, one of the best known attorneys in Wisconsin, died suddenly of heart disease. He was a brother of former United States Senator Quarles, now United States judge, of Milwaukee, o Byron m«, vice-president and general - ntendent of the Motor Car company of Detroit and inventor of a friction drive automebile bearing his name, is dead. estate man ;‘:gt NArne: Ind.; wes been asphyxiated by gas leaking from

The Making of @ Muscle For Boys

DAILY ROUTINE FOR LADS UNDER "FOURTEEN WHO WANT ATH- - LETIC POWER.

MORE WORK FOR THE HARDY

One-Minute Bath—“ Sprinting” Exercise Carried to the Point of Exhaustion Is Worse Than None. :

BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. [Athletic Instructor New York Evening World. . Author of “Muscle . 29 Building,”” ete.] : There are several varieties of morning exercises that are good for the growing boy, among them “rising and sinking” and “suppling,” and then here is one intended for the legs: Stand straight, arms folded, heels close together. Draw in slowly a long breath. Rise on the toes, then lower the heels until they almost touch the ground. Rise on the toes again. Do this ten times the first morning, increasing by two until you reach 50. At every five frises” expel the breath as slowly as you inhaled it, and draw another long, slow breath. This

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exercise strengthens all the leg muscles, particularly those of the calf, while deep breathing keeps heart, lungs and chest in good condition. I shall have more to say in another lession about breathing. It is one of the imost-important details in an athlete’s course of training. - Next, stand still, on tip-tees, every muscle of the body rigid, and draw in a long breath, slowly, filling the lungs, letting it out again just as slowly. (Keep the mouth shut in all athletic work, breathing entirely through the nose.) Repeat this breathing exercise slowly ten times. Increase it by one each day till you reach twenty. - All this (including exercises described last week) should not take you over ten minutes. Fifteen at the outside. i

As soon‘as your exercising is over take a.bath.

Most physical culture instructors insist .on perfectly cold baths for their pupils. And, if there is no ‘heart trouble, such a bath will do no harm. In any case, take the bath as cold as you can stand it. Don’t remain in the water longer than one minute at the very most. Don’t wait for the perspiration to dry on your body before getting into the tub after exercising, As soon as you have bathed rub yourself down as quickly and thoroughly as possible with a rough towel, and then dress rapidly. In this way you will avoid all danger of catching cold. : © %“Before Breakfast” Walk. When you are dressed go out for a brisk half-mile walk, before breakfast. While walking keep the mouth shut, breathe through the nose, keep the chest out, the shoulders back and the head up. Don’t loiter, but walk steadily and briskly. Arrange your walk so as to return home a few minutes before breakfast. ' Rest during those few minutes. : 1 ;

By that time the average healthy boy will have acquired an appetite a dyspeptic would be willing to buy with a fortune.

But don’t bolt your food. Eat slowly, chewing each mouthful thoroughly.

After breakfast take no violent exercise for at least half an hour. In going to school, if the distance is not too great, walk., The outdoor exercise will do you good. Remember to walk as I have described. In the afternoon when school is over walk home again, or at least a mile. Walking is the,best as well as the cheapest exercise ever 'invented and is a part of every good athlete’s daily routine. : ¢

On arriving at home 15 minutes’ exercise in swinging half-pound dumbbells' will strengthen the arms, and is enough work (together with the morning exercises 1 have described) for anybody under 14 to do in one day. Personally I am not a great believer

NUISANCE TO THE FARMER

Experiments Now Under Way for Removing “Fairy Rings.”

The. fairy rings, which are so familiar a feature in old grass land, and sometimes in lawns, are regarded more in the light of a curiosity than that of an evil or disfigurement. As far as pastures and meadows are concerned, there is an inclination to regard them with favor, as, judging by its dark green color, the herbage ir the affected parts is superior in palatability and quality to that of the surrounding parts. It appears, however, that in this case, as in some others, color is deceptive, and that the grass is really depreciated in. value.by the action of the fungus, which is known to be responsible for the rings. There {8 evidence in support of this theory in the fact that live stock do not graze “fairy rings” so closely as the unafl: fected parts. If the grass were as sweet and rich as it looks, it would be picked bare, ‘but this is rarely the case, unless scarcity compels the ani-

in dumb-bells, chest weights and Indian clubs for boys of tender years. If such implements are used by them at all only the lightest weighted ones should be employed. Afternoon Running. 5

The morning exercises, supplemented by a game of ball or any other active outdor game, are enough for the average boy until he is 14, But as such games are usually played in a more or less desultory manner they may be supplemented by a daily course of running. s Start out the first-afternoon to run a quarter mile. Run steadily but not rapidly for ‘the first three-quarters of the distance. Then sprint the rest of the way, or, in athletic parlance, “finish strong.” 5 Increase the distance by a block each day, always reserving the -last quarter of the distance for a sprint. Keep this up until you are able to run three-quarters of a mile. =~

In running. keep the lips closed, breathe through your nose, breathe slowly and regularly, taking full, long breaths. ' When it is impossible for you to run any farther without breathing in gasps stop running. Keep the head upward, the chest out,' as in walking. Your lungs need full room to work under the extra strain.Great care should be taken not to catch cold after the run is over. Keep moving; put on a coat; above all, don’t “stand around and cool off.” Sleep,“as I said, at least nine hours each night: Ten hours is better. Sleep in a well ventilated room.

' Such sports as skating, rowing (in moderation), baseball and tennis. are of great benefit in helping on your athletic course. You will be far more expert at all of them, because of your other training. » -Remember, though, that all the athletic instruction in the world cannot help you unless you yourself furnish the determination and energy to keep at it after the first flush of novelty wears ofl.’, ; For Lads About 14. : Some boys may complain. that I have given lads under 14 too restricted a course of exercise. Personally I do not think these objectiong valid, for it is always better to er[rli*on the side of safety than te prescribe a single exercise that can, one time in a thousand, lead to injury or strain. - . But here is a compromise for such boys under 14 as are able to stand heaviér work. : I'am going to describe a number of single exercises for boys about 14. If any younger boy, who chances to be unusually strong for his age, cares to try them, let him do so. If he finds them ‘“‘too much” for him, let him stop using. them at once, and content himself with the regimen alrea-'iiy prescribed. ‘ In this way the strong boy under 14 years of age can derive extra benefit, with no chance of harm. 2

I would repeat that the ‘“morning

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mals to take whatever is within their reach, It may be concluded, therefore, that it would be an advantage to farmers, as well as to owners of infected lawns, if fairy rings could be eradicated. The discovery of a means of accomplishing this has been the subject of repeated inquiries in Australia, and it looks as if success had rewarded the efforts of the experimenters. G kg

Big Demand for Snake Venom. Snake venom is one of the strangest as well as most costly articles of commerce. There is a growing demand for it in'medicine and other branches of science. A large part of the supply comes from Australia,” and a Sydney quotation placed the market price recently at five to six dollars a grain, or about $30,000 a pound troy. Venoms are now being classified. Tiger snake venom comes first, as it is 16 times as deadly as that of the black snake and four timesg as powerful as that from the brown snake or death adder.

the number by one each day till you get up to 20. This is excellent work for nearly all the muscles of the trunk, abdomen and stomach. Now lie down face downward. Supporting the whole weight of the body on the palms and the toes (hands being each about six inches beyond the body at about the level of the shoul: ders), raise the rest of the body from the floor. Raise it until the arms are almost rigidly extended. Then lower the body till the chest almost touches the ground. Do not, however, allow the chest or any other part of the body except the hands and toes to touch, but repeat the “raising” process. Do not try this too often at first. Five times is enough for the first day. Increase the number per day if you can until you get it up to 15. Now as to the way to breathe while doing this raising and lowering exercise: ~ Before raising yourself for the first time draw in a full breath slowly. Hold it while you raise yourself, lower yourself, raise yourself and lower again. Then let the breath out just as slowly; draw in another and go on, allowing one long breath for every two “raises.” The foregoing exercise is also good for nearly every muscle of the body, and if done properly (without jerkiness or twisting) will not strain you. For Legs and Thighs. Stand upright, heels together, hands on your hips. Keeping the heels together, bend the knees forward, allowing the body to sink as near the floor as possible without losing your bal~ ance or going too far down to recover yourself. Rise, still keeping the heels together, to an upright posture. Now, in lowering the body the next time, still keep the heels together, but bend the knees, not forward, but outward. In other words, instead of keeping the knees as near together as possible, get

, & - ) '\ : ] 1 , _ 4 ; ! t ' = “'s3:_‘..\ = ) Chest Expansion. = them as far apart as possible, still keeping the heels together. In order to do this the -toes must also, of course, be turned far outward. On rising from this, repeat the first knee exercise, then this second one again, and so on, alternating. Do it ten times (five for each exercise) the first day, increasing by two each day till you get it up to 30. If, as I said in a former article, you cannot keep pace with the amount of increase I suggest day by day content yourself with half of it. That is, with the suggested increase every other day instead of every day. Do not increase the number of performances of any of the exercises at a rate that exhausts or threatens to strain you. No exercise is worth that. When I use the word “exhaust” I do not mean the healthful fatigue that usually follows brisk exercise on the part of amateurs. I refer to a weariness and weakness and lassitude that continue long after the body should have recuperated from the extra exertion put upon it. . Exercise to the point of exhaustion is far worse than no exercise at all. It is like pressing a spring so hard that the rebounding force is spoiled.

If very light exercise exhausts you for the day let me advise you to see your family physician about it, for you need even more building up than athletics can give you.. Try first, though, one or two of the easiest of the exercises I am describing. Not all of them, but‘a few of those requiring least effort. Increase them very slowly. Perhaps what you mistook for exhaustion was only the “surprise” of the body at being put through unaccustomed evolutions. If so the body will in a short’ time recover from that surprise and show gradual but sure improvement. - Austrian Ice Sticks. 27 In Austria “ice sticks” are manufactured at a profit. A series of poles is arranged so that the water will fall slowly over each one in the series. Of course, the water in the winter time freezes, forming large icicles. When the icicles have attained the proper size the employes of the “ice plant” come around with carts, break off the great sticks of ice and haul them away to a place where they are put in storage. Of course, it is much easier to handle a large quantity of ice in this way than it is to cut it from some stream and-then pack it away. There may, however, be a difference in quality between stick ice and lake or river ice. —The Pathfinder. L

In average yield a bite the death adder supplies three times as much as the tiger snake and 17 times as much as the brown snake. So far, the snakes have been mostly captured by hand to avoid loss of the poison. They are made to bite through a rubber band, ejecting upon a glass plate the ‘venom from the two polson fangs in ‘the upper jaw.

A Queer Conveyance. ; The queerest mode of travel I saw in all Mexico was that adopted by s woman who was on heér way to ths doctor, seated complacently in a chair borne upon the back of a man, says the Travel Magazine. Some Mexican women are afraid even of the mule _cars, while they look upon the rapidly gpinning trolley with such trembling of knees they will not put foot upon it. Uncompleted Works of Genius, - Amongst tamous poems that were | never completed, mention may be 'made of Byron's “Don Juan,” Keat's “Hyperion,” . Coleridge’s “Christabel,” and Gray’s. “Agrippina.” = Spenser’s “Faerie Queene,” too, is no more than a fragment, although a colossal one.

IN A JAPANESE - THEATER The Funny Things On;e Sees | Smiling Ro#nd the World | - MARSHALL P. WILDER (Copyright, })y Joseph B. Bowles.)

The theater has always been a favorite form of recreation among -the Japanese, and especially beloved of the Japanese woman, for it is her only amusement, and the only public place where she may accompany her husband. Y

The theater of old Japan, with its strutting legendary heroes, its ancient costumes, and actors who carried their own lanterns in order to light the expressions of their faces, is practically a thing of the past. While many of the old customs still survive, modern Inventions and appliances have been grafted upon them to the effect of producing some startling contrasts. The Japs, eager to grasp European ideas and fashions, have made use of some, but left many as they have been for generations.

' We may go at any hour, so suppose we start at five. On our way, we are sure to see every characteristic of street life. The Japanese, in- their eagerness. to adopt ‘European ways and customs, have swallowed such a large meal they are not able to digest it; and no better illustration of this can be found than their pretentious and truly wonderful street signs. As a specimen of English as she i§ Japped, the following, culled from a choice, and I might say, startling, collection, is respectfully submitted. The spelling and punctuation are especially worth noting: - = - : . On a baker’s cart: BY CAKE & A PIECE OF. BREAD. ‘Over a, ladies’ tailor shop:

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A MAN AND A WOMAN ARE ON THE STAGE, SHE CRYING AND ‘HE : TRYING TO COMFORT HER. i .

DRAPER, MILLENER & LADIES : OUTFATTER. ' The ribbons, the laces, the veils, the Ifeelings. (frillings?) Over a furniture shop: CHAIR. COCHON. (couch?) & MATTLES (Mantels?) : On a dairy window:: PEST MILK. (rather alarming, but ~ probably means BEST). On asdruggist’s: BEST PERFUMING WATER ANTIFLEA.

. Over a laundry:: We most cleanly and carefully wash our customers with : cheap prices as under.: ey ; Ladies eight shillings per hundred. Gentlemen seven shillings. A dentist’s sign: : NOTIES. Our tooth is a very important organ for human life and countenance. as you know; therefore when it is attack by disease or injury, artificial tooth is also very useful. Japanese substitute for coffee: - JAPAN INSTED OF COFFEE. More men is got dropsg of the legs who us (use?) this coffee, which is contain nourish. Photographer’s studio: PHOTOGRAFPHER EXECUTED.

- RGN V I"'-;;-—':—: E:.:."_; {8 72a: = = i (1 e - , p%i«i\ R R R [ ] ' NI \ 1% \“l\\\:‘: S R\ fi\/—‘ . | N R \ " \\ N S Keeps Drinking from a Bottle. Over a barber shop: HEAD CUTTER. Over a tailor’s: I'HE EUROPEAN MONKEY JACKET MADE FOR THE JAPANESE. I reserve the gems of the collection for the last: ‘ . FULISH. RUTTR. CRIAM. MILK. (Fresh Butter, Cream, Milk.) Over an egg shop: EXTRACT OF FOWL. : 88N Our rickshaws stop, and our men light their paper lanterns. It seems absurd to have a paper lantern for practical ase, but the little candles of greenish gray wax burn steadily, and glve a clear light. We meet many people carrying paper lanterns, 0 we

see fhar what has always Deen (8 8 merely a thing for decoraticn only, is in this toy-box of a country an article for practical use. % o Having reached the theater, quite an imposing building of stone, we enter the lobby. 2 -~ (A man and a woman are on the stage, she crying, and he trying to comfort her.) Our guide explains to us that she has been about to commit suicide because of the financial ruin of her husband. : oo

The part of the woman is played by Takata, one of the greatest impersonators of women in Japan. There are no actresses, all the parts -being assumed by men. This particular atctor is so conscientious, that, in order to retain the atmosphere of his impersonations, while at home he dresses, talks acts, and generally. comports himself as a woman' would. Danjiro,” the mest famous impersonator of women in Japan, is reported to have made up so perfectly as a girl of 17, when he was 65 years old, that when?he went to :Ezis own house and asked to see Danjiro, 'his wife did not know him, and in a fit of jealous anger, berated him for a shameless. girl, coming there to see her husband. - ey et

Meantime, the play progresses. The old man, who is a relative of the girl he has saved, gives her notes of the Bank of Japan for 3,000 yen. Her tearful gratitude and his modest depreciation of his generosity is as fine a bit of acting as may be seen on any stage in the world. fa S

Her hushand approaches, and the old man runs off, across the “Flowery Way,” 'begging her not to let his charity be known. e e The husband is suspicious, and asks her why she was talking with that man. Her promise given, she cannot answer, and -after a fiery sceme, he spurns her, and the curtain is drawn, to the solemn banging of a drnm, and the high pitched - mournful song of some one in thé distance. - .

Danjiro owns the finest curtain in Japan, presented to him by the Geisha of Tokio, who each gave a hundred ven. It is of silk, embroidered as only Japanese know how, and to see, well worth the price of admission. : The entire lower floor of the theater is divided into little boxes, about four feet square, by partitions not more than four or five inches high. About five yen are paid for these boxes, and

they hold four people, who kneel en matting rugs.. - . The best seats are the boxes along the sides of the balcony, which also hold four people, and cost six yen. As a yen is worth 50 cents of American money, it may be seen that the prices of Japanese theaters, by comparison with those of Europe or America, are very reasonable. - -

At this juncture our ears are assailed by the most heart-rending sounds that chill the blood in our veins. It is the European orchestra! The smiling guide tells us: “European orchestra very nice—Japanese people like very much!” . £ “Who’s meddled mit my drombone?” roars a'musician. - “Oi did,” saild Paddy. ‘Here ye've been for two -hours tryin’ to pull it apart, an’ Oi did it in wan minut!” A sharp noise, made- by striking two pieces of hard wood = together announces that the next act is about to begin. The intervals between acts are usually about ten minutes. As the curtain is drawn aside, the pleces of wood tap together faster and faster, until the stage is disclosed. : G

This time it is a house, the front open, chrysanthemums growing about the door. At intervals the shrill note of an insect is heard. - 2

Sata, the great actor, is seated on the floor; he,is in a state-of intoxication, and keeps drinking from a bottle in front of him. : .

His father-in-law is pleading with him to grant a divorce to his daughter, as his constant intoxieation and ill-treatment of her are hard to bear. The drunkard refuses, and the scene between the men is a powerful one, a knowledge of the language being un. necessary in order to appreciate their really great acting. e The revolving stage, used in all Japanese theaters, is séen in this act, as the entire stage turns, bringing into view a different scene, the old man’s house. 5 i

The play proceeds through several acts, to a European or American, in rather a disjointed mianner, and without much sequence, but with no lack of fine acting. & s .

Just before the last act, the ushers bring in the sandals and clogs thathave been checked, so there will be no confusion and delay when the theater is out. 5 e e | But three days are allowed for re hearsal; and in that time they must be letter perfect, for a Japanese audi ‘ence is a critical one. - Approbation is announced by claping the hands, but audible comments are frequent. . : When we go out, our rickshaw-. men, wrapped in their rugs, - hurry from the gallery where they have been enjoying the play. The orchestra and the electric lights are not the only innovations in this theater. The idea of a play of modern Japanese life is entirely new, and we were fortunate in seeing the first perform. ance of one of the few modern plays

- RAISED FROM A SICK BED. After Being an Invalid with Kidney Disorders for Many Years. John Armstrong, Cloverport, Ky., says: “I was an invalid with kidney s complaints for many P ") years, and cannot : \\§ tell what agony I o 3 endured from backAR - .ache. My limbs ofi; _ were swollen twice . %L?( i natural size and my VA (f 9} sisht was weakenV“‘T.a',‘ ing. The kidney seRAT cretions . were discolored and had a sédiment. When I wished to eat my wife had to raise me up in bed. Physicians were unable to help me and I was going down fast when I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills. After a short time I felt a great improvement and am now as strong and healthy as a man eould be. I give Doan’s Kidney Pills all the ‘credit for it.” . * Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bnx. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. THE PART HE PREFERRED.

Subtle Meaning in Poet’s Criticism of

Decollete Cstume.

Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, is something of'a recluse and rarely comes. into San Francisco, but when he does he is made a good deal of a lion. On his last visit he was one of the guests at a rather formal dinner at a friend’s house where he stayed overnight. His host%& known. the poet since her childii®od, so she felt priviliged, next morning, to discourse to him of the beauties of the Parisian gown she had worn the night before—beauties which seemed to have escaped his observation. . Mr. Miller listenéd to all that she had to say and remained silent. , “But didn’t you really like the dress?” pleaded the lady. - “Well,” replied the poet, “I did like part of it well enough.” i - The lady brightened. ‘ . . “Indeed?” she said. “What part?” - “The part you had on,” answered the poet; and that ended the discussion.—Lippincott’s. i : . : PROBABLY HE WAS. £ N R AT S | 7 y U\ &.s ]1 J,,r". 2 SNI P ’ Qh)-ts’ l_ e= | /.L/IMX | Doctor—Can’t you put your tongue out a little further, Mrs. Mugg? - Mrs. Mugg—Are you one of those’ people, doctor, who believe that tnere is no end to a woman'’s tongue? Leads Them All. | - An instructor in the Military Academy at West Point was once assigned to conduct about the place the visiting parents of a certain cadet. After a tour of the post, the proud and happy parents joined the crowd assembled to witness evening parade, a most imposing spectacle. The march past aroused the father of the cadet to a high pitch of enthusiasm. “There!” he exclaimed, turning to his spouse. “Isn’t that fine? But,” he added, respectively, “I shall not be happy till my boy attains the proud position that leads ’em all.” And he pointed in rapt admiration to the drum-major. — Illustrated Sunday ‘Magazine. ‘\ ~...T——-_ '~ Watered Stock. . Edward R. Ernerson, the president of the American Wine Growers’ association, came from Washingtonville to New York the other day and lunched in a Broadway cafe with an editor. Mr. Emerson, naturally, is a connoisseur of wines. The editor deems himself something of a connoisseur, too, and introduced Mr. Emerson with some pride to a Rhine wine, presumably of the famous 95 vintage. “Well,” he said, “how do you like this Rhine wine, Mr. Emerson? Delicious, don’t you:think?” " “Not bad,” said Mr. Emerson, “only I fancy there’s a trifle too much Rhine init? . Tt e

- * THEY GROW. ‘ 'Good Humor and Cheerfulness from | Right Food. : Cheerfulness is like sunlight. It dis_pels the clouds from the mind as sunlicht chases away the shadows of night. The good humored man can pick up and carry off a load that the man with a grouch wouldn’t attempt to lift. Anything that interferes with good health is apt to keep cheerfulness and good humor in the background. A Washington lady found that letting coffee alone made things bright for her.: She writes: | “Four years ago I was practically given up by my doctor and was not expected to live long. My nervous system was in a bad condition. e “But I was young and did not want to die so I began to look about for the cause of my chronic trouble. I used to have nervous spells which would ‘exhaust me and after each ‘spell it would take me days before I could sit up in a chair. = _“I became convinced my trouble was caused by coffee. 1 decided to stop. it and bought some Postum. - “The first cup, which I made a¢cording to directions, had a sopthing effect on my nerves and I liked the taste, For a time I nearly lived on Postum and ate little food besides. I. am today a healthy woman. ' “My family and relatives wonder if T am the same person I was four ~years ago, when I could do no work on ~account of nervousness. Now I am doing my owubmm take care of months old. lam so busy that I hard~“l tell my friends it is to Postum Toet i " Naime given by Postiin Cb.: Battle .fi:wa,,{»é“h‘*fl»e\;wxfi‘fi"