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RICHBIOIID HOY IS NOW MANAGER ARTHUR G. WILLIAMS IS IN CHARGE OF "BABES III TOYLAND." WAS III THE CITY YESTERDAY He Once Served a Day as Reporter on the Palladium Why He Was "Canned." ! Arthur G. Williams, a Richmond hoy -who is now business manager of "Babes' in Toyland" the big musical production which is to appear at the Gennett next Tuesday, was in the city yesterday making arrangements f'r the coming attraction and renewing old acquaintances. .Mr. Williams is" the. son of Caleb Williams, now deceased, who was at one time postmaster h.ere. lie is. a brother of Mrs. Helen Angle, the wife of Dr. Angle:- Mr. Williams was once a newspaper- man, that is lie was in the pencil pushing profesnion for one day. He served this time with the Old Palladium under Isaac Jenkinson. Last night Mr. Williams was telling of his experiences in this city and why he did not work longer with the, Palladium. His sudden discharge nil. came, because Mr. Williams wrote a story he heard on the street (good enough for a barber shop or a cigar store, perhaps, but hardly the thing for the staid Palladium) which slipped into the paper. When Mr. Jenkinson saw the thing he was angry and Mr. Williams got "canned." After that Mr. Williams gave up journalism, went into the theatrical business and has had splendid success. He is now manager of an organization which numbers seventy people and is possibly the largest company en tour, traveling almost exclusively by special train. "Babes in Toyland" is one of the few big successes of the year. It was first produced season before last at the. Majestic Theatre", New York, and proved the greatest hit New York and proved the greatest hit New York had seen for years. It ran for 250 consecutive nights. Th,e Libretto is by Glen McDonough. Victor Herbert wrote the music and Julian Mitchell reached the very pinnacle of his. fame when his rlever' brain conceived the production. LIGHT Oil "FRAT" SYSTEM COMMITTEE INVESTIGATES CONDITIONS AT WISCONSIN. Complaints Made to University Authorities that Secret Organizations Tend to Aristocracy. Madison, Wis., Feb. 19. The university investigating committee devoted the greater part of the session today to an investigation of the workings of the fraternity system at Wisconsin. Complaints have been made that the rapid growth' of fraternities and sororities at Wisconsin was tending to create an aristocracy here that was deepening the gulf between the classesL.and creating great discontent; that the standards of living were going higher and constantly tending to make the institution a rich man 's , school ; tTjat, exjtravagancevas growing? and "w ith the increasing social .demands the work of students was often demoralized. The committee questioned a number of students on this point,, also Dr. 0. G. McCarthy, of the faculty on the workings of the fraternity system in Wisconsin and eastern universities. Recently a "barb" society, now numbering several hundred members was formed at Wisconsin te break CREAM TO WHIP : - v . :'tn Extra Heavy. Fresh Milk . Phone 292. ; HADLEY BT20S.

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f 'ThV committee inquired into the number ol iraternny parties, expenses, standing of such students, daijy life at the university. ; The committee announced that further inquiry would be made into the social life of the institution later. Important recommendations are expected. The committee also inquired into the amount of time given by professors to hearing classes, and several students testified that many professors often turned recitations over to instructors, among those cited, being Dr. R. T. Ely, the noted economist. Peasants' Superstitions. Now and tben, not often, ghostly appearances or sounds are explained to the peasant's satisfaction.' Thus in the county of Durham "Gabriel's hounds" were for long, long years believed to shriek and howl through the air on dark nights and to forebode death to him who heard and saw them. But prosaic modern research proved them to be nothing but flocks of wild geese migrating southward on the approach Of winter and choosing dark nights for their Journeys. Similarly the ghost, of Irbydale. in the Lincolnshire wolds, a goblin who' terrified travelers at night with its heartrending cries and who was said to be a witch who had been worried to death by dogs in a long past age, has been shown to be nothing but an owl. On the oilier hand, no true Cornishmnn will ever be induced to relinquish the belief, that the spirit of King Arthur still haunts the ruins of Tintagel in the shape of a white chough, and assuredly the many English families who possess nrwhite bird of ojr.en, such as that which John Oxenham saw In "Westward Ho,'.' cling firmly to the tradition if not to the belief in it. London Graphic. i The Will to Die. Two or three years ago, in a Lancashire town, while a fair was in progress, to the proprietor of a steam roundabout there came a shopkeeper whose wife was lying supposedly at the point of death. "Thou mun stop thy organ," he said. "Why?" asked the other. "Thou mun stop It, I tell tha My missus cawn't dee," was the reply, a dialogue for which the writer can vouch. A clergyman had placed on record a similar instance. Visiting a sick parishioner, he was tou! by the doctor that the sickroom was fn'l of mourners, assuring the v,-'ir.:;m that b!;o was about to die. And the woman was dying from Fv.ggi:;t;on, though organically there was not the least reason why she should. The clergyman entered the room and cleared out the doleful ones. "You're not going to die," he said. "What! Am I not dying, parson? Then, thunk God, I won't!" That woman was well in next to no time and round at the vicarage thankiug its master for having saved her life. St. James Gazette. Strapping a Ilanor. ."The Idea that a razor needs frequent grinding or honing is not in keeping with my experience," said a man who shaves himself. "I have a razor that 1 got ten years ago which has never been out of my possession, never had any other treatment than stropping, and is today the sharpest and best of six. A razor can only lie kept in this condition without honing, however, by using a hard strop that is, one which is rigid Instead of flexible and not the kind that makes an arc of a circle when you use it. This latter sort will sharpen a razor for awhile, hut it also makes the edge round until at last it ceases to cut. Why do I have six razors? Well, that Is to use theuivln regular turn and give each one of them a rest. I shave every day, which I find the least troublesome method, and if I use the same blade every day it would soon play out The edge of a razor needs rest, Just like every other machine." Slavery In Great Britain. Slavery survived in England much later than Is generally supposed. The word "bondage" In Northumberland still' means a female farm servant. The coolfe9 and salters 1. e., salt miners of East Lothian were actually slaves till 1773. If they deserted their service any one harboring them was liable to a penalty of 5 if he did not restore them in twenty-four hours. The last slave in England was not freed until 1709, and in 1842 there was a cooly living who, as well as his father and grandfather, had worked as a slave in a pit at Mussel burg. The Historic Eye. Washington was crossing the DelawajrerUe stood. -'"Better sit down, sir," suggested an aid. "Sit down!" responded lustily the Father of His Country. "And, pray, what sort of a picture would that make?" Blushing under the rebuke, the aid resolved to monkey no more with artPhiladelphia Public LeCger. Peacocks Feather. Peacock feathers are said to bring 111 luck. The origin of this tradition is Interesting. It 1? found in Pslgrave's work on central ind east Arabia, wherv the traveler sn. s that, according to Moham.' .dan tra.Uon, the peacock opened the wicket of paradise to admit the devil and received a very arrle share of the devil's own imuisamaut. Want ads ia IVidiuia pay,

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UESTIONS GOOD OF ORDINANCE COUNCILMAN H. H. ENGELBEET CALLS ATTENTION TO MINORS IN SALOONS SAYS LAW IS OFTEN VIOLATED Attorney Gardner Doubts if Ordinance is Legal But Thinks Point Should be Determined. Last evening at council, Councilman Englebert stated that recently there was an ordinance passed which provided a penalty for minors found loitering in saloons. He stated that the ordinance seemed to do no good, as recently there have been six minors arrested for this offense, but no charges were placed against them by the police or the prosecutor, and in each instance they were discharged. In two cases, Mr. Englebert stated, young boys were arrested for disturbing a public meeting while in an intoxicated condition, but were tried for neither offense and were allowed ther liberty on the fulfilment of their promise to tell the police in what saloons they bought liquor. Mr. Englebert concluded by asking the city attorney whether the ordinance was legal and coxild be enforced and stated that if it was not to be enforced he for one stood ready to repeal it. Mr. Gardner stated that at the time the ordinance was passed he doubted its legality and thought that the only way to determine the question was to test the measure. WAYNE, BANNER COUNTY MAP OF 1832 FOUND BY GREENFIELD MAN. In That Year Old Wayne Lead Other Counties in Population, Having 18,571. Roy Crider of Greenfield, has discovered among some old papers a map of Indiana published in Philadelphia in 1832, by S. A. ..Mitchell, The map is said to have been correct at. the time it was published. " It shows all the numerous steamboat routes and the National road from the east to the west boundary of the state, and also the feAv common roads which are marked "very bad." No railroads appear on the map, but the route of a- proposed line from Louisville, Ky., to Indianapolis and Lafayette, appears, running through the lands ceded by the Pottawatomies of the United States. The distance to Indianapolis by steamboat from the distant points is stated and from the Ohio river the nearest is 333 miles. Wayne county is shown to have the largest population, 18,571 persons, while St. Joe has but 287. The total population of the state was placed at 343,031. Of these 3,629 were free negroes and there were three female slaves. Some of the steamboat routes described are from the Ohio river to Lafayette, New Harmony, Oxford, "White River, Vancennes, Merom, York, Sterling, Terre Haute, Clinton, Covington and Williamsport. WARNING SENT OVER STATE. Secretary Hurty cf Health Board Says that Tainted Hams Are Being Sold. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Healthtas sent warnings broadcast over the state informing the public that a gang of men is engaged in buying up tainted hams and meats in Chicago and shipping them to this state, where they are peddled by other men and doctored up so that tbe taine can not be noticed. These meats are sold at a low price and at first thought bargains.. WARNIKG IS GIVEN. lOraty seen taking overcoat from bank on north side of bridge Sunday aftc oon wi!' 'Murn same to 135 Chestnut s' . aad av i i trouble.

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FMHHfcAE GIP.L ; STftGEMJSiVER MAGGIE. HARDY, A NEW ENG LAND GIRL, HAULS MAIL 'irWXNTY-EIGHT MILES. IS PICTURESQUE NEW WOMAN Owing to Illness cf Her Father the Regular Driver. Girl Took Up the Work. Boston, Feb. 19. In the far West they boast of women on the ranches who her4 cattle; in the Middle West is is a common thing for women to go into the fields and harvest their own crops; but in the farm regions j of New Ilampshii-e, in the vicinity of West" Andover, the natives proudly assert that in Miss Maggie Hardy," of the nearby town of West Sprjngfield, they have the only woman stage driver in: New England. During the last winter this seven-teen-year-k)ld girl, almost as ' strong as an average man, and a thorough horsewoman, has driven the coach, or carriage, that does public service for miles around. It was owing to the serious illness of her father, John'' A. Hardy, the regular driver and mail carrier, that Miss Hardy took up the strange work. Much of the work that the young woman is called on to perform is of a nature that Avould tax the strength of an ordinary man, not to speak of the exposure and loneliness of the desolate roads that she has to pass over in covering her daily route. Several of the little hamlets that exist in the hills and valleys lying- to the west from' the railroad station of Wet Andover are daily covered hy this girl while making the rounds over the iriles of country and corduroy roads. Express, baggage and passengers, together with the mails for the towns of Springfield Center, "West Springfield and Wilmont Center, are caied by this little new woman, and, in "addition to this, she takes upon her shoulders the care of all her father's horses. . , - . -. In the summer time she and her father alternate in operating the stage', to their liome in West Spring'field'and,ha'e'; their hands full in ea'ring'pi!'jarge number of trunks and the - amount , of baggage brought by the summer visitors to the Springfields. ' " , This section of '."New Hampshire covered by Miss Hardy, is in the summer months, one of the most beautiful in New England, and during the last summer she became a favorite with the vacationists in the various towns that she touched on her route. Winsome and pretty, with true blonde hair, and coloring that has all the freshness that birth and constant life in the New Hampshire hills may bestow, Maggie Hardy is fast beeomincr one of the most talked of natives of the Granite State. While at home all of her duties begin at the rise of the sun. She then goes to the barn, feeds, cleans and otherwise cares for the four horses that are alternately used in the operation of the stage. Strictly Business. "May I ask if I am in the market for a bid for your affections? asked the youth who did everything in a businesslike way. "You must go to par before I can take any stock in your offer," answered the dutiful broker's daughter. Baltimore American. The Martyr. Tolly So Mrs. Illghmere's busband has developed bad habits. IIow did you hear about it? Doily Oh, Mrs. Ilighmere invited us all to an afternoon tea, so she could tell us how she suffered in silence! Brooklyn Eagle. She Knew Best. Visitor Tell me now, professor, are you piaTering much from yeur headache? Trofessor (to his wife) Say, Amelia, do I suffer much from my headache? Fliegende Blatter. A Siffn ft Prosperity. Crawford IIow are all yr-m old friends? Crabshaw They must be getting along first rate. "They never crue r. round to see me. Watson's Magazine. It is easy to , learn something, about very thing, tut difficult, to lea'tfveTerjihlns about anything. Emmons.

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A A .. . A x A A A. A. w A H A A . "jrTTirrrw avavavavava TTprft i 16 N. 10th St. Phon 1819 Ltest Methods in Crown Bridge Work. ' Only Pine Martens. A series of grewsome incidents had terrified an Englisb neigbborbood. Wbat made tbese incidents peculiarly horrible was their tragic mystery. Nobody could explain them. Sheep and lambs, which were in full health overnight, wer found dead in the morning, their bodies uninjured, but drain- ( ed of every drop of blood. Ghouls and vampires and ail imaginable horrors were blamed, and the whole countryside was up. The damage continued, and in a single night a farmer had fourteen out of twenty-one lambs killed, and the same pen was chosen the next night, and the remaining seven lambs were destroyed. In the early peep of day the slayers were discovered, all hideous from their sanguinary work. They were neither men nor monsters, but a couple of pine martens, which, bavins routed a pair of magpies from their nest, had there made their home and thence nightly scoured the country round about. Indlspensability. "Jso," said a lecturer, "it doesn't do to -get swelled head and think you're indispensable to the welfare of this world. "I was in the lobby of a big hotel In Cincinnati when a bus load of traveling salesmen came from the station. Every man of them as he signed the register paused to shake bauds with the hotel clerk, a fatherly old fellow who had been there many years. " 'Ah,' said one of them to the clerk, 'It's a good thing you're still on deck, TJncle:Dave. I don't think the house coHild ton without you. 'Couldn't it, just!' said Uncle Dave. You fellows would come In here, and if there was a strange clerk you'd say, "Where's Uncle Dave?" "'And the clerk would Bay: "Why, didn't you hear? lie died a month ago." ' "And then you'd say: "Well, I'll be darned! That's too bad. Say, wben'll dinner be ready T"'" Mixed Feellnsa. "e little girl who, after a drink of soda, declared that her nose felt as if her foot was asleep has evidently grown up and retained her happy power of expression, for evidently the young lady mentioned in Punch is the same person who drank bubbles when she was small. The young woman was traveling in a coach as an elderly and somewhat sour looking man, in trying to open the window, pinched his finger nail severely. "Oh!" exclaimed the lady sympathetically. "IIow horrid! I always think anything wrong with one's nails sets one's teeth on edge all down one's back hSfes a Atmosphere. There is a wide difference of opinion among the learned men of the world as to what would be; the effect of wholly removing the atmosphere. Some think that if it were possible to live afterward all the stars, planets, etc., would be visible in broad daylight. Others declare that there would be no day and that the sun itself could not be seen under such conditions. Mataal. i Mrs. Kratchett Bridgrt, I don't U e the looks of th&t man who called to see yon last night. Bridget Well, well ain't it fanny, ma'am? lie said the came about you. Philadelphia Ledger.

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