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How Would You Like to be the
Information Bureau Man at the
Grand Central Station, New York?
"What do yea do, itiet arieiver geed- see-e-esedeee-ed-e-e-deoso-e-deediereedees they. were overcome, t urned, and; fled,
tions?" '•keying their dead where they .hast fallen.
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"Did John D. Rockefeller ever esk you It le worthy of uote that one olkt native
questions?"
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"What sort ot a young fellow le thew ' 'hites and elthottelt siesegaied in the
son?" Pietermaritzburg.—When the bistory fgee, ge e „ e
tte piuelty entiugh te continue
"I bet you got to keep studying all the of the present native rebellion cometo firing without intermission. It was a
tinle to keep the erowd from getting be writteu there le olds incident welch desperate hi-Wel:lea indeed. Ten minuted
away with you." . will stand out from among all othere Mere end, like Shangani, not a man
"Why can't they carry well trained • . i would nave lived to tell the tale.
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"Young men, did you ever .poseter on Captain, Cleric of Royeton's bee and
'nits is a busy time of the year for 1 all hotels. just drop off any place and the evil of selling intoxicating liquor ou lite little band of breld
eve Men who li
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Hugging Bareed in Waltz.
(United profesional misters of deeding decree
Aqueezing must stop.)
the information bureau inan. It dem not you're there. Are the little mountains the trams?
Matter whether he is attedied to a big celled kittens? J "How niuclt does a $10,000 endowment
hotel or a ticket office or an exchange "I don't know. Pm busy. The 2.22 life inettrance cost if you are fortyfour
or a railroad -terminal, the Man Who is the 3.19 and the 4.11 all stop at Stain- pare old and live in: Philadelphiat"
"Do people ever try to get smart
ou?"
paid for knowing everything has all he
can do now steering aright those who
would depart froin Now York or those
who are arriving.
Take the' men in the little pagoda at
the Grand Central station for inatanee;
Just how many questions) they answer in
the course of a day now they can't be-
gin to count. Figuring on a ten-hour
trick, with an average of at least three
queations a minute, would ehow 1,800
interrogation points burdled at them in
the course of a day, but they believe that
it is more than that, and as there are us-
ually three of them at work that means
something in the way of answers.
Originally the information bureau men
were put there to tell questioners what
traine to talcs and to hand out those
neat little pink and green arrangements
which show you how to go to any place
In the world except where you -want to
go anti at any other One than you want
to go. But the public had some ideas on
the subject and now the oracles must
answer everything from train time to
racing dope or be accused of insolence.
Two young women had just received
word that a public hack would take
them from the Ardsley station to Pin-
cusville for fifty cents -the °thee day
when the reporter chimed in:
"You must have a lot of questions to
answer during the day?"
"Some," was the mechanieal answer.
"I suppose they refer to about every-
thing?'
"A good many foolish ones?"
"Yes, 2.33. No ma'am. Gates open at
2.25. Plenty of time. Yes—we get the
usual number, No, ma'am, you can't get
a permit to take your little dog in a
parlor car—he'll have to hide in the bag-
gage car ahead. No, ma'am, size don't
count. Not even a little dog."
"But suppose I carry !limn:eider my
coat," asks the angular looking woman
eagerly. "Can they arrest me for that?"
"No, ma'am, they can't arrest you. Ar-
rives at 8.45 in the morning. You must
eransfer across the city, taking a train
'a't 9.01. Well, you can try it, but of
coarse, if they catch you, he .will have
to go forward. I know, ma'am, but it
hull ray doings.
"Waldorf-Astoria. Thrty-fourth street
an' Fifth avenue. European plan —rates
$2.50 wp. Up, I said." "Why don't you sell tickets instead of
"How fur up?" is the query. "By Jing having so much red tape?"
"Do you think I can get a stateroom
for the Chicago flyer for to -morrow
afternoon?"
"What is the fare to Brewstera?"
"If I wait around here will you point
out eome of the famous people as they
go to New Rochelle and other suburbs?"
"Do you sell railroad accident insur-
ance?"
"Can 1 leave a bundle with you for a
few days?"
"If you see a stout woman with a Md
hat looking for somebody will you tell
her 'Joe' is over getting a glass of soda
water?"
"Whom can I see to obtain a permit to
carry my little dog in may arms in the
car? I have a compartment reserved for
me; will that make any difference?"
"What°, da time traina fora da
Stam?"
"Is Governor Higgins in Albany now?"
"Can I get my little dog insured?"
"Do you think a policeman would know
where Simon J. Smelkers lives"
"Can I take a train from here for
Oyster Bay?"
"Is it better to go by rail or boat to
Boston?"
Same as to Buffalo.
"How much will the new station cost?"
"Gimme (forty-two of them) a time
table."
"Can I take my Aunt Sarah out to the
cars; she's -lame?"
"'Why don't they open the gates?"
ford. Take the Harlem branch, They
all start from here, I don't know when
the new -station will be finished. In
1008, they say. It may be e few mouths
more or less.
"All Western brains take you to Nia-
gara Falls. There are aplendid hotels
there. Yes, there are certain rebates
for theatrical tickets, but you must be
in the business. No, they don't give a
reduction for cele, How about it if you
are a minister? Well, you noise show
your programme, or license, or whatever
itis.
"Yesen, on the New Haven. Try the
1.05; it's a good train and makes only
one stop between New York and Hart-
ford, New Haven. Arrives in Hartford
at 4,20. Yes, there's parlor ears.
al told you once before, I didn't know
where Simon J, Smelkers lives, Why
don't you loolc in a directory. Find one
around on the other eide. I don't care
to know about his family. Not to give
you a short answer. I'm too busy.
"Yes, Hastings is the third stop. Bag-
gage room over to the eastern end. There
is somebody there all the time. I don't
know about your trunk, that's the ma-
son I am telling you about the baggage -
room. See somebody there. They can
handle two thousand trunks a day and
never then a hair. That's two thousand
outgoing trunks. I., don't know how
many incoming—there's no limit.
"Smelkers not in the directory? Well,
look in the telephone book. That Smel-
kers is getting on my nerves, and if we
were rushed to -day I'd begin to get sore.
They are not as curious to -day as they
are sometimes, and ids a relief from last
Saturday."
The information bureau man actually
looked happy and hummed Waiting at
the Church, between times; but just the
same inside of the next fifteen minutes
he had replied to the following questions
to the best of his ability:
"On what tracks was the sixteen -hour
train?"
"When it starts, when it returns?"
"What the train costs to run and. how
much the cars cost?"
"What is a good train for Hicksville,
L. I.?"
"Give me a ticket for East Haddam,
Mass ?"
I hearn tell on that 'ere tavern so much
I'm a-goin' ter git a room there"—
"Well, men have paid $1,000 a day for
suites" --
"Gee, how many meals did they git
for that?"
"None."
"Squire, ohere/s the old Astor House,"
"Yee," continues the information bur-
eau man, "we do get some funny ques-
tions. Yes, sir, has diner and sleeper—
yes—Yours is one of the funny ones—
you're a reporter; oh, all right —but
you know thet a lot of people, when
they can't think of nothing else to ask,
ask us—I'm afraid you'll have to pay
full fare for that child, ma'am. Yes,
I knew he may be only nine years old,
but he is about five foot two. 1 can't
help that, ma'am, if he's stretched —he
takes up room. Yes, they ask us the.
question you did, whether we don't ans-
wer a lot of fool questions"—
Called Insolent.
"Sir, who won the fourth at Lat.
°Dia on July 34 I don't know. Johnny,
who won the fourth at Latonial We
don't keep past performances on file.
Well, I said we didn't keep thean. All
right, report me."
"Here you can find your trains in this
pink folder, miss. Yes, you can have your
baggage delivered at the station.
Cab fares, fifty cents a mile for one.
You paid too much.
"They will telephone for automobiles,
I don't !mow the name of -the red haired
brakmean on the 4.28. Mount Vernon lo-
cals run eysety fifteen minutes. Mr. Van-
derbilt isn't in his office.
"Yes as I was saying to you, we do
get a lot of questions. You can find out
whether the Western trains are on time
on that blackboard over at the east end
of the platform where the trains arrive;
ask any attendant and they will show
you. No, ma'am, I can't find out whe-
ther your friends are on the Lake Shore
limited. She'll be in in twenty minutes.
"These are the latest time tables, Dia-
dem. No; no charge. The grand opera
season is closed. It's Caruso, not Cruaoe,
that sings. I never heard, ma'am; may-
be he's a descendant of old Robinson.
On the 1.19. Goes by way of Hartford.
Why is it called the air -line? I don't
know, ma'am unless it's because it is
the etraighte4 route. It's a five-hour
train.
"Yes, the Touraine is a first-class be-
tel, in Boston. I do not know its rates.
No, it is not an extra fare train. The
Merchants is about as good as any. Lost
your child, ma'am? See that policeman
over there. I do not say that he has it;
he will help you find it.
"Yes, here is the train; wait, let me
mark it for you on the time table, Now
you can follow the route by looking at
the table. It doesn't stop there; I'm
sure it's an express. No. Yonkers does
not belong to New York city—it's a sep-
arate municipality. Mayor McClellan is
In Europe? Yes, Mr. McGowan, Presd
dent of the Board of Aldermen, is Acting
Mayor. 1 don't know what busines he's
In. See Fire Commissioner O'Brien.
"General Bingham is Police Commis-
sioner. No, we do not sell tickets nor
send telegrams; try over at the win-
dows at the eastern end. of the room
there; you can buy Pullmans there, too.
"I do not know where Shnon J. Smcl-
kers lives. No, X never heard. of him. I
don't are if he was in the Missouri Leg-
islature. I do not know him. Here'e a
green folder-- Johnny, hand lee a green
folder. Now when you get to laeolculc
you go out on ehe M. G. and Y. to Bhib
Junction , and take a branch up to Quob-
ville. I don't know whether the bass is
bitird ti.ere or not.
"There aro no mosquitos VA Mount
WashingtOn. How do I know? A man
told Me their lungs are too weak to
stand the rarified atmosphere—the lungs
of the mosquitos, that is.
"1 don't know the hotel ratee. 1nev-
er heard of anybody taking an autemo-
bile in a parlor car, What aro you try-
ing to do with me yousig fellow? Hrsf
hal hal YOu mid an automobile coat.
Oh ,that' all right, if the gasoline ia
extracted first. Yes, the smoking ear
is u pahoed.
'Trains for Yda Y.111 and Tram Tiara
Um kiwi, at 3.27. Get to Welk, Walla at
0.58.t den't knOW where the Pat-Tn.
HOWle exaetly. They may have to wed -
400 natives at bay until assistance arriv-
ed. Wounded by eesegaie and ball, end
weary with tbeir mama and faint from
the lose of blood, they fought as
long as they Q(1111(1 btalM and when tuo
weak to do this they propped theninelVeS
"Shay, come out 'n' have a against trees and fired, while their ital.
ball?" munition lasted, all the time maintaining
'Le that young feller answering ques-
tions over there your son or your bro-
ther ?"
"Will the Giants* win the pennant ?"
"I'll bet you've seen some mighty big
people pass through here."
"Le that giant, IVIcNow, at Hammer -
stein's, an Irielenan?"
"Ain't them no place that I can find
out where Smelkers lives?"
"Can't yod give use some other color
in thin tables but pink and green.; it's
an awful contrast to my dress?"
"How far is it to Buffalo?"
"What's the hotel rates in the Yo -
emits) Valley?" ,
"Were you here when the earthquake
happened in San Francisco? Tell me how
to get to Kennebunkport?'
"Do you know what time the Duluth
boats sail from Buffalo?"
"If my little boy sits on uny lap all the
way <Mee he have to pay fare?"
"Are there any gnats in the Thousand
Wanda?"
"Mister, it's all right. I just found junction had scarcely left the lips of the
where Smelkere, lives. My wife wrote it last man when n black figure rose out
down on an envelope and !stuck it in my t of the dense undergrowth about fifteen
pocket. Where is Binglehuret-on-the- paces distant and fired point blank at
Marsh, Long Island?" the captain. The bullet missed him and
"Yes," said tbe information !bureau struck the third man, inflicting a nasty
man., "I don't know how 'we would I wound. This was the signal for a ;di-
stant' it if it were not for these off
days,"—New York Herald.
ss•e,
a cheerfulness& that has been often equal-
ed but perheps never excelled iu ever
war. South African history has no par -
elle' to, this courageous devotion to duty
and intrepid, daring sued the days when
Major Alan Wilson and his little band
laid down their lives on the banks of the
Shangani river after having held the
Matabele horde at bay until further re-
sistance became impossible.
At the time at the attack Clerk and
hie men were beating through the dense
bush of the Nkandhla forest and formed
part of a line extending about a Mile and
a half in length. On all sides tho tall
forest trees and dense undergrowth pre-
vented the men from seeing more than
twenty or thirty yards and the utmoet
cautien vgas observed . Clerk, who has
had. experience of native -war in Queens-
land, suspected that a large force was in
the vicinity, the trampled undergrowth
bearing the marke of many footprints.
Word was passed along the line to ob-
serve strict silence and caution, The no.
WHY GIRLS ARE PALE
They Need the Rich Red Blood Dr.Wil-
they did so. Immediately the bush be-
liams' Pink Pills Actually Make. came full of black bodies, clustering to -
Three years ago Miss Ellen Roberts, gaiter in the undergrowth like bees ns
who holds the position of saleslady in they drew near to get a clear throw for
their assegais and an uninterrupted sight
one of the leading stores in Halifax, N.
S., was a pale, delicate looking young for their rifles and the guns with which
all were armed. It was no light task
woman, who then lived at home with her
parents, at Amherst., N. S. She complain- for a mere handful of men to turn and
of agge. face an uncertain °nerd ef dusky aw-
ed, of general weakness Laid loss
tite. Her blOOCI SIMS thin and watery
and she grew thinner day by day un-
til she looked almost a shadow. Her
cheeke were sunken, all trace of color
had. left her face, and her friends fear -
oral onslaught. The little party had,
In spite of their precautions, walked
right into an ambush,
"Halt!" the command rang out clear
and sharp and the men prepared to face
a deadly onslaught. At the first shot
the cowardly levies turned and fled, dis-
organizing the little body of whites its
ages yelling in that blood -curdling way
which is peculiarly their own as they
shouted. out their defiance at this ineig-
nificant-looking lot of men. Neverthe-
less, the men re-formed calmly and with -
ed, she was going into a decline. I out any sign of flurry and presented a
had no energy," says Miss Roberts, ' small but bold front to the enemy. Clerk
"and suffered so mach from the head- t turned and emptied the magazine of his
aches and dizziness and, other eymetome carbine among them, while the others
of anaemia that felt I did, not care ' continued to pour round after round in -
whether I lived. or died. Oue day, bow- dependently into the black mass 'which
ever, when reading our local paper 1 1 was straining every nerve to get among
read a testimonial given by a young girl the Europeans.
in favor of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I While so occupied Clerk failed to not-
es her symptoms were almost identical ice that his comrades had fallen back
with my own I determined. to try this I into the dom., which offered more shel-
medicine. Before 1 had used. the sec- I ter, and by the time he realized it he
ond box I began to find benefit, and • wee left alone. Drawing his revolver
I continued taking the pills until 1 he fired as he retreated, when suddenly
had used seven or eight boxes, by 1 he was opposed by two natives more in -
which time I was .fully restored to trepid than the rest, who barred his pro -
health." To -day Mist) Roberts look& as ' gress. One raised his stabbing assegai
though she had never been, ill a day in and the next moment Clerk would brive
her life, and she has no hesitation in say- been a dead man, but, with a cool aim
ing she owes her present energy and he brought him to the ground with a
health to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. bullet through his arm. Instantly the
Bad blood is the cause of all coin- other jumped from the left and aimed.
mon. diseases like anaemia, headaches; a deadly blow at Clerk's head, which lie
paleness, general weakness, heart palpi- parried with his carbine, the assegai hist
tation, neuralgia, indigestion, and the cutting into the flesh over the eye. With
special ailments that only womenfolk the shock of the blow Clerk reeled and
know. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure fell, turning a somersault on the slop -
these common ailments, because they ing hillside, but on a trice he was on
make rich, red, health -giving blood, brae- hie feet again and facing the native,
ing the jangled nerves'. and giving whom he shot through the chest killing
strength to every organ in the body. him instantly.
Do not take any pille without the full Without further mishap Clerk rejoined
name, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo his men and together the seven fought
People," on the wrapper around each in the donga. for dear life. The remain -
box. Sold by all 'methane dealers or der of the men who had formed the line
by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes were at that moment separate from
Looking for Johnsin.
"Mistah, do you know a culled gen•
mum, a po'tah ob de name of Johnsin'Id
"Does Chauncey M. Depew hang around
the station much nowadays?"
"How long have you been doing thisl"
"It's mighty strange, but the time-
table says 4.28, and here it is 4.3 i and
the train not in yet --why is that?"
"Have there been many wrecks late-
ly?"
"Who can I see about a package llost
a week ago last Thursday? There was
only two collars in it and—but I theught
as I was passing I might as well get
them as to allow some of those Vedder-
bilts to wear them?"
"What was McClellan's plurality the
first time he ran?"
"How much damage did the railroad.
company pay for the tunnel accident '
"Have you seen a little boy in a blue,
checked suit carrying, a basket?"
Ditto little girl in pink with bucket.
Ditto another little girl with long
golden curls.
Ditto twine in brown.
"Where can I exchange a ticket? I
Want to go to Haines Falls, but elle man
sold me one to Hainesiville?"
"What's -the telegraph tolls to King -
Fisher, Okla.?"
"Do you know whether the Southwest-
ern Limited. gets Inc in St. LOUIS in time
for the Iron Mountain train that makes
a connection with the Brinkley accom-
modation down at Wynne Junction in
Arkansaw?"
"What's the round trip fere to To-
kio?"
"How maey people travel out of here
every slay?"
"How ninny come in?"
"Did John IA Sallivan ever whip Kitt
McCoy?"
"Was Togo ever in this country?"
"What was the vote on the rate bill?"
"Show inc how to read this (qualified)
time table."
"The policemen. don't know Simon d.
Smelkets; canyon think of anybody that
'might?"
"HoW is it tlutt card playere are allow'
ed to nionopoliee 60 many seats on the
train?"
"Do you eel" playing eards?"
"Who do I see to get a pees to Sara-
toga?"
"Did yen hear Who won the first at
Sheepshead?"
"HoW much do stutomobiles coet an
hour '1"
"Whet's' the best autondsbile made I"
"Dots title compeny .oevn any ateant-
alhipar
"Is there a union of information. bu-
rden Inca?"
"What does eire preeideet of the road
get it year—on the level, I mean?"
"What's the highest building in New
York city'!"
for $2.50 from the Dr. Williams' Medi-
cine Co., Brockville, Ont.
THIS DUMY CAN FIGHT,
Mechnical Prize Fighter Keeps a Live
Boxer Busy. tied to press forwent' and. encire'le the
httle party. Fraser seemed to bear . a
A mechanical .prize fighter, designed
I charmed, life. Although his clothing was
to serve as boxing partner for the pro-
gy I riddled with marks, he had not so much
fesisonal pugilist, has been invented
as a scratch upon. ,his body. Trooper
a New Britain., Conn., man, accord -
Flynn, with an assegai wound on his
ing to the Scientific American, this
eldeek .and putridly blinded, continued. to
machine is really a formidable fighter, ;
fire with the utmost precision, the
and has already gained quiet an envi-
I blood trickled down his cheek.
able reputation in the many encounters
their eornrades. Standing attired in a
white shirt, a conspicuous figure against
the dark green of the trees, was Serest.
Fraser, a New Zealander, who fought
away as though it were an everyday oc-
currence, while the yelline horde oontin-
it has had with local talent.' Not only
does it deliver straight leads 'and coun-
ter% but it varies these with an occa-
sianal upper cut and its, blows are
rained with a speed and power that are
the envy of the professional boxer. The
machine does not "telegraph," that ie,
it does not give a warning of a coming
blow by a ,preliminary backward jerk,
which is as common to all but the beet
of boxers. Nor can the opponent es-
cape these blows by side stepping, be-
cause the automaton will follow him
from one side to the other. At each side
of the opponent is a trap door, connect-
ed with the 'base of the machine in such
a way that when he steps on one or
other of these doors the machine will
awing around toward him. The arms
of the mechanical boxer are fitted with
spring plungers which are connected with
erank hatelles turned by machinery. Sep-
arate crankshafts are used: for the right
Ravi left arms, and they carry- pulleys
between which an idle pulley is mounted.
These pulleys are connected with the
-main: driving pulley by a belt which is
sbiftes1 from side to side, bringing first
one and then the other of the boxing
arras MO action. The belt -shifter is op-
erated by an irregular eam at the bot -
tont of the machine ,and gives no ink-
ling as to which fist is about to strike.
.Aiside from this, the body of the boxer
is arrasiged to swing backward. or for-
ward, under the control of an irregular
cam, so that the bloses will land in dia
ferent places. on the opponent. For be
stance, a backward swieg of the body
svill deliver an uppercut. The machine is
driven by an eleetric motor, and can be
nutdo to rain: blows as rapidly as the
best boxer can receive •theen, or it Indy
be operatea .slowly for the instractioe
of the novice. .As the machine is fitted
with spring arose and gloves, oat agile
opponent can ward off the blows and
thus protect himself.
• *0
An Emigrant Prom aresce.
"Streligera' we are told, comes from
the Greek "ex," or "out of." "Ead' means
out, from, or away, the eeftMils 'word at
the Latin "ex," whente tOmea "extra."
Then comes the Latin "extraneus,"
whieh means outside-. The old, French
tvord from this, "eetratige," Medea an
41, waltz 'without a eue--ceasil
"rls "iiamiet" without Hamlet;
dneuee to melte a fellow mad
And t.reatho a gentle dareniet.
And what of her, sweet Islazio, fair,
Who loves to be the huggeo?
There's tomething In the troubled air
That echoes: "They aro bunco,"
A kirs1e4s love, a scentless rose
Are things within all reason
A waltz without a hug, peeves. --
Such supposition's treason,
What, never do the greceful wheel
Embrazing gentle made?
now would the tender maiden feel?
she'd (simply dem 2110 eraZY•
must stye up the fascinate
In dervish -sort of dancing,
If I'm denied the blissful, great,
Sweet, better part entrancing.
.So fare thee ,ivell, no more for me—
The bitter truth I'm facing—
One might as well dance with a tree
As waltz without embracing.
—New York Herald.
04. 444. 4.444444 444. 04'
3: Sunday in Britain
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;speesetetesee.seesieteeseteeeeteeeteotoegotteoset,
(London Timed)
The joint committee of the Lords and
Commons on Sunday trading, of which.
body Lord Avebury was chairman, and
the Duke of Northumberland, Look
Beauchamp and Wardale, the Bishop of
Wakefield, Sir G. Doughty, and alesere.
Burke, E. Edwards, Outland, and Stuart
Samuel were members, brought their la-
bors to a conclusion yesterday, when the
chairman's draft report was agreed to
with certain modifications, and ordered
to be presented to both Houses. Hav-
ing satisfied themselves as to the im-
portance of maintaining the Sunday as
a day of rest not only en religious and
moral grounds, but oleo on the ground
that it is necessary for the health and
strength of the community, the com-
mittee recommend that every shop as-
sistant should be secured by law one
day's rest in seven, and that no such
person should be subject to any ,penalty
if he object on conscientious grounds to
Sunday employment. The committee
are also of opinion that any employer
making a contract for employment with
an assistant in a shop who places upon
him any obligation to work on Sunday
as a condition of employment, without
providing for securing him one day's
rest in seven, should be subject to pen-
alties.
This, however, would not benefit ihe
small shop keeper. At present ma.ny
of those -who open on Sunday do so very The rest of his fortune was earned, dur-
reluctantly. If one shop kee.per opens, ing the last ten years of his managerial
those in the same Ivey of business in career.
the same neighborhood must open also, Augustin Daly had been through sev-
er they will see their business and their eral years of very bad luck just before
customers leaving them and going to this death but his last season was profit -
their rivals. Much of the evidence sub- able, because "The Great Ruby" turned
mitted was to the effect that the total out. by a lucky fluke to be a great On -
prohibition of Sunday trading by coater- ancial success. Yet he left, very- little.
mongers, street hawkers, and small shop •Hi s books, his contract for certain music -
keepers not employing assistants of any al farces from England and his interest.
kind: for such trading would inflict in- in Daly's Theatre in London turned knit
convenience and hardship on consider- to be about all that he possessed. Yet
able masses of the poorer classes. Tbe .he had been for years in harness and
committee consider, therefore, that in ,had spent thousands and thousands of
any new legislation on this subject seme [dollars.
exemptions would. be necessary. eVhilstd, . A. M. Palmer was practically a pen -
therefore, expressing the view that tile nsiioannerwhoenn thhee died
bounty omfanCahgaerslesof Ertoihi;
gen-eral principle of the act of 1077 129
Car, II., c 7), in regard to Sunday trade t slineidraltdo Sbcieuatih•ee Triliceheetsrte.maAnlagllearyitnoadnayis.
ing ought to be maintained, and that the .
penalties imposed by that act are, oefii$ondokodootbr He eeyears aalgsoo:
money, inadequate for securing the
consequence of the change in the value oilfi 'Flelfatnak fSoarntugnere
figured very little, however, in the af-
end many veluable interests in plays. He
in view, they unaintain that the exigen-
fairs of the theatre, and earned most of
cies of modern life make it neeessaary
his money through )ds ownership of cur -
to permit M particular districts the sale
tam plays. "The Sign of the Cross" was
of certain articles for a part or the whole
ono of these.. Lester Wallack died, of
of Sunday, and that the special regula-
tions necessary for this purpose should
Lotta Crabtree, who gave $1,000 for a•
course, penniless.
be franied by •local authorities, under
Francisco sudferets, is said to be the rich.
progra.mme at the benefit for the San
proper control by the central authority.
Their recommendation in regard to fines
est actress in this country, and. her 1 or.
is that the scale should bo 5s for the
first offense, LI for the second, and .e5
for the third and all subsequent of-
fences.
The committee hold that if Parliament
should pees any fresh prohibitive legis-
lation the award. of a minimum sum for
profession with the exception of Joseph
costs should be mandatory on a. con -
Murphy. Russell, who was accepted In
vietion's being teemed. The commit -
every city in the country but New York,
year, while not desiring that confee-
tee of the House -of Lords which sat lest
invested his earnings in real estate in
Sun-
days for the sale of stores for house-
tioners' shops should be open on Sun -
of that property at a great advance end
Minneapolis and St. Paul. He sold much
hold consumption, were of opinion that
mineral waters and sweets should be al-
lowed to be sold for immediate consump-
tion. The joint committee understood
that this would meet the views of the
confectionery trade, make the matter Gow, and,
kept the money. Some of his
clear; and they recommend, therefore,
colleagues say he still has the first dol -
that to meet the necessities of consune
lar he earned in the business. He invest-
ors who require refreshments on Sun -
ed it all in real estate in different ei-
day special by-laws should be made by
Itios and to -day has more money than
the local authority. With regard to ar-
eny of his profession.
ticles of food, such as bread and meat,
araggie alitchell owes re large block of
the committee suggested flutt their sele
Ireal estate on the upper West Side. and
should be allowed for a portion of the
has built several apartment houses there
day under regulations made by the local
which represent a very comfortable for -
authorities, and thet the sale of tobacco
tune. She also owns other parcels. scat -
should be permitted on Sundays durieg
tered throughout the city. William Fier -
the same hours as those inptrvehmicihseist. ern enco loft his wife $100.000. and half as
be purchased on licensed
much more was disposed of by his will.
the course of the committeeei delibera. •
Daniel Bandmann, when he did last
tions some discussion took placsecoatistv.tAo
year, owned a valuable ranch in Wyom-
the desirability of excluding "' ing which ho had bought with the money
from tho general bill dealing with the
he earned acting Shakespeare at cheap
matter. But the conclusion was come
to that, although the ens° of Scoticuol towns for several years. Lawrence 13ar-
erices thsroughout the. small 'Western
differed somewhat from that of England
hind bine although he had spent ninny
rett, on the other hand, left nothing be -
and Ireland, it would be met by allowing
yettrs in producing worthy plays in the
Scottish loeal authorities, with the eon -
most artistic emitter. Edwin Boothas for -
sent of the Secretary for Scotlene, to
tune was more than lialf a million and
omit any of the exemptione so far tia
It wOUld have been much more had he
understood that the report also contains
their own area was coneerned.
18 invested it in the businesslike way that
*++++++444+$44++++++++++++
Few Fortunes Made in. Acting
STAGE STARS WHO LEAVE AS Mal AS
$100,000 ARE PEW
+++++++++++++44++*++++++++44+++++f++++44+++++4+++++*
The fact that few actors and mana- eurprise that out of her earning* she
gers leave belga. them eny fortune nes-
pears to be just true in other coun- "It is always A little diffieult ten
tries as it is here, satietician has re- just how uteri) do opens' their neeney,"
cently figured out some interesting de- a manager told the Sun reporter the
tails asi to the estates left by distingeole other day, "for very few of them ihee
ed players and managers in England. in luxury, %bey may have a house and a,
Ilenry lrviug lett only $100,000 and much valet, but with expendituree of this kind
of that was realized from the sale Of les Ow stop. They rarely keep yechts or
pictures and; other works of art. The horses and few of them make the least
fact that Ellen Terry had. a benefit the pretence to keeping up an establienment.
°thee day shows how much she luxe saved t I've often thought they would be muck
from half a century of work, Unlike , more sensible if they did. Yet with all
Sir Henry she never had any share. of I their earnings they come to the end of
losses to bear. ' their days without a cent.
William Terriss, who was murdered "One way they use up motie,y ie, of
five years ago, in London, was 60 at the course, through a certain kind of osten-
time of his death, and left 4310000, lie tation in which they live an. their tray -
had been in all that period an actor vie els. They take suites in sumll hotele,
der selary and bad made few if any have their meals tierved upstairs when
ventures of his own Dan Leno, who they are, if possible, a little bit worse
was only 45 at the time of his death, than they are downstairs and they give
got the biggest „salary ever paid to any suppers to the members of their cone
music hall Binger in England, and Oscar palms and in other ways that do not
Hammerstein gave him $1,e00 in real show but coot is great deal they let their
money slip away.
"I know one star who travels novr in
the most extravagant way and I sup.
ups and downs in his career, found great pose she enjoys it. She takes a motor,
prosperity in "The Sign of t he terotsa," two maids, a valet and always has a
during the letter years of his life, but earge suite of rooms in which there is a
none of the plays that he id:tempted af- isupper almost every night. Of course
ter that time ever nid.de any money fer that may be fun but it its using up ev•ey
him. Probably the $50,000 that he left r cent she earns. Yet that woman lute a
behind him came altogether from the very modest house in the country where
royalties that he received from that ishe spends her summers and no home at
play. It has been acted in tide coun- all in New Yorlc. She never livers with
try for six years and is to go on tour the least pretence to elegance in her
again. own home. All the money is splashed
out in life on the road.
"It is the same way with most of the
managers in this city. They don't seem
to have much fun out of their money.
They never spend it as other men who
made tbe same iucomes -would. One sees
earned in her professional career $135,- them around the hotels and chop houses
of Broadway just as if they were still
agents on a small salary. It is true that
they have begun to live a little differ-
ently during the past few years, but
there is still no good reason why they
should work so hard t43 make money
from which they have so little pleasure.
Usually it goes after a while and they
might as well have spent it in enjoy-
ing themselves as have paid it out to
authors and actors. Go into one of the
Fifth avenue restaurants where you see
men of all kinds enjoying their money
and tell me if you ever saw e manager
among them. On the other hand none of
them—with a very few exceptions—ever
buys his own home and lives with any
degree of comfort or luxury in it. Yet
in spite of the little fun they have out
of it the money goes."—N. Y. Sun.
money during Ins stay at the Olympia.
Yet he left behind Min only $54,000..
Wilson Barrett, who had known many
Augustus Harris, who had Covent Gar-
dens and Drury Lane, died. in the early
'40's, and was so much involved finan-
cially that in spite of all his greet enter-
prises he left an estate of only $118,000.
Lady Martin, who was Helen 'Felicia had
000.
The circnus managers seem to be as
prosperous in England as they are here.
The famous Frederick Hengler left $28Se
000, which is a larger sum than any man-
ager or actor in England left, but seems
small in comparison with the $8,000,000
left behind by James Bailey, and, the
great Barnum fortune.
Some of the American fortunes nave
turned out just as small. It was thought
always that the late Fanny Daveauort
was a rich woman. She bad acted for
years with great success and been a great
popular favorite. Yet she left practical-
ly nothing. That was in a 'measure due
to the failure of, several productions
made just before her death.
Henry E. Abbey died a poor man, al-
though he had handled millions. Maurice
Grau, on the other hand, retired from
business worth $400,000, part of which
was made from successful speculation.
As the fight progressed. the men con-
tinued to exohange jocular rernarkG ad-
theugh -they snust have realized Led
there was a dim prospect of over getting
out alive. Trooper Holmes was shot
through the thigh with a bullet asnd an-
other struek Corporal Woolhough in the
ankle. Corporal Alexander was kileed
wibh an assegai and Trooper Hawkins
also died from assegai wounds.
By this time the prosrpset was becom-
ing hopeless. Nearly all the men were
wounded and those who had sufficient
strength left tosheid a revolver or a rifle
continued: to fire whenever a ausky form
approached near enough for the snot to
be effective, but they were getting
weaker and weaker. The motives rained:
in a shower of assegais at first and. then
kept off at a respectful distance while
they tried the effect of their firearms,
the fire from which was deadly enough
to do oonsidemble damage, but the stem
was bad. Every notv and again they
would attempt to get to close quarters,
but they were driven off with great loss.
Captain Clerk was wounded. in Ieve
places. A slug had struck him in the
back of the thigh, a billet grazed Ms
elbow, an assegai pierced the flesh, rigid
over the .eye, another Was :buried; deep
in the fleshy part of the arm, and an
explosive bullet damaged his left arm
with a. very painful wound. Although
bearing these five wounds, he managed
to load. ails, carbine and, to fire away aes
long as his streegth lasted, and when he
fottiul it too much for him lie took to his
heavy revolver.
All this tame Clerk and Holmes, de-
tween them continued to s•hout for help,
its they knew their comrades eould not
be ler away, and they knew alto that
many of the natives understood English
and hoped they would by tide Means di-
vert the attention of the enemy. Colonel
Royston and his men heard the chier of
the natives and the sound of firing its
isoon as it began, and wit•hout pausing
sfor momeet they all mask a dash Stir
the spot. It Was no easy matter to fordo
thole' way through the 'immix as lest es
they wished, but they clone on as (peek-
ly posseible end were jast in thud
Ae they approaelma the spot where the
little force wee .gallently bolding its wen
they ottem in eenteet with the native
outsider, but "estrange" gave us the borne which had been thrown out to ne•
word "Aratiger," by dropping the "a," teitept diem, and frem which they wates
"You may get board in the °Atkins "Do you know that sandy hared fel- sttol "etratteseer," by droppsng the ' closed to liekry fire.
011 tiof woit boo 44 to PO a wmuci tv4 Ito* at the 'Union Station At 0401410" Nielle/AL t WA 'sr. waives, Wing
tune has been -estimated at sums vary-
ing from $800,000 to $1,000,000. Much
of 11 18 in real estate. In that way the
largest theatrical fortunes have been
made.
Sol Smith Russell, who died three
years ilf40, was the richest actor in the
SAMPLES OF CHINESE FUN.
Jokes That Abound in the Literature of
the Celestials.
If there is any truth in what expert
jesters tell us the -world's stock of good,
original jokes is ludicrously small —a
dozen or two at the very outside. An
early investigator into this momentous
question, a certain Hieroclos, who lived
some 1,600 years ago, put the number
in his day at exactly twenty-one. The re-
searches of Hierocles probably did not
tixtend so far eastward as China, so there
is no impropriety in asking now whether
some of the jokes which abound in the
literature of the celestial empire are en-
titled to the honor of originality or not.
Here are three specimens:
A careless barber, trimming a custom-
er's ears—Chinese barbers pay particu-
lar attention to this part of the human
anatomy—put his patient to great pain
and unea,sinete. "Are you doing my kft
ear now?" asked. the victic. "No, air;
I've not quite finished the right ear yet."
"Ali! I fancied you were trying to pass
through to the left without going
around."
A portrait painter without clients teas
advised by a friend to paint is likenees
of himself and his wife and hang it in
some conspicuous place, so that would be
customers might jud.ge of his skill. He
did so and his father-in-law the next
time he called immediately saw the pic-
ture. "Pray," asked the visitor, "what
woman have you represented there?"
"Why, sir, do you not recognize your •
own daughter?" "My daughter!" was
the indignant answer. "If you intend
that to represent my daughter, how dare
you paint her sitting thus intimately
with a man whom I have never seen be-
fore a.nd who must be an entire stranger
to her?" The painter's feelings need. not
real estate with an equally successful re- be described.
The following is a typical example:
later put hie money into Washington The gibes at doctors are innumerable.
suit. He left more than $500,000. dispatched an imp to this world of ours
One of the judges of the nether regions
to seek out and bring back a. good doe -
Joseph Murphy made a fortune out of tor. "When," the imp was instructed,
his Irish plays, especially The Kerry "you come to the house of a doctor be-
fore which you decry no complaining
ghosts you will know you have foutel a
man of the kind wanted.' The messenger
set out, but in front of every doctor's
door be came to there was an immeneis
throng of angry spirits proclaiming the
wrongs they had suffered when m the
flesh at the hands of the medicine man.
Finally, however, he readied a house
where there was but one solitary ghost
fitting backward. and forward, "Thiss
is my man," he said to himself; "he must
surely be a clever fellow." When the
imp came to make inquiries, however, he
been in practice for a day 1—Grand Meg-
Ittezairunee.d that the practitioner had bai•eiy
a sperial reference to the requirements)
Thatt.:-1 I Richard Mansfield is ono of the richest
actors do to -day.
a tompromise being proposed for their
of tollbetaJai;11`k%(11111Mnrn'InfifoOdinoTtlimeSundayR,
benefit. meters in service end
tot; trielV
trehrlevelTelail'ise 1 iNiVsainnt!esston:etathheas end.
Will be well able
lotted to him. Ile plays long seasons, al-
ways draws large audiences and has in-
expensive eompstnies, Joseph Jefferson,
who did business himself on the same
meagre scale during the later years of
his career, loft more than half a million.
No woman ever had st greater vogue
hero than Helena Modjeska, who has been
in financial troublea during the last
few years. Most of her money disappear-
ed through her western tanch and her
family. She always supported practically
in the weet is small tolony of Poles who
lived on her ranch. That has now been
sold, for $30,000. She earned $25,000 from
bee- tour last year and will keep on att-
ing for several years to mine, so the
will probably be able to retire in teite
forte Hortense 1 -thea, who iota it period
of groat popularity here, died peenilese.
Her setivinge were iri is mesteure elcheitit-
ed 4 ill health, but it Wail a Matta' tki
44 •
Why Thunder Sours Milk.
To many persons the curdling of milk
it thunderetormis a mysterious and
unintelligible phenomenon. Yet tha
whole process really is sinspIe and nat-
ural.
Milk, like most ether eubstances, cote
tains millions- of bacteria. The tat*
bacterie, that in is day or two, under nate
ural conditious, would cause the fluid to
sour are peculiarly euseeptible to elec-
tricity, Electricity inspirits and lavig.
orates them, affecting them as alcohol,
cocaine or strong tea affects Mee. Un-
der the eurrent's influence they fall to
work with amazing energy and inatead
of taking a couple of days tte tour the
milk they accomlpish the task complete-
ly in half an hour.
Tt is not the thunder in a eterm that
souru milk; it is the eleetricity in the
air that doss it. With an electric battery
it is ease, on the eft1110 principle, to four
the freshest milk, A strong current ax -
cites the miero•bee to istiperroicrobio
ertione and in a few missetes they da
it job that, under °Wintry oondee
would' take them, it eouple of dap.
New Orleans. Timess-Democrat.
4 **-
Indiana Supreme Court hes upheYa the
eonstitutionelity of the stet requiring
menufecturing end mining eolnaaltled
and Grille to pay their employees seos4-
ittottlti,r lidul womir.