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nurse shc begins to talk OF hor dcsire to 20 to
6or mother. tslli1e tIo woman that :ho Lord
Of her deirium. 1t is a condition PRECEDENT 70
nS the ssto sp5t hs ch S
lirium. All that Is represented is portrayed
sns It. hat soe sad coat wSsh sSn hps sSs
s ss oSass IL her herr ntSs9 ssS isnss
alone for u moment tho apparitlon Of the
drunknrd appears 70 hor. cursing and calling
tho nurse returning finds her lying on tbe
floor where she has fallen in flight from ths
in at the nurses shrlek and lit the child into
When they are alone again Hannele resumes
che tax OF her mother and her desire to 20 to
her. questions the nurse about the forgiveness
OF Gin. and for the nrst time suggests the con-
fusion In her mind between the teacher GOL-
beauty, and says that she is to marry him
q sw.ddins and q nurse. When she g Is alone
again the apparition OF her mother appears.
the hair is Of the same ashS coior through.
out the scene that follows the womans eyes
sG sSas to on the dF ; spSa snl
Iition PLACES IN the girls hands an invisible
flower The nurse i. returns hears the story q
fancy by taikinG to her about II; Again Ha"-
rete is left alone. and three angels come to her
bedslde. She lies Tor moment In blaze Of
light while they gather about her. and as she
sinks back on the bod they iade from her sight.
In the second part OF the play the nurse and
mother are confused In the child's vision. Her
mother, wearing the nurses hsbit comes to
her bedside The mother tells her she must
die. and at that moment II figure, which the
programme describes MS u great, dark angel.
enters the room and seats tself in q corner.
ror. Then she 6pproacEss is With questions,
hnt receives no aEswsr. She Is terrlns1 spd
fies to her mothers arms. When she Is
persuaded that she must die. and her mot her
has told her that the figure Is Death.
Id .Lrie looks In dsnny at her ragged clothes.
Sho shall have q beautiful gown. her mother
tells her. and the mother takes small bill
from her pocket and signs Il, The angel Of
death sits silent In the corner never taking
its eyes from the child. 1t Is draped In black.
with g%nze A. M hInG hung about it, and carries heavy
= dapper tailor. GrotesIuely dressed. skips
into the room. lie bows comicaly to the
mother. the angel. and to UaWiele. whom he
calls " Princess johanna" Tho story Of Gin
derclla becomes confused with the chlld's
story. and the beautiful satin gown. ms well as
the crystal slippers. arc from "Clnderella,"
which Is the name the tailor occu siOnaily gives
TO the girl. He tells Gor that he hos found tho
maiden who can wear the slippers. and that
sho II to be the princess. When HdHHris has
put on the gown and the slippers and the veil
the tailor, sttll courtesying and gruniuG and
rubbing his hands together. disappears. The I
taste ~ this scene has been very much Ques- /
toned. and IL cun only he excused on the !
ground that II is the child's vision her idea OF |
the tailor in the fairy story who came with |
besatiful gown for the fairy princess.
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other elephants. The visitors had before that
he'd in terror. It was hours before he quieted
down. snyder says that 1t is now unsafe for
any one to enter the pen. and nobody has at
Snyder laughs at tho suggestion mnLo to
the Park Commissioners last Thursday that
an electric battery wire should be fastened to
TIPS hind legs. and that shock should be-
administered whenever he became unruly.
Who'll put that wire on the elephants
legsp That's the question. am sure that
won't" the keeper remarked cynically. Tho
only thing that will cure Tip Is gunpowdsr
and heavy dose of II at that"
=, Trainer HsgenhecE and Trainer William
clared that the only thirg to do with Tin Is to
Kill him, The Commissioners will probably
decide his fate on Monday: Crowds have gone
TO see him dai ly since the report was pub
The execution will be an exciting event. Ii
the Commissioners sign his death warrant he
will be shot with rifle. Ii has heen decided
that 44-calihre rifle ball will do the work II
1t is properly fired A charge OF 100 grains Of
powder will be used Just wheret to aim ,puz-
zles the menagerie authorities. Trainer New
man. who says that he has killed seven ele-
phants says that n bullet fred at the skull
right between the eyes Will Kill the elephant
instantly, 4 bullet fired into the body right
heart and finish him Just rs swiftly. II will
require an expert rifeman to do tho shooting.
however. for II the bullet merely wounded tho
animal the keepers fear trouble. rs tie wound
Tin will be the second elephant shot in the
Park, II 1t is decided to kill him. In lsSsii an
elephant called Hunki-Dori hroge his leg and
was shot through the eye and In the heart
simultaneously Death Mas instantaneous.
TIPS skeleton Will I've mounted IL he II shot,
scum OF Natural History. His skin will be
preserved for exhibition also.
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Tin was a New Years gift to the city. Tho
late Adam ForepauCh had made up his mind
to give Tip up as incorrigble. and wanted to
get him of his hands. In IN evil hour Jan. /.
1SSJ-the city authorities accepted the pres
ent. and there has been very little peace in the
menaGere since,
Tip is 33 years old nine and a half feet In
height. and weighs five tons and he lie q very
heavy villain indeed when he gets on the
rampage, which he does regularly every
spring. Tho King OF Italy imported him from
ladia when no was still in his bahy hood. His
bad temper developed so early that Hagen
beck. the German animal trainer. had little
$1,000. which. would be a small price II h.
We're o well behaved and iocile eleph Mt
HRgenbeck, II is asserted. repen ted of his 49,
gain when Tip began to cut up his didoes.
The advent OF spring developed his vicious
temper, and he killed his keepers with dis
came round. He had killed four men in these
uncomfortable outbreaks OF passion when
Forepaugh. the elder saw him in 1899 and
bought him. Tip was then big and hand
some fellow. AMI tho American circus man
took strong fancy to him. He believed his
men could manage the big fellow. and that
they could keep out OF his way when his
Tip had a riotous voyage over. lie was
brought over in chains. Something happened
aboard shin that didn't suit him and he took
his chains and smashed M everything that he
could reach for q while. When he had cooled
landed him successfully. Ito seemed to be
very sweet tempered. and proved Il big attrAc-
tlon OF the Forepaugh travelling show. Ho
became furious one afternoon while the keep
ers were trying to get him into his private
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the iron bars and smashed three feet Of the
IVORY Into ,splinters The fragments wero
beloved with rage, and It was severni days
before he guieted down. This ruined Tips
points. Snyder chained him up' "s sawed a on
down the splinteEed one and fitted brass knobs
upon the ends. These knobs weigh ~ pounds
each. The tusks we're sawed down once since
and are now two feet long. II was considered
Tin made his ilrst attack on Snyder In the
spring Of 1891. The keeper went into the pen
Tp sanea boh ote and ait 'H lie
his martineale as ~ It had been a si!ken thread
The moment Snyder got in front OF him, and.
trunk, finging him into the corner Of tho pen.
He tried to tramplc upon him after that. but
Murphy who dragged Snyder out through the
rear door oil the pen. ,heeper SNYDER went
oSsi,. oSsK; made the brute lie down. lifted extra
thrashinR. 1t is Snyder's opinion that Tip has
hated him ever since.
a, tbs quarters were, changed after that TO
was originally placed in the middle one Of tho
by smashing a twelve inch yellow pine beam
tS 70 sh,hereens h m ,h and l9ter he snapped two OF
Of cSst ron .nf @ Sots So Se
casions Tin, was Jealous Of the elephant in the
pen Eext to him.
- o'clock last Monday afternoon, Tin had
months before been Put in the end pen., lie
WAS COnuneu 10 nnuy cnalns ana nhU MS lOre-
legs manacled. The ends OF the body chain
were fastened to the loor. Another outbreak
Of temper was about due, and Snyder, wanted
for him head first. snyder caught his tusk
with his short elephant hook. intending to turn
him around. when the elephant N ade n dash
at him and struck him on the shoulder blade
with one of his knobbed tusks
. snyder attributes his escape from dea.h sole
ly TO the fact that his tusks were too short to
pierce him. The blow knocked him senseeas
against the barred petition between the pens.
"a a n N 10 hnl lV.l al.
TWO plunges Mt him with his tusks The chains
held him back. He beloved and struck the
front bars OF the pen in fury Snyder recov-
cred consciousness shortly and catching hold
oil one ot the bars squeezed through to tho
spnce where the visitors usually stand.
. Tho big elephants rage became awful when
he saw the Keepers escape. He frightened tho
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herself and be free from tho brutality ~ ber
drunken stepfather. Dne Of the old beppays
bestirs herself TO get hot water and brandy FOR
the child who Hes m oani ing on the cot others
hustle in to help or abuse the old woman but
they disappear again on the arrival Of the
magistrate who ie to take the girls testimony
OF her fathers III treatment. The girl nm.
swere hie questions with m oans and he leaves
her In charge OF the doctor and Sister OF
Charity who como TO attend her. When the
magistrate hns lett the stage there is an unex.
pllained Implication OF the illegitimacy ~ the
himself Is her father Her mother has been
dead Tor six weeks having been another vic.
tim OF the brutal HdHeu- and what effect the
Of some re alton between the mne sttate and
the paternity ot the girl 1t In i'm puashle to un-
dcrstnnd Tho situation would he stronger, II
seems. " the girl were the daughter Of Un1ei'n.
THIS j. wcnkened originally ny making her his
step-daughtcr and TO mply tho knowledge or
seetns an elaboration ~ morbidncss
When the Eirl has been left alono with tho
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freight car. and he snapped his chains and
charged on one OF the men. driving one OF his
nye-foOt tusks clean through the keepers
body. and then STAN ped the life out Of him.
In the following spring. while the elephant
was chained in an exhibition tent on the road
hoy employed iE the show passed by his
stall Without any warning whatever Tip
raised his huge trunk and struck the boy with
Of the hoy instantly. week later he. struck
his keeper in the same vicious way, and killed
him. too year or ~ aitsTward he charged
uDon third Of FoTepaugh's eephant attend
ants, and drove his tusks into his body. killing
him IN "a horrible fashion.
Stories Of these bloody deeds OF violence
were still fresh in Keeper SnydeTs mind
when the city accepted Tip as New Years
present FoTepRugh and his zen chained the
brute up in the old elephant house In the Park
Rnd turned him over to Snyder; snyder didn't
relish his new charge at all but he had
had experience handling elephants. having
worked years ago with Barnum's show. and
he and IiD soon grew to know each other 50
well that snyder was able 10 gradually take on
his chains. He got new set lateT, consisting
OF heavy body chain. with a martingale lifted
with mAnaelss for his fore aud hind legs
There was plenty OF eVidenee Of the brute's
uncertain temper. however lie had been but
Few months in his new quarters when he
became enra2ed at q smaller elephant In An-
other stall and charged at the heavy IRON
barred Partition separating the stRlls- lie
plunged at the Partition with thud that made
the building trsmbla- His right tusk struck
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skAyING TnE GOADES CAFE
The Banquet TO Money Owners Recently
Given In I.Oadon bv Raron IIIrseh.

The banquet 10 Money Owner. Recently
Given In London bv Baron IIIrsss.
Baron Hirsch Is highly susceptible mil.
lionalre, who believes in royalty. who has fol-
lowed the fortunes OF tho Prince Of Wales as
siduously. and who is supposed to have
"staked" that parsonage on many occasionA
For while he dropped out OF the papers. but
he is back again now and his genius for do
ing things that cause people to talk seems
again to he in good working order The din
Iers Of rich mon have heen frequent but Bar
on Hirseh conceived the idea OF getting the
twelve Richest men In London together and
giving them a dinner which would take rank
as the most extensive one in the long history
OF that great dinner-glVing metropolis.
IL was a feast OF money from beginning to
end. Not a single guest was admitted whose
fortune was not estimated in millions OF
pounds. and the English papers have become
deliT!ous in trying to figure out the exact
wealth represented by the Baron's eleven
guests.
The Baron himself made no pretence OF Civ
ing the dinner for special object. except 20
see how good dinner he could buy. The chef
OF the Hotel Savoy and the propTietors OF that
estat ishment entered cheeriully into the
BarOn's scheme. and the result was dinner
which 1t took four hours to eat was paid for ia
about four minutes, and cost upward OF D., 800,
II cannot be- wondered at that the Prince OF
Wales Is fond OF Baron uirsch.
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A H0MICIDAL ELEPHANT.
1IP Of THE CENTRAL PARk TENAG-
ERIE NOW AWAITING SENTENCE

His Fate the Park Commissioners VIII
Decide Moudny-Si1e, Symmetry, and
Thir y-,hree Years Misconduet or the
Mammoth Brute-He Has K,iied Eight
M.n and Has Marked spyder for the Ninth
v.etim-IIow He Probably VIII Be Kiiied.
The Park Commissioners for week psst
have had most unpleasant taete Of the un-
happy lot OF a man with an elephant on his
hands. particularly when the elephant has q
temper The elephant in question is Tin. the
famous Central Park pachyderm, who ia not
only the largest OF his species now in America,
but has a dispositi on that Is disaRreeable
In direct ratio to his man moth stature.
The Commissioners have been taking ex-
pert advice on the possibility Of permanently
soothing Tips tobasco sauce spirit. and they
have about concluded that the task Is hope
less. and that the huge brute will have to ray
the penalty Of bad temper by forfeitinR his life.
This penalty will be exacted because Billy"
Snyder. the elephant man OF the city menag-
erie who has had charge Of Tin ever since he
Joined the m menagefie in 1880. won't have any
thing more to do with him. Tp has tried TO
kill him twice. and SNYDER has acquired an
irrevocable prejudice against giving him
third chance. particularly as Tip has record
Of killing eight other keepers
Hes got me down for his ninth victim"
Snyder reported to Director Smith Of the me-
nagerle and It's got down to simply this:
Either you kill him or he'll kill me-"
This was on last Monday. after Tip had
made his second att tempt to take his keepers
life. Director smith told tho Park Commits
sioners that ho believed that Snyder was right
In his gloomy view OF the outlook. and all the
experts that the Commissioners have con-
suited have endorsed Snyder's prediction.
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4 BIG CROP or JUNh.
II l. on Navy Yard Land aud WIN Be Neither
Used Nor sold.

. =
u~rd Nor sold.
II the privilege OF trimming the waste ground
OF the New York Navy Yard were up at auction
it would fetch a snug sum. for half dozen
iunkmen. mechanics. and shipsmlths know
there is money In it Thousands OF feet OF
solid oak lmber are half embedded along the
east end Of the ten-acre patch, In the days whv n
We were building and rebuilding the od-time
war ships these tlmbers were Of value. They
cost the Government pre!tY penny. and
Uncle Sam has no use for them now Hall a
hundred stout oak knees, such as used to
brace the sides OF the gallant kearsarGe, lie
like children In bed over near the basin and
not far away are half a dozen stout spars.
each with naval history.
from the place where tho pile drivers are
pounding the crib work for the new dry dock
well down toward the Nal.about Bridge the
waste ground is strewn with naval lunk.
Enough steel bolts TO I'LL a barrel can be found.
There are sections OF plate. tubing. boiler iron.
rods. connections. valves, and a miscellaneous
lot OF small STUFF that would be as the ample of
his eve TO a IunkmAn. All Of this stun is waste.
The Government Will neither use 1t nor sell il.
hut any one caught carrying II away would bo
In the hands Of a marine IN a minute The
United States District Attorney recently
took the law" on a Milliamsburgh tinker
who scaled the Navy Yard fence and pocE etod
a piece OF iron valued at cents.
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thunder, and q moment later the flower which
the child still holds in her hand lights up, The
brown robe falls from the Stranger. He Is
ruahes from the stage crying that he
will hang himself. The mourners have
already ned from the stage. leaving there
a group OF angels. Crossing the stage 20
where the girl lies, the S'rdn9e1' stoops and
touches her lace. Then he takes her hand
and leads her to the centre OF the stage, she
rising from the coffin whom he ilrst touches
her. There are a few spoken lines and the girl
falls on his arm. At his command the stage
hlls with angels, VINO cover the walls OF the
dingy room. the floors. and the poor furnitura
with cloths una silks OF light colors. The
chorus oi angels grows louder ns the walls Of
the room fade into q scene representing Ham
ncLSS npotheOsis
With her hand in tho Srdngel's, they start to
ascend the sters. ilanked on either side by
angels. and endiuE with cross Of clouds in
stairs. the scene changes again 20 the room IN
the almshouse. HGRNele. In her ragged dress
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When he has gone HaHnolp lies Town on the cot.
with the trail OF the robe falling over It's side.
and the gold embroidery on the satin skirt
and the lace veil shine in the white light which
falls on her The angel OF death arises and
crosses to the place where the girl lies lie
habit OF the nurse. stands between him and
the girl, And the angel, with the sword still up-
lifted disappears from view
Then several mouTners clad in black hurry
IN and whisk gTotesquely about the stage.
Of children brought ky the sehoolmaster to
sing at the funeral They speak 10 the child
one OF them asking her not to tell God that
they called her Ii'Hcess TGHers because her
clothes were always n rugs. Other m0urners
come from the village and tell OF the wonders
that have been seen there Angels have heen
they say have been seen hearing a crystal cot
fin to the Almshouse for HdHHeip. They enter
and the crowd falls back as tho four white
Tohed figures bearing the cotlln advance to the
he'd on which HdnnflS lies. They nut the eOf-
I'm down and III. the girls body into il.
When they have mixed with the crowd there
Is talk Of .ldtteTh. the girls father and after a
moment he stARgers In drunk and euTsinR
He looks about for the girl. and finally his eyes
light on the girls body. He 10 followed on the
scene by GOuTdti. dressed now In Z long.
brown robe. The language Of the scene be-
been changed since the opening night, Cot
raid the teacher Is nov called the Stranger,
and represents the Christ OF the child's vision.
The Stranger speaks with MdHT'Ii. = dialogue
which para phrases the language OF Seidptnrc.
Fermsrly In the resnsS 4! ndts,7 s called the the
Maif1fn sweers that he never struck the
child aud that he has done nothing 10 eAuss
her death. The lie 10 followed by q clap Of
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rRosrAR0Us FRuIr AELLEEs.
Good HusIaess Methods Reap Rewards for
CorRsr stand and CurbstOHe rsker.

Good HusIness Methods Reap Rewards for
CorReT stand and CurbstOHe HHskst.
A great deal has been said about the profits
OF fruit stands, but as a matter Of fact the
profits are chiefly what the political eeOno-
mlsts would call wages Of superintendenee
except indeed. where there is an element Of
rent; that goes to a proprietor As rule.
however. the most profitable stand Is not only
the one best situated. but tho one most faith
fully tended. The man who sticks day aud
night TO his business buys with intelligence
and studies public taste prospsrs. but 50 he
would AZ almost any other business not above
his capacity. some Of the apple women who
sell almost nothing but APPLES. and perhaps
get q good deal Of trade because they are old
and women, grow rich after many years In the
business. One such woman. who had snug
ntLle trsde iaF d99wn town leit an estate ot
tho barrel and sold them by the piece at a
profit OF possibly POO to 300 Per cent, such a
business as that needs only 70 be stuck TO. and
Il will bring prosperity.
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CiLIFOI NIA'S LJBE ~ TREE.
Hts HOots WIN B, Fed by Soil from Patriot
Graves aHd AtiIvG Ids.

Hts Roots Win Is Fed by Soil from Patriot
Graves aHd AtiIrG Ids.
They are about to plant Liberty Tree in
California. which is to stand for a thousand
years. and which will be emblematic OF the
patriotism ol the extreme West. They are
three thousand miles from the homo OF WASH
ington out thore, but the tree is TO be nourished
by earth taken from the battlefield of the first
battle OF tho RsYolution by other earth from
Nashington's grave earth from the grave OF
Lafayette. in Flancei more earth from bunker
Hill from the trenches at Valley Forge. adj
dltiOaal soil IRON the field of Concord. and
several big shoyelfls from tho grave Of tile
author OF the star Spanglsd BGnneT." All q!
the earth is duly boxed and sealed. aud war
rantet To DO genuine soil from the location in-
dicAted on the lauels; and the tree should grow
In he form Of the American flag II it has any
sense OF the ltness OF things.
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MONUMENT TO MARY WASHINGTON.
until the stone disinteGrated and became unfit
for use. Twice has Congress considered an
appropriation. but 1t failed to pass. and has
been left over.
Since then the Fredericksburg Mary WASH
inGton Society has steadily worked for monu-
ment. and next to Mrs. Roger A. Pryor Vice.
President at Large OF the National Mary WASH
ington Nom orial Association. Marion uarland,
the authoress and n Fredericksburg woman
has collected the largest sum OF money.
In 1870 an association was formed, with the
widow Of Chief Justice Waite at It's head to
take up the matter with the Fredericks burg
monument has been erected over the grave OF
monument erected by women to a woman will
be dedicated at Fredericksburg.
President and many 2 M ed suas wlii shs
leave Washington about a. ".
II Will he met on Its arrival ny Gen. Ander-
son ana stan. a military company from Freher-
icksburg the Society Of Masons. and the Ma
Tine Band. lent by the Secretary OF the Navy.
Mary Washington. where a collation. will be
served TO the National Association by the ladies'
oil the fredericksburg society.
All will then form in marching order ard pro-
ceeu 10 the place OF dedication, whore they will
The % rredeSicEsbure b nT s5 Mssonlo Lodge has ia.
sued the following invitation tor banquet to
take place at the close Of tho exercises:
beoTkc Warrington Was made Mason, rekpcctfully
invites your presence at banquet At the Opera House
IN this cItA Ihursiny MAY IA. 1884, at O'clock r. NJ
~ homo: OF the dIstnRuishsd guests the
OF the Mary Washington Monument erected by ths
patriotic women Of America.
Toasts and speeches will be called for.
Judge Roger A. Pryor will give O toast. The
President and guests wi return to Washing
ton that night, but the city Of Frederiek sburx
and surrounding country will indulge in @
large bail to commemorate the occasion.
egat3r b2 1apl Y be the Gy"tGr Of the day
merly OF Mount Vernon and a descendant Of
the illustrlOus mother OF our greatest hero.
=, The treicricksbura society and the Ma
tionnl Association have PASSED resolutions
rendering to Mrs Roger A. Fryor their grate-
iul acknowledgements OF her labors ana efti-
cient services In the cause
The life members and their heirs OF the Ma
tional Association will constitute tho perma-
mont Board TO whom will tie intrusted the care
Of the monument and park. In u few months
the books will be- closed and no more life
members added. At present those who wish
to become life members may do so By paying
80 and applying 10 Mrs Roger \. Pryor. 3S
East rhirty-thl street or 10 Mrs Abraham
Lansing, Albany y. \.