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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22
YELLOW SULPHUR SPRINGS.

OPEN To VISITORS JUNE ist. THESE
springs are situated on the summit Of
'he Allegheny Mountains The air Is pure
and inyigorating. No fogs and no malaria
Accommodations frst-caes I'm every ra.
spect. Send for pamphlets.
my 2S-2m RIDGWAY HOLT. Proprietor
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22
MEETINGS,

GENERAL ORDER No. p: ~
HEADQUARTERS RICHMOND Xxx
COMMANDERY, No. X t. ~
Richmond. Va. June Is. 1899. Sir y
Knlghts,-Attend stated con-
clave OF your commandery at the Asy-
lum, Masonic Temple, on Saturday, June
nth. at s T. NJ. IN citizens dress.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Members of the Commandery of st
Andrew. No. IL. and transient Sir Knlgh =
are courteously invited to attend
By order Of the Eminent Commander
Attest: II. r. HOWARD
W. NJ. Williams, Captain-Gene
Recorder 10 II
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22

No, YOUR MOTHERS PIES AND
BISCUITS
HAVE NEVER FAILED TO BRING
back a laundering for more. Why? Be
cause she used BYRD-ISLAND FLOUR,
Je lists
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22
Buckroe Beach Hotel,

ON CHESAPEAKE BAY.
Directly Opposite Capes. Two Miles from
Fort Monroe. on Electrician Line.
OPENS MAY ETH
Reasonable rates. Rest and safest bath.
Ing on the coast. Fine Fishing Largest
pavilion in the State. Free use OF pavilion
and grounds TO Sunday-school excursions,
&c. For rates apply 10
CHARLES III. HEWINS.
my H-2m Manager, Hampton. Va.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22
THE VALENTINE MUSEUM

ELEVENTH AND CLAY STREETS.
open aaily from 10 A. n. to Il. NJ
admission. ~ centx krso on Saturdays.
Do lily
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22
The Confederate Museum,

TWELFTH AND CLAY STREETS.
Open daily from 10 A. NJ. TO 5 T.. NJ
Admission Is cents. Free on Saturdays.
NH ls-lv
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22
THE WOMAN's COLLEGE.

THE WOMAN's COLLEGE.
FREDERICK. MD, REOPENS SEP
TENDER 18th. Confers degrees Con-
servatory of Music and Art. School or
Expression. Library Laboratories. Gym
nasium. Enlarged accommodations. I'm
rlyalled climate. Endowment. j. III.
APPLE, A. NJ, President. je l-eOdS9t
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22

NLLEGHANN SPRINGS. "a.
RECOMMENDED BY THE NrD-r,r
Society of Virginia. is celebrated ION .r
cures OF dyspepsia i'm lbs various forms
MOST extended and beautiful ground. IN
me mountains. For descriptive pamphlet
terms. testimonials. &c. write 10
Je 4-lm q. A CnLHnEN pr.nrLaL--
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22
MlLLBORO' SPRINGS,
VIRGINIA.

For rates and booklet. address.
j. GRAHAM DAVIDSON. Manager
Milbor0 Springs.
Je Slim Ran oo,,,,. ~,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-22
MOUNTAIN TOP

Elevation. 1000 feet. delightful summer
resort. Fine views: strong Chalybeate and
other waters. Within sight OF junction y
Noriolk and western and Chesapeake and
Ohio railways. Only f20 miles from Rich
mond. Reasonable rates. Address
my 23-3m MASSIE a co. Alton, Va
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01
THE THEATRE HAT.

Take UP the show-goers burden,
For he has his grievances too.
The ticket that gives him admission
Bears the right the performances 70 view.
But often he meets an obstruction
Like the wings of vampire bat
That Is worn by the woman OF rasnlon'
By the milliners called hat
A nightmare is it in construction,
Quintessence of hideousness;
Conceived by some brain in delirtum,
Expression of mental distress.
No savage in African jungle,
Nor Indian, Digger at that,
Has ever concocted headgear
So rank as the new-fangled hat.
attended lecture one even
Where pictures were thrown on screen,
Such wonderful views and the grandest,
Perhaps, that have ever been seem
Canyons and lakes and mountains,
And stretches of prairfes fiat,
But all of them half hidden
BY a guileless maidens hat.
I could little see Of the pictures
SO 1 glowered on that hat in spite,
And compared It to sails of Chinese junks,
Or ships that pass In the night.
Then l fancied 1t bore a resemblance
To an arched-back, dog-beset cat,
And longed for a brick or a bootjack
To hurl at that monstrous hat
I thought: "Can it be the maiden
Belongs to Sunday school.
And never yet learned the lesson
OF the beautiful golden ruler
Like the mountains In the pictures
Calm and serene she sat,
With "Old Faithful" geyser spouting
From the top of her wonderful hat.
Then came the Yellowstone stage coach
Through the canyon rolling down,
And disappeared In a moment
In that maiden's feathery crown.
And grand cascade of waters,
UnSpeakable awe begat,
Till 1t fell a mass of foam and spray,
Right into that maidens hat.
could not help but wishing
That the waterfall was real,
Or, If 1t wouldn't upset 1t.
1t was crushed by the stage coach wheel.
And where there was shown a crater,
A fiery, sulphurous vat,
l thought: 20, what an opening
For that maiden's charming hail"
Take up the show-goer's burden,
And nevermore lay 1t by,
Till this mammoth excrescence no more
offends
The theatre-goer's eye.
Let the scorn and the Indignation
OF the masculine world combat
That shameful, stage-hsding nuisance,
The hideous, feminine hat.
Milo Leon Norton.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

pany have been secured to play minor
parts.
More than $4,000 persons paid for adj
mission to Shaksperes birthplace,
Stratford-upon-Avo during the fiscal
year recently closed, and more than
10000 persons paid for admission to
Anne Hathaway's cottage. The interest
In Shalxspere has not died out after all
that has been said by people who do not
know what they are talking about.
James Herne more than any other
dramatist is master of the art of touch
ing the hearts-and therefore the pock-
etbooks-of his public. It is a well
known fact that the songs which sell in
bewildering numbers and coin thou
sands OF dollars for their authors are
the compositions which send critical
musicians into Mysteries and poets into
fainting spells. but they tell Of home
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

so Camille" and Carmen" Her rep
ertory will also Include a new play by
Mr.. Pinero which he has agreed to
write for the actress. Miss Nethersole
will open her London season with
"Sappho," to be followed by either
THE profiigate" or 1.-THE second Mrs
Tanqueray." We are told that Sappho,
the name Daudet gave 10 the heroine
Of his famous work. and which Clyde
Fitch has made into a four-act play for
Miss Nethersole, was the one great
woman free OF the world. She called
herself Isappha, IL; her own Eolic dia-
lect, and is said to have been at the
zenith Of her fame about the year SO
B. c. 1t is said by Strabo, in his geog-
raphy, that at no period within memory
has any woman been known who In the
least degree could be compared to her
for poetry.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

ambitious managers of vaudeville, and
has had two offers, with figures closely
approaching Lillian Russelps exorbitant
salary, but Mrs. Davis demurs, and un-
less she is persuaded within the next
two weeks viii go madly on with a
starring venture, full Of trouble and
possibilities. Jessie would be a delight
ful attraction for a high-class variety
bill. She sings ballads as nobody else
American has since Anna Louise Carey.
and Mrs. Davis is popular from coast
to coast among all sorts of people
musical, swagger, high and lowly-all
equally admire her.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

The most delightful trip of the year.
The scenery along the Deerfield river and
bas nv ia me oa"rsi Indso r r'va 10 Al
or night steamer, can all be taken In only
with the excursion to New York Oct. 9TH.
which the Fitchburg r. r. announce
Tickets for sale at S. only for the tour at
the Union station and company's Office
No. Sse Main ST.. Worcester. fF'
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01
THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Miss Sarah Thorne tells how, when
she was playing in "The colleen bawn"
at provincial theatre, the gun load
ed with powder to shoot Danny Mann
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

the vaudeville bill. Seven new Vito
graph pictures will be shown in connec-
ton with some of those of last season.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01
NEW YORK AND BOSTON THEA.
TRES.
NEW YORK.

The New York, THE Man in the
Moon. Jr.'; American, die Meister-
singer" Castle Square Opera Com
pany); Garrick, Otis Harlan in my
Innocent Boy; Fifth Avenue, Mrs.
Fiske in Becky Sharp Wallaek S,
w. II. Crane as Peter Stuyvesant";
Grand opera house, "The Grip of
Steel"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01


good story of De Wolf Hopper's
London visit is now going the rounds.
At the first night performance of Eel
Captain" Robert Hilliard and his wife
took a young English couple to the the
atre as their guests.
After the second act the Englishwo-
man turned to Hilliard and asked: us
Mr.. Hopper married man?''
Married! Good gracious, yesl Three
times" laughed billiard.
And are all his wives dead?" asked
the Englishwoman, sympathetically.
Dead? Oh, dear, no." answered
Hilliard. They're all divorced"
oh" remarked the Englishwoman,
sagely. Il see; he's a grass Hopper"
The following incident recently &C.
Cured at the Court opera house in
| Moscow: Carmen was being pro-
duced, and the commanding general Of
the garrison had kindly lent a number
| of privates to represent the Spanish
soldiers in the piece. When, in the
second act, at the command of Don
Jose, the privates marched on to the
stage, they were thrown into confu-
sion by seeing their commander-in-
chief sitting in the front row of the
stalls. They forgot all about the play,
and stood still at attention before the
general, as required by military disci-
pine. Regardless of the wild entreat-
les of the stage manager and the de-
spair of the principal actors, the dutiful
soldiers remained thus until the gem
eral shouted: "All right, my children,
play away!" "At your command, gem
eral, answered the men, and then
took their part in the piece, the pro-
duction of which suffered, however,
somewhat from the unforeseen inter-
ruption.
Barney Ferguson is playing "McCar-
thy's Mishaps" at the Alhambra this
week, rough-and- tumble farce that
meets with the approval of Alhambra
audiences.
Mrs. John Wood cables to Jacob Lift
that it will be impossible for her at this
time to accept the role of Lady Gar
nett. Mr.. Lift has opened negotiations
with Mrs. Cecil Raleigh of London to
play the role of Mertza. Fifteen mem
bers Of last seasons Great Ruby COM
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

was missing from the wing just be-
fore it was required, and could not be
found. At the last instant one Of the
actors, eating from paper bag, emp
tied out the biscuits, blew out the bag,
and bursting 1t with a sudden blow,
Danny rolled over into the water,
killed" by the report of a paper bag
as effectually as he would have been by
powder from a real gun.
Olga Nethersoie has cabled her New
York representative that she has ar
ranged to appear in London next
spring. Miss Nethersole will present
Clyde Fitch's dramatization Of Sap
pho" Pinero's plays. 1.-THE profiigate"
and ''The second Mrs. Tanqueray," al
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01
CALIFORNIA ExcuesIoNs

Best Service@Lowest Rates. Full in
formation at Healy's Agency. S96 MsIN
street
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

Joseph Jefferson comes to the Wor-
cester theater on the evening OF Oct. g..
presenting The Rivals" AS to the
high merits of both play and actor
nothing ueed be said. They are known
to every theater-goer in America. The
audience win be limited only by the ca
pacity OF the play house. The visit of
the great comedian recalls story told
by Stuart Robson. Some years ago"
said ROBSON. II was on fishing trip
with Mr.. Jefferson and ex-President
Grover Cleveland. Mr.. Jefferson got a
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

Bowdoin Square. Joseph Callahan in
Faust; fremont theatre, Way
Down East; Boston museum, THE
Cuckoo; Castle square theatre, 1.-The
Governor of Kentucky; Hollis street
theatre, Mansfield in "Cyrano de Ber-
gerac."
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

cablegram from his son william, who
was in London to this effect
Please send me $780, Willie
Jefferson showed the cablegram to
Mr.. Cleveland and asked: What shall
] do about it7 Ask him what he wants
It for said Mr. cleveland. Jefferson
sent the question. After a while an
other cablegram came. It was from
Willie. 1t simply said; I want it for
Willie Jefferson showed it to Cleve-
land, whs looked grave at first, then we
~ laughed. Jefferson sent Willie the
$500"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01


Spanish Otero ecpsed
otero having
Mira Deweys aturday in New
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01
AT THE THEATRES.
A Fine List of At
fractions For This
Week.
JOE JEFFERSON COMING.
General Gossip of TIE
Stage-News and
Notes.

An excellent list of attractions win be
presented at Worcester theatre during
the coming week.
Joseph Arthurs famous comedy
drama. blue jeans" under the man
agement of Patrick & Reniger. Will
come on Tuesday and Wednesday eve
nings, with a bargain matinee on We'd
nesday. The company is one Of the
strongest on the. road this season. Each
member was specially selected for his
or her fitness for the roles in which
they appear, and the play was care
fully rehearsed by the author. The
company includes such well-known IA
vorites as William w. Nichols, Frank
Ambrose, John H. Rowe, Jay L. Pack
ard, George L. Dorsey, William Wright,
Harry Walzier, Edward Smith, Chas.
Thornton, Benjamin Thorp, Ethel Bar
rington, Annie Hallinger, Mildred Dean,
c. Blanche Rice, Hilda Vernon, Little
Burnice and the Bijou quartet The
scenic effects are the finest ever pre-
senteo.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

The French Maid" scored so heavily
in London that it rap SAB nights at Ter
rvs theatre there. Then it came to New
York and was one Of the chief successes
at the Herald Square theatre. It
caught the fancy OF Boston at the Park
theatre and filed that house for several
months. Now it Is ON tour, with identi-
cally the same production given in New
York and Boston and viii unfold its
charms Of story, music and feuininity
e the Worcester theatre, Saturday,
matinee and evening, Oct. 7. The piece
q q rnusical comedy Of the English type
and that means q PoIlicking mixture of
comedy farce, opera. ballet and bur-
lesoue With the garnishment Of brilliant
costumes, enticing lingerie, flashing cal
clume and magnificent scenery. Fully
mtE people ere made use OF IN its pre-
sentatAon and the long list Of principals
SHOWS that the cast Is practically the
came that appeared in New York and
Boston Seats Will be ON sale Thursday.
Dot s. at e'o'cloek.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

Jessie Bartlett Davis . pursued By
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

Miss May Twins new piece de re-
sistance," n which she will be seen this
yeax. u entitled Sister Mary" It will
be seen ct Worcester theatre soon. 1t
b by Glen MeDonough, the writer who
90 sd4fQlly provided her with her last
seasons success. Kate Kip" For five
years now, this clever connedienne has
mss1sed each recurring season with one
OF her pronounced successes. And all
those who have witnessed her delight
fpl entertainments are aware of their
charm Miss Irwin and her plays are
hailed from one end OF the United
States to the other as one OF the choice
theatrical treats OF the year. There
are many, many things OF more than
visual interest about her new produc-
fion Tor this year. The company has
been augmented considerably since last
season.
Eugenfo Eorrenttno and his Banda
Rosa will come 70 Worcester theatre
on the evening Of Oct 5. This is one
of the greatest musical organizations
ever heard in America.
The bill at the Park theatre this week
is TO be a particularly strong one, head
ed by the famous n1onologist, James
Thornton, the man who set the world
a-singing." He is the author Of MY
sweethearts the man In the moon
and a hundred other popular songs. and
is especially engaged for this week al
the largest salary ever paid single
actor at this house.
The big hit Of last season. "Gallando
the clay modeisr," will be seen with
a lot Of new pictures; the famous lady
violinist, Florence Henri King, play
ing the latest popular selections, is 10
be another drawing card The -four
Hills. character artists, In a novel and
refined act; Nestor and Howe. the pop
uiar illustrated singers; little Miss
Warner, q singing comedienne OF note
and KID St. Onge and George Clay, the
comedy bicycle duo, make the rest %
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-01

Barney Ferguson is playing "NIcCar-
thy's Mishaps' at the Alhambra this
week, a rough-and-tumble farce that
meets with the approval of Alhambra
audiences.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-08

Three tours of the beautiful island
of Puerto Rico are scheduled to leave
Chicago December 27, January 2S and
February Is. Special Pullman sleep
ers and dining cars will convey the
party to New York. thence on board
the splendid new steamships Ponce
and San Juan, through and around the
island by rail, automobile. carriage
and boat. Tickets include all ex-
penses everywhere. These select lin
tied parties will be under the special
escort of Mr. Walter Boyd Townsend,
under the management of The Ameri-
can Tourist Association, Reau Camp
bell, general manager, 1923 Marquette
building, Chicago. Itineraries, maps
and tickets can be had on application
to the agents of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee G. St. Paul Ry.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-08
Lake superior and tho Ra,nfai,.

Lake Superior appears to exercise O
greater effect upon the annual amount
of precipitation of rain and snow near
its shores than any other Of the great
lakes. The average precipitation in a
year is about eight inches greater on
the southern than on the northern side
OF Lake Superior. Lakes Erie and On
tario also show more precipitation on
their southern than on their northern
shores, but the difference is only three
inches annually. In the case OF Lakes
Huron and Michigan, 1t is the eastern
shores as compared with the western
which get the largest precipitation, but
the difference is not great.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-08
CHILD OF WYOMING.
ROMANTIC HISTORY OF UNFoR-
TUNATE FRANCES SLOCUM.
gtolen In 1878, When an Infant, by the
Marauding Indlans-Nearly Sixty Years
Elapse Before Friends Trace Her
Would Not Go Home.
wabash. Ind. Letter.l

Charles e. Slocum, banker OF De-
fiance, Ohio, has determined to erect
monument to the memory of Frances
Slocum, known to history as 1.-The lost
child of Wyoming" This un1or-
tunate woman possesses a history as
romantic as any that ever was known
in this or any other country. AS a
child she was stolen by Indians ana
carried away into the wilderness IN the
early days of the republic. She was
not discovered by her anxious reia-
tives for nearly sixty years. Banker
Slocum is a granddaughter of Frances
and recently visited the lonely little
cemetery eleven miles west of this city
where the dust of the lost child re-
poses.
The Slocums came over from Eng
land in the early days Of settlement on
these western shores. AS early as 1857
there is record Of one of them, An
thony Slocum, purchasing land near
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-08
LINGUISTIC PRODIGIES.
Learned Men Who Master Fifty DiHer
ent Tongues.

Learned Men VINO master riiJ
ent Tongues.
When one considers the difficulty OF
acquiring even "nodding acqualnt-
ance" with two or three languages, IL
seems almost incredible that some men
should be able to speak with all the
fiuency of a native in twenty, and even
fifty, strange tongues. 1t is only rev
months since DR.. Gottlieb Loitner, the
most famous linguist of this genera
ton, died at Bonn, in Germany. d.
Leitner, who acted as Interpreter to an
army in the Crimean war, could speak
with equal facility in no fewer than
fifty languages; and many of the more
abstruse eastern tongues he knew as
intimately as his native German. But
there have been phenomenal linguists
in all ages, from the far-aWay days OF
Mithridates, king of Pontus, who could
converse with the subjects in each Oh
their twenty-five tongues; and from
the days of Cleopatra, who never used
an interpreter in her relations with
the worlds ambassadors. Pico della
Mirandola, learned Italian of the
fifteenth century, was eloquent IN
twenty-five languages, and M. Full
gence Fresnel was familiar with TWEEN
ty, and in the seventeenth century
Nicholas Schmid, a German peasant,
translated the Lords Prayer into as
many languages as there are weeks IN
year. The greatest linguist OF all
time, however, was Cardinal Mezzofan-
ii, who died half century ago. Mezzo-
fanti's linguistic range was SO great
that he could have conversed in a dill
ferent tongue every week for two years
without exhausting his vocabulary. In
all he was familiar with ia languages
and dialects, and in most of them he
could speak with such accuracy and
purity of accent that he might have
been, and often was, mistaken for a
native
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-08

she was carried away the Indians had
taken her to cave in the mountains
where she cried all night until she
went to Sleep The next day she saw
her fathers party hunting for her, but
an Indian stood over her with knife
and threatened to kill her If she ut
tered a sound. The Indians then TOOK
her to Niagara, where the chief mad
her face painted, her hair dyed and she
was dressed in Indian fashion. After
two winters the Indians went to De-
troit, where they lived for three years.
Then they moved to Fort Wayne and
lived there twenty years. Later
Frances was taken to live near Peru,
Ind. She was married to Delaware
Indian, but afterward became the wire
of the Miami chief She-fan-can-oh.
She was given the name Of Mahcone-
qua, or young Bear" and she had two
daughters and two sons. BY her
strength of character and purity she
gained great influence among the In
dams and they venerated her as their
queen.
The emotions Of the brothers and
Mrs. Towne on beholding their sister
was intense, but Frances Slocum was
hardened, stoical, emotionless Indian
woman. In reply to their entreaties 70
60 home with them she replied: y
cannot, l cannot; I am an old tree.
cannot move about. was sappllne
when they took me away. am AFRAID
I should die and never come back.
shall die here and lie in that grave
yard. am glad to see my white rela.
tives, but cannot go, cannot go.
have DONE" This she said in her In
dian tongue as she had forgotten the
use of English. She did pay WISH
later to her old home, but returned and
died March 9, 1S47, at the age OF 20
years. She said she had always re-
ceived good treatment at the hands OF
the Indians and she took loving care
of her children. Now the descendants
of her fathers family are going to
erect a stone to mark her grave.