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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-10-08
/ The Daily Short Story
THE DANCERS.


opened my window. leaned far out
aud looked down on the misty, damp
desolation. The river could family
see, black and cold. A barge swept
past. One tall solitary figure was at
the helm. He stool alone on the dank
fiatboat. motionless, silhOuetted against
the gray mist.
In the street beneath my window a
barrel organ began to play a music hall
tune. Two children appeared and COM
menced dancing. They danced. and
the mud flew from under their feet,
and the rain mist wandered amid their
rags. They danced, and the organ
grinder turned the handle OF his organ
with fascinating regularity.
When he had finished his stock OF
tunes, he wheeled his barrel of sound
away. No one had given him anything,
but probably he did not think of that.
He went from street to street day by
day, ground forth his twelve tunes, and
If pennies were thrown him he picked
them up. and if pennies We're not
thrown him he forgot to expect to pick
them up.
He moved away, and the child with
the stockings followed him. The child
without the stockings remained stand
ing in the mud. l then threw her a
coin. She looked at IL where il fell.
Then she looked up at me. She looked
at the coin again and picked it up and
wiped IL on her dress. The street was
empty. She and the gray rain mist
were alone. She stood I'm the mud, the
coin in her hand, and gazed up at me.
1 beckoned her TO come to me. but she
did not move. so went down and
brought her up to my room and placed
her in chair before the fire. a
Are you hungry" - a
She shook her head. = ~
"You are very wet!' 81
She shook her head. - al
"Are you fond of dancing" 80
She nodded her head. = q
''where do you live?" 81
Anywhere" -
"Where's your mother?" \ g
Nowhere
lit a cigarette. She drew nearer the
fire. 4
Where are you going?' .8S
ITO the pantomime-to darnce." xS
''When:" AE
"Termorrer." Stfq
"What are you-a fairy?"
"No-han hevil speret."
'Who was the girl with you just
now?"
Sister
Does she dance in the pantomime?"
yes -
"What is she?' q
"NOther hevil speret."
what are you going to do when you
grow up?''
"Darnce." !
"Always?"
She would not talk any more, but she
crouched before the fire, staring at the
red Goals and seeing things there that
were hidden from me. 1 went to bed
at IL and left her before the fire. still
gazing into the burning embers. When
/ looked for her in the morning she
was gone. Two months later l saw her
I'm the pantomime. She was an evil
spirit. Three years passed. and saw
her again, dancing i'll a large west end
tbeater.
Four years later 1 stood looking out
from my window, and thought OF the
evening of seven years ago. Again
there were the gray rain mist and the
damp desolatiOn everywhere. Again
there passed the low. fat barge, with
the solitary figure at the helm. motion
less. The waters sang their mirth-
less, monotonous song. The organ
grinder ground forth his twelve stock
tunes, but the two children did not
dance in the mud. / stood looking
down into the desolate street, and L
saw a woman walking slowly toward
the river. She had red dress on. She
stopped beneath my window. and looked
The bee., 1901-06-13
JULY 4tA
Will be Celebrated at Lakeside Park
With Masonic Picnic.
COMMITTEES ARE NOW AT WORK.

The Glorious Fourth has been
looked forward to by Darlington
Masons for months. Lakeside
Park was engaged for that day
away last year and now the va
rious committees have in hand
the arrangement of details for
the success of a big and patriotic
celebration proposed to be given
there on that date.
1t is unnecessary to tell of the
beauty of Loeb Mary and the en-
tlcing attractiveness of the sur
rounding parks and fields, pic
turesque and romantic roads and
by-paths. All who have seen
know it to be one of the most de-
lightful spots in the whole re-
gion for days outing.
If any would fish they may on
that day. The inviting shade
will give a splendid shelter to
the hundreds of people who will
spend that day in pleasant inter
course with friends at Lakeside
Park.
A special invitation will be
extended all the Masonic bodies
within reach and a very large at
tendance is expected.
Last year the Masonic celebra-
tion on st. Johns Day, even
with very bad weather, was a
success, and the Glorious Fourth
is expected to bring forth good
weather and a multitude of pic
nickers.
The proceeds of the day will
be used to complete the furnish
ing of the new Masonic Temple,
recently completed at this place.
Patriotic features will not be
lacking and music and amuse-
ments will abound. Furthet par
ticulars will be published later.
The bee., 1901-06-13

"And mustn't forget to call
attention to one-legged fiddler.
If that negro had two legs, /
really don't Know where his fid-
ding abilities would cease. He
is blind, or can't see, or some
thing out of one eye, but he can
get more melody out of a fiddle
than anyone you ever saw.
Understand? Pm going to put
him up as one of the stars of the
entertainment. This mans only
65 or 80 years old.
"The entertainment will also
include cakewalk, the finest
ever witnessed, the rendering of
ballads, songs and old time negro
delineations. When it's time to
go home the band, the chorus and
the audience will sing Home,
Sweet Home, and III guarantee
everybody will wish there was
another night of that entertain
ment. "-Louisville Commercial.
The bee., 1901-06-13
Nebo Notes.

On last Friday morning about 3
o'clock Mr.. j. t. Robards went to
Birke's factory for the purpose of
opening the windows. AS he was
passing through the second story he
stepped through a trap door and re-
ceived a terrible fall. He was found
some three hours later by one of
the factory hands. His injuries
were thought to be fatal at first but
proved not to be so bad and he is
getting along nicely.
Mrs. Doris, of Providence, spent
last week here the guest of Mrs.
Matte Jackson.
Bro. Cannon preached at the G. p.
church last night.
Miss Grace Hill, of Madisonville,
spent several days here last week.
r. p. Hill and ]. b. Peyton are
home from Beech Grove for few
days on account of not having the
material with which to work on the
church which they are building
there.
Someone broke into the saloon
again Sunday night, selected what
they wanted to drink and then took
their departure, leaving vine glasses
and beer bottles scattered around
promiscuously.
Mrs. Hannah Hill and Nancy Led
better spent Saturday night and
Sunday with the formers son, A. f.
Hill, of Manitou.
Rev. Currie filed his regular ap-
pointments here Sunday.
Mrs. Melton, of Providence, is Wis
iting relatives here this week. She
will return home this afternoon.
Miss jamie King and Callie Nor
row went to Madisonville Sunday.
Miss Blanche Newkirk, who has
had charge of Eudaley & Morrow's
millinery department, returned to
her home in Louisville yesterday.
Miss Archibald, of Slaughtersville,
is the guest of Misses Matte and
Mamie Cox.
The bee., 1901-06-13
TODD COUNTY LADY
Said to be Heir to Tyson's Millions Of Au.
dralia.

Miss Ollie Tyson, formerly of
this city, now of Todd county,
has been notified she is one of
eighteen heirs to an estate of $40
100000 left by John Tyson, a
bachelor uncle, who died in Au-
stralia last year. She is 27 years
of age and was graduated from
South Kentucky College. All
the heirs except Miss Tyson re-
side in Texas. John Tyson went
to Australia over 80 years ago,
and was never heard from until
now. His lawyers have been
hunting the heirs for over a
year.-Hopkinsville Kentuckian.
The bee., 1901-06-13
Rev. BottomIey Very III.

Rev. Edmund w. BottOmley, one
of the best known Methodist preach
ers in Kentucky, is reported verv ill
of typhoid fever at his home in
Louisville with slight chance of re-
covery. One of his daughters lives
at Hopkinsville, his former home,
and she has been summoned to his
bedside.
The bee., 1901-06-13
An Ated Couple Happily We'd.

Hopkinsville, KY, June 1l.-Dr.
Washington Smith, of Paducah,
aged seventy, and Miss Elizabeth c..
Boales, of Pembroke, aged seventy
one, were married at the brides
home by the Rev. c. r. Crow. The
venerable bride is highly connected.
The bee., 1901-06-13
"Whither are We Drifting?"
From Glenn's Graphic.

From Glenn's Graphic.
1t is in no spirit of animosity,
with no spirit of bitterness, but
with heart full of love and SYM
pathy for our 'fellowman, a re-
spect for the opinions of others
and a desire to see peace, happi-
ness and prosperity abroad over
our whole beloved county and
our glorious Commonwealth that
we say what we do in this arti-
Gle. That there is trouble in our
midst, that there is unrest among
our people, that fears are enter
tanned for the future there is no
one who will deny. 1t has not
always been thus in Hopkins
county. Until a few months
since it was the boast of our peo-
pie that Madisonville, and Hop
kins county were in every respect
ideals of what a town and
county should be. We were at
peace with ourselves and with
the outside world. Other than
an occasional struggle in an cleo
tion, there was but little to mar
the good will and good feeling of
neighbor with neighbor or friend
with friend.
There was a sense of security
that was perhaps felt nowhere
else in the whole State. Busi-
ness of all kinds was flourishing,
our coal was mined and found
ready sale in the market of the
world. The mine owners and
their employees worked together
in harmony, and if there was at
any time misunderstanding be-
tween labor and capital, the diff
ficulties, or difference were ad-
justed without trouble or friction.
But there has been great
change during the past six
months. Things are not now
what they were year ago. Busi-
ness has been disturbed, and
while the miners still continue to
get out'as much coal as ever, yet
it Is at a greater expense to those
who produce this necessary fuel.
There is cause for all this. 1t
has been brought about by men
who have no direct interest in
the welfare of our county or our
people. Until the advent of the
United Mine Workers into the
county, until their methods were
known and understood, there was
nothing to disturb the even tenor
of the way of either the mine op-
orator or the men who worked
in the mines.
In this article, we do not pro-
pose to enter into an abuse of the
the men who are now and who
have been attempting to bring
about a change in the affairs of
our county. We shall not take
the position that they are not
honest and sincere in everything
they do and say. 1t may be that
it would be better for the mine
owners, better for the miners,
better for the business of the
country, better for all the people
that the mines of the county
should be unionized, but we do
not believe it. On the other
hand we honestly believe that it
would be the worst thing for the
operators and employees, the worst
thing for the farmers, the worst
thing for the merchants, the
worst thing for the people at
large tnat could possibly occur.
We have failed to see a single
good argument offered by the
Mine Workers that we believe is
worth anything why the county
should be unionized. Hopkins
county is not standing in need of
anything of the kind. 'Organiza-
tion of the mines means the Or
ganization Of tobacco factories,
organization of the farm hands,
The bee., 1901-06-13

Wesley Day will be celebrated at
the NJ. L. Church, South, next Sun
day. A special program is being ar
ranged and an address will be de-
livered by Rev. Currie. The pastor
extends cordial invitation to the
public.
The bee., 1901-06-13
NEGRO CHORUS
TO ENTERTAIN
SIR KNIGHTS.
Novel Programme Arranged by Amuse.
ment Committee for First Even.
ing Of the Conclave.
SILENT CHORUS FEATURE
STRONG DRAWING CARD.
Tobacco Stemmers Will Repeat for Bene.
fit Of Stransers-Seene From
Daily Life in Stemmey.

While Col Sid j. Gates, chair
man of the conclave committee
on amusements and excursions,
and his associates were looking
around for special attractions to
. fill in the week of the celebration
of the knights Templars, in Aug
ust they decided to serve one en-
tertainment for the especial
enjoyment of visitors from the
north and east. After this de-
termination they were not long
in finding the means.
1t was decided that the south
ern negro should do the enter
tanning and the rest was left to
the hands of Col. Will S. Hays,
the poet-newspaper man and
song writer. Col Hays quickly
announced his plans, which were
heartily indorsed by Col. Gates
and the other members of his
committee.
San Evening in Songn is the
title given to this number on the
conclave program. The enter
tertainment will fake Mace
Tuesday night, August 9th, at
the Horse Show building. A
chorus of between 150 and 200
colored singers is now being
drilled by the author of "Evange-
line," Mollie Darlingn and other
songs known in every home where
there is an organ or piano.
Several rehearsals of the chorus
and the band of thirty boys from
the School of Reform have al
ready been held.
''Did you ever hear a silent
chorus?' "asked Col. Hays. "No?
Well, we are going to have one.
1t beats church organ by about
seven lengths. Understand? I'll
tell you how we arrange it.
We will have about twenty
five negroes from one of
the tobacco stemmeries and put
'em on a platform all in a row.
Then everything must be still.
See? It's got to be still or you
lose the effect. When it gets so
quiet that you could hear the
very nails scratching the walls of
the building the music will be-
gin. Those negroes will be seen
going through the motions Of
stemming tobacco and at the
same time there will be a hum,
hum, hum of the sweetest melody
ever heard.
"There does it come from?
Why from the niggers' mouths.
Understand? They all sit there
in row and pretend to be stem
ming tobacco at the same time
they are humming Annie Laurie ,
Just like they do in a tobacco
house. I've gone into stemmer-
les with strangers and heard them
ask, where is that church or
CAMP That is just what this
chorus sounds like, and if my
band of negroes don't bring down
the house, well, I'll-under-
stand?
II have been personally con-
Quoting the brass band from the
School of Reform and I'll put it
up against any organization with
the same Instrumentation. l have
a phenomenon in a boy cornetist.
When he plays Nearer My God
to Thee it's time for everybody
to take off their hats. There is
another pickanniny with a Won
derfully sweet voice that will
help us out in this entertainment.
He'll make hit, too.
The bee., 1901-06-13

Faith may move mountains, but
the owner of a moving van demands
spot cash.
The bee., 1901-06-13

Charity for both victims of a we'd
ding ought to begin at home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-02
SENATOR KYLE DEAD.
He Had Not Had Good Health
For a Year.

Aberdeen, S. D., July 2.-Senator
James Kyle died at o'clock Monday
evening after an illness of ten days
duration. He had rallied to quite an
extent from his first attack, and hopes
were entertained of his recovery, al
though at no time was he considered
wholly out of danger by his physicians
Symptoms of Bright's disease develop
ed and on Sunday his condition was less
favorable. Sunday night he grew rap
idly worse and Monday morning all
hope was given up, his death being only
a question of a few hours. A wife and
two children survive.
His trouble was of malaria1 origin,
and resulted in a functional affection
of the heart, which caused the greatest
alarm A consultation of physicians
was held and his case soon took turn
for the better, the heart action grow
ing stronger and the general condition
much more encouraging. One of the
latest bulletins from his bedside last
week was to the effect that ne had pass
ed the danger point and that his recov-
cry would be certain, though slow.
The senator had similar attack in
the east some time ago, and was liable
to recurrence of the trouble. His
health has not been robust for year or
So His death was not expected how
ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-02
NEW CHARLTON sw1MMER.
Benjamin Koehler Goes Hundred
Yards in Fifty-two Seconds.

South Bend. Ind, July 2.-Benjamin
Koehler. Of South Bend, is a world 8
champion swimmer, having established
a new record for the 10O-yard event.
He accomplished the feat at the games
Of the Turner's, held at Fort Wayne.
Ind. swimming the distance in 0:52,
which is eight seconds faster than the
best previous record which was m ade
by IT. Meadham at Sidney, N. S. w,
December a. 1892. On that day the ia
NOUS Australian, in still water at the
natatorium Of that city. and in seven
turns, made the 100 yards in one
minute.
KoehIer not only broke the record for
the 100-yard event. but he also cut all
records from so yards up
Koehler has for several years been
recognized as one Of the foremost swim
r1ers of America, and for three years
has held the 100-yard championship of
the Turner'S of the United States. In
establishing the new record of 0:52
1<oehler FORCES ahead of such famous
swimmers as Derbyshire. Haggerty,
Renear. and Schaeffer.
Koehler is an all-round athlete and
Tor several years has been known as
one Of the best football players of the
country. Last fall he played half back
for the eleven at Greensburg, Pa, He
IS this season left fielder for the South
Bend greens. Since he was a boy he
has been a member of the South Bend
Turn Verein classes, and for the last
few years has been a men Der OF that
society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-02
MAY SHOOT ON JULY 4.
City Council Permits Firing of
Blank Cartridges. Il

It shall be lawful for the people of
Topeka to fire off firecrackers and
blank cartridges on the 4th day of the
present month. This remarkable con-
cession was made to the populace by
the council last night. 1t was a decis-
ion reached only after long and Sc
we're struggle. in which much splendid
oratory was thrown into the faces Of
the counciImen.
Councilman James A. Troutman of
the Sixth ward started the agitation by
introducing a resolution absolutely re-
pealing the anti-frearms ordinance of
the city. The council passed this ordi-
nance before it discovered the sweep
ing nature of what it had done It
then backed water, and passed an
amendment to the firearms ordinance
instead, permitting the use of blank
cartridges and frecrackers on July A.
Chief Stah1 was present at the meet
Ing, and made passionate speech. He
said: i consider that blank cart
ridges are more dangerous than cannon
hrecrackers or loaded cartridges. The
Wadding of blanks is poisonous, and Ii :
able to make dangerous wounds My
son and my nephew were both almost
killed by the injuries they sustained
while firing blanks"
Before the council reconsidered the
ordinance which it had passed which
absolutely threw down the bars in re-
gard to shooting firearms within the
city limits, City Attorney Spencer an
nounced to the council that acting as
a patriotic citizen of Topeka, he pro-
tested against the adoption of an ordi-
nance which permitted everyone to car
~ and fire pistols at any time and any
place Mayor Hughes caught the idea,
and declared that if the council should
be foolish enough to pass such an ordi-
nance, he would veto it.
Mr.. Troutman, who introduced the
original ordinance, smoothed over the
tempest which he had stirred up by
simply amending the old ordinance
with Fourth of July proyiso-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-02
Chanute Woman Arrested For
an Old Crime.
Kit Woods Charged With Burn
ing Methodist Church.
In A SPIRIT OF RAGE.
Act Committed Seven Years
Ago in June.
Family Row DisclOses the Story
to the Police.

Chanute, Kas.. July 2.-This city is
very much excited over an arrest made
Saturday evening. Seven years ago
this month a fierce war was waged
against the whisky element, and the
minister and members Of the Methodist
church took prominent part in the
fight. While the excitement was at its
height theMethodist church burned, and
it was always thought some of the joint
sympathizerS set it afire, but no PROOF
could be secured and no action was
taken
Saturday. Mrs. Lewis, a character
better known as Kit Woods" was
arrested charged with the crime. Her
arrest is the result of a family scrap
She has made her home in Chanute IN
til few months ago, when the police
ran her out of town. Not long before
her flight she had trouble with her
brcther-in-law, John Lewis, which re-
suited in her having him arrested for
attempting to kill her, and he is still
in Jail on the charge. As a retaliatory
measure Lewis gave out the informa-
ton that she was guilty Of burning the
church. Sheriff Yockey learned that
she was coming back to Chanute, and
as she stepped of the south bound
Santa F'e Saturday she was inmed1-
ately arrested and taken to Erie, where
she waived preliminary and was bound
over to the next term Of the district
court on $500 bond Not being able to
give bond she went to jail.
John Lewis and Sam Lewis, her nus
band, were both. in jail at the time the
church was burned, charged with vio-
lating the prohibitory law, and the
story Lewis tells is that Mrs. Lewis set
the fire as revenge for their arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-02
MAKES QUEER CONFESSION.
Strange Facts in the Case Of King
man Man just Leaking Out.


Kingman, Kan, July 2.-Facts have
come to light in the case of Isaiah
Hiatt which is causing considerable in
terest in Kfngman and Pratt counties
Hiatt lived in Kingman county and
Liberty township, alternating back and
forth between the two. He was q man
of some means: was married and
counted ordinarily respectable in the
community in which he lived. He
claimed to have come from Kentucky
to Kansas, but was reticent when. ques-
toned in reference to his past life He
had an almost ungovernable temper
and was also rightfully profane in even
his ordinary conversation on this ac-
count.
A few days ago he moved to the east
ern edge of Pratt county and soon be-
came engaged in law suit with one of
his neig1lbors who sued him for shoot
ing a pet deer. Before this suit was
settled he took sick and his doctor in
formed him his sickness was fatal and
that he would soon die. Being satisfied
of this fact he became frightened and
made an abject confession of his past
rnisdeeds. Among other things he con-
fessed the name he was living under
was not his real name He said he had
murdered his first wife in Kentucky;
had killed a neighbor and hid the evil
dence of his crime, giving the name Of
the man and reciting the particulars
He also told of robberies, house break
ings and numerous felonies and petty
offenses committed in the past, some of
them being after his settlement in this
country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-02
Pengions For Kansans.

Washington, D. C., July 2.-Pensions
for Kansans have been granted as fol-
lows:
Original-Robert Gilmer, Arkansas
City, Sc: James NJ. Church, Junction
City. S.
Increase-Dennis NJ Shaffer, ottawa,
$12; Samuel Booze, Cedron, IS; James J.
Smith, Cove City, SO; Daniel Fox, Che
topa, $14; Samuel T. Cromwell. Memo
ken, $14: Stephen r. Bricker, Monu-
ment, S.; William H. H. hurry, Ca
lena, SO; William Warren, Garnett, $12;
Scion o. Markham Bronson, SO; John
Trouth, Emporia, SO; Miles Webb, Gil
rard, So; George Bratton, National Mil
itary Home, Leavenworth, So; John In
man, Benton, SIP; Thomas E. Mcmillan,
Hutchinson, $40; Edwin r. Manning
National Military Home, Leayenworth
$12; Joseph Snider. Larned, S12; James
A Houston, Boyle, $40; John Burke,
Kansas City, $40: Samuel Yoder, Milan,
$12; jeremiah Hollinger, Olathe IS;
Harvey Surprise, Buffalo, SO; Lafay-
cite G. Smith, Waconda Springs, So;
Springer Galley, Wellsville. So: Dav-
id Hanselman, Burton, So; jeremiah
Haines, Manhattan, $12; VIM. Groons.
Yates Center, SO; Ebenezer G. Stowe,
Mcpherson, So.
Original Widows. Special act, June II
Helen F. Young, Argentine, s..