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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-20
QUEER COUPON ON STAMPS.
A Sabbntarian May BE Sure That His
Letter. Are Not Delivered Sunday.

A Sabbatarian May be Sure That His
Letter. Are Not Delivered Sunday.
New York Press.
Sabbath observance In Belgium Is op-
tional, especially in regard TO the delivery
of letters. Postage stamps have a tiny
coupon at the bottom on which is the le-
gend engraved both in French and Dutch:
mot to be delivered on Sunday"
II the sender OF the letter Is a person OK
strong religious views who believes in OBJ
serving the Sabbath in every form, he per-
mits the coupon 20 remain attached 10 the
stamp, and the letter which might De de-
livered Sunday does not go out OF the re-
ceiving office until the following day. II,
on the other hand, the sender OF the letter
has not such scruples. he tears of the cou-
pon and the letter Is delivered on Sunday,
the same as any other day. A fine is i'm
posed the carrier for violating the in
structions OF the coupon. AS Dutch Is
spoken a great deal In Belgium, the warn
ing appears on the coupon In that lam
guage as well as In French.
The coupon is an innovation even In Bel
GUM. one of the most progressive coun-
tries in the postal union. and has been IN
use less than two years. according TO the
foreign mail clerks In the city postoftce-
Ii was the direct result OF Sabbath agita-
ton in Belgium. The postal authorities
were about 10 yield TO the outcry against
the Sunday delivery OF letters when the
Socialist party made violent protest IN
the Chamber of Deputies.
So persistent were the Socialists IN the
outcry against what they considered was
the violation of the principles Of indiyid-
ual liberty that the postal authorities de-
cided 10 try the coupon plan as COM
promise. hoping that would appease both
sides IL Is satisfactory only In a meas
ure. however. the recipient who is a strict
Sabbatarian may get a letter from less
sQueamish correspondent who has torn on
the coupon. Again, the Socialist, who has
no such scruples. cannot get a letter that
Is In the postoffice because IL bears the for
Kidding coupon.
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Blackburn out of his gloom like thunder
clap.
''Give me the key!" he exclaimed. "There
is Rosebud" Callahan pushed back and
Blackburn, dropping into the chair, took
the message from the night operator at
Rosebud.
Number in 2:03 a. ms
Blackburn answered him, and strangely,
with all the easy confidence of his ordinary
sending. He sat and took and sent like
one again master of the situation.
ASK Engineer Sampson to come to the
WIRE" said he to Rosebud. Sampson, not
MAZE, but his brother Arnold, was pulling
Number 1 that night.
Engineer Sampson here" came from
Rosebud presently.
ASK Sampson where he met Special 2O2
tonight"
We waited, wrought up, for in that reply
must come the answer to all the mystery.
There was a hitch at the other end Of
the wire; then Rosebud answered.:
Sampson says he will tell you all about
it in the morning.
THAT will not do tapped the dispatcher
This is Blackburn. Superintendent Bucks
and Callahan are here. They want the
facts. Where did you meet Special 1922"
There was another wearing delay. When
the answer came it was slowly, at the en-
gineers dictation.
My orders were to hold at O'Fallon's
for Special 202," clicked the sounder, re-
peating the engineers hating statement.
when we cleared Salt Rocks siding and
got down among the Quakers, was cut
ting along pretty hard to make the can
yon when 1 saw, or thought saw, head
light flash between the buttes across the
river. 1t startled me, for 1 knew the 202
special could not be far west of us. Any
way, made quick stop and reversed and
backed tight as 1 could make it for Salt
Rocks siding. Before we had got a mile
saw the headlight again, and knew the
POP was against our order. We got into the
clear just as the special went by humming.
Nobody but our train crew and my fireman
knows anything about this"
The three men in front of me made no
comment as they looked at each other.
How was it possible for one train to have
seen the headlight Of another among the
buttes of the Peace river country?
1t was-possible. Just possible. But to
figure once in how many times a vista
would have opened for single second so
one engineer could see the light of another
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-10
MERCHANT WAS TRICKY.
How n French Business Man Saved
Expensive Cable Tolls in Jap
ancSe Failure.

Recently a wealthy merchant in
Paris, who does an extensive business
with Japan, was informed that
prominent firm in Yokohama had
| failed, but the name of the firm he
| could not learn, though he was most
anxious to ascertain whether it was
| the one with which he did most of
| his business in that city.
He could have learned the truth by
cabling, but instead he went to the
man, a well-known banker, who had
| received the news, and requested the
| banker to reveal the name of the firm
to him.
That's a delicate thing to do re-
| piled the banker, "for the news is not
official, and if l gave you the name
might incur some responsibility"
The merchant argued, but in vain,
and finally he made this proposition:
II will give you" he said, ga list of
| ten firms in Yokohama, and I will ask
you to look through it and then to
tell me, without mentioning any name,
whether OF not the name of the firm
which has failed appears in it. Sure
ly you will do that for me?"
Yes said the banker, ''for if / do
not mention any name cannot be held
responsible-in any way
The list was made, the banker looked
through it, and, as he handed it back
to the merchant, said:
''The name of the firm which has
failed is there
|
"Then I've lost heavily" replied the
merchant, ''for that is the firm with
which l did business" showing him
name on the list.
''But how do you know that is the
firm which has failed?" asked the bank
er, in surprise.
Easily" replied the merchant. "Of
the ten names on the list only one is
genuine, that of the firm with which
l did business; all the others are fcti-
tious."
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luckily for it,, if one were to carry
the figure to the finish. 1t was an in
novation, and innovations must always
make their way. Opera in English,
the critics at first thought to treat as
a joke; saying a large public would
not care for opera anyway, and that
those sufficiently cultivated to appre-
ciate operate music were already ca
tered to. But there existed those with
ideals concerning what the public
ought to like and would like, if given
the opportunity. The idea was very
carefully developed, elaborate pro-
auctions planned and provided, we'll
trained singers interested; and to-day
grand opera in English is with us.
And has come to stay. The east and
| the middle west look forward to the
yearly season of opera in English, and
the territory visited by the company
is constantly widening.
For the last quarter of century
attempts have been made from time
to time to give in English the worlds
great operas, but until the Castle
Square success the attempts were all
disastrous. At last Mr.. Henry w. Saw
age, man with definite ideals and,
most necessary, the possessor OF rare
business ability, undertook the organi-
cation and direction of such an enter
prise, and to-day Mr.. Savage finds his
struggles repaid, is able to show good
reason for the faith that was in him.
| 1t was in musc-loving Boston the idea
was put forth, the company. given
birth. From Boston the organization
| went to New York, and at the Ameri-
can theater in the metropolis from the
first the operas in English were at
tended by constant stream of peo-
pie.
Later the west came in for it's share,
the Studebaker theater becoming the
home of the Castle Square Opera com
pany in Chicago. Milwaukee, famous
for mnsic-lovers as well as for its bev-
erage. welcomed warmly the excellent
operate performances, and every year
the season is lengthening, which is true
not only of Milwaukee, but also of St.
! Louis and Detroit. Yearly engage
ments are played in Brooklyn and New
York, and in America the Castle Square
has become a feature in matters mu-
steal.
The organization is what may be
! called family organization, many
persons that started with the COM
pany still continuing in it's employ.
Promotions are carefully attended to,
elevations from the chorus to high
places not infrequently occurring in
the history of the company.
One of the excellencies of the Castle
Square company is the strength of the
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theater in New York, and
October 16, 1899, in the same city and
theater, celebrated it's five hundredth
performance of opera in English.
Since it's inception, seven years ago,
the company has given more than 1000
performances; and, as popular prices
have prevailed, very many people have
enjoyed the opportunity of becoming
familiar with operas that previously
only those with plethoric purses could
listen to.
1t would seem that warbling in Eng
lish is not such strain on the vocal
apparatus and systems of song-birds
as is singing in Italian, German, or
Spanish, for the Castle Square Opera
company has been singularly exempt
from the narrowing trials that aff1ict
folk who sing grand opera in foreign
tongue; the Castle Square organiza-
ton proudly pointing to it's record of
never, in the 1000 and more perform
ances, having to omit a performance
or change the opera advertised for
some other. We remember the many
disappointments we have suffered at
the hands of the foreign operates;
after pinching and scraping in order to
get together the requisite amount OF
gold to attend a favorite opera where
| in favorite artists were to appear, it
proved most distressing to findthe bill
had been changed at the last moment,
owing to some tenor's sore throat or
some prima donna's emotional unfit
ness to appear that evening. You go
to the Castle Square Opera company's
performances and you listen to the
opera it was your desire 10 revel in;
you hear, as rule, the cast whose
names appear on the programme.
All of which is very satisfactory and
encouraging, and has worked not a lit
tie for the success now attending this
company. The CastleSquare Opera conn
| pany's success has not been meteoric;
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llabovna TeryfforY--xfS
Sc and Po.sSfios1 X " X
,ething of the Industries and History OF This
Applicant for Statehood.

land for themselves in 1.-The Run"
did not know the first thing about
farming, scarcely knew that spade
was a spade, and indeed found it a
struggle to wrest a living from the
soil; but because for many of them
remaining was the only alternative,
remain they did, and had to work
en- Churchill Candee, writing in the
Atlantic, gives figures that show
what was accomplished in Oklahoma
in the short period succeeding the
opening of the territory: I'm ten
years this people, who started with
nothing, showed $43,Go00oo taxable
property. This, as every taxpayer
knows, represents only one-half or
two-thirds the actual amount, for
who is going to tell all to the as
sessor?"
The farmhouses, as we limited be-
fore, are quite different affairs from
the dug-out, sodhouse and log cabin
of q decade back; buildings now de-
note prosperity rather than pioneer
ing; the farmers daughter has her
piano to practice on, the farmers
wife her buggy" in which to drive
to town. The clothes suggest con-
formity to the prevailing styles
rather than only a strict regard for
utility; and in many more ways than
shelter, vehicles and raiment is shown
the good times now enjoyed by resi-
dents of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is a hospitable land in
that it gives welcome to northener
and southerner, to settler from the
east and to the one from the west.
We quote again from Helen Churchill
Candee: 'How is each farmers crop
determined? Mainly by the local
ity from which he came. If he mi
grated from the north, he plants
wheat; from the west, he plants
corn; and from the south, he plants
cotton, alfalfa and castor beans. And
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all these things, and many more,
grow luNuriantly side by side
Cotton is crop taken to by the
farmer who cannot afford much for
labor. If he possesses large fam
lily, he can turn his boys and girls
into the cotton fields, especially at
tending and picking time. 1t is
poor mans crop" Those whose
chief help is the pleasure-loving ne
gro have suffered considerably in
their cultivation of this staple, the
Negroes habit being to work when he
wants to rather than when his en-
ployer most needs him. Many crop,
over-ripe for the picking, has been
lost because of the dearth of trust
time, and doubtless cotton will con-
tinue of much value to Oklahoma.
1t is said there are no tramps in
this territory, and that the farmer is
always clamoring for laborers. Ag.
riculture is conducted in way that
to one from thickly-settled com
munity looks wasteful, but what can
be done when the supply of help is
SO limited? Wheat-growing, especial
ly, is not carried on after the most
approved methods, but pretty good
results are obtained nevertheless;
and Oklahoma is becoming an impor-
tant wheat district. In 1899, the yield
was 20,000,000.
The railroad folk are fastening
to extend their lines in this territory,
which has been so plucky and I'M
usual as to thrive in spite of them.
When rapid transportation puts her
in close touch with all parts of the
union, it will be interesting to OBJ
serve what this sturdy little comInu-
nifty will grow to in the coming ten
years; community which already
has accomplished in ten years what
men of other states have taken so
years in doing
KATHERINE POPE.
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the palm of your hand over the top
of the goblet, bending down your
fingers at a right angle. Bear down
hard on the rim and suddenly
straighten out your fingers, never re-
taxing for an instant the pressure
downward.
This action will make a partial
vacuum between your hand and the
water, and you may then raise your
hand gently and the goblet will stick
to it and rise from the table clinging
to your palm.
Would you like to know the rea-
son? Because, by eXhausting some
of the air in the upper part of the
goblet, between the water and the
rim, you have made the air pressure
lighter there than it is outside, and
the outside pressure, bearing on your
hand and the goblet, keeps them to-
gether.
1t is exactly the same principle
that enables you to lift brick with
a wet leather sucker. You press the
sucker down hard on the brick with
your foot, and that drives the air
from between them; then lift the
! sucker by it's string and the brick
comes up with it because the out
side air keeps them from separating
Brooklyn Eagle.
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long are to be driven from the back
inside of the 11-inch circle, covering
every part about one-half an inch
apart. BE very careful not to split
the board. Balls, about one inch in
diameter, are to be whitfield from cam
dies and thrown at the target. When
they strike they will stick TO the nail
points. Each player has three throws.
The target should be numbered like
the illustration, and the player making
the highest score wins.-Howard L.
Jameson, III Washington Star.
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AN AMUSING TRICK.
MaEfc Goblet Will Stick to Your Hand
and Rise from the Table Cling
i'm to Your Palm.

We have all heard of curing dis
eases by the laying on of hands, but
who ever heard of lifting a goblet of
water by laying a hand on it? Per-
haps you smile at the bare mention
of such a thing, and no one can
blame you, for it does sound absurd!
But it isn't absurd, and it can be
done, and this is the way to do it.
Don't tell anybody, what you are
told here, but surprise them by per-
forming the trick some time, and you
will make a reputation as a pretty
skillful amateur magician.
Fill the goblet nearly full of water
and place it on table. Then place
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strict. Concerning this feature of the
company, the Boston Transcript
writes: $ The result of all
singing chorus that is said to be the
envy and despair of every other oper-
attic manager in the country"
10 many of us, for long the music of
the great operas has been more or less
familiar, but it is indeed a feast of rea-
son and flow of soul when both music
and words are understandable. The
music is more full of meaning, the
story, the poetry of it all, reaches our
hearts as never before. We give list
of some of the works produced by this
opera in English company: Aida"
'The Bohemian Girl, ""Carmen," "Cay-
alleria Rusticana,' '.Die Nfeister-
singer" Faust ''Il Trovatore,"
''Lohengrin,' Lucia Di Hammer
moor" Martha" Romeo and Juliet
This season the company is present.
ing '"Tosca,' the first presentation of
the opera in English that has ever been
made. The critics united in smiling
when the production of ''Tosca" in
English was proposed, but they have
united since in praising the production
of this intensely dramatic work as
given by the Castle Square company.
In ''Tosca" the principal parts are
sung by Miss Adelaide Norwood and
Mr.. Joseph Sheehan.
x < X X
Weare glad to chronicle the fact that
one of the bright particular stars in the
dramatic world is again shining on
public that marked the lessened lumi-
nance caused by even short with
drawal of her radiance. To-wit, Miss
Julia Marlowe has recovered from her
attack of nervous prostration, and has
made hit in the dramatized version of
Mr. Cables novel, 1.-The Cavaliers"
Miss Marlowe's production of "The
Queen Fiametta" earlier in the season
was artistically a success, but the
play was caviare to theater-goers in
general. Miss Marlowe had to re-
cover little from the shock of this
disappointment, but her buoyancy
soon returned and she is now appear
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the
Globe 1t to make but nevertheless amusing ytn
a
a through
needle
provided
wheel Fasen with the help of little acks each of the eight sides
illustration The
the
O the
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cast as whole, the entire responsible
ity not pressing with undue heaviness
on the shoulders of one frail star.
Great attention is paid to the obtain
ing of superior chorus, amongst
whose members may often be found
many finished musicians, graduates of
musical colleges, for the sake of the
experience, quite often taking part in
the chorus singing. Much drill is ex-
pended on the training of these cho-
ruses, rehearsals being frequent and
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SAFE SHOOTING GALLERY.
New Indoor Sport Which Affords Lots
of Fun ito Players as Well as
Spect ltors

To make this get piece of close
grained wood one foot square and half
an inch thick. Draw four circles, the
first two inches in diameter, the sec
ond five inches in diameter, the third
eight inches in diameter and the fourth
eleven inches in diameter. Paint the
space between each circle different
color and also that outside the cir
cles. Brads three-quarters of an inch
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-10

ing in "The Cavaliers" which bids fair
to win the popularity missed in "The
Queen Fiametta."
Mrs. Langtry again seeks our shores,
and this time with play that surely
will appeal to all Anglo-maniacs; for
it has been stamped with the approval
OF royalty, of no less parsonage than
the merry monarch, King Edward.
How can we do otherwise than look
with favor on ''The Crossways?'
THE ASTROLDGER.
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ITH statehood looming on
the horizon for Oklahoma,
it were well to look up
4 something about this por-
81 ton of our country.
Oklahoma, as to climate,
nd of much sunshine rather
ain, is temperate, suitable for
both north and south. Corn
ton are it's crops, and consid-
of the land is given over to
3. AS to civilization, it has de-
d rapidly, although there have
ew railroads to forward it. The
y is thinly settled, the popu-
less than half million.
lie Oklahoma probably will never
ne. one of the great cotton
5, cotton-growing is an industry
appreciated by residents of the
fitory, the crop bringing in over
10000 a year. There are as yet
mills for manufacturing the cot
Sn into cloth, but there are several
otton-seed mills in operation, and
others building; the utilization Of
more than the cotton bolls being one
# the features of present-day man
,facture, in contrast to the old waste
I'll method of turning to profitable
account only the bolls. AS a substi-
tute for hay, the cattlemen make use
OF the cotton hulls, and the meal is
highly priced by them for it's nutri-
tive qualities; thousands of cattle
about Guthrie being fed on the husks
and meal, the latter being preferred,
for fattening qualities, to the corn.
In Oklahoma, in the future, promi-
nence may be given, as it is in Texas,
to both cattle and cotton.
Although it is chiefly in the west
'ern portion that the grazing lands
lie, the reports give the number of
cattle raised in the territory at d
big figure, namely $4,000, almost /,
million head. They are raised in
small herds, looked after carefully
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MAGIC.

Three little kittens, out at play,
Scampering about the lawn one cay.
Three little kittens as white as snow,
Hunting for mischief, high and low.
A piece of stovepipe lying near,
Dropped by the rubbish man, fear.
Three little kittens, with snow-white fur,
Crept in at one end with contenteG purr.
Then a strange thing happened, as you'll
agree,
And wonder how such thing could be.
For out OF the other end into the light
Crept three little kittens as black as night
Youths Companion.
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Fate,

He used to be such ladies' man."
Eyes. And, here he is, married to an
advanced woman, who resents it as an
n when she is referred to as a
at "ago Record-Herald.
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beginning of the War

Mrs. Crusty-Do you remember ou7
first quarrel?
Mr.. Crusty-Let me see. Was that
going into the church, or coming out?
-Yonkers Statesman.
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Ambitious,

81 hope you will always be good
little girl
81 hope not, ma'am. l want to be
a young lady some time. IN. Y. Jour-
nal.
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from Jne lndlanS and sur
veyed in a plaid of mile-square sec
tions, with stones and blazed trees
to mark the corners. Then the sol
diers swept the country of every un-
official being, and the government,
having duly advertised this grand
gift distribution, somebody fired a
pistol into the air at the time select
ed, and nearly 100000 desperate,
greedy folk burst through the boun-
DIARIES and ran for prizes"
The governments benefcent inten-
lions did not carry out so well as was
hoped, innumerable quarrels arising
over some coveted piece of property,
"A single claim sometimes having from
three to seven claimants struggling
for its ownership. Wordy wars were
not all that ensued, bloodshed often
flowing in the wrangles after the
precious acres Costly litigation also
marked these disputes, eases being
led from court to court, and
ring along at great length.
m contests by now are practi-
settled, and the border rutfian
VII way W tilC DuSN dU
On land over which he holds
lted sway. Outlaws have had
lay in Oklahoma, for which
are due largely to the brave
5 of the law, men that equalled
w-breakers in courage, endur-
nd persistence. 1t was of such
these Oklahoma marshals and
is that Roosevelt's band of
Riders was partly composed;
:, not a few Oklahoma ex-otfi-
were numbered among the
Riders.
homa, being claim-taler's
is almost wholly given over to
lure. Farms and farmhouses,
tier quite modern in appear
dot the country, and many a
SIS adventurer is tanning down
Woodworking farmer. The
:, as yet, are farm towns rather
manufacturing centers, as might
ected of country settled aft
nannC one Hosts of
'h" "er to get