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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22

The beginning of the next theatrical season will find a half doben new import ant theatres added to New York's already generous list. Kirke IaShelle, Henry Harris. Klaw and Erlanger, the Shubert Brothers. oscar Hammerstein and the Sire Brothers all have new structures under way.
 Louis James and Frederick Warde are doing so well in "The Tempest that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
OH! GET OUT!
Last Springs Clothes for Holt's Dye
 Works to Clean.

If you haven't time to bring them down yourself. telephone 432 and we will send our wagon for them. adv.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
Theatrical Chat.

New York City's theatrical managers are observing Lent truly. For the first time since the current season started in early August of last year. Manhattan Is to be one whole fortnight without dramatic novelty.
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Americans to Light Paris.
From Leslie's Weekly.


The American invasion of Europe bids
fair to go on until citizens of this country
shall have important business interests in
all parts of the continent, as well as in
Great Britain, where they have already OBJ
tanned a solid foothold. Everybody knows
OF the large enterprises in which moneyed
magnates from this side of the sea have
engaged in London, and now the French
capital has surrendered to our progressive
promoters. An American syndicate has just
secured from the Paris council an exclu-
sive contract for the lighting of that city,
winning out against the sharp opposition
Of French financers. The syndicate is to
absorb all the gas and electric light COM
panies of the great town and will employ
a capitalization of $5OO00000. Its plan is
to. organize two companies. under the
laws of France to operate the works and
the other in the United States to hold the
securities of the former, and thus throw
the protection of American laws over the
enterprise. Two of the ableSt and most
successful Of American financiers, Mr. An
thony n. Brady of Albany, N. Y, and Mr.
William c. Whitney of New York CITY, the
eminently successful promoter of large en-
terpriSes, are the leaders in this big under
taking, and it was through their diplomatic
ability that the award of the contract was
obtained from the council. 1t need hardly
be said that these expert managers will see
to 1t that the most advanced methods in
the production of light are introduced and
that under their auspices the illumination
Of Paris will excel all previous records.
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CARRYING THE MAIL
Drawing the Cold and the
Perils of the Winter.
LIVES RISKED DAILY
BY THE MEN WHO TAKE THE
MAIL TO KELLEY'S.
Tales of Persistent Devotion to Duty
That Are Almost
Heroic.
LIVES RISKED DAILY

Written for The Evening Star by Osborn Spencer.
For nerve, endurance and persistence, it
would be hard to beat the winter mail car
r'ers between the Ohio mainland and the
four inhabited islands of the curious little
archipelago which decorates the southwest
ern part of the map of Lake Erie.
There four of these islands Kelley's,
the largest, lies almost due north of San
dusky. The three Bases lie little further
west. They range north and south, and are
known coloquially as North Bass, Middle
Bass and South Bass To the Post Office
Department the frst-named is Isle st.
George and the last named Put-in-Bay,
famous as summer resort. Grover Cleve
land and Admiral Bob Evans go fishing on
Middle Bass every spring.
In warm weather the mail reaches the
islands via Sandusky, through the COM
monplace medium of regular daily steam
ers. From December 1 to March 81, in
elusive, exactly four month, the winter
service is in operation. Nearly every win
ter there is brief period during which the
ice freezes soiidly between mainland and
islands, and then the carriers drive over
their route comfortably with horse apJ
light 'bobs,' the same as hundreds of
other star route carriers.
Most of the time. though, the state of the
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clumsy than they and so got pretty damp
Creenine Over Thin Ice.

clumsy than they and so got pretty damp
before / could scramble into the boat
Creeping Over Thin Ice.
'They made me sit down in the stern
and wrap myself we'll up to keep from TAX
ing cold. Then they 'crept the boat for
the next half mile. Creeping is necessary
when the ice is too solid to allow OF sail
ing, polling or rowing and at the same time
not strong enough to bear the weight of q
man.
Compared with creeping. mere towing
the sledge boat is the mildest child's play.
The men kneel, one on each side or the
boat. one with his right the other with his
left leg inside the craft Then with the
other leg outside each laboriously walks
pushing, half pulling the. boat through the
rotten. pliabIe mass of half-froZen water.
Steel muscled though the Bass Island mail
carriers must of necessity be. few min
utes of creeping is quite enough and after
a half mile of it they are fairly drenched
with perspiration and trembling from Ia
tigue, while their muscles ache as II they
had been pounded with sledge hammers.
The rotten ice was followed by stretch
of open water nearly mile wide. II the
wind had been right the carriers would
have stepped their ten-foot mast in the bow
of the boat, spread their spirit sail and so
had a brief period of rest. AS 1T was all
hands had to take to the oars. The wind
freshened and the seas seemed as high as
steeples; every one broke over us and
everything in the craft was soaked.
thought my time had come for sure. One
of the carriers had to go to the stern and
steer with an extra oar--the boat had no
rudder-and 1 had to take my trick at the
rowing l was inclined mentally to object
to this at first, but was glad didn't.
was shaking with a chill when began
but by the time we got to fairly good Ice
again the exercise had warmed me through
and was in no danger of pneumonia, the
one disease of which the carriers are NOR
tally afraid
After the open water we hauled the boat
up on the ice. stern foremost, and again
had to tow and push it over the frozen sur
face of the lake. Here the ice was hum
mocky and rough, and, before We had gone
very far driving snow storm set in which
blinded and benumbed u.s. despite all we
could do. How we ever made the remainder
of the three miles to South Bass l can't
imagine, but We landed at about dusk, left
our boat at South Dock and were driven
two miles across the island. After that
there was stretch of two miles and a half
to Middle Bass over the ice-thank heaven
it was solid-with a second boat. We
tramped across Middle Bass, mile and
quarter, the carriers backing the mail
pouches that were going to Isle st. George,
and then took a third sledge-boat for our
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last mile-and-a-haf stretch Of Ice. For
tunately it, too, was Solid
when 1 turned in at near midnight my
emotions were mixture of thankfulness
that 1 was still alive and of fear that I'd
be drowned On the return trip. But it was
comparatively uneventful, though 1t took US
nine hours to reach the mainland"
There are many such stories to be heard
on the Bass Islands. Once passenger was
careless and let go of the boat when the
ice was broken into vast foes, which were
slowly moving down the lake with grind
ing motion and force that would crush
anything which came in the way. A big
snow storm was on and in moment he
was af1oat on great cake of Ice moving
so rapidly from the boat and the carriers
that they were soon lost to sight In the
swirling flakes. He was wet to the skin
having been working like Trojan with a
pike for an hour or more, helping to pole
the boat along. and he dared not stand STILL
despite the danger of stepping off the cak
of ice. for fear he'd freeze. Pretty soon
the big cake broke up and he found himself
on a smaller one. not ten feet across. Two
big foes crushed it and he saved himself
only by jumping TO one of them. In despair
he gave himself up for lost, when suddenly
the storm abated so that he could be seen
and he was presently rescued, sound but
almost scared to death.
Told by the Carriers.
The carriers themselves tell stories some
times One carrier who was crossing with
a horse and sleigh when the fee was solid
got lost In a snow storm and travelled
round and round in a circle for nearly
forty hours. 1t wasn't very cold-though
temperatures away below zero are common
between the mainland and the Islands
or he'd have frozen to death. He happened
to have a box of crackers along, and
that kept him from getting hungry.
The present Bass Island carriers, George
Morrison and George Axtell, are tacturn
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in case polling was necessary. The boat is
fiat bottomed- apparently of the ordinary
lake type, is sixteen feet long. about TWEEN
ty inches deep and of four-foot beam. 1t
is sheathed with galvanized sheet iron. the
better to stand the ice-battering ii gets on
every trip. On its bottom are two runners
four inches high and about five feet long
A layman would take them for parallel
false keels.
Before we started 'creepers-steeI spikes
on spurs to prevent slipping on the ice
were strapped to my boots and / was eau
toned to keep my hand on the boat every
minute while walking. so that could save
myself by jumping into 1t if the ice gave
way under me.
"Our trouble began before we had gone
half mile. The carriers were then towing
the sledge boat stern foremost, being har-
messed to 1t with short lines or ropes at
tached about half way between the stern
and amidships and passed over their shout
ders 1 pushed, and 1t took the united
strength of all three to make Roadway, for
the wind was blowing a gale from the
northwest.
Suddenly heard cracking noise Both
carriers yelled and in minute We were in
the water. AS we all had hands on the
boat we saved ourselves. the carriers with
cut getting much Of a wetttug. was more
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chaps before strangers but in the year Of
two they have been on the route they have
had their own adventures. Luke Meyers of
South Bass. who has been extra man oc-
casionally, had a decidedly strenuous ex-
perience one day two or three years ago.
I'VE started out from South Bass in
good shape with lady passenger on
board" says Meyers. THE water was full
Of heavy drift ice and we had to use both
poles and oars. When we were a quarter
of mile from shore a cold fog, so thick
you could hardly see q boat length, shut
down on US. We had a compass, Of course.
and we steered due south all the time.
Now. that was where we made our mistake
We forgot that there was strong drift
to the east or down the lake and we ought
to have steered strong southwest SO as
to have offset the drift
AS 1t was, we tugged and toiied and
poled and rowed in the fog hours and hours.
We worked so hard that we didn't suffer
none from the cold. but we kept getting
uneasier and uneasier and by IL or O. clock
We knew we were lost. The lady passen-
ger. she got mighty cold after a time, and
then she got frightened. and then she get
to moaning and crying. and that didn't
help keep up our spirits none. not bit,
air. BY or half past I amt ashamed to
say that We were all pretty well scared.
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King Edward "The Silver King"

from Inc LONDON Chronicle.
The fall in the price of silver still leaves
the king the posseSsor of an enormous
fortune in the plate he has inherited from
his mother. both at Buckingham Palace
and at Windsor Castle. The late queen had
the great preponderance of her plate at
Windsor, whereas during the present reign
Buckingham Palace will probably be the
more plentifully supplied. No valuation. has
had to be made for probate duty, for the
king does not pay the kings taxes, any
more than the speaker Of the third estate
speaks. Not long ago, however, an inven-
tory was made at Windsor Castle. with the
result that the plate, most Of it silver,
some Of 1t gold, and portion of it, such as
metal peacock and other ornaments. set
with gems, was appraised at a sum far in
excess of million pounds. Edward VII,
who has made considerable additions to the
collection by the transfer of his own plate
from Marlborough House, may well be al
1uded to among connoisseurs as "the Sill
yer King"
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THE START.

lake Is such that the mail must be carried
in a nondescript sort of craft which can be
used as sledge, rowboat or a sailboat,
as occasion demands. There are many trips
each winter which the carriers use their
queer craft in all four ways. There are
many trips also which are full of real dam
ger, and scores of times the carriers have
had to display genuine heroism. The con-
tracts have always been taken by two men,
in partnership, and it is very seldom that
one dares make a trip alone. When the
lake is bad third man is often hired.
The mail route to Kelleys Island, eight
miles of ice or water without break, has
Marblehead, point at the mouth of San
dusky bay, for it's shore end. The Bass
Island route, part land and part lake, about
ten miles in length, leaves the shore at
Catawaba Island. where the mall is sent
from Port Clinton. the capital of Ottawa
county. The best way to get a true notion
of the work involved in carrying the mail
over this route is to take passage for North
Bass with the carriers some day in mid
winter, when the lake is about half frozen
over Ore who has been such passenger
told his story yesterday to the writer.
A Winter Trip to the Bases.
81 left Port Clinton in the middle of
bright January morning he said. driving
the nine miles to Catawaba Island. There
the carriers were waiting with their sledge-
boat. The passage over had been fair, they
said but they looked for trouble going
back The ice was solid near shore, but
very bad In the middle of the three-mile
stretch to South Bass. Besides, a storm
seemed to be brewing. and they advised me
to postpone my trip. But they finally gave
in, on condition that ! should help If / was
needed, ard at least should walk whenever
they had to push tow the boat.
"They loaned me a pair of long boots
and a set of oilskins to keep me from get
ting too wet If should go through the Ice,
and told me that l would be expected to
use one of the pixies they had in the boat
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i. The Orchard Lands of Long Ago.

The orchard lands Of Long Ago!
o, drowsy winds, awake and blow
The snowy blossoms back to me,
And all the buds that used to be!
BLOW back along the grassy ways
OF truant feet, and lift the haze
OF happy summer from the trees
That trail their tresses in the seas
OF grain that float and overflow
The orchard lands Of Long Ago!
Blow back the melody that slips
In lazy laughter from the lips
That marvel much II any kiss
Is sweeter than the apples is.
Blow back the twitter Of the birds
The lisp, the litter and the words
OF merriment that found the shine
OF summertime q glorious wine
That drenched the leaves that loved 1t 20
In orchard lands Of Long Ago!
o, memory! aTight and sing
Where rosy bellied ptppins cling,
Aud golden russets & int and CLEAN
As In the old Arabian dream
The fruits OF that enchanted tree
The glad Aladdin robbed for me.
And, d-owsy winds. awake and fan
Ny blood as when 1t overran
A heart ripe as the apples grow
In orchard hands of Long Agoi
JAMES WHTCoMB RILEY.
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Enthusiastically English.
Berlin National Zeitung.

From the Berlin National Zeitung.
1t is characteristic of English political
customs that the whole of the opposition,
on the passing of the education bill
promptly admitted the striking gifts OF
Lord Hugh Cecil. On the other side of the
house the premier (Mr. Balfour) and his
assistant, Sir William Arson, met the op.
ponents Of the bill with politeness. patience
tact and, above all things. in a forgivine
spirit, but without abating jot of theil
demands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-10

HE didn't refuse to lend you anything.
did hep
well, not In so many words. He said he
hadn't much money. but he had a little
sense."-Chicago Tribune.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-10
Knack Of Bone Setting.

Sweet was proud Of his 5th avenue expe-
rience, but his feat of setting broken bones
for the twelve persons injured in rail-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-10

Mr.. William Frazier. national secretary
of the Sailors Union, was in the city
Wednesday. He called on several members
Of Congress in the interest Of the union sea-
men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-10

The labor difficulties of the union electri-
cal workers of Cincinnati, Ohio, have been
submitted to- hoard of arbitration for set
item ent II men 6Hv0-asked for a 10 per
cent increase in pay.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1903-11-05
MINERAL MENTION.
drug store

On the land belonging 10 w. II. Will
iams, noar Sunnysidc, is found lead and
jack. This is found in the rock close tC
the top Of the land. Fine mineral pros,
poets are found on all the hillsidcs in
this neighborhood. This would be ar
eAcellent place to sink II shaft, as lead
has been found on all the nd joining land
aud when the we'll at the school house
was drilled mineral was found in th,
drillings.
Is. +. WcstmOrcland has 200 acres oI
land, and he says he can find mineral
on every forty acres it. Outcropping,
OF lead are found in many places, red
corbonatc OF zinc and mineral fruit ar,
found in difference places, and lead II
bluir near spring on Elbow creek
He is busy farming and raising stock
and says he has not time TO devote t,
mining, although he has some OF th,
best mineral land iu the county.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1903-11-05
GALLOWAY AND BUFFALO
An Experimental Herd Of ii,brids to Be
Raised in the Iancy County Park.

Information has been given to the
press that Major McCann, manager OF
the big Tanoy county park and game
preserve, has bought OF James Clcary Of
Norb0ne, Carroll Co., Ark thirty.thrcc
head OF Galloway hcifers, one and two
years old, which he intends 10 cross
with the buffalo In the big fancy county
game preserve The cattle will 90 to
the park the last Of this week and the
buffalo are 10 he secured from Colora-
do ranch by senator Jones Of Ark.
The buffalo and the domestic COW
cross readily, and the hybrid is u hardy
animal with finer skin and coat Of hair
than the full bloodcd bison ever wore.
This is the information Major McCann
has about the value Of enterprise. The
robe made Of the hybryd's skin is worth
the price OF Il good horse, about sl25.
The destruction Of the buffalo herds
Of America has greatly increased the
value Of these robes, Major McCann says,
and abide which twenty ycarsago could
have been bought for s2j, now sells
readily for 800.
The Tancy county game preserve con.
tains about 10000 acres Of land mostly
wild, and well adapted to the business
Major McCann has in prospect.
The hybrids resulting from the cross.
ing Of the buffalo and the common COW
has the wild nature Of It's long haired
parent and the animal can live In this
latitude almost without the feeding
that cattle require In the winter season.
In the Tancy county park the crossed
herd would find the wild grass about
sufficient for their needs tho year round.
The buffalo for the game preserve
will reach Springfield early this winter
They will be shipped on the train to
Chadwick and from there cowboys will
drive them TO the park, u distance Of
thirty miles,
The park now has one OF the largest
herds OF elk in the United States, ms well
as other kinds OF big game.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1903-11-05
Disastrous Wrecks.

Carelcssncss is responsible for many u
railroad wreck and the same cause Is
making hnmun wrecks Of sufferers from
throat and lung troubles. But since the
advent OF DR.. Kings New Discovery for
consumption, coughs and colds, even the
worst cases can be cured, and hopeless
resignation is M longcrnecessary. Mrs.
Lois Cragg Of Dorchester, Mass, is one
Of many whose life wns saved by DR..
Kings New Discovery. This great rem
cdy il guarnteced Tor all throat and lung
, diseases by A. n. Parrish drugest.
hPrice 50c, and 100 Trial bottle free.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1903-11-05

Wm. &. Bading, !. Gordon,
Justices }. Il. Bisscli. J. A Thomas
tons,able l. liowcrman
SCOTT
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1903-11-05
a in

the work In this county alone. The com.
plction Of this road will create o rapid
and healthy growth in the farming and
mining population, for here exists lead,
zinc and iron awaiting market. 1t was
with just n tingc Of regret thatwc turned
our faces northward, and said good.
bye 10 some OF the finest people 1t has
been our good fortune to meet.
HUGH j. WALLACE.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1903-11-05
A Runaway bicycle,

terminated with an ugly cut on the leg
Of j. b. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill. 1t
developed stubborn ulcer unyiclding
TO doctors and remedies for four years,
Then Bucklcn's Arnica salvc cured. It's
just as good for burns, scalds, skin crup.
tion and piles. DC, at a. II. Parrish :
drug store.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1903-11-05
CHURCHES.

CHURCHES.
sroNE CHAPEL, TonsyrH.
NJ E-Scryiccs hrst sunday In each month
mornlng and evening Rgy. I. u. UniffIN.
Chris,Ian-sccond sunday In each month morn
Ing and evening ELp. j NJ. hAwohrI
PresbyterIan-scrviccs fourth sunday In each
month, morning and evening;
RKv. q. ". GAUSS, Pastor.
Union sunday school every sunday morning nj
IOo'ciock. You are welcome,
C'E' JrNsisas, See ". H. Pmcr, supt
SOCIETIES.
A. .. and A. N Forsyth Lodge No ~, meets
on saturday upon OF after the fuli moon III
each month. A. H. PAnnisu, ", NJ.
s.w BOSWELL, Sec.
A. y, and A. NJ. - Krbyyillc Lodge No. sGi
meets on Saturday nighAupor OF next before
the full moon In each mohth. -, =,
II, RosE, Sec. q. W NASzASDr, W NJ.
A. y. and A. M.-Ciahln Lodge, No; go, Pro.
ten, Mo. meets on OF before the null moon In
each month. s.P. DorsoS, ". NJ.
O.E.s. s.-Chnpter No. -. meets first and third
Thursdays In each month. ,,. =,
Mrs 5. a. wIATuEnMAs. W. NJ.
R.C. Foup, ". 4. A II. PAhuisu, Sec.
u W. h.-forsyth Camp No. sg@ meets on
Tuesday upon or iirst following the full moon
In each month. ,
&, II. GRooM Clerk.
, 1903-03-13

I'VE Fysshe Lara humorous poem
sung in the English of Chaucer. In
Days in the Hills the inimitable
Will Cave of Montana gives a wildly
truthful account of a deer hunting trip
into the very heart of the Rocky noun
tains.
The departments devoted to Natural
history, Fish and Fishing. Rifle and
Trap Shooting. Photography, Our
Young Sportsmen and the Dog are all
excellent and the pictures by Hunt and
Matthews-both western artists en-
nance the beauty OF the magazines al,
ways interesting reading matter.
while the magazine is far from be.
ing what we want to make it," writes
Editor King, sit is steadily gaining null.
titudes Of new friends whose esteem
and loyalty we hope to always retain.
At all news-stands, Is cents a cop
subscription. 1.5O a year. Sports Afield
Publishing Co, 35S Dearborn St, Chi
cago, III.
, 1903-03-13
The New Postage Stamps.

The new series of two CEN stamps
now in preparation will have the Amer
lean flag as n of its designs. sup
planting the photograph of Washing
ton which has appeared for SO many
years, and with which we have all be-
come so familiar. Another stamp that
has become very important is the Pri-
vate Die Stamp placed owe the neck
of each bottle of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, as a preventive against I'M
scrupulous dealers palming of
counterfeit remedies for the genuine,
claiming that they are Just as good
as Hostetter's." Don't accept any such
imitation. especially if you value your
health. The genuine Bitters will posi-
lively cure loss Of appetite, nausea,
Indigestion, belching. headache, dys-
pepsia and constipation. Fifty years
of such cures are back of it. Then don't
fail to try it.