The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-07-21
H! AT THE FAIR.
The Uninitiated plker's Startling
MISREPRESENTATION Reveld-
tons are the Vogue Along the
Famous Thoroughfare.

armed?" Well, never mind, someone
has said it and our conscience is clear
in the quota ton, for it reminds us to
suggest to our readers, who contem-
plate visiting the Worlds Fair, little
timely preparation will not be amiss
before entering the lane of amusement
called the Pike. 1t is not our desire to
inspire fear, nor have we anything to
say of this amusement highway except
ing to recommend it in the highest
terms and to state further that visit
to the fair is incomplete without jour
ney through the Pike, but imagine if you
can, sauntering along in company with
your best girl and have an absolute
stranger accost you in deep, sonorous
tones, bidding you "Go to H!" At
any rate, that is what you may expect
and hence this enlightenment. Nothing
personal is intended, merely modern
Pike methods of calling your attention
to a modern Pike show. Anything that
has ever been done before is not done
on the Pike. It's all new under the sun
and as we said before Sensational rev.
Citations are the vogue along the famous
thoroughfare" Looking in the direction
pointed to by the Pike orator, once
known as Midway spieler' building
representing externally the sombre
gates of Hades is seen and should you
grant his request and pass through the
great stone arched corridor, remarka-
BILE metamorphosis of your mind and
body will occur. A grewsome atmo-
sphere you have suddenly stumbled in
to-none else but the cabinet Of the
dead, and in order to visit the spiritual
world, you have got to die. Collins are
provided, a grave and solemn monk APP
pears and warns you to abandon all hope
and follow on" Powcrless to do any
other than obey this awful command,
you follow into subterranean elevator
and rapidly descend to the realms of
darkness, the first circle of the Nine in
He'll, through all of which you must
pass before seeing the light of earthly
day. Crossing Acheron, the River of
Woe, in Charons boat, to the second
circle, visiting the Court of Minos, the
Internal Judge, who dispenses justice
to the endless line of wicked spirits.
Further in your progress partaking of
the beautiful visions of the unhappy
Faust under Mephisto's influence, wit
Messing the continual grind of torture
mills in the frozen third circle; crossing
Stygian Lake into the City of Dis or
Eternal Fire; viewing all about you
various punishments of abandoned souls
ever and anon startled by the mex
plainable appearance and disappear
ance Of some frightened spirit in your
midst, and finally arriving at the very
center Of Hades, the Throne Room and
awful presence of his Satanic Majesty.
Mingling with his courtiers, skeletons
and subordinate devils, chilly sensa-
tion creeps over you. Simultaneously
the bewildered senses are aware of
changing atmosphere, and an instant
later a marvellous transformation is
fully realized. The parched and barren
rocks and caverns of Inferno have van
ished. sulphuric gases no longer con-
fuse the brain, instead, delicious odors
pervade the air, rare and beautiful fol-
iage confronts the vision, the beautiful
grove Of Daphne surrounds you, and
Daphne herself beckons you onward and
upwards through the gates of Paradise.
Gorgeous spectacular illusion effects
tell the history of the "Three Wise Men
of the Desert, /" the dimly discerned and
far-distant rs ar of Bethlehem ever
increasing in brilliancy and the final
elimination, the Bursting of Celestial
Dawn, intestifed by the soft strains Of
sacred songs and a vision Of ETHEREAL
bodies in graceful evolutions, make up a
production Of transcendent glories and
send you back to earth to again take up
its ways with ever pleasant, though com
3ficting, memories of your experience.
- 49, T. $50