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New-York tribune., 1904-08-07

a team = country O0-T- |0-0N NO-1O
at us 10 stop. because The foolish,
young things had got 10 waikin' on
their hind legs and wauun 20 go
home. Il Juliet had Of been there II
would Of been my duty 10 See what
kind Of a colt buster our new auto is.
because II would OF most likely give
her an excitn thrill or two but not
New-York tribune., 1904-08-07

her II | waited a thousand
years was afraid $ h e
ulghtn I stick 70 II If l
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-09
FRoCTQk'S.

The most popular ms we'll as the
most enduring and vital in its roman
tically realistic scenes of the score of
Mr. David Belasc"'s greatest drama
tic successes, is "The Heart of Mary
land, which is to be tho attraction
next week at Prootor's Fifty.eighth
street theatre, beginning next Monday
matinee. The one intensely exciting
scene wherein the heroine is the one
enthralilng figure, that which is tie
closing episode OF the third at and
transpires in the belfry in the tower
of the Old Colonial church, would of
itself insure the success Of sven the
most ordinary of dramatic produc-
tons.
Oae Of the best OF recent plays will
form the offering OF the Proctor Stock
Company at the Fifth avenue theatre
next week, when "The Stnbbroness
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-09

the cleverost serio comic incident
that has yet been seen on the stage.
The Rogers Brothers, in the roleH of
two young Germans. are en,leavoring
to escape from on irnte lion-ester and
n i%ire-eating gend 'arme. They seize
an automobile and the desperate
Freiichmen follow in another car. The
SO ano changes and shows tho two mo
tcrs going Mt terrific need, with
buildings aud streets flying bv. One
machine blows up and the other runs
into it, creating n comic sensation
which would be highly meloiramntic,
were it not for the absolutely absari
way in which the entire feature is
presented. 1t is certainly a novelty in
comedy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-09

/ and examine certain objects, of the
value OF which we were completely
ignorant. iv
Beautiful! Who painted it?" he
said, as his eyes fell on the picture.
I'VE do not know. 1t is not signed.
there is only the date, 1885, :
whoever the painter may be, IL Is
delightful! To which of you Will it
beiong?,v
s"ro me; Pierre has given 1t to me-"
Fl congratulate you"
Leon put down the portrait cautious
~, and we led him to a little collection
Of antique worries. While handling the
fragile statuetteB, he muttered unin-
telligibly to himself, and all Of d snd-
den he said aloud:
Where the devil have 7 seen aan.
| inkstand like the oneGin the pictare?9."
He seemed to ponder; evidently hts
mind was at work. At last he cried.
sBy Heaven! l knew that / had
seen IT." ~ n
Seen what?" we asked in unison.
"Why, this inkstand. | have II my
self. To be sure. / remember IL all
now. Your Standardization save his
~sopl--had no taste for artistic things.
and made me q present of a number
| of antique snuff boxes and other tribes
for MY collection, among which was
the inkstand. Listen, my boy. Since
you have the portrait, | will give YOU
the inkstand. The two should beisre-
united
The following day he sent me the
inAstand. 1t was of exquisite work.
manship, in the style Of the timeAa
Cupid mounted on a dolphin. Without
any doubt, it was Aunt Luce's ink-
stand.
One morning | set myself the TASK
Of cleaning 1t. I had to rub hard.
AS I shook it TO remove the dust
from the well one of the dolphin's fms
fell back and disclosed a hollow. It
was probably the receptacle for seals
and such things. A piece Of paper
| fell from, it.
] unfolded it i'm a tremor of curiosity.
1t was a piece cut i'm haste from p
gazette, in which were given tlfs
names OF the bodyguards mastered oh
the 10th Of August. One OF the names
was underlined, and the last fold Of
the yellowed paper contained a lock of
black hair.
Aunt Luce, Aunt Luce. I know now
why you wished Il die; and /. your
great-grandnephew, born In q century
in which one Is not susceptible to emo
lions, must have wept over your love
of old-for a tear has made a new spot
on the chiselings OF the inkstand.-
From the French, In N. Y. Sun.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-09
Ma Ube

Thomas Seabrooke has made e hit
Er6 roleVHWag Doc in Klaw &
Erlanger's pfoS Elton Of "Iie Bil-
Iionaife." M
Forbes Robertson will begin his sec
Md season in America in Toronto,
January 0, presenting a new play by
Henry v. Esmond, the title of which
has not yetsbosa innde public.
J. /. @ Clarke has completed the
manuscript Of bis dramatic version of
i7ean Lew WnAace's "A Prince of
aioR Klaw & Erlangor will
most magnificent scale.
accommodation of peonle of
visiting New ork who may
70 see the lntest Dtury Lano
gcls, "Humpty Dumpty," Klaw
Elanger have established a mail
Ier bureau at the New Amsterdam
htre. through which seats may be
bred at any tina for any preform-
In the succeeding four weeks.
prem iere will occur. Monday even
he l4th inst. The sale opens
hsday, the 10Th inst. when seats
nny performance in the first D'onth
|ay be secured by letter accom- panied
remittance. There will be no nd.
knco in the regular prices. 30 cents
81.
pIle automobile ACE and smash-up
he end of the second act of "The
gers Brothers in Paris is about
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-09

Of Geraldine" will be put on with ntI
of the original scenery including ths
rocking deck of the steamship; one of
the most novel eff cts in tho history
of stage craft This is bv no means
the first time tlRt the Proctor com
pany has made lie fist stock produc.
ton of a play ct re oeDt success, but
the securing of this clever Fitch play
is ono of tho notable accomrlisl,
ments Il will he one with a specially
slected cast including Mr. Edwin
Arden, Miss Isabelle Evesson, Marion.
Berg. George Friend. Gerald Griffin,
Miss Whitman, Edwin Fowler and,
others. There will be the usual heavy
vaudeville Of ering headed by Hal
Merritt, who combines chalk talks
with a really clever monologue.
Varied and interesting is the bill
announced for Proctor Twenty-ihird
street theatre next week. Heading this
program is Frank Bush. who antici-
pated the present craze for Hebrew
comedy By a dozsn years. No story
teller is more popular nor has anyone
a wider range of material refieoting
in its every phase life as We all see it
There is both Dumor and satire in Mr..
Bush's material, and it is oil marked
ny originality. An elaborate revival
of 1.-THE Queens Fan" ia another an
nounoement. This clever musical
sketch his been rewritten BY A..
Baldwin Sloan and George Totten
Smith having written new songs, and
now scenic sattings have heen painted
by Unit. Oriska Worden and Adele
Archer of the original trio appear ami
the newcomer, Jessamine Childe is
even more clever than her produces
sor. %
Ano her capital program is
nounced for Proctor's Newark theatre
next week, wLtre Edward HarrigaiI
heads the program with his latest
comedy creation "D'Alcy McGlone,
Author in which he IS assisted by
Alice Braham, daughter of the com
poser who contributed SO materially to
the earlier HarIigan successes, and
several others. Mr.. Harrigan. is max
ing his first appearance in vaudeville
in several years and scored very
strongly at the New York houses last
week. Frank Bush, the originator of
the idea of using the Hebrew al come
dy material will present an entirely
new m%onologue illustrating his latest
observations, and will show that he is
iu better form than ever, while Nor.
ton and Nicholson in their clever
SIX etch, "The Lady and The Pugilist
offer something really new.
Next week attrs elton at Proctor 8
One Hundred ana Twenty fifth street
theatre will be q grand scenic produc-
ton of the famous play Money Mad
originally done at the Standard Thea.
tire (now Manhattan ~theatre) with
Minnie Seligman and n powerful cast.
The play at that time attracted atIen-
tion not only through the strength Of
the company, hut because Of the mar
yelous scenic effects which taxed every.
resource of the stnge carpenter. ]
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-09
ROMANCE TOLD
q BY AN INKSTAND.

IF you do not object" said my
brother. throwing the stump of his CT
gar into the fire, I'VE will finish the
partition to-day, SO that the room MAJ
be put in order ard closed.
II threw a glance around the little
room in which we were sitting. 1t was
the picture OF desola;ion. The furni'
ture was piled high, tie paintings
taken down, the carpet rolled up, and
over all lay a thick covering OF dust.
THE fact is, it is all 50 untidy," -
mufipured, rising.
! sAnd so dismal" added Pierre.
L Know nothing so sad as these un-
pleasant tasks after the death OF {
relative, when q thousand object
brought together during a lifetime ar.
dispersed atrthe caprice of fate. Thert
was. moreover, in our case a touch 0
emotipn. The wcman who had live.
in this room had stood nearer to IL
by the ties of the heart than by those
Of blood. Our relationship was neai
enough to make us her heirs, but We
had looked upon her rather as a sister.
For years we had come every day t.
pass an hour in this little sitting-roon
with the woman whom illness had car.
ried off a month ago. And now, when
we returned, both Pierre and | shiv-
cred as with the chill of the grave,
and made no progress in Jul task.
We began by lighting the fire. Then,
at the first object We touched, Pierre
said:.
do you remember"
And the thread of memories spin
ming itself between us, the end Of the
afternoon found us one on each side
of the hearth, almost at the same
point as at our arrival.
Nothing remained to divide but the
art treasures, a thousand precious and
graceful tri1es which poor Marguerite
had loved to see about her. W. took
them up with tremulous hands and
heavy hearts.
I made him accept a miniature Louis
XVI table, which | knew his wife
coveted, and he, not to be behind me
in generosity. handed me a charming
picture which | had contemplated out
Of the corner of my eye.
It. was a family portrait, the likeness
of a young grandaunt guillotined in
1888, a beautiful pastel and, upon my
word, a lovely model.
The woman was about 20. She was
dressed In white, with a rose in her
blonde hair and a ribbon round her
~neek--that slender neck which the
guilotine was to embrace. She was
leaning on the corner of a table as il
writing-evidentiy a Continuance Of the
artist merely Tor the pleasure OF re-
producing a handsome inkstand of
wrough bit silver standing on the velvet
cover.
O. Aunt Luce, to whom were you
writing, with your slender hand and
penetrating glance, and your smile, a
little sad, as II you had foreseen your
premature end? Our family traditions,
corroborated by memoirs from the pen
of an old servant, tell us that you
could have lived had you willed it. An
officer of the republic fell in love with
your grace and your smile and
~snascbod you from the steps Of the
scaffold; but you fed from his arms,
CRYING, Il wish to diei" Aunt Luce.
what despair filled your heaf
The door opened and Ccy
the ~antiquary of the famili
We had, IN fact asked u
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-09
Carpet Hint.

A tablespoonful of ammonia In a gall
lon Of warm water will often restore col
ors in carp5ts, and will also remove
whitewash from carpets Bid
get. a3s
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

to the shore and cut the Threats of
such animals as are wounded.
Frequently these queer deer hunts
with spears in the water last until not
a deer is left alive out of herds that
may number five hundred.
The slain animals are skinned and
cleaned and then stored away in rude
structures to wait till the winter
makes it possible. to transport flesh
and hides by sledge up and down the
frozen river.
Part of this reindeer flesh will travel
UP the river IN few months to where
the stream, becoming as wide as a sea,
opens into the icy Bering Sea. There,
on little barren peninsula, is the
loneliest and most desolate postal sta
ton. i'll the world 1t is the station of
Marinsky Post, the most. northern
official station of Russia in Siberia.
Ibis imperial postoffice is a hut
built from clay and mud It has three
windows, so small that they are hard
ly more than peep holes. Here three
Cossacks are the sole representatives
OF the Gar for eight months in the
year A few earth huts and Eskimo
tents made of skins stick out from the
snow, that lies like sheet as far as
the eye can see.
Within two months from now, while
America still is in the beauty of au-
tumn, Marinskv Post will be beaten
by tremendous Arctic storms, the
winds of which are so cutting that not
a sign of life can be seen for days anc
even weeks at a time in the little set
Element, because no man dares tc
crawl out of his shelter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

1t is queer how people always miss
the best news" said the kite to him
self
Just then merry voice said, Hell
10. cousin Why have you stopped
hying?"
1t was the sun, which had come
out again, the West Wind and the
black cloud having run away to play
their pranks somewhere else.
i thought that | would just SIT
here and rest for time" said the
kite with an important air. while
you are here | wish that you would
dry me. You might as we'll be of
some little use, you know
The sun laughed again and blew its
hottest breath down on the vain kite,
until his tissue paper body and his
golden sun and long tail were dry
again, although little wrinkled
Then deep voice sounded from
tie, white, woolly cloud that was trot-
ting along for all the world like a
silken poodle dog.
Come along, come alongl' said the
voice. Il am the North Wind and
| am going on far journey"
The North Wind reached down and
began to untangle the kite The tele-
graph wire became so angry that
words failed her and she could only
hum like million and thousand
bees. But it didn't help her, for all
at once the kite was free and went
soaring away.
1t mounted high i'll the air till the
highest church steeple seemed only a
pin; it went over mountains and riv-
ers and cities, till all at once there was
nothing to be seen below except a
vast smooth plain that shone like sill
yer in the sun.
Nov you must hold fast to me"
said the North Wind, putting his arms
around the kite, "for we are over the
deep, blue ocean, and i you fall you
will drown and be eaten by whale"
Indeed" said the naughty kite. Il
guess that ] can fly as we'll as you.
Kindly take your hands off me"
Very we'll, said the North Wind,
and let go.
Down went the kite. He thought
he was swooping like an eagle, but in
reality he was turning over and over
and dropping straight toward the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
Heat from the Stars.

Z Professor Nichols. the astronomer,
made a. wonderfully delicate instru-
ment some time ago to measure very
faint heat waves. 1t is SO sensitive
to heat that it registers the warmth
that emanates from a mans face
1000 feet, or more than a third OF a
mile, away,
With this instrument Professor
Nichols tried experiments in the
Yerkes. Observatory. He selected the
two stars Vega and Arcturus These
stars are so far away from the earth
that the human mind cannot conceive
the distance. No instrument had
ever been able TO detect the slight
est warmth from them.
Professor Nichols succeeded with
his appliance. He found that Arcturus
sends the earth as much heat as a
man could get from a candle burning
SIX, miles away from him. Vega was
found to send only half as much heat
as this.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
Reindeer Hunts in the U,nter

TN THAT part of Siberia that
lies along the Anadyr River,
i which empties into Bering Sea,
the natives are now engaged in
strange way of hunting the reindeer.
These animals are unusually plenti-
full in the territory along the river at
this time of the year. They have spent
the early summer in the mud holes of
the northern tundra, whittier they flee
early in spring to escape the mosqui-
toes and. flies; and when they return
in August and September they are fat
and strong.
The deer move southwark in great
droves, consisting of several thousand
to a drove. These droves are sub
divided into smaller herds of few
hundred animals to a herd, but the
herds are so close to each other that
the whole moves like one immense
army.
Often such drove of reindeer COW
ers an area of seventy-flve miles in
length and thirty-hve miles in width.
The animals follow almost the same
trail year by year, and their favorite
crossing places at the river are we'll
known to all the hunters.
There, then, the men lie in wait un-
der the banks, in cranky canoes which
are so small and light that the occu-
pant can keep them upright only by
being exceptionally skilful They are
only seven feet long and barely wide
enough to give room for the hunter
to sit down.
The leading stag steps carefully
into the water. AS soon as he is in,
the rest press down the bank after
him. The hunters wait till the river
is full of deer swimming side by side
and pressed together so closely that
there is no room for them to escape,
Then the light canoes dash among
them and the hunters strike at the
deer with their seven-foot spears
The stays fight desperately when at
tackled, and even the does will try to
tip the canoes by throwing their fore
feet into them. But the hunters are
so skilful that, although they drive
their crazy boats right among the
terrified animals and dart here and
there in the midst of the madly plung-
ing mass, they rarely are hurt.
While the men are IN the water
spearing the deer, the women and chill
dren on the bank make all the noise
possible. in order to brighten the ami
mails so that they will stay in the rivel
instead of climbing ashore and run
ming away. The women do not con
fine themselves to making noise alone
They attack any deer that swims clos
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

I 0t1course it wasn't, but the oldest
Inhabitants really could not have held
their proud positions if they had not
said So
The West Wind tore down the I'M
dertakef's sign and threw it across
the door of the doctor. The lawyers
sign went flying across the street and
landed right side up, SO that every
body could read it, in front OF the
town jail
The fat burgomaster and the thin
clerk Of the common council stood
stock still when they saw this and
poked each other in the ribs and
laughed ike anything. The black
cloud swooped over them, took out
bucketful of cold water from under
her black cloak and poured it with
excellent aim straight down the backs
OF the two dignitaries SO they stop
Ped laughing Immediately, and at the
next session of the common council
they introduced a resolution against
rain and wind 1t was beautiful
resolution, and it still hangs framed
in walnut and gold in the town
hall
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04
Hair Ponder Led to Porcelain

produced kaolin, the soft, beautiful
white clay that is the chief compo-
nent part of fine Chinese porcelain.
Investigations showed that the pow
der was being put on the market by
a country squire who had found white
earth on his land one day, and had
been sending it out ever since to be
used for hair powder.
A great factory was built by the
King as soon as Boettger told him
what he had found, and showed him
the first sample Of porcelain.
He also forgave Boettger for swind-
ling him with lies about making gold;
but Boettger was kept a prisoner
still, although he was in a golden
cage.
1t would have been better for him
If he had been kept in a common
jail. Boettger, although he was now
on the way to great wealth and fame,
could not resist the temptation to
drink and dissipate, and before he was
twenty-nine years old he was like a
man dying from old age. His eye
sight was SO poor that he could
neither read nor write, and at last he
was unable to arise from his bed.
The factory, although it had been
fitted with royal generosity, never
paid expenses, because it was never
managed properly. But ii turned out
porcelain that made the name of Sax
ony famous
Boettger died wreck at the age
of thirty-hve. Even in his last hours
| he fooled the King into believing
that he still possessed wonderful Sc
crets. And on his deatiabed men at
| tempted. with threats of all kinds, to
extort from him the Philosopher
! Stone. which many in Saxony firmly
believed had been found by him
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04

lie discovery OF the use OF
kaolin in porcelain, which en-
- abled the people of Saxony
to become the leading white
porcelain makers of the world early
in the eighteenth century, was lucky
accident.
Boettger, who already was known
as q great maker of brown porcelain,
had been devoting his time to cheat
ing the King of Saxony with stories
OF his gold-making powers, instead of
using his talents for legitimate work.
He had induced the King to send
him great sums OF gold until the mon
arch was almost penniless. And at
last the King demanded that Boett-
ger produce the sixty millions of du-
cats in gold which he had promised,
or lose his head.
Boettger tried to gain time, but the
King had grown weary of waiting and
Informed him that he must make gold
at the rate of fifty thousand ducats
a month until the entire sixty millions
were produced.
Boettger tried to escape, but the
house was surrounded by SO many
soldiers that his first attempt was his
last So he promised the King TO
send him one hundred thousand du-
cats Immediately.
Boettger had many friends who
knew his attainments in chemistry,
and one of these had been begging
! him for a long while to cease his pre-
tensions as a gold-maker and devote
| his time to making porcelain And in
a few serious attempts Boettger had
produced some that rivaled the brown
porcelain Of China, of which great
quantities were being sent to Europe
then.
II you can make white porcelain
as good as the Chinese" said this
/ friend. Count Won Tschirnhausen. you
! will make the King as rich as if yor
made gold for him."
The<morning after his unsuccessful.
attempt at escape, Boettger was sit
ting in his bedroom bordering over
his desperate situation and wishing
that he could hit on the right method
for making white porcelain.
Just then he noticed that the pow
der which his valet was putting or
his hair seemed unusually heavy. Hs
took a pinch of it and saw that i
was of mineral origin
Immediately he arose carried {
quantity Of it to crucible, and 10! h,