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Theatrical Notes.

| Carroll Johnson. the Beau BrummeI OF
mmlnstTel Ss has been re-9qgagedi for Lev
] this season in his famous representation
of Old Uncle Ephriam from Way Down
Yonder.'
Nine. Rejane has again captured Lon
don with her charming performance of
she received a nightly ovation which
caused some establishment because of it's
warmth.
Nine Nordica is visiting her friends,
Dr. and Mrs. william + Bull, at New.
port, for a few weeks. DR. and Mrs. Bull
gave a dinner in Nine re-, NSordlea's honor
summer home.
Herr Kubelik, the violinist. became the
IS. His wife is the Countess Czaky, and
they live at his castle at Kolin, Bohemia.
Herr Kubelik and the countess were mar
ried last August.
Jessie MiIlward is so well pleased with
the sketch, "A Queens Messenger
which she is now playing in vaudeville,
Hartley Manners, to elaborate it into a
four-act play, which she will produce la
ter
Edward Belasco, brother of David and
Fred Belasco. was married in San Fran
cisco last week to Anne Levy, and the
ater stock companies sent handsome
gift, while Mrs. Leslie Garter also re-
membered the young couple
Pauline Hall has secured her divorce
from George Mcclellan. The case was in
the hands of Mr.. A. H Hummel. and
ton. As Miss Hall is able to support her
self, she did not ask for alimony. She
was awarded the custody of the child.
The Venetian Romance" goes upon the
road next year heralded as the only musi-
cal show ever produced in New York
city written by a woman. Mrs. Cornelia
Osgood Tyler, wife of Col. A c. Tyler,
U. S. A, retired, and cousin of the pres
ident, enjoys the proud distinction of be-
ing the author of this enormously sue
cessful romantic comedy opera
Wilton Lackaye is anxious to become a
star with repertoire. The great sue
cess of THE Pit will force him to con-
tinue playing Curtis Jadwin for the best
part of next season, but when The Pit
wanes Lackaye will play "Othello," Pill
lars of Society," king Lear" ''Svenga-
H." and other character parts, changing
his bill frequently in city engagements.
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set up a whistle, and as Mrs. BowseI
smiled he waved his hand and exclaim-
ed:
"By George. but this is living, this is!
haven't made a cut yet, and still
feel better than I have in a month
Mr.. Bowser didn't traverse the length
of his back yard and cross the alley
without being observed, and he had
he found a dozen boys, one old man
and one young man with a cock-eye,
on hand to see what was going to hap
pen. He suggested that they go about
their business, but no one moved.
You see, it's just this way re-
piled the old man, IF you are to NOV
then I wants to see you now"
And what wants." added the cock
at. I haven't had a good larf since the
day 1 was kicked by a. boss and had me
eye cooked up
''And what do you expect to see here
to laugh att" severely demanded Mr..
Bowser.
Il can't say, sir. but I'm sure that
there will be sunthink, and 1 wouldn't
miss it for money.
The audience was being added to
every moment, and Mr.. Bowser de-
cided to return to the house and await
a more propitious occasion. He certain
ly would have done so but for the re-
marks passed. The old man observed
that some folks could NOW witha crow
cock-eyed philosopher replied that he
knew a buffer as soon as he saw the
back of mis- neck. The younger element
also INDUCED in sage remarks, and
when Mr. Bowser found himself ridi-
culed and bluffed at he dropped off the
fence amidst the grass and got ready to
NOW.
He had never handled a scythe in his
life, but he had often watched the merry
haymakers at work. and saw how easy
it was to lay a swath. All he mad to
do was to swing the scythe, utter a.
hal" and swing again. Just as he was
about to make his fist stroke, and had
worked up a dignity of pose to feeze the
crowd, a policeman came down the
alley and stopped and demanded:
Whats this crowd doing around here
'Sir. a man is going to now" ex-
planned the old man.
Sir, sunthink is goin' to happen to
make US larf," explained the cock-eyed
man.
"Wnat are you going to NOW for?"
asked the officer Of Mr.. Bowser.
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The doctor has advised it,"

1.-THE doctor has advised it,
Advised you to eat the grass after
it's mowed?"
"Of course not. It's the exercise I'm
after, and 1 would be much obliged if
you would dispense this crowd"
Il couldn't do it, and if you don't
know how to handle that scythe you d
better stop right there. You don't look
like a scytheist.'
You never mind my looks. I've
come here to NOV, and if there were
a thousand noodlums looking on I'd go
through with it."
Then go ahead"
Mr.. Bowser went ahead. The feeling
of goneness disappeared, and he put
the strength of a giant into his swing.
He was about to utter the accompany
ing ''ha!" when-he didn't. me point
of the scythe entered the ground a foot
or more, and the mower fell over his
feet and the scythe, and brought up on
the broad of his back. There were
shouts and yells and roars of laughter,
and the voice of the cock-eyed prophet
was heard saying:
Didn't I predict this2 Didn't I say
there would be sunthink mere to larf
atl''
cer-"give it up and try wheelbarrow. p"
MI Bowser wriggIed the scythe loose
and spat on his hands and drew back for
a sweep that should cover so feet of grow
ing grass. This time he got out the 'ha y
point of the scythe entered the ground
again to break off, and the momentum Of
the effort lifted the mower off his feet
and shot him forward and as he landed
in the grass his head struck an old paint
bucket and the busy world was no more
to him.
When he again returned to the United
States of America and hay-making, he
was lying on the lounge. in the back par
Tor, and Mrs. Bowser, the cook, the cat,
the doctor and the policeman were hover
ing over him.
Doctor, what has happened?" asked
Mr.. Bowser in a faint voice.
You went out to NOW"
"And-and-''
And made an ass of yourself. as
usual"
"Oh, yes. Yes, you will live, but it
will be at least two weeks before you
can go to farming again, and then you'll
probably go around on the arms of a
windmill by the advice of some torn-fool
quack- Don't worry. Nothing can kill
you. Mrs. Bowser, do you want to ask
him any questions before he goes to
Just one. I want to ask him if he
got that 'har off all right and in its
placer"
But Mr.. Bowser shut his eyes and ig
nored her.-(Copyright, 1904, by T. c. Nc
Clure.)
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a New Musical Instrument.

A new musical instrument has been in
vented by Herr KiIhmeyer of Pressburg,
Hungary. 1t is called a Stretch ClaVier,
and has the usual keyboard of the piano;
in place of the hammers, however there
are prepared leather strips which are set
in motion by machinery; these so pass
over the strings that by strong pressure
on the keys a crescendo can be produced
on each note: the tone also lasts as long
as the key is held down. The tone of
the instrument is somewhat similar to
that of the harmoni i'm. Another must
cal novelty in Europe is an apparatus
which American inventors. too. have been
successfully at work for some years. Tt
is apparatus for recording notes, and
1t can be attached to any pianoforte near
to an electric current The notes are re-
corded on hve-line slaves, in longer OF
shorter crosS-strolkes, after the manner OF
telegraphy. 1t is intended especially TO
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totally vanished. I feel a goneness all
over me, and 1 drag my legs when 1
walk. have got to have exercise of a
certain kind"
They were at the dinner table as they
talked. The cat came in from the
kitchen, where She mad been watching
for an hour to do UP a mouse, and
hearing Mr.. Bowser's remark she sat up
and purred and took down mental notes
as follows: Il
He is eating as heartily as a farm
er's hired man.
only last evening he put mis- hands
on the fence and sprung over.
That doctor played on his gone
ness
Let a dog jump at him and he'd
pick up his legs fast enough.
Mrs Bowser ought to ask him why
he didn't order up half cord of wood
and a buck-saW for exercise, but it
would have done no good. He's got a
new fad, and there's going to be fun
around here this evening".
And so you are going to exercise
with the scythe?'' queried Mrs. Bow
ser.
st am. Swinging the scythe gives a
peculiar motion to the body, as you
may have taken notice. The arms and
shoulders move one way and the hips
another. I forget just what motion he
called it, but it's the one to do me
good. You have seen men NOW, of
course?'
"Oh, yes
you have heard them utter a. hal
as they swept the scythe into the
grass. That expels the air from the
lungs and works on another set of
much faith in doctors. but from the
way this one talked I firmly believe
that a few exercises will make new
man of me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-09
SECRET OF POPULAR MUSIC.
Composer of Mummy and the Hum
ming Bird Gives Specifications

ming Bird Gives Specifications
What constitutes the element of pop
ularity in songs?
George Beane just said, IF you can
tell you're a corker'' That remark is
to a certain extent true, and yet there
are some points which are essential to
tuY IS calculated to be sung or whis-
tled by the general public, and 1 shall
try briefly to enumerate these
First one must remember that the
largest percentage of the theater-golng
class are not educated musicians, and
any intricate -harmonies are almost
sure to detract from the melody, and
obscure it so that it is hard to grasp
Again, an odd tempo or rhythm will
likewise initiate against the popular
ity' of a song. The composer who is
endeaVoring to cater to the general
public is bound hand and foot in many
ways, as he must use certain move
ments and keep his melody within very
easy voice range.
The best known songs today are
within a compass of but six or seven
notes, with hardly any accidental
sharps or flats.
Why?
Because Rosie Smith or Mamie
Brown, who has taken ten lessons on
out after supper and the friends and
neighbors can sing them. Because the
gallery boys. who can whistle about
an octave, or some Stockbroker in the
stalls who has about five notes in his
voice, can reach all the melody, up and
down, and be nightly pleased Be
cause the feet can easily keep the beat
going and the body naturally swings to
the easy time, as our barbarian anceS-
tors kept moving to the monotonouS,
steady beat of a single drum.
To illustrate how one meter may be
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Some of the New Lines.

some OF Inc New lines.
Here are some short lines from coming
plays:
The millionaire has a better show in
this world than the theatrical manager
1t is unfeeling to take the tramp aero
bat to the woodpile and ask him to do the
split. s&1t
It isn't always modeSty that keeps peo-
pie from telling the naked truth
A punctual man loses time waiting for
the other fellow.
No man can make a fool of himself all
the tirne-he has to sleep occasionally
Whenever you contradict a bigger man
than yourself be sure you are right, then
use telephone.
He wrote sonnets on her eyebrows and
other inconvenient places.
NJ )st politicians are machine made
Fast women and slow horses will break
anyone.
around them. and they're sober, too
If things are to be well done there must
be a little roasting.
Versa tility of opinion is commendable
in a crowd, but not in an invalid.
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HE charged fee, of course?'
''WelI-er-well, I handed him So. His
advice may be worth $500 or $1,000
"And where will you mow?
I'm the vacant lot across the alley"
Mrs. Bowser said no more. If Mr..
Bowser had come home to NOW and
eliminate that feeling of goneness, then
nothing but an earthquake could halt
him. When he left the table it was to
go upstairs and change to his farmer
suit, and when he came down to pick
up his scythe and go forth to the hay
field his face was flushed and his eyes
danced. AS he reached the back yard
to pass, through the alley gate he stop
ped and applied the scythe-stone and
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MIR. BowsER's sCYTHE.
He Goes Forth to Now the Unsuspect-
ing Grass.

An hour before Mr.. Bowser came
home to dinner the other evening an
express wagon delivered a scythe at
his house. Mrs. Bowser insisted that
there must be some mistake about it,
but the expressman was firm. He said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-09

| Mr.. Mansfield, i
THE rs have it," gravely remarked
DR.. w. ]. O'Sullivan. the pathologist
of politics. who stood in the back
ground, says the New York Sum
! George Gibbs Mansfield is the au-
thor of another quip. George is be-
coming quite a lad these days, and as
he accumulates age and wisdom he is
said to suggest most forcibly the same
| degree of positiveness that keeps
Father Mansfield in the public eye.
/ One morning recently the actor felt
/ indisposed and did not rise at the
usual hour Later the doctor was
! summoned over the telephone
| This alarmed the youngster, and he
tiptoed into his fathers room. After
| surveying the boy for a moment with
| a solemn countenance, he said;
Papa, are you sick?'
tJust a little.
But you've sent for the DOCTOR"
\ persisted the hopeful.
"oh, yes; but it's nothing. I'll soon
be all right"
wei, I don't konw- about that.
papa. Don't you think we'd better get
a tanned nurse %
Several stars have been trying re-
Gently to describe their sensations on
a metropolitan first night"
ut is like being run over by loco
motive" said Maxine Elliott.
1T is like being torn limb from
limb" Virginia Harmed says
sT never eat anything but soup that
day says Wilton Lackaye senten-
sWhen I was a boy in Washington"
said John Philip Sousa, there was
an old Scottish musician with whom
played now and then. one atter-
noon 1 ran through for this old gem
tleman a new waltz of my own COM
position.
Well. sir said. when I had fin
ished. what do you think of that?'
1T carries me back to the home
land, laddie,' said the old man. 1T
carries me back to day when
played to an entertainment in a Scot
was the fiddle, and after I had ended
my fiddle solo the head of the insti-
tuition said to an aged lunatic on the
sWeei. Saunders, how did We like
Saunders answered, frowning at
me: It's a guild thing were a daft
here -
Eddie Foy says no one can imagine
how the railroads are run down in
Lower California unless he has been
there. Last summer Mr.. Foy was
journeying in that part of the coun-
try, and on the particular trip taken
as an example he was en- route up the
coast to a junction where he was to
connect for San Francisco. The train
had been running at about the rate of
dray wagon for three hours, when
suddenly it whisked around a curve
and started down the grade like an
express train let loose.
Mr.. Foy tried to walk up the car
and was successfully dumped into an |
elderly's woman's lap and against the /
lunch basket of a fair tourist before |
he could reach the door. AS he did |
so the conductor came tottering in.
-Say, what's the matter?" asked |
Mr.. Foy. Engine running away?"
well, not 'zactly," returned the !
official, steadying himself, ''but thar's |
a sort of rotten bridge ahead, and we |
always git cross it as quickly as pos
sible."
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An Important Part-Lawyer-"Th
too, there will be the court-crier's fee. -
Fair Iitigant (breach of promise)-"Oh,
I shall do my own crying I should
never think of trusting anybody else
to do that. Goodness, no!"-Puck.
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note down improvisations. The inventor
is named Kromar. and the instrument is
called a Kromarograph.
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It's better to walk and catch a later
train than run and miss an earlier one.
Philadelphia Record.
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Hope is a pretty poor life preserver e
fall into trouble with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-09
THE STORY TELLERS.
Jokes and Anecdotes of the Players on
and on the Stage.

When Richard Mansfield was intro
duced to President Roosevelt at the
White House. he said:
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Mr.. Roosevelt at the same moment
exclaimed:
Mr.. Mansfield, l.
1.-THE Is have it, graVely remarked
DR.. w. ]. O'Sullivan. the pathologist
of politics, who stood in the back
ground, says the New York Sun.
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HAVE YOU. PH117

HAVE YOU, PHIL7
. Chicago Tribune.
Sir Philip Burne-Jones refers to Chicago as the
'saddest city of the new world" Has Sir
Philip ever seen Jefferson City, Mo-?
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it's doom, and the fourth was lost only
recently. The French navy has also been
unlucky with vessels so named. The vi
per used In the British service after she
became prize from the French was
lost in 1898. The second was lost a
year later, the third in 1887 and the
fourth was recently lost In a collision off
Guernsey. =
The Cobra, another British war vessel;
was lost recently at the same time as the
Viper. Among other vessels similarly
named and which met fates other than
in battle are the Rattlesnake In 1881; the
Alligator, in 1882: the Crocodile, in 1884;
the Adder, in 1916; three Lizards, two
Dragons and one Basilisk. All of these
were Of the British navy. The list could
be made larger by citing the records of
! other navies. - - r -
The Norsemen,s who were SO fond of
naming their vessels against the laws OF
superstition and using hideous heads eof
dragons and reptiles on their high prows,
were less unfortunate, and these did not
meet with frequent disasters. They did
have a belief however, that it was un-
unlucky and sacrilege to select such a
name as did Lord Dunraven for his first
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SAVED FROMzA
DEATH. SWAMP
RESCUE OF PETER
JOHNSON FROM, A iMoRAss.
A Moose Catches Him = Just as He Is
Sinking Only His Head = and One
Arm Above the Mud-It Takes For
ty Minutes to Drag Him Out-The
Hoboken Swamp Has Had Many Vic.
-
Tins ~.
~Gita 20

New. York, Nov. !255-struggling and
HoboEen5ss ~ d dreaded Sd = 7bottomless
swamp" Peter Johnson was rescued
by six men with aarope, just when it
seemed that he was. about to sink to
death. ID ..e.<z raf s5@:r ~.
johnson was 1ured into the swamp
by bonfire which had been started by
to the water front. He wandered south
along Madison street, which penetrates
the swamp for forty feet, at right an
giles to Eleventh street, and ends near
where a junction is to- be effected with
William T. Whitneck, ianitor Of the
rattan works at the foot Of Madison
street, heard man scream at 7:15 pm.
The cry came from the direction Of the
dismal swamp. By the light Of the
Pene the he Se dd y feet 1 out IN the bd
The arms were raised above the man 3
head. He was slowly sinking.
/ III Throwing the Lasso.
wnas0k esfS hd aufst as aRa
known as the Guardian Of the
from their ~ shantles. o,Hoolihan
brought with him a long orpe with a
moose in it. They re, ran to the edge Of
noosed rope out toward the struggling
man and cried to him to grasp it. Be-
wildered, he struggled a little further
away, beating the mud and water with
his arms. Hurst blew whistle, and in
a few minutes word was sent to the
station and Police Sergeants Stanton
and Sullivan and Detective Kivlon ar
rived. The six men united their en-
deavors. The noosed rope was thrown
again and again, but fell short. All
the while the man in the swamp was
Finally O'Hoolihan worked his way
to a place on the edge from which he
succeeded in throwing the moose square
~ over the appraised arm. The six men
cried to the man to take hold Of it, and
with despairing scream he grasped
the moose. The men pulled gently.
They cried to him to get his other arm
above the surface. He had barely
strength enough left to put the moose
over his head and work it under his
arms.
Forty Minutes Of Horror.
) It took forty minutes Of careful work
J to pull the man out. He was uncOn-
} scious when dragged to the solid ground
: bulance to police headquarters, where
he was stripped, rubbed, rolled in
blankets and laid in front Of the fur
nace Unconscious as he was his teeth
still chartered from the cold mud bath
Z to which he had been subjected. He
, was reused long enough to give his
name, and then relapsed He was sent
to the hospital to recover.
/ The bottomless swamp has had
7 many victims. Three men have beer
: rescued from it within week.
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VESSELS WITH BAD NAMES
Experience Appears to Indicate that They
Will Have Bad Luck.


Navy League Journal. h
If one should be so bold as to character
iZe the superstitious sailor as silly he
would at once declare that there is suf-
fcient reason for his belief and would
proceed to prove that war vessels named
after singing and venoraous things have
been unlucky and that the country should
not be so Indifferent to the men who
follow "a life on the ocean wave" as to
organize a mosquito fleet. IL ,.-e-. !
( That Snake is regarded as an unfortu-
nate name for a vessel is shown by the
fact that two of that name have been
lost, one in 1881 and the other in 1847,
but no vessel bearing the name is known
to exist now. Serpent, which is only a
substitute name for Snake, is an unlucky
one also, for the one wrecked in 1892 was
the fourth. British war vessel Of that name
to meet the same fate. Viper has been ar
unlucky name in the British navy, The
first one was wrecked in 1880, but the
admiralty would not swerve, and so kept
the name on the list, each vessel meeting
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MEANING OF ANARCHY
s. w. e. in Boston Globe

=. w. ". IN bOSCOn VIODe.
According to the etymoiogy Of the
word, anarchy would mean absence Of
all government, Of all political authori-
ty; but in evil as well as in good, the
mind may conceive an extreme limit
which can scarcely be ever attained
in reality. Therefore history does not
present, perhaps, a single complete ex-
ample Of anarchy, in which each indi-
dependence Of all external authority
since sociableness is one Of the essential
characteristics Of man, we find in every
movement tending to disintegrate soci
ETY., elements Of one or more new asso
Citations; and from the moment that
thru one cause or another government
new one, the citizens group them
selves into factions more OF less numer
GUS around any authority which springs
up because Of the situation.
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HIGH CHURCH
LIMIT REACHED
STORY OF EST. MARY THE VIR-
GIN" IN NEW YORK CITY.
The Rector of the Church Says that
the Protestant Episcopal Church Does
Not Allow Anything Further-Ser-
vices of the Place Noted for Their
Extreme Elaboration-Confes Is
Heard and Absolution Granted.
New York Tribune.

The first Of three mural paintings for
the walls of the Protestant Episcopal
church Of st. Mary the Virgin, at 146
West Forty-sixth street, has been
placed on the side wall Of the. lady
chapel. It is entitled "The Epipha.
N.Y. and was designed and painted by
Elliott Daingerfeld. It represents the
alteration of the child Jesus by Joseph
in the act of bestowing a benediction
sits in the lap of the Virgin Mother.
The prominence given in Protestant
church to the figure Of the Virgin Mary
in the picture will doubtless be criti
cized by many, but, then, the paint
Z ing is on the wall of the Protestant
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apnlan's
9Th and Nieellot
SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY.
ICES and ice CREAM:
FROM OUR PASTRY KITCHEN:

Our special combination will be Bisque Ice
Cream CHERRY wine and maccaronD and z n
Apricot Ice. per quart. .VWV