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Evening star., 1905-10-05

The West Virginia board OF agriculture. In
annual session. elected f.. J. Humphries Of
Belleville president for the ensuing year and
reelected !. O. Thompson secretary. TIE
board voted to discontinue the publication
Evening star., 1905-10-05
Belmont Park Races.

BELMONT PARK, October 5.-First race.
selling, three year-olds and up; seven fur
longs-Just Sos 10 and even frst: King
third. Time, 1.26 1-6s
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New York Stock Market.

Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co.. bankers
ard brokers, 1419 T street, members New
York stock exchange, Washington stock
exchange and Chicago board of trade.
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Government Securities.
OPENED STEADY AT ADVANCE.
Support Seemed Limited to Covering Of
Shorts,
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 5.-The cotton mar
ket opened steady at an advance of 3a5
points in response to steady cables and
continued reports of small spot offerings
Support seemed limited to covering Of
shcrts and renewal of bear pressure and
liquidation soon depressed prices under last
nights finals. After working of to a. net
loss of about 2a4 points, however, the mar
ket was rallied by covering and during the
middle of the morning ruled quiet and
steady about unchanged to points net
higher. The weather was favorable.
Cotton futures closed barely steady. Oc-
tober 993; November. 1904; December
1913; January. 1924; February, 1870; March.
1876; April. 10.43; May, 1916.
LIVERPOOL. October b.-Cotton: Spot
in fair demand; prices eight points higher.
American middIing fair. $50; good mid
ding, 5.65; middling, $40; low middlfng.
5-33 good ordinary. SIS: ordinary, 400.
The sales of the day ware 10000 bales of
which 500 bales were for speculation and
EXPORT. and included 5000 American. Re-
ceipts. 27,0O0 bales, including 26, 500 Amer
lean. Futures opened quiet and steady and
closed quiet: American middling G. o. c.,
October, Sal; October and November, Sal;
November and December. 5.45; December
and January, 40; January and February,
5.52; February and March, 5.54 March and
April. 5.56; April and May, 5.5S: May and
June. 500; June and July. $50; July and
August, 561.
Evening star., 1905-10-05

The Price Current says: 'It has been
another favorable week for late-maturjng
corn. A record crop is practically GER
tainty. A high percentage will be of good
to excellent quality There has been a
continuance of the favorable conditions for
the start of the winter wheat CROP
Evening star., 1905-10-05
Today's Government Receipts.

National bank notes received today for
redemption, s623.774: government receipts
from internal revenue, 81 OS7 .710; customs.
81 06S. .439: miscellaneous, $1O0, 1853 Expendi-
tures $1,920,0O0.
Evening star., 1905-10-05

Bar silver, steadJ, Md, per OUNCE.
Mesey. 23aa3A per cent.
The rate Of discount In the open market for short
bills is 3ha3% Fer cent.
The rate OF Discount In the open market for fhree
months bilis Il 3xasx psr cent.
Evening star., 1905-10-05

The transaction in the Greene Copper was
confined to $50 shares, and the price paid.
235s, was somewhat less than the quotations
of yesterday. Nothing was done In the
Graphophone stocks,
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may be- proclaims the locale of the ballet
girls bank They all wear this little wad.
a habit, it is said, parplexing to sneak
thieves.
Every lump in ballet stocking, how
ever. does not necessarily mean bank notes.
Occasionally powder puff is quite visibly
evident, and one Of the corps de ballet is
the envy of her sisters carrying, as she
does, genuine Klondike nugget thrown
on the stage when as premiere ddnseuse in a
Western town she plrouetted her way to
the admiration of the mining fraternity.
The difference in size of the ballet girls
Is another interesting fact TO note Some
of them are below feet and weigh less
than a hundred pounds; again there are
many in the number who tip the scales at
more than 100 pounds and stand 5 feet 7
in their heelless shoes.
Continued exercise does not reduce the
weight, says the ballet master, though
there is a belief to that effect. 1t changes
fat into muscle but the muscle weighs
more and there Is no apprecable difference
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For a special instance of patience IL is
recommended that the seeker look at the
rehearsal Of the coming ballet for the big
Hippodrome, which is said. by the magni-
tude of its enterprise, TO he casting deep
shadow along the Rialto.
More than 200 girls take part, and the
graphing hook of the mama ement has
reached out to Paterson. Staten Island,
sheepshead Bay, Montclair. and incidentally
to Sweden. Germany, Italy, France and
Russia for material.
All nations and types are represented.
There are brunettes in many shades; de-
cidcd and undecided blondes; there are
tall girls and short girls, old girls and girls
not so old: fat girls and thin girls They
call the fat muscle and the bones lines in
Baetvlle, but it comes to the same thing.
ANYTHING that is feminine and has the
normal equipment Of limbs need not fear
10 apply; incidentally, one does not have
u say limb in Balletville. for the mana ger
points to one and another dancerine and
dominates them as -the girl with the red
ags sthe girl with green legs and so on,
which may be startling 20 the novice, but
iseasier for the maker of the Social Register
Of Baletville.
The costumes in this rehearsal are as
vured as the nationalities. and are comical
enough to deserve a special paragra PHI
even II one has to destroy the illusion that
ballet girls practise in tarletan skirts and
silken hose in Cinderella slippers and with
spangled wands and floating wings.
There seems only one rule Of uniformity
This Ii that the anatomy. from knee to toe,
shall be unmpeded by drapery. Above
that, each to her choice.
There Is one girl in a red sweater and the
short blue skirt of last seasons bathing
suit; perhaps there is a hypnotic suggestion
in the latter for in the interval of wait
ing she makes furtive plunges into an I'M
seen sea shaking imaginary BRINE from
her shoulders as she energies, barely escap-
ing collision with one of the other girls,
who, attired in three-quarter coat, bloom
ers and gray stockings, is practising the
split with an abandon which threatens
imminent di,location.
Later they will appear in gauze and
spanges IN tiaras and coronets, will carry
vands and wreaths and appear ageless as
angels but this is the work a day time
the strenuous cause which precedes the
artistic effect, and as they move across the
big floor in groups Of two. three or more
or practise a pas suel in different parts Of
the room. they seem more curious than
beautiful
There is one other mark OF uniformity
IN the costumes besides want Of length and
that IL the small protuberance which in
stocAng Of silk. Isle or cotton, az the case
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introduced to the president. She bore very
well known New York name. and shook
hands with me with some cordially. The
rest of the women were all present, and
after while the meeting began.
None of them addressed remark TO
me- | sat like bump on log till the whole
proceedings were over. Then / got up and
left without even getting nod from the
president.
Naturally, ! never went back any
more but / told the clergyman that | was
not in the habit Of being treated that way.
He expressed surprise and wanted to know
what expected. | told him | thought that
as a newcomer l ought to have been in
troduced 10 the women in the guild. They
should at least have paid some attention
"'Oh, don't believe half those women
ever see one another outside the guild
room he said They belong to differ
ent sets Of society, and they meet only
for church work You shouldn't feel
offended. as they are in much the same
situation az YOU.
Il never went back. however. as l did
not want TO make the mistake OF being
associated, even in church work, with people
who might be afraid to speak TO mo out
side.
THAT experience was not nearly 80 bad
az my first call upon a woman in New York
who had been asked TO visit me. When
came home from that | cried Tor hali an
hour. / really felt that an awful slight had
been put on me-
Il went TO this woman's house and she
was quite alone. Immediately two or
three other women arrived. We sat around
talking, but she did not introduce me TO
single one of them. We spoke occasionally,
and | felt myself getting redder and redder
in the face because she should not con-
slider me worth an introduction to her
friends.
After learned that the practice OF not
introducing callers was customary IN New
York in some houses. never felt any per-
sonal modification over it afterward, but
| always make it point TO introduce women
who come 10 see me now, especially II one
OF them happens to be stranger In New
York.
zone Of the first entertainments ! went
TO when / first came TO New York was a
luncheon, 10 which / was invited by woman
TO whom | brought letters. She was quite
a big bug. 20 / went, expecting to find
large party.
Il felt quite indignant, therefore, when I
discovered that was the only guest. Per-
haps hadn't my senses all about when we
sat down TO luncheon With two men 70 wait
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Value of 0pals Depends on Colors.

From INC dCNfifrS FfHt1T-h gAfip.
Veins OF opals ara usually met with in soft
formations. where nothing above ground
indicates their presence. The search for
them, therefore. often requires consider
able time But It is not extremely difficult,
for opals are generally found near the sur
face Indeed. It was thought for long time
that they we're not 10 be found as deep as
twelve feet below the surface. This opinion
has. however. given way in the light OF evil
dence. because opals Of great value have
been d .-ccvered AZ a depth OF fifty feet
The value of opals dependS upon several
considerations. Of which the principal one
IL the color. 1t ia important that they should
be bright ana not present streaks or spots
alternating with uncoored substance. The
or mixtures Of red aud yellow, blue and
green. Opals OF single tint are OF little
value uniess the tint ~ particularly strik-
ing and the figure beautiful. Indeed. one
OF the essential qualities OF the opal Il the
arrangement OF the figure. which sets OF
strikingly the hue OF the stone.
When the figure * quite regular and dis
tinct IL il the more valuable. much less so
when the grain is quite small and irregular.
Sometimes the color appears as single
may then be Of n fine ruby red and Is much
sought ufter but oftenest the uniform tint
ia only green or reddish and has but little
brlisncy TO speak OF
The cutting IL very important for the opal;
thus a thick stone win be much less beau
tiful than a thin stone. which, on losing part
OF its volume. loses also the figure. The
foundation tint contributes much TO tho
beauty. i ought 70 be transparent, slightly
milky and harmonic fully with the different
reflections OF the opal, which, when Il il really
beautiful presents variety Of hues Infinitely
pleasing 70 the eye. 4s
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good deol more about hunting than he did.
Waite had many surprises on the trip,
You needn't tell me that that Teller
Roosevelt il from New York. he said 20 "A
group of cowboys who we're gathered
about him in .Uvaldc. when he came in from
the hunt. why he knows more about a
ranch than any Of VS. fcl,crs. He amt no
more from New York than | am, III bet.
More than likely he IS q Texas ranchman.
! tried 20 get him 20 tell me where he learned
20 much about cattle, but he didn't seem to
want 90 talk about 1T. And as for hunting,
hcCan give any Teller here cards and spades
and beat him, when it comes TO shooting
jayahnes and deer
Waite snys that Mr.. Roosevelt kept him
on the so constantly all the time they we're
out together
He can ride harder and walk further
than any man ] ever run up against" was
the way Waite expressed IL when he came
in from the hunt
The COW puncher was overcome with
pleasure when Nlr. Roosevelt presented
HIM with the handsome rife. Large sums
have been offered to him for the gun since
IS former owner became President but
Waite says that he would not take 81 900
for it,
Waite haas always been Democrat until
he met Rockwell. He turned Republican
when his hunting companion became a
candidate for Nice-President and has re-
NAMED one since.
He will take big crowd Of west Texas
cowboys 10 San Antonio when the President
visits that city IN April.
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the ballet from the audience and all that.
There are many small dances where small
girl is pr ferabe but so that girl is well
formed. graceful and with some soul am
satisfied.
"Soul?-
Certainly. The idea that tho ballet
merely requires graceful movements is
erroneous. There must always be in the
successful danseuse Il oorres spending facial
expression. for every motion in the ballet,
properly taught, has soul Interpretation.
Ihave often known ballet dancers who were
notbeautiful andeven had forms not speci-
ally graceful. to pleas an audience because
their faces when they danced the touch Of
scol they gave, pleased more than merely
harmonious movements
Romeo calls small ballet girl. gowned in
white, with red Shoes to him and lifts her
foot in his harI
Here is an id n foot for ballet dancer
II must not be long The short foot when
the toes are bent to permit the dancer to
stand on the extreme tip. takes the weight
in the proper place The long, narrow
foot. on the contrary. throws the weight
in the wrong place and the dancer soon
becomes exhausted
THE new style Of b9llets. the up to date
dances?'
Romeo gives look Of disgust
There is no such thing as an up to date
dance. or an up to date anything, for that
matter. Dances. like other things. move
in circles and never really change The
great science Of ballet Iancing never has
altered and never will s.oer. Its technique
IS as Interchangeable as that Of any other art,
and there viii always be the cultivated
few who will know it and appreciate It.
while there will be many who will look
at hastily prepared Lady executed dances.
their mistakes hiddth by calcium lights
and floating scaIis. and win talk about
the up 10 date dances.
He says that the American girl is quickest
but she Is without ambition so far as real
art is concerned When she has reached
"A point where she is mistress OF few
steps and a manager comes along and offers
her place in company for SIS or $50 a
week. that s all she wants.
I might make premiere danseuses out
Of many Of them had they the inclination"
says Romeo
The Ballet of the Hours has. at the last
rehearsal, taken eleven minutes, and they
practice now 20 reduce it to eight We
must do it, says the stage manager. TO
give the rest Of the programme time. In
the hiIpodrome performance, time Is every
thing
The raised eyebrow Of Romeo seems to
say that IL so Amcrican-to run the risk
OF spelling the effect Of a billet TO make
ROOM perhaps for Juggicr.
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teacher, Manuel Klein, who Is 10 lead the
Hippodrome orchestra, plays some of the
music. MARS National Anthem Tattoo
Aurora Borealis." while he interpolates
an explanation Of the change in orchestral
methods from the regularly received inn
pressions OF the circus band.
1T is all very well to send out brass
band with n country circus. but for place
like the Hippodrome it would be an insult
to the public intelligence, People like
blare ali right, but they like something
else, too. They like light and shade and
debate effects; there is nothing they get
tired OF so quickly as mere noise. We
shall have instruments of all kinds. brass,
wood and wood wind. and can make the
shading Of a solo violin distinctly heard"
While the ear is attentive. the eye is
attracted by the picturesque groups Of
the corps de lallet, for the sound of music
to ballet girl is like the smell Of powder
to a warhorse, and in their hours of ease
they timber up by keeping hands and feet
going TO the sounds of Mr.. Klen's busy
fingers.
All the ballet steps OF tradition and
modernity are practised while the notes
Of the piano play gay two-steps, marches
and improvised melodies. The pianist
Is not the only improvisation, and grace
full combinations unknown in ballet annals,
are delghtng the eye, when suddenly the
door at the end of the hall opens and, as If
by effect of a concealed battery, in second
every girl in the corps is in place ready
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ballet when beautiful costumes, enhancing
music and the perfection Of past effort
lend their aid TO a spectacle where eye,
ear and mind are satiated with beauty, but
if one would know how grace alone-grace
devoid Of all external means-can still
dominate. one must see it when IL depends
on it's own efforts, not on the aid of sister
arts to entrance. That is the satisfaction
one gets from watching this particular
corps de ballet which begins so cucouthly
and ends so triumphantly.
The grace OF trained limbs. Of motions
in accord. of the harmony Of conce:ted
movement cannot be hid. Occasional =
there is an inexperienced step, a motion
out Of tune, but it ia soon lost sight of as
another figure. held erect, with upli.ted
head and arms raised, swings into the field
of vision. soaring like triumphant Victory.
There il only a word now and then from
Romeo. for the ballet, known TO meny of
the corps and already in the third week
OF its rehearsal, goes on smoothly TO its
finish.
Tie lines OF advancing figures look some
times like the busy threads of a shuttle
which arc being woven into some fanchul
design, sometimes like the flaments of a
on the shore as the waves advance aad
retreat. The busy footsteps in their heel
less slippers are like the notes OF music as
they unlock the door of fancy TO all sorts of
weird imaginings.
Groups of Hours, the Morning, Twilight,
Evening, Night. each represented by its
respective group Of girls, swing across
the space allotted to spectators down the
wings and up the centre in airy fight.
The black hours creep along stea.thily,
and as they are quickly followed by the
airy touches Of the early dawn, the lines
come into mind;
Nights candles arc burned out. and jocund Day
Stands uptle on the misty mountain top.
The voice Of Fred, the timekeepe breaks
the silence as he leans over to say:
You'll notice that the girls from Pater-
son and Staten Island do that early morning
hour act all right. 1t comes natural.
Then with a chuckle he ssraightens up to
hear the excuse of late arrival.
Romeo who has been he teacher for more
corps de ballet than he would admit talks
about his work, in n polyglot language
which reminds one of the perplexing steps
be teaches
aMy ideal for n ballet girl? I have none.
For such a spectacle as that to Ire given
in tho new Hippodrome | should say the
larger girl vast the most desirable for she IS
the most effective. In choosing a ballet
CORPS there is something 20 consider beside
the girl herself There is the size Of the
stage, the size Of the house, the distance OF
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had made my first intimate friend She
wasn't so friendly though, as thought.
AT home when we have anything very
good TO eat we always like to send some oil
il in TO the neighbors. I've got such
GOOD cook from home and she makes such
delicious hot rolls that / sent some IN last
Sunday morning TO the apartment OF the
friend who used TO sfnie at me IN the ele-
l3ut il I ever do anything OF that kind
again | reckon III deserve whatever nap
pens 10 me Do you know that woman
sent the bread back with a message lhat
she Thought there must have been some
mistake. a. her rolls had been delivered
by the baker early in the morning ana
she couldn't imagine how should be send
ing bread u her ,,,. ~
next time we met IN the elevator hel'icl
one Of us spoke. a.
III such an apartment house as this
was in the South we would al khQ" one
another. in addition to everybody eise
who lived on the block II we dldh snow Know
them before we would go and call upon them
as soon as they came al the nelghborhood,
unless there was something wrong about
them.
one day that | thought II was queer that
y1acnIe did not call upon one another when
ihey moved in He gave me strange LOOK
f,r n minute and then said he dldn believe
that any two families IN the house knew
each other, and he never heard OF any
body calling lust because they lived in the
same house. That's New York for you; -.
Some of the women VINO, come 70 New
york from the South with the intention Of
making friends find it not so easy under
those circumstances as It might seem
nereIy because most New Workers nave
friends enough OF their own, and are not
likely to become interested in other persons
merely becausa Of their attractive character.
fWbere wealth and social importance arc
| involved and strangers are in a position
10 entertain or 10 be in other ways advan-
tareous their welcome If likely 10 be differ
enf Few of the immigrants in New York
are wealthy. They usually come here TO
mako their fortunes and are able to supply
nni- their natural ntt-acuvencss.
4 brought letters from ON lie clergyman 5Do1bs1
'.n.,,sn said -and he was perfectly well
acquainted with my position Joined
one of his guilds at his suggestion and
there the principal women OF his parish
y" Il went to the first meeting and was
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have accompanied him on the hunt, but Il
was busy time at the bank and be sent him
down to the III" ranch, on tho Nueces
River. That was the last Mr.. Collier saw
of him Here y. T. Wilson, manager Of
the -77' ranch. takes up the story.
Il was very busy when the stran ger
arrived at my ran CHI" Mir. Wilson snid.
Il was making big delivery Of cattle and
had number Of herds on the road. was
30 busy / couldn't have stopped to entertain
tie President himself. | had been up
the road with one Of tho herds OF cattle,
When | returned TO my ranch ! found there
a rough and ready sort or chap who nitro
duced himself TO me as Theodore kooso-
welt. learned that be had been over on
the TapOta ranch. near Seguin, Texas
having been invited there 70 hunt jaVailnes.
The hunt had teen without success. !
wanted very much 10 join him in the hunt
but that was out of the question. II was
easy 70 see then that Roosevelt was no
ordinary man.
Il turned him over 10 George Waite. a
cowboy. who knew the hog country and
sent them over TO the Seven D. ranch.
telling them To 90 ahead and hunt MS long az
they pleased. My recollection IL that they
killed about half a dozen lavalines, some
deer and four or five wild turkeys.
After the hunt Mr.. Roosevelt presented
to Waite the magnificent rifle he had used
Here. take this rife and keep it; all the
use had for it was to kill these hogs; I'm
done with ii now.
Il saw very little Of Mr., Roosevelt al that
time and never saw him afterward until
the organization OF the Rough Riders in san
Antonio One night, while the regm, Mt
was at San Antonio, one Of my horses ives
stolen. traced it up and found that IL
had been sold 10 the Government for use ~
n cavalry horse in the Rough Riders regi-
ment J determined to recover the animal
If | could. | went TO where the regiment
was camped and was taken to Lieut.. Col.
Roosevelt tent. As we met ] said.
II suppose you don't recognize nc"
Ills answer WIS quick as a flash
''Oh. yes | do; | hunted hogs on your
ranch near UNglde.'
THE Government brand had already
been put on the horse, and | had 10 be
satisfied with getting ray for the animal
George Waite, the cow puncher who was
Mr. Roosevelt's compani. n on the hunt
says that when be started out he thought II
would be another case of guiding a tender
foot round In search Of game, but Il did not
take him long TO find out that Mr.. Roosevelt
knew as much about ranch business and &