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phone and to hire an artist to execute her
ideas for her. Within six months she hired
three more artists and took another room.
"Within the year she got hold of an ad-
vertising magazine, moved into an elabo-
rate studio, hired a complete staff of artists,
writer's and solicitors and began to do
business on a large scale. Just at present
she told me, she had half a dozen other
irons in the fire, any one OF which might
make her fortune.
Then there was the society editress of
our local paper. She had plodded along
reporting rummage sales and strawberry
socables for SIS week until she was ready
to accept with JOY the first man who asked
her to marry him.
unfortunately he happened to be a
scamp. After she had put all her savings
into wedding outfit he went away sud-
denly and married girl who had been
visiting his flancee during his courtship.
THE girl had an attack of brain fever,
and as soon as she was able to get around
again her relatives sent her East to re-
Cuperate.
al met her at a studio tea the other day.
She told me, actually with a laugh, that
she could love that man for having Tilted
her. She said she had only just begun to
live since she had come to New York,
"She was supporting herself by writing,
She and three other professional women
were keeping house together in Bohemian
fashion down on the Fast Side and were
deep in Settlement work, socialism and the
Russian revolution. She said that her one
difficulty was TO snatch enough time out
Of the whrl Of interesting events in which
she moved to do her work.
THAT day at the tea | noticed half dozen
men paying her rather particular attentions,
and two or three of them looked as if they
were perfectly willing to take the place of
her recreant knight at any moment she said
the word.
There is something about New York
! that wakes people up and makes them think
! that shocks them into realization of the
difference between living and existing
Many of our people in the small towns in
the West plod along mechanically, eating
, sleeping and doing their work from years
end TO years end without any further idea
y in life than to make enough money to enable
them to keep on eating and sleeping and
doing their work as long as possible.
Here the conditions of life are such tina,
/ people cannot drift along with their eyes
closed, In order to keep ahoat at all they
| have got to wake up and swim desperately
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and the exertion opens up their powers Of
observation and perception of all the phases
of life to which they had been blind before.
"For instance: There was young man
who was employed as a clerk in one of our
railroad Offices. Day after day, year in and
year out, he podded from his desk to his
boarding house and from his boarding
house to his desk.
He accepted his pitiful salary. He ao-
cepted his subordinate position. He ac-
oepted his cheap room and his coarse meals.
He even appeared to be on the point Of
accepting his landlady's daughter.
Then Fate stepped in and took hand.
He lost his job with the railroad company
and a half promise of another here brought
him to New York When he got here the
Job failed to materialize and he had to go
into a life and death struggle for bare
existence.
His old friends out West would not
know him to-day for the same man. He
has job all right and is making money,
but the change is in the man himself. His
whole nature seems to have undergone a
Transformation.
when think of these things it makes
me wonder why, as a rule, people are so
ready to side in with Horace Greeley and
the Salvation Army and almost all the
authorities on the poverty problem in adj
vising the young to go West and help to
open up the resources of the unreclaimed
country.
There was a young man in our unde-
! veloped community who spent most OF his
early manhood in n meritorious effort to
open lIp our resources, with the result that
whatever he may have done for the country
he di d nothing at all for himself He finally
gave up and came to New York Now he
has a neat little fortune, to which he is add
| irg rapidly every day.
Personally? Well, personally, I never
ki ew what life was until came to New
/ York.
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to lean and the care with which pink tinted
persons who are paid for being young
and pretty are tenderly lifted and put down
again as il they were pieces of Dresden china.
The fly gallery has its own little drama
too. Why is it that into it's deep shadows,
clinging by ropes to help his progress a
solitary figure with deep set eyes and stern
mouth creeps, with his gaze on the guidei
There is a pistol in his hand, graspcd firmly
Slowly, stealthily: he craw7 near You
put warning hand on the guide 'leeys
and say "ShI" The guide look~ around,
and seeing the pistol he shakes anapproylng
head.
He's right on hand, he says he has to
lean over the gallery and shoot down ina
minute to get good effect
And sure enough, over the sixty foot
parapet he leans, and when the shooring
scene occurs he starts tremendou- rover.
beration. Then he, too, - Lost IN The
shadows.
Down stairs again, past the boxes in the
wall, from one OF which a pert gr In pink
and white darts and asks the guide II her
powder is on straight; past the baskets
of broken crockery which wil make the
crash Of the real thing later on, and past ths
lean terrier who plays a leading part and
depends for his success on a greenery-yalley
look for which he has to fight the overpIu'
of bonbons given by the chorus past scene
settlers, until, your journey completed, yoI
stand once more in the bonbon-hke interior
of the theatre proper.
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That was the first time got glimpse
of that hunch at work.
at was long time after that when Bar
ber and I met again. The civil war had
broken out and we were both sharpshoot-
ers in the Third Alabama, Confederate
States of America. Most of our time was
spent in bushes and up trees picking of
Yanks who came within gunshot of our
position.
1t was dangerous work, but mighty
exciting The second hunch came one day
when we had climbed willow tree over
looking the Yankee sentry lines. We had
been in position about an hour when Barber
said that we ought to get down and find
another place.
Il was very comfortable where was and
told him so. Then he drew very close to
me and spoke in whisper.
"'Do you remember the day in the old tree
at school, Watty? he said. You know
what happened then, You'd better climb
down
The serious way he said it had a strange
effect on me, and without word l climbed
down from my perch and dropped to the
ground. l had scarcely gathered myself
from the drop when a shell screamed over
uo uiit lc' away liioSt vi lHc Oltl WILLOW,
| was struck by a splinter and lay in the
hospital for more than a month. Barber
ha d oDeyed the hunch more promptly and
escaped without an injury.
"He used to come to the hospital to see
me, and there he told how the feeling didn't
come more than once or twice year,
but that it never failed believed him
thoroughly and il he had told me that one
of those feelings had come over him then,
and that il was my duty to get up and leave
am certain that would have risen, wound
and all. and gone where he told me-
Barber and | were together the greater
part of The time for nearly a yiar after
left the hospital, ard were doing sharp
shooter sentry duty in some very tickish
times in the northern part Of Virginia.
Since the willow tree episode there had
been no sign Of a hunch, and had almost
forgotten about it. The third one came
the night before Christmas.
Barber and | had been pretty quiet,
for il wasn't a very nice way to spend a
Christmas Eve, sitting up in tree irving
to get chance to pop some Yankee in the
head with a a SLUG While we sat there
Barber began to talk to me in low voice,
and before we knew it we we're telling
this thing and that about Christmas days
in the old times. 1t made us feel all the
! more glum
Isn't this fine?' he said AN the world
/ ought to be saying, Peace on earth--'"
He didn't get any further, for we heard
cracking in the bushes near us. and out
into the moonlight there came the form of
q man. Both our rifles were raised to fro,
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7rfE SUN. SUNDAY. DEcENBEF II. 1905

the spot light and shines. Now and again
you are called by the guide to note the
graceful pose Of some dancer who, wearied,
has sought the wings and IL resting in a
posture of relaxation.
Then suddenly the theatre is darkened;
like fash every thing is cut from your
vision and you seem TO be standing on
the extreme Of nothingness. You hold
your breath. Suddenly AZ the dark came,
so the canon down which you are pcering
is Illuminated
The audience is not visible, the stage
hands have disappeared not word Of the
marionettes is heard, down, down you look,
and a deep orchestral note strikes the ear
and diminishes in echoes against the scenic
painting.
You turn your attention from the mimic
stage and its figures that engross the audi
ence into the other rooms of which the
spectators are ignorant and which are Wis
ible as II the roof Of house after house in
some quaint city whose dwellers lived in
masquerade had been lifted for you.
Through the length of one stalks lonely
Perrot. His face is chaked so that even
| from your height he looks livid as the Christ
mas clown of the pantomime. His ruff is
freshly starched and in moment or two he
will dart on the stage when his cue has
been given.
1t is not of the play he thinks as he walks,
melancholy as Hamlet up and down the
narrow enclosure At the further end
there is a vision in blue standing. You can
not tell whence she came, for ordinary
exits and entrances are wiped out by the
intervening height. You know, however,
that Pierrot has been awaiting her and that
his melancholy was because she did not
come
They meet and hands clasp hands; then
the promenade is resumed. Only this
time Pierrot stalks n majestic figure and
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THREE LUNCHES OF A
l MAN NAMED BARBER.
An Exception to the Role as to
Presentiments- War Time
Experiences.

IF there is one species of the human race
with which have no patience. it's the man
with a hunch," said Col. Keator Watrous,
who is here on his annual trip from Boise.
"The fellow who is always getting feeling
that this horse should win, or that it is up to
him to catch an interior straight, is usually
about as mean an article as ever beat a
free lunch counter.
There was one fellow, however, that
first met fifty years ago, who was the
reverse OF the rule, and can't help thinking
of him every time the Christmas season
comes around. His name was Barber in
those days but he has changed it now,
owing to force of circumstances that made
1t necessary when he took up civilized life
after he had made his pile.
4The first | saw Of Barber was when things
were settling down to their normal state
after the Mexican war. We were little
fellows then. and went to school at place in
I.afayetteville, Ala. | don't think | should
have remembered him at all if it hadn't
been for the hunch he worked there one
day.
at was our custom to climb up In the
limbs of a big tree on warm afternoons,
and whittle sticks and tell yarns. One day
six or seven of us were perched up in the
boughs of the tree, Barber being one Of ua
We hadn't been there long when Barber
began to get down from the place where
he was sitting.
He had the most comfortable notch in the
tree, and remember we all wondered
why he got down. and laughed at him.
Laugh ahead. yol fellows he said
II guess I know when | ought to leave a
place. I'm going to get on another limb
He did it, and there was a general
scramble for the place he had left. | was
pretty mad because some other fellow
beat rue out,
"We had been settled down about ter
minutes after that when there came sharr
crack and down went the limb to the ground
carrying the fellow seated in the crotch
with it. He had his arm and two ribs
broken.
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when By common instinct We dropped
them.
THE man had turned his face TO the
moonlight and we saw it was our Captain,
Rumsey Crowther. He was unconscious
of our presence, which struck us both a.
peculiar, seeing that we were regularly
placed sentries. After standing minute,
the Captain started away slowly, going N
direction opposite to that of the camp .,
That's a rum go said Barber. Hen
never know how near he came 10 being
dead man. What foolish thing TO do.
But talking Of peace on earth
There was something fatall,tc ahont
his trying to say that sentence, he hIpke
off in the middle of it. and before | could
stop him raised his rife and shot capt.
Crowther dead in his tracks just As he was
disappearing in the underbruish.
Il gasped with horror and shrnnk away
from my comrade. He buried his face IN
his hands and groaned.
Good Lord I've done it now II vas
that tn fee, feeling G;, again; Watty; What % Tds,b
to cry like child.
THE shot brought down the guard, ana
with them half dozen others. incIudnE
some officers. We climbed down from, tne
tree and reported that some one had been
killed, presumably Capt. Crowther. ,.
TO our surprise a voice replied that ms
was impossible. as Capt Crowther was AZ 'ha'
minute approaching. We turned arn4N''
and there was the man we had soon crop
dead a few minutes before coming d'"h
the path in the moonlight.
AN investigation was started, lod Hv ma
scared Barber. In the bushes whcr" We
saw him fall the body was found. 1t va,
that OF Fitzhugh Crowther. the twin hr'N'
of our captain, who was a Yankee "' .'r'
He had many valuable papers in hi N" "'S,
which il they had been delivered that n'1'I
within the Union lines would have "hanH'H
the whole face of the camDaiGn.
After the civil war was endcd, haI'
roughed it in the West and had -ono pre-
tough experiences. have heard, ~"
saw him after that day. but many Pc Il
/ know have met him. His hunCh hr".
him wealth during a speculative ~ a.
and now he is a mogul in one Of IN" fa''''
States.
Ten years ago he was very III for 'lrlGo
and on his recovery seemed 10 have '"''
power of knowing when to do I,' '!.,
thing at the opportune moment. u" 0''''
need it then, though"
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busy warding off another thrilling shocker
that the guide, mistaking your polite
ness is about to relate.
Suddenly across the way. on balcony
that looks like fire escape in the centre of
the knotted and hanging ropes as if some
trapeze performer might swing himself ont
thercfrom "a starting point, group of shad-
ows is silhoucttcd against the stained
glass that forms a background. Their
arms move in and out with rhythmic motion.
The huge curtain slowly. smoothly rises
and folds itself into insignifcance while
a distant sound like peas in an empty can
announces the beginning Of the play.
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what promises to be smoothly running
performance. He distracts your intention
as he reads it by telling of a chorus girl
who the night before got her skirt entangled
in one of the swings and sooner than lose it
tho skirt, not the swing -clung to the gar
lands and rose twenty feet in air until she
was recalled by an encore which brought
her with skirt but without breath to terra
frma.
The skirt Of chorus girl, particularly
those Of The Farl and The Girl" is very
little thing to risk the life for. You have
no time to sar this, however, for you are
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THE CITY OF THE NEW START.
TRTE STORIES THAT REVERSE
HORiCE GREELEI"S ADVICE
And That Point the Moral Come Fast
Young Man. and Young Woman. Too"
The Pow ar Of New York TO Wake
People Up some TransfOrmatio


People Ip-Some Transformations.
A Western woman calls New York the
City Of the New Start. She does so he
cause all the people she knows who have
come here have made an entirely fresh
beginning in life and have achieved sue
cess, whereas in their home town they
were either utter failures or were just able
TO keep their heads above water.
One of them was n woman who, when
she left home. was beginning to be spoken
of as a sour old maid. She was considerab bly
under 30 but was considered hopelessly
middle aged. She had no positive points
Of ugliness but was looked upon as ir-
redeemably homely. The only man who
had ever shown her any attention had
broken or his visits.
Her whole life was one dull round fof
working, eating and sleeping She had a
mother depcndcnt upon her for support
and to bring in the money necessary for
them to live she shaved ten or twelve hours
out of every day in an office.
Then, suddenly, her mother died and
she sold Off her household goods and came
to New York.
Il met her on Fifth avenue the other
day said the woman from tho West
could hardly believe that the vision before
me was the dull drudge had last seen in
our native town.
"She was actually young and pretty
Her eyes sparkled Her mouth smiled as
IT it couldn't help itself. Her cothes were
smart and pretty and obviously chosen
with great care and discerning eye toward
becomingness old maid was the last
thinu that any ono would have thought of
calling her.
"She told me that she was as happy as
she looked-for had not been able to re-
strain an exclamation of surprise at her
altered appearance, She had flourish
ing stenographic Office of her own with a
constantly increasing patronage.
"Shc ad formed a little circle Of highly
conGeniaI friends and, as her income was
more than sufficicnt for her needs, she made
q point of going to the theatre, the opera,
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Then the shadows, having performed
their silent task, fade away.
If one had 10 find comparison for this
unusual effect the appearance OF the stage
seen from above, it might be found In the
camera obscura that shows the hitting
figures Of men. women and children You
know the villain when he comes on, and
the ingtnue. You know that true love IL
thwarted and that virtue ia triumphant,
cruelty triumphant in taras and brocaded
velvet, putting to shame the copy book
belief that it has no reward OF this kind
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piles of SILVER Dollars on Prairie.
From nc Kansas Ciy Star.

Tho train upon which Judge &, l.. thrisman
returned from Mexico this week ran OF the
track north Of Chihuahua. and the cars
stopped right side up upon the prairie. except
the express car, next tO the engine. This
car, which contained 10000 Mexican silver
dollars. was overturned.
The b0Scs OF silver dollars were smashed
and the money was Strewn around in glittoring
piles Two Guards with rifles stood over the
money until tho car was riRhtrd and lifted
back upon tn" track, and then the money was
sCoopcd up and put back into the car again.
All of this money was gong To China for
circulation there. Tn" Mexican silver dollar
is he standard of value in parts of China and
millions of dollars SO from McAlco 10 China
every year,
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That Ia the beauty OF the stage as you
see It from the fly gallery. 1t is like dream
that does not mean anything, that leads
nowhere, that holds out alluring promise
n charming face, a sweet voice, word
phrase, musical number, swirl OF drapery,
and the first you know you are away on
wild fight OF imaginat!3n again.
The guide has been sharing your silence
overcome by the long climb as well as by
the more masculine duty OF keeping you
from pitching head first on the stage and
interrupting your untimey appearance
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Perhaps the audience thinks that the, sight
Of the pretty chorus peering through the
electric lighted apertures twenty feet or
so from the ground is the real sight of in,
terest If So they should mount skyward
to the fly galleries.
From there one has vision of bending
into the mirror of her dressing table. Some
thing more is seen, too-the courtliness OF
the stagehands and actors who rush to help
the girls down from their exalted place.
Well, it is not for the visitors to relate the
difference between the methods employed
the grudeing elbow on which Eddie Foy had
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II you crave novelty at the theatre you
might try looking at the play from vantage
point sixty feet above the stage. A Sun re-
porter tried it the other night at the Casino.
There is flight after flight Of steep stairs
~ bo climbed, connected with short ladder
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Cooking DolOn at the Play From q
Height of Sixty Feet AbOve the Stage

with incandescent bulbs and holding at
their extremity narrow swing boards.
On these the chorus girls later give you
an example Of agility and grace as they
spring on and mperil the heads Of the front
rows in their mad outward fight. Against
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with flesh colorad tights and outlined by
a silken garter prouetting between falls
of heliotrope drapery. You see a being
in shimmering gauze darting about like
a huge moth in the rays of lamp, you
sec weird professions of color and form
and nothing else.
Once or twice painted cheek catches
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From The Boston Hor0lT
The news Of President Garfield : '.'' ".
did not reach the town of Ice, m M'-'' "'
sets, until the day after the count
1t happened that in the town ih'F' '"'
man named Garfield who ran n uU'
had son named Henry Whol Tx
arrived some ono yelled TO the r''
was hanging around the general loH' ~.
Garfield Is elected President nnu "a
atcly an old man called hnck to ll. ""''
one, Hen or the old mani"
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the scarlet Of the drop you get a Christmas
like effect which illusion is helped by the
sudden Ginning of far away bell which has
something. vou know not what, TO do With
the speCtacle below.
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You know that when the thread of the
plot has reached the tuberculosis stage
chorus will come and sing something
that has nothing to do with anything or
anybody. You know this because you
know comic opera.
What you see is a well shaped limb covered
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they stop occasionally to clasp hands again.
The ingenue comes into view after that +,
with dark braids of hair and a way of look
ing on the ground as if she expected to find
a diamond ring. But when the audience
applauds her girlish looks the observers
up aloft might reveal her duplicity-if they
would.
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New York Markets.

wHEAT-Fi and Isc. higher contract
grade, January. 81. l4l5dl.l5.
CORN-Steady; January, 4srq4sAc.
OATS-Dull and easier; No. white. nat
ural 6hG37c.; No 2 white. clipped, 36i9G
BUTTER Firm; prints 1c higher; ex-
ira western creamery, SOC; extra nearby
prints. 33c.
by. &c. at mark; fresh western, Bic. al
mark.
CHEEsE-Fi good demand; New
York full creams. fancy l2AGR1sc.; do.
choice, ll4Qi2c.; do, fair to good. llG
llizc.
SuGAh-Rehned unchanged.
CoTTON-Market % points higher; mid
ding uplands, s7S5
TALLOW-Dull; city prime, in tierces.
&C.: country prime, in barrels. 4lzc,; do.
LIVE POULTRY-Firm; good demand;
fowls. llml3c: old ROSTERS, &C.. spring
chickens. lld13c.; ducks l4d15c; geese, Is
Qlic.; turkeys. l3Q15c.
DRESSED POULTRY-Steady;f fair de-
mand; fowls. choice fresh killed, 12al2kc.;
do, fair to good. loitqlll2c.; old ROSTERS.
PIC; nearby chickens choice. l6c,; west
ern do. choice, nc; do, fair TO good, Ia
l3c.: turkeys. nearby fancy, &c. choice.
Gle do, fair TO good lsQ20c. western do.
choice to fancy. l9G20c.; do, fair to good,
l7GlSc.; ducks. nearby, l5dl6c; western
do. l2ql5c.; geese, nearby, l2alSc-; west
ern do, llQl2c.
beef steady at 7q9lzc. per pound for decent
TO extra native sides; calves steady to
strong; city dressed veals sold at 9lil3lSc.
per pound; country dressed at sGllc. /,
mutton steady at 6isdS3c per pound;
lambs tirmer at lOl2dl2c per pound; couno
try dressed dollhouse lambs slow at S5qs
per carcass; country dressed hogs steady
at 5d6Iac per pound for heavy to light
weights; rough hogs at 4Ap2c.
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Death Penalty For Taylor.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Jan. THE jury
in the case of Edward Taylor last
night returned n verdict Of guilty, fix
ing death as the penalty. Taylor is
one of three negroes who on Sunday,
Nov. %, killed William Moore in a
raid on white dogs firing fusillade
into a company of white men in a sa-
loon. Militia guarded the prisoners for
several weeks. Three mobs to lynch
the negroes were organized. but were
overawed by the strength OF the mi
litia and police