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Personated Another to Pass Bogus Check.

The man arrested on Saturday and locked
up in the Forty-seventh street police sta
ton on a charge of Offering a bad check
now gives the name Farnum. He dickered
for a s., 600 automobile at the Broadway
Automobile Exchange, 143 West Forty
eighth street, and in payment gave check
for So, 200 on the Now York County National
Bank, with the forged signature of Samuel
D. Styles, representing that he was Mr.
Styles. Upon inquiry at the bank the
fraud was detected. Mr. Styles Is the
president of the North River Savings Bank.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-04
MOB CHAsES 4 MOTORMAN.
He Had Run Down and Killed the Child Of
an Italian Bandmaster.

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, July s.-Emily
Bisordi, the eighteen months old daughter
of Prof Bisordi, an Italian band leader Of
Mount Vernon, was struck by Huckle-
berry trolley car in South Fifth avenue
tonight and dragged under the motor
for block, while mob of Italian men,
women and children chased the car. The
motorman heard the yells of the crowd
and, stopping the car learned he had killed
the child. Detective Atwell arrested the
mortorman, who declared he didn't see
the child run in front of his car.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-04
Gas Burns Three in Studio Basement

Gas from defective main leaked through
the basement wall of the Van Dyck studio,
$50 Eighth avenue, yesterday afternoon
and came in contact with the boiler. A
sheet of flame enveloped the engineer,
Charles Fairman, and two electricians,
George Nehrbas and Taylor Pound, who
were assisting him with repair work. NefE-
has and Pound live at 70 Eldridge street
and ITO East Fifty-third street respectively.
They were taken to the Presbyterian Hos
pital with severe burns about the arms
and face. Fairman was burned about the
face and arms, but less seriously. No
damage was done to the building.
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HOGG FOB THE CABINET p
| His Friends In Texas Have Been Coaxing
the President to Take Him.

HIS FriendS IN TeN1s Have Befn C0aXInG
the President to Take Him.
AUSTIN. Tex. July s.-The report was
current in State official circles here to-day
that Ex-Gov. j. S. Hogs had been sounded
by President Roosevelt as to whether he
would accept Cabinet position.
Hogg is not in town and in the absence
of conflr nation the report receives little
credit 1t is believed to have grown out
of the fact that friends Of Hogg through
out the State have sent petitions and tele-
grams to President Roosevelt asking that
the Texan be appointed to positionyin
the Cabinet. This was done without the
knowledge of Hogg. The Ex-Governor
has displayed his warm sympathy with the
Roosevelt Administration on number of
public occasions, and in his public speeches
he has been strongly eulogistic Of the Presi-
dent
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Mrs. James 4. Miller Dead.

Mrs, James A. Miller, a well known resident
OF Amsterdam. n. y. and prominent in
charitable and religious work in that city,
a member Of the Second Presbyterian Church.
the Century Club and the Woman's Auxiliary
of the Young Mems Christian Association.
Kellogg 4 Miller, linseed oil manufacturers
In Amsterdam. died on Dec. II, last.
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Women Thrown From Runaway Hanson.

Women Thrown From Runaway Hanson.
A hanson cab in which were two women
was hit by Ninth avenue car at Fifty
seventh street yesterday afternoon and
the horse ran away, At Fifty-sixth street
the hanson collided with a Metropolitan
Street Railway repair wagon and both
women were thrown out. but the driver
getting control of his horse, drove on.
The women gave their names as Mrs. Anna
Harris and Mrs. Parker, both Of 25s West
Thirty.seventh street. They were badly
bruised.
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Detective Dies After Operation.

Detective Sergeant Joseph p. Kane died
early yesterday morning in the Harlem
Hospital, following an operation for APP
pendicitis. Detective Sergeant Kane had
been in the police department twelve years
and had held his present rank two years.
He lived at No. 435 East 10th street, and
is survived by wife and two children.
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Filipino Bandit Chief Not Killed.

Special Cable Despatch to The SUN.
MANILA. July Sit was announced yes
terday that Felizardo, bandit who has
long terrorized the province Of Cavite, had
been killed by detachment OF the Second
Cavalry. The fact is that he was only
wounded and made his escape. His
chief subordinate surrendered and two
of his men. who ranked as leaders, we're
killed.
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Netherlands Cabinet Resigns.

Special Gable Despatch to THE Sun.
THE HAGUE, July 3.-The Cabinet headed
by DR.. A. Kuyper, which has held Office
since July 8. 1901. has resigned owing ia tide
de eat 10 the Minsterialists in the recent
election.
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BOYS PRANK BREAKS COPS LEG
Falls From window when Giant Cracker
Ends His Nap.

Patrolman James NJ. Giles of the West
Twentieth street station was taking a
snooze last evening at the front window
of his ground floor flat at PAT West Twenty
first street. He was off duty and snoriSg.
A crowd of boys passing by dropped a
giant firecracker. lighted, on the window
sill.
The COP jumped upon the sill, tripped
and fell out of the window, fracturing his
ankle.
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Patriotic X. OF c. to Celebrate To-day.

Fourth, or patriotic degree members
Of the Knights Of Columbus in Brooklyn
and Long Island will have big celebration
in Prospect Park. Brooklyn, this morning.
The 10000 members of lesser degree in the
different orders on Long Island and Brook
Ign will also attend, The celebration
will be in charge of several hundred Catholic
priests, including a number from out of
town
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CEMETENIEs.
THE WOODLAND CEMETERY

is readily accessible by Harlem trains from G'a,.
trollcys and by carriage. Lots sis5 W
phone (+s75 Gramerc,) for Book OF Views or ''Ne'
sentative.
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q heartless mana ger, he suggested that
take Hugo's words instead of the other
gentleman's, not. Of course, that they
would be 80 good but there might be a
prejudice in the minds of the reading public
in favor Of the great French writer.
THAT reminds me Of a story of a woman
who was called upon to write u paper at a
suburban current topics club on Victor
Hugo. She went to the Carnegie library
erected there and collated her facts from
a number Of encyclopedias. When she had
finished, having q quarter inch Of space
at the end Of her paper, she thought she
would add something original, and wrote.
Whatever We and succeeding genera
tions may think Of Victor Hugo, we must
agree on one thing, that he wrote good
English
Like that woman, my manager thou ght
Hugos language was good enough and so
in the play We have actually tried, in spite of
many difficulties, to preserve the original
text.
Il believe its success will depend on the
great fundamental truth that melodrama
always has been and always will be popuIa
THE fashions in hearts do not change,
and whatever may be said to the contrary,
people really want thrill and they will
go where they can get it.
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That reminds me-" and the anecdotal
manner was emphasized by his holding
the miniature in the air at the end Of one
outstretched arm, "of an incident in The
Pit There was a small coon in the cast
in Chicago, and, one day stopped to speak
to him in the wings and said:
"Sam, what do you want to be when
you get to be MANI
Il supposed, Of course, he would say,
oh, great actor, like you are, Mr.. Lack
aye He did not hesitate a moment. but
said:
"a burglar
Il thought that 80 funny that managed
to give him an opportunity to make that
same speech on the stage. his only line,
but it never failed to bring down the house.
when we got to Denver something hap
pened to the little coon and in place of him
put in another boy picked up somewhere
or other around the theater. One day,
shortly after we opened, found my latest
product crying bitterly in the wings.
Naturally inquired what the matter was.
He said. with his head buried in his arm
and sobs shaking his small body:
""Cause l don't tell the truth. / don't
want to be burglar when get grown up.
What'll people think of me?'
$50 cut the line out. And yet they say
that look as II l did not know what trouble
was"
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little. When play can be reproduced after
an interval OF ten years and people are just
al enthusiastic about 1t as ever, it means
simply that great human note has been
struck and it means, besides, a criticism n
the present day author. who usually takes
a novel and with pair Of shears cuts 1t
into lengths for play
'Triby' was the first Of the modern
novels to be dramatized and Potter GER
tainly gave lesson to budding playwrights,
for its success was entirely due to his
methods. James A. Herne said once.
II you want to dramatic novel; read
it through once and then throw It away,
for whatever there Is that IA vital and dra-
matio will stick and you are better on with
out the overlooking Of incident
Potter with 'Trilby' executed literary
souersault, for be turned the book upside
down and his methods are most interest
ing.
In tho book you are not made aware
Of tho fact that Trilby is hypnotized until
tho very end, but In the play, in the most
simple manner possible, Mr.. Potter i'm
pressed the audience with the fact that
hypnotism was ruling factor in the drama.
In the studio scene Trilby remarks casually
that ahe has headache. Suengdi offers
~ take it away and does SO with sweep
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Blind Man Tells the Time.

From the Louis rifle COnrier-JonrndL
Charles Bohannan of Taylorsvil!e is totally
blind. Light and darkness are the same
to him, but he makes his certain way about
the streets with the aid of a cane. and some
times puts to shame men possessed OF two
good OPTICS. Yesterday Charlie visited
the county Jail After talking a while he
pulled out his watch. an ordinary gold time
piece, with double case. held 1t in his hands
a moment in the usual way and then snapped
1t shut with sigh of relief.
Well it's time for me to start home.
he remarked.
What time is it. Charlie'" he was asked
quizzically.
One minute to o." was the prompt re-
Spouse.
livery watch in the crowd except Charles
came into view. II required longer for the
men with good eyes to verify Charles oh
servation than 1t did for him to ascertain
the time, but he was declared correct almost
to the second.
Good by" and he was of, without wait
ing TO hear the discussion his feat had pre-
AintatAd
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was no effort to bring it forward; you could
edit it; add little here and subtract bit
there.
@One night we we're playing at Northamp-
ton. Mass, and had large and enthusiastic
audience, many Of them from Smith College
near by. jefferson was called upon to
make a speech and went forward. He
said:
(Mr. Lackaye got up and initiated the
old actors manner and voice to perfec-
ton.
Ladies and gentlemen: I am very
glad to see you here tonight. ! am glad
that you are enjoying yourself, and know
you will be pleased to learn that we. too,
we back of the curtain, enjoy ourselves,
too. in the thought that you are here and
that you are enjoying yourself here to-
night
"You see, he had the traditional speech
Then he ended up:
When I look over the footlights and
see all your bright and interested faces
feel as if would like to lean over and shake
hands with every one
AT the close he made a bow to most
uproarious applause.
when he came off was standing in the
wings. He poked me glcefully in the ribs
and said:
We'll, Mr.. Critic, what do you think OF
that? Nothing the matter with that, hey?'
IL did not care for it, Mr.. Jefferson,
I said slowly and distinctly.
oh, you did not care for it, Mr., Critic;
why did you not care for it?'-al the time
poking me.
If YOU remember, Mr.. jefferson, YOU
said that when you looked over the foot
lights and saw all those interested faces
you felt as II you would like to lean over
and shake hands with every one. Now,
defy even you to shake hands with q face
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TALK WITH THE OMAR OF A PERSIAN KITTEN
Oliver Herords Views and WaysTheoes He Is Working Out ia
Ills New Magazne-ioX lie Came to Be Author and Artist

Il bought him in England, he explained
and wrote my story about him. You never
knew how he grew to be 80 long9 My story
explains it. When Adam and Eve were
expelled from the garden they forgot this
dog He wasn't so long then as he is now.
He came leaping after them and findin the
gate shut tried to crawl under. Presently
Eve remembered him, came ha ok and pulled
him through under the gate. That waa
what stretched him out SO. My story
was in sections, four chap piers. That made
it about the length of the dog. Have you
seen these Bible Rimes for the Not Too
Young by Clare Hummer that am illus
trating? No? I will recite you one and
give you the illustration.
He cleared his throat and commenced
softly, explaining first that the verse was
called REST for the Weary
The Isrcalltcs expect to lie
" Abrahams Bosom when they die.
ind Ta mad ! NeT on WIi G on yash rss
What needs It more than
Abrahams Breast
When the woman had recovered he sat
down by her with the air of beginning a
serious conversation.
IF you really want to write something
that is worth WHILE" he said, you should
write about my family. My father was a
great man. He wrote many books. His
name was Brooke Herford. You must have
heard of him. He was preacher for a
long time at Harvard University.
And my sister is very we'll known. OF
course you have heard Of her I will get
you an interview with my sister You will
like that, am sure 1t will be worth your
while
If you insist upon knowing more Of my
own life, really, it is hardly worth while,
I assure you. l studied in England and
France and Germany and have written a
good many books of verses and painted
several pictures and collaborated with
many people in many kinds of work"
why is it you collaborate SO muchfs
asked the woman.
We'll, you see,' unused the poet, 'thsy
think Of writing the things before do. 90
there really seems to be nothing else to do.
Tell me more about your magazine.
begged the woman, with laugh
We accept only stories that have been
rejected by at least two other magazines.
commenced the editor. Say, by Harper's
or Scribners. They must be accompanied
invariably by rejection slips from these
two or from two others Of equal distine-
ton. II story has been rejected by all
the magazines, SO much the better. We
accept such story without reading it,"
Il will send you few such stories when
l get home.' said the woman. who
painted that beautiful little cool shaded
pool up there over the mantelpiece?"
The poet smiled pleasedy.
"You like that?' he asked.
Il should say do"
She thought he was going to say. well,
take 1t then, but what he said was this:
II painted it. | have never painted any,
thing since for fear mightn't do another
one quite so we'll"
Then other friends dropped in singlv or
in pairs until the rooms began to be filled,
while the poet proceeded TO give pedigrees
OF all, insisting that their pictures be In
serted in his interview, in which he had at
last become interested.
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he greatest characters ever written, next

tho greatest characters ever written, next
season.
Les Miserables' is a volume Of 1850
pages and have estimated that an Or
binary page takes a minute to play. The
time given a play is three hours, and at
least one Of the three is consumed on the
entractes and the orchestra playing. which
leaves l2o minutes, or 1920 pages, for the
play.
when you reduce $3.50 pages to 100
and preserve the story, you are accomplish
ing rather herculean task. 1t is rather
like the old story of Snbad, who was con-
fronted in the valley of diamonds, not with
the question as to whether he could take
any, but as to how many he would be able
to get away with, having but a limit ed
amount Of baggage permitted him.
-In the beginning l mapped out the
scenario, and believing that dramatizing
book was merely matter of the collation.
Of the principal facts. gave it into the hands
Of a clever writer, but when l showed it to
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Wilton Lackaye has been asked what
he thinks is the most important theatrical
production Of the season and he has paused
70 reply. There Is miniature LAckaye
sitting in the curve Of his arm who has no
ecrupes Of modesty. He kicks his fat,
semi-sockless legs and uttes the single
word.
'Srengdi'
y wish" says his father, that all tho
dramatic critics were Of his opinion. The
other day priest gave him a picture Of
one Of the saints. He came home swinging
IT In his hand and some one asked him where
he got it.
He replied, Gods man gave it to me-
and then when he WAS further INTERCEPTED
as to who the picture represented said
again, 'StenyaH'
so. in his opinion have been canonized
both in the profession and on earth
Il think the most important thing about
the popular revival of 'Trilby' is in the
fact that the audiences have changed so
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Lives With q Broken Neck.

Muskooee correspondence Kansas Cdo journal.
Although he broke his neck, Ray VAL
lauette 10 years old Of tn is city, still lives 10
tell the story of the accident. The most re-
markable feature of the case is that his ply
sician says he will recover.
The boy was thrown from his seat in rum
away Thursday. striking his neck on the
wagonboy and dislocating 1t. He was taken
TO a doctors Office, where he became I'M
conscious The neck was reset and the boy
is now able to walk and talk. Gun see ana
discern various objects. but cannot read.
He has not lost control of his limbs but
cannot go in the direction he desires. ASIDE
from soreness in his neck he does not COM
plain Of any illness.
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John Drew has the only face could ever
imagine shaking hands with. and he might
object w.
S'Did say that?' asked Jefferson You
don't mean it. Then he thought for a
moment. I4ackaye, old boy. I've been
making that speech now for thirty years
and this is actually the first time have
ever been called down
Did it make any difference? Not bit.
The next town We played in, Jefferson
made the same speech and in the same
inimitable manner would like to shake
hands with every face, and not voice
was raised in protest
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Engine Passed Over Baby Between Rails.

Grand Rapids correspondence Detroit Ir'o""c'
Five-year -old Truman Platt sat on the hlRh
Canal street trestle to-day watching the
whirlpools in the river. Grand Trunk
switch engine backing UP with long string
OF cars ran on the bridge at high speed. when
the engineeri first saw the little figure he
reversed his engine and shut his eyes 20 as
not to witness the tragedy,
Little Truman lau ghed with delight at the
approaching train and lay fiat down between
the rails the engine passing over him. "hen
dragged out he cluckled. Nice choo-ohoo
car" He was carried home to his mother
without u scratch, and she tainted away.
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WILTON LAcKAYE's PARTIAL CRITIC.

WILTON LAChAHE PARTIAL ChAiiS'
ing gesture. Just those few words and
that one motion-and think of the result!
That single incident impressed me
more with Potter's ability as playwright
than anything else he ever did. If Sardou
had been trying to get that result he would
have brought two doctors on the stage,
and he would have let them talk half an
hour about hypnotisn in his attempt to
impress his audience
In writing book, SO long as your paper
and ink hold out, you are not hampered
in regard to background, change Of scene
and multiplicity OF character, but when
you come to put a play on, you realize
that the more you can employ word or
sentence to convey your meaning, 30 much
the better. for scenic effects and large
cast cost money, and managers are still
mercenary enough to be moved by such
arguments.
Il have had little experience con-
corning the difficulties Of playwriting myself
during the last few years. for have dram
atized Les Miserables' Of Victor Hugo.
have hacked away at it, OF and on and
the other day a friend met me and asked
me If had found anybody to produce it
yet.
Produce it, exclaimed. 4 can't find
manager that can pronounce 1t, much
less produce it,
That difficulty Is now over and some
one who can do both has come forward
and hone tn plav Jedn Voiiedn. one Of
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Ring Recovered After d Years.

Manakto correspondence 81. PoW D,spdtoh'
The other day Hakon Hanson was digging
up the gard ell in the yard in the rear OF Myron
a. wizards home when he found little
gold baby ring. On the inside OF the rng
was engraved Kittie Wagner In script.
The kittie Wagner that lost the ring is now
ono of the prominent women of this town.
Tbirty-flye wears ago she, little girl.
attended the primary grade at the Pleasant
Grove School, which is within a half block
of the garden. and while playing at recess
one day she lost the little ring, 1t has been
in the ground fully thirty years and it liz
now in a first class condition.
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wanted Some One to Say His Prayers TO.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
An indulgent father wishing to please
his youngest hopeful. brought him to Colum-
bus the other day and they stopped at one OF
the large hotels for the night
The youncster was undresSed and put to bod
and the father went down into the lobby to
talk business.
Then there came n jingng of bells. indi
eating that the push button in the room
occupied b., the young man who he'd fonn EFT
limit There was rush Of feet a. tho beb, y
scurred to the room, only TO he met at the
door by diminutive but indignant youth.
who said severely!
Man. ] want you to send me some ons
! can say my prayers to. and send him Quck.
want to go to sleep.
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Welded in a buggy.

HNnlboH corrospondence NashriNo manner.
Ira Cherry OF Memphis and Miss Carry
Tanner or Trenton drove up to the parsonage
of the Methodist Church yesterday after
noon and were united in marriage by the
Rev J. W. Waters.
The couple were married sitting in the
buggy, saying they preferred 10 solemnize
the affair underneath the wide spreading
naples that adorned the church aud par
aonage lot.
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CURIOUS FEATURES OF LIFE.
virginians Frightened by "Air Colts.'

Virginians Frightened by "Aif So's
Conorn correspondence Richmond Tunes
Dispatch.
Some felix's here have again been frightened
out of their wits by the awful" sound OF
lair colts" which disturb the happiness OF
these people nearly every spring. The pass.
ing of these "air colts" ia always regarded
by some as sure sign OF Judgment day.
and the "neighing in the air" has the good
effect of sending the alarmed persons to
their knees in prayer.
The air colts" complained OF are nothing
more nor less than swans or cranes In their
annual journey from tho South to the North.