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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
The DIPLOMAT OF The CIRCUS.
HE rs KNOWN As THE FINER AND
DEALS IN TROUBLE.

One OF His Duties Is 10 Attend 70 the Hold.
ups 10 which Travelling shows Are
Subjected Another Is to Get the Cir
rus out Of All Kinds Of Legal DintcuItIes
Few people nave even heard Of one OF
the most important me around a canvas
show" said an old circus agent. He is
known as the fixer with the smaller shows,
the adjuster with the larger ones and is
pointed out as the shows detective when
any member OF a police department comes
around looking for the boss.
ct is easier for a crank to get an audience
with John d. Rockefeller than it is for a
stranger to get to a show owner when the
show is on the road. Try 1t and see. You
20 TO the ticket wagon and you will not
find any one there who knows anything
about the boss; you go to the main entrance
and the same marble chunk Of ignorance
is handed out to o there.
while you are thinking what you will
do next you are very cordially greeted
by an affable gentleman who asks you il
you are looking for the boss and il he will
not do as well. This afiable gentleman 10 the
fixer and it's up to him to decide whether
you shall see the boss.
There is no business in this country
outside OF the circus business In which O
regularly opened account under the head
Of shakedowns is carried. Showmen call
all holdups sh~akedowns. The f1xer has
to look out for them and handle them.
-Circuses used to be regarded as legitimate
prey for many shystering lawyers, who
always stood ready TO have an attachment
issued against the show. It was easy
money for them because a few years back
a Snowman would settle rather than lose
time fighting an attachment in the courts.
They fight them now and every show Is
prepared to give a bond the very moment a
constable appears with the papers.
Now here il where the fiKer comes In
again. He must not allow that paper to
be- served on the boss, so he rounds up
the constable, gets TO the one who had
the attachment issued and squares the
question. A good fxer will settle a five
hundred attachment for just about one-tenth
OF tina amount. Old Tom Forde OF Geneva,
Ohio; John Griffin OF Toronto, Can: George
Hines OF Chicago, Charlie Andrews OF the
same town. Eddie knapp Of jamestown,
n. Y; Tom Powley Of Canada, poor old
Bill Doris of New York, George Aiken Of
Cincinnati. Oscar Kransi Of Philadelphia,
Harry Allen Of Richmond. and Billy Power.
who works Powers elephants. are some
of the diplomats who have succeeded In
saving show owners Thousands.
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well, drop them BOTH said the o.
ullst grAvely. 'Don't work with your
eyes and be very careful Of them, and
you viii be less likely to lose your vision
entirely. That's all I can do for you at
present
In the next two weeks 1 experienced the
various stages Of coming blindness up to the
stage at which I could stand by my south
window at o on q clear day and barely
nnd the sun. Not that I was quite or nearly
stone blind, but the MONDAY brightness
blinded me, and when / urn my eyes
to where / knew the sun must be I saw
only q black sky.
Yet I could see the sun, l discovered by
accident, by CHANGING at it in a sidewise
fashion, or out of the corners of the eyes.
I felt not the slightest pain or disa gree
able sensation In the eyes from glancing
toward the sun; and perhaps the absence OF
pain or unnatural feeling there was what
made 10 seem to me as IL the fault wal with
the objects seen and not with my sight.
Il will tell you some Of the queer things
I saw at various stages of my falling vision,
without attempting to put them in the order
in which they came. These freaks OF vision
were the results Of dimness OF sight, OF
slowness Of focusing or receiving the i'm
precision, and Of a sort Of color blindness.
Il saw from my window one of the most
beautiful views in a large park, only the
June grass was of the color OF ripe wheat
straw and the foliage was likewise straw
oolored. The lawns looked like Cleaned
grain fields. The flower beds were lmpresI
sionist pictures-banks Of yellow splashed
with patches Of flame and OF blue and green
and odd, unnatural tints.
Il sat by the driveways and saw the after
noon drivers 20 past, and u PROCESSION
1 had never seen before. 1t was all In
silhouette.
FAN the persons put driving we're solemn
looking negroes riding in carriages with
spokeless wheels, drawn by legless horses
The bodies OF the horses looked queer
enough, moving along at the right distance
from the ground with only a GUNNER De-
Il saw my wife as l had never seen her
before, and as l hope no one else ever saw
her-an images face Of dull brass, with
CLASSY eyes, yellow teeth and the sort OF
fuzzy arches for eyebrows that tney que
or masks. Her complexion Is olive
and there is plenty Of color in her cheeks,
but there was no color but that Of dull
brass in the face Of the image into which
she had been transformed.
mo faces were good looking to me;
natural little things. with their yellow
faces and CLASSY eyes. To add TO their
uRliness ali the towheaded and yellow
haired ones were white haired. Red headed
men and golden blondes seemed to me
white haired, too.
j remembered the saying that the Lord
never made two persons that looked exactly
alike; but 30 far as I could zee He had made
plenty OF them as alike AZ two peas !
mover understood before upon What delioate
lines individuality OF features depends, n
all these hns lines were invisihis 70 me.
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DOG GOES 500 MILES ALONE.
Collie Didn't n His New Home and Found
HIS ny 20 HIS Old Master.
From Our Dumb Animals.

From Our Dumb Animals.
Thin and gaunt, and With no other In
stinct to guide him save the memory OF q
warm kennel, good food and an occasional
caress, a little Scotch collie dog sold 30 q
man at Valentine, Eeb., returned SEQ miles
TO its former master In Des Moines. SO
wabbly and weak was the dog hat had IL
not been for a glad light OF recognition that
sprang into his eyes as his former master
opened the door, he might have been driven
from the premises.
just how long the dog was making tho
distance has not yet been ascertafned, but
with unerring instinct he made his way
over hill and prairie, through timber and
across rivers, finally arriving in Des Mofnes.
where he was z ven a hearty welcome, a
warm kennel and a hot bowl OF mix for q
starter.
Five weeks before a man from Valentine,
Neb., saw the collie, bought him q took
Il back with him To Valentine.
After the collie left his new home he was
seen at Fremont, Neb., where some noys
threx stones at him while he was stealing
! 49, from a back door. This was the re-
rort until he appeared In Des Moines.
His master was awakened by a slight
scratching at the front o On opening
q he sac a shaggy. thin. dirty little coils.
and from his actions At nrSt judged no
was mad. He soon recognized his former
rat. however, and declares he would not now
part With the animal for twice its value
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ohildren's hats and gowns for commercial
photographers; Ruth Graham Beryl Morse;
Martha MscGraw, who is a member of
Maude Adams company and il well known
az a model; lie Roy Scott, n OF the few
good boy models; Sylvia Nathan and Vivian
Martin. There are perhaps half a dozen
others who are successful and whose faces
are familiar TO the public.
Ruth Wells began earning money when
she was 2 years old. and by the time she was
"a she had money in the bank. She is a
smous dancer, and in spite of her charms
and the adu lation she has received is not
one whit spoiled. One of the most sttrac-
tive pictures Of Ruth ever placed before
the public showed her perched or the
shou lders OF Santa Claus, a model Of IL
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the idea seems to brighten them and
II they canYot be soothed l always advise
the parent 70 stop forcing the child at that
time. II at some more suspicious moment
the little one takes TO the idea in a pleasant
mood then the attempt may be made again.
but the idea Of using the child as a model
should be abandoned if it makes the little
one nervous.
Child models reach the awkward age the
same as other children and one of the most
pathetic sights l have ever witnessed was
when one OF these children after having
posed successfully for half a dozen years
finally reached the hobbledehoy stage
when to assume a graceful attitude was
manifestly impossible and poses that once
were simple and pretty were difficult to
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the oldest and youngest models at that time
in New York city.
-One hardly ever stops to think when one
sees a particularly attractive advertise
ment show ing a dainty young child that
some artists model sat for that picture,
but as a matter OF fact few OF the children d
pictures noted in turning over the adver-
Using pages OF the magazines are ideal
types; they are taken from life. Some
pretty child model sat for the study, and the
background, showing perhaps the speciality
advertised, is from a still life study.
Commercial photography has become
a great art and the field il ever widening.
Consequently there will be an ever increas-
ing demand for tiny folk with artistic faces
>and forms to pose for such studies.
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Money Earned by CeuvIcts.

II Is not generally known but IL 10 never
theIess a fact that convicts In the Ohio Deni-
Tertiary earn a. high a. $50 or 800 Q month
for themselves working overtime. They have
a certain task 70 perform In eight hours and
all work they get out above their tasks 10
credited to them.
In the bolt shop alone more than 200 men
divide every month 1900 for work accom-
plished In overtime. The convicts are not
allowed to work more than eight hours Q day
One man In the bolt shop earns nearly tso
every month running What n called . perfect
mill. large humble Of convtcts ciear tor
themselvee mora than 40 q month.
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or FAILING VISION,
ODD ASPECTS or A WORLD FAD
INC FROM VIEW.

trold By q Man who became Almost mind
-xzneots % the Less % the Celer sense
-mAbnity % Recognize Faccs-Cssr
Lighting Under Observation-Disclosures.
A man with Q safety razor shave was
aaldng.
Il should think he said, continuing the
dnftsd, that In tho case Of the in~stsntsne-
person would not have much TO tell about
the experience Of becoming blind.
He might attempt TO portray the fright
full realization n his calamity, though It is
not probable that any person Of those
struck blind fully comprehended at o
what had h~appenod. Anyway, he would have
none Of the queer experiences that attend
the gradual yet rather swift loss Of vision
resulting from certain eye diseases.
when I was q young man I onos went
up in a balloon. A reporter who saw the
ascension wrote that the great yellow bag
assembled rapidly with a majestic sweep
toward the east and soon became a dot in
the distant sky or something like that.
But that is not the way IL looked from
the basket OF tho balloon. As We "a " IL,
everything beneath US slipped away rapidly
IN n 00WnWArO up JOWhru tuo Wopts bOWoT
and lower fell the earth until It looked like
a great bowl beneath rs, moving westward
and with its rim on q level with the balloon.
There we hung. poised m~otionIess. as 1t
seemed to us, the only stationary objects
In tho universe. -Ss
Some years g when I was becoming
blind the illusions OF thay experience re-
minded me OF the a~eronautio illusion that
the balloon was stationary n all other
things were moving. In a word, the fault
seemed 10 be with the objects looked at
and not with the eyes that were looking.
MY sight had always been rml rkably
xoui. Ihave seen with the naked eye what
9omparatively few human beings have
seen without telescope aid-satellites OF
Jupiter, two Of them almost In conjunction
showing as . single point OF light.
For many years my work a exceed
ingly trying TO the eyes. One day / noticed
that the light, although about the same a.
that In which I had worked for years,
seemed insunicisnt, and upon making the
light stronger IL seemed a II the fault
must be with the objects looked at. This
was the beginning OF the illusions Of q
swiftly failing vision.
Il went to q specialist and he looked into
my eyes with his instrument.
do you drink vhisksy7' be asked.
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Tame Geese brought Back wild Ones

Alfred correspondence BiddefOrd Record.
The shakers in Alfred kept a large flock Of
geese In the pond at the foot Of the hill and
on the shore they built a house with an open
ing in the water 80 that the geese could vim
inside. with n door arranged TO drop down
the geese would come into the house ard
In the morning they would be liberated and
allowed To swim around the pond In search Of
food.
One day In the fall a large flock OF wild
geese alighted In the poad and mingled with
the flock OF tame geese. Toward night both
hocka arose and flew away and that was the
last the Shakers saw OF their hockiof geese
that fall. Now for the strange. part OF the
story. The next spring a flock OF geese
alIRhted In this pond and az once started
for the house on the shore and all swan inside.
when som one Of the Shakers saw them, ran
down and closed the door. and. y and be-
hold he had not only every one OF their Reese
that fsw away the fall before. but q large flock
81 Wild ones besides.
The Washington times., 1906-06-05
NEGATIVE SIDE VICTOR
At GEORGE WASHINGTON

After an animated discussion by the
six prize debaters Of the George Wash
ingtOn University last night on the
question OF the election Of United States
Senators by a direct vote Of the peo-
pie. the board Of judges gave a decision
fayOring the present method
The question was, Resolved, That
United States Senators should be elected
by a direct vote OF the people"
Upon the affirmative were Matthew w
Patterson, Of Arkansas; Clarence II.
Miller, of Missouri. and JOHN y. Ken
nedy. OF Pennsylvania. OppCEeG TO them
upon the negative were Elmer J. Lundy,
Of Arkansas; Adam BeeleT, Of Indiana,
and Alvin L. Newmyer, Of the District
OF Columbia.
The judges were Justices Wright
. Gould. and Barnard. OF the Supreme
Court Of the District OF Columbia Rep
resentative Dawson. OF Iowa, presided
The Judges decided for the negative.
awarding first, second. and third honors
to Messrs. Kennedy, Lundy, and Pat
! tersOn. respectively. The prizes were
sold, silver, and bronze medals
The Washington times., 1906-06-05
ILLINOIS A PARADISE
FOR EASY DIVORCES

CHICAGO, June 5.-"In the matter OF
divorce Illinois is second only 70 South
Dakota" This odious comparison was
made by Judge Willard NJ McEwan.
who tries numerous divorce cases in Chi
cago.
The system is lax, making 1t easy
20 obtain a divorce 80 the igdge con-
unued, and because OF defaults and
other conditions IL Is hard for a court
10 detect fraud. The courts, as a re-
suit, are continually imposed upon, as
the Impression seems 70 prevail that
anything regarding a divorce IS right
and legal in this State, more especially
in Chicago"
Judge McEwan's ire has been aroused
by the case Of Arthur T. Re JertsOn
who sued his wife for divorce, aleg-
ing that she had been cruel 10 him
because she put ringlets OF her OWL
hair in his pancakes. JuGsr McEwar
refused a divorce untI other evidence
was produced or a precedent cited show
ing that placing Tinglets in pancakes
constitutes cruelty"
RobcrtsOn's attorney, James II Burr
quietly transferred the case TO Judge
Gary The pancake episode was not
mentioned and the court granted a de
cree on other grounds Learning oi
this Judge Ewau has held Attorney Burr
in contempt and debarred him from
practicing before him for sixty days
while Mrs. Lucy Hines. a stenographel
employed IN the case, has been excluded
permanently from Judge McEwan's Irt
bunal
The Washington times., 1906-06-05
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The Washington times., 1906-06-05
Ernest Hogan in Rufus
Rastus" at the Academy

In q veritable whir-wiTd Of fun ana
melody, the real, unbleached Rufus Ras-
tus-Farnest Hogan-aHd his company
of dusky choristers. comedians, and terp-
sichoreans landed at the Aca 7emy and
kept packed house in chaotic din OF
laughter and applause for more than
three hours last night.
There is little doubt that the sable
comedian made a host Of white friends
as well as cOlOred. Both sides of the
house. which was divided-half for the
colored and the remainder for whltes-
applauded equally the wittiCisms and
reDartee of Rufus. He was cOmical in
makeup. funny in Tepartee, and odd IN
his antics
Aside from the comedy, the setting
OF the piece IS more than ordinarily
elaborate The opening scene In the
Ponce de Leon Hotel, and the following
in the Interior Of Madison Square. with
the dazzling costumes and a number or
attractive OctorOons. made a succession
OF pictures which have not Deen ap-
proached at the popular playhouse dur
ing TIE season for splendor. There was
plenty of song, and It's quanIy was
GOOD NANNY - NV Mobile Mandy
3CnnsoIation." and The Hornet and the
Rec were rendered with the true Eth
OMAN swing and melody that has been
the popular fancy for years. Hogan s
songs. 'Oh! wouldn't 1t BE a Dream
and rs Everybody Happy?' IN which
ne introduces gags on many OF the
local dark-sikinned notables, were more
than heartily received. My Old Ken
tuCbv Home" - IN the second act, was
sung as II IS seldom heard in this city
The Washington times., 1906-06-05

departure Black Eagle arrives 10 get
RockwelTs money and Is captured by
Rockwell Barbara exposes him as the
betrayer OF Rockwel's sister and then
shoots HIM dead 10 save Rockwell
The piece is well put on and the three
parts are eNcellently filled. Miss Tyler
was particularly effective in the novel
love scene with Rockwell I'm the cabin
and answers the requirements of the
climax OF the action in a way alto
gether admirable. George d. Parker
gave fine Interpretation of the part
of the ranchman. and Guy COOmbs was
excellent as the villain friend
The piece was followed by the FOUR
act idyI .Ingomar," with r. -. Mac
Lean as IngOmar and Miss Blanche
StOddard as co-star in the role oi
Par1henia. Mr.. MacLean pla-ed the
part with the force and barb&-ic dig
nifty Il requires, and Miss Stoddaro
proved again that she is a charming
actress Of uncommon versatility anc
ability. The scene between lnGomaT anc
Parthenia I'm the mountain fastness
when she cOnqUers the heart OF th5
fighter. was unusually effective.
other good work WAS done by joan M
Kline as MyTon, Mrs. Mack as Nyron
wife. and Guy Coombs as the l. narci
| of Massila.
Altogether the bill at the Belasco thii
week IS Of an unusual interest. TO
night Sarah Bernhardt will give rare
well performance, the Belasco haVin'
! been Yielded to her tonight through INT
| courtesy Of Miss Tyler.
The Washington times., 1906-06-05
"Ingomar" and a New
Play at the Belasco

Two plays, The Girl from the Sun
Kissed East" and "Ingomar," were
presented at the Belasco Theater last
night by Miss Odette Tyler and her
stock company, with r. d. MacLean
as the star in 'Ingomar."
The Girl from the Sun Kissed East
is by George d. Parker. and had its
first presentation last night, Mr.. Par
ker playing the part Of Dick Rockwell.
the Wyoming ranchman, the hero of
the piece, which is in one act. Miss
Tyler appeared as Barbara Dunbar. the
girl from the East, and Guy Coombs
played the part of Ralph Drew.
The story Of the piece. which is laid
on a Wyoming ranch at 3 O'clock i'm
the morning, IS Of Dick Rockwell pre-
parng 70 go East TO find the betrayer
of his sister Young Drew comes in n
bid lin good-by, and Rockwell saws he
viii some day get even with Black
Eagle, a notorious hiGhwayman of the
neighboThOod-
Barbara Dunbar comes after p-ew's
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ENJOYABLE BILLS
At PLAyHOUSES
John Mason in ''The Liars
for Week.
PREM Frat BELASC o
Carroll Institute Dramatic Club, Pre-
senting Alabama" Given a Hearty
Reception at the National.

They played 'The Liars" over at the
Columbia last night-Guy Standing and
his company. and will for the rest OF
the week. Mr.. Standing imported John
Mason for the production. and for the
time being abdicated in his favor giving
him the leading part, and Mr. Mason
fully justified the confidence
1t is unnecessary at this late day to
review the play 1t is a John Drew
play. and in the Columbia Theater pro-
ductior John Mason has the part-John
Drew's old part-and the only real live
part in the play. which may account for
a certain listlessness. a perfunctoriness
that pervaded the performance of the
others.
Mason. as Col. Sir Christopher Deer
ing. labored under the disadvantages
otherwise-of inevitable comparison with
John Drew. Those who had seen the
original production OF necessity told
themselves how Drew did &c. Even those
who hadn't knew to n certainty exactly
how Drew would have done it, And
Mason did not do it exactly that way
o He was reminiscent of Drew. of course,
but he gave a more vivid and energetic
characterization than Drew Of typical
Drew part. the wording who has come
10 forty years. and lost by the wayside
all his illusions. his faith IN women 'eX-
cept one" (Which is. after all, all that is
necessary 10 the average man $ saliva
tion). but who lives ScrupulOusly N TO
his own rather high standard of decency
and honor.
Guy Standing played the rather thank
less part of Edward Falkner, thc suf-
fering and most unheroic hero That
he PLAYED II easily and smoothly goes
without saying.
Dorothy Hammond played Lady
Jessica Nepcan. the woman that all the
fuss is about. and whom everybody
breaks their necks to save, and who
isn't worth IT,
The Tattons. Lady ROsamund and
Freddie were taken by Jenreys Lewis
and George Castor. and We're amusing
though at times they vcrEed danger
ously close to CariCature. Malcolm
Douglass as George Ncpean. the prig-
gish, self-righteous broth-in-law, was so
true to life that one wanted to box his
ears for him w II CrOmpJOn. rs
Archibald Coke. made the most OF his
opportunities. The minor parts were
acCeptably filed on the whole and the
performance generously applauded by
a gOOd-sized audience