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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
COTTON BUYERS WANT CURRENCY
Ask l.. y. Treasury TO Issue Cash Against
Gold Deposited In London

New ORLEANS. Oct. Sl.-Buyers Of cotton
in Texas. Arkansas. Alabama. Louisiana
and Mississippi have sent in urgent appeals
to New Orleans cotton exporters for cur
rency. domestic exchange being unstable
because the banks at New Orleans cannot
buy foreign exchange.
In order to bring prompt relief exporters
wired the Secretary Of the Treasury at
Washington asking hat the Government
arrange to accept gold deposits at London
and authorize the New Orleans Sub-rreas-
ury to pay out currency against such de-
poeits abroad.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
Candidate for Alaska JudgeshIp.

WASHINGTON, Oct. SIS. II. Reed Of
Oklahoma a been recommended to the
President and the Acknowledgement for
the Federal Judgeship in Alaska. to sue
ceed Judge Wickersham. who recently
resigned. Mr.. Reed ran on the Republican
ticket for the Office of Acknowledgement
Of Oklahoma. but was defeated. He is
highly indorsed by Gov Frank Frantz
and other prominent citizens Of Oklahoma.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
Roxsrs To n. Pun "a Death on Dec. .,

MIDDLErowN, N. u. Oct. S1.-Charles Fl.
Rogers. convicted of murder in The first
degree for the killing of Frederick r. Oh
ney near this city. was sentenced to-day
Prison during the week beginning Decsm-
Der 8
Torpkins granted Rogers attorneys sixty
daysto prepare their appeal. Thus Rogers
will not go TO the electric chair on Decem-
Der 3. The appeal for a new trial will NOT
be argued until tho latter part Of January.
Within Ave minutes of being sentenced
Rogsrl wss on hissWay to sing sing
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
DIED IN A UTICA HOSPITAL.
Louis CaIIIsher ~ This Sity Killed by Burns
lie Received Two Weeks Ago.

HE HecelNed TWO weeks q
UTICA, Oct. 3l.-Peculiar circumstance
surrounding the death to-day in a Utica
hospital Of Louis Callisher, n travelling
~optioian, with headquarters at the Hotel
Albert, New York city. have led 20 IN in
vestigRtion by the Coroner and police.
Callisher died as the result OF burns on his
body and head, which il L. believed
he received during a cab ride with several
young men companions in this city two
weeks ago.
His son, Isidore Callisher, was sum-
moned here from New York last night
by the hospital authorities when IL was
known that his father was dying. and to-
day hs was loud In his outcriss against the
mistreatment his father had received,
He suggested that he had been burned
with acid. Later before Coroner Dodd
he was anxious to recall the hasty words
he had uttered and was DESTROYS of re-
turning TO New York with the body on the
. O'Clock train.
The Coroner informed him, however
that he must remain here with the body
until a proper inquiry had been made.
The dying man had no recollection OF how
he had received the burns on his body.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
STRIKE AT WARE ISLAND YARD
RiVeters Demand PiecewOrk and FIN the
Price per Hundred slVsts.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.-The Navy Depart
ment has been advised that about twenty
five rivsters employed at the Mare Island
navy yard. near San Francisco. have
struck. According to the information
which the Department has. the men de-
mand piecework and have fixed their price
at SIS per 100 for one inch rivets and tl2
per 100 for seven-eighths inch plate rivets.
Il is understood that this figure includes
the cost Of helpers n heaters. The pres
ent rate Of wages Is So, az a day for riveters.
$500 for helpers and g.. 80 for heaters. The
men are able TO install from seventy-flve
90 eighty rivets a day. and under pieoewOrk
would be able 10 make much better wa res
than at present. They ha We recently been
engaged on repair work on the transport
Sheridan.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01

No amount Of newspaper advertising could Of Itself have gained for this
store the place In pubic favor u has already achieved.
Such swiftly charging acquaintance, such abundant daily increases In eM-
dence Of favor, can come only from one kind Of pubhcRy-sVOrabk public
comment, widely spread and widely spreading.
rhuch Of this IS based on our remarkable pricing Of fine goods, examples
Of which follow;
BathObes-smaRprce but Of a high degree Of good looks and service
abAR~. Nade Of a fine lowered fhnnestte, In a wide range Of ccl~s
and floral designs 200
EdsrdO~m dressing sac4ues tasteful enough for Out-hehOuseat-O todd
moment wear. Satin bound, finished with sailor collar and dOed with
frogs and sathcOvered buttons. Value Us Csc
Silk pethcoats having the quaduped merit Of excellent silk, liberal cutting
fauless fit and unusual price. Nade with deep aeordon-pkRed Aounee,
finished with full rfAe and Two rows or rehms In colrs to match the
new autumn gowns Usually priced al 81 S.
French taHeta-a silky s~ofdy-dapms fabric, suitable for evening and street
dresses, Tea gowns and chAdrens desses--n a complete range of fashion,
able autumn oons.
All WOO, in shadow check, az inches wide, per yard 7e
All WOOL in shadow stripe, a. SSe
Silk and wool, SO inches wide, per yard 81
All wool aharOss in an unusually complete color range
80 in. wide =. soc 46 in. wide Use
1000 yards all wool bahste, a particularly fine, ehnsns texture, suitable
for house and Tea gowns, waists and hhdrens dresses In all the wanted
cOIrs, including pastel tnts; SO m wide, yard 45c
Carefully made sheets and pMOweses Of a heavy grade Of cotton. The
prices quoted are about twenty per cent. less than the usual figures.
s sa~., c.- s:: :$&$ :$ $:s$:$$ 500" ""~ %." 49,. a 20:
A number Of the better grades Of Eastern and California blankets in
winter weights, many with borders Of new and exclusive designs. Double
and extra large sizes, al prices considerably less than ar customary
asked 3e5, $50, SOS, 67S, 7SS
Sixth Avenue, Eighteenth TO Nineteenth Street, New York.
Formerly occupied b B. Altman g. CO..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
Complain. Axslns. Illinois Central.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3l.-The Illinois Col
iery Company Of Chicago filed a complaint
to-day with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission charging the Illinois Central Rail-
road with discriminating against il in the
distribution of coal cars.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
WAGES Of More couDer Miners On,

CALUMET, Mich Oct. 3l.-The Calumet
and Hecla Company has cut the wages Of
5000 men II per cent. The Copper Range
c npany a S per cent. Gu affect
ing 5000 men.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
Cen. Bingham nspects brooklyn Head
quarters.

Police Commissioner Bingham visited the
State street headquarters in Brooklyn yes
to-day and made a thorough inspection Of
the building. The various bureaus are
much cramped for spaoe and much diff
Guilty d found In obtaining quarters for
the italian detective squad, which was
organized by the Commissioner Sast week.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-01
Major Andrus TO Retire nm January 4.

WASHINGTON, Oct. Shy direction OF
the President Major Frank b. Andrus,
Twelfth Infantry, will be placed on the re-
tired list on his own application, after
more than thirty years service. The re-
tirement will become effective on January
l, 1908
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

plants and scatters them in panic to fur
Their jungle country.
The royal elephant hunt was more
serious affair, perhaps when that majestic
beast was the only means Of royal travel on
land, and the elephant corps and elephant
batteries were the corps d'elite and most
important branch of the army. London
built landaus on pneumatic tires and auto
mobiles stand In the palace courts. and
long-range, quick firing machine guns OF
the japanese pattern are the equipment OF
the royal artillery. Save for tradition
and sentiment for occasional state splen-
doris and parades, the elephant has no
part in Bangkok court life. and the ele-
plants occupation would be gone were
it not for the survey corps, the road
builders and official travelling in the far
away provinces, and the teak forests and
timber yards. where American overhead
machinery cannot altogether supplant the
intelligent strength of the elephant.
For the great hunts at Ayuthia, site of
the abandoned capital, the hunters go out
weeks beforehand and beat the junges
for a hundred miles to north and east, and
the Gordon of tame elephants slowly closes
around the wild elephants and drives them
In a herd of two and three hundred and
more down to the river bank and across to
the kings kraal.
The last hunt of this kind was arranged
for the special enjoyment of the crown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06
PRERNNq 10 f1uNr 0TJDE lHE NAAL

tween for the slmmest Siamese to squeeze
through If pursued.
The grandstand, with its royal loge, from
which the king and his guests view the
scene, is built over the north wall of the
kraal but, as this position of honor and
fixed Asiatic convention is a bad one for
photographers, the king, who Is an enthu-
sast over the camera, has had a special
pavilion constructed at one side, where he
maneuvers his instruments, large and small,
with the greatest spirit. Nearly every one
carries a camera to the elephant hunt but
none snap at royalty, except by request, in
so highly civilized a country as Siam. At
this last hunt, the king photographed many
of the diplomatic houseDoats as he sped
down. the watery reaches, and was delight
ed when he caught one favorite envoy I'M
awares. Now you snap mel, cried the
king, in amend and had his boatmen swing
his brass trimmed, teak houseboat around
and stop it at the right angle and distance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

waters comes to itself again. and its canals
and creeks and water boulevards
crowded as In the centuries when it was
great capitai of Asia
When the hunters have urged the slow
moving game out from the jungle to the
river bank, the sight is worth all Siam
efforts to see. Hundreds of boats hem the
herd, at a safe distance, and while the hun
dreds Of elephants splash and roll in the
stream, the buzz and shouts of the thou
sands of people set the elephants nerves on
edge, cause them to trumpet and spout wa
ter over their gaunt companions more
fiercely than playfully There is contrast
enough between the wild and the tame ele-
plants, standing plump, benign and imper-
turbable on guard behind them, waving
their trunks easily, Tapping an ear now
and then. 1t is for these sleek guardians to
lead and steer their jungle cousins across
the meadow and into the converging ap-
proaches to the kraal This square incos-
ure has solid walls six feet thick. with an
inner stockade of teak logs twelve feet high
banded together with iron and set so close
ly together that .-lere is barely space be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

prince after his return from his studies
at Oxford and his tour of America, and
before he assumed the robes of Buddhist
priest and spent the regulation three
months In a monastery, in accordance with
old Samese custom. 1t was a most sue
cessfu hunt, and the series of large photo
graphs, which are reproduced here present
the different stages of the hunt and show
the herd of two hundred and fifty wild
elephants in every pose
For the hunt week, the court stays in
residence a the nearby palace of Bang
pain, on the river banks, and the diplo-
matte and other foreign guests go up to
Ayuthia on their households, which lux
uriously lodge them during the time. All
Bangkok that can find foothold goes up
the forty miles by train, and all the river
side and creek country people paddle their
small boats and dug-out canoes to the arm
of the Meinam. on which the Kings kraal
lies, until dead / buried Ayuthia by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06
In Memoriam.

Stephen Tasker of Philadelphia had
been congratulated on his exploring ex-
pedition in Labrador, an expedition
whereon he had taken his wife.
Those wild regions" said Mr.. Tasker,
smiling. made hardly an appropriate
place for a quiet married pair to visit on
a pleasure trip. STILL everything came
out well in the end-came out better than
a certain young widows adventure. Ell?
"A young widow was consulting
tombstone maker about her husbands
tomb. She ended the discussion with:
And l want IT to say. ITO my hus-
band" in an appropriate place. Mr.. Slab
All right, ram Slab answered.
And the tombstone. when 1T was put
up. said:
- To My Husband. In an Appropriate
Place
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

Philadelphia publisher, disked trusts, and
foresaw trouble from them.
At a journalists dinner in Philadelphia
Mr.. Altemus said of trusts:
They remind me in their cupidity Of
boy l once knew. This boys mother ran
into the nursery one afternoon and said:
Jimmy. what's the matter with your
little brother?
He's crying the boy answered. be
cause Pm eating my stick of candy and
won't give him any
is his own candy finishedY
Yes, ma am and he cried while 1 was
eating that. too"
Compensation.
Miss Harriet Curtis, the golf champion,
at dinner in Boston praised COLTS effect
on the health.
Many persons" she said. especially
many women, have i'll health because they
never take any exercise. and their nerves
weaken, and half their complaints are nerv-
Gus. imaginary ones that hard work would
cure.
II know doctor who has patient of
this type-a big, robust woman, who Is
never without list of ailments as long as
her arm
1.-The last time she sent for the doctor
he lost patience with her. AS she was
telling him how she was suffering from
rheumatism, sore throat, nervous indiges-
ton, heart burn. pains in the back of the
head and what not he interrupted her.
All, he said, in an admiring tone, what
splendid health you must have in order to
be able to stand all these complaints
To "Arrive"
Nine. Calve, in an interview that she ac-
corded to young woman journalist, i'm
puted her success to hard work.
There are many good voices" she said.
that the world will never hear because
their owners are too indolent to develop
them.
bis like the story of the farmer.
BLOCKING up from his paper the farmer
said vehemently to his wife one night:
Do you know wh1& I'd have done IL
had been Napoleon
Yes the woman answered You'd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06
A Secure Location.

1T pays 10 advertise" said Mark Twain
at an advertisement writer's banquet.
when 1 was editing the Virginia City
Enterprise. writing copy one day and
mining the next, I tried to force this
truth home in many ways
"A superstitious subscriber once wrote
and said he had found a spider in his
paper. Was this good or bad luck? l
replied to him in our Answers to Core
spondents column as follows:
"'Old Subscri berthe finding of a
spider in your copy OF the Enterprise was
neither good luck nor bad. The spider
was merely looking over our pages to
md out what merchant was not adver-
Using, 30 that il could spin it's web across
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

AS the wild elephants crowd up and into
the narrow chute leading to the kraal.
trumpeting and shuffiing nervously in their
fright, the scramble and crush is terrific.
After the huge logs have closed the wicket
or pOrtculliS, the tame elephants go round
as an ambulance corps, assisting bruised
and injured elephants to move and rise to
their feet and turning the dead ones over
out OF the way. At every hunt several
beasts have their ribs broken and the life
crushed out of them in this crush at the
gates; for when two frantic elephants try
to go through at once, neither one yields
or draws back. and the strongest and
largest one survives.
After this actual theater panic mildly
subsidies and the kraal is filled with the
wild jungle folk. who trumpet and scream
increasingly, the elephant doctors" move
about on their trained tuskers and note the
desirable catches. The chosen ones are las
seed by the foot and made fast to stakes,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

teal experience Is better than theory in
play building. If a man has acted a little
he Will avoid, when he sits down to write
a play, all manner of queer errors that trip
up the playwright who has never acted"
Here, as everywhere, an ounce of exper-
ience is worth a pound of theory. 1t is like
the story of a new curate.
This curate, being DESTROYS in all things
to conform to the exact letter of the lit
urgy, insisted. when performing his first
marriage ceremony, that the ring be put on
the fourth finger.
1.-The bride rebelled She would not have
81 would rather die than ne married on
my little finger, she cried.
But the rubric says So, replied the cur
ate.
Here the hard-headed and experienced
parish clerk stepped In.
In these cases, SIR he said, the thoomb
counts as digit.
A Disappointment.
when I was in Howard Chandler Chris
tvs illustrating class at the Cooper Insti-
tute," said a young grocer, "Mr. Christy
told us that it paid to make ultra-fashion-
able pictures. though sometimes such work
had its disadvantages.
HE said that in the days before he had
arrived he had some things once in New
York exhibition-some rejected magazine
offerings that he hoped to get few dollars
for.
They were fashion pictures, the same
kind he does now, and one day, as he was
Longing near them, he saw well-dressed
woman stop and level her lorgnette. Then.
to his delight, she said:
All. If I only knew this artist person
allyp
Mr.. Christy came forward
Permit me. madam he said, to intro
duce myself as the artist.
What luck. the woman exclaimed.
Now you'll tell me. won't you. the name of
the dressmaker who made that tall girls
frock?'''
A Trust.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

tAu the Illustrations with this article. as
The Greatest Hunt in the World written
by Miss Eliza r. Scidmore and published
In the December number of the National
Geographic Magazine of Washington. d.
C The article and pictures reprinted
in The Sunday Star by special permission of
the author and the magazine publishers
Ed. ].
n LII other hunts and drives. bat
~ tues, and baggings of big game
"A are Insignificant compared to the
L elephant hunt of the King of
Siam. 1t Is old well a
picturesque custom. and, surviving to the
twentieth century unchanged In all its i'm
portant features. is still the delight of the
court of Siam. the capital, and all the
water-side country around old Ayuthia. 1t
used 70 be an annual affair, but there have
been serious lapses in this reign, owing one
time to the kings absence in Europe again
TO his little discord with France and yet
again 20 hs i'll health. There are forebod-
ings lest the great chase be given up of
necessity, as time goes on and enterprising
Siam keeps up its irrepressible gait Of
modernity Progress and the new agri-
culture, railway extension and irrigation
are turning the jungle into limitless rice
browns the trumpeting Of the wild ele-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

one finished In the prescribed manner and
won the bet"
No Need to Run.
Mrs CIews-Parsons, whose book on mar
riage has created so much excitement, said
at a dinner in New York:
They who are happily married are shock
ed at the idea of trial marriages but they
who are unhappily linked together and
are yet too proud and sensitive to get a
divorce. must see much in the idea that Is
of value.
How many marriages would be dis
solved If the dissolution could be accom-
plished without shame. How many mar
ried people feel toward each other like a
husband l heard of the other day.
He said to his wife at breakfast. crust
lily:
Is L dreamed about you last night
What did you dreamT she asked.
Il dreamed 1 caught chap running
away with you
And what did you say to himg she in
quired listlessly.
~ asked him what he was running
for "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

When the wild elephants have been chosen
and made fast to stakes, they sometimes
break loose and wreak their frenzy on the
first animal in sight. and battles royal be-
tween fierce tuskers often enliven the after
hunt. Then the air rings with the shouts of
the people and the SIamese thinks he has
had royal holiday indeed
When the final choice has been made and
the rejected elephants are turned back into
the meadow, fed and freed, the king rises
and goes to his boat The King of Siam is
one of the most ngly-looking men now
gracing a throne-'the handsomest man in
ASIA, many of the diplomats cal him
and IN his white military uniform he steps
off at pace that puts the royal umbrella
bearer at a dog-trot to keep up with the
strenuous ruler. At sight of the king In his
European clothes. under his Asiatic umbrel-
Ia. the people sink on their heels and re-
main in pose of reverent humility until he
has passed. Then the people. who have en-
Joyed the holiday to the full, take a fresh
betel quid, tuck up their panungs paddle
away or wade the stream. and Ayuthio
becomes again but a busy water village
near some ruined temples in the jungle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06
= Deaf Friend.


hard times
= Deaf Friend.
Arnold DAILY. the actor, had been invited
to tell a story at a theatrical banquet in
New York.
II always hate to tell a story" he began,
because my listeners may have heard 1t
before What boredom that is for them,
what agony for me.
1T is like the case of friend of mine.
He's deaf but tries to conceal his deaf
ness.
And one night at dinner the host told
a story at which everybody roared. and my
deaf friend Joined in and outroared the
whole table. though in truth he hadn't
heard word.
AT the end Of the laughter he held I'D his
hand as a sign that he wanted to speak
That story. he began, reminds me OF
another one
told the very same yarn the host had re-
peated only minute before"
Ingenuity Extraordinary.
c. s. Rolls. the English aeronaut and
motorist, was talking in New York about
the Daily Mail aeroplane prize of $4,000.
think the Wrights will win this prize"
he said Santos Dumont is ingenious.
but the Wrights are more ingenious still.
They are as ingenious as-as a betting
friend of mine"
Mr.. Rolls smiled and resumed:
MY friend, Capt. Bragge, bet an ath-
lete that he could not hop up certain
long flight of steps two at time The
athlete took the bet. and made the trial.
But there were forty-one steps to the flight,
and therefore. after making twenty hops
the man found that he had lost. He paid
up. but accused Capt. Bragge of sharp
practice.
Sharp practicer said Bragge indignant
ly. Well, I'll make the same bet with you
that can do it
THE other. expecting to win his money
back. assented.
Capt. Bragge then hoped up forty
steps in twenty hops, and, hopping back
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@ ElEpnnyz,
ENTERING The KNAAL

and their trumpeting and frantic efforts to
r-ak loose furnish all the excitement the
spectators desire. A few are chosen for the
royal stables but the rest go the practical.
commercial way-to the survey camps md
the teak forests.
There is great co1trast between the sleek,
fat, well-fed and well-groo~ad tame eIe-
plants, with their quiet dignity, their be-
nign and easy maneuvers. and the sor "
looking jungle folk-gaunt, weather-worn
elephants. with visible ribs and patches Of
fungus growth-but a few weeks of re
and food, a few scrubbings and olings.
transform Them and they soon acquire the
urban manner and composure.
Every Siamese is connoisseur and critic
of elephants. and Judges unerringly from
the wild herd. First. the creature should
have good skin, unscarred. of uniform
wrlnklings or texture, and as light in color
as possible. His toes should have black
nails and his tail must be absolutely intact.
Insignificant as the elephants tail is. the
want of ii renders the creature impossible
and ridiculous, and many promising ee-
plant is rejected at the kraal because he
has lost his tail In some jungle fight
steady, even gait Is necessary for the ee-
plant TO be used in travelling.