Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-13
HE was too angry to wish to find mt

HE was too angry to wish to find me
again.
| The crowd stopped to speak TO us.
making jokes in disguised voices.
Some of the things they said made me
feel that it would be uncomfortable to
ilinger behind with the Puritan when
they had passed on.
Lets join them, shall we?" l asked.
They're going to Aladdin's cave.
Wouldn't you like to see it,"
yes" he said. And we followed
the wild party at discreet distance.
Il We went into the house again by
roundabout way. and it wasn't until
we were in the big hall that we learn
ed just how Aladdins cave was to be
found On background of dark red
flowers made into great shield and
hung over a door glittered and scin-
tillated three words In electric light
ITO Aladdin's Cave" The letters had
been lighted up only since l had been
gone, for l suppose the idea was to
make everyone go into the maze first.
| We had TO pass through several
| rooms and corridors, all of which had
| been emptied of furniture and lined
with canvas scenery cleverly painted
to illustrate events in the story of
Aladdin. Everything was shown up
to the time that Aladdin went down
into the cave at the bidding of the
magician disguised as his uncle, and
then came the entrance of the cave it
self, which was done in imitation rock
| work But I knew that 1t was the
| way down to the cellar. Either the
| stairs had been removed or else coy
cred up with theatrical kind of en-
bankment that made winding path
twisting back and forth under roof
| of the imitation rock and sloping al
ways downward At the bottom was
q screen of spun glass made to look
like a falling cataract of bright wa
ter, and until you had passed out from
behind it you saw nothing except {
glow of rosy light filtering through the
transparent glass. But when you die
come out, unless you were stick or {
stone, you couldn't resist giving al
"Ohr' of surprised admiration.
The whole cellar-at least all of i
that was left visible-had been turned
into a fairy cave of jewels. The walls
and ceiling looked like rocks studded
with blazing rubies and flashing dia
monds The rough pillars which sup
ported the floor OF the house abov,
were great sparkling stalactites ant
stalagmites. The cemented floor wa
covered with sand that glittered Xix
diamond dust. and there We're frui
trees and rosebushes. rows of tai
hollyhocks and buds of tulips, all az
parently made of Illuminated jewels
something like the transformatiol
scene in a pantomime they once too
me to see, only a hundred times pref
tier.
At the far end of the cave a brigh
red light kept coming and going. but
couldn't see by what it was made, he
cause of the laughing crowd collects
around it. We went nearer, and a
others moved away we took thei
places. 50 that at last we saw wha
caused the light and made the grea
a attraction for the people.
- 1t was a giant lamp of a strang
e shape, standing up to the height c
b four or FIVE feet from the floor on
pedestal, and behind it stood the genie
4 a fearful and wonderful apparitio
). who said things in deep bass voic
a which made everybody shout wit
d laughter Its Fred Kane. the gref
funny man." said somebody
t The genie's witticisms came whel
l. ever any one rubbed the lamp, whic
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