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OF the white crests, one in the back and
one on each sleeve.
Over there. thousands of miles across
the ocean. they are beginning to decorate
for Oshogatsu. she says. The decora-
tions transform all the streets into bowers.
for regardless OF snow the exteriors OF
the houses are as ehborateIy treated as
within. Guarding each entrance are
placed shoots OF the pine tree and the
upright bamboo set n with sprays OF
the plum tree. 1hese are the national
symbols for wishes for the best that the
year can bring-the pine for strength
and long life. the bamboo for upright
ness and virtue and the plum blossom for
sweetness.
This flower OF the plum. adds little Kichi.
which comes 80 early in the spring despite
snow and weather, is the flower OF ladies. Z"
for il is thought that as the blossom In
sweet and lovely and persevering. so Ia
the Japanese lady. Likewise the sturdy,
long abiding pine Is the emblem OF Japa-
nese manhood, but the bamboo appertains
TO all-uprightness must belong to both
man and woman.
Linking door decoration with door
decoration up and down the street are
strands OF the sbimenawa or new straw,
the greenish yellow stems Of rice fresh
plucked. entirely new" declares Kichi
This use is tribute TO the greatest OF all
the goddesses whose history survives in
Japanese mythology, the goddess who
told the people how to make rice. how 70
plant it in the fields and how TO use it.
So the streets are hung on eithor side
with the shimenawa canopy from which
red lanterns hang suspended. Lanterns,
lanterns everywhere, says Kichi. for at
Oshogatsu time there Is no stinting.
When the ceremonial costumes are in
readiness and the streets are decorated
and the houses without and within, the
big festival In under way.
what is the principal thing you dop'
the japanese maiden Is asked.
We pay calls to our friends. and we
eat she answers. There are threo
essentials to the holiday fare. and these
three essentials all have. rich ard poor
alike, the prices Of the requisites being
put down 80 as 70 be within reach OF any
one.
In every house throughout the seven
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bDD PICTURES OF SINGERS
PLAY TIME SNAPSHOTS or
THE OPERA FOLKS.

saruSO as Faust ana Posed ~ an OPERA
Dancer-A Grecian Helen ana q
MedIseval Faust-dIme Make-up That
Frishtened-UnreAsOnablc Demands.
Photographing the opera singer Ia not
llways the pleasure that IL il supposed
No be by the artists who have never had
hat honor. 1t is not only the difficulSy
If finding just the pose and expression
hat is going TO please the singer That
+ difficult enough, but there are the
portraits of the husbands and wives,
he maids and the private secretaries
lud all the rest of the hanRerson
What they demand in return for caus-
pg the photographer all this trouble
nay be understood from the story OF the
prima donna who refused to pose unless
he photographer guaranteed to give her
twenty dozen pictures in every role and
he same number in her private poses.
H which she thought there would be
about twenty-four. The photoRrapkar
.eckoned up the number required and
ound that it made more than thirty thou
and pictures. so that prina donna went
somewhere else for her pictures.
There is usually some financial profit
WIG PANNNAc cot hOWONOIs lOI tuo Iuc1 VINO
AXE them. They give limited number
% the original. supply some to the opera
companies and usually succeed in selling
large number TO the artists at more or
less reduced prices. So they make the
business Of photographing the artists
aot a source Of loss. even IL II 10 not profit
bble TO them.
One tenor last year posed for numerous
photographs to the great delight OF the
Lrtist. who exhibited the keenest interest
n all his poses. He accepted the photo
raphs with great amiability and de-
slared them excellent. IL was different,
aowever. when a bill came in for $500.
He protested that he had merely ac-
septed the invitation to pose as an ac-
sommodation to the artist. but that he
aad no idea OF paying for the pictures.
ais graciousness in posing his distin-
pushed person before the camera was
regarded as reward enough for all the
outlay made by the photographer. He
Ifered to return the photographs, and
,art Of them did go back. although no
money passed.
There was a similar case in the expert
nce Of another photographer who sup
,ied a young soprano with pictures to the
reat approval Of the prima donna and
ne constant increase Of her bill with him:
When it had reached $500 she was aston
shed to receive a statement from the
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the last twenty years without visiting
her studio. Often they met there and
then there was some Of the fun that al
ways results when two or three meet
together in the name OF art.
The photograph Of Enrioo Caruso sitting
at Mar0uerite's spinning wheel came at
the close of series OF sittings in which
the tenor had posed so many times that
he declared he could not have any more
taken that day.
Unless you take me like this he said
to Nine. Dupont. drawing a spinning
wheel that stood in one corner OF the
studio over in front OF the camera. In
a minute he had been taken, and the
picture afforded him so much amusement
that he laid himself open to the same
danger when he went there the other day
to have some new pictures taken in citi-
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Zen's clothes.
Il have posed so much that am tired.
he said TO the operator. unless you take
me as a ballet dancer"
Then he fell into the attitude shown
in the photograph. The smile on his
face showed exactly the degree to which
he enjoyed this unconventional photo
graph. Signor Caruso is never serious.
He is constantly joking with his colleagues
on the stage at the Metropolitan and
with those who surround him in private
life. Just to the same degree does he
enjoy his hours spent in the photograph
galleries. and some Of his most amusing
caricatures are made there. The most
striking drawings he makes are those
OF the operatic personalities that he knows
so well. The pictures hanging about
the walls OF the studio are in the main
portraits OF these singers. and the sight
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THE JAPANESE new YEAR
SEVEN DAYS OF REJOICING
AT OSHOGATSU.

Towels the GIFT Friends Exchange-The
Pine. the Bamboo and the Plum Bios
som Convey the wishes OF the season
A Japanese Girl Tells About u.
The American Christmas holidays are
very. very nice, thinks little Kichi Harada,
who is seeing the first OF such things in
her temporary college home up on Morn
ingside He lights. but though they are
very nice the little maid from far on
Japan cannot help 4confessing that the
seasons festival in her own country
IL much nicer and that it is hard to keep
from getting homesick the first time
she has been away.
The New Years festival is the festival
OF festivals among the Japanese, says
Kichi; it is looked forward 20 throughout
the year and enjoyed by all alike. rich and
poor and high and low. In her quaint,
broken English, for Kichi left the land
OF the cherry blossoms only last summer.
she tells OF the customs OF her people at
Oshogatsu time, which she says Ia nothing
else than the Occidental New Years Day,
or days, rather, for the Japanese rejoice
for seven consecutive days over the com
Ing Of another new year.
Kichi. even here in New York. Ia dressed
In the ceremonial costume, a brand new
dress. for the Japanese at home. no matter
how poor he may be. always has an en-
tirely new costume TO wear on this holi-
day. prices being lowered at the season
30 as TO come within the reach OF all.
So Kichi has her new frock. a soft little
grayish. greenish silk with padded and
quilted Innings and the daintiest OF white
silk tlnder1arnnenta and with what il
most important OF all. the white family
crest left undyed and appearing five
times upon sleeve and shoulder. This
is the true mark OF the ceremonial dress.
tor Kichi's morning frook has but three
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CATERPILLARs MADE USEFUL.
In China They Are Made Into an Egecsive
Fertilizer for Trees. s-i.s

In China They Are Made into an Egecsive
Fertilizer for Trees. $50.
Catch a caterpillar, smash IL. and then
pour on the lime; allow 10 ferment FOR
a few hours and plough under.
This is the recipe for a new fertilfnerl
sent over by Wilbur T. Gracey. Amsri-'
can Consul at Tsingtau. China The
secret was discovered by some Germans|
who have been conducting expsriments|
in aforestation on the barren hills arpund.
that ancient city. 4&
The first paintings Of trees were made
about eleven years ago. The varieties'
used were pine. larch. walnut, oak. asf Z
naples and alders. 50 rapidly have
the trees grown. says the Van Nordsn
Magazine. that timber Is being cold a
fancy prices. Small branches are a.
great demand for frewood and the larxsr
wood is being used in mines. The sale
and expectation OF acacia are expscted
to become quite an industry IN the next
few years. fA $50 V
II is considered very remariabls that
these experiments should have succeed0f
in the least degree. Practically evarY
known difficulty was encountered, and ia
chief one was the caterpillar.
Girdles OF glue. 30 effective ln thi3
country. were placed around the tseess
hut the energetic worms hurdled than
without apparent trouble. Thousanda'
OF Chinese women and boys were employed
TO destroy the caterpillars and lnsectN
by hand. MIR. Graoey reports that n
1908 more than 100000 caterpillars wor8
gathered, smashed. covered with lime,
and afterward used as fertilizer.
Most OF the plantations have been saved
but UP on the mountainsides tho oaf6r-
pillars have almost won their light Tha
acacia withstands the attacks Of thase
little enemies of plant life better than ant
other species and i Y now being planted
effort to check future destruction.
Chinese Government officials are % lnn4
pressed by the success OF the 6xpari-
ments that they are establishing foreBffy
schools and placing them under the a.
rection OF the Germans. The FIRST school
was opened at Mukden. Manchuris, two
years ago. ~
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the children may drink all they desire
without injury.
From morning to night the streets are
filed with callers in ceremonial garb on
their way to and from paying visits Of
the season. Ordinarily no invitations are
extended, and the visitor Is likely to find
his host turned visitor also, and he has
merely to leave his card and 90 away
without eating. but in tho case OF init
mate friends cards very similar to Occi-
dental at home cards are sent out 30 as
to insure no misconnections.
After the visitor Is received, wined and
dined he receives gift before his depar-
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Of them inspires him.
Some OF the photographs OF two singers
together resulted from wholly accidental
meetings OF the singers at. this famous
atelier. One day the gigantic Alloys
Burgstaller was posing as Siegmund in
Nine. Dupont's studio. He had been
somewhat late in arriving and had not
finished his sitting when the artist who
was to follow him put in an appearance.
This was George Antilles. the German
tenor. who had come to have his picture
taken as Woither ron Stoizin0 the young
Franconian knight who figures as the
hero OF Die Meistersinger." These two
operas represent the very antithesis Of
Wagner's music. and there were rarely
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days. whether the visitor calls at morn,
at eve OF between times. may be found
an abundance OF konifu, variety Of
small fish resembling the trout: OF kobu,
seaweed particularly delectable to
Japanese palates. and Of kazunoko. the
eggs OF the Goldfish. which symbolic the
Japanese ideal OF prosperity, many
children. In addition to these three
essential articles Of food there is always
plenty of toso. a sweet wine SO mild that
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after she came to New York is back on
the job again and turning out pictures
OF her that are almost as beautiful as she
and certainly superior to any made by
his rivals.
There is not always this sordid relation
between the photographer and his oper-
attic subjects. however. and sometimes
there are very merry minutes in the
ateliers. The result Of some OF these are
shown in the pictures. They were taken
in the atelier of the clever woman who
has posed more opera singers in her time
than any other photographer. Nofamous
singer ever came to this country within
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Photographer. Her astonishment, more
over, expressed itself in loud outbursts
at the size Of the bill and at the rank in
gratitude OF asking money from a prima
donna who got only a paltry thousand
dollars night and was n great adver-
tisement for any photographer. II ended
by the prima donna paying half her bill
and rushing for a rival photographer
shop. She went to more than one rival,
but none Of them made her look quite
80 we'll as the other had. So the first
photographer to immortalize her beauty
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-06-30

Ono<hjRl Il a 0tz0w hA&D dur
- sals 4 eAs> Grow ostAhs Go.
Tate eAvsneaoo q ~ nv DE3oos
~ - . snuw ~ raoht u ~
helGhE e 0Da0oo.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-06-30
FOR SALE!

Coed first class 6S-ro0R hotel
doing fine business at Kalispell,
Mont, known as tho National Hotel.
About 100000 proposition, part
cash, part farm land in Ward County,
balance On tine at 10 per cont ia
tsrest. inquire at this oAce. or write
r. F. Tompkins, Minot, Or Caldwell
Idaho. 62t10
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-22
OFFERED FOR RENT

NICELY furnished rooms modern; large
lawn; will furnish for housekeeping for
desirable party. Phone b 220S. 1924 N. 18th
street
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-22

1919 N. 18TH ST., rooms Sl2.
1893 Yates St, 7 rooms, modern, $3.50.
1928 S. 23d St, two-story, containing B.
room, modern flat on first floor and Groom
modern flat on second floor; steam heat
splendid arrangement for two families; Will
redecorate; $40 for both flats.
el2 s, 9th St., broom modern St Louis
flat, s35.
BEBfIS-CkRLBERG CO.,
812 Brandels Theater.'
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-22
OFFERED FOR RENT

Furnished Rooms---Continueds
DODGE HOTEL, 18th and Dodge. all cool
rooms; special rates by the week.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-22
OFFERED FOR RENT


FOR RENT-0Just completed, new, elegant
Broom all modern brick house. 1t has
rooms, with an extra room on the third
floor provided with hot and cold water fol
the servant, besides neat room for stor-
age. This house is beautifully finished In
quarter-sawed oak, latest nickel plumbing
and a perfect little gem. See It. Sl5 N
21st 81.
l will also have several nice, new, brick
houses ready for occupancy in few days
They are located on the corner of 20tf
and Davenport streets, right in the besi
are especially we'll built. They have eighi
rooms with additional servants and store
rooms on the third floor, including extra
bath room for the servant. They are sub
stantially and elegantly finished In hard
wood with mantel, book cases, etc. In fact
there Is nothing better on the market. Sc.
apply to G. M. Backman, s36 Paxton Blk.
Phone Red-2esa Residence Phone. Doug
b066.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-22
Best Bargains
Best Terms
On New Modern
Homes
Only One Tenth Cash

1880 S. gath St., 5-room, new attractive
cottage. all modern but furnace; on east
front lot 40 feet wide, on paved street and
month pays both principal and interest.
1886 S. Path ST., rooms. new, all modern,
piped for furnace on lot ~ feet wide. Just
completed and a dandy home for someone
Price. $500; $50 cash; S3s.6 50 a month covers
10Th principal and interest
HASTINGS & HEYDEN,
16A Harvey St
The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-13
APPEAL FROM THE
CRITTENDOH ROME

Editor Standard. VIII you kindly
insert the following appeal in the col
umns of your next issue:
The Crittenton Home is much in
need of help. There are thirteen in
mates in the institution at present,
seven adults and six children. We
have repaired the house at an expense
OF about Si00 A worn out roof and
other bad conditions made this ex-
penditure of money necessary. The
past year had been quite a strenuous
Ing for those for whom charity was
organized, we have had several des~
titute wives with their little oneswith
us, until the mothers could obtain a
needed rest or secure employment
and be able again to take up the bur.
den of life.
Our running expenses are mostly
met by the different orders. profes-
slonal and business men and by prl.
Yate citizens, who are charitably in
clined. We thank you all and know
that your reward is assured Now In
our time of need Will you kindly in
crease your donations for short
time and strive to interest others to
assist until we can again sec our way
clearly. Let all, who think 1t is for
the good name Of our home city to
care for outcasts and raise the fallen
help In this matter I would also ask
the farmers If they could not, CT their
abundance. spare us a few sacks of
potatoes and such other vegetables as
they might have These are as good
as money TO us.
If anyone can spare us infant
clothes they can be used to good ad
vantage
Thanking you for past rcmembran-
ces. we arc.
Sincerely yours.
(SiGned) n. F. Craig. Pres.
f. /. Rasmussen. Sec'y
Crlttenton Home Board.
The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-13
TWO VICTIMS OF |
BRUTAL HOLO-UPS.
Thomas Hobbs Assaulted and
Robbed on Lincoln, Between
Oath and 25 Streets.
Second Case Occurred at Wash
ington and 35th Street-Un-
conscious Man Found.

One OF the most brutal holdups
which has ever occurred In this city
took place on Lincoln avenue between
Twenty-fourth aud Twenty-fifth Sts..
about 10 o'clock last night when
Thomas Hobbs, resident OF Frank
lin. Idaho, was slugged and then bru-
tally kicked and beaten by three
thugs, who made their escape after
robblng their victim of SS.
Up TO an early houd this morning
Hobbs assaiants had not been ar
rested but the officers have a des
cription Of the trio and their capture
Will probably be effected. Hobbs in
turIes required the attention of
physician and he was able to 20 TO
his room after having the wounds
dressed
The man is an old resident of this
city having been employed as switch
man in the local railroad yards Tor
thirty years. He is now employed as
foreman on the w. s. Parkinson
ranch at Franklin Idaho, and has
been visiting in ogden for the past
several days.
While on the way TO his room last
night he was attacked by three men
and knocked down by a blow on tho
back OF the head After falling to the
sidewalk he was kicked several times
Icy two of his assailauts. When Hobbs
asked the men 10 quit beating him up
his answer was an oath. followed
by a kick In the face. While this
was going on the third member OF
the gang had extracted all the money
from fha mans DOckptS
A Young man who had seen the
thret men running aways came to
Hobbs assistance and policeman
was summoned The injured man
was taken 10 the police headquarters
where Il was found that he has sus-
tained n bruise OH the back Of the
head. cuts about the face and n Sc
we're bruise an the right arm Dr..
Rels. the city physician. was sum
moned and dressed the mans wounds,
If required n number of stitches TO
close the cuts on the mans face,
Another Victim Of HoId-UPe.
Thomas Corbett. who resides Mt
$50 Thlrty-flrst street. was found In
a seml-conscious and dazed condition
on Washington avenue between
Twenty-sIxth and Twenty-seventh
streets at n late hour last night ana
the police believe TINT he was thee
victim of a holdup. although Corbett
was unable to explain the situation.
While on his way home Thomas
Allen and two companions found the
man lying on the sidewalk. He was
taken to police headquarters. where
It was discovered that he had re-
celved bad bruise on the temple
Corbett told the police his name and
address but beyond this his state
ments were rambling ana meaning
less,
The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-13
TRIES TO SELL
STOLEN BLANKET
Desk Sergeant Anderson Arrests
Harry Lewis on Charge of
Petit Larceny.

His effort TO dispose OF blanket
which he had stolen from the buggy
of Erik Larson resulted in the ar
rest of Harry Lewis by Desk Scar
geant Anderson last evening Lewis
who claims to be native OF Indiana.
was locked up at the city jail and
will answer to the charge of petty
larceny.
The blanket, which was valued at
Sc, was stolen about 4 o'clock and an
hour later the police learned that a
man had attempted to sell blanket
at a local secondhand store. Officer
Anderson took Lewis into custody and
Mrs. Larson identified the blanket as
the one taken from her buggy.
When confronted by the absolute
evidence of his guilt, Lewis became
loud in his denunciations of the
country and told the police he re-
gretted the day he ever crossed the
Missouri river. He also declared his
intention of returning TO dear old In.
diana Immediately upon his release
from jail for his present misdemeanor.
The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-13
SURPRISE PARTY.

a surprise party was given at the
home OF Chris ]. Brown, 552 Twenty
sixth street, Friday evening. in honor
OF their son. Laurel. Many friends
were present and all spent an onjoy-
able evening An elaborate luncheon
w6s served at 10 O'Clock, after which
games and music were INDUCED in un-
til a late hour,
Among those present were Misses
Yerna Vandyke, Pearl Tracy. Gladys
Ballantyne, Nina Handley, Ardell
Browning, Esther Seppic. Cora Vol
ker. Susie Jacobs, Katherine Volker,
Ethel Thomas. Eva Brown, Ruth Pc
terson. Delllah Bingham, Elizabeth
Dalimore. Irma Bccles. Mary Jacobs,
Tree Handley; MesSrs. Laurel Brown,
Bob Major, Ray Donaldson, Earl Pin
GIee, Marcus Critchlow, Earl Reed.
Herman Purdy. Ira Brown. Jack Ec-
clcs. Llsle LarSin. Marion Brown, Ed
Smith. David Ecclcs III, Clarence
Brown, sydney Watson, Boyd Lindsay,
Aaron Pin0ree
The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-13
WYOMING SHERIFF
WANTS HENSLEY
Evanston Officer Will Appeal to
the Governor for EXtradi-
tion Papers.
Hensley, Spokane Real Estate
Man, Held on Charge of OBJ
tanning Money Falsely.

In an effort to secure the custody
OF E. Hensley, Spokane real estate
agent who was arrested in this city
several days ago, Sheriff Jones oil
Evanston. Wyo, appealed 10 Cover
nor Spry at Salt Lake yesterday Tor
cxtradition papers In order that he
might take the man back To the east
ern state, but the issuance OF the pa
pers was strenuously fought and the
result of the hearing could not be
learned last night
1t seems to be the opinion among
the mans friends that the warrant
sworn out against him by w. H wy"
man, n resident oil Cokeyllle, WyU-
ming. may prove 4 boomerang. and
his friends were not only sure that he
would not be taken back to answer
10 the charge preferred against him,
but limited that there might be an ac-
tion brought against the Wyoming
man.
Hensley IS local agent for the Great
Northern Land & TownSlte company,
with headquarters at Spokane. He
has been in this city for some time
past and his. dealings have always
been open and above suspicion.
1t seems that Wyman, Il prominent
hotel proprietor of Cokeville. pur-
chased some lots from Hcnsley. pay
ing down the sum of $3.50 as a GER
tnin per cent OF the contract price. the
remainder to be paid on the delivery
OF the deed to the property.
No hint OF trouble over the deal
came to the land agent until a few
days ago he was arrested by the local
police on the advice of Sheriff Jones
of Evanston. who claimed to hold n
warrant for Hensley, in which he was
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses. The land agent spent
one night in Jail. after which he was
released on bond.
An attorney for his company ar
rived Thursday and demanded that his
man be given a hearing. This hear
was arranged to take place before
Judge Murphy yesterday afternoon,
hut was postponed when 1t was
learned that Sheriff Jones was on his
way'to this city. Instead of stopping
of In Ogden, however, the Wyoming
official went on to Salt Lake to Sc
cure extraditlon papers.
When this was learned Hepsley's
attorney asked the governor to issue
no papers until he had been given a
nearing. The result of this hearing
was not known TO the local officials at
late hour last night.