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it was al, stuff and nonsense.

1t was all stuff and nonsense. The
general, he said, was taking go little
interest in politics that he did not cv-
en read the Mexican newspapers. All
the same the general is under bonds
to appear before a federal commits
sioner and answer the charge that he.
on November is, 1911. did begin
and set on foot and provide and pre-
pare the means for a military expedi-
ton to be carried on from the United
States against the Republic of Mex
leo" We await the sequels-in both
countries commemorative a good
deal Of curiosity. The belief seems tn
be widespread on either bank Of the
Rio Grande that the regular army of
MeSico-such as it isis at heart
with Bernardo Reyes and against
Francisco I. Madero.
The members Of the communard
junta at Los Angeles want it distinct
~ understood that they have nothing
to do with the genaral or with any,
body else who does not march under
the red flag toward the property of
the rich and the distribution thereof
among the workingmen. They would
fight tho Reyisns. they say. as i'm
placahly as the Maderists or the Por-
fristas.
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HER GOWN WAS RUBBER
And, oh, How Delightfully 1t Fit Her
Superb Figure!


(New York Press
A tall. graceful woman dressed in a
shiminering yellow gown attracted
UGH attention in the lobby and In
one OF the dining rooms Of the Hotel
Breslin. The men were interested and
the women actually gasped when they
took a second look at the attractive
woman. Her gown was Of such tight.
ness that 1t looked impossible for her
to take 1t off without the aid Of q pair
of shears.
II would not have . gown that wa
as shocking as the one that woman 10
wearing" said a somewhat lean wo-
man sitting in 4 big armchair.
TITS rubber!!" said one pious wo-
man, who had gone 9 to investi-
gate. "a rubber gown. What will
they do next? Goodness only knows
BEST thing I have ever seen." said
q male investigator, who also had
solved the mystery Of the fine-httins
gown. I'm going to buy my wife
one"
The mere fact the. women and men
had discovered the material Of which
the dress was made did not allay cur
i0sity. Eyes in male heads turned IN
every direction as the Woman slowly
made her way to a table to which q
waiter was conducting her.
"9ome gown, eh?" one maj was
heard to remark.
"Some figure" said another.
C. c. Mobiles, assistant manager OF
the hotel, went to the dining room
and had q talk with the head waiter
The gown was too much for Mobiles
He went up to. the woman and said:
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JApAN's OCCUPATION OF
CfIEFOO

japan approached tho powers for
permission to act for all OF them II It
/ became necessary to send troops to
! China and followed up this Formally
by landing a force in Chefoo before
! the powers had time to respond to
her note. Chefoo is somewhat re-
mote from Tienstsin. where the Tor
!. eigners landed at the time OF the
Boxer troubles preparatory to march
|! ing to Pektn.
! In selecting Chefoo. rather than a
more strategic point, it might be tax
an for granted that Japan did go for
| the Of disarming n suspt-
Rcion as 10 her motives. But really
tho occupation Of Chefoo has as great
Significance as any other step Japan
! might have taken. For Chefoo is the
bprincipal port in that part Of the
province Of Shantung, the possession
Iof which would give Japan the open
Pechili and consequently put her IN
| control Of the markets OF northern
China. Farther south than Chefoo
the Jap could not easily gain a foot
hold, being blocked by British pos
i session of Weihaiwci and the Germans
fAt kiaochow.
Japan's designs on Shantung were
made apparent a year or two ago,
when Germany's overtures for parttc-
ipation in the program for railroad
development southwark from Man
churia met with Russo-Japanese OPP
position: What would Japan care
who held sway over the hinterland so
long as she controlled the trade
routes? The door is open to all ma
tions now, but once under japanese
authority the "open door" would be
as barren an ideality as Americas
omen door to Manchuria. Russia has
not yet shown her hand. and when
she does. it is not likely to be seen at
Chefoo. Her desires lie in the PROV
ince of Mongolia. where a few. months
since an ultinatum to Picking enabled
her to extend her sphere Of influence
and where she you'd like to take
over the country as far southwark as
her troops in Persia have penetrated.
Unless the powers frown on the
Japanese aggression at Chefoo, the
partition of China may be said to
have begun.
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professor Thomas whittcmore.>

The legend OF Osiris in Greek writ
ers describes the murder of the god
by his brother Set and his burial and
revivitication by Isis and. HOrus, pre-
figuring all Egyptian burials. while
tho Egyptian monuments and texts
widely record festival and funeral rftu-
ais Of Osirian worship in his many
deif1c manifestations of life, light and
Judgment.
AS god of the dead the high sanctu-
airy of Osiris was at Abydos in the
farthermost west on the flaming boun-
dairy of Egypt at the entrance to the
underworld.
Abydos is reached from the railway
at Balyana about ten hours south of
Cairo where the Nile valley broadens
fifteen miles from east to west into d
circle drawn by the Arabian and Lii
byan hills. The O n travels to-
day is a new n over the immemorial
Highway of pilgrimage through rich
fields to the western edge of cultiva-
ton marked by the cool palms of the
lake-mirrored village Of Benz Mansour
and dusty brown Arabat ell Madfuna.
Few places by night or day are more
impressive than Abydos v e now in
the mystery Of its luminous ghostly'
multitudes; for here the earliest fig
ures yet discerned in Egypt move and
that double city of This and Abydos
appears dimlY rising into the hills
that lift the fiint-armoured Lybian
desert. begins the great metropolis
where in royal tombs these kings were
buried amid priceless f1owery treasure
Of granite and alabaster.
AS the devotion to Osiris increased,
temple after temple arose at Abydos,
fell into ruin. was restored and van-
ished beneath a superseding pile.
Usertesen III, the Amenemhats. Aah-
mes and the Thtohmes are among the
great builders and restorers al a time
as long after the first dynasty as the
years are numbered Of the Christian
era. The omb of Ter. forgotten for
a thousand years and remembered
with gathered sanctities. was mis-
taken, as countless votive offerings
show, for the tomb of Osiris itself.
In life the king was the presence
of Osiris on earth, and in death he
shared mutual Dedication and adora-
ton. Usertesen, Aahmes and other
kings lay here in royal state for a
brief time after death before they
passed to their final resting place at
Memphis. it might be, or in the The
ban hills.
So great was the desire of every
Egyptian in his Osiride Identification
to be buried here near his great lord
god. that early graves were disturbed
az later dead pushed their ~covetoue
way into the sacred soil.
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ADJUSTMENTS
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The Flirting Princess

A411hNSSs
The Winnipeg Free Press has the
following to say of The Flirting Prin-
cess"
To introduce Gloom into a musi-
cal comedy seems to create something
Of an anomaly. But it is done in ;.The
Flirting Princess" and proves very en-
tertaining too. But then, THE Flirt-
ing Princess" itself is an anomaly. for
1t is Il modern musical comedy which
can lay claim to be really musical.
Granted its genuine musical quali-
ties. however, it must be admitted that
the principals of the company We're not
altogether Of like character, for the
one weak spot in Mort Singers pro-
duction of The Flirting Princess" is
that the company is somewhat weak in
solotsts. The Flirting Princess herself.
Miss Helen Darling. can lay some
claim to a voice of considerable pow
or. but the rest of the principals are
weak in that direction. But this slight
drawback can we'll he condoned in a
musical comedy which leaves an au-
dience humming the airs in the en-
tractes.
The song before mentioned, or The
Gloomy Glooms." to give it its full
title, has a catchy little air which
leaves you wondering just where you
heard it before. g familiar does it
become before the final curtain falls.
while the same may be said of the
melody of another of the songs lie
Deux Temps Pa%risienne." The hui
m~oresques of the comedy are supplied
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D Nov. a., 1911.
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Sacred Cave Reveals Bat Worship
WONDERFUL ANCIENT CAVE IN THE WIIDs OF NEXICO FILL.
ED WITH COPPER BELLS

others have grotcsrue bat heads, being
varied i'll different specimens by the
presence Of horn-lille ears upon the
forehead to high-ringed eyes and 9TH
er l~diosyncracies One is a fiat negroid
face with wide open mouth out of
which protrudes another face Of to-
taliy different type with large nose and
hldeous staring eyes. There are also
numberless bells like our sleigh bells
with a copper loop securely fastened
on the back.
These bells are not only surprising
IN design but are wonderful in work.
manshlp. They represent consummate
skill. There seems to be no doubt that
! many were cast in moulds while others
%ere beaten, or at least finished in
NAT manner. Some were built tier
upon tier on of fine-spun wire, recur.
ring scrolls and other running desiRns
being superimposed in delicately shap.
ed coils of copper.
AT times this latter method was
applied to the whole bell and at others
IT was limited to the upper section.
There is a boldness of conception in
the work and a mastery of treatment
IN us nnish that places it upon a place
distinct from all other aboriginal work
OF which We have knowledge.
while the bells undoubtedly are
the chief objects of interest. the other
finds We're notable. They include a
number of excellently shaped spear-
points. ten inches long, to which a
portion Of a petrified wooden shaft
was attached. There were also some
beads of polished stone and a few
shells from the sort Of snails that live
IN a nearby stream. Several objects Of
religious and ceremonial nature were
found. One of these is a large, life.
size mask of white cedar, covered
with mosaics of turquoise. The Diff
ferent settings for the eyes, nose and
crown evidently dropped out years be-
fore the discovery.
We found n idol eight inches
high. carved u of ebony and con.
tanning two faces, one above the tner.
A tiger head was carved on it's back,
Another face We found is carved out
Of hard. white stone. 1t is evident that
this cave was used solely for religious
purposes by a people we'll versed in
the working of metal and the cutting
OF stone. accomplishments which are
developed by a nation only when the
primal wants of man have been salts.
fed.
Its p~ropinquity to the site OF an
cient Naco. the richness Of its culture
symbols and the apparent absence of
any nearby ruins suggest that these
people We're either connected with the
city of Naco or with the nation OF
which Naco was the capital. The
Magyar influence in the feature and
treatment Of these designs, and the
presence of native copper in the cave
indicates that the bells were made
there. and it Is extremely probable
that we have here come into contact
with the worship Of the Magyar bat
god, the deity Of mountain caverns. It
seems likely that the rites celebrated
in this cave were in honor Of the
Zothiha Chimalcan, the god Of the bat
people,"
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Excavating the Osirian at Abydos
PART OF EGYPT

Still testifying to the long success
sion OF sacred edifices are the temples
of Seti ] and Rameses II. Not else
where In Egypt has a temple greater
charm than Sets, o are there many
sculptures which exhibit more refine
ment OF execution than its low translu.
cent reliefs.
Since Mariette excavated the temple
of seti in 1859 many Egyptian arch
aelogists. have been at Abydos and fol-
lowing; NJ. Ameliheau al the royal
tombs in 1896. the Egypt exploration
fund. under the direction of Professor
Petrie. Professor Naville and others,
has been almost continuously on the
site.
Last year the work. of the fund un-
der the direction of NJ. Naville COM
pleted the examination of the I'M
worked ground about the royal tombs
and of the predynastic cemeteries and
turned to the so-called Osireion lying
at the back of the temple of Seti and
within its temenos wall.
In 1901 and 1902. at the suggestion
of Professor Petrie, as is we'll known,
several places here were opened by
Miss, Murray. The pits revealed q
chamber giving the cartouche Of
Merenptah, son of. Rameses II, 1890
1915 b. c., a great hall. and the en-
trance to a passage sloping towards
the temple II q Few inscriptions
were copied. however, and the whole
wal filled in again and abandoned.
Five or six days of investigation by
the fund with the railway carried on
the work as far as Miss Murray had
gone. the staff fully concurring with
her in the opinion that the passage. ex.
tends towards the temple, and further
believing from NJ. Naville's experience
in XXI dynasty temple at DER el-Bahari
that the passage like the one there
leading to a possible Ka sanctuary
may here be the entrance to the shrine
of Osiris. :.
Strabo's reference to what he calls
a we'll below the Memnonium (the
temple of Seti)) reached by a passage
with low vaults consisting Of a single
stone and distinguished Tor their ex-
tent and mode of construction, ap-
pears to coincide in part at least with
the construction of the Osireion. which
together with the distant royal tombs
and the temple of Seti itself is con-
structed on a common axis.
The proposed excavations Of the
Egypt exploration fund this year In
volve clearing for the first time the
unfinished Merenptah chambers in the
hindermost parts of the temple OF
Seti showing the kings name and the
worship of Osiris, and colncides with
the work Of the department Of an.
tiqutties in the ~forecourt. thus open.
Ing. the temple once again. except TO,
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Benner, Begg & Garvin

the fallen pylon as it faced the plain
in ancient time.
This excavation of the osirein,
whether the Osirein prove to be q
mortuary chapel OF Merenptah or a
temple Of the mysterious OF Osiris.
holds great promise both t o those who
work in the field and to those who
by their gifts in England and in
America make the work possible.
Work must begin by December 6.
Five thousand dollars Is necessary. For
this sum l turn to America. that
America may have part in this distin.
guished enterprise.
A subscription of IS to the fund
gives the subscriber membership for
a year and entities him to. the memoir
OF the excavation and the archaeolo.
gical and annual reports for tho year.
will support q spade for tho season
One hundred and twenty-five dollars
constitute life membership.
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MAY I speak with you outside for an
instant, Mrs. Won NIeeon?"
The woman, who connes from Chi
cago, arose and her face flushed red
with anger.
when ! have finished my meal"
was her answer. The gown Of rub
son marched out of the dining room.
went upstairs, changed her gown,
and asked for her bill. The dining
room walters. the. guests. and those in
the lobby were disappointed At, the
sudden at Of anger on the part Of the
rubber-clad woman.
"They let them go into the sea with
bathing suits" said one Of the guests.
why can't they eat In q perfect
gown like that"
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CLOS Angeles Times.)

Los Angeles members Of the South
west Society of the Archaeological
School of America were keenly inter-
ested Yesterday in meeting A. Hooton
Blackiston, president of the Mexican
and Southwest Development company
who. in spite OF his large business in
terests in California and Mexico, is one
of the most devoted archaeological
students of America.
On one of his recent trims to his
headquarters at Mazatlan he ran down
the most unique discovery in the way
Of prehistoric relics ever made on the
western hemisphere. 1t is called the
sacred cave and furnishes reliable data
on n Of the strongest phases Of the
religion and culture of the lost races.
This cave contains a deposit of cop
per bells, 500 OF which have been re-
covered. They range in size from a
button to a large dinner hell. and are
more picturesque and varied in design
known civilization. They each have
for a clapper a ball Of pure copper,
and no two Of them has the same tone.
The cave also contains a number Of
images which evidently were objects
Of worship. Some of these Blackiston
obtained.
An old Indian was the first to find
the cave" said Blackiston. He dis
covered it on one of his hunting trips
in 1908 and kept the knowledge an in
vtolable secret until a few months ago,
owing to his total misconception of its
value, and because the one man in
whom he had confidence was not
there. Recently his padrone returned
and lie then divulged the information
that he had discovered an enormously
rich mine with its precious metal made
into bells.
THE cave is situated far within the
H%onduran mountains, upon an arroyo
on the headquarters Of a small stream
flowing into the Rio Chameleon ana
twenty-five miles from the ruins Of
n ancient city of Naco. Thick
growths OF tropical vegetation. rushing
streams, steep mountains and beds Of
~quicksand make its access most diff
cult. The entrance is forty feet wide,
and contains signs Of what seems to
be copper stain. Its dept is fifty-six
feet.
IA few copper bells were lying on
the surface and later excavations re-
covered them by the hundreds. The
largest are nearly three inches in di-
ameter. They range from convention
al shapes to the most fantastic designs.
THE most interesting are in the
forms Of the fanciful faces Of men and
eccentric shapes Of animals. One fol.
lows the lines Of a turtle with an
! elongated neck bent backward for the
handle. One has an exaggerated chin
and nose like our own conception OF
a witch. Some represent strange crea-
lures akin to the dragon Of romance
and these curl around bells that are
shaped like a we'll.
Some have broad gnome-like faces
in which the opening Of the bell rep
resents the mouth, with one large
tooth protruding on either side, and
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Thcll)l0
Madame sherry.

The Danger Dance is the latest
terpsichorean musical comedy sensa-
ton. The dance is Il feature of Ma
dame Sherry" and is said to be a log
edy situations. Danced by Il young
mar and woman of the cast. it is de-
scribed as a novelty. where the male
dancer is always on the ground and
his fair partner mostly in the air,
whittier he swings. pulls and losses
her, a. he might a gay scarf. The
younger woman who figures as the
human fabric is said to wear a spe-
cially devised steel corset to protect
her ribs from cracking in the clinch-
es.
Madame Sherry will be played
here ny the New York company on
Monday. December 4.
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SOME BORDER POLITICS

Last year found Bernardo Reyes
holding a civil ofice-the governor
ship of Nuevo Leon-but still a gem
eral Of division on the active list OF
the army and subject to the orders Of
the commander-in-chief President
Diaz. Before last years presidential
election in Mexico. finding his pres
ence politically inconvenient, the
commander-in-chief ordered General
Reyes off to Europe on an errand Of
military inspection, and the general
went: he had small choice in the mat
ter. Our readers cannot have for
gotten his dramatic recall. He told
the Paris newspaper men that he was
going home to his bic duties
as minister of war and aid President
piaz in restoring order. Before he
reached Havana on the homeward
tourney. tho Diaz regime was past
having. He proceeded after a while
TO Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico.
announcing that he accepted the rev.
plution. had no selfish political amhi-
lions, and wished only to serve his
rountry. His appointment as minis
ter of war in the provisional cabinet
was expected from day to day, but 1t
did not m probably President
Madero knows why. What did come
was the news that the general had
consented. to head a party and run
against Madero for the presidency.
Then occurred the h~eart-to-heart talk
between Mr.. Madero and Reyes, term
mating in an agreement that the cleo
ton should be free and peaceful, that
is should have no violent sequels, and
that the administration Of the success
full candidate should have the loyal,
cordial support of his unsuccessful
opponent. a few weeks later Ma
dero's friends in the capital city were
mobbing Reyes and his friends. and
Madero himself was saying on the
stump that the generals presence on
Mexican soil was a to the
republic. Reyes took the hint, and
the Havana steamer: he has been liv-
ing very quietly for some time past at
San Antonio. Tex. Last Saturday a
federal deputy marshal arrested him
there for conspiracy to violate the
neutrality laws. Among his alleged
co-conspiratOrs also now under ar
rest arc his son, his private secretary
and a Texas sheriff. Presumably the
federal authorities acted under in
structions from Washington upon
representations from the present gov
eminent Of Mexico. 1t may occur to
some minds to wonder why no such
arrest was made when the Maderos
and their friends in Texas were pre-
pairing their attack on the government
Of President PorfriO DiaZ.
Ever since the arrival Of General
Reyes in San Antonio. Maderist spies
have kept Il close watch upon him
and upon his visitors. He has had q
number Of these-among them q
former minister in the provisional
cabinet, a brother of the DIR. Vazqua7
Gomez who kept the Maderist insur.
rection alive until it became a
revolution and who originally was
slated by Madero himself for the
vice presidency. Last week a Mexican
Of the Madcrist party told tho San
Antonio Light that the big strike al
Torreon would he quickly followed by
big strikes elsewhere and then by the
counter revolution Of the Rcyistas
The general would not talk about this
story to the reporter who called ut the
house, but the private secretary said
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in chief by Harry Bulger and Miss
, Dale Fuller is Sport" and Mrs. Ara
n,inta Bangs" respectively. He was
Bulger's most popular number. He
was n Soldier too" was particularly
appropriate last night, inasmuch as
the Winnipeg garrison turned out in
good force on the occasion of the the
alter party Of the 18th Battery. Cana
dian Field Artillery, yesterday being
the 40th anniversary Of Its establish
ment.
Taken all round. "The Flirting Prin-
cess might be said to be the best
musical comedy in Winnipeg since T.
p. Powers appeared in Havana" As
1t is u long time since Harry Bulger
appeared in Winnipeg. a comparison
with the later comedian Powers might
be in order, for Bulger has the same
broad. rich humor as the star Of "Ha-
Nana." in which production. by the
way. The Flirting Princess herself,
Miss Helen Darling. played a lead
ing role, that Of the Spanish senorita.
Miss Dale Fuller displays a shrewish.
tive foil to the leading mans hilarious
humorisms.
In conclusion. a word might be said
Of the smart and fetching toilettes Of
the principals and show girls. and the
pretty and tasteful apparel of the hal
lets. ali OF Wnlcn seemed TO nave been
just taken out of Il bandbox. another
tribute to the perHading spirit Of
freshness" and "newness" of The
Flirting Princess"
Tonight. also tomorrow afternoon
and night and all week. THE Flirting
Princess" will be repeated at the
Walker theater.
Thclma.
One OF the most pleasing plays that
will be e here in the near future
! will be ''Thelma" which is coming to
the Metropolitan on Thanksgiving day.
The company is Il very capable one
IL carry everything that is needed
for the proper presentation Of this
now famous play. There will be two
performances Of "Thelma" the mat
inee. owing to the fact that many peo-
pie will not have their dinners until
late. will begin at $3.50. and the even.
ing performance will take place at the
. usual time.