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Chicago.-suit for $4,000 damages
was fled in the circuit court under the
dramshop act in behalf of Theodore and
siebert Shanklin. five and seven years
old. respectively, whose mother. Mrs.
Bessie Shanklin, was shot and killed at
their home by her husband, Benjamin
ShankIin, while he was under the influ-
ence of liquor and who then committed
suicide. The defendants are John =.
Fitzpatrick. a saloon keeper, and Vic
toria Koepps, owner OF the property on
which the saloon is situated.
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Socialist KRIS Republican.

Holdenville. Okla. Berry schrimp-
scher, a Socialist, hung himself in jail,
fearing mob violence, leaving a long let
ter saying he died happy in the knowR
edge Of having killed his political enemy,
Dave swihart, Republican, by stabbing
the latter three times. During debate
between the Socialists and Republicans
Schrimpscaer's brother and Swihart en-
gagged in a fight over the speeches, when
Berry Scbrimpscheg rushed in with his
knife and :nficted the fatal wounds
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WHIsKEY IN HER CLOTHES
Russian Woman Adopts Novel Expedi.
ent for BOotlegging.

Ft. Smith, Ark-An innovation in the
art of bootlegging intoxicants into Okla
homa from this city was discovered by
two special government enforcement off
GERS in the person of Mrs. Lizzie Pher-
sheroff, Russian, residing at Wilbur,
ton, Okla.
The officers found eighteen quarts OF
alcohol and five quarts of whiskey con
ceaIed in her clothes while she was riding
on a train en- route for Wilburton. The
woman wore union suit made of can
vas, which contained pocket for each
bottle OF liquor. The joy water was
confseated and the woman released.
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provide for Family of Convict.

Jaekson.-State Senator Clayton d.
Potter, of Kinds county, announces that
at the next legislature he viii introduce
bill providing that the destitute wife
or children of convict shall receive
Of that convict as laborer; and in the
of that convict as alaborer; and in the
event the convict has no immediate fam
ily dependent upon him, that in case OF
the wife or children of his victim, if he
be a homicide, are in straitened circum-
stances, the fair value Of his labor is
to be paid to them.
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Maintains Silence.

Sacramento, Cal.-Not a word was
spoken by Charles Carson, sentenced to
be hanged. when he was told he had
.been reprieved until November 8. Car
son has not spoken werd for two years.
Even ether failed to loosen his tongue,
and. although experts have pronounced
him sane, after repeated examinations,
doubt remains as to his mental condition.
Acting Governor Wallace granted the re-
prieve on this grornd. Carson mur.
dered guard during q prison matiny
six years
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Bow Excels in Fruit Canning.

Jackson.-Miss Susie V. Powell,
has charge of the Girls Tomato
work, as part of the school educat
has learned that a boy has fairly outC
the girls when it comes to canning
matoes. His name is Hiram Ore
and he lives in Yazoo county. He
ont a quarter Of an acre of tomatoes
worked them thoroughly. He go
bumper crop, and went to work cam
them. When he got through he
600 cans of tomatoes, in the
pound size.
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Reward Informers.

Jackson-Pontotoc county is the
first in the state to take advantage of
the new law which authorizes half of
the money derived from fines on blind
tigers to be used in suppressing the traf-
fc. The board of supervisors of Ponto-
toe are advertising that one-third of all
fines imposed for the unlawful sale of
intoxicants will be paid on the certifi-
cate of the justice of the peace convict
ing the offender, that service in. obtain
ing the conviction were rendered by the
party claiming the reward.
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AMERICAS FLEET LARGER
Mobilization at New York Will Surpass
German Review.

Washington.-Both as to number OF
vessels and weight of guns, the Atlantic
feet which mobilizes in New York har-
Dor, October 1915, will surpass the Ger
man feet which Emperor William re-
viewed off Hehgoland in the North Sea.
Of the 122 American ships to be mo-
bilized next month, "a are battleships,
as against the % German battleships as.
sembled in the German review. The
American feet will be armed with eight
1s-inch guns, while the German ships
have no guns of that bore and only 4s
12-inch guns, as against 14S 12-inel
guns on the American vessels.
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Fatber Nav Kin Defending Daughter.

Oklahoma City, 0kla.--Presiding jus
tice Henry NJ. FuEman of the criminal
court of appeals held that a parent who
shoots in defense Of his daughter is not
criminal and reversed the fve-year SEN
tense imposed upon c. M. Litchfeld, whs
killed Bob Collins. Litchfeld's 16-year-
old daughter accompanied Collins to a
lake and he attempted to assault the
girl,a nd while the two struggled the fa-
girl, and while the two struggled the far
Inns, killing him.
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Innnmnrth fnr Taft.

Cincinnati.-In statement before the
Republican county central committee
here. Nicholas Longworth, congressman
from the First Ohio district, and son-ln-
law of Col. Roosevelt, made the follow
ing expression regarding his attitude in
the coming election:
.Tf the question be asked as to my
present position, reply that | am, as
have always been, a Republican, and
shall support, as have always support
ed, the Republican ticket.
cat the same time I want it under
stood that as Republican ! am pro
gressive."
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Mexicans ASK Diaz to Return.

Mexico City-A secret petition, asking
that Gen. Porfrio Diaz return, take over
the command of the combined federal
and rebel armies and seize the presidency
of Mexico, is being circulated here. The
sponsors of the petition, who have Sc
cured the former presidents assurance
that he will come back if the people Of
Mexico demand it, are keeping under
cover, but it is known that similar petit
tions are being presented to the people
in other cities of the republic.
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KILL FATHER, THEN BABE
Child Drained in Mothers Arms-POss'
Catches Two Accused.

Jasper, Ga.-Charged with having shot
and killed Matt Hughes from ambush
and then to have Drained his baby to
death while it was in the arms OF its
mother, Jasper and Yes Painter were
brought here and placed in Jail. Revenge
for alleged information given the author.
tiles by Hughes regarding the illegal
whiskey distilleries is believed by the
police to have been responsible for the
crime.
Mrs. Hughes was attempting to drag
the body of her husband inside then
home when she was attacked by the am
bushers, who Drained the babe. She is
in serious condition.
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Mississippi Exhibit Wins.

Jaekson.-The Mississippi department
of agriculture is in receipt of ver5
gratifying letter from Industrial Commits
siouer J. c. Clair, Of the Illinois Central
Railroad Company, received by Commits
sioner Blakeslee today. Mr.. Clair writes
that the Illinois Central exhibit, consist
ing largely of Mississippi products, was
awarded first prize for out-of-state exhlb
its at the Indiana state fair.
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Bows Protest to Mayor.

Baltimore.-Carrying banners setting
forth their grievances in glaring words,
half a hundred school boys, whose ages
range from to Is years, protested to
Mayor Preston against their school be-
inc taken from the white pupils and
Oiyen over to negro children. The school
board recently transferred the pupils OF
nublic school No. 81 to other schools be-
cause It is in an almost exclusively ne
oro district. The boards refusal to re-
Store the school to the white residents,
lad to a strike of the children.
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American Ranches Raided.

Mexico City-The recent sacking by
rebels of the ranch of the American
Rothschilds near Laguna, in the western
part of Michoacan, not far from the Pa
cifc coast, was reported by consular ad.
vices. The raiders drove off the man
aper of the ranch and secured about 400
pesos in money.
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praise Eradication Of 4oOkwOrm.

Jacksonville doctors of Clarke c
ty have sent testimonial to the 8
board of health, in which the hookw
crusade in that county has just te
mated under the auspices Of the s
board, is indorsed emphatically; the
ion expressed that an incalculable
Of good has been accomplished, and
field agent Of the board, DR.. Il. Il. I
ard. is a very thorough and comPe
mani The field of operations has
been Nmoved to Wayne, the ado
county.
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Women Handled Roughly.

London-Suffragtetes, who today at
tempted to break up meeting addressed
by David Lloyd-George, the chancellor Of
the exchequer at Llanystumdwy, Wales
were given short shrift.
The chancellor hardly had opened his
mouth before the farniliar cry of Votes
for women" was heard. Other shouts
followed, and the crowd, losing its tenn
per, handled the women roughly, some
of them falling to the ground and be
ing trodden on.
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rrnola sam After Dvnamiters.

Jackson.-An entirely new phase
been put on the dynamiting Of the c
dipping vats in the state, when it
learned that the federal authorities
agents at work gathering evidence
at the proper terms Of the respe
United States courts this evidence
be laid before the Federal grand Jun
each place.
There has been some opposition t.
work Of cottle t;eN eradication IN a
sippi. but in Monroe and Leake cou
it went as far as open violence
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AMERICANS ExTRAVAGANT
Billions Spent for Liquor, Automobiles
Jewels, Etc.

Misunderstanding figures rela,
tive to the way Americans spend their
surplus capital are embodied in the state
ments given publicity at the first session
of the international Congress OF by
giene and Demography. The white slave
traffic draws annually from the spending
money of American manhood the aston
ishing sum Of So OOO, 100000. BY far the
largest item in the list Of expenditures
over and above the simpler necessities
of life is this tax on the pocketbook OF
the sons of America. 1t exceeds either
the expense of alcohol or tobacco and IS 5
but fraction less than the combined
costs of these two extravagances.
The tabular list Of American expend-
a;4,,raz ;s a foIIowS.
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School Term Begins.

Jacksonville school and college $
son opened in Mississippi during
week. Millsaps College and BelhaN
College, in this city, and Mississippi {
lege, at Clinton, ten miles west Of he
opened Monday, while the University
Mississippi at Oxford, the A. & M. {
lege at Starkville, opened on the Z
following The new State Normal {
lege at Hattiesburg throws open its do
on Wednesday, and the Industrial
stitute and College viii open on Sept'
Der "a.
In all of the separate school distrI
and many of the rural districts, the P
lie schools will start tn Monday.
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Women Conductors.

Philadelphia. = The street railroad
company here is experimenting with wo-
men conductors on its new pay-as-you-
enter cars. On the new cars the con-
ductor is merely cashier. She sits be-
hind a desk, receives the fares, makes
change and records the receipts.
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insane on Graft Csc.

New York.-The Rev. DR.. William
Morrison, secretary of the board of ine-
briefly, who had a controversy with
Mayor Gaynor over the police situation,
was arrested in the mayors office and
removed to Bellevue hospital for obser
vation as to his sanity.
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Miners Sentenced.

Charleston, w. va-Gov. Glassrock ap.
proved the finding of the military COM
mission in sentencing thirty-seven strik-
ing miners, nearly all of whom are
Greeks. to sixty days in jail for intimi-
dation of workmen. The men sought to
prevent miners from entering the mines
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New Beds for Children.

Jackson.-AI Mix, superintendent Of
nurses at the State Charity Hospital,
asks the people if they have any old or
new children's beds that they are not
using. and are willing to give them to
the State, to write the superintendent
of that institution and they will be glad
TO send for them, or pay shipping charges.
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NEGRO Kills Officer.

Gainesville, Fla.-Marshal Joe Hall Of
waldo was shot to death in suburb
of Gainesville when he was assisting
Denuty Sheriff Ed Wheeler to arrest a
crowd of negroes who were shooting
craps in q church.
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saloonists Go to Court.

Nachez.-A hard fight to reopen their
establishments will be made by the pro
prietors of eleven near-beer saloons
by injunctions and writs Of attachments
in the chancery court Saturday by Dis
trict Attorney NJ. W. Reilly. They are
charged with violating the prohibition
laws.
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Murderer Killed by Posse.

Hermanville.-R Norrells, the ne
gro desperate who assassinated Chas.
Beals, a young Copiah county farmer,
was surrounded in canebreak and shot
to death.
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The king of Montenegro has worn
the same silk hat for sixteen years.
Evidently snowballing a silk hat is
not one Of the joys Of small Monte
negroes.
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Professor Fuchs of Berlin opines
that men and women have always
fiirted. But how could Eve firt when
there was nobody around but ksr
husband?
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A Chicago woman says that big men
make better husbands than small men.
It's harder for them to get into the
house late at night without being
heard.
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Removed BY Forceps.

New York.-Slender forceps were used
successfully at the Lutheran hospital in
removing a pearl breastpin which 1s-
year-old Olga Martin swallowed two
wears ago. It had gone down her wind
pipe and lodged in her lungs. 1t was
located by X-rays.
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Court in Tacoma prevented man
from trading his wife for two city
lots, possibly on the ground that it
would be taking advantage of an in
nocent victim.
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Amy Worm in Jefferson.

Lorman.-The army worm has M
its appearance around here. For 50
time they have been in the western p
Of this county along the river, but q
recently have they begun to migrate
this part of the county. A few fig
have been completely stripped Of
the leaves.
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Three Aviators Killed.

Freiburg, Saxony.-Two German mill
tary officers were killed while flying near
here. This makes the third double ia
tality in Europe within the present
month in which members of army flying
corps were the victims.
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Irish Potato Quarantine.

Washington.-The department Of agri-
cnlture issued a quarantine against "com-
mon or Irish potatoes from Newfound-
land. the Islands of st. Pierre and
dioueton, Great Britain, including Eng
land. scotland, Wales and Ireland, Ger
MANY and Austria-Hungary
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Scientist in Paris claims that within
a few years the world will be fed on
electricity, but THE does not neces-
sarily mean that it Will be in the form
Of currant pie.
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Arbiters of fashion have just decid-
ed that women will have to begin
wearing long skirts again. So it will
soon cease to be necessary to keep
the sidewalks swept
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A Philadelphia doctor claims to have
discovered the elixir of life. Can it
be that the Philadelphia brand Of
sleep has had this unsuspected virtue
all along?
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Nav Altitude Record.

Villa Coublay, Franee.-Georges Leg
aaneux, French aeronaut, established a
new worlds record for altitude here, his
machine attaining height OF $500 me
atars f1s.372 feetl.
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A scientist feller announces that he
has discovered new way to make a
ghost walk. This will be received with
great acclaim by the theatrical profes-
sion.
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One Philadelphia father gave his
daughter 3O0-pound cake for a we'd
ding present. That is all right for des-
sert, but how about providing the
corned beef and cabbage?
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Woman in Wyoming wants a di
vorce because her husband walloped
her with a tomahawk. BUrying the
hatchet is not always attended by
good results.
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DR.. Wiley viii Talk.

Washington Conservation Of human
life viii be the keynote Of the fortieth
annual meeting Of the American Public
Health Association. DR.. Harvey w.
WILEY will make the address of welcome
IN the visitors tomorrow.
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Temperature Takes Drop.

Amarillo, Tex.-This section of the
Texas Panhandle is in the grip Of what
nromises to be the coolest September
ever E recorded. Following pleasant wealth
er the temperature dropped to 48 de-
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It is proposed in one Of the bor-
oughs of New York to tax funerals.
People there will now be confronted
with the problem of whether it is
cheaper to live or die.
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A Chicago preacher rises to remark
that women's styles of today are an
abomination to the Lord. Which In
duces some curiosity as to the source
of his information.
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l. you do not believe a hole in the
ground has a strong attraction for
mankind, observe the crowds gathered
where a skyscraper's cellar is being
dug.
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Frost in Panhandle.

New Orleans, LA light frost Fri
dav night in the Texas Panhandle and
the western and extreme northern por-
tions of Oklahoma is reported in spe-
eial bulletin issued by the local weather
h11raau
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Those who add to the sweetness OF
life have also their reward, as proved
by the report upon the fortune of a
noted candymaker, who left an estate
of over two millions.
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A woman's club in New York, since
admitting men to membership, has
increased the number of it's women
members by 20 per cent. Wonder
why.
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Word comes from London that side
whiskers are coming back into style,
but we thank the good Lord that there
Is no law compelling citizens of these
United States to wear them.
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The latest excuse for murder is
'.furore transitoria." It sounds as
though anybody might be excused for
doing anything under its influence
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While the sweet corn is good 1t
hardly seems worth while to buy
store teeth.
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Word comes from Washington that
the treasury has run short of one dol
lar bills Mr.. Treasury, accept our
heartfelt sympathy. We can appreci-
ate.
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Women's hats will go up 80 per cent.
this fall, says a fashion note. This is
cheerful news to the man who hasn't
even got his winters coal in.
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Washington.-Farmers in the South.
west will be able to ship corn into Mex.
leo free of duty until the end Of this
year,
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Girl in Philadelphia stole a sermon
from a preacher man. Let the punish
ment At the crime and compel her to
read it.
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Prof Berget says that flood viii
destroy the earth in 3,500,OOO years,
but we shalA.n sit up to see the
show
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A Cleveland girl complains that
she cannot live on 5000 a month, and
yet that town has three-cent dance
halls.
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A woman recently obtained a di-
vorce because her husband swore at
her in seven languages. She had no
appreciation of learning.
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Chicago is suffering from plethora
of cats. Why not connect the surplus
with the destructive agencies EN-.
ployed for the bubonic rats?
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Fashionable women in London are
wearing attractive carrot colored stock
ings, but we fear that the color is not
the real attraction.
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A python in the New York ZOO eats
only one meal year. 1t is easy for
q python to make ends meet.
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Protect the calves" cry the butch
ers. This is a timely hint to bathing
girls.
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Lucky the man whose purse can
stand the vacation strain.
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Baptists Will Wee.

Biloxi.-The Gulf Coast Baptist Asso-
citation viii hold its meeting in Biloxi
Wednesday, October and 10.
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America sends 1000 globe trottera
around the world every year.
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Cooks of Boston are on strike
Horrors! Fancy eating raw beans!
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AS for the fall styles in hats Of
either gender, experienced persons are
prepared for the worst.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-14
7 l o re n c g
|1nt er

gifted English comedienne and vocalist. viii
be made on this occasion. when she viii he
heard in English sCns characterizaions.
VIII NJ. Cressy and Blanche Dayac, I'm Mr..
Cressy's pay!c., Town Hall Tonight re-
yeals Nir. Creesy as Hip Filters. manager
of the town hall and Miss Dayne as Gene
We've Montmorency. leading lady OF the
Elite Repertory Company.
Social Maids. the latest OF the Hurtis &
Seamon burlesque organizs MONS. viii be
seen at tire Columbia Theatre this week In
new t~o-act travesty called The Boys
from Home" The production I'm rs en-
tirety is said to perfectly illustrate the Co
lumbia Amusement Company's idea Of adj
yanced buresque. The cast includes
many Of the best known performers IN this
division OF stage work. among whom are
George Stone, Jennie Austin. Frank HAYES,
Wilbur Dobbs, Jimmie Corners Anna
Suits, Eta Pillard. Luella Temple and IL.
\. Raycot and there is an unusually large
chorus. Messrs. Hurtig & Seamon are SAID
to have provided an exceedingly attractive
equipment Of scenery. cOs;Er1r9 and eler-
trical effects and tho performance
throughout is described a3 a three hours
treat OF fun. melody and Kaleidoscope
Geauty six original musical numbers
with DANCES not hitherto shown on Broad
way arc annou.ced as special features OF
the performance
The Sunday afternoon and evening con-