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County ~ Nucces
no THIS Suh'RiFF uR ANY c,AN.
SfAiu.E of Nlfk,rHS COUNTY
cREfrlNGs
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made tesVss nss BY ~ SsefAns that me
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and named them Zarif and Mohammed
Following along the lines of instruction
used by Won Osten, these horses re-
celved systematic course of instruc-
ton Of an elementary school character.
The horses were taught to count. add
subtract and multiply up to Il times II.
Date reckon ng, division, squaring and
the extraction of roots were also in
Cluded in the course.
The horses made such progress in
arithmetic, spelling, reading, &c, that
object lessons were instituted al which
portraits, pictures ana otner objects
We're displayed and discussed. Krall
thought that these would settle beyond
doubt the intelligence of the horses and
that they We're superior to spelling,
reading and arithmetic in proving his
contention.
KraI explained that tanning the horse
was Vhe first step in training the ami
NAL, To do this successfully it was
necessary To make ,he horse familiar
with his master and Captivate his at
tcntion 10y carrsses and other signs of
affection. After that the next step was
to teach the horse how to control his
movements SO as 20 adapt them to re-
sponsive expressions. This is the dtii-
cult stage.
In teaching the horses spelling Kral
used "A simplificd spelling table. On this
table each letter was represented by a
number. once the association between
the numbers and letters was made the
spelling of the words written on a back
board was merely matter of memory
But when Krall tried TO teach the
horses the complicated German orthoE-
raphy he gave up the task after maxi
ing many attempts The trainer left
the horses to their own devices and
found that they sometimes produced
an ingenious phonetic spelling. such
as "sn' for essen" to eat
In arithmetic Krall did not 20 beyond
simple problems such as child could
do. The investigators were greatly
astunshed at the ease with which the
horses solved these problems, and after
witnessing these demonstrations the in
vestigators assumed that the animals
had conception of number.
They were amazed at the rapidly in
which the horses were able To tell the
difference between 6X4 and Ga. They
were astUnished and puzzled too by the
ability OF the horses in extracting the
roots of numbers higher than IA, the
highest square which had been taught
to them by Krall
There is no doubt that Mr.. Bullough
and DR.. Woo,ey were favorably i'm
pressed by the intelligence of the
horses. but +. -Souplet, director
OF the Institute de Psychologist Zoolo-
gque of Paris, believed that the SUI
perior intelligence attributed to the
horses owned and trained by Krall was
greatly exaggerated,
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A RECENT tssua of THE St.S com
"A ,oirod -, cat1o dosn,,,b from
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seems that when the war broke out
the Prussian military authorities requ!-
si,ioncd the horses for military SER
loo ~ I.oool ,bo,,. o,yrer nrotastad
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toyal Academy oil h'rlIh' \ rePr'eNe
was thereupon granted Later the
horses were again seized Tor duty in
the artillery and they mot .hcir death
in Flanders.
The death of IN, thinking horses"
recalls the fact that there has always
hoen doubt in .r,a minds nf the scientists
,vbn investigated and studied the horses
whether IN. animals really posscssed
tho wonderful ability claimed for them
hv their owner ar were simply taught
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f., car,',.n conscious ar unconscious and
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The Cloth Hall Tower at Ypres.

practices, while they may add to the
picturesqueness of the tower. inter-
fered with the most successful playing,
because the keyboard connections are
necessarily less direc.
The bells Of the lowest octave and a
half are connected also with a pedal
clavier. This is done for the reason
that the larger bells require a forceful
stroke when it is desired to bring out
their full tones and that this arrange
ment gives the bcllmaster greater COM
mand of the resources of his instrument
by allowing the use both of hands and
of feet and SO enables him To play
music in three or more parts
on the manual Clavier. as Mr.
Starmer points out, great dexterity of
hand is essential, for much of the
execution is with a kind OF tremulando
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Josef Denyn of Mechln, the great bell master

by the carillonneur. This playing by
means Of the clavicr is often called a
carlton concert.
Each key of the c'avier is connected
by lever and wire with the clapper Of
its corresponding bell. In what is
known as the Belgian system. perfected
by Mr.. Denyn, each clapper when at
rest is held 10y "A spring and guide wires
in an exactly defined position close to
the inner sound bow and the bells are
hung in parallel lines. the deeper ones
more or less enclosed in chambers with
in the tower. Generally in Holland the
cHppers have neither springs nor guide
wires, which omissions tend to make
their mechanical operation much less
accurate. Often too the bells there are
hung in circles or placed so that they
are seen In the tower lanterns. These
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Mons-The belfry.

or al Of several points in a measure.
Tunes are set upon the cylinder by
the carillonneur and by periodic chang
ing are made appropriate to the season
Of the year. Town tradition. handed
down for a century or more, sometimes
fixes these tunes. but more frequently
the musical taste Of the Carillonneur
governs.
A carlton is also played by bell
master or Carillonneur using clavier
or keyboard resembling that of piano
or organ. Thus played a carlton may
be thought of as a gigantic plano
forte or organ. Its exact designation is
then Carlton Clavier" During
market hours. at festivals and in mid
day or evening concerts popular songs,
operate airs, national hymns and a
great variety of other tunes are played
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Singing Of Stars
Worries Opera Manager

)LEoFoNTE CAMPANINI. di-
rector Of the newly formed
~ Chicago Grand Opera Com
pany. in Europe looking for
new stars and material for the APP
preaching season, is worried because
most of the foreign born singers would
rather sing for the soldiers in the
trenches than for the most he can
offer for an American contract.
one of these is n Russian prima
donna of great beauty, Lipkowska by
name. Campanini had I.ipkowska
signed by his agents last November.
lie went over, NOM other things,
to complete her contract.
produce her" he said on arriving.
Wish we could said his agent,
but it's impossible. She is a national
heroine. Lipkowska's in the Russian
trenches singing to the soldiers.
told them to sue her, but no Paris
court would give n decision against
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An amusing situation in "A Night Out"

by going away to be a sailor, It was
inevitable that the second Charles
should drift 10 the theatre.
So the age Of eight found him act
ing In a musical play called The
Yorkshire Lads" and how natural a
boy he was in those days nay he
gathered from his escape from drown
ing IN the Thames when he had fallen
In while competing with a lot OF other
kids as to which could throw a stick
the furthest. He made sufficient
reputation in this play to be engaged
To act in n touring melodrama called
Jim" which was the work OF II. a.
Saintsbury. Later he played the boy
Bun in sherlock Holmes" and acted
it for several seasons in the British
provinces. When that was finished
the boy parts were a thing of the past,
since he was too large to act them but
not yet nature enough for the adult
roles. For a while he united with
his brother, WHO had come back from
the sea. and the two were doing an
acceptable act in the music halls.
But it is to the days of his career
here that our public turns with the
greatest interest. Long before he
came to his country to act in "A
Night in an English Music Hall"
which Fred Karuo brought. Charles
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and died. The support OF the little
brood Of two fell on the mother. But
she was heartbroken and she was III.
so there could be no more singing
Of the ballads for a while. She had
neither the heart nor the voice. But
the two little ones had to live. So
there was only one place in which
without money or family they could
enjoy the privilege OF existence on
this earth.
That place was the workhouse. SO
there they went to live, appalling as
the mere idea Of the workhouse is to
all English. Whatever else there may
have been in the life of Charles Chap
lin there, he could not be robbed OF
his dreams. So he lived in the world
OF his own Imagination. and even in
the walls Of the workhouse that made
him a person Of great power and po-
sition. Such he always pictured him
self in his dreams.
It may have been that he was a
Member OF Parliament or a great mu-
! stefan. He was especially fond Of
| thinking himself a musician, since he
had real talent and to this day can
play piano. cello and violin by ear
The days in the poorhouse came to
an end after a while, for the health
Of his mother was restored and she
took back to her the two boys whose
education was now her problem. In
her travels Mrs. Chaplin had picked
UP a knowledge OF the Continental
languages, and these she impaired to
her son. In addition she had always
meant that he should be an actor. Sc
she taught him all she had learned
from observation. As he came OF
theatrical stock and his brother ha(
violated the traditions Of the family
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Chaplin had acted in the little piece.
He was at various times in different
roles, but 1t was as the comic drunk
that he will best be remembered here.
Billie Reeves and other variety actors
played this part, but II was his anus
ing actions in this part which led to
the appearance OF Chaplin in the
movies.
In the search for actors for the comic
films. this amusing and grotesque
figure did not escape. He vas
invited to take a place in the forces
of the Keystone films W years ago.
1t is characteristic Of the ambitions
Of the comedian that he hoped to be
a serious actor once he had got be-
fore the camera. But he was only
required to be just as comic as he
had been as "the funny drunk in the
music halls plus the adventures which
were expected to befall him daily. His
success on the films was immediate.
After a year and a half with the Key
stone Company he ven to the Es-
sanay and is now their most valued
resource In the making of the comic
pictures.
Probably there is no greater mar
vel in the history Of the films than
the rise of this modest young nan to
such fame hat he Is now one of the
best known persons in this country,
draws an annual income as large as
that OF the President OF these United
States and affords every day amuse-
ment to hundreds and thousands OF
persons In every city OF the country,
There are Charlie Chaplin s~tatuettes
Charlie Chaplin m%ustaches. Charlie
Chaplin walking sticks and every
other evidence OF greatness. His
name Is known In quarters that never
heard of John Bunny. He Is the I'M
disputed king Of the film theatre to-
day.
His skill In the pictures IL said &c
he due to his lack of all consciousness:
Of the camera. his ability to enter 9
| scene without a word Of script anC
extemporize 10 n degree that supplies
hundreds Of feet Of u"nrehearsed ant
impromptu fun. Indeed he is avers'
20 excessive rehearsal. since he be-
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which had made her reputation in the
halls. and his father, who was Charles
Chaplin Primus, returned to the sing
ing Of his descriptive ballads.
1t was indeed as a substitute for his
mother that the present Charles
Chaplin, then a child of 4. made his
first stage appearance. It Is a pathetic
evidence Of the mutual efforts of the
little family that wnen the mother
was taken i'll little Charles, rather
than disappoint the audience. was
showed on to sing a coster balled. by
name Jack Jones'
Then the darn days for the little
family began. Chaplin's father, never
strong, exhausted by the travel and
the changes of temperature, fell il
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ody and sweetness, n sensation and n
novelty not even heard in Germany.
But now Mime. Chenal is in Paris
and a 10 break her contract. She
wants to sing in the trenches"
Then there are the English mt
not To be outdone by their French and
Russian sisters. They scorn Cam
panini's offers OF contracts. This one
Is l.oucse Edvina, and tacrehy hangs
another ale, In the Place Ncndome
the agent fumcd,
martha Chenal wants to break her
contract and sing in the trenches.
Lipkowska is singing for the RUS
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sometimes that yev got Ia climb EN-
fore We kin pick the berries, an in
swamps so thick that some on EN- ii
make a weasel sick to think q havin'
To squeeze through EN-. | dunno what
they'd call these big, juicy berries If
they didn't grow in swamps-.taters,
mehbe, fer they amt 'zactly sweet nor
'zac'ly sour, hut n sort o betwiXt an
between. Then ag'in, swampers is so
lickin' good tina If they didn't grow
in swamps an was easy to git at
mehbe they'd be the chompers them
sells, an then the question d come
ex to what the 'arly blues d be. an
that "a kind o onsettle things; so tn
amt no doubt but what matters il
Jest about right the way they lay.
(Which fetches us along to black
crackers, Them fellers comes late
an stays with MS till way along in
the fall, an II they had ez much flavor
to 'em ez they hey seeds they could
give the chompers an the swampers
nine p'ints an win easy, This style
o. hucklcbcrry grows on n high bush
on the barrens, an the hotter the sun
is ON to 'em the blackcr an seedler
they git.
"'Ez We pass along through this
here stretch o. kentry yen git black
, crackers sOt out to you with milk
an sugar lots o. places, but ye mought
jest about ez well pitch in an gobhle
"A sasser o. glass beads But in pies
the black cracker goes good enough,
an ! never go back on 1t when tn
amt no chOmper puddln' or swampers
an roam,
"'Yes, yes. John! Chompers,
swampers an black crackers, They
mought he queer James fer buck
wheat cakes, hut not fer huCkleberrles
An So We see We didn't know buckle.
berries arter all,' said Joe. and I had
! to own up thai l didn't"
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these places a testify, not OF a nigh
degree of fame. But 1t was reserved
for this young man to be carried TO
glory on the fame OF the cinema.
But while his father n mother
were carrying him from one little the
atre to another this youth was dream
ing Of ambitions altogether different
from those which he has achieved.
He had visions Of himself as a
Member Of Parliament, as a musician
If cminence. and never as an actor.
The stage was then so much his daily
routine that it never figured in his
future plans. So much was the thea
ire the scene of his parents existence
that he was born In Fontainebleau
while the two were touring in France.
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|HERE are three musical shows
in town with characters sup
posed to represent Charles
Chaplin. There are statuettes of
the popular moving picture actor IN
most Of the windows Of the small shops
on the uptown streets, Forty-second
street seems tho headquarters for them,
and II is said that the managers of the
big movie show at the Madison Square
Garden offered the actor $4,000 TO
appear for two weeks in person at the
Garden. Never was there such a pop
ular player on the screens. John
Bunny never amused as many millions
rs this young English actor does in
che cities of this country.
Nobody ever heard Of the young
man and most of those who have
seen him had to ne reminded that
they had probably laughed at him be-
fore II they were in the hahl OF at
tending the vaudeville theatres of this
country. In the sKetch brought over
here by Fred Karno called "A Night
In a London Music Hail. it was this
same Charles Chaplin who p.ayrd the
part Of the rummy vino scattered
himself disturbingly through the ac-
tion Of the farce, falling In and out Of
the box and otherwise upsett.ng the
composure of the party, II was this
young nan who was destined to be-
come so popular one day IN the films,
in fact quite the most popular actor
that ever made a nation laugh.
There have been strange contrasts
IN the life Of this handsome, rather mel
encholy and Oriental looking young
man, who is scarcely recognizable
under the grotesaue makeup in which
ne is known to the world. His family
came from England. They were music
hall performers of the kind to be seen
In the smaller provincial theatres OF
England and in the C|ontinenta. va
riety theatres, which are. as anybody
who has ever seen the programmes in
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the patriotic child. Furthermore. she
had left the jurisdiction.
"Suou the London and Paris papers
were fun of it. Her photographs on
rustic STAGES amid shell lire, the idol
OF hairy hattalions, passed tho from
tiers. Somewhere inside the lines OF
Warsaw or the Bug or in Bcssara-
bia the heroic infant Is cheering on
Russia with that voice of hers, which
molts the heart and fires the souls of
glory, They call her the Trench So
pranu. and she has n dangerous in
huence on other prima donnas."
But the maestro is busy dong
things in his own way. lie is just
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hut impossible to detect them rs arti-
fetal head covering
why sad the Wiz man as he
pointed to a case IN his Sixth aVculc
establishment, there are wigs IN there
made OF human hair that | would defv
the closest scrutiny to detect -
fakes Would YOU believe il, u or
my customers, n well known man IN
thus section OF the city, wore one OF
these wigs from the night he was mar
rled for ten long years, and his woo
never knew that he was bald" II il
n fact, sir, a positive fact,
In year and u for the entire ten
he was so careful that his snouso
never had the slightest suspicion.
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RETIRED BURGLAR TALKS

my business anyway and that is self
control, Another trouble il that in
summer you never can tell whether
the man i'm bed is really asleep or not.
] have stood silently in a room that
was still as death with the man in the
bed sleeping apparently as sound as a
log and then all of a sudden | have
heard a loud swat and then I've heard
the man say to himself. Wei, | got
you that time or maybe something
quite different, He had been keeping
So stl.l, actually holding his breath,
waiting to catch that mosquito. More
than once | have had precisely that
experience.
AS | grew older and came 10 have
more sense | avoided as far as | could
mosquito infected districts and sought
places on higher drier ground where,
less disturbed, people slept better. or,
It | vas particularly attracted To some
place whore mosquitoes We're plenty, |
selected houses that were wei.
screened, This may seem a minor
detail to bother about, but | assure
you that it is Of Importance. ! don't
doubt for n moment that | owe my
success in more than one summcr job
to just that careful looking after little
things.
still, summer burglary is a ticklish
business anyway, and then there is
the further drawback that hummer
nights are short, giving you less time
IN which to get away. So in the later
years Of my active life | gave IT up a.
most entirely and devoted myself
practically wholly, as You might say,
to work in winter, when general con.
dit!Ons are more settled, the nights
longer and when people generally
sleep moro soundly, The summer work
looks attractive, but Il never reall,
| appealed to me-"
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CHOMPERS AND SWAMPERS

al WAS in the lumber Company's
supply store, way back in the
hemlock belt, not long ago
said John Gilbert, the travelling gro-
ceryman, and a native evidently from
still further back came in.
"'Well, Simon said the storekceper
TO the newcomer, what's the prospects
up on the barrcns?'
why, | tell you, Joc,' replied the
citizen from the hnrrcns. both kinds o.
Chompers Is goin' 10 Comc in fair To
middlin'. Swampers, though, looks "a
II they was goin' to run a lc-e-e-tlc shy
this season, EZ fer black crackers.
socks abustin'! they're bOund to come
in thicker n hair on a poodle
"'O' c%oursei' said the ~stOrekoepcr.
with a snort that seemed to denote
contempt for black crackers, whatever
they were. we kin always count on
them fer a crop, Wen, what dc We
calc'late the ruin hggers is goin' Ia
be?'
"'Why, | tell YOU, Joe said the man
from the harrens country, Wen hef
70 tax We ez much c2 six fer %Chompers,
an fer swampcrs, way they'm lo1kin',
can't be laid down To We fer less'n
eight. But % fer black crackers,
now
Never mind the black crackers
exclaimed the "storCkeeper. Well talk
black crackers when the time comes
fer 'em Jag in an the chompers 80
kin git from now on, an We can't gil
too many swampors'
The man from the harrcns said al
right, and after a little trading he wen
his way. My Cl..ls'ty got the het
ter of me. and took the risk ant
said to the storekcepcr:
"'I'in Just goat enough, Joe. TO wan
TO know what kind of goods 1t was yol