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im % —Titr- Ptwkl-Hrltlfßi I ompftny.
j Vallate mnd Slftbt.
Thu w~ ** rv ju.l *rv<JF f l hi a b##n
With rKI *?tra* Horn *rui *n ihen th®
aM*i n I* lit 1* hlffhl th*r will hftrlly
ktmotftgccd attractions in mny on + fk.
“f*irlo< k Holme* WII r***t. FlHd'i
HlmtrftU *!*••!. thft "Bftll® of N*w
York Oftiirht o number of booui. arsl
Chari## CDfkao* • loftol th w~k In h *
d*htitful llitlo '•omftly to w#tl pitted
• udiftotf not )a r f# llOUrt
Th# ho and no a M* btistn##* ‘h*
pant w***k a remft'kftb • bus n**.
tho hot wither In taken Into ( >•-.- ‘dera
tion, for nn grir.fn* that a p ijr Is **-
Urrm#lr flro. It hos been a mutter of qu**-
tlon wlih thoo who want. If It w is worth
tho Wfello to ttand tho and • mfort and tho
extrotno hoot of two ontl m h.*’,f hours
oven of a a > 1 pi- o
With Ox • saurefuiao oI Boturiov. when
MIM.K BFl.fllff.
Clmrloa Frohman'a rotnpmr will prse>*
Zawa' M two performances, th* emlra
next srwk will b# given ov*r to the P
ru.'ht-ReSdaiu Horn pa try. wrtu h will pre
vent a reperiolro of pla> . Th# oi tenlng
bill Monday rught win h th* comedy
drama "A (JuUty Wife." rather a mis
nomer for a ooroo.Jy, but nevertheless Kiln
la what |< I*. Tho hill* lor the rest of
tho wrath have not been Minounral, but
(hare will be a change of bill *♦ each per
formance. Reglnnltix Tlt -t lav. matinees
will be gtven dally. The follow Inf clip
ping from the Atlanta Journal la very
complimentary to the company:
Manager I’eruchl hae probably the beet
company be ha ever brought to Atlanta.
The drama'to (torsion of the ehow Is ade
quate. while tho rpoeteltlee are decidedly
♦he beet over e**-u here at n popular prtcr<|
♦altertelnarvent Otolao I’eruolil's acrobatlo
work wee aph-nsß.i The t’acieton elatere,
whole names did nor appear on the bill,
daltfbtwl the wod!eore with ttie etnglng
and dancing The Plokart family dewerv •
all iha auce thrtigv that have been aald
hieoi them Thir work has the added
charm of novelty.
'Zara" la David Relascos version of the
SCCNt VBOfi BAt-AbCO’3 NASA
pl*y of thft him name bjr Plerr* H.r'on
and Oharlre Simon, In the original Paris
ian production of which Mu lame Kejan*
l>M>od fhu t>. rotne. While the rtory !•
doubllMHi familiar lo many patrons of the
theater. It will hear repetition In brief
The play opens on the .tags nf a concert
hall In Saint Btlenne. where, during th>-
•nllre progr.ee of the first art there I*
a noil realistic exhthltlon of various
phase# of life behind the arena* a* such
a place of apiurftnMit n fv**r ihown
hare It even lays bare th* secret* of the
stag* thunder lightning, rain and a rlat
lar of hontx' hoofa. "/.at.," a chantcti**e.
with fltry rad hair and iha alar feature
of tha currant bill, in in her
dressing room. which occupies a portion
of tha scene Hhe enters in street costume,
and. but for the occasional friendly Inter,
vtntion of
subaequently wltnea* tha complete opera
tion of dr rating and making up for iha
lings Aa It la. vary llttla la left to fha
Imagination. Whllo waiting for har cua
"Zaxa" maets Bernard Dufrene. a married
Parisian. who has g >na behind tha arenas
with ft frland. and nth a firm dafermlna
tton not to succumb to iha enarma of tha
chant**use. In fact *o sure Is ho of him*
naif, that ha has b-jeked a placa on tho
midnight train for Parla. Tha tirkat la
not uaod. howavar Than comes si x
months, during which *’Zaa" and lier
n.ird llva t.gather tn a llttla cottaga at
Batnt Etlanna * Zssa" has laft tha stage,
and. thr ugh fha awakening of raal lova
In her, tha \u)gar concert hall singer has
ba me quite a different woman. Tho cou
pla have haefi perfectly haj>py, except for
Betnirri* oc a*l>na) absences "on busi
ness."
ft, Faria Determined to lea*n tho truth
ar.d ax to*-a him to Ms wlfa. aha goes to
his hou-c Mada Du ficus la out, but In
jo mc.*t fOlthetlr lntrr%iew wl h tho little
jrlrl. Tolo. **Za#a“ learns so much of Ber
nardo happy feme life that oho con r.ot
|r*oort t> i.to o-iiPh act of <J**ftro>.n# I*
J for the sake of hrtnjcin* hork to her o
man to whom a better worn in hoa a prior
rtjcht In the fourth • t, 7iti ’ returns
to H**lnt Ktlofifio broken hearted, parts
with Bernard niml returns <o the stoge.
Tho fifth a< t snow - the eaterlor of the
f irnouft **.%mha.sodeurs," In the Chomps
Ki> erp l aris, where "/oil" Is IpprirlliK
with tremendous sue e*s An she leaves
tho con ert hall to step inter tier carriage.
, -he encounters Bernard, who is awaiting
her e*lt He lVr her to return to hltn,
I hut she tells him th#r while h*r afTectUm
; for him w nt th# only hornet lovo she evT
if* t for arv man. the broken chain ran
[never 1•• fi.endesl. Ho, with the last fite
; well to Bernard she step* into her car
! rlafs as th< final curtain falls. The point
*f the whole i ay is that le-ve redeems
the word. 0 In other* words, thot through
the a*ncy of /..*, one r*wl love af
fair and subsequent broken heart, oha
woa tiirsiutmt-l into o rx-l woman.
Mr J ime i Young the > out r • lor of
lgltlmiite rule* who has been seen here
a number of times has m *p and a place In
Sir Henry Irvirg s ompar y and will leave
shortly for merry England. Mr Young !
on* of the newt promlelng of the younger
n-tor* and he deserve* praise and ettppnrt
f,r the effort he has mad.- to keep tha le
gitimate and high claws drama before the
pubtfo. He was last keen hern u Lfifd
lit con In the ptny of that name and hi*
presentation was considered a stieceew
Under Ihs able tutelage of Hlr Henry he
ought to rapidly advance to the place
which la his by right of lulent.
Monday night Josrph JefT-rson begin
his regular eight weeks' fall tour ot
Northampton. Milan The vrteran this
•eaeon wjl plwv "The Itlvala," "The
Urtckef on the Hearth." "Eend Me five
Hhilllngs" and "Hip Van Winkle.”
Kdtnnnd Rotanl la the only drsroatlet
wtwx has dotie well In Paris during the
.•xpneltkin "l.'Alglon" arat "t’yrano de
liergerae'' hava kept Harnh Bemhurdt'e
ttou-rtiter and tho Porte Halnl-Martin fill
ed Hit auehor'a right for the hot month
of July were |C :.Tn nn.l for August !!>*>
It la estimated thou he ha* made tiw.uuu
ln<* the first night of ''Cyrano.''
In luorlmer Stoddard dramatlsatton of
Marlon Crawford’i rtory. "In tho Palace
of ha King.** Viola Allan In aatd to
have made a hit. Her dramaflo Intensity
lit fha more pnwrerful scene* la capciuity
(ommrntcO upon.
A cnial critic In New V it. commenting
upon L)Hta Fox a vorwllzatloft, aaya: "i*he
"peaks her songs splendidly.'*
A wall known actor of tha so-called
legitimate drama, huvlng switched off tha
usual course and taken up with lighter
material, nays. "So many comnll.ins hava
triad to play trace<ty thnt ! see no rea
son why my new pU v shoukl not per
mit m* to reverse tha proceo'Hnffs nivl
let a tragedian taka his turn at comedy."
One taking ci round of thr lively places
now holding the U>mln in the metropolis
will doubtless ha a bit skeptical whan
reading that "coon songs" nre on the
wane They continue to hold the *wny in
New r York, and are tha bright, particular
feat urea of the Weber and Fields, the
Roger* Hroa shows, and. of course, May
Irwin la tnglng two or three in her latest
farce. Even Francis Wilson gives a
(ouch of aynooptni music in hi* comic
opera. "The Monks of Malabar," which
is said to be one of tha bright hltv In
that affair.
(Jenrude <’otvUn daughter of the kits
Charles OogflYan, produced "Heoky
Sharp” at Snrntogn la* week Harrison
Orey Flake, hneteirvl Mrs Flska. whe
Is also starring In tha play, was In the
Theater and bad stenographers taking
notes of th# Oogfllin production Th*
management compallel Mr Fiske and hia
aaststents to quit tha Theater, but It is
the MOHNING NEWS: SUNDAY. OCTOBEK 7. 190 G.
still possible that "Bevk> Bharp" wIH go
into llugotlun.
The vaudeville mansgers <4 the 'ountry
re proud of the showing mode by the r
theobrs In the re.*ipts realised for the
j Halve ton fund. It Is e-i rial* 1 that fully
turned ov*r to the strt k
, n city from this brunch of imuwm nt
Al me The tot •) ng res win probably ap
proximate a round 1 *lf million.
Thot quaint non* All Bound Bound
With Woolen Hiring. ° which a** sun* l.
the Tow ti for able in *’\S *y !*own Koet
•tlid one of the flu**-talked-of-b atuvre >f
! this rural play, I* said to be much old-r
than Ameri an dramatic* Hme one has
| look id tt up nd ray s the w ords were
written by Thomas Tusker, a pt who
| flourished in 15Iik
bufky Baldwin Is trying at Nme to
.justify his ri-kname by retrieving t a
broken fortune cine of his ventures there
i | it music hall of the m cing t wn klnl.
[ with vaudeville on the stag* over Y night
' from ! odo. k till i and dar K or. the
main floor from that time till daylight.
Otis Skinner continues ‘'Prince Otto* at
* ,f ‘ *•■ w N '
much app ause a.-I frequent
! , als. Ho has made n genuine au*"ese In
i tv,* play and won mai v n-*w admirers.
! • prinr-a OttcT is i gt>od rm intl dranu
* finest with strung - ergs and Incidents,
ird ohould me k* a lot of money for all
or. erned. It :s hatidaocnely st ige-1 and
well cast.
literature, politics n 1 the theater seem
p hif.d-ir. hand Among the candtd
cwt.e foe Parliament in Kng’tt.d are A.
.run Ooyic f1 lrt Parker Anthonv
Hope, Jerome K Jerome and J. kl. Bu
rie.
Mr Rfcharif Manaflekl has written for
it- current Issue of oilier * Weekly, a
remark M‘ article, wholly different Iron,
anvthing h* lisa alreeiiy published, anti
tied “My Ausllencw— And Myself ,” It *on
rotoe many humorwa end parhetlo touch
e* and eome extremely Interes'tng reml
niprancaw.
to tho .Ravannah iMurr
nourse con obtwln their raaerved aeafs
at 110 liberty street, wrest, Tuesday and
, tVednesdny. Oct. & and 10. Box aheei
ci*n to the public Friday. Oct. 12
BO A ltl>l MO llOllhl
tad Flata Are Killing the Oian-br*
Aornrding to llita lllnlalrr.
From the New York World.
In the resignation of Bey Robert F
Sample, D. I> p.istor of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church, in West Twenty
third atreet. a atory full of tNithoe Is
brought to light. After years of useful
ness the i hur h Is on the p*lit of lelng
redu* ♦*! to a third-rate church. Thera wac
many tearful *\ es w hen at the meeting
last week the pastor said:
”1 have been with you for 14 yean*, and
In that time have given you the l**st years
of my life My leaving you l not due to
any environment. It Is simply because of
the la k of support Muring the last two
year a I could not live on tho salary 1 re
ceived One thing I want to say; I never
demanded anything of this congregation
I have only asked what you could give
freely."
This church la In the very heart of New
York It la old ami his a history that 1*
twined In and oit of tho very life of the
metropolis The greatest men that the
country has produced have attended
church therfr at different times. From the
hlslorlc pu'pit the brightest lights In
Christendom have dropped their word* of
comfort anJ consolation To thousand*
and thousand* of New Yorkera the edi
tb e is *%< real because of whnt It has he-n
to them and thetr In the year gone
let th church is doomed The revenues
have fallen away so that tt cannot aup
port a minister who p willing to almost
give his services, a.v Dr. Hatnple has for
several y-ars.
A quest lon of areal Importance to New
York Is Involved. Is the etty becoming
Go,liras? 1a It trying to get along without
churches'’ Why nr* no many historic
churches falling away In attendanca and
In financial support?
When Dr Ha tuple was asked these ab
sorbing questions ha became Interested at
cure. He has given the matter a great
ileal of attention.
Within three mites of mv church, ’’ he
said ' and our ancestere thought nothing
of walking three miles to rhnreh--are a
quarter of a million of t>*opl We can
send ministers to the Chinese add to the
Indian but In Christian N. w York the
hurohes din like weeds by the roadside
for want of nourishment. What Is tho
reason? I would name the following
enures
' The dt atpeoranc# of the home.
"The multiplicity of the boarding houses.
"The unholy relations of the flats to hu
man life.
“The growth of the city toward the Har
lem Ktver
' The passing awav of the rich people
who formerly supported downtown chur
ches.
"A real old-fahlond home Is Impossi
ble In a flat. The peace and quiet left New
Yorkers forever when the last of the
homes disappeared. Only tne very wealthy
can now afford them The majority are
crowed Into flat* It waa the home, pri
marily. that supported the church. It was
from that sacred haven In old days that
the father and mother mustered their lit
tle army of children to tho family pew
“Now. with the swift life that we lead.
We have no time to think of morning pray,
ers on Sunday morning the father who
has lived In a nervous strain all the week
and has been out lote the night before to
the theaters and other places of amuse
mens 111 the Tenderloin lies abed and root*.
He gets up and buys a paper .md nails
all the forenoon His family follows his
osample The o’d peace and quiet of the
Dutch Salbath nnl the Puritan Sunday
are not In his flat The fever that surges
along the brt llantly Illuminated streets
of the Tenderloin has .got Into his blivvt
He spm Is tliousand* for the amusement
of his family. He has nothing for their
sptrtiua uplifting In a generation or two
they wi t be degenerated It Is the health
ful atmosphere of the home that keeps
robust Ilf- In the church nd the family.
"All through this part of the city you
v.-11l find the b uses that were once homes
now turned Into boarding houses Hod Is
nor thr* Mnthir Is not there Father
with his Sunday morning pi avers and his
loving oversight or the family. Is not there
The boy from the eouniry comes her# to
work. He Is full of deterntlnailnn to con
tinue hi. pure and simple life here He
gets up early Sunday morning and goes to
church. He finds that he Is the only one
In the house who and >ee The other folks
11# In bed and read In a few weeks unless
be tat ontrandlnarlly strong of tnind. he
,|nes likewise. There are hundreds of
boarding houses In thl* section where not
one man or woman attends church. I
*om> limes wonder what the children n*
Ih e thlid and forth generation will be
like .
"There Is not one sentiment that makes
a home sweet and uplifting to he found In
a hoarding house And the women and
men wlm keep the houses are not to
blame, either It Is n law as natural as
gravitation.
"There are peculiar things about New
York Htr ng-rs from th* eouniry often
complain that they are not spoken to at
rhur> h Do you know that there are
thousands here who do not want to he
spoken to? Some of them even go from
one church to another, regularly, to avoid
living spoken to. I know a man who at
tends regularly, aid tn order. five
churches, so as not to be known and mail,
j to assume r.spinstbllltles
"If 1 were to name the two great things
that threat- n America to-day they would
not b" !mp*ri#tt*m and free stiver tune
. ou and be th* race question and the other
the loss of spirituality In th* cities These
| aie greater dangers than any others '
LIFE ON A CATTLE SHIP.
tTCHii.r tvohdk.d *r>vKiinB
KNTII %P THK T.HO.
<!••. Aboard Khlp Hr !■ (Hr \ Irtlm
of fhr < alllr Kor.man— -IHT. Who
Arrrr l.an*l on thr Ofbrr 'td r
Thrp Mttil l-rr.rnl and Pf|i Alam
prdra on Hoard Ahlp. and l-rrform
All thr llnrnrdnua NAnrk 1 tint F.t
prrlrnrrd tnttlrmrn Itnrr Ant 110.
t nttlr Arr t.mid Nnllora, lnt TVNr,
TNrf no Hrromr l*aol<*.atrlrki-a
tho n nrk of tlulrtlna Tkrm la
Door at Prrll of l.lfr and l.lmb.
.tin. Arr I’ourh Frd anil l.odK-*d.
Nt* York. Ont t - -Some kt atm n
poor, hal(-aiarvrt) lad prrrrnict him. If
at tha Ami'Mi .in rmhasay In loti<lon nn.J
told a a ory of rxtrrmr erurlty and In
hmum trrattnrnt which he claimed to
have experienced mi board a cattle aMp
•MAttif between New York aiuft I.ondon
Thle atory reaoltad In the leeulmr of a
wernlmc by thr rinbaaey to Ametl in par*
rtna to kerp their l.'Va nway from cattle
• hlia. That there es aome truth In the
in atiegatlona r.otaalv who ties had
jtiy on a cattle atilp -to doutd.
Four efeamahip Itnes out of New York
two out of Hoe on and one out of Phil
adelphia, rend an average of 1.000 head
of ratlin to K’ircpean poria e, t ti week.
The cattle nre confined a, prna on tao
deck* of these vessel*. Approximately
I bad comprise each ehtpmegt. Men
must be taken k>t>K to feed and look after
tne rattle on the vovaae.
Formerly the ,at!le shipper* auppllxl
the extra men to take care of the cattle,
poymy them from $k to *!0 for the trip.
Theee men are called "*ll*7..** Beceu*
of the Intemperate nabi:e ot the only < iat*
•if men who could be Induced to ehip, this
detail of the biieinesv became euch a nuts
ir. e that the ehipi>era dtcldtd to lva It
up. In late year* there has grown up
li> ,ts pla e an arnu.iiement with an egen:
at the port ol shipment, who agrees te
furnish a quota of “silfTs” for each ship
ment. lie IS railed a "stiff-catcher," Ac
cording to this ax'eement the ageni re
el! ee If f. r * ,i r, matt .• ur- i. an.l for
each mutt shotl-of tha number culled for
he pays th whlppere a fine of !te
sbles re etv.np |j a man. the "stiff.caten
et retain# the privilege of swindling the
unfortunates, whoae rirctiinslai e, make
n tvellna In rj< b a tnaanor necessary, our
of a* muen ie he ran.
First, Fateh Four ••ktlir.’*
In order to secure hie material, the
"silfT catcher" inserts advertisements,
chiefly In the Western paper*, reeding:
"Wanted—Men to work the peerage to
Europe on cattle steamers: no steamship
ork " Unhappy Is the lot of the mao
who Is lured by atich an advertisement to
cro:--- tho ocean tn one of thee*, ship- Not
only will he be defrauded out of all the
money he can be Induced to give up. but
the tar jest and moot dangerous kind of
work will be hie. and If he shrinks from
It. or ie- ause of Inaptitude or unfamiliar.
Ily ij.se it ill, ahu> and brutality, both
.erha. at and physical, will be his portion
III* duties are to look after the rattle
m ever;, wav. and his foreman holds him
res|H>nslbie for any barm to them, wheth
er the fault la hts or not
The larger portion ot the men who an
swer the "stiff-catchers advertisements
sis tha poorer <to*- of Europeans who de
• Ira to return home in an economical way.
Manv Of them can not im.leretnnd thr
Ki-gilati language These are the one.
’l|n whom the most abuse Is heaped and
to whom the most dangerous work Is giv
en There Is reason In this, for there Is
far les danger of complaints belAg made
V these men. whose spirits have beet
rushed b> early training and whose lac k
■>f knowledge of tha language mikes It
a’most Impossible for the abuse to have
any rea< itouary efTe-t Occasionally Young
America selects this method of crossing
the oc-enn. Tile latter Is usually treated
better than the first named claws, for the
reason mentioned.
N\ hen the applicant presents himself tn
answer to che advertisement, tha "stiff
catcher" paints the de lights of voyaging
in cattle ship In rosea,e hues. According
to him It Is merely a sort of vachllng ex
■ urxlon: no work to speak of. good food
ind plenty of It. flne sleeping accommo
dations. altogether n life of ease and
plenty. Very- confident!,ily he explains
chat the extra men aren't really taken
along to do any work at all. but merely to
fulfill Insuranc* terms which require u
certain number of handler* for the rattle
Next, the agent trie* to And ou, hw
much money the prospective "stiff" has.
If he succeeds he demand* about 75 per
cent of the amount. The cattle foreman
aboard the *hlp gets whatever remains If
he doesn’t It's because ho doesn't know
his business
A word about the foreman. From the
moment the srtfT ateps aboard theshtp the
foreman la the arbiter of his destiny *.
much hts master as If he were a slave
Indeed. I believe that the rattle foremen as
a class are the direct descendants of the
Simon I.egret-* of slavery time*. There
may he cattle foremen who have Instinct*
of humanity and decency, but I have nev
er had the good fortune to *at| under one
All the consideration T ever got from that
class vena value received for bribe money
promptly and liberally paid down The
nature of the business seems to kill out
all kindly qualtie*. The cattle foreman
get* a small salary, which he usuallv con
trives to double by -‘aqueeitng" tha un
fortunate stiffs; If not. so much tha worse
for the etlffs.
betting Acquainted With the Oattle.
Up to the moment of his boarding the
veseel the new cattleman I* well treat
ed. Itecause the stlff-cateher fear* h- will
escape Commonly his Introduction to hie
duties and his foreman com*-* In the form
of a torrent of profanity and throats
from that worthy, fo'losvrd hv a knnek
down Now If he doesn't move smartly This
ts the proper and approved m. ihod of Im
presflng a "st<ff" Ht work Is ull cut
out for him, Ihc most frying work of any
that he has to do. Ttanch-hred steers arc
not blessed with particularly amiable dls
I editions at best, and when they have
Just been lot.ted from lighter* Into the
ship's pens with much presiding *nd Jab
bing and thumping, thev are more than
likely to be somewhat out of termer Ob
serve now the half doxen "suit*." mo*t
of whom have probably never been within
born * length of any cattle before hud
died In an alarmed group, gaslng dismally
at tho tossing horn* an-1 laboring ha ks
as the angry animals ar* driven by trns
tnto the pen*
"t.et In there now, and get them steers
quiet to le lied up.” shouts the foreman
handing to each of the tyro* a small dub
"O'wan In* Wot'* the matter with you!"
Fortunate are the stiffs If one of thrlr
rnmber Is experienced enough to take the
lead and show them what to do. Hu,-h
Instruction as they may expect from itte
foreman will he mainly kicks anti blows
Their Julies are to tump Into the pens and
get the steers' heads up to th* Jiead
hoard*. so that the foreman and hts as
statant* ran fie thm To on* imamue
tomed to cattle entry tnto one of th-a
pens seems a desperate venture, and In
deed It la dangerous enough. I, have seen
anew cattleman crushed Into Insecslblllty
by the hrst rush ot th* osttle when h*
entered the pen. snd I once helped to dr*i:
out man who was so In tty trampl'd
that he was crippl-d for life. Often the
terror of the ''stiff*" *t the pro*pe-t of
entering the pen* I* almost ludl rou* I
remember a gigantic young Bnghshnwm
who cast hlmeetf upon th# deck and fair
1y howtled with fear when ordered to go
In among th# beasts.
•' Ow do JiJI know they won't bite mtf"
he waited
Ones Inside among the *teer* he n*e l
hi* rluh and hi- great strength so valtant
|iy that they war* toon subdued, and be
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vw / and bewitching in the newest effects in
Trimmed Hats for ladies, misses and chil
/ (lren * a com Pl cte Hne of everything
/ tiA iat ,s ncw (^es ‘ ra^e f° r millinery
' fV' trim mini}.
Our collection in both foreign and domestic Dress
Goods eclipsed all our former achievements in their
Annirr nrrD line, and we offer to our patrons a selection of ever?
AxSUU 1 LUK new fabric to be found in the market. Black Good*
and Silks in both colored and black surpass any lines
IlrfKs: fnnfk ‘ind CjlL’C ever shown in Savannah. Mourning Goods has always
1/1 uJj uUUUj dllU ulmJ had our special attention. Therefore this particular
branch of our drebs goods section has every weave
that is new —black the best.
This department, representing as it does, one of the
largest among the many and a visit here will be a suc
cession of pleasant surprises. The suits and skirts
ABOUT OUR have been carefully selected, with a view to the needs
of the trading public, and we are prepared to show you
~ | ~ 0 r a line of new and exclusive styles carried only by us.
Ladies Suits tapes. The p r >“ s a ! s " "j" b j a ’•'-■'ration to VO u. w, h
r not sacrificed quality for price; but our buying facili
ties enable us to offer good values at prices that com
mand your attention.
Our Crockery and Housefurnishing Department is forg-
Anrurr mn> in K to the front * Thrift y bu y erp realize that they can
ABOUT UUK supply their wants with dependable goods at right
prices. Wc are receiving daily shipments of Crockery,
RKFIIFVT Lamps, Glassware. Bric-a-Brac and Housefurnishings.
Da jL.llLfir 1. Visit our Basement Section. Many useful articles can
be had for the household at little cost.
A cordial invitation is extended to the people, our patrons, the ladies es
pecially to visit us on Opening Days in our
Millinery Department
OCTOBER 9th and 10th.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
fore the end df voyage a position a*
assistant foreman wa* offered to him In
tho first handling of the cattle the best
any, |f they are turbulent. Is to vault on
the hack of one of them and reaort to
clubbing and tall twisting It sound* bru
tal. but It 1* the only way. Above all. the
cattleman must keep hts eeat. Heaven
help him If he fslls among tho** sharp
hoofs After th# ship starts th* work
he.-ome* easier. Wat-rlng and feeding
anti cleaning the ten* are the regular du
ties of the "stiff " Cattle are much better
sailor* than human brings. For a day or
so. until they get thetr rea-legs and loom
to accommodate th.mselves to the action
of the vessel, they are liable to sickness,
but usually on the second day out appe
tite return* and ihey grow stegdlly fat
throughout the trip. The entire morning
Is glvrn up to feeding and wa erlng.
Slight Kalriimaa'a Job the F.aeflest.
On my erlps as a "atlff" I have always,
when 1 had ths money, bribed the fore
man o make me nlghtwatchman. a posi
tion which extmpts one from the other
duties. The night watchman make* hourly
trips during the night to see that the an
tmals ar* atl right. Ordinarily there
Isn't much to do. but occasionally the
Imp of th* Perverse takra possession of
the pens, snd then ll'a had time* for the
watchman. In sleeping the steers lie down
In a most Intricate tangle, and occa
sionally conlrlve to get the fastening rope*
tnextrlcahly Interwoven. Then one of
them becoming suddenly smitten with a
desire to get up and nee how the ship I*
■l. , ling. Chokes all the other cattle whose
ropes cross his. as well as himself. This
process cause* a wild racket, which sum
monses th* watchman He must go In and
solve the Insoluble problem of the rope*
If h* l* killed, as he Is quite likely to b*.
It doesn't much matter, hut tf any of
the live stock choke to death there Is a
terrible to-do.
Part of the stiff's duty Is to keep ths
■cuppers clear of straw and refuse. Dur
ing a storm, the sea* shipped wash
through the pen*, sweeping everything
before them Th* refuse stops the scup
pers. and ns a result the decks fill until
cattle and cattlemen are waist deep 1n
the w ater This, of course, menace* the
safety of the vessel also. Again the poor
stiff must work his way behind the fright
cned brute* to a small 4x hole, the range
of which I* Invariably roverd by four or
live pairs of hoof* that have hern mad*
effective by king practice and a lack of
refinement in the nature of the hoofs
owners. When the scupper ts reached he
must clear It up. all the time dodging the
fixing hoof* Dodging the hoof* Is the
exception. It 1* most generally the case
that h* Is carried out and laid In hi*
bunk for repair*. If record of Injuries
of a stormy trip across the ocean on a
Caisle ship were to he h*H U would eom
lr.- favorably with the rkport of a city
emergency hospital I have heard of
cases Where men were actually trampled
down and drowned In the acupper*.
Terror of a Cuttle Atampede on
Shipboard.
Far away from land the cattle are very
quiet hut a* soon as they catch a whiff
of a land hr**** they heo.xm* restless, and
extraordinary ear* hi requited to prevent
X general stampede. In which two* ar*
broken, the loosened cattle charging those
that are tied and when the latter are
Deed, the whole mass surge* all over th*
deck* This endanger* th* safely nt the
ship itself and I* one of ihe pet bugaboos
of the experienced lattlemen In cases
of thl* kind the poor stiff I* called upon
for the haxardou* work of restoring or
||rT
He must go among the wild hrut* un
der fet. over hack*, drvlglng ki-klng
hr o'* and Inn*, dangerous horn*! beating
with hie club and screaming at the top of
hta voloe tn an effort to fore# into sub
mission, on* at a lima, the animats, s hot*
only will I* to break away from all re
straints and to create as much havoc and
damage as possible In doing It As he
forces n horn protect'd head near the
nmol convenient lieadboard. the dangling
rope around the brute # horns Is grabbed
and a turn Is taken around the near.at
stationary object. The plunging and kick
ing animal la held heis until he makes
a move that will iermll of his being fast
ened permanently. Then another one Is
caught and fastened tn the same way un
til! the stampede Is stopped.
This 5* another fruitful source of cas
ualties. More than one death.ofhclally bib
eded "Pneumonia" or "Fever," Is ntttib
utal to what the cattle-men call the "land
ho panic."
Through all these peril* and hardship*
the rattle stiff support* life on Ihs worst
of food and sleeps tn a cabin compared to
which. In stse, ventilation ami cleanliness,
a Bowery lists ing house comportment
would be palatial On my first voyage I
lived for half of the trip on brend baked
and the sly from dough stolen from the
rook Th* stiff must work whether he is
111 or well, or be beaten by the foreman.
I have ween a man suffering from fever
hauled out of his bunk In freexlng wreath
er and swashed with pallful after pailful
of water hy the foreman, while the second
officer of the ship looked on and laughed
Finally the stiff I* ae likely as not to he
put ashore penniless at some port other
than that for which he shipped originally,
and left to shift foe himself Th* warn
ing of the Amerl-an embassy In Iguidon
will (Ind an echo In the heart of every
man who has ever been a trans-Atlantic
cattl* stiff Raymond Rail.
WHEN lIEFt.aF.il HK t.OT WELL
Judge Xioodrlch Grew 111 as Hla
W ediltng Day Approached.
From th# New York World
Chicago. Oct. *.—lf Mis# Raymond
Maxwell, erstwhile a newspaper writer,
could be Induced to write the story of
the twginning and end of her love affair
with Judge Adams Goodrich she would
find a ready market f >r It.
Miss Maxwell is dark and bright, fthe
Is from the 'university town of Cham
pilgg. HI. For live year* she ( did clever
special work for the Chicago papers.
Judge Goodrich I* on the shady side of
middle axe. a leading lawyer and club
man. He met Miss Maxwell and succumb
ed A* the wedding day drew near hla
health began to fall Ha got downright
sick, poor fellow, and Mis* Maxwell aald.
"Well pose on* It until yxu are well"
Again 'he happy ilay was ushered In,
and again the Judge wa* flat on hi* hack
under Jhe care of a trained nurse Thl*
routine continued ever so long Then the
final fatal day was fixed for yesterday.
Bu: again the Judge collapsed
Mis# Maxwell and her mother cam* up
from Champaign and loiksd wlih stony
eye* on the Judge at the Wellington Ho
tel. with his trained nurse Fiance and
fiancee hod a heart-to-heart talk
Mias Maxwell telephoned the newspa
pers. "It's all off." The Judge said h*
had been Jilted.
"I regret that she hn* seen fir tn re
fit## to marry me." said Judge Good
rich "Ry the advice of my physician#
I hav* been compelled to ask for poat
ponement of the wedding but I was
ready and anxious to marry Mts* Max
well • *>on as my condition permitted
It.
"The wedding hoa not merely been
postponed" Mis* Maxwetl sa.d "Thl*
is mv final decision reached after mu-h
though# 1 Intended to marry him when
I came to Chicago Saturday, hut since 1
that time 1 have learned things ebout
Mr Goodrich which make it impossible
for mr to marry him.
"No. I did not break the engagement
he vine* Judge < stud rich wished It broken
1 Siw him early this afternoon and ne
wished to postpone th* wedding It had
already been portpwed eaveral times I
think Mr Goodrich understands No I
will not tell my reasons for breaking the
engagement.”
■The Judge am# repeated to-day tn be
recovering very rapidly.
month this nutn
Mine at Twenty-live Dallar# a Bee
tle Declared a Bargais.
From tha Cincinnati Enqulrwr
Raron Rothsrhl and. of Paris, hae Just psld
125 a bottle for 120 bottles of wins, and
even th* wine merchants are asking If
he got value for his money.
It I* fk-hlosa Johnnnlsbarg hock.
The price Is certainly vary high, yst
th# head of a Coblenn firm of RHUmwlm
snippers when Interviewed declared that
the wine wasgrorth the money.
“Home women are superior to argument:
and It Is the same with enme wines. ' he
said Their virtu* lies leas, perhaps In
their bouquet than In their rarity Th*
c mmeiclal view of their value amounts
to nothing If tha connoisseur desires
them, he will have them at any prtca Im
p-rial Tokay may not be ao wholly desir
able to the palate as It Is to th* mind!
but who wou and not feel proud at opening
a bottle for the delectation of hi* guest*?
It might well be argued that alt rara
products are overvalued; but not to th#
connoixxeur.
Thfiv !.■* no pJaro tn tho world vrkera
tho \ln# rocaivta so much car* owl acien
ttftc cultivation in Oormany. an t whlla
In other ountric the produca may have
deteriorated, on the Rhino It haa graaUy
Improved. Bchloa* Johanailaberg ar*d
(Steinberg Cabinet are the llneaf of theae
vJne-y.ird* The former baton** to Prince
Metternlch, who Holla a certain *>irtlon of
the vintage by public auction fvyy year
He ret line moat of it htmuelf. and it mutt
b*- aom< of this that Haron RothaoidlJ
I ban bought.
“I ehmild think they are of IMS -Intake
whbh is the bast we have had alnce 190
nr.d it win equal. If not eurpaae. fhe Ut
ter when || ha* ha/1 time to develop In
f jet. expert* ifok upon I*3 and 1962 a* tb*
two flneet vintage of the century.
oureelves. at Prince Metternlch’a publl*
auction, paid over ISOOO per cask of
gallons for the IMS wine.
“The Sieinbf rg Cabinet of ltM waa more
expensive 8(111, for we paid cloaa upon
H VjO per rank of 13'. ga'lona The produce
of the rtteinbcrjc Cabinet amount* to a bo* it
I'-W ranks a year, and only aboMt ten ar*
e< 4; w hile Hciilns* Johannfstxrg product*
lM still R#sid*x \m and UrM. lttf. and
ivjt warn extremely fine vintage*. I * m
eorry to say now (hat we have been ••!*-
lug our 1*93 gchloea JoharnUl erg at mu h
lens than 12. a bottle. Aa we have not
heard definitely al>out the aale. I cannot
swear to It being IHM wine, but It ran
only h.%%'e been that or 1562, I* l ®
Several wine merchanta who were In
tarviewed asserted that It waa a fan ry
price altogether.
“Ther* are faebtonn in wine*.” remark
ed one of them. '*Thlt la particularly tha
case In champagnes, and the price# glv-m
at aome ealee ar*- simply abeurd. Tlirc
or four rich men happen to be in ”
aa earnom. and w ith each anxioue to b'
they tun the wine up to a prl<? th#
make* wine merchants' tn u he water
the majority of rare* abeoiutely the hh
y(*i wine could be obtained hw
win* merchant at half the price