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'Washington Office 32 Wyatt bldg. the Interstate Commerce Commission Lacks Courage. President Stickney of the Chicago Great Western railway, while testifying1 in the federal court Tuesday, declared that if the present laws were enforced there would be no railway rate discriminations. Afterward Mr. Stickney said: We need railroad legislation perhaps.

The. present laws may not be all they should be, bat that cannot be determined until they are enforced. The enforcement rests with the Interstate commerce commission, a body too cowardly to carry out Its obligations. The Interstate commerce law Is violated repeatedly, and the commissioners know it, but not one of them has the courage to make use of the power they pos-at 68. The courage 'of a body of men fluctu ates as circumstances affect its Individ ual members.

If circumstances are un favorable, the weak rule and the body is cowardly. If they are favorable, the etrong lead and the body Is brave. Have the circumstances in which they were placed tended to make the commerce commissioners cowardly or coura geous? Take a case'in point: Complaint was made that the Santa Fe railway, by its secret rebates to the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, had wrecked a competing coal company, de stroyed an industry, and depopulated a village. At-least, one of the commis sioners, the Hon. Charles A.

Prouty, set out loyally to find the truth. He found it. He found evidence that proved the charge to the hilt, and ex posed Paul Morton, then Secretary of the Navy, as guilty of what Mr. Prouty termed "barefaced disregard of the law." What was the result? Instantly there began to come from Washington Intimations that "Prouty, was to go. It has been an open secret for months that Commissioner Prouty is slated for dismissal at the earliest convenient moment: And in the same issue of The Inter Ocean with Mr.

Stickney'8 statement is a dispatch from Washington 'ontaininr another semi-official inti mation that "Prouty is to go." Meanwhile Faul Morton, the self-confessed rebater, has been permitted to retire to private life without official censure-. The Hon. William II, Moody, Attorney General of the United States, with ample power to enforce the law, lias refused to enforce it against Paul Morton. He had to shut his eyes and Lold his nose and stultify his profes-fc'onal reputation to do it. However, the Hon.

William H. Moody did it. Meantime the Hon. Charles A. Prouty, ho loyally sought the truth and foupd It, who did justice uprightly and without respect of persons.

Is slated for dismissal from the office whose duties he performed with courage and honor. What wonder that the interstate Commerce commission, as a body, lacks courage, when such are, the penalties of courageous integrity! Happy Nights in Evanston. When Evanston's new burglar alarm Is In operation, the family heirlooms of Evanston will be safer than they have been before, except when they have been in a Davis street safety deposit vault. At night, when it is time to retire, the Janstonian will look into the chiffonier, or the drawer of the dressing table, or behind the books in his library, or behind one of hi oil paintings, or under the mattress, or beneath the large Oriental rug, to see if the family heirlooms are where' they were the night before. Sometimes, but not often, he will think that be put them between bis shirts in his private drawer, when, as a matter of fact, he had put them under his evening suit in another private drawer, and for a few horrible moments lie will fear that the priceless possessions have been stolen, but, having found them, he will be able to retire feeling that nothing can touch them during the silent watches of the night.

if, perchance, about 2 a. m. he is a wakened by a strange noise down stairs, he will not, as hesdoes now, put his head out of the window and yell Tire!" Xor will he. as now, awake his wife and tell her about the noise, and ask her if she will not hold the light while he goes down stairs and sees what caused it. All he will, need to do hereafter is to press a button in the telephone receiver, -which will flash a light at the central telephone office, which will let the telephone operator know that there is a burglar in his house.

As soon its the telephone operator learns that there Is a burglar in his house she will call up the Kvanston Burglary Prevention Hureati, which will immediately start one of its all Bight force for the residence in which the burglar is supposed to be, and the llurglary Preventer, mounted upon a fiying bicycle, will have arrived at the threatened residence atmoxt lefore the man who aent in the alarm has had time to cover hi bead with the pillow. There fttay be eases in hich the head of the house will not be awakened by the noise of the burglar until the latter is In his room. In that event, it will be impossible, of course, for the head of the house to press the button. It may fcappen, also, that the telephone instrument is on the stair landing, while the l)urgbr is at the head of the stairs. But such contingencies are not wor- i 1 iny oi seri'Mis eousiueraiiuH.

rui lurrr is always the Evanston man's wife to be remembered. If the head of the house Cu only rouse Lcr and get her started for the button, the presence of a burglar on this side or the other side of the telephone will make Tittle difference. Women are bo thoughtless that they will rush right into the jaws of danger and knowledge of this fact, together with the new flashlight burglar alarm, will serve to set th-e mind of the average Evanston man more at ease when he hears a noise at night than it ever ha been since he began to-collect family heirlooms. Who Has Power in the Pulpit The Rev. Dr.

Theodore Cuyler of Brooklyn, now in his eighty-fifth year, was questioned recently by the Ilomi letic lteview as to the changes In pulpit methods within his memory. He was asked also to give his opinion as to the secret of the power of the many great preucners or the past whom he had known. Dr. Cuyler answer to the first ouea- won, interesting, need not be considered at length, save on one point. While conceding that ministers have to work harder row than formerly, owing to changed toclal conditions, the compe- "i amusements and the Sunday newspaper, and the general cooling of the old faith In the inspiration of the iioie, lie suggested that one main rea son for this necessity of harder work i that preaching is not so "doctrinal" as lorirerly "not so generally aimed at awakening the impenitent" does not "push to the frojit such-mighty themes as Goo's attribuies, the nature of sin, the atonement, regeneration, faith, res- irrecuoij, and judgment to come, with heaven and hell as trememlr.i.e ties." And these refieelions naturallv led un i vuyier statement of the reason.

as it seemeu to him, of the pulpit nower o. su- preachers as Spurgeon, Xew-man Hall, and Parker in England, and the Heechers, Bushnell, Simpson, Tyng, Storr, end Phillips Brooks in America. Said Dr. Cuyler of these preachers: The one secret of the power of all these giants of the pulpit waa their adamantine faith. Their knees never shook when they stood up to declare the Inspired oracle of the Almighty.

These men not only possessed great faith In the great truths of Christianity; they were absolutely possessed by them; and, like Martin Luther at Worms, they "could not speak otherwise." Laymen who go to many churches to hear many preachers will see a great truth in Dr. Cuyler's analysis. Many a preacher today, in speaking of sin and punishment, gives the impression that, after all, sin is not so black, and that its punishment is not likely to be so very set ere. And so, when he comes to speak of righteousness and its rewards he seems to be in some doubt whether righteousness is so very necessary, or its rewards absolutely sure. If he speaks of hell he explains it away, and one is left feeling that he would explain away heaven, too, if it were considered unpleasant by anybody to go there.

Too often the modern preacher seems to hae come to the conclusion that, after ail, in human conduct is relnthe--that the bad are not, after all. so very bad, aud the good probably no better than they might be, and that nothing makes any irremediable differ ence. Having, apparently, lost tne tear of God. he finds it difficult to convince others of the lot of God, to which he devotes himself without seeming to know or care how It may be deserved or 'vhv it exists. Now, in social relations ond politics it is necessary to conceue mat acts arc moral or immoral relatively and accord- ins to circumstances.

Otherwise social intercourse would be always a fight and the business of government could not go oil. nut reugipn is essentially abso lute. In religion either a thing is right and true or it is not, and there is no middle around. Either a man soul is going to be sived or it is going to be lost. The preacher who fails to see and be lieve this with his whole soul a preach er whose knees shake when he stands up to oecJare the law of God cannot be powerful in the pulpit, because he can not convince people oi wnai lie nimsen is not convinced of.

Dr. Cuyler is right. The lack of that sincerity given by adamantine laitn alone is what ails many preachers today and deprives them of moving power. We Should Control Our Fancies. Nervous persons, and especially those who are troubled with occasional pains their sides, will feel no -better for having learned of the strange case of llobert Hanners.

Mr. Hanners appeared at the county hospital a few days ago and expressed a desire to be operated on for a five inch lead pencil which was lodged in the vi cinity of his vermiform appendix. The hospital interne to whom be communi cated his thoughts laughed at the state ment and declared that Mr. Hanners trouble was appendicitis. However, the result of the operation was a complete vindication of the position taken by the sufferer.

A lea3 pencil of the length named was removed from Mr. 'Hanners side, and ever since he has been feeling as well as could reasonably be expected. In the good old times when a man had pain in his side he felt that the best thing to do for it waa to forget it. This was oerore inn grown ana otherwise healthy people began to develop what we now call nervousness. Later, and up to the time Mr.

Hanners appeared at the countv hospital, it came to be the almost universal custom for people with pains in their bides to have them selves operated upon for appendicitis. Now that Mr. Hanners' experience has become generally known, we may take it as almost settled that many of our nervous people, when suffering from pains In their sides, will rush to the nearest hospital and beg to be operated upon for lead pencils. But will it stop there? Hardly. The nervous people are highly imaginative.

Let the idea once be spread among them that pains in the side are somet imes due to five inch lead pencils, and they will think themselves into the belief that some tune, when tr.ey were lost in thought, they' must have swallowed fountain pens and even. typewriters. And it may not stop hre. Nervous people who read of Mr. Hanners' experience will conclude the next time they get fctitches in their hides that the trouble must be caused by tack hammers, cork screws, handsaws, baseball bats, clothespins, hatchets, or lawn mowers, whicn they swauowea unconsciously at some time when pursuiujf TILE INTER TIITJRSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1905.

their usual vocations, "but In an abstract ed frame of mind. JReallr, these thing should not be mentioned in the newspapers, except, perhaps, for the pleasure nervous peo ple derive from almost everything that contributes to their misery. It would be denying" the dyspeptic one of bis greatest joys if the newspapers should suppress mention of something new in the way of afflictions which he has not beard of before and which he can pro ceed to attach to himself now, thereby giving him a new and more ennobling interest in life. But the ordinary man should be warned not to eet into the habit of thinking that he has swallowed things which will sooner or later lodge in the vicinity of his vermiform appendix. The more one thinks of these things, the more one is inclined to feel them.

For instance, there is a man out at Dunning who would be mentally and physically as sound us any of us if he could only divest himself of the thought that the Stadium, which was designed for the lake front, is lodged in his duodenum. Two Kinds of Bad Language. several London newspapers are wag ing a more or less vigorous warfare on what they call "hackneyed terms" in writing. London Tit Bits offered a prize recent ly for the best contribution on "hack neyed" terms, and the winning article contained an astonishing list of worn- out expressions which the writer laid at the door of the "journalists, litte novelists, penny-a-liners, and other ink slingers." The list includes such expressions as: That bourne from whence no traveler returns; bUuBled off this mortal coll; state of single blessedness; the happy pair; his better half; con aplcuous by his absence; a sight for the gods; a sight to make angels weep; bated breath; the human form divine; eagle glance; magnetic saxe; dilated nostrum: willowy lorm; aaininy Cloved hand: the Inner man; the charming Host ess: a few wen cnosen ureureui bivalve: the psychological moment; so near, yet so far; last but not least; a dull, sickening thud; bis own inimitable style; old Sol; a cool million. The London Author supplements this list with a smaller one, which inciuaes the phrases, "auspicious "brilliant "the festive board "genial "norai irio- ute," and "watery grave.

If this be the kind of literature that English writers are turning out, it is no wonder that the critics wail. Nor is it to be wondered that John Bull ac- uscs is on this side of the Atlantic of speaking United States, not English. For over here the English language grows lay oy tiay, anu a uieijiiur i succeeded by a more modern one before it has time to grow snop-worn. Of course a few American writers fondly cling to the old famniar terms, but our most advanced School of Let ters, ns represented by Ade, Hobart, and others, has changed all this. For ex ample, it is not considered necessary in mortuary matters to refer to "that bourne," it is sufficient to simply say that the man "croaked." "A sight to make anirelsveen" is "fierce," while "magnetic gaze" has become "goo-goo eyes." In this rapid growth of the language the.

"dull, sickening thud" has long ago disappeared If anything of the kind must be mentioned, the "Kojestveosky glide" is frequently used, or it may be stated that the gentleman's "fuse blew out." Nowadays the "daintily gloved hand" belongs to the girl with the "lace mitt," while to make a "few well chosen remarks" is to "spiel some Joe Millers." Thus steadily the good work goes on with commendable rapidity. It is not safe for a language to stand still. For a language to stand still is as bad for the language as to grow fast. Go to the State Fair. Springfield is extending the glad hand hospitality to the multitudes that are thinking of attending the state fair, which will open next Saturday and close a week from the following Mon day.

There is irood reason for the belief that this is destined to le one of the most successful state fairs ever held in Illinois. The crops this year have been tremendous. All danger of a blighting frost is past. Prices for all farm products are good. Agriculturists and townspeople alike are prosper ous.

Moreover, the thousands of down the-state people who have been too busy all through the year thus far to take their usual interest in politics now have the necessary leisure, and the state fair grounds of Springfield will be thronged next week ith representative citizens who are anxious to discover where they stand. "When the state fair arrives." says a Springfield contemporary, "and the time is rapidly approaching, there will probably be a greater influx of visitors than ever before. We know, however. that Springfield has ample hotel facili ties, and that, aside from tf establishes! hostelries. there are many private boarding-houses here meals and lodging may- be obtained at a reasonable figure; paring the fair, too, there are many famines ot In tne habit or tnic-ing boarders that make arrangements to accommodate the state fair visitors." Not so many Chicagoans as should patronize this great agricultural and industrial show have heretofore visited the grounds.

It would do most of our leople good to come in contact with the Intelligent, wholesome, and whole hearted people of the counties outside of Cook. It would make them prouder than ever of the great commonwealth in which it is their privilege to live. The state fair is no international ex position, but it is air exhibit of far more importance to our pwn people. Aside from the display of agricultural, horticultural, and floricultural products, aside from the vast assembly of me; clianieal contrivances for the planting. the cultivation, and the harvesting of the crops, aside from the blooded live t.tock, there are to be seen on the fair grounds the choicest types of Illinois loveliness and the best specimens of Illinois manhood.

Here, also, one may hope to see Uncle Shelby at his best, mingling with the plain people whom be loves so well, and the Hon. Kichard Yates endeavoring to outsroile the veteran siniler, and all the federal office-holders, too, and that vast and influential arm 3- of workers who have "been expecting -something fcince last January and have got nothing. You do not know Illinois well until you bare gone 10 a state lair, una now i that the best people of Springfield, who are not in the habit of keeping boarders, are willing to accommodate you and to make you feel at home, you should run down next week and get acquainted with the people without whom Illinois would be poor indeed. A Few Frank Words. A speaker at the banquet of the Chicago real estate board on Tuesday evening-declared that "the street railway question should be taken up by our business citizens, and not left to those devoted to politics." "Are we," he asked, "being led into i-arrow channels of theories and hobbies which exist only as mere sentiment and political influence?" There has been no time in the last ten years when the business citizens of Chicago could not have taken the so called traction problem into their own hands and applied to it the principles of common sense and common morality which they.

follow in the eir own affairs. They thus could have solved It in a neBsiixe way anu io tne Dfnruv ui bu interests, including their own. TntH nf rfir.r Wvever. the thejtlons? Just about as much as it is possible es traction question sinK into a morass oi tans-led theories, hobbies, and mid hummer night's dreams. The banquet speaker, as well as those who greeted his remarks with applause, must be entirely conscious of the fact that the street railway question would not be where it is today if those persons to- whom the average citizen is wont to look for sound judgment had not per mitted themselves to be carried off their feet br the advocates of referendum- ism, Mueller-billisra, and other forms of hysteria It is a little late now to denounce in mis connection tnobe who ur.ii to politics." Time and again men who are in a large measure devoted to poli- tics-honest men, capable men, ur to them their mistake and shown them the way out or the tangle into which their mistake had lOd tnem.

Yet time and again they have decided to cling to the gentlemen who have had alwavs something to offer them in the wav of a snectacuiar soiunou. xnc business citizen, not aro' politician who is worthy of the name, is responsible for the creation and perpetuation or Chicago's street railway scandal. It Is only one of the signs of the bet- 1 A. io ffIinj- in tentative circles tnav Colonel E. R.

Bliss, who fought so ear nestly for the Mueller bill, is reported to be engaged in drawing up a street railway franchise ordinance. The man who tried to bribe the city hall with $25 must have seen as quickly as anybody that he had committed an unpardonable blunder, for he managed to escape before the city hall rould re cover from the shock. The excuse that Mr. Cleveland's re peated attacks upon women clubs Is due to his fondness for duck hunting is advanced merely "for what it is worth. Secretarv Shaw will be open to an offer from his paiMy'on and after Feb.

1, 1906. Any advances that may be made earlier will be considered premature, Now that the Hungarians are mani- festoing again, it can be safely assumed that all danger to the empire is over for the present. -Whatever be thought of Mr. Stickney's views, it cannot be fairly said that he does not state them frankly and clearly. GYPSY GIRL FINDS HOME.

Been a Wanderer All of Her Sbort Life. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. BUFFALO. N. Sect.

27. Clad in the gaudy garb of the gypsy, with her clothes torn and covered with mud from sleeping on the wet ground. Jennie Allen, a handsome gipsy girl 19 years old, was sent to the Ingle- side home by Justice Rochford. The Justice sent her there so that she might have a home for the first time in her lite. She said she never had a home and her father was travel ing over the world and she seldom saw him.

For the past tew days she has been sleeping In vacant lots. Last night, while it was raining, she hunted in vain for shelter, and seme railroad men finally called an officer to arrest her. She wore a red woolen vest and white cap, with various other colors in her makeup. Recently she worked in the Salvation Army home. Justice Rochford throught the home had not provided her with neat and comfortable clothing.

Justice Rochford asked the girl her re ligions belief. I don know anything about It, she said. "What church did you ever attend?" he asked. "I was never in a church," said the girl. and don know anything about them." When tha girl was asked to read and sign her commitment, as is customary In such cases, she professed her inability to do either and had to put her mark on it.

FRIENDS AND FOES. Did it ever occur to you. my friend iJia it ever occur to you That you never may know to your long life's end Which one of your friends Is true? Perhaps there are one or two At most but, many or few. It's likely to be the ease, you Bee. That they never can prove their constancy.

ror tne need may never arise, my friend uia it ever occur toyeu? Did you ever happen to think, my friend Did you ever happen to think That you never can know to your long life's end What foes you should shun and shrink? It may be the man whose drink You share and your glasses clluk. And you smile and quaff with a hearty laugh To the man who would read your epitaph With Joy if he had the chance, my friend-Did yot ever happen to think? Or don't you happen to care, my friend- Like me, don you happen to care? Would you rather pretend to your long life's end That all your confidence share? -Let 'em smile and protest and swear Let 'em frown still speak them For friends and foes thev count the same. They're hidden oarda In life's little game; They may cheat but you play fair, my friend. And you'll never need to care! Cleveland Leader. A Hard Hrltoolluc "Popley is quite an entertainer.

I heard him last night at an evening party." "Yes. he developed that talent In the nursery." "Grhclous! that young?" "Oh! you miiunderstend me; I mean his children's nursery. He's had so many to entertain there." Philadelphia Press. business men of Chicago have let NEWS Naturally tha Impression Is general that tag personages are very freely, and quite Intimately analysed la the things that are writtn concerning them Truth Is, the most widely published of players is a creature of twin entities, representing the false and the true individual. First, he Is himself; second, be is what the public believe him to he The most Interesting thoughts, the keen est observations, the greatest sorrows and the deepest disappointments, the truest feel ings, are those of which nothing ever Is written, spoken, or gossiped who an tne ireak stories concerning him, who knows the real Mansfield? Hlsthotuhta his" aspirations, his intentions, his beliefs, his expectations Twenty years of -joking wnn juuiian Hasten has produced manv stories and a few Jokes on the marriage question, but how many of them have truth as ineir inspiration? juaxine tiuott has talked of beauty, and the small (I) part It has played In her stage success; Mrs.

Fiske has written interestlag a. i it ii uoui me grip or commercialism in tage affairs; actors and actresses, old and Sd throU tL TZZ "lZll I nilUTU i ana tamea, asserted and repeated views upon I imngs ootn in and out of their T. mucn or tne individual i ii aa Deen ainmvrpfl ihiwii.1, i lu irom ice cnaracters they play. Of the petty bdt all imnnrtinl Istlcs that stamp the human we never hear. Hence, the man or the woman is really never known.

There's Toby Claude, for Instance. A minor factor Is Toby, la the. world of the theater. Physically, she is about as big as uan-iiter or snail brau, -though profes- I slonally she is of average stature. Next week she Is to be ths Jessie In the cast which win return with "Kantana" to the Carrlck.

It Is the part played originally by Katie Baft jr. Now, much has been written about Toby rJSi udef he th advertising feature of ine Chinese Honeymoon" some seasons ago. Through Soma misunderstanding wa. r. Barry was brought over from London to Play, and when the latter arrived she found I .,1..

"rvj rimi-r nernu iauue one or the other would considerately vamoose, Ha.T,"K "Ried her contracts, however, the comedienne refused to budge, and the Shuberta nr th. some one. suggested that both thL tried in the part, determining thereby their me. and offering, at 1 nine, a sort or International test In soubrettes. in time they each aDoeared In PhlloHol phla.

Some said Miss Barrr waa th mnr entertaining, others that Miss Claude, being less English, was morn inimin, k. onuoerts, possibly because the Barry con tri.ct stipulated a fat salary, agreed to feature the English woman in thn rt "Hnni. mnon company and to put Miss Claude In a second organization. Since that time the two small women have THE WHIRL OF SOCIETY. We were all sitting la a chophouse, the Angel Child, the Authors' Guide, and my self.

"The world1," the Authors' Guide was say- lr.g, "has constricted itself, on a series of relations one thing to another. Every thing Is based on relationship, even art. Now, It is absurd to bold art to a series of relations, to make a drama connective, to have the characters play Into each other's hands. Why' don't they play out of each other's hands? "Can you Imagine a picture with seven fig quite dissimilar In tone and bar ing nothing to do with each other, but the picture really great In an entirely new way? That Is what I am looking for. and I predict that the new art, especially the new music, will concern Itself with dissimilar things.

We have had tunes until we are dead tired of them. What we now long for is Jones, dissimilar tones, clanging, unspeakable discords with no relations one to the other. The effect Is something to dream of." should think so. Indeed." commented the Angel Child. "Why not?" continued the Authors Guide.

Strauss' 'Richard the Fourth' made some advance, but a greater step will be the foundation of the new music when frolicsome chords, without relation, on to the other. will skip across the page. It will be much more subtle and interesting." "I suppose." said "that you would carry the same theory Into literature and have words stalking across the page, plain, empty words, without even conjunctions between them?" "Why not?" asked the Authors' Guide again. "It would be delightfully novel and one could Imagine that brilliancy existed. whereas In the ordinary novel even that faint hope is eliminated." "Authors' Guide." said the Angel Child, this conversation is one too many.

I shall change the subject by pointing out yonder picture." "Burne-Jones 'Golden I 'said. "Yes." continued the Angel Child. "He painted to show a friend who said he STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE. A Xew Deflnltltfa. Former Mayor Patrick Collins of Boston told this one as the Irish cab driver had narrated It to him in Dublin.

Cabby took a fare" out Into the country one night. The gentleman paid him well, and told him to "look under the seat." There cabby found a quart bottle of pure Irish whisky, and he sampled: It immedi ately. He slao gave some to the horse, who seemed to like It. Telling -the story cabby said: 'Afther I'd been glvln a th' baste on'y foor or foive dhrinks he got gsy; he did. Th' first thing Oi knowed Oi wor in th shafts pullin' th keb, an' th baste wor up in th' sate lashln me wid th' whip, makin' me pull harrd an' dance." Well, what was the result?" inquired Mr.

Collins. Oi've niver give th' haste another drop fr'ra that day till this." Yes, but what waa the result that night? You were drunk, of course." "Oi wor not dhrunk. at all at all." "Were you entirely sober "No. Oi'll not He about It-. Oi wor not in- tolrely sober." If neither drunk nor sober, what was your condition?" "OI wor on th defensive." Pittsburg Dis patch.

Poor Margaret Fuller. Marearet Fuller Ossoll. who before her marriage spent mut'h of her time in Concord, enjoyed ths friendship of such men as Emerson and Hawthorne, who had a high regard for her, but she was unable to con vert all of her acquaintances into friends. Old Dr. Bartlett of that town, although a very kind old gentleman, was a little blunt in speech, and took a strong dislike to her.

One very dark and stormy night the doctor wss awakened oy a very touu snocKine at his door, and. getting out of bed, he called from the windaw- to know what was wanted. Doctor." said a voice from below, "how much camphor can any one take by mistake and cot kill them?" Who's taken It?" Inquired the doctor. Margaret Fuller," was the reply. 'A neck!" thundered the doctor, sismminz the window and returning to bed.

Boston Herald. flellKlaaa Train Work. 'Taking them one with another," taid a Keli known Chicago clergyman, at a recent uinntr at Delmonico's, "I beiiove my con THE THEATE RS. i i S.V. i l.

mm been rivals. As FIfl In "The Honeymoon," they have contrasted "notices" In all the principal cities, and whenever there has been an eccentric soubrette-part suggested both have been mentioned. And now that Miss Barry has trotted away on a high horse toward the vaudevilles. Miss Claude Is to again follow her and take up the part she laid down In "Fantana." During the continuance of the rivalry of theee small and excitable young women, and while they have had their opinions one of the other, we have been told much concern ing their Ideas of life, of scting, of cooking. and of Sunday performances.

But a discus sion that would be particularly Interesting would concern a few of the things that Miss Claude has thought and said and planned looking to the worldly success and spiritual future of Miss Barry. Tour Cncle George Bernsrd Shaw has a way with him when it comes to disarming criticism. couldn't do feet and proved that he couldn't." "As an envoy," the Authors' Guide said. "I will repeat the latest version of Lewis Carroll's rhyme: "Speak softly to your little boy. And praise him when he squeezes.

He only does it to enjoy. Because he knows It Mrs. Ellaha Miller returned from New York last Thursday, and from all I can learn has been going to matinees ever since. She Is a remarkably pretty woman, and she has a remarkably pretty mother. Dewey, who' has been In' town all summer.

Mrs, Dewey is a brilliant pianist, and often those who know her have a rare treat. Mrs. Dewey, unfortunately for music lovers, is not on the concert stage. Mrs. Farwell's death brings Mrs.

Chat-field-Taylor back from the Eaat much quicker than she had Intended to come. Mrs. Taylor went East on Sunday to take Adelaide Chatfield-Taylor to Rosemary hall, and she had Intended to stay until the last of the week. Mrs. Farwell's sudden death called her back last night, however.

She brought Mrs. Reginald De Koven, who was Anna Far-well, back with her. Mr. and Mrs. William Gerrlsh Be a lei 10 Astbr street, are back from the East.

Mrs. Beale's mother and sister, Mrs. Malcolm Carruthers. and Miss Carruthers, 37 Banks street, who spent the summer in Canada, are now In New York, and will not return for some time. Mr.

and Mrs. John E. Dean. 3239 Indiana avenue, returned from the East Sunday, having spent most of the summer at Magnolia. Mass.

The Misses Dean, who were with them, are visiting their -sister, Mrs. Black-man, at New Rochelle, and will be away several days longer. A story has come to me from the Fine Arts building, which is worth a word or two. about a young woman who made It a point to be haughty when other young women spoke, to her. She was studying singing, and, according to all reports, she was doing well gregation to be the most exemplary observ ers of the religious ordinances." "Wry asked his neighbor, a lawyer with the cross-questioning habit strong upon him.

"Because the poor In this congregation of mine keep all the fasts and the rich all the feasts." BLOODY THUMB ON AN EGG. Detective Catches. Saspert and Makes Record Tkroask Clew. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. NEW; YORK, Sept.

27. A detective was found yesterday who can detect. The police department is expected to recover, however. A white egg shell with a bloody thumb mark on it helped Detective Lynch to get his man. Lynch, in spite or having established a record, Is modest about his exploit.

The butcher shop of Charles Lorenx was robbed on Tuesday night. A big mastiff. supposed to be as faithful as old dog Tray, did not bother the burglar, and was found uninjured the next morning. From this Detective Lynch deduced that the job was an inside one. Further, he found some blood drops on the floor.

He also found the smudge of a bloody thumb on an egg. Harry White, a clerk employed by Lorenx. did not go to work yesterday morning, so Detective Lynch hunted him up at his home. He found that White had a small cut on his right thumb. He then compared the lines of the thumb with the marks on the egg.

Tbey followed each other exactly. This convinced Lynch that he had the right man. and was sufficient to cause Magistrate Stetaert, In the West Side court, to hold the prisoner In $3,000 for examination this afternoon. BOSTCNIAN'S ONLY EYE HURT. Refnsed Work Because He Old Xat Have Two Eye.

BOSTON. Sept. 27. Thomas Lynch, 8, a stone msson. who has found It hard to obtain work because he had only one good eye, is in City bospltat, whore the physicians are making every effort to save the sight of his good eye.

They have little prospect of succeeding, for the stone which an 8-year-old boy threw in a spirit of fun struck Lynch In th good optic and damaged it badly. At the time of the accident Lynch was returning from a day's search for work. Lynch dropped to the ground unconscious and the police took him to the hospital. Accompar.yina; the manuscript or "Mitjnf Barbara," a plav he has written for Annie Rusoell, was the following advance comment: "it is simply an ethical 5Ucuion In three long acts. It will be a publictharity to wara all romantic playgoers to keep sway from It, a I have thrown them over completely.

"The setlng will be very fine, of course. There will be nothing like It In London. Even without counting the foor great parts by Annie Ruesell. Kostoa Fllippl. Louis Calvert, and Granville Barker, there will be lots of excellent acting.

But the play Is a terror. It will try the faithful extremely. "The lsted news received by cable Is that 'Man and with Robert Lorain and Far Davis in the principal pans, is a coiotstl success in New York. I shall know how much to believe of this when I see the returns." One of the stories Burton Holmes tells Is calculated to pre lied head" on the part of persona who think that the world could nqt go on without them: "I was sitting." said Mr. Holmes, "in ihe lobby of a well known hotel In Cinctnastt Just si a bus load of traveling salesmen arrived from the (tatian.

They bustled np to the desk In their usual business like and breezy msnner snd one stter the other signed the register. One and all shook bands who the hotel clerk, a quaint, fatherly olJ fellow, who bad been there a good man; years, and one of the knights of the raid said: 'Welt. Uncle Dave, It's a good thing you're not dead yet. I don't think the houce could run without 'Oh. yes It said the old clerk.

"You fellows would come In here, and If there was a strange rlerk on watch, you'd say: "Where's Uncle Dave?" "Why. didn't you hear shout him? He died last month." Then you'd aay, "Well, I'll be darned! That's too bad. Say! What tlme'll dinner ready? Marie Cahlll Is hospitable. Also witty. Also the boss In a summer home in New Jersey.

All of which figured la one pt her experiences Isst summer. She was entertaining a dinner party. The dining-room floor Is polished, and on this particular day was as slippery as a high financier. The Japanese boy came In with the service tray, and started away from the table after that particular part of the meal waa finished. He emulated the most stylish colored talent by carrying the tray high In the air.

Bang! Down he went In a hen p. The noise was startling and the pause which followed embarrassing, but Miss Cahlll relieved the situation. "Isn't it fortunate he was going and not coming?" she said, sweetly. "The Henrietta" Is reviving the memories or many a North Slder this week, being the bill In the Bush Temple, and receiving very good treatment at the hands of the Players' Stock company. The production Is as complete as usual and the characterizations satisfying.

The Great Northern is also to oe repre sented In the new play rush of next week. In that theater "Texas," described as a huge melodrama, will be given. It Is a uni tary border play or the "Arrxona" type. In Cleveland Mr. Sothern is said to pre sent a decidedly Individual, but still a rather satisfying.

Shy lock, and Miss Marlowe a de lightfully engsglng Portia. B. M. with her art, but as' a socialist she was a failure. One day last week a mouse flounced rather rapidly through the not intending to stop at all, but the vocal student, who was taking a lesson at the time, waa out of the door before the mouse, and rau screaming down the corridor, -while the doors of all the studios opened an Inch to allow the others to take in the scene.

She made the elevator, and hence escaped Into the street, and did not come back for her lesson. Since this episode she has ceased to be haughty. Mr. and Mrs- Augustus Green and Miss Green, 2306 Calumet avenue, have returned after spending the summer la the East. Mrs.

Green has been back a week or more, while Miss Green only returned Saturday, having spent the summer at Bretton Woods. N. and Magnolia Beach, and latterly with her brother at the Creen farm on Lake Ontario. Mrs. Joseph E.

Otis, 1730 Prairie avenue, is home again, after spending the summer at Vlxvllles Notch, in the White mountains. The report was circulated that Mrs. Otis had gone tf Europe for the summer, but as matter of fact Mrs. Otis spent the entire summer in the East. Mr.

and Mrs. John K. Jenkins, who were with her in the White mountains, will return to the city this week. Mr. and Mrs.

John C. King are making an automobile tour In the East. They spent the latter part of last week in Lenox, Mass. Mrs. William Aldrtch and Miss Marion Aid-rich, 4519 Greenwood avenue, returned from Europe a week ago, and Miss Aldrich has gone to Culver, to visit Mrs.

Shirk. Mrs. Aldrich and Miss Aldrich were abroad two during which time they toured England and went on a coaching trip through Scotland and Wales. Miss Msrgaret WInterbotham has re turned from the East, and la staying with her grandmother, Mrs. Baldwin.

47 Wood- lawn park. Her mother and sister. Mrs. John Russell Winterbotham and Miss Kathe- rlne Winterbotham, are still in the East, and will not be home for two or three weeks. WILLIE DEARBORN.

WILD BEARS BLOCK TROLLEY. Preside Itooaevelt Caa 11t Brain a Dalitk Slreeu. Special Dispatch to The Inter Oceaa, DCLUTH. Sept. 27.

Street car traffic on Woodland avenue, near the residence of James C. Hunter, wss blocked last evening for a short time by six black bean, three large and three small ones. Several timid women passengers were nearly frightened Into hysterics when Motor-man F. E. Murruss brought the car to a sudden stop and called to the conductor, "Bears on the track!" "1 Instantly there was a rush for the door by the men passengers, each anxious to get a glimpse of the shaggy fellows.

The women, however, huddled together closely and urged the motorman to "go ahead at once!" Had there been a rifle In the car the six intruders could have been dispatched with easo. as they did not appear to be terrified in tb least by the noise and light of the trolley car. In fact one of the number would havo been run down had not the car been brough; to a standstill. There were sixteen passengers on the car, more than half of whom were women bound for the theaters. Police were sent to scene, but the animals had fled out of rang of the electric lights.

It hss been suggested that President Roosevelt be invited here to a bear hunt. 1 SKIRTED BOATMAN DROWNS. Fieeeatrle Character Is sabnitrged by Apparel. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. PHILADELPHIA.

Sept. 27. Valentine Fulbs, an aged ferryman, known for many miles on the Schuylkill river on account of his eccentricities, wss drowned at Ehaw-mont by the overturning of the boat that he had paddled for a general ion. Fulbs' death was due to the fact that when his boat upset be was attired In woman's clothing, the prset Ice of wearing female garments being one of his many peculiarities. On account of It he was called "Rosy Glen." Entangled In his woman's ctothlngrJie sank, although he was a good swimmer, when the boat capsUed.

Fulbs and his wife settled in an old cabin in Shawmont thirty years ago. Fulbs, with his own hands. In a few years built a more substantial houee. using broken bricks and sandstens as material. The qufl rly built structure attracted much attention..