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2 AMUgtHIHTS TONIGHT Tuesday Evening, Nov. 7. fYlMMFNTE AT 7.45. aiNCLUSION AT lt.44. WHIRLWIND OK TCN.

Joe "Weber's Star Company Appearing In the two musical laughing triiimphi; HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY AND THE COLLEGE WIDOWER Boole and Lyrics by Edgar Smith. Music by Maurice Levi. More than a year's run at Weber's Music Hail, in New York. The Football Girls The Trtxie Oirls The Clancy Girls The Indian Maids The Milk Maids. Choice Reserved Seats at All Prices.

Seats Are NOT All Sold. PRICES Gallery. Balcony, Jl.OO First Floor, $1.50. 2.00l Wednesday Mat Ev'g, Nov. 8.

ALSO 7 Thursday Mat Ev'g. Nov. 9. 22nd. Semi Annual Tour.

Lyman H. Howe's Lifeorama America's 6mtest Eihibttloa of Moving Pictures Presenting the only authentic and genuine Moving; Pictures of The Siege and Surrender of Port Arthur. The Gordon Bennett International Automobile Race, 1905. Sensational Steeple Chase. New Scenes of President Roosevelt.

New, and Exclusive Natural History SuDjects. A New Collection Of other Great Pictures. MATINEE Balcony, 15c; Floor, 25. EVENING Gallery, First 25c; Balcony. 25c, 35c; First Floor, 35c; Parlor Chairs and Orchestra.

50c. Friday, November 10, at 8. VIOLA ALLEN As Betty Singleton, in The Toast Of the Town By Clyde Fitch. With great cast, including Isabel Ir ving. Mrs.

Fanny Addison Pitt, A. E. Anson, Harrison Hunter, Hassard Short, Addison Pitt, Alice Wilson, C. Leslie Allen. PRICES Gallery, 50c: Balcony, 75c, 11.00; First Floor.

$1.00, $1.50, $2.00. Sale opens Wednesday, Nov. 8 Monday Evening, Nov. 13. Annual Visit of Grace George IN WM.

A. BRADY'S PRODUCTION OF THE Marriage OF William Ashe By MRS HUMPHREY WARD. Dramatized by Margaret Mayo. Meritorious Very Interesting Very Enjoyable Production Guaranteed PRICES Gallery, 25c; balcony, 50c; first floor, 75c Parlor Chairs. $1.50.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE ALL THIS WEEK. MyrkleHarder Co. Quaker Tragedy Tuesday Mat. Sandy Bottom Thursday Eve. Child of the Slums Wed.

Matinee Helle of Richmond Wed. Evening Sandy Bottom Thursday Matinee At Pike's Peak Thursday Evening 6 vaudeville acts 6 COMPLETE ELECTION RETURNS read from the stage Tuesday night. AMATEUR NIGHT Friday $15 In cash prises. PRICES Matinee, 10, 20c; Night, 10, soc. "Where Society Goes.

AH Star Vaudeville. Matinees Daily Popular Prices THIS WEEK COIN'S PANTOMIME DOGS. RENO AND RICHARDS. MURPHY AND WILLARD. MAMIE REMINGTON AND PICKA.

NINNIES. FIELDS AND WOOLEY. And three Other Splendid Numbers. Consolidated 'Phone No. 404.

Bell "Phone, No. 206 1. New Bijoxi Theatre WEEK OF NOV. 6. Wine, Woman and Song Co Headed by Bonita and her Cuban and African Pickaninnies.

2 BURLETTE 2 5 ACT IN OLIO 5 Sp'clMl Tarn day Evanlng Klaetlom rmturam read from ttaum: mmclml wlrm on tagm. Matinee Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Prices Matinee, 10c, 20c, 30c; first 5 rows, 50c; evening. 10c, 25c, 30c, 60c Coming Week Nov. 13, Robies Knickerbocker Company.

Special Matinee Today 1 Misses Livingston Tull Harper method of Shampooing, Manicuring, Chiropody and Swedish Face Treatment. Open Mon. and Sat; Ev'gs. 310 Colonial Trust Building. LEWIS CRATER SO Ssatb Blxta Street.

Will open, post and close books, audit and exam In. accounts: keep books for parties not requlrln a permanent bookkeeper. C3Fonn UiU TCtOpaT A COCSCOJfAN. Argument court was field Monday with bot.i jidges on the bench Tn.e cowrl heart the ai nw at Simm un rilevif, arjl Witimr. on tl motion made to quasa quo warranto procr adi irs ourt 'est Coumi inftn Abbott Vitman, 13th Want.

trt frlce and to Impose a fine oii him for tba alleged pju tk Jra tlon in city contracts for paving. Lawyer Witman la the ccunrHmaa son. W. Krp Btevens aasdenar: reacons why the court IkouM the indictment. Hi ariaent wci based upon the technical pLm analogy of the proceedings and the construction of the various acta dealing with the case.

Mr. rociied that thi proceedings stated that spalls and acreenlngs were sold to the city to the amount of $2,100 from the quarry operated by John A. Wit man. a brother of the select councilman, and that the latter actually participated In the. profits, but It never avers that he Is actually a partner of his brother In the business.

Mr. Wltman quoted the provisions of the Act of 1860 forbidding a councilman, burgess, to be at the same time a treasurer, secretary or officer suoor dinate to the president who shall re ceive a salary therefrom. Mr. Stevens then quoted other pro visions of the act and interpreted its meaning, as not holding Mr. Wltman responsible for his actions because "there is no averment that lie was member of any corporation or public institution or office or agent thereof, in anywise Interested In contracts with the city.

Mr. Stevens claimed that in order to make Mr. Witman responsible it would be necessary 1) to Insert the word municipality where It does not exist In force and (2) to construe the words member of any corporation to mean councilman of any municipality. A number of references to opinions were quoted. Frederick W.

Nicolls. who, with Harry F. Kantner, represents the Tax payers League, argued for the sver rultng of the action to quash. Mr. Nicolls interpreted the phrase ology of th act of 1860 in that the Legislature meant to punish all public officials who were Interested In any way in municipal contracts.

Mr. Nicolls says that the reason that no Councilman had appeared before the Supreme Court to' contend the right of figuring in city contracts as an individual was because he would not be brazen enough to do this. The contention of allowing Council men to participate in city contracts by an interpretation of the law so to mean, declared Mr. Nicolls. would be an Interpretation contrary to morals and reason and one which makes the intention of the Legislature utterly inane and ridiculous.

It means that a contractor with political Influence can get himself elected to Councils with the express Idea of profiting by city contracts. Mr. Nicolls' brief covers 12 pages of typewritten copy, with many cases be fore the higher courts cited. He concludes by saying: "A Coun cllman is a trustee, removable for I breach of trust and being a public of ficer, the proper proceedings for his removal is quo warranto." OTHER CASES ARGUED. The remaining cases argued were: Laura M.

Gaeff vs. Alexander Weimer; Helen Stevenson vs. Speice Leiss, rules for new trials. Rosie Goelz vs. Charles Seidel.

The court affirmed the judgment as render ed for $12 in favor of the plaintiff. Bertha B. Hummel vs. Franklin Pierce Hummel. The court granted an absolute divorce in this case.

Mamie R. Curtis vs. Wm. A. Rother mel; John Weiser vs.

Barbara Grim. In the rule, for judgment in the case of Franz Carl Koenlg vs. Levi Focht the rule for judgment was made absolute for $175. admitted to be due by the defense, and 10 days were allowed to file a supplemental affidavit. The case of Commonwealth vs.

Albert S. Leldy, public nuisance road case in Muhlenberg township: viewers to vacate proceedings Berks Dauphin turnpike, and in corportlon of Mohns ville into "Mohnton." CASES CONTINUED. The continued cases were: Peter O. Shappel et al. vs.

Cyrus Helnly et George E. Haak vs. Emma P. Romig; Wallace A. Dietrich vs.

Farmers' Union Mutual Life Insurance Company; Emanuel Gruber vs. Willoughby Long; John B. Spatz vs. John' B. Boltz; Joseph Loy vs.

Elmer L. Hinterleiter; George M. Folk vs. State Capital S. L.

Asso ciation; Commonwealth vs. LeRoy Griffith and Annie Relder. PROCEEDINGS IN DIVORCE. On motion of Milton J. Miller, the court granted a subpoena In divorce in the case of Oscar J.

Leiby vs. Minnie E. Lelby. Both are from this city. The husband alleges that his wife beat him and continually raised a row in the neighborhood.

On motion of S. Leo Donovan, the court granted a subpoena in divorce in the case of Sallle J. White vs. Charles H. White.

The couple were married in this city April 20, 1897. The wife claimed that her husband joined a show and deserted her. William H. Ramsey brought suit for divorce from Agnes R. Ramsey, alleging infidelity.

AWARDED $1 DAMAGES. David Sharman, Williartv S. Hlnner shitz, Wm. A. Schall, Jacob Kessler and Jacob A.

R. Stoudt, viewers appointed to assess damages alleged to have been sustained by John McFadden by the appropriation of a part of a creek alleged to be owned by Mr. Mac Faden, by the Mt Penn Suburban Water returned their report to be Sled. He was awarded $1. ASK FOR REHEARING.

Wolff and Shomo, attorneys for G. D. Shannon, a fish warden, presented a petition for a. re argument in the case of II. J.

Humma and George Kenney charged with Ashing with umbrella stays with bells at the tips, who were discharged before the justice of the peace at Birdsboro. An appeal was taken by the commonwealth, which appeal was discussed by the tion of the Act of 1905. The construction of Wolff Shomo Is that the act is unconstitutional. This point of law will be heard at the December argument court. IN THE ORPHANS' COURT.

Judge Bland awarded an order of sale to James Beard, executor of Elisha Beard, Lower Heidelberg, deceased, to sell a tract of farm land in Spring, containing' 21 acres and 80 perches, to carry Into effect the provisions of the will of the decedent. The real estate is all valued at $967. An order of sale was awarded to John William H. and Stanley S. Schwoyer, executors of Stanley Schwoyer, Maxa tawny, deceased, to sell a tract of land THIS HEADING DAILY.

TUHw nEAD PA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1CC3 najsr the act of aaaaia la aliM a at Ass order of sale waa awarded to WU Haan M. Sctssroyer. caacator or Lovtoia tcsoaiw. ISavxatawny.

naraasnl. to aeil a two story frame liu and lot of ground in Max tawny, containing saare feet, under Um act or una, lass. Tne real estate la valued at 9i.mm. The Reading Trust Caw guardian of Kdaaumd Wingerd. a minor child or Daniel H.

Wingerd. Reading, deceased. was directed to pay to Nannie wingerd. the mother of tba ward. oat of the estate of tne minor to complete his college education.

COURT HOUSE NOTES. On motion of Wm. H. Sadler the court approved the adoption of En Griffith, minor child of Thomas S. Griffith, by Mr.

and Mrs. Oscar Well. West Reading. On motion of Charles M. Plank, the court granted the petition of counsel for parties at law In the case of GeorfBs M.

Folk va.cState Capital Savings and Loan Association, whereby John' T. Balaley. Edward W. Maddern and W. H.

Fisher were allowed to be Joined as parties to the plaintiff. All the township and borough collec tors of tax have settled in full their tax duplicates for 1904 tax save from Curaru, In which district $1,674.47 still remains outsanding. In the city the following tax for 1904 remains outstand Ing: 2nd Ward." 9th Ward, $1, 520.51; 10th Ward, 13th Ward, 14th Ward. 15th Ward. $823.80.

All the remaining ward collectors have paid In full. The total 1904 tax outstanding amounts to $8,775.06. On motion of Dumn and Schaeffer, the court appointed Harry Bently, ma jority Inspector of the third precinct of 13th Ward, vice Wm. idler wno removed from the ward. The Berks court approved the report In the lunacy proceedings before the Dauphin County court In the case against Bertha V.

Bellman, of this city, and who is In the Harrisburg asylum. The woman has an estate of $1,100. CAMP ANNIVERSARY WILL BE CELEBRATED WITH SPE CIAL CEREMONIES IN RAJAH TEMPLE. The 24th anniversary of Meade Camp, No. 16.

Sons of Veterans, will be held in Rajah Temple next Friday evening. It will be in the shape or a Banquet. Among the prominent members who will attend are: General R. M. J.

Reed, Secretary James Tawney, Treasurer William B. McNulty. Commander Jas. Bowers and staff, all of Philadelphia; Attorney Edwin M. Ames, of Altoona; Colonel Horn, of Easton, Past Com manders in Chief.

E. W. Alexander, J. Lew Rake, and Past Colonels Hammer and C. E.

Dtefenderfer. The commute in charge is composed of the following: Lincoln S. Ramsey, chairman; Edward Epstein, Charles S. Becker. D.

A. Hartman, H. H. Shu Hey, Fred Fegely, H. J.

Rapp, N. E. Deem, James Donahower, William H. Rowe, W. S.

McMlchael, George F. Eckert, J. M. Relff, J. H.

Zuber and W. H. Hou sum. TEAM STRUCK AT CROSSING HORSE KILLED AND WAGON SMASHED, BUT DRIVER ESCAPED WITHOUT INJURY. The "Queen of the Valley," due in Reading at 9.20 a.

Monday, from Harrisburg, struck a team at the crossing east of Robeson Station. The horse was killed and the wagon torn to pieces. The team was the property of John W. Brown, who escaped by Jumping. Engineer George Rochtashel, of this city, was the engineer.

The train being a little late, it was making probably 60 miles an hour. The whistle was sounded I ngood time, but the driver apparently did not hear it. When the horse stepped on the east bound track the locomotive was only 50 feet away. In an instant the animal was caught and terribly mangled. TO STIMULATE MEDALUC WORK.

A Number of Fine Pieces of Sculpture Have Been Placed on Exhibition. to The Tlmes.l New Tork, Nov. 6. The entries of portrait busts and reliefs in the contest for the two prizes of $500 and $200 for the best works of that kind by J. Q.

A. Ward, honorary president of the National Sculpture Society and I. Wyraan Drummond, the treasurer, closed today. Quite a number of fine pieces of sculpture have been sent and will be placed on exhibition in the rooms of the national Sculpture Society, to be judged by a competent jury of sculptors. The decision will be given in about five or six days.

The object of the competition is to stimulate portrait work, particularly in the form of relief medallions. FIRE AT OAKBROOK. Chemical Wagon of the Liberty Fire Company Was Called Into Service! A small Are, the result of an over heated flue, at the residence of Lewis Clark, In Oakbrpok, created consid erable excitement on Sunday afternoon about 1.15 o'clock. The blaze was con fined to the partition which had to be partly removed. The chemical engine of the Liberty Fire of Reading, responded to a still alarm, but their services were not required, as 'neighbors assisted in extinguishing the flames.

The damage to the building and furniture Is placed at about $150. Arthur Wittich, of Reading, owns the building. THE VISITING SQUADRON. Prince and His Officers the Guests of Superintendent of Naval Academy. Annapolis.

Nov. '6. Prince Louis of Battenberg, the commander of the British cruiser squadron now visiting in this port, and the officers of ths squadron are the guests of Rear Admiral Sands, superintendent of the Naval Academy, today and will be entertained In royal style. The program includes a thorough inspection of the Academy, a review of the cadets, drills, athletic games and contests, and a formal reception and dinner. OPPOSING NEW COUNTY.

Mass Meeting Held for Purpose of Protesting Against Partition. Liberty, Nov. 6. The citizens of Amite county and not in favor of the plan of forming a new county out of parts of Amite, Franklin and Wilkinson counties and a mass meeting will be held here today for the purpose of protesting against the proposed parti tion of Amite county. The mesting will he held In the Court House and will be addressed by several prominent speakers.

acadtstmt" or vnjzic. Tonight Joe Weber aa a All Star company from bUM oai. 4ualc lull os Broadway. Mew York, will appear at the of Muate for one night only. The company will be seen in the exceptionally bright and tuneful catchy double bill.

Higgledy piggledy" and "The College Widower," the same extraordinary bill which packed the famous Joe Weber Music Hall all or last sea won, and with which he opened tne same pretty bouse of entertainment this season. Among the principal players engaged by Mr. Weber for hia company this season are Sam Collins, Edward J. Connelly, Ernest Lambert. Ronnie Magin and Ermine Earle.

These, added to Marie Dressier. Charles A. Bigekrw. Trixle Friganaa. Sam Marlon.

Edytbe Mover and Joe Weber, make a list of music hall favorites that it would be bard to equals. Of course. Marie Dressier will sing her "Mama's Boarding House" and "AXJreat Big Girl Like Me. Charles A. Blgelow will sing "'I'm So Lonesome." "The Big Indian Maid" and "Socrates "Jackson." Trixie Frigansa will sing "Nancy Clancy" and join with Mr.

Bigekjw in "A Game of Love." Bonnie Magtn will sing "For You. Honey. For You," and The College Chape rone." It is promised by Mr. Weber that he has this season the prettiest group of show girls and dancers that have ever been seen in a musical entertainments A big audience will be present. Word painters have attempted to depict the exquisite quality and the insidious charm of Lyman H.

Howe's moving pictures. It would require much space to follow out the. diverse reasoning of these admirers of the great exhibition to appear at the Academy Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and evening, but the truth of the matter is really very simple of explanation. There is no witchcraft. It is but the rare talent of ingenuity and perseverance in developing modern inventions to their highest efficiency, and in connection with it a sure and certain knowledge of what the public wants derived from years of study and experience, and filling the public's wants regardless of expense, better than any one else.

Viola Allen will present Clyde Fitch's playr "The Toast of the Town," Friday evening. Miss Allen will" Impersonate Betty Singleton, an actress who is supposed to have reigned during the time of George the Third. Miss Allen has made a great hit in this part in Phil adelphia. It is not merely a comedy of manners, as the title might indicate, but a stirring drama with many divert Ing and fine emotional scenes. The production Is described as being one of great magnificence with many novel features.

The supporting company seems to have been selected with great good taste. Among those who have been especially commended are: Isabel Irving. A. E. Anson, the new leading man; Harrison Hunter.

Hassard Short, Mrs. Fanny Addison Pitt, Alice Wilson, Addison Pitt and C. Leslie Allen. J. Grace George will close a two weeks' engagement at the Chestnut Street theatre Saturday of this week.

Next Monday, in a dramatization of Mrs. Humphrey Ward's powerful and widely read novel, "The Marriage of William Ashe." Margaret Mayo has turned the brilliant book Into a distinctly even play. The first two acts are pitched In a comedy vein. In the beginning Lady Kitty has been Invited to stay with her aunt. Lady Grosville, at the request of Ashe, who has become interested in her.

She makes fun of the Prime Minister, Lord Parham, and his wife. and is told that she must leave the house. Ashe then proposes to her and is accepted The second act is three years after wards and again Lady Kitty, now married, quarrels with the Parhams. The third act, which is decidedly the best shows Ashe disappointment at not be ing chosen to the Cabinet and how Lady Kitty stays out all night and her husband's anxiety and his belief in her explanation when she returns. The fourth narrates how Lady Kitty's book causes a rupture with her husband and how, despairing she elopes with Geof frey Cliffe.

In the fifth act she dies, forgiven by Ashe. The role of Lady Kitty fits her like a glove, and she shows al the varying sides of the in tricate character with ability. 5 The lively Frank Deshon kept an appreciative audience in good spirits last evening in the latest stage offering of Nixon Zimmerman, "The Office lky. Mr. Deshon is growing in popular favor as a comic opera comedian.

His sup porting company was very good lyrically. Others who contributed to the success of the piece were Marie Barry.Mae Emory, Katherine Nelson, Maralle Tasche, Vivian Wayne, Percy Leach Arthur Charoners and Matt Hanley. "The Office Boy" was very prettily staged and costumed and the music very much enjoyed. ORPHEUM. Coin's pantomime dogs a con sistently excellent comedy bill at the Orpheuin this week.

It is, as promised, a good show, with possibly three acts a little in the lead Reno and Richards, Coln dogs and Mayme Remington, with her pickaninles. The dogs are surn clever little performers and good comedians that they furnished no end of amusement and excited the wonder of the two audiences yesterday. They appear in a little play just as though they are real human play actors. They render a musical number and in their queer little costumes with hats, wigs and shoes, their comical antics proved very laughable. Other very entertain 'ing acts are Fields and Wooley, Ger vnon i tin 11 ni and ITlnrl In the skit "The Phrenologist;" popular selections by Miss Mae Edward; Wood ward, the tambourine spinner, and the Klnetograph.

THE NEW BIJOU. One of. the banner attractions In the burlesque line this season Is the "Wine, Woman and Song" Company, which opened a week's engagement at this theatre with a matinee on Monday afternoon. Two funny burlesques are presented with special scenry and electrical effects. The opening burlesque, "A Day at Niagara Falls," is a hearty laugh from start to finish.

The olio consists of Bonita and ber Cuban and African midgets; Howe and Scott, Hebrew comedians; Frederick and Burns in a comedy musical act; Raymond and Clayton in a comedy 'act and Samuel Leibert in a novelty singing act. The concluding part is a funny skit, "Fun In the Subway." Same tonight. Special matinee today. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. The appearance of the Myrkle Harder Company, which commenced its week's engagement at the Grand Opera House yesterday, promises to be made notable by many pleasing events.

The management assures its patrons that the reading of the election returns this, evening will be one of the most complete affairs of the kind ever attempted at this thatre. Besides the direct tele graph wire that has already been run to tne stage, a special telephone ser vice has been arranged for. The full bulletins from Philadelphia will also be of decided interest, while special ar rangements have been made to also cov er the county. The appearance of the organization met with favor yesterday and was made particularly delightful by the Introduction of no less than six vaudeville acts, which made the representation a real continuous performance. HON AHCJIS FOE A DAY GERMAN PEASANTS WHO PtAV ROYAL ROLES ONCE A YEAR.

Royalty in Europe is not confined to a few crowned beads. It la also to be fen In the humblest of subjects. In the coarse clad, coarse fed. ignorant, downtrodden peasant there zmoklers a spark of the Imperial lire which at times bursts forth into flame. Yet these upheavals of his nature are not revolutionary.

He does not then take up arms against the government. Sis Insurrection is entirely peaceful. He simply dons a suit of fine clothes and struts about like some peacock Just let out of a coop. And so throughout Europe there have been peasant festivals from time immemorial when for one day in the year the laborer believes himself a king. An illustration of this regal side of the European peasant, and one that has become especially magnificent, is the Trachtcnfest of the Plattdeutsch, or Low Germans.

Each year it is held at ScheesseL Prussia, and there the natives of the country round congre gate as if it were the court of some potentate. They come dressed in the gala apparel which is peculiar to their own communities, and some of them are attired in even greater splendor than may be seen at the palaces of certain al the year monarchs. Nearly all the costumes are family heirlooms, which have been banded down from parent to child, and for the reason tbnt they are enriched each year by a little more, velvet or gold, lace they repre sent the wealth of long generation. Some are worth more than the bouses in which their owners live. Jnst as their hats and coats have descended from ancestral sources, so the songs and dances and all the other features of this peasant pageant ball from times remote.

Scheessel is halfway between Hamburg and Bremen, and the American traveler who lands at either port can thus pass from mod ern to mediaeval times by only an hour's railroad ride. Should he arrive early on tho morning of the fete day be would, first see the triumphal procession. At the sound of a trumpet these one day "kings, with their "queens" and "princesses," parade the main street in a long procession, each community characterized by a different costume and each believing that its own is the most beautiful. There is little attempt to adorn the "carriages of state," for their occu pants feel that nothing else should de tract from thoir own personal glory. They believe that their costumes arft the chief attraction, and so it matters not that they ride in cumbrous farm wagons, used on other days for hay or cabbages and touched up for the oc casion with a little paint or some loops of bunting.

The dignity of the parad ers, however, suffers not a little from the simplicity of their equipages, for, as the wagons have no springs, the "kings," "queens" and "princesses" frequently receive such jolts that they have to clutch one another to save themselves from falling. Almost every wagon brings to view a different variety of dress. The wo men of Scheessel, for Instance, are at tired in great white aprons, the servile aspect of which contrasts rather ludicrously with their headdress of arti ficial flowers and fruits, built up in the shape of a tiara. Around their waists are tied gorgeous ribbons of variegat ed colors. In another wagon girls from Vierland wear hats which look much like those their American sisters don when they are graduated at college.

They are not quite so fiat, however, as mortarboards and are more nearly like inverted soup plates. Their outlandish appearance is still further increased by two huge bows which protrude on either side from their back hair and which appear at a little distance like two fans of a windmill. In other wagons ride madchen from Elsdorf and Sel fingen, Leer, Oottrum and Apensee and. most gorgeous of all, the Buckerburger lasses. Some of the young women of Bucker burg deck themselves out in dresses estimated to cost $250 apiece.

So fan tastic is the medley of colors to be seen in a single costume, so extrava gant is the use of laces, braids, fluffs, fringes, flowers and jewels, that it looks more like the sacred robe of Borne oriental priest than the. bridal dress of a simple peasant girl, for It happens that a great many Platt deutsch maidens postpone their weddings until just after the Trachtenfest. so that they may appear then in the costumes they are to. be married in. Next year the dress will be worn by some other bride, and so on down the A costume peculiarly grotesque is Worn by the Stadthagen women, their headgear much resembling that worn by the "great, tormentor" at the initia tions of a certain American secret society.

On their breasts they wear a shield the a saucer, and the edges of their aprons are elaborate with needlework," over which hundreds of hands have tolled. Yet not all of the paraders are gay. Some of the Bcheessel women wear the simple garb of communicants, with white yokes and white caps, and from Sitten comes delegation which walks behind a wagon with heads bowed and in weeds of mourning. In comparison with the women the men appear extremely plain. Their ostentation is limited chiefly to buttons, with which some of them fairly cover themselves and which vary In size from a pea to a butter dish.

All the "kings' appear peculiarly stiff and awkward in their fine clothes, and even those who are wont to wear their costumes now and then on a Sunday Instead of stowing them away for the rest of the year seem to feel uncom fortable restraint. i The music heard when the procession has ended and the various couples are trending the mazes of dance" would make one think thi(t these people are akin to the Scotch Highlanders. One dance is especially lie the highland fling, and as a matter) of fact it Is called the "Klapper Scottish." The cel ebration eenerally ends ffasa lWt tisisU area oaT taa a Iriimil, la aI Caol ans asaasl agngo Oaatefsea. showtng tie peasants in the dairy, the harvest fir Id or among the beehives. Of recent years the Trachtenfest has glow a la importance, drawing peasants to Scheessel each year from mock greater area and a far greater number of visitors also.

The emperor, too, has takes a special Interest In the festival, and not only does the empress offer each year a prize to the. community which revives most faithfully the customs, songs and dances of Its ancestors, but the Imperial example has led many wealthy families of the Flatt deatsch country to lend their patronage In various ways. New Tork Trib STRENUOUS STILLNESS. as Mflnaslgr Was as Vryitati Athletle rest. Perfect stillness Is something that scarcely seems compatible with physical strenuosity.

Nevertheless posing for an artist may become. In the maintenance for long periods of a difficult attitude, one of the most trying of athletic feats. When Meissonier. the famous French artist, was painting one of bis battle scenes be hired several old soldiers for models seasoned, tough veterans, whose experience and endurance would, he thought, be useful in enabling them both to understand the positions required and to hold them. They did so, indeed, as well as any one could, but it was an everyday affair for a model to faint and more than once to collapse with exhaustion and require the services of a physician.

Especially difficult were the poses representative of cavalrymen slain or wounded and falling from their saddles. Despite an ingenious arrangement of straps and slings hung from the ceiling of the studio to afford such support as was possible, these poses remained so hard that one old soldier declared fervently when the picture was finished: 'M. Meissonier, I have been six times wounded and once nearly frozen on the field, and once they were going to bury me, but it was all nothing to this. Nothing! Nothing! It is not hard to fall out of the saddle, really. A ballet helps one so neatly one scarcely knows when one touches the ground.

But then, you see, one is allowed to fall all the way; one is not halted in midair. "You are painting a great picture, monsieur, and I am proud to be in it, but if you could have put me there with a pistol instead of a paint brush I should have preferred it." It was long a current tale that the model for another painting by Meissonier, entitled "The Brawl," actually died as the result of long posing in an unnaturally strained position for one of the two intertwined and struggling combatants in the picture. This was not true. Indeed, he lived to boast much and volubly of his achievement, and it served him as his chief professional recommendation afterward. Rolling up his sleeve and displaying an arm heavily corded with muscle, he would say to a prospective employer: "Monsieur, behold! Is not that an arm? Aha! Truly! You are not the first to admire it.

And a leg to match, monsieur; a leg that is veritably superb! But I do not praise them, I. There is no need. These arms and these legs have been Immortalized. They belong to art; they are consecrated to art at any sacrifice of personal convenience. Monsieur, it was I I who posed to M.

Meissonier for 'The Brawl!" Youth's Companion. Tsicanr Girls. A girl in Tuscany is always allowed a certain time per week to work for her dower and generally brings her husband a bed, with two or more pairs of linen sheets and a wadded coverlet, a chest (cassone) and from $50 to $125 in money. She has. usually a good stock of body linen, two winter working dresses, several cotton ones for summer and at least one holiday dress, besides a black silk wedding gown.

Every peasant girl has earrings and a necklace (vezzo) of several rows of irregularly shaped pearls or of red coral. The richer ones have a gold chain and watch. Before the marriage a valuer (stimatore) is called in, who makes out a list of her possessions on stamped paper, which is given to the head man of her future husband's family. Should she be left a childless widow he returns the dower, and she generally leaves the house. AS Varnflled Stateimaa, In the early days, when the people sent their 'wisest men to make the public laws, a man of peculiar traits, but of sterling worth, was sent to the Massachusetts legislature from the town of Douglas.

He wore an old fashioned farmer's frock, which was sadly out of place in the legislative hall, where some of the fastidious statesmen from Boston and other cities vied with each other in the correctness of their attire. Soon after the arrival of the Douglas man one of the Boston representatives. seeking an opportunity to have fun at his expense, called out to him, "Hare they no smarter men than you to send tp the legislature from your district?" The man from Douglas smiled inno cently as he replied, "There's a heap o' smarter men up my way, but the mischief of it is they hain't got no clothes good enough to wear down here!" Boston Herald. Th Ola, Ola Soorpiov. Scorpions are relics of prehietorlc times.

They have been in existence since the middle Silurian era, and through all the changes in environment in the millions of years which have elapsed they have remained practically the same in structural character, habit. There is little, if any, evidence that these animals in the past days of their history have ever gained a livelihood by means other than those employed at the present day. But, though aDunaance of time has been granted them to become specialised into any number of strange forms, they have retained a wonderful resemblance to the original genera. Although the arms of the sea constitute barrle.C which scorpions cannot pass and although their means of dispersal are very lim ited, the antiquity of animal Is so great that It has succeeded In distribut ing Itself over the grrStter part of the, globe, outside of the arctic areas. before the present period 'their dis button waa even greater.

an I wf ah Aim SKIN DiSDlSE Sores Covered Keck fnd Cheeks Itched Day and Nothing Did Me Any Good Was 'Crowing Worse. CURED BY CUTICURA AT COST OF $4.50 Miss Keltic Vander Wide, of Lakeside, N. writing under date of April 18, 1904, says "I do wish you would publish this letter in the newa Eapers. so that others suffering as I ave may see it and be helped. I suffered for many months' with an awful skin disease, sores covering my ears, neck, and cheeks.

Scabs would form and they would swell, and itch day and night. Then they would break, open and blood and matter run out. I had tried many different remedies, but none of them did me any good. I was growing worse when I tried the Cuticura Remedies. The first application helped me, and when I had used two cakes of Cuticura Soap, three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent, I was completely cured." TORTURING, DISFIGURING Humours, Eczemas, and Chafings by Cuticura The agonizing itching and burning of the skin, as in eczema the frightful scaling, as in psoriasis; the loss of hair and crusting of the scalp, as in scalled head the facial disfigurement, as in pimples and ringworm the awful suffering of infants, and anxiety of worn out parents, as in milk crust, tetter, and salt rheum, all demand a remedy of almost superhuman virtues to successfully cope with them.

That Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills are such stands proven beyond all doubt by the testimony of the civilized world. Cudcora Soap, Ointment, ud Fills are old Uroag hoal th world. Fottgr DroK ft Chem. Sole Proprietor, Boston. 09 Send for How to sua nuuvuih jOxtj ttlss ROTZ rTn this city, on the 5th George Rotz, aged 93 years.

Funeral on Thursday at 10.30 a. m. from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, 1123 Chestnut street. Interment private in St.

John's cemetery, Robeson township. TROUT In this city, on the 5th 1 Sarah A. Trout, aged 60 years, 8 months and 12 days. Funeral from her late residence, 315 Walnut street, on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Interment private at Charles Evans Cemetery.

LUCKENBILL In this city, on the 4th Tecurhseh A. Luckenbill, aged 32 years and 27 days. Funeral from the residence of his brother, John M. Luckenbill, 119 South 10th street, on Tuesday at 12 o'clock noon. Interment at Charles Evans Cemetery.

BOBST In this city, on the 5th Mary C. Bobst, aged 46 years, 4 months and 5 days. Funeral from her late residence, 1758 Cotton Street, on Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment at Aulen bach's Cemetery. COOK In this on the 6th inst, John Cook, aged 68 years, 2 months and 28 days.

Funeral from his late residence, 219 North 10th street, on Thursday morning at 8.30 o'clock. Requiem mass at St. Paul's Catholic Church at 9 o'clock. Interment at Catholic Cemetery. WAGENHORST In this city on the 5th Malara, wife of Franklin Wag en horst, aged 70 years, 9 months and 25 days.

Funeral roni her late residence, 945 Penn street, on Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. Interment private in Chas. Evans Cemetery. STOECKEL In this city, on' the 4th Maria Jane, widow of George H. Stoeokel.

aged 71 years. 5 months ami 5 days. Funeral from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Kate May Zeugner, 108 South 11th street, on Thursday afternoon at 2. o'clock.

Interment in Charles Evans Cemetery. ABERSFELDER In this city, on the 4th Josephine Abersfelder, mother of Mrs. Charles Schumann, aged 82 years, 4 months and 10 days. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral, without further notice, from the residence of her daughter, '440" South 6th on Tuesday mot niner at 9 30 o'clock. Rniilm ma at St.

Peter's Catholic Church at 9.30 o'clock. Interment in Catholic EPSTEIN In this city, on the 4th Daniel Epstein, aged 71 years and 3 days. Funeral from 922 Washington street on Wednesday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock, interment in Mt. Sinai Cemetery, Shil llngton: SCHSTEEGAS In this city, on the' 3d Lucy Schneegas. Funeral from 1143 Windsor on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Interment In Aulenbach Cemetery. ROLLER One the 4th at the Widows' Home, Sarah Roller (nee Mast), Aged 88 years. Funeral at the Home for Widows and Single Women, on Tuesday at 2 p. m. Interment in Charles Evans Cera etery.

EAST In this city on the Srd George IT. East, in the 53rd year of his age Funeral from the residence of his daughter, 307 North Front on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment in Charles Evans Cemetery. RHOAD In Bern township, on the 3rd James Rhoad, aged 77 years. Funeral at Epler's Church on Tuesday afternoon at 1.S0 o'clock, where services and interment will take place.

DECKER In Womelsdorf, on the 3rd Mary, widow of David Decker, aged 88. years, 4 months and 5 days. Funeral from her late residence, in Womelsdorf, on Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. Services at Host Church. Interment in the Cemetery adjoining.

ANTHONY In this city on the 1st George C. Anthony, aged 23 years and 2 months. Funeral from 6S South Tenth street on Tuesday morning at 10.30, to proceed to P. R. station and take noon train for WernersviHe, where services and interment will take place.

5 Dcrlbt he deceived by counterfeits whri you buy Witch Haxel Salve. Tho ryfme of E. C. DeWitt A Co. is on every 1 1 1i1m In lu i form will soon pass away if you will apply DeWitfa Witch Hazel Salve night and morning.

Best for Cuts, Burns, Bolls, Tetter, Eczema, etc. Sold at Bell's Drug Store..