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RUIN THE PICTURES,
PEOPLE WHO “BUTT IN” WHEN
CAMERA IS WORKING.
Scenes Carefully Arranged by Mow
ing Picture Artists Are Dis
turbed and Rendered
Useless.
"Our work is sometimes seriously
interfered with by the buttinskis, and
then again there are times when their
slamming in helps us,” said the man
ager of a moving picture concern, who
himself frames up the incidents and
supervises the taking of the pictures
"It is impossible to guard against the
folks with the butting-in habit, for
when they see anything unusual com
ing off on the street or in any public
place their natural busybody instinct
takes bold of them, and they’re bound
to nudge up and take a hand in the
proceedings.
“Over in Trenton a few weeks ago
I fixed up a horsewhipping scene.
The first part of the set was easy
enough to get It was a scene in a
restaurant, in which a pretty girl,
seated at a table a little distance away
from another table at which a frolic
some man with a homely wife is din
ing, falls to making goo-goo eyes at
the man.
“The second scene, In which I ar*
ranged to have the horsewhipping take
place, took place outside the restau
rant. We’d got police permission to
take the pictures, and I had two or
three men stationed in front of the
restaurant to keep the crowd back
frhile the phony horsewhipping was in
progress.
“When everything was all set and
the machine was snapping away at the
homely wife laying the lash across
the face and shoulders of the flirta
tious girl—the lash looked like rattan,
but it was a phony, and didn’t hurt
at all—our troubles began.
“First a big vannlgan of a man
slammed in and grabbed my homely
woman by her lash-wielding arm,
bawling that he didn't believe in see
ing no woman stinging another wom
an like that, and that queered one set
of films. The machine had to be
stopped while the big buttinski was
being informed that the thing was
only a tableau, and that he didn’t
belong to the picture.
tie took me gioes oi me crowu sour
ly, at that, and looked to be in so
much of a mind to kick our gear tc
pieces that I had to get a cop to walk
him down the street.
"When we got all set again and the
horsewhipping of the flirtatious girl
was once more going on a scrawny
hatchet-faced woman, who had just
Joined the outer circle of the crowd,
and who wasn’t up to what was com
ing oft, rushed Into the scene with a
shriek, grabbed my two acting women
by the hair, and started in to rough
house them both for their ‘indecency
In fighting on the street,’ as she yelled
at them. The machine had to be
stopped again.
“The incident as I had framed It
up didn’t call for anything like that
I had it arranged that after the whip
ping had proceeded for a space the
guilty husband of the homely wife
was to rush in and attempt to sep
arate the two women, when his wife
was to turn on him with the lash, caus
ing him to skiddoo down the street.
The girl with the goo-goo eyes was to
seize the whip from the other wom
an’s hands and start in to get hunk
for the cutting she’d received, the
scene ending up that way."
DETHRONING OF ALCOHOL.
Being Brought About by the Mod
ern Spirit of Scientific
Research.
Another potent factor in the dethron
ing of alcohol has been the spirit of
scientific research of recent years, says
in Open Letter, in Century. In the
great laboratories scientists have been
carefully studying the effects of alco
holic liquors upon the various organs
of the body, and, although they differ in
their conclusions upon some points, the
result is that those physicians who have
most closely followed these investiga
tions have, almost or entirely, abjured
alcoholics as a necessary part of their
llitfi apeunu uuiui. iucoc ciauuiaic
studies of alcohol have convinced many
that the nourishing and strengthening
properties formerly ascribed to alcohol
ics existed only in the imagination, and
belong to the errors of an age which had
no facilities for accurate observation.
The food qualities of the grains and
fruits, it is now believed by many au
thorities, are destroyed in the process of
making alcoholic drinks. Even the
stimulating qualities ascribed to alcohol
are denied by many, who class it among
the narcotics because of its depressant
effect.
When Game Was Cheap in Kansas.
Even as late as 1886 and 1887 veni
son was as cheap as beef in the fall,
the choicest cuts selling for 12% cents
a pound, while wild turkeys could be
had for 75 cents each when tame tur
keys no larger sold for a dollar. Brant
or wild geese were hard to get rid of,
as no one liked their meat. There
was little fishing, not nearly so good
as now, and the fish were nearly all
perch or cat. The fine herd of 200
i head of deer in Uncle Joe Lewis’ deer
I park came from a pair be caught in
\ the early days and penned up in a
I pasture lot.—Anthony Republican.
Congo Salt Karshes.
Along the central part of the Congo
river there are a number of salt
marshes. The Africans dig shallow
holes in these, whence issue streams
of hot water which, on being evap
orated, leaves a residue of salt
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CABLES HARD TO MAINTAIN
Six Lines Damaged by a Typhoon
Which Lately Swept the
China Sea.
The difficulty attending the efficient
maintenance of the network of sub
marine telegraph cables, by which in
telligence is flashed to the uttermost
ensd of the earth, is illustrated by the
reports of the newspapers that no few
er than six of these cables were dam
aged by the typhoon which recently
raged over the east coast of China.
The various cable companies are, of
course, prepared for contingencies of
this kind, and a fleet of some 46 spe
cially constructed vessels are con
stantly employed in laying and repair
ing cables in different parts of the
world.
The magnitude of these operations
may be realized when it is eaid that
the length of the cable lying along the
the bed of the ocean is something like
225,000 miles. Of these considerably
more than one-half are British, while
British messages numbar 100,000,000
words per annum. The cables lie at
various depths, the greatest known
depth of the ocean being 5.68 miles in
the North Paicflc.
“Our cables are tested every week,”
said an official of the Eastern Tele
graph company, to a London newspaper
man, "and when a fault Is detected a
repairing-ship is sent to the spot.
These ships are stationed at various
centers, such as Gibraltar, Aden.
Singapore, and the west and east coasts
of Africa, and there is always a re
serve stock of cables kept in tanks
at certain stations.
"In shallow water the cables are
sometimes fouled by the anchors of
ships, and at the mouths of large
rivers there is sometimes trouble
when trunks of trees and other ob
jects are swept into the sea and forced
by the strong currents against the
cables. Then there are boring in
sects like the teredo, which bores its
way between the strands of iron wire
twisted round the core of the cable,
but in our newer cables we have pro
vided against the depredations of the
teredo by a sheathing of brass coiled
around the cable like a ribbon."
“NO CARE” FOR COUNTY.
National Spirit of Jap and Buss in
Marked Contrast the World
Over.
In an old corner of Boston where
many races mingle a polite little Jap
anese artist has his studio, and paints
lamp-shades and screens for his mer
chant fellow countrymen. On the
Monday of Admiral Togo’s victory, re
lates Youth’s Companion, he was ex
citedly discussing the events with an
American customer when the door
opened and a red-bearded Russian
peddler entered with a bulging satchel.
“Ha!” exclaimed the intruder, in a
big voice. “You buy to-day? Yes?
Shoe-string? Knife? Shawl?”
“No! No! No!” cried the “Jap,” ex
cietdly. “You go out. You go out
I buy nothing to-day. Togo—he whip
—take all—capture Russian—I make nc
trade with you.”
“Aha!” exclaimed the Russian again,
his face lighting up with a new in
terest. “You Japan?” He pointed a
lean finger accusingly at the Jap. “I
Russian! You no make trade with me
— make fight with me? Yes?”
“Yes, I make fight with you,” agreed
the Jap; but before he could do so the
Russian had already burst into a ge
nial laugh.
“Poof!” he said, making a great
sound. “Russia! What care I? Rus
sia! I not care anything. I come
away. In America I have gladness
that Russia is capture.” He held out
his pack toward the Jap ingratiatingly.
“Now you make trade with me?
Yes?”
The Jap glared at him scornfully,
then turned to the American with a
deprecatory gesture.
“Such we fight!” he exclaimed. “No
good a* all. How ean he be any
good who has not care for his coun
try?”
Certainly no one has accused the Is
landers of lacking that care—but it
may be that for a better country, or,
rather, a better government, Ivan, too,
might have developed patriotism.
Highland Funerals.
A Scottish correspondent writes of
funerals in the Highlands. “There are
no undertakers here. A carpenter
makes the simple coffin, relatives and
friends carry it, hip high, to its last
resting place, which is dug when the
end of the Journey is reached, and,
having walked perhaps six miles to
the chosen kirkyard, they take a re
freshment of sandwiches and whisky
and walk home again. The rigorous
absence of pomp is maintained, bud
there, is the added embellishment of
pipe music.”
His Mistake.
“I am free to admit that I made a mis
take when I removed that man’s appen
dix.”
“Didn’t have appendicitis, eh?”
“O, he had appendicitis, all right, but
' he didn’t have any money.”—Houston
1 Post.
—
Noise Enough.
“Why do you say that your husband
| Is such a loud dresser? He dresses
j quietly, it seems to me.”
“You wouldn’t say so if you heard him
some time trying to put on a collar."—
Tacoma Ledger.
Recommendation.
Prospective Guest—Do you set a good
table here?
Hotel Cl srk—Well, rather. Why,
folks come here perfectly healthy and
go away with the gout and dyspepsia!—
Life.
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FEET AND INTELLECT.
People with Swell Petal Extreealttee
Are Mot Always Possessed of So
per lor Meetal Aeqalreetst*.
Small feet are considered by many to
be a mark of aristocracy, but they cer
tainly do not indicate superiority of
Intellect, for many women of supreme
Intelligence have had very large feet,
George Eliot, for instance, who re
sorted to all kinds of devices to make
her big, broad, flat feet appear leaa
enormous. Mme. De Stael, the most bril
liant woman intellectually of her day,
had such Immense and ungainly feet
that she was made miserable by the
consciousness of their undue propor
tions, and knew that she was the sub
ject of many a joke on their account.
Her face was not beautiful, but her ;
figure was handsome and statuesque,
and she ence ventured to assume the
role of a Greek statue In some tableaux
vivants which were &iven before an au
dience 00*1 posed of clever and distin
guished people, among whom was the
witty Talleyrand. Mme. De Stael was
grievously offended at hearing that her
brilliant friend had invented a bon mot
at her expense by remarking that he
had recognized the impersonator of the
Greek character at once by the “pied
de Stack’’
The Germans and Scotch are credited
with having the largest feet in Europe,
and Spanish women, particularly An
dalusians, the smallest. The queen re
gent, who Is Austrian and of as aristo
cratic a descent as the most fastidious
could desire, is not blessed with small
feet; they are large and broad, and al
though, of course, she has the best oi
chausseurs that money can procure,
they never look neat. This is one oi
the grievances that the Spaniards have
against her, for they have a horror of
big feet on a woman, and look upon
auch a defect akin to crime.
I know a Spanish lady who went to
Berlin, and a few days after her arrival,
on dressing for a ball she discovered
that her maid had forgotten to pack the
case containing her evening shoes. She
sent out for a pair, giving one of her
walking shoes as a sample, and after a
prolonged absence the messenger re
turned saying that no shoemaker had
anything1 so small on his premises ex
cept for very young children. The
whole city was searched, with the same
result, and she was obliged to wear her
walking shoes until some could be made
for her. The shoemaker did not have
a last small enough, and a special one
had to be made, which fact gives elo
quent If not altogether flattering proof
concerning the truth of what we hear
anent the size of the German ladies’
feet. Such a size and shape as S A
would, I think, not be found in any oth
er country, yet it is commonly asked
for here. English women are great
walkers, and wear wide, comfortable
boots for their long rambles through
muddy country lanes—they scorn rub
bers—and in consequence their feet
have become broad, but compared to
those of their Scotch sisters they are
fairylike.
French women have short, thick feet
and their shoes made rather to increase
this appearance than otherwise. They
wear their high heels almost in the mid
dle of the foot, the instep is padded to
arch it, and she whose foot is long and
narrow will use every art to take off
about half its length, the result be
ing that as she gets older she is so
troubled with corns and bunions that
a pair of good old felt slippers—'her
husband’s preferably—are the only
things she can endure with comfort,
and in these she will shuffle about the
house, an eyesore to everyone who sees
her, donning the high heels, however,
for outdoor wear religiously, for a trus
French woman will suffer the tortures
of the inquisition every day of her life
with all the fortitude of a saint rather
than wear a sensible, low-heeled shoe
that would give any Idea of the real
shape of her foot.—N. Y. Telegram.
NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN.
One Story That Illustrate* the Te
nacity of the Sabjective
Mind.
A year ago a Chicago woman was vis
iting in u New York village. She went
with her nostess to make a call on the
next-door neighbor. The woman on
whom she was calling incidentally men
tioned that she expected a niece whs
was just graduating at some college.
Her name was not mentioned. A few
days later the Chicago woman left. On
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door to get a parcel. It was handed to
her by a young woman. That is all
there was to that end of the story.
One day lately the Chicago woman
went on a lake trip. On the boat she
met a young woman from a neighbor*
lng state. Each thought the other’s
toe wu famUlar, fcijt neither *«44 t»JC
-thing shout It. Flnslly A common
friend happened to mention a Michi
gan summer resort to the Chicago wom
an. The Chicago woman had nevsf
been there, but had relatives who went
there every year. This led to a men
tion of the New York village. In a
flash the Chicago woman knew that the
girl with the familiar face was the one
who gave her the parcel the day she
left. The minute’the name of the vil
lage was mentioned to the girl she rec
ognized the Chicago woman as the one
to whom she had handed the parcel.
This is a good example of what the
hypnotists and “suggestionists” call
the subjective mind. It illustrates very
aptly the old saying that nothing is
really forgotten, and that all impres
I slons Sre Indelibly engraved upon the
mental retina. In this fact lies the ex
planation of many vagaries of the mind
that on the face of things puzzle ths
scientists.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
No Chanare.
Hicks—Living on a farm, as usual,
this summer?
Beech (with a sigh)—Yes; Just as ws
usually live on a farm.—Philadelphia
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