RUIN THE PICTURES.
PEOPLE WHO “BUTT IN” WHEN
CAMERA IS WORKING.
Scenes Carefully Arranged by Mov
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
l.hfl 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
while 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 vannigan of a man
■lammed 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.
“He took the gibes of the crowd sour
ly, at that, and looked to be in so
much of a mind to kick our gear to
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 off, 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 lighting on the street,’ as she yelled
at them. The machine had to be
(topped 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
■eize 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
an 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 difier 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
therapeutic outfit. These elaborate
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 18S7 veni
eon 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
head of deer in Uncle Joe Lewis’ deer
park came from a pair he caught in
the early days and penned up in a
pasture lot.—Anthony Republican.
Congo Salt Marshes.
Along the central part of the Congo
river there are a number of salt
marshes. The Africans dig shallow
holes ih these, whence Issue stream’s
•f hot water which, on being evap
orated, leaves a residue of salt.
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MADE APOLLO COME DOWN
j Didn’t Belong to the Union and the
Household Help Was “Sym
pathetic.” ,
—
The cook had struck. The coach
man had struck. The nurse had struck.
The maid had struck. Everybody had
i struck, relates the Chicago Record
j Herald. With a sickening fear, the
j great man heard a confused murmur
outside. It become louder, Increasing
to a horrible din like unto that pro
duced by the Roman mob. He heard
his name shouted above the awful roar,
and, urged by his wife, he at last
ventured to a window.
“People.” he cried, “why have you
struck? What do you want? I have
I tried to deal fairly with you. What 18
' your grievance?”
The coachman, who was acting as
; leader of the crowd, stepped forward,
! saying:
“We were ordered out by the head
of the Teamsters’ union.”
“What has the Teamsters’ union
to do with me or the way my house
is run?”
I “You have a statue of Apollo in your
j hail.” .
“Yes. It is one of my choicest pos
sessions. It is a great worji of art.
I am very proud of it.”
“You must pull it down and have
it thrown out of your house before we
can return to work. We have our
orders from the president of the
Teamsters’ union.”
“This is preposterous. What has
my statue of Apollo to do with you
or your duties? Aud where does the
Teamsters’ union come in?”
“It seems.” the coachman replied,
“that Apollo and Phoebus were the
Eame party, and it’s reported on good
authority that Phoebus used to be a
non-union driver. We've got our or
ders. We can’t work for a man who
sets up a statue of Phoebus, the scab,
in the hall.”
Realizing the force of the argu
ment, the great man yielded. It was
the first time strikers had ever caught
him unprepared to go on with a new
set of hands.
MAN WHO WASHES CLOCKS
One of a Few Engaged in This Sin
gular Business in United
States.
"I’ve been washing the faces of tha
city clocks nigh on to ten years, 1
guess,” said a pleasant Scotch-Irish
American, according to the New York
Post, '“and before that I did it in th*
old country. There aren’t many face
washers in this land,and the few who
know the business do well at it.” He
looked prosperous in his tweed suit
and derby hat.
“Is your work anything like that of
the steeple-climber?” he was asked.
“Bless you. no,” he replied, with
twinkling eyes, much amused. “Only
in one thing, and that is that mostly
sailors take up with the trade. That’s
because we’re good climbers, you know.
I’ve washed ■ the faces of city and
church clocks that were 180 feet from
the ground, and it took me two and
three weeks to do it. I’m a practical
ciock repairer, too—have to be, you
know—and do my work in a huge
wooden cradle made for the purpose.
Some clocks get their faces dirty in
a year or so; others remain clean ten
years, and so bn. Old Ben, West
minster’s great clock, is expected to
keep clean 15 years.
“In the old days the trade was more
dangerous. We used to work from
scaffolds and got many dangerous falls.
Now we have the cradles, and all the
fixings and comforts, and if a man
keeps his head he can work as well
as on the curb. How is the pay? Well,
that's hard to figure, for we work by
the job. We don’t clean clock faces
ir. winter, so we make enough in the
summer to last the year around. Of
course, sometimes the clocks are taken
oul of their cases and repaired in the
shops. Last year I cleaned 2.000, ami
visited only two other cities. Chicago
and Boston. This year I’ll make more
because the building operations have
grimed the clocks and given our trade
an increased demand.”
Gases Penetrate Glass.
With liquid air performing feats and
doing jobs for the scientific and in
dustrial worlds, gaseous glass is per
haps not amazing. Glass, the renown
ed experimentalist, M. Berthelot, has
[ proved permeable to gases at nigh
| temperature. At temperatures below'
its melting point glass has been as
sumed impenetrable by oxylgen, nitro
gen and carbon monoxide and dioxide,
but between 550 and 800 Centigrade
glass tubing has shown itself permea
ble. This passage of gases through
slightly softened glass Is compared to
the gaseous exchanges taking place at
the ordinary temperatures through the
walls of India rubber tubing and the
! importance is emphasized of this prop
j erty of glass hitherto unsuspected in
many chemical and physical investiga
tions at high temperature.
The Freezerator.
Aunt Jane is an old Virginia prod
uct of half a century ago, with all
the manners and mannerisms of the
aristocracy of tha. period, but her vo
cabulary is, to say ilie least, somewhat
original.
“Where did you put the butter?” asked'
Jane's mistress, as the former was clear
ing off the supper table.
“Done put hit in de freezerator miss
us,” was the answer.— Baltimore San.
Better Manners, Anyway.
“While it is true,” said the mission
ary, “that my dusky parishioners still
refuse to abandon cannibalism may
at least claim credit for ha vim so re
fined and uplifted them that tb v now
sat altogether with knives an.- fork*."
Donnelly and Hatfield Minstrels.
It is always a pleasure to an
nounce the coming of the Don
nelly and Hatfield Magnificent
Minstrels which appear at the
opera house Saturday, Nov. 18.
Theatre-goers of this city have
learned to rely upon the promis
es of the managers of this organ
ization and people have come to
realize that the Donnelly & .Hat
field Minstrels are just a little
better than the Donnelly & Hat
field posters and the show, in
fact, is just a little greater [than
the words that attempt to por
tray the merits of the organiza
tion. It could not be otherwise
under the personal direction of
Al. G. Field.
This show always affords gen
uine entertainment. The melody
of its popular songs have pre- i
ceded it into this city, for its j
songs have been whistled J
throughout the country. These j
popular song hits are offered in
the first part. It is said that the
color schemefand the “effects"
of the latter surpass anything of
the kind ever presented in min
strelsy. And it is claimed >£its
good humor and melody run over
at the side.
Many feature acts are on the
program. One of the entertain
ing acts is the “Darktown Cir
cus,” a burlesque upon the most
popular of America’s amuse
ments, the circus. While one
counts five the audience.is intro
duced to all the accessories and
atmosphere that go to make a
typical one ring circus. The en
tire company of forty people
take part in this act. The scen
ery|is both gorgeous and realist
ic This act is relieved by the
“Toledos,” impersonators of
animals, reptiles and amphib
ious monsters. They give feats
of contortion and acrobatic
ability.
“Where the moonlight Falls”
shows a miniature landscape
with a full moon and rippling
waters, where a company of dar
kies gather and do a series of
dances. There is a monologue
by Tommy Donnelly and a mu
sical “fete” by Crawford and
Finning. The Tuscano Brothers,
Roman axe manipulators, will
make their first American ap
pearance with this company.
These gentlemen balance, juggle
I and throw rude Roman axes.
“While Old Glory Waves” dis
closes a series of spectacles rep
resenting the varied career of
America in arms.
The managers of this popular
organization have made the vocal
music of their splendid enter
tainment one of its chief feat
ures. Some of the best black
faced comedians in the business
rnve joined their forces. 15-18
Have you seen one of the
irand Portfolios of the Penn
Vyoming Copper Co.? Elmo
tiddell will send you. one on re
luest. 73btf
BARGAINS GALORE I
Commencing Saturday, October 28th, when our new store is m
opened for business. gl
THE GREATEST SACRIFICE SALE
Ever attempted in Arkansas for onr extensive wholesale stock of
Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Cloaks, Dresses, Laces, Embroid
eries, fresh from the East, will be sold at
on iho
Oonteand^be^Convinced^
HERE’S TO SHOW YOU:
Men’s all-wool Suits, worth d* ^ QA
$10.00, go for..V
Men’s all-wool, double and twist worsteds
Silk lined, a bargain at d* P A A
$15.00, our price.%PO#y^vF
Men’s stout wool Pants, worth ^7 C sy
$2.00, go for.■
1,500 fine Hats, worth $1.00 to ^7 C ^
$3.50, your choice.■ Ov«
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Greaves Starts Paper.
Hot Springs, Nov. 13.—The
Hot Springs Republican made
its initial appearance in the field
of weekly journalism Saturday.
The new paper is edited by Hon.
C. D. Greaves, candidate of the
Republican “insurgents” for
governor in 1902. C. C. Sparks
is business manager.
If it is Sterling Silver you
want for wedding presents you
can find it the Palace Jewelry
Store. 45btf
Ballew & Shuford
Undertakers.
j Office, 211 Walnut Street,
Opposite Cook’s Hotel.
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