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'THE "WOLF," one of the most important produc
tions as well as one of the bio dramatic successes of the
past several seasons will be presented in lleppner at the
iStar Theater on Monday, Nov. 17, with an all-star cast.
"The Wolf' is a romantic drama of the Hudson Bay
fur country in three acts and three scenes by Eugene
Walter. Mr. Walter is an author who strikes hard, and
he is said to handle the story with a directness that is
courageous but yet does not offend. The story concerns
the vengeance wreaked upon an American civil engineer,
who years before the story opens, has deserted a half-breed
girl of the far north, the girl, Anette, dies in a storm, but
in Montreal there lives a half brother who has promised
his dying father to search for the lost girl. He discovers
that McDonald is the man he seeks, and that he is temt
ing Hilda, the daughter of a Scotch trader, whom he
(Jules IVaubien) loves.
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MARRIAGE BROKERS.
They Play a Queer Sort of Gam In
Engliih Society.
There exist in British social life
certain individuals known ns "mar
riage brokers." They move in the
holiest ranks and gain, often un
known to their friends, enormous
commissions for making a desired
"match" possible. In some cases,
6ays London Tit Bits, a match is
niado as an ordinary business ar
rangement that is to say, each
party to the contract, the prospec
tive bride and bridegroom, are
aware how ttieir meeting has been
brought about, and each is prepared
to pay a handsome commission for
the introduction; but these cases
are few and far between.
What causes the business of the
society marriage broker to be great
ly looked down on is the fact that
most usually society matrimonial
agents work in secret. They are
received at the best houses, and
their hostesses, all unsuspectingly,
are made catspaws to obtain intro
ductions. Needless to say in a case I
like this there is always one viC'
tim, for either the man or the gir
is drawn into the match unsuspect
ingly, little thinking that the per
son who brought about the intro
duction inn y derive a lifelong in
come as the result. Sums of 20,
000 and more have been known to
change hands as commission in this
way.
Very often the society marriage
broker sets his bait by an adver
tisemcnt in one of the most ex
elusive society papers. Advertise-
ments of this kind are usually
shrewdly disguised, taking the form
in most cases of tempting offers of
employment for impecunious gen
tleinen of high birth. In this way
an interview is arranged, and in the
most artful manner possible the
proposal is put forward to provide
the applicant with a wealthy bride
in return for a heavy commission
when the wedding is duly solemniz
ed. In manycases the impecunious
gentleman falls in with the scheme.
Should he not do so, however, a
promise of strict secrecy is usually
extorted, and the marriage broker
pets about attracting some more wil
ling fish to his net. Too often the
society marriage broker is a member
of the fair sex. In this case few
manage to escape from her schem-
It'snotthe mechanical perfection
of auy one part of thes Ford it's
the perfection of all its parts
working in perfect harmony
that makes it the car of univer
sal and unprecedented demand.
Better buy yours today the
rush will soon be on.
"Everybody is driving a Ford" more
than 200,00.) in service. New price3
runabout $525 touring car $000
town car $800 with all equipment,
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leave money with your orders. Orders left
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ceive prompt attention.
Then He Went to Sleep.
Mrs. Popkins was constantly re
minding her husband that she. own
ed the silver, that she owned the
furniture, and the piano was her
own private property, and so on un
til poor Popkins began to wonder
what she'd claim next.
The other night Mrs. P. woke in
alarm. Strange sounds were heard
in the lower parts of the house,
and quickly rousing her husband
she cried :
"John! John! Get up! There
are burglars in the house!"
"Eh?" inquired Mr. Popkins, rub
bing his eyes.
"Burglars downstairs!" repeated
Mrs. P.
"Burglars?" said Popkins, as he
turned over. "Well, you do the
worrying. I don't own anything."
A True Friend.
An elderly man in a large city
died in extremely poor circum
stances. A prominent business man,
well known for his mercenary char
acter, attended the funeral and wat
visibly affected as he looked for the
last time on his old friend and as
sociate. "You thought a great deal of the
old gentleman ?" he was asked after
the services were over.
"Thought a great deal of him?"
echoed the merchant. "Well, 1
should say 1 did. There was a true
friend, lie never asked me to lend
him a cent, though 1 knew that he
was practical lv starving to death."
Harper's Magazine.
Great Indian Acrobats.
The traveling acrobats who wan
der from village to village in India
are often surprisingly clever. In a
remarkably short time they will
erect their primitive apparatus, con
sisting of a few bamboo poles and
ropes and will then go through a
most wonderful performance, the
daring and skill of which would
greatly astonisli people used to
western acrobatic feats. Tim poles
and ropes are fixed up in f. m0st
haphazard fashion, and the per
formers risk their lives over and
over again, well salUfled if, at the
end, the audience rewards them
with a few annas. Wide World.
Recognition.
Brown Have von heard
adventure of old Jehoi
of the
the law-
Chown No what .
Prown Why, he
bathe one day and en ,
huge shark. Their eye
instant, then the har' 1
swam away. London
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BEAUTIFUL, BUT DEADLY.
The Buthmatter la the Moat Venomous
Snaka In the World.
"About the latest thing among
Bnake novelties is the bushmaster,
writes the London correspondent of
the Chicago News. "This snake, ac
cording to lsaron K. Leiionhufvud
F. Z. S., F. 11. O. S., is one of tho
rarest and shiest in the world. It
is at homo in tropical South Amer
ica and occurs in Irinidad. It has
tho greatest venom of any of the
large poisonous vipers, and as much
as Joy milligrams have been extract
ed at one time from the bushmaster.
The dreaded rattlesnake, including
tno large diamond, does not give
more than half the quantity of ven
om. Attaining sometimes a length
of twelve feet, the bushmaster is
the largest of all the poisonous
snakes of the world. The pattern
is beautiful: pinkish yellow ground
color, with rhomboid regular ae-
signs of darkish brown, having a
tinge of purple and terra cotta. In
each darker pattern is a brighter
center, spot. Its Latin name means
'the silent rattlesnake.' It was giv
en this name by Linnaeus on ac
count of its tail, which is tapering
and horny, made of the same ma
terial as that of the rattlesnake,
but without the segments and con
sequently silent.
"Charles. Waterton, the famous
naturalist, who made three journeys
to South America, describes the
bushmaster in his notes of the first
journey in 1813 as follows: 'Un
rivaled in his display of every lovely
color of the rainbow and unmatch
ed in the effects of his deadly poi
son, the "Counacouchi" glides un
daunted on, sole monarch of the
forests. Both man and beast fly be
fore him and allow him to pursue
an undisputed path. He sometimes
grows to the length of fourteen
feet. The bushmaster's head is en
tirely heart shaped, and when rous
ed the serpent does not get into
the position of the other vipers, but
keeps the head slightly raised with
S shaped vertical bends of the body.
In striking it lets out these bends
like a spr,ing and can in this way
reach very far. Its food is the com
mon rat, the rabbit and the agouti.
"In Central America the bush
master is called by the Indians the
pineapple snake because its scales
are round and similar to the outside
of a pineapple. This exceedingly
delicate snake, which is killed by
the slightest change of climate, is
not nearly so aggressive as its small
er cousin, the fer de lance, and
does not affect materially the mor
tality on sugar, bananas or coffee
plantations.
Motion of the Sun.
Owing to the revolution of the
earth the 6un seems to make its
dailv circuit around us. which of
course is not the case. But the sun
is revolving about its center quite
as truly as the earth is. It was one
of the conceptions of that most re
markable man, Sir John Ilerschel,
that the whole solar system had a
motion in space and was advancing
toward a point in the heavens near
the star Hercules. Sir John's con
ception as bold an idea as ever en
tered the human mind is now gen
erally accepted by astronomers, and
the opinion is quite universal among
them that the entire system is trac
ing our a curvilinear path in space,
a course around some mighty cen
ter, probably at Hercules.
Putting It In Plain English.
Miss Jennings was hearing the
grammar antl motoric class. ne
wrote a sentence on the board and
called upon Abncr to rise.
"1 nomas can ride the horse if he
wants to," she read, pointing to the
board. "Now, Abncr, rewrite the
sentence in another form."
Abncr surveyed it somewhat du
biously for a moment; then inspira
tion came to him, and, stepping to
the board, he wrote:
"Thomas can ride the horse if the
hore wants him to." New York
Post.
Juvenile Muaical Marvela.
Sir Charles Halle was only four
when he first played in public;
Hummel made his first appearance
nt the age of five, Mozart at six,
Chopin and Rubinstein at eight.
Mozart began composing when only
five, while Samuel Wesley wrote a
march for one of the guards regi
ments at the age of seven. Sir Ed
ward Elgar was twelve years old
when he composed his first music
for a chilli's play a shameful lack
of precocity! London Chronicle.
Nice Diaerimination.
First Customer 1 wish to select
a vase.
Floorwalker Yes, madam.
James, show the lady to the crock
ery department.
Second Customer I wish to se
lect a VAW7..
Floorwalker Yes, madam,
Ceorge. show the lady to the bric-n-hrae
department. New York
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highest praise for
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est assortment, and al
ways fresh, in the city.
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