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Show An Early Day Incident. Included In her icmlnlsccnccH Roso Eytlngo telli of being a witness to n hhootlng scrnpo In Choyonno years ago, when In tho groat Went such things wero not ns serious a3 they nro to-dny. "I wan onco walking nlong n street nt Choyonno, tWjo writes Miss Eytlngo, "when I heard, 'Look out! 'Wnro guns!' And nono too soon was tho warning given, for at that moment n pistol shot was heard nnd something passed mo with a most omlnoun whistle. I scuttled Into a nenrby shop door, behind tho counter Btood a young woman calmly chowlng gum, and whllo discreetly withdrawing herself closu to tho wall bohlnd tho counter, craning her nock and wntqhlng cngorly the direction of tho shot. Two or throo shots wcro flrod in rapid succession; then was TWO QUEENS OF BURLESQUE. Two of tho leading exponents of tho art of burlesque In America aro Irono Verona and Franklo Raymond. Our hoard tho fall of a body, after which thero was sllenco. "After a pauso of afow minutes tho young womnn, who had not for a moment paused In her gum 'chowlng, passed around to tho front of tho Bhop, wont tb tho door, looked out nnd saw, what I also Raw, a man lying apparently dead, and without glancing toward mo sho said, 'Thero, ho's dono it! Hal said he'd fill him forb th' end of tho month,', and turned nway from tho door. In doing this sho saw mo and said, 'You kin go out now; reckon thnr won't bo no mo' fussln' to-night.' "And tho young woman was qulto correct In her brlof summing' up of tho situation. Thero was no moro fusain' that night, and I learned nfter-ward nfter-ward that the scono I had witnessed was. an episode In a domestic difference differ-ence between brothers-in-law." Qustav Luders. As a writer of catchy and sparkling light opera music Qustav Luders is ono ot tho best-known of American composers. IIo ia credited with tho ambition to wrlto moro serious music than ho has bcretoforo attempted. Three Thousand for a Song. Shapiro, Bornstoln &. Co., tho music publishers, offered ?3,000 for nil rights and Interest In tho now Btory ballad wrltton and published by Al. Trahorn and entitlod "Thoy All Spoko Woll'of You." Mr. Trnhorn doclnod tho offor, boliovlng that ho will roallzo a groat-or groat-or sum by controlling tho song, ns tho advico ordors ho has rocolvod In the past two weeks show every indication in-dication ot a phonomonal selling hit. This lr tho largost sum that has boon offered for a Bong slnco F. A. Mills purchased "1'vo Waited, Ilonoy Waited Long for You" from Ocorgo Nlchnln and Hugo Schlamm sevornl cars ago. Miss Russell's Bonnet. As tlmo passes tho iicwb relative to thu atUomobllo mishap of Lillian Russell Rus-sell nnd Blanche Bates Is becoming moro nrcurato, add It now nppoars that, for from being an exaggerated Btory, Miss Russell was much moro seriously hurt thnn nt first Imagined. Hcretoforo all stories of the mishap agreed that Miss Russell In a miraculous miracu-lous manner escaped Injury, but this, It scorns, was not the caso. Sho had hor left shoulder dislocated and her right nrm bo badly bruised that It has bIuco been kept In splints. Her nock nnd both shoulders woro I illustration shows thorn In their most pleasing "turn" in tho popular "Aladdin, "Alad-din, Jr." figured for llfo was duo to tho fact' badly cut, and that sho wan not dls-that dls-that sho woro a hat very much llko a poko bonnet. As sho struck tho ground head foremost tho poak of her hat voib bont ovor hor face, and thus saved It from all Injury. Curiously enough, Miss RushoII. who has beon nn nrdont adherent or Christian Scl-enco, Scl-enco, cried aloud and vohomently for a surgeon an Boon as sho could get her bicath. Miss Batos, who wont to her res-cuo, res-cuo, had found hor pinned under tho hoavy car In n manner that led her to bcllovo sho was being slowly crushed to death. With tho assistance of tho chaiifreur and a passing postman Miss Bates succeeded In raising tho car, so Hint Miss Russell could gropo hor way out. When, half nn honr later, six men tried to lift tho car, thoy woro unablo to movo it. Lion Swallows Money. Madamo Schallo, a lion tamer, Is mourning tho loss of a roll of bills r.mouutlne to ?340, nnd ono of her pets Is suffering from an attack of In-digestion, In-digestion, or ''groenbnek poisoning," a vory rare dlscaso. Tho trainer entered en-tered tho cngo with tho monoy enro-fully enro-fully stowed away In hor corsago. During tho porformunco It slipped out and fell to tho floor. "Brutus," ono of thd biggest HonR, mistaking tho roll for somo now delicacy, pounced upon It and swallowed It boforo his mis-tross mis-tross could Htop him. Of courso Madamo Schallo could havo had tho animal shot nnd dissected, nnd so havo recoverod her greenbacks, but ns tho beast Is worth a good deal moro than f3t0 sho doclded to lot him livo. At any rnto, sho has tho consolation of knowing that her monoy Is safe as far as burglars aro concornod. Some Coming Melodramas. Hero aro the namc,s of sorao of tho promised melodramatic troats of tho now soacon: "Sho Would Not Sin." "Through Flro nnd Wnter." "No Wedding Bolls for Hor." "Down tho Old Mill Stream." "A Working Girl's Wrongs." "Out in tho Cold World." And whon It Is known that "Tho Fall of tho Ton-Ton-Door" will "ro-sumo "ro-sumo its tour" it will bo soon that adoquato provision has boon mado for this form of ontortalnmont. Joseph Jotferson has purchasod the summer homo of Edward A. Taft on Buzzard's bay. Mr. JofTorson's holdings hold-ings thero now exceed 200 acres. i |