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Show ' be In keeeptng w.th that of their markable civilization. RIG HT-- T EAR-OL- re- lesalna is the, stage name of a little mulatto girl who gives of becoming a terpstchorean Th parachute jumper is a comparatively recent product in the profes- blank tarli idges The balloon wa released in the ordluary manner, ami when it reached a proper height tbe aeronaut exploded his cartridge and the human cannon ball dropped into view Down lu an Indiana tows an aeronaut with a gas balloon successfully made au ascension with a big farm wagon attached To add to the realism, the performer sat on the front seat and plied a loug whip Then came the "gang chute. Four men, each with a little chute of his own, went up with the balloon. A big bar like a whlffletree was attached to the balloon. To this the chutes were tied was necessary was to unloose it Then came the man riding a bicycle In midair. When he left the ground he was pedaling at a great rate. This he kept It up as long as he was in sight looked very risky, but It wasnt. The machine was tied stoutly to the parachute, with the cut-of- T rope dangling down within reaihs while the rider himself was secured by hidden safety appliances to the wheel. sion of ballooning. The first parachute jumper, the first man literally to make the leap from the clouds, was Sam Baldwin,' now a successful manufacturer Of balloons at Quincy, 111. Baldwin, his brother and Prof. Van Tassel, three gas balloon men, happened to meet in a Los Angeles hotel in the summer of 18b?. Each had a hard-luc- k story to tell and it was unanimously agreed that the business bad, gone to the dog. As a' means of resuscitating It and rescuing it from the canine grasp Baldwin suggested the parachute leap. The others did not believe It possible for a man to mails the jump and live. Out of the chaffing came a determination to make the experiment. None of them was willing to offer himself up as a sacrifice, so a bag of sand was substituted. The balloon was sent up from the commons with a long string attached to the parachute rope. When the bag bad risen in a height of of a mile the cord was pulled and the chute cut loose. It dropped Lks a log for a hundred fee t, .then opened and came slowly down to earth. Repeated experiments convinced each that it was a safe trick with a man in place of the bag of sand. Van Tassel then went to 'Friaco to interview the newspapers and get them to send specials to Los Angeles, but while he was away the impatient Baldwins experimented themselves and Sam made the first jump In history safely and easily. The Baldwins were quick to realize the money value of being first in the field and they Started east to inaugurate the sport there. The greatly incensed Tan Tassel broke with them and getting an outfit began making ascents himself. Act Drew Immense Crowds. The new act leaped into popular favor at once. The incredible daring of the performance and the seeming fact that it was more than an equal chance that the aeronaut would be dashed to pieces drew Immense crowds everywhere the leep was advertised to take place. The man who rode the bag could command almost any price he asked. For some time the three balloonists who told each other hard-luc- k stories in Los Angeles had the field to themselves. 'Most of the other aeronauts were afraid of It With four assistants and a pushing manager the Baldwins made a tour around ths world. In a year and a half they netted n cool 1100,000 in cash. To this thsy added big money secured from the managers of many eastern resorts. Mve hundred dollars was the fixed charge for one performance. With the advent of bther "Ylders Of .the bag," as the technical term of the profession Is, prices began to drop. Many Samper Bring Frio Down. From 1,000 that was once paid for Fourth of July performances at the big resorts, prices went steadily downStill ward, until f250 was reached. more recruits came, and nowadays the ruling price is from 25 to 40, ; due largely to the presence of many farmers in the business, men who use it as a means of making a little No side money during the summer. ons has ever compiled an accurate list of ths number of men wbo depend upon the parachute jumping ns n means of livelihood, but estimates range from 100 to 500, with no basis of guessing how many local performers there are. Startling.- Korelti OtThtS. The public- craitPfor" novelty the desire to excel, caused a number of startling innovations, fflrat cams tbe man and n woman, then Uter the dog was added. First ths man and women rode on the same bar. Later they had separate parachutes, tied to the same bar. - When the dog three-quarte- rs -- rcom-binedwl- th They become cripinto something that or frightened pled promises longer life, even though the price is a humdrum yoijth to another ascent. H. T. DOBBINS. " AMD STACK FRIGHT.- - ACTORS Ben Ringgold, so loug a favorite hunting business at Salilne, last lth theater-goer- s, ons told the other day In ducks son killed sixty-eig48 how fearfully. Lester Wallack suf-fe- d hour and twenty minutes, all being" from it at one time. Many very wing shots.. Ben F. Johnson, county commissioner from that precinct, Peat actors are afflicted with it frdm killed a like number at one discharge tle to time. It was on the occasion of his first Henry d gun. of a mallards appearance after a two years' absence Townsend killed kilty-thre- e the stage, following tbs death of that he got at the discharge of- - a from hi father. One would scarcely look d gun. fat stage freight in so well seasoned an ador one so used to facing an audl-eac- e. A Saint tug t'.nt-uurt7 the century How shall one reach Wallack's part was one wMch he had Mr. Sidney Cooper will attain if he phyed'-mantimes before and he 8otn 1905. lives till September 2$, kew but a moment bebackwards it ten years ago Mr. Cooper, then doss fore he was to go on, as he was stand upon 90, gave an account of 'his dally 11 In the near Ringgold, he wings harlife. He breakfasted at 8, after lisped that actor's hand and held It In hour an summer In the dene ing 4 his chest. ths winter half an hour. In his parti"Just feel that. Ben. My heart consisted breakfast His room. ng Th Common AeU tkamps so. It almost chokea me. and bread and 'And he went on In that nervous Later c&me the man who tired him-se- lf of oatmeal porridge pint, of milk Just warm out f a ekanuft in midair. This about half. Ute, And as he afterwards said, It was not had cow. He own from his half an hour before he was himffiy coffee for 'then tasted a cup of tea or self again, nearly forty years. Afted breakfast am told that even Joseph Jefferson he worked till lunch time, his luuch often gets terribly nervous when about A and mutton a of chop constating to go on In plays In which bdas acted himself he as glass of that ale, which, - for year. says, tiken In moderation gives StamKany a time he has been seen talk those In and fna days they power. Ln( and wildly gesticulating do him Ws-ba e went for were In the early Self at the back of the stage, getting walk before his dinner at 6 oclock, beer again being his only drink. After into his lines and the atmosphere of Aiii part, and trying to shake of the that he read his newspaper. At 9 clock he took his one cigar and at nervousness that oppresses him. 10 was in bed. This was tbs everyTHE JAPANESE STAGS. day tenor of his life, and he remarked )Tbe Japanese can stand any amount that regularity is the secret of longof tragedy on the stage, and there is evity. London Chronicle. always a crime followed by a fearful revenge most all their plots bang on Presidents of Ons Noma. ths vendetta and the villains always The accession of corns 'to dn awful end; a murder or Roosevelt to the chief magistry adds tto, a hari-ka- r (suicide by dlsem tywelment), with some ghosts in the list act wbo haunt the wicked and bring them.' to a fearful end. Ths sea- ht double-barrelle- double-barrelle- nn. Vice-Preside- nt 'Rc'&ot'dcs Th Wr nn Owl Sugar. The American Sugar Refining Com- pany, otherwise knows aa ths sugar trust, recently began a war upon the beet sugar industry by cutting ths cents a price of granulated to pound at Missouri river points. This has been followed by a reduction of price In all states from Colorado to California amounting to SO cents a hundred pounds on beet sugar and 20 cents on bane sugar. The object Is to deal a blow to the bet sugar manufacturers in their own territory. The recent report of Secretary Wilson ea ths beet sugar Industry estimates the total product of 1901 at 198,600 tons, of which 119,000 tons come from the Pacific coast and Rocky Mountain States, besides 7,000 tons from Nebraska, California, with aa annual output of 80, 109 tons, is tbe leading producer. MESSINA (Pretty Mulatto Girl on Operatic Stag In Berlin.) celebrity. She proves a great attraction these days in the ballet of ths Royal opera house In Berlin, where baa been bolding ths Cinderella boards since the beginning of ths season. Messina performs some wonderful feats In toe dancing, and Is perhaps the most agile danseusS for a child of her age in the world. Her real name la Sadie Wilson. Her father 1 a negro and her mother a very comely German woman. She la the only mulatto girl on the stage In Turope. Em I g nation of Pro14at A The educational world of both continents suffers loss in the resignation of Charles Kendall Adama, president of the University of Wisconsin, which expresses Its appreciation of his services by giving him indefinite leave of abeence instead of accepting his reelg-natlo- n. Dr. Adama retires to a milder climate on account of 111 health. Of. Adame arrived at the University of Wisconsin when it was In urgent need of his intellectual resources, hit reserve, fortitude and precision. Under a flabby administration the delinquencies of some of its (sculty would havs Inflicted grave Injury upon ths Institution, Ills discretion In vicissitudes overcame the 111 effects of subaltern. teaching. His moral alms were promoted with reticence and ) tlgaity sod througbout hla tenure tht . ONCE A GREAT FAVORITE. well-know- DR. CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS. University of Wisconsin has risen to foremost place in higher , education, both abstract and practical. , Ths president of ths modern university must possess tbs comprehensive and genial culture derivable from antiquity. He must walk, however, with ths quickening music of humanity, which is no longer "still nor Bad. It Is n trumpet blast that calls nations now, nnd it Is given to the United States to be In the fore. ' MORE SPECTACULAR THAN DANGEROUS. another to the list of presidents flp had but ons Christian name.' Of the twenty-fiv- e presidents, hut six, the the elder ' Harrison; younger Adams, and other cats Baboons, roosters, and Arthur had Polk, Grant, Hayes domestic animals have been among two. Mr. Cleveland since ths death and to lltte harnessed parachutes those of Harrison la th only set free to ride down to earth. Others There have been have taken pigeons, ducks, doves and living but three other Instances where there In loose them and let fliers other good was but one surviving. In 1838 when midair. Advertising matter was set Madison died, John Quincy Adams manner same the in adrift alone in 1874, when, Fillsurvived; ascension of the The spectacular part more died, Andrew Johnson, and la is to be found In the acrobatic feats 1886, when Arthur died, Hayes. There while the outfit is mounting heavento the have been but two occasions when This is nerve-rackiward. there was none surviving during ths spectator, but not disconcerting to the term 6t John Adams, when Washingremembered be must performer. It ton died, and during the second term that be feels no sensation of the rush of Grant in 1875, wnen Johnson died. through the air. To him everything I Louisville Courier-Journa- l. save the earth appears stationary, which is dropping away from him. If Daok. M One Shat, "be hoTds 'by one Aland he "knows, Killed Slitjr-KIgThe duck shooting season haa though the crowd doesnt,, that ths web bandage which grips him by the opened up In this portion of ths coast wrist will hold him secure, and If he country, says the Galveston Dally hangs head downward he knows that News, but the prevalence of mosquia pair of horses could not pull him toes is making the sport less attracaway from a trapesa Into the corners tive than it otherwise would be, and Is also deterring the. pot shooters" of which he has planted his toes. from spending as much time in ths lakes and marahee-- a they would wish to do. However, the Babins market la being supplied with ducks, and they are plump and Juicy, having fed and fattened In the rice fields along tbs bayous to the north and west of ths city. Several years age, when driving the' mail and passenger stage between Sabins and Galveston, on his return home one afternoon, Joe Marty killed 263 ducks in one of the lakes along the 'route in two hours and fifteen minutes from the time he began hooting. A. H. Best, who is Jn the FINALE IN THE TENTH ACT death scenes and portrayal of suffering nr literally agony long drawn out," and here the foreigner 18 apt to see some of the most realistic acting ha has ever witnessed. Many Intense emotions are expressed merely by the facial expression, and an immobility of the muscles is sometimes maintained tor n long time. A terra of parting which wouldoccuPT a traction of on of our scenes is often cirried through n long act while the audience becomes more and more wrought up. . It Is surprising how well the female parts are taken by the men. They are trained to it from their ng ht LIm la Caba. , One of the monthly magazines publishes an article by Edward Marshall, entitled OF A JAPANTSE DRAMA. disease, complicated with dropsy. She is survived by her husband, two daughters and 'a son. Mrs. Proctor was a native of New York city, her maiden name having been Mary Ann Dally. - She made her debut at ths ag of thirteen, appearing as a singer, at th New Bowery Theater, th occasion being a benefit for the veteran actress, Mrs. W. G. Jones. 8b subsequently appeared with Kate Fishers Dramatic company, and later traveled with her husband throughout th country. She was known professionally as Polly Dally. ' Her attractive and magnetic personality won for her the admiration of ths public and for perhaps a decade was among th most popular and highest salaried artists in her branch of the profession. Che ws wedded to Mr. Proctor (who was famous as ons of ths Levattn Brothers) about twenty-rl- n years ago, and soon afterwards she retired permanently Her unfailing good from the stage. nature, her generous disposition and her many deed of charity mad her a favorite, not alone in home circles, but with all who enjoyed her acquaintOf her three ance and friendship. children, one Is the wife of Lester H. Ryley of Larchmont; another, Henrietta Proctor, is unmarried, while her only son, Frederick F. proctor Jr., is engaged. in business with his father. The domestic life of Mr, and Mrs. Proctor was ideal in its comfort and tranquility, for many years they resided in Albany, N. Y but since 1889 they had made their home in Larchmont, where,- at their beautiful and ex- -, tensive villa,- they had gathered about them a large circle of friends, who will join the family in mourning her death. - Conat - Covering a War," purporting to show how the papers get the news and what It coeta them. He deals principally with Cuba, and in the article occurs this paragraph; To patrol a coast line as great as that of THE WAY THAT IT Cuba (the island is over one hundred RCAU.YI3- -. miles long), and to know every event of Importance within its limits, was an extremely difficult matter. If Mr. Marshalls estimate of ths daily cost of the Is as wide of the mark as that of tbs length of Cuba we shall have to divide his figures by 18, tor the coast line is really PISTOL. TOY AND CANNON THE TIN MARVELOUS FEAT OF over 1,800 miles long. To be accuWithal It Is a hard profession. The rate: The northern coast is 912 and was given he scene Ah on arrived tlec to ths mao who faces danger dally may claim the. southern 972 In lengths New chute of bis own. It wascame U that that he becomes so accustomed to Its York Press. signal ths when and Ur but a mien that he fears It no longer. taking. and was spectacular chut this may be true, hat ths folded The A JAPANESE STAGE HERO, Nn Mach Danger In mat deal of a fake. . of nervous system has its limitations, and a tubs, inside big was first placed The Boston of board health has been np. Their movements art graceyouth sends carIf th warnings It sometimes mounted on stanchions and ful and their voices deceptive. considering for some time ths quescome death heeded are not out may mate1a flimsy tion of whether typhoid fever lurkf riage of ths sameresemble ft th Japanese continue as they Iron. This In a horrible shape. wanted black to In ice, end is to report that havs don to combine th beat that swelled are Then Thus the today by ranks parochuU was attached to th. He had young and daring; depleted to- there Is tittle danger. In natural ice we have to offer them la connection the nerfonner crawled ofin.his leotard. the frees-inwith the drama with the many artlstle morrow by the tried and wise. Few ths bacteria are thrown out by concealed In the bfeast and In artificial let thsy are and interesting qualities of thsir own, and In old men the tumblers They profession. all grow She half coat used by th development of telf stag art will with marry and their wives will not beer killed in sterillrin' trapes artists, a pistol, provided -- news-getti- ng . . per-nlclo- n Mrs. F. F Proctor, wife of ths theatrical proprietor of New York city, died the other day at ths family residence, Larchmont Manor, N, Y.. after a long illness, of heart were dropin a row. Ons by one they -. earth.to the safely ped Animal. Sent Dp. '' THE WAY IMS- WAT APPEAR ToTui pUSufr -- !. . -- . As th eWorld DANCER, D I I. - g, THR SUBCONSCIOUS HABIT. The pther day I saw a good notice of a young actress on her first appearance, writes a New York correspon- It spoke of bar ease and natural-pes- s, and lack of nervousness, considering that It was such a momentous occasion ths beginning of her career. When congratulated upon her success, she said: Tf ever anyone had stags fright, I had it. that night I was at ths highest pitch of nervousness. Ia fact. I actually do not remember ons thing that 1 did. I was daxed, and went through ths whols performance la a dream. It must have been my that sarrisd m safsly through." dent. Chronic kickers give th world oaay an upward boost T.k an Frnynra. John Alexander Dowle is now abl. to keep tab on his prayers. All this Is accomplished as the result of novel uses to which Is put that triumph ol modern mechanical ingenuity, the slew trie time stamp. Few except thoee familiar with th busy life Dr." Dowls leads realise what a service th elec-tr- ie time stamp will be to him? "Elijah. II.". spend a.conaldevabl part ot his time dally praying tor whose friends or relatives have asked th general overseer to join them In prayer for healing at such or such an hour, says a Chicago paper. These requests tor prayers sro Kl-r- trl. various-Zlonlt- e received by Dowie's secretaries, tabulated according to tbespeclflo hours at which ths special prayer is sought-antaken up by the head of the Ctris-tl- aa Catholic churca at the time specified. Tbe moment Dowle finishes a prayer he slaps th written slip into ths jaws of his electric time stamp,. Mams his band .oh top of the deviceand the exact time he prayed is in' stantly recorded upon the sheet Hero FRAYED , , (SOI AJ6 1? 1 , JOHN ALEX. DOWIE A PRATER REGISTER, , is a facsimile of ons ot Dowtea time stamps. . When week or so later the general overseer Is Informed that. at such or such an hour the patient seemed to Improve, he can refer to the documentary evidence to prove that he prayed at that hour for the healing ot th believer in his powers. Many times Dr. Dowle has produced the stamped "sad tims slips to convince followers ot th potency ot his prayers. ' A Dak Wfc Nut Bo Many- - on of the most remarkable figuror of Vienna society is Archduke Bugen. master of th German Knight of Malta. Th office, which ia invariaAustria bly held by a member ot th large rstgnlng family, brings a very lacoma, hut th holder may not marry, r The archduke looks remarkably well h ia hla full costume In white, which H Is occasion festive on Hears only a general la the army sad commands la chief of the TyroL mst |