STUB ClTinClT, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 1010. tt mi tin mi 11 C SB j b Barr j 11 UH- HII olltl-II? Wilton Andrews, the leader of the special orchestra accompanying a dramatic production which recently visited Washington, told at the Gar rick Club a curious story about a violin pupil ho onco had. "It -was at Wichita, Kan., whero I was teaching in the early '80s, that I got hold of this pupil," ho said. "Ho -was a plasterer. Don't laugh when I say on top of that that ho was ono of the most promlsng violin pupils I ever had. Ho was a quiet, good-natured, sawod-off, named Frank Barr, but everybody called him Brlcky Barr, because ho had the reddest suit of cowllcky hair that over entered Into competition with n stormy sunset. Ho was about four Inches ovor 5 feot high, but aa broad across tho back as Hncken schmldt, with a pair of orang-outang arms that reached almost to his knees. Ho could pick up by the rear axle a two-horse wagon loaded with brick and raise It flvo feet clear of the ground with one hand. "I belonged to tho drifters when I reached Wichita and organized my class there. One evening, soon after I'd got my scraping flock assem bled, I was passing a mechanics' boarding houso on the outskirts of Wichita. This crlmson-Jialred runt was sitting before ono of the open front windows, sawing on a fiddle. It wasn't a violin. It was a fiddle, and a vicious fiddle. Tho man mak ing the sounds on it was, I know at once, an ear player. Yet there was occasionally a certain sentiment true and sound about the fellow's rude performance. So I stopped and chat ted with him. "He told me that he didn't know one note from another, but that he'd had tho fiddle bug all his life. When he told mo that he was a plasterer I looked at his hands. They were neither rough nor stiffened. Bricky told mo that he always wore gloves while plastering, not with the idea of keeping his hands dainty, but so as not to spoil them for his fiddling. "Well, I took Bricky into my Wichita class. Inside of six months he had a safo lead on all the rest of them, even if I had been com pelled to make him unlearn all of his ear-playing abominations. "Insido of a couple of years I had pushed Bricky, the plasterer, through Wichtl, Kaiser and Krentzer, and he didn't do half badly with the Dancle show pieces that I occasionally let him havo to relievo the tedium of exercises. "Bricky was a tractable pupil. But one evening, after he'd been working at the violin under my direction for about a year and a half, something occurred to convince me that Bricky wasn't to ho fooled with. Ho was a bit out of form with his lesson and In a moment of petulance I knocked his bow up from the strings of his violin with my bow. Brlcky's bow went flying across tho room. "Bricky had a pair of thoso steely blue eyes that a good many Western men of extraordinary nerve have been provided with. He turned thoso eyes upon me for about fifteen straight soconds and there were gleams of a tigerish topaz in them. He didn't say a word, but ho walked over to a sofa in a corner of the room. Ho deposited his violin upon this sofa with great care. Then he walked back to where I stood, turned me around, took mo under the arms from behind, toted me over to a win dow of the second story room as If I'd been a setter pup, held me sus pended out of tho window or an instant and then dropped no to the ground. "It was only a ten-foot drop and the ground was soft from a recent rain. No harm was done. I didn't tako it to heart, particularly; aftor I'd bad time to think It over. "After that Bricky and I got on perfectly well togethor, although I nover knocked his bow out of his hand again. After two years I gave up my Wichita class and went to Denver to tako a position as orches tra leader In a theatre. A few years later I quit mubic for a time and went Into business. "Occasionally my business called me to Durango, Col. There wasn't any worse town In the West at that time than Durango. It was a Jump-Ing-off place for bad men. Nearly a dozen marshals none of them a craven either had already, at that period, beon put away by the Duran go gun-nghter. "When I reached Durango one afternoon In the summer of 1886 there was a lot of excitement there. Bud Caldwell had stuck up Bchlff's Tiank that day. He had most of the man-hunter of Colorado and New Mexico Ued In bowknoU with fear of hla at that time. Caldwell be longed to tbat cUm of doprdoei of which BUI the Kid waa another sample that la, ha kllUd whether there was aay &ealty for It or not, lie had stood aff whole camps, tack ing out of the catnpi afoot when they'd babble or shot his horse. lie waa so unerring en the shoot that the most determined and reckleea bad man potters fought shy of blat. "On this day, then, Caldwell had strolled Into Bchltr baak at aoon and put the whole outfit back ef the trellis under his pair of jura. He instructed the cashier to stack up all ef the gold and currency on the oanUr ia front of hlw. "Tho cashier didn't mako any su icrfluoui movements In obeying. The other employees of the bank, also rocognllzng Caldwell swept all of tho bank's ready cash, $16,000, Into tho leather pouch suspended from his neck by a strap. Then he backed out tho door. None of the bank peoplo had made a move ox ccpt tho cashier, and the cashlor only moved to do what Caldwell told him to do. Caldwell got on his hprso In front of tho bank and mado for tho canons at a leisurely amblo. "As I say, when I got to Duran go, three hours after tho thing hap pened, Durango waB a heap per turbed over tho thing; but nobody Boemcd to waut the $6,000 reward which tho bank immediately offered for Caldwell, dead or nllvo. "Tho folks stood around and talk ed about It in tho groggorlcs and gam bling Joints and honkatonks, but none of thoso quick-trigger people of Durango had lost any $5,000 worth of Bud Caldwell that they were anxi ous to recover. Tho idea of camping on Bud's trail wasn't even suggested by any of them. "About 7 o'clock that evening I was having an after-supper smoko In tho 12x20 lobby of tho Holl-Nor-Poto Hotol, whoro I was registered, when tho hotol backboard came up from tho railroad station with a new guest. He'd swung along from Deadwood. He was Bricky Barr, my former vio lin pupil of Wichita. "I recognized him at onco, al though he had picked up Borne bad and disfiguring knife scars on the left sido of his face. He remember ed me, too, and he was kind enough to say, in his foolish loyalty to his first instructor, that, although he'd heard Wilhelml aand Ilemenyl since seeing mo Inst, he considered that I had both of thoso renowned violin ists eaten up in a limekiln when it came to sure-enough fiddlln'. "Bricky had been prowling around tho new mining camps of Colorado for some years, he told mo, and we were having a pleasant time, talking fiddle and Addling, when Brlcky's attention wbb attracted by the up roar of caloric talk in the bar over Bud Caldwell's visit that day. Bricky pricked up his ears at that and in stantly lost Interest in the fiddle con versation. I told him briefly about tho Caldwell business. " 'Anybody goln' nftcr him?' In quired Bricky.getttng up and address ing the thirty or forty men lounging around. Two or three of them mut tered that they hadn't lost any Bud Caldwells. " 'Well, you're a plgeon-livcred lot o' junipers,' said Bricky, where upon I Instantly ducked behind a partition In the rear of the office, not hankering for any lead ballast. " 'Poor plasterer,' I breathed to myself as I made the shelter of the partition, 'you've fiddled your last double-step in G major or in any other key!' "But, to my intense astonishment, there was no fusillade. Bricky had got by with his savage crack. I peered from behind the partition. They wero all standing fixed In their position, looking curiously at Bricky. He was a natural captain of men. I observed that the topaz glitter I had caught once before in his eyes was there again. The others in that lob by 'and bar seemed to be under tho influence of that eye of Brlcky's, too. Anyhow, not a man of them went for his guns, despite the hot gibe from the Hps of this stranger In tho camp. " 'Is there anything In It for fetch ing the coyote in?' Brlcky Inquired of tho crowd in general, after the long pause. " 'Five thousand,' two or three of them chorused. " 'Woll, that's a slick enough piece of change to he worth tearing oft,' said Brlcky, not In any boastful tone, but with tho air of n man expressing approval of a business transaction that looked pretty good. 'Any om brey here stake me to a couple o' guns?' "Well, I could seo them rubber ing still harder at the red-haired chap then. Ho had givtfn them all that raking about being plgeon-llv-ered, oh, without having any guns on him at the time he spoke? It was plain that they couldn't mako anything out of Brlcky. But a big ruffian of a camp terror brought his mallot-llko fist down on tho bar. " 'Ho ain't no gopher If he Is a red head,' the ruffian bellowod. "And then he strolled over to Brlcky and handed him a pair of .46's, butts foremost. Then he un shipped his cartridge belt and Bricky buckled It around his waist. " 'Any hawss loafing about 'camp that can get out of his own way?' Inquired Brlcky then. "The horse was In front of '"the Hell-Nor-Pote Hotol In less than Ave minutes. It was then 8 o'clock at night and pretty black. They point ed out the west trail to Brlcky as the one Caldwell had taken. "After the plasterer had vaulted Into tho saddle I shook hands with him, not without a bit of pride as the only man In camp who kaew him well enough to do that. '"Brlcky, I said, 'you've got a well chance to figure In one of those bone-bleaching thing down yonder In the canons. But, still, you've had a pretty good time with yourself, barring the working at your trade, and you aeem ready enough to give the keno yell and caeh la, We've all to die tome time. You'll probably be qualified aa a stringed Instrument performer leng before I cut your trail on the other aide of the big di vide, aad when you aaake yaur eaah ta dont you forget waat I uaad to have m beey eiaglng late yea ke9 right on practising, whether It's a harp or fiddle.' " 'That ain't such a bad bunch o' breezo, professor,' Brlcky replied to me just beforo giving his horso the spurs, 'hut any time any cheap stick up man pipes me out 1 want you to take a peek at my remains when the Inquest's bcln' pulled off and see If I look like a prairlo dog under my shirt.' "And with that Brlcky clattered Into tho blackness of tho canon trail. Ho got back Just thirty-six hours lat er, almost to the minute, pulling up his Inthery cayuse In front of tho Hell-Nor-Peto Hotol from which ho had started. "Bud Calflwell was slung across the front of Brlcky's saddle. Bud couldn't have been much deader if ho had fallen from a cago Into a 900-foot shaft. Both of his forearms wero broken by bullets In exactly tho same spot. Tho othor ball had cut Bud's Jugular In two. "Brlcky didn't oven tell mo, his old friend and fiddle instructor, how ho had got by with it. Tho bag, with all of Bud's loot In It Intact, was ewung around Brlcky's nock. "Bricky dismounted, toted tho dead man Into the barroom, laid his burden down gently chough on a ta ble, and then strolled over to tho hank with the bag of cash. A crowd of good citizens of Durango mlno owners and superintendents and such were already standing nround In the bank when Brlcky got there, waiting for his appearance. "Tho president of the nbnk count ed Brlcky out his $5,000 reward in bills, and then ho pinned a gold star, w'th 'Marshal, Durango,' engraved on It, on tho loft sldo of Brlckky's blue flannel shirt. That badge hadn't been used by anybody for six months, tho last man to wear It -having piped out with such shocking suddonness that no successor to him could be found. "It took Brlcky Barr, tho plasterer-fiddler, just eight months to clean Durango up and mako it the most decent and safest camp, even for a tenderfoot, from the Columbia to the Itio Grande. "There is, I suppose, a certain amount of elemental savagery sur viving in all of us. That, at any rate, Is about the only excuse I havo for saying that, of all my violin pupils, sbme of whom became quite distin guished, I never had such a glow of pride ovor the achievements of any of them as I did ovor my plasterer on the day that he brought the most heartless devil of the Southwest into Durango on tho pommel of his sad dle" Washington Star. Marriage in India. Marriage ceremonies in India are full of pretty incidents. The chief Incident of the better class Hindoo marriage ceremony Is called the Bhaunrl. It Is the sevenfold circuit of a tree or post, or seven stops taken in unison. The seven steps are the seven grades of life. The husband, often a boy of fourteen, walks round and round solemnly with the end of his coat tied to tho end of the cloth which his girl-wife wears on her head, symbolical of their union. All tho time they do this they must not look at each other, but upward. The Hindoo i3 bound to Invito his whole cast, within a reasonable distance, to his wedding. Fireworks play an Important part In the rejoicings incident to an Indian marriage. Tho marriage season Is limited to two or three months of the year. Yarn Will Cut Steel. Yarn, with powdered stono, can cut a steel bar. Major McClaughry, warden of the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., once found a prisoner who was supposed to be pounding stone working away at one of tho bars to an outside window. Tho man was induced to give a dem onstration. A grating of the same description was placed in his cell and a guard stationed over him to watch tho cutting process. With the lime stone dust and silicate from tho stone pile, tho yarn from his sock and a little water, the man cut the bessem er steel bar in eighteen working hours. With some fine emery, a chalk line and two wooden hand holds to save his fingers he made a clean cut of the othor bessemer bar In five hours. Ijost By Detention. While a New York commuter was stalled an hour on a train coming to tho city because the electric engine had blown out its fuses ho walked through the train and made a calcu lation. "There are six hundred per sons on this train," he said. "An hour lost for each persniv means a loss of seventy-five worll! days for one man. If we wereJfTL, vcentrat ed Into one man ndjp 0 Buffer tho loss don't youW'. j - would feel that damage show.." i for the loss? Why does the0'. ;, Vtlon of the loss change the re; bll lty?" '' . A Job for the Hairless. Bill Nye In his earlier days once approached the manager of a lecture bureau with an application for em ployment, and waa asked If be had ever done anything lh that line. "Oh, yea," aald Bill. "What have you done?" "Well," replied Bill, "my last jee waa In a dime museum, sitting la a bcrrel with the top of my head sticking out posing as the largeet oatrlch egg in captivity." Tke OsaUaUd Ma. Tfce Mi ra la tkoroagktr eoa teated fa Ukelf to be a lor or a trace. SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS On the Sunday School Lesson by Rev. Dr. Llnscott For the ln ternatlenal Newspaper Bible Study Club. January 30th, 1910. (Copyright, 1010, by Her. T, S. Llnscot, O.l).) Some Laws of the Kingdom. Matt. v:I7-26, 38-48. Golden Text Bo yo therefore per fect oven as your Father which Is In heavon is perfect. Matt. v:48. VerBeB 17-20 In what sense did Jo sus fulfil "the law and tho prophota?" How many persons can you recall, from tho scriptures of oiaewhero who did the perfect will of God, other than Jesus? There aro those who teach that it Is lmposslblo for any man to keep nil the commandments of God, what rea son is thoro to supposo that these aro among the number whom Jesus calls, "the least In tho kingdom of heaven?" What whs the "rlghto'ousnoss of the scribes nnd Pharisees?" What aro tho reasons which lead us to bellevo, that all God's command ments aro reasonable, and kcepablo by all Christians, and that thoso who do not keep them aro verily culpable? Verses 21-22 Recall the prominent outward sins, and then say If any, or all of them, can be committed, in God's sight, without tho culminating 'or outward act being committed? Why is a man who, out of an angry revengeful heart, callB his brother a fool, and would like to consign him to the worst of suffering, in danger of sufforlng himself that to which he would consign another? Verses 23-26 Why cannot a man truly worship God, or enjoy the lovo and favor of God, wbilo ho has bitter ness in hid heart to another? According to the teaching of Jesus, what i3 our duty toward a person who Is angry with us, either with or with out just cause? Verses 38-41 Are these precepts to be taken literally and if not, then what do they mean? See Ex. xxi: 24-25, Lev. xxlv:20, Duet. xlx:21, and say if thoso laws aro in harmony with the teaching of Jesus? Are these precepts of Jesus given :is rules of conduct, or a3 underlying principles, and what is the difference in the two ideas? Can you mention supposed cases, whero It would lie wise to literally car ry out theso precepts of Jesus, and other cases, whore it would violate tho spirit of Jesus' teaching to do so? What motive would compel a child of God to literally carry out these pre cepts of Jesus, when, and as often as. The Holy Spirit should indicate? Verso 42 What attitude should tho Christian always take, in the matter of giving or leaning money to those in need? Verses 43-44 What are the advant ages of loving our enemies, and tho disadvantages rf hating them? What does it imply, practically, to love our enemies, and is it posslblo of performance by every Christian? Verse 45 Why does God treat tho evil ns well as he does the good, In the matter of sunshine and rain, and the similar common blessings of life? Verses 40-47 Which gets tho great er good out of life and why, the gener ous and forgiving, or the harsh and those that render evil for ovll? Verse 48 What does Jesus mean by this commandment to be perfect as God is perfect. (This question may have to be answered in writing by members of the club.) Lesson for Sunday, Feb. 6th, 1910. Almsgiving and Prayer. Matt! vl:l-15. Foreign Educational Schools. A few yers ago the foreign mission ary schools were practically the only institutions in Foo-Chow offering fa cilities for tho acquisition of Western learning. There are now al least 30 native schools fashioned after the for eign model. Foo-Chow ia a city of 600,000 inhabitants and these schools embrace about 2,000 students. Posters placarded all over tho city advertise tho opening of various modern schools, which nre springing up in every nook and corner of tho place. Scarcely a week passes without tho announcement of the opening of a new school. The Man in Need. The director of a matrimonial agen cy says the young girls ask only: "Who is he?" The young widows: "What Is his position?" The old widows: "Where la ho?" New Definition. Scott A Bohemian is a chap who borrows a dollar from you and then Invites you to lunch with him. Mott Wrong. A Bohemian Is a fel!ow who invites himself to lunch with you and borrows a dollar. The Devil Wagon. "That wealthy young broker baa given his motor to a well-known ac tress." "Yea. He saya bis father taught him to hitch his wagon to a star." Mlnda Meet "I wish I had known what a poor eook you were before I engaged you, Bridget" "I wish you bad, mum," eald Brid get devoutly. Expensive Feed. Guest Bring me the best porter house steak you have. Walter Beg pardon, air, but geatle men ordering porterhouse steaks are now required to make a ar4t Motes aumd Comment Of Interest to Women Readers WHY WOMEN DO NOT MARRY. Gertrude Atherton Says the "Sharp ened Intellects" of Modern Girls Encourage Independence. Leaving entirely out of tho question the substantial improvements demand ed by the suffragists, and those Ill balance children of their old ago called suffragettes, there are certain more Intimate disadvantages pertain ing to tho Immemorial status of wom an, which, unconsciously or otherwise Influenco tho thousands of girls that deliberately enter upon the Independ ent life beforo man shall have a chanco to marry, desert, neglect or boro them. It Is possible that the woman never lived who was born without the instinct for romantic lovo, and Its less romantic sequels, marri age nnd maternity, says Gertrude Atherton In Tho Delineator. Being the only hope of the race until sci ence learns to manufacture estimablo Frankensteins, eyery sort of woman, when young, Is as prone to the dis ease of lovo as to tho microbous af flictions of childhood; but the sharp ened Intellects of the modern femalo teach her to observe not only that Indulgence In the primitive blessings Is often productive of a tame happi ness at best, but that It is mere chance if she does not waste several years of her active youth waiting for some man to exert his inalienable right to woo and propose. A man may trample down barriers, make opportunities, persist, over whelm, but a woman, with double the fascination and Intelligence, must either stoop to contemptible scheming or proudly bide her time, as likely as not to miss her one chance of hap piness because circumstances do not give her the opportunity to reveal her self to the kindred spirit. If she can not pursue a man as a man pursues a woman when he wants her; if she has not the supremo at tractions which bring a man to a wom an's feet with a flash of the eye, she can at least avoid the mean subter fuges of tho husband-hunters, and lead a life in which man as a love factor is practically eliminated. She can also enjoy much the same privi leges as men, until, perhaps who knows? one day she may meet in this larger, fuller life a congenial, many-sided creature who wants' some thing more thai, a reproduction of his grandmother. The Process of Evolution; or, the Descent of Woman. Science and the Girl. Science seems disposed tc spoil the girl of the present day. A famous doc tor has actually announced before the august body of tho French Acadomy of Science that It Is unwise to rise the moment one is called. Glria who have been dancing half the night will ro jolco In the knowledge that they are only acting for the best when they refuse to get up In the morning as soon as they are called. The proper pTan Is to treat the an nouncement that the bath Is ready with the contempt It deserves for ful ly twenty minutes for, Bays this worthy doctor, to get up at once and energetically set about the business of dressing Is actually dangerous to the health. Umbrella Clothe Dryer. Take an old umbrella frame and wind the wires with whlto cloth, sus pend by handle from the celling near the range. Excellent for drying baby's elothei and other little pieces. If handle la not of the book kind a book can easily be bored Into a straight handle. WW If Against Dally Nap. Prolonged "forty winks" during tho day aro severely condemned by many doctors on the ground that they affect one's regular sleep. Scientists have found that in tho ordinary course in the human being thero Is tho greatest vitality between 10 a. m. and 2 p. m., and tho least between 2 o'clock and G o'clock In the ovening. Long sleeps during tho day Interfere with this order of nature and sometimes affect various organs, causing headache Tho nap of forty winks, but only forty, proves refreshing to many becauso It Is too short to havo any lnjuilo.a consequence THE D. & II. SUMMEIt-IIOTEfj AND HOARDING HOUSE DIItECl'OltY. Tho Delaware & Hudson Co. is now collating Information for the 1010 edition of "A Summer Para dise," tho D. & H. Bummer-hotel and boardlng-houso directory that has done so much to advertise and de velop the resorts In this section. It offers opportunity for every summer hotel or boarding houso proprietor to advertise his place by representa tion in this book. The Information desired is, as follows: Name of houso; P. O. Address; Name of Manager; Altitude; Nearest D. & H. It. 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