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I 4. THE MORNING VJSL-COURIER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1903. v j? Wu1 NEWS OF THE I HYPERION. Wis Honor liio Mayor" Pleases Many Happy Affair. One of the good things about the up-to-date musical comedy is that is not worth while trying: to gat anything out of it except aai evening's entertain ment. "His Honor the Mayor," recent ly from Near York, where it made a long and successful run, is this sort of a show. No one in the large audi ence that listened to and applauded it last evening at the Hyperion had any idea that he was straining his mind in doing bo; It was frankly spectacular, kaleidescopie, burlesque from start to finish, and was all the more pleasing because it was also musical and artis tic. Pretty girls, tuneful songs, merry Incidents, tasteful scenery and gorge ous costumes danced through the three hours with no particular point that any one could discover, and .no excuse ex cept that it was all very diverting and pleasing. Some of the costumes came high, but It was all in tho running. No one wants to know the plot, and we couldn't tell it if we tried to. But there was a lot of excellent farce and enough songs and business to rush the audience in a bewildering whirl that never let up till the last curtain call. Madelyn Marshall and Harry Kelly were thestar team of the cast Made lyn asthe country girl and Kelly as the deacon In Paris. They are of the Btx-aight-faced comedy type and kept the houso In a roar with their comic dances and songs. Maa Bottl did some pleasant songs one, with the worn out game of coquetting with young men in the front row, that nearly emptied the orchestra of eligible and bashful 5'ouths. "Bobby" Barry was acrobatic but occasionally foolish as the Mayor and there were a number of leaser lights, though John H. Pratt did some bona fide ba3s solos. The six "English High Steppers" were trained dancers and added a good deal to an aggrega tion that wait fire the gray matter of the cities on their provincial route but that will pass some pleasant hours for a good many people. "His Honor the Mayor" to Return. . By special request there will be a re turn engagement of one night at the Hyperion Friday, January 3, of "His Honor the Mayor," which has gone gaily along, breaking records In almost every city In which it has been pre sented, and Judging from the newspa per criticisms, It must certainly be tho liveliest and funniest attraction now upon the road. Never has a new star his first season received the flatter- g notices which have been accorded Harry Kelly, and it is also evident at the English ponies must, this sea- on, surpass their previous excellence and they have always been the most wonderful dancers in the business. "The Secret Orchard." The Secret Orchard," Chan'ning Pol lock's new play, to be seen here to- gfclgHUh--i -utory of absorbing Inter est that can not fall to arouse the A DEFIANCE OF IT How a Hotel Clerk Treated the Number Thirteen Super stition. AND HOW IT TREATED HIM A Stubborn Proprietor Called It All Nothing But a Coinci dence. "An allusion, a while back, In the Star" to the subject of rooms number ed 13 in hotels had no pertinence so , far as this house Is concerned," oh ; served the manager of a Washington ! hotel. "There Isn't anything numbered ' 13 In the shop, not even a hell-boy. "What do I, myself, think of the IS superstition? Well, while It's not ma terial what I think, I'll say this: You 'ave addressed that question to a non 'perstitlous Individual who, neverthe V, Is a victim of prejudice, through ferience, against the number 13. jThe experiences were various. For rly ten years I was head clerk of fding hotel in another city. One e finest rooms in the house ,pa the finest was room 13. And, ntly, room 13 in that house was i "to Stay. j the proprietor was a violent "(ho was dead against any and as of superstition. His par etestation in the line of super l'as the one attaching to the ',3. It was to indicate his hos ard the 13 superstition that it. personally, that the room 13 was one of the most de he big house. went to work at the hotel -rk whom I displaced told ";;S. ant you ever to mention , man: it would only get trily excited my prede--hut don't give that X 1 1 OCALT sympathies and awaken the emotions of theatergoers of all classes. People who go to the theater to be amused will find plenty to entertain them and those who wish food for thought will be given much to reffect upon. Ir- his final act Mr. Pollock puts a brand new philosophy into the mouth of one of his characters, a philosophy that will startle the conservative and make even advanced thinkers pause, but which is the direct and logical outgrowth ot modern sex equality. The rehearsals of the play are progressing finely un der the direction of Walter Clark Bel lows and persons who have seen some of them say thepiece will undoubtedly be one of thdramatic sensations of the seasoi NEW HAVEN. "The Four Corners of the Earth" tlic Xow Year's Attraction. There was a good sized audience at the New Haven theater last night to see the stirring melodrama "The Four Corners of the Earth." The play, and as its name implies, the action and plot covers many parts of the globe, and the story is exciting, thrilling and occasionally decidedly sensational, though at all times con sistent. It is' described as a stirring melodrama of romance and adventure a pretty love story replete with stong dramatio action and incidents besides unctuous comedy and all en vironed by the most massive and beau tifully designed scenery. The present ing company Is a good one. There will be a holiday matinee to-day and the performance will be repeated at night. "Bunco In Arizona." "Bunco In Arizona," the big western comedy drama, will be the attraction at the New Haven theater on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday nights, this week, and at the matinee Saturday. With every accessory known to the fdramatlstj Miss Lillian Mortimer, thm autnoress ot bunco In Arizona, has with skill vididly brought out to its fullest extent the many incidents of the play, which hi located in the min ing regions of the great southwest. The last act discloses a typical ranch er's homo, and its general hospitable surrounding.. "Bunco," a waif adopted by Jim Blunt, a mine owner, was engaged to Hick Gold, but learning that she was an English heiress, her aunt had come from England to take her back to be educated in a manner befitting her fu ture station In life. An unprincipled cousin had made several Ineffectual attempts on the life of Dick in order to win Bunco and her Inheritance. True to her promise. Bunco returns from England and marries Dick. On the eve of the celebration miners, cow boys, Indians and other well wishers are at Jim Blunt's ranch house toast ing the happy couple when the vil lainous cousin appears unobserved at the window and shoots Dick. The shot fails to take effect, due to It striking 13 room to anybody you know and like. "I received his warning rather light heartedly. I didn't take much stock In the 13 thing myself. On the day that I took my new billet the room was vacant. Birt that evening a bridal couple, wealthy folk, drifted along The young man of the new sketch, as a matter of course, wanted the best In thehouse and room 13 happened to be the best available. So I put the pair Into that room. "On the following afternoon, .while the bridegroom was out for an airing the bride was curling her hair, using a gas jat by the dresser to heat the curling tongs. She was waving her back hair when the curling tongs slipped out. of her hand and fell un der tho collar of her room jacket. "The fntire floor was. aroused by the unfortunate young woman's terri ble screams. - The chambermaids found her rolling on the floor In agony. The hot curling irons were still searing the flesh of her hack. Most direfully burned, she, had to be removed to a hospital. She was sad ly disfigured and she didn't recover from the shock to her system for years. "A few weeks after that a noted railroad official a man with a nation al reputation, in fact rame along when the house was pretty well filled up, and the night clerk, not. being able to give the official his usual accom modation, put. him in that room 13. The noted railroad man was found with a bullet In his head on the fol- loxi-lncr mnminff TK.rfl t.-n t trim ritoi itv, ,mh.. r,- ,.;,,- aloneside of him In flip, mnrnlnr But nobody at the time could figure out whether that railroad man had committed suicide or had been mur dered. There was no conceivable reason why he should have taken his life. Nobody knows, yet, whether he did or not. "By that time, of course, that 13 room waa pretty well on my nerves. But there wasn't anything I could do about it, knowing, as I did. the crusty proprietor's violent antipathy to the 13 superstition. "Well, not. long after the last room 13 catastrophe, a wealthy young wom an from New York, whose fiance had recently died under the knife in a hos pital, reached town, ostensibly to at tend to soime business connected with Investment. The 13 room was the only one I had at the .moment that would answer her requirements. I wasn't familiar with any of the details of her history at the time, end, as she seemed a self-contained young woman I couldn't figure out how anything could happen to her in that room though, as 1 said, 1 was beginning to dislike, to put anybody at all in that room. "The young woman spent most of the night writing letters, and then she J lay down on the bed, all in her neatly j arranged burial finery, and took en Iwa enougn poison ro kui a nozen women. "That year the summer business as light, and for quite a stretch I as able to keep that 13 room vacant. 3ut when the fall rush began I had to Uck a young Chicago couple into the bom. On the first evening" the Chi t,go man reached his room a trifle toxicated, and his wife upbraided m. When he entered the room .she .s doing some fancy work, and she d a 8mall pair of scissors in her S . HEATERS. a locket which he had worn since his love journeyed to England. The cousin escaped and became a fugitive of justice. A true western and home like flavor is given to the scene, and tho dramatic intensity of the incidents make a strong and real istic finish to Miss Mortimer's thrilling comedy drama. POLI'S. Act of tho XovcHos the Greatest In tho World. Well may it he said of "The No vellos" that theirs is the greatest act of its kind in the world. It's surely true of it The children are not the only ones to be delighted with it either. This worderful circus produc tion is interesting to the older people also. ' I-.ee Tong Foo, the only Chinese bar itone In vaudeville, gave a very line entertainment, as do the Green broth ers, comedy baseball jugglers. Wilfred Clark, the comedian who entertains everybody, presents a farce written by himself, "What Will Hap pen Next" and ho and his company kept their audience wondering what would. James Callahan, who is well known to lovers of vaudeville, and Miss Jenny St. George, have a delight ful liUlo Irish play, "The Old Neigh borhood." Cooper and Robinson, the interna tionally famous comedians In their latest ottering, "A Friend of Mint1," present some colored specialties. Knight brothers and Sawtelle with a twentieth century dancing novelty, are very good Indeed. The r lectrograph has some new mo tion pictures that aro as good ns usual. Holiday prices at the New Year's matinee. BIJOU. "Trilby" One of the dreatet Successes of tho Season. "Trilby," the offering superlative, the unqualifiedly best production of the season at. the Rljou theater, will be played this afternoon at a special New Year's day matinee The pro duction of "Trilby" this week at the Bijou has all New Haven a-talking. It Is another dramatic triumph for the Bijou Theater Stock company. The ca'p.iclty houses which aro this week witnessing "Trilby" are all the Indication necessary of the excellence of tho offering. Not erly U the stag ing of the pipce a matter 'if perfecting in stagecraft, but the production It self Is letter perfect. Jan Wheatley, the leading lady, is delightful in the role of Trilby. It Is one of the cleverest role interpreta tions that she has done since coming to the Bijou. T,ee Baker as "Svcngall" Is creating the sensation of the pro duction. The work of the supporting company Is well balanced. Seata now selling for tho remainder of this week. Seats for to-night held only until 6, and for the matinee to-day until noon. hand. Angry at being 'called down' by her for over-drinking, the husband made a menacing move toward her. To protect herself she put out the hand that held the scissor. A point of the scissors blade penetrated her husband's eye, the right one, and ruin ed It. A few years later, I heard, hi other eye, through 'sympathy,' as they call It, with the destroyed one, went bad, and eventually he was totally blind. His wife died of a broken heart over what she had dons and the man Is now alone, sightless, and a figure of misery. "All this t'me the 6tubhorn old proprietor of the house was storming at anybody who even dared to hint that the 13 room was and must be a hoodoo, and every time anything hap pened In that room he declared that it. was a coincidence well calculated to Impress the minds of Imbeciles, but only a coincidence for all that. He declared that he would tear the house down before he would yield to a beg garly superstition by taking (he num ber 13 off the door of that room. "Well, I couldn't, begin to tell about all of the wretched occurrences that happened In room 13 of that hotel during the next four years. I can go on record as paying that, only about one out of five occupants of that, room escaped without, having something more or less serious happen to them. Three different rases of fmallpox, at different times, occurred in the room. All three of the victims died In the pest house. "Each time, of course, the room had to be thoroughly fumigated and com pletely refurnished, hut ftlll the stub born old proprietor would go up in the air, and all but foam at the mouth at the very suggestion that, the num ber 13 had anything whatever to do 'With the room's bad luck. The dismal things that were still occurring to occupants of that room every little while, when I left tho employ of the house. "Maybe all of this doesn't prove anvlhing. Probably It doopn't. And I am not superstitious or strive not to be. But well, I'm glad, all the same that there's no room or suite number ed 13 in this house. I'm a heap more comfortable about It." Washington Star. After Once Tasting nr one wants an old-fashioned cod liver oil prepara tion or emulsion, because Vinol is a much better body builder and strength creator for old people, weak children, and for coughs, colds, bron chitis, etc. If it does no good we will return your money. Hull's Corner Drug Stores Corner State and Chape) Mreets: cor ner Howard and Congress Avenues. yttlbl FOR THE FORESTS The Work in Saving Them Which the Government Is Doing:. ! THEIR OBSTINATE FOES The Universal Self-Interest Which Is to Guard the Trees Ruthless deforestation In the Rock ies has been stopped in time. By arbi trarily adding 1,500,000 acres to. the forest domain in March last, the Pres ident finally locked the door with many horses still In the' stable. It is in the East from whose experience the West is profiting that the pro blem is now serious. A proclamation from the White House can be of no service in the Appalachians where ownership is private and the migra tory poor white farmer girdles the trees. After they dio he takes a few crops, without the trouble of fer tilization or thorough cultivation, and then this top soil, lit only for forestry, which was held in place by root mesh es. Is washed away. In this way 1M per cent, of the Appalachian forest re gion has beer laid waste. An appropriation of $35,000 for de limiting tho nucleus of an Appalachi an national forest barely passed con gress. Mr. D.i'-'ell of Pittsburg waa among those who voted against It in a desire to draw the lino somewhere on tho cranks of the agricultural de partment (and congress has to deal with so muny cranks that It gets con fused in separating tho sheep from the goats). That wa.i only last win- j ter. In the spring western Pennsyl vania suffered from a flood which cost ber several millions, and Secre tary Wil.sim, Pinchot's chief, In his dry, you-can't-dlspute-it way, told the Pittsburg chamber of commerce that more and worse floods might be ex pected until trees were growing again In deforested sections of the Alleghan ics. Probably no members from western Pennsylvania will err on this subject again. Even a member from central Kan sas, say forest experts, ought to have favored the appropriation from selfish Interest; for the price f his bureaus and tfliUles is affected by the price of hard woods. A forest policy is a pol icy for all. U brings an Innovation which Is as neci-ssary at. this stage of our country's growth as water mains ami seweis In certain stages of a town's. The delicate and the most difficult of Pinchot's task Is to make men see Its wisdom. In his hands congress has placed the power to Is sue permits for all timber cut, to name all conditions for Its cutting and for grazing in the national forests. When he sought, a force of administration for this service of to-morrow, he found that, the only trained foresters In the United States were from his own little school at Bllt.more, the school his father had lately estahllsh e dat Tale, and other schools wherj scientific students had paid attention to forest ry- "A dude In Washington Is to decide whether a man out In Idaho shall cut a stick of timber or not!" That was the natural war-cry f the great lim ber Interests. It. went home to the pioneer, bred of a race of pioneers that made clearings to plant corn and used to regarding tho forest as an en emy. But tho dude makes It a nil for himself and the responsible heads of tho service, to spend six months of the year "at the front," In turn the supervisors who are his officers In the field, one for each of the 150 forest, are brought to Washington. Under them are the forest rangers and the forest guards, who must be residents of the states where they serve. Any settler is entitled to firewood free; to graze his rows and horses on the forest domain adjoining his ranch. A ranger may sell $50vorth of timber without the consent of his supervisor; a supervisor $500 worth without the consent, of Washington. This avold3 delay In meeting Immediate cs'.Ih. The lumbermen' muni not leave blackened and unproductive hillsides; thye must not cut the small trees, a.nd they must leave strips uncut to per mit of reseedlng; they must not waste by high stumpage; they must pile the brush so It can be burned safely with out making forest fires. And a herd er must not graze ground wrfich needs a rest to pave It from ruin. C)uld any reasonable man object? Was It good lumhprlnp, in the name of ti e nation, to kill the sources of timbe,'? (tood grazing to kill the gra.s roots? However hard they come, a.t. him Pinchot purrs. An objection means an opportunity to spread light. Even abuse he accepts as an Inquiry. "The devil himself couldn't make a man who calmly plants trees ns a crop lose bis temper," to quote one of his enemies. "He belongs n the same category with Job." There is no reaching him by the or dinary "pull" routes. He is satisfied to know one thing well. It. Is no se cret that he might have had a cab inet office. Should Clncinnatus leave Ihe plow to be an alderman in Rome? Hardly. The savior of the trees sticks to his wood-lot; and there he has mora! force and the layman may scarcely expect to beat him in argu ment. Pinchot knew that if he had the settlers and the prospectors with him he must win his fight. Their sup port both he and his enemies sought; and his campaign documents is the use book. This he widely circulates in forest regions. Its name expresses the Idea Timber is for use, "no long er to he locked up, but opened up." Not through his rangers, but through the intelligent self-interest of tho people who li'-e in its neighbor hood he must guard the trees. If we had relatively as many rangers for the size of our national forests aa Ger many, they would form an army of 200,000 men. So 1,400 are as needles in a haystack. In the old days tho signboards the forest reserves emphasized penalty for starting forest fires on the as well as for stealing timber. Pvt the offender was in no danger of being caught, in the wilderness, and he knew it. The black-letter headline of the present signboard Is Caution Instead of Fine. It aims to make the reader realize that It is bis own forest which he may destroy If he leaves a camp- i 1V44 sj-iui? m v The Steinway Piano is monopolized by no class except the first class. The refined, the cultivated, the artistic, whether favored with dividends or obliged to practice economies, to gether make up the long roll of Steinway owners, admirers and devotees. Sold here exclusively by 1 Vcrlegrand, $550. fire smoldering or throws a lighted, match Into dry grass. As a working companion of the old accepted tenet of the pioneer (which frontier public opinion rifeidly enforc ed) about keeping a water-hole free from contamination we are to have another taught by the same common recognition of universal self-interest which Is to guard the forest. Protection and regulation form only a part of the service's work. Barren spaces are hein reforested, and In some cases where the ground is -good (inly for trees, being newly forested. Every one of the 150 forests has Its own small nursing and experiment station. Eight main planting sta tions have a maximum capacity of 7,000,000 trees a year. It costs from $1.50 to $3.25 to make the shoots ready for planting, and from $4 to $13 an acre to set them out. There the expense ends. Mother earth dates tho rest for future generations. Of the soils of the territory being opened to cultivation by our Irrigating projects, tho experts of the silvicul ture branch are making a special study Nor wHll they be hurried as they might if grain were the crop. It would bo trying to a young rancher to put in tho wrong seed for his fu ture wood-lot. and not find out his mistake until after his children weie grown up. Other experts are wholly occupied with wood utilization and preservation which mean3 making the most of the timber once It is cut. If one of a thousand trials succeeds, the experi menters' salary has been paid 100 times over. Tho more costly wood becomes the more important endur ance becomes. A creosoted mine tim ber has double the life of one untreat ed. Through the stove and furnace, tho seven or eight rents on every ton of anthracite coal, spent for timbering has an intfmate connection with ev ery citizen's pocket. A timber mag nate may argue that when our forests are exhausted American Ingenuity will find something to take the place of wood. "As well might we plant, no wheat for the next season," answers the for esters, "In the hope that before the year is out. a way of making bread out of weeds will be found." Enthusiasm may be a fault of the forest service, Some western sena tors think so. In time it might become too autocratic. With a corrupt or an incompetent, head forester Its power for evil would be enormous. But those young men travel a road wide open to criticism, and that danger Is not of the present. Wisdom would seem to require that the service be made per manent, with a retiring age and re tired pay. Then it will not fall into the ways of the grandfathers and grandmothers who typewrite and in dex while the red tape gently spins. Frederick Palmer in Collier's. SHE WAS NOT A IAWVF.R. At the hearings in Kingston for the, appointment of receivers for the sus pended Brooklyn banks this story was told on Edward M. Shepard. Mr. Shepard was trying a case and the first witness was a frail-looking woman from whom the lawyer expect ed no trouble. "And when did this happen?" ask ed Mr. Shepard. "I think " she began, when Mr. Shepard stopped her. "It isn't what you think, but what you know that we want," he said. "P-m't you want to know what I think?" asked the frail-looking wom an, mildly. "I do not." "Well, then," retorted the witness. "I might as well leave the witness stand; I can't talk without thinking; I'm not a lawyer." New York Sun. January Dividends WILL PURCHASE A NEW VERTEGRAND MODEL OF THE Supreme Steinway Piano The ffl. Steinert b Sons 777 Ohapol Street. XO DETECTIVES FOR HIM. A Kansas Farmer Who Had a Poor Idea of Sleuths. An elderly farmer from the neigh borhood of Marysville, Ks. was seated on the ehadv side of the Hotel Balti more, conversing Idly with a Kansas City acquaintance. He had been en gaged In trying to find some trace of a friend who recently disappeared from his home, but without, encutlrag Ing results. "Why don't you engage a good de tective?" queried the acquaintance. "Detective!" snorted the old man. "The very word makes me sick. I have 11 son who 1s a detective. He was a very good boy and promised to become an Industrious and prosperous farmer, until he became Infatuated vlth Sherlock Holmes and those other fellows who can examine a fcigar stub and unravel any sort of a duplex, back action mystery. He read an advertisement of some detective agency which wanted sleuth-hounds the worst waj-. Then he left home and a couple of weeks later sent me a photograph of himself with a big star on his bosom. lie wrote that he was on the trail of a gang of counterfeit ers and when he had them rounded up he'd get a reward of $5,000. Mean while he was busted, and unless I sent him $20 right away he'd have to go to a home for ths friendless. He had to pay $5 a week to the agency for the privilege of wearing that star, and his board and lodging cost some thing besides. "You have no idea how many young men are lured away from home by the glittering agencies. 'No experience necessary,' say the advertisements and young fellows who have saturated themselves with Nick Carter and Old Sleuth literature think they see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I could name half a dosen young fel lows of my own neighborhood who have been fleeced by these advertise ment sharks. "I suppose that there are good de tectives in tho world men of probity and acumen and devotion to their pro fession. I haven't seen many, but they wero all lame ducks The county I live in (Marshall) was swarming for months with detectives, trying to get to the bottom of a mystery that was no mystery at all. Something more than a year ago David Tennyson, a wealthy farmer and stockman, was murdered in his home near Frankfort. Ho was seated In his rocking chair, reading a newspaper by lamplight, when somebody shot through the window and blew the top of his head off. "For several months you couldn't throw a club In that vicinity without hiting two or three detectives, and these detectives were the real thing experts from Chicago and Kansas Citv and St. Iouis and elsewhere. They dug up a good many clues and looked extremely wise and then they all went away, leaving things just as they found them. And the mystery which they vainly attacked was so trans parent, from the beginning" that any constable in the county could have turned it inside out and jiung it on the line to dry in half a. day- If you wart t retain my affection and es teem you won't talk to me of detec tives." Kansas City Star. BVT ONE COFFEE DIAMOXP. Probably the greatest, novelty among gems is the brown or coffee diamond. There is only one of these of a genuine and flawless type in the world, so far as is known and this is the property of Mrs. E. A. Montgomery of San Francisco. The diamond was once the property of an Indian prince, but to reward an Englishman who saved his life he took from his hand the ring which $550 OF THE Co. Miniature ,-Grand, 8800. , held the diamond and placed . thla upon one of the .fingers of his savior, ' f The Englishman kept It for many yiears, frequently refusing large 'of fers for It, but finally he met Yeversea' '. and was forced to pare with the Jewel,, ' ! So It eventually came Into thepos ' session of the present, owner. The diamond weighs about tf l'-'Vw karats, and offers of amounts as liiu'5 as $50,000 have been refused " for : 'ft. Efforts hai-e been made ;al&o by Mrs. ' Mont.gqmeT to find a duplicate Of lt and, though she ti&d hJL a Standing; offer of $10,000 for a mate of the gem the holds none has ever been brought ' forward. ENTERTAINMENTS. HYPERION THEATER New Tear's Day, AV'etlnemlay, Jan, 1, . M VTINEE AND NIGHT." v " "THE SECRET ORCHARD." Channing Pollock's Wonderful Drama Great Broadway Cast and Production Resumes Itg Sensational Run In Astor Theater Next Week. Prices, $1.50, $1, 75C. 60c., 25c. Cam rlages at 10:50. . , .. .. RETURN ENGAGEMENT, By Special Request. ONE NIGHT ONLY, . FRIDAY, JANUARY 3. HARRY KELLY, ' ? With a New Uno of Laughs In- "HIS HONOR THE MAYOR.' PRICES $1.50, $1.00. 75c, 60a 25a Bpats now selling. ' Carriages at 10:50 Saturday Evening, Jan. 4. ' ' First Time on Any Stage. . ' THOS. W. RYLEY'S XEW MUSICAIi PRODUCTION, FUNABASHI By Irving S. Cobb and Stafford Waters, 'otabIo Cast Embracing Vera Michclena, William Rock,' Walter Pcrcival, Margaret Rutlcdge, Joseph Mfron, Maud Fulton, Percy Ames, Charles Butler,' and Alice Fisher. Added Cast of Debutante Ladles and . Beauty Chorus of ,1 00. Seat Orders, Jan. 1. .Prices : 25oi 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50. - Carriages at 11. MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY. Dec. 30, 31, Jan. 1. holiday Matinee, New Year's Day, The Melodramatic Hit, The t our Corners of the Earth." 20 BIG SCENES 20. 50 PEOPLE 50. REGULAR POPULAR PRICEa THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, January 2, 8, 4. MATINEE SATURDAY. ' LILIAN MORTIMER, In the Great Western Melodrama, "BUNCO IN ARIZONA." 5 TRAINED BRONCHOS 5 REGULAR POPULAR PRICES. POLI'S NEW THEATER ENTIRE WEEK OF DECEMBER SO. THE TEN NOVELLOS Fen! Clrctis Elephants. Ponies, Dona, Clowns .etc. Cpon n Theater Stage Mow Spertaeiilar Novelty of -the Season, 7 Other Big.' Attractions 7 POLI'S POULAR PRICES. Bijou Theater. SYLVESTER Z. POM, Proprietor, WEEK OF DECEMBER 30. BIJon Theater Stock Compnny "TRILRY." Poll's Popular Prices: 10c, 20c, 30e. evening prices prevailing. Other mat. ineps as uburi. Seats reserved In advance. Tel. SOU. it