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An Indian Girl Sees the Sights In Chicago, ; : Boer Scout Escapes British and Lands Here ...... ..... ' ...w ! r - i I . 4 s 1 - i. '1 u ft; ; V , REAHED In a wigwam, and never before outside the domains of her reservation home. Lola -kola, lle "flower of the Kiowa)," first saw strenuous civilization when she arived In Chicago from Indian Territory a few days ago. Her big black eye biased, with excitement and she trem bled like a frightened fawn when, iter alighting from a train, she flood amid the hurrying throng and tlon. "O save me! What in the world hat happened? Are all the big buildings burning, or are the people fighting with one another?" she asked of her paleface escort, clinging tightly to his "Why, It is nothing but the usual Boise of the city," lie awured her. "The people are hurrying to and from their work. The bells are of the trains going and coming; you hear the rolling of vehicles over the pavements, the trampling of horses' hoofs on the hard tone streets, the rumbling of street ears along the iron rails, the clanging of gongs, the cries of newsboys and venders and other sounds that go to make up the constant turmoil, which only sounds strange to you because you are not accustomed to it." Still more frightened was the pretty Indian girl when she walked out and saw the street cars dashing along without apparent means of locomotion. Bhe nearly jerked from her escort and started to run when a racing auto mobile darted past them. They pro ceeded up State street toward the heart of the city, and it was with difficulty that she could be induced to go further when the elevated trains with their accompaniments of deafen ing noise rolled above her head at Van Buren street. She thought the buildings were falling down. All was strange and bewildering to Lola-kola. She had not proceeded far when the lights of the city beamed forth and she could not understand how they could be lighted without "flints" or matches. She had never seen lights so bright, and she said they were like the sun. She was mys tified at the flashing electric signs. "See! They write their signs in Are," she said as she beheld them from a distance, and on drawing nearer she aid: "No, it looks as if they made them from the stars that they have! plucked from the heavens." After a time the Indian girl's fright gave way to mere wonderment and j the seemed charmed with new sur roundings. , "It to all so delightful," she said, "but ; the BOtseiThat I could not endure long. It would drive me mad. But the Woman Raises Angora Goats in Arizona, Mrs. Mary Armer.an Arizona woman who raises Angora goats, has attract ed considerable attention at tne goat and sheep show in Kansas City. . Mrs. Armer went about with the (oat and sheep raisers with as ranch interest In goats and everything per taining to them as the biggest goat raiser among them. She brought with her a fine lot of fleecy youngsters she had raised herself on her ranch In Arizona, and she sold these at a good price. Mrs. Armer comes from a part of the country where the Angora goat Is l ll l I I l -IT - TJH r, nn W t r ma? AMtm amp mat, lao amocka. ocx. at hams as a eat on the 3a of Mu It to a goat country. nJI to great deal of acreage which tJ czSr alaaMe as pasture for these CXm6, wnmn. for whoa the CXzm MM grow Mo swart or too trrW XUrt art many thowsaads of f Hear am has a rU Clii m W Ora ' i rrt t CM Kat 9t kar . -i - toftrj Ct tacwt 1 i -zi rj crt axi t UtJii-rrJkCfaaj VFLOWEE CF THE KlQWAL bright, beautiful city. I never thought there was anything like it on earth. It reminds me of the Jerusalem the Christians have taught me about." "You are the first person that ever compared Chicago to heaven," her es cort responded. ' "Then men are so fair and the wo men all so handsome," the Kiowa girl continued. "I know an Indian girl like me must look frightful to such people aa these." She next wondered If people lived in the top of the tall buildings and wanted to know how they climbed so high until her guide took her to the top of the Masonic Temple in an ele vator. Lolo-kola was in Chicago on her way to Carlisle, Pa., where she is to attend a private school for Indian ; Mrs. Armer stood ankle deep in the sawdust of the Ftock yards when she was approacneu in i" of ili Sun day Post-Dispatch. Her hat was on crooked, arid the sawdust of the com mercial arena had settled upon her dress. But she didn't heed such tri fles. She was more interested In the blue, red and yellow ribbons pinned on her basque. These were the win nings of her Angora kids, and Mrs, Armer wore them proudly. The extent to which Mrs. Armer in vests in thoroughbred stock Is indi cated by two purchases which she made at the show. Hhe took a buck at 11.060 and a doe at $2M. both One animals, for her Arizona flocks. "I went Into goat raising for two good reasons,'' said Mrs. Amor. "I wanted to make money, and goats are a pro table stock In our part of the ooaatrjr. I started twslo rears ago. I kavo at trot out a few Oarst goats of the Peters lock. These wore wait kaowa goats la the southwest a fw raara aa. I have Inoreaoso asy lack aar I kava aow MM goats. I bars "t aa mTum oaiy wosaaa la Arl- v t"iii-.jcrr i Ml: I " A - la the goat aHaatf y, hat girl. Her home Is In an Indian set- ! tlement in t'..? Kiowa reservation near Anadarko. I. T. There she has lived all her life of nineteen years. She is the daughted of Tuckewano. a Kiowa chief, who Is said to possess consider able wealth The girl spent several days in Chicago visiting the family of Elmer Klrkwood. Mr. Klrkwood, who accompanied her on her trip to Penn sylvanla. Is a friend of the Kiowa chief, with whom he is interested In several nivestments. While in Chi cago Lola-kola was given a ride in an automobile, dined at some of the lead ing hotels, was taken to a theater and shown all the principal sights of the city. There can be no dead member in a living church. I am perhaps more extensively engag ed than anyone else. We have two ether tremor, in the bu:rfr.- st Kings ton, but they have about $00 goats and do not come out to the market and shows. "I went to Kingston when it was a silver mining camp. My husband was a miner, I have been married twice, and have raised nine children, prin cipally by my own efforts. I am now in a position to handle my stock in numbers and deal in the finest thor oughbreds. I have made some pur chases here this week that will enable me to appear next year with soma youngsters which will win ribbons." WITH THE FUNNY MAN. Blobbs Harduppe is given to ex aggeration. He overdraws everything. Slobbe Tes, even bis ban it account. "Why does the use mourning sta tionery?" "Oh, she's done that ever since one of her epistles went to the deadtetter office." "My pa," said the bright little boy, "is always taken at his face value." "Is that so?" "Yes; he's the bearded lady in the museum." Goldrox How is my boy getting oa with his studies? I hope you And him quick. Cfollege Professor Well r k certainly Is fast. . Wealthy Bachelor Your daughter tells me she is a good cook. The Mother Oh, yes. ' But she lias to live vith her to fully apprectnte what she an do. Mr. Newlywed My dear, this sponge ake seems rather hard to cut. Mrs. N'fwlywed There! I knew that hate ,'ul druggist had sent me tough -ponges. Wiggins There Is one good thing xbout BJones: he never speaks ill of his neighbors. Wagglns I suppose h is afraid his neighbors may know Just as much about him. Markley No; I don't like Borrows. Parkley Why, I understood you to; say you thought a great deal of him. Markley No; I merely think of him a great deal. He owes me money, "Did you notice, Miss Sharp, that in Idiot has been restored to his light mnid by a rlevah surgeon?" "Yes. Mr. Flutterby, I noticed the item and was Just going to call your attention to It." "For what did you arrest this man?" queried the magistrate sternly. "For practice, your honor," answered the green policeman. "I've Just been ap pointed to the force and I wanted to get my hand In." , la your rorattform appendta," ths svrgeo told Mot after the sasrattsa was orer, "ws found, strange to aay, a assail brass tack." "That proves I was right,'' fosbty answersd ths stek asaa. "whoa I aaJd It was I had taua la ANDRIE8 Johannes Wennlps, 1 years old, six feet tall, born a Boer, and for six months a scout under Botha, Joubert and Ie la Key, has escaped through the British army and come to St. Louis. ' Toung Wennlps is a typical fighter of the veldt, who has out-Danieled Daniel. Captured by the British at Pretoria, he bribed a guard and escap ed through the lines to make his way to Cape Town. Reaching the Cftp, he bought a return pass from a South African muleteer, and was brought to America via England In an English ship at the expense of the British government-It is unlikely that any other scout of the Dutch generals ever fell Into the hands of the enemy In this bitterly contested war and lived to tell of it. It is quite certain that until Wennlps came no soldier of fortune with any such experience was walking . Ui streets of St. Louis. Wennlps looks like a Boer. He has the distinctive features of a Holland er, and his eyes are blue. He has been a fighter four years, marching with Joubert into the Kaffir country when he was only 15. Now he is a hardened fighting man. British bullets have knocked him down; British pick ets have fired on htm. and British cavalrymen have given him a gallop for his life in the hills. The course of events has been a furious procession In that part of the world where this voung man was raised. Like all youths In the Transvaal, young Wennips can ride and shoot. Hjs education may be a little remiss in some things, but in these it is first class. His ability to look out for him self made him a valuable man on the staff of the Boer chief of scouts, and he did scout duty for all the four prin cipal leaders under Dewet. On the fourth day of Juiy, lSOO.Wen nips, Just returned from an exhaust ive ride, was asleep In a Pretoria ho tel. His home had been broken up at the outset of the war, his mother and sister being sent to relatives in Hol land. The young man's story of what happened him that day Is a novel tale of adventure. He told it to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as follows: "I fell In the hands of the British July 4, 1900. I had lain down in my clothes to get a little sleep, and was awakened by a rush Into the place. I had a revolver in my belt, but It would have been suicidal to have used It, for a half dozen soldiers were on ine in an Instant "I was a scout, and it was a serious thing for a scout to fall Into the ene my's hands. Fortunately 1 had Just j returned from a trip and had nothing Incriminating upon me. The English ' searched me for papers, and, finding none, they returned me the little mon- j ey I had and turned me over to a Scotch guard. j I was taken in the morning. That night I determined to get away. The prisoners were to be dtvjded into class, es, the active combatants to be sent to Helena, and the Boer sympathizers not fighting to be placed under guard in the city, and the scouts and sus pected scouts to be held for disposi tion of their cases by higher officers. I knew they suspect! d me to be a scout, and so many people not loyalto us knew me to be a Hoer scout that 1 appreciated my danger. My guard drank quite a good deal durnlg the day, and at night he wa feeeling pretty good. I began bar gaining with him as soon as darkness came. I knew he had little or no money, for the Scot guards were get ting only : cents a day. Finally I got an opportunity to talk to him. "You sing like a good fellow." "Ye may bet I'm a goot fellow." "Then why don'jt you let me go?' With that I slipped a half crown late his hand, and be did permit me to steal away. Once free in the city, I concluded the worst thing I could do would be to leave town. There were many British soldiers around, and sentries patrolled sJl the outskirts. It seemed to be that gay host chance lay In finding a place rsrHi automaton which has been! J holding forth In the show win dow of a store in New Orleans for the past two weeks, Is not an au tomaton, but a live one, the real thin;, and that was demonstrated to the sat isfaction of the public, Mr. Gunewald, the proprietor, announced to the pub lic that the figure In the window would drink a glass of wine with him. The crowds which had gathered about the show window at different times during the week were on hand at the appointed hour with their friends, and they were so many that they stretched far out In the street. Men and women had crowded against the show window and remained for what seemed to be an Interminable time, waiting for some show of life In tho face to satisfy them that the figure was a real man, and not an au tomaton. For the most part, they waited la vain. They seemed to see tho faintest movement of tho eye or a twltea of to lips, but the laager they rsnulnii aad watahod, tho mors con vinced wars they that It was a dela- who war aa hand whoa the of tho aatosaatoa closed Ma far ths roat thiag. At 1:11 Mr. OfwaowaM aatarod ths a battto of o-oo t The Automaton Was Alive, to stay and putting on a bold front. If none of the townspeople gave me away I would be pretty safe, for the British soldiers would not have known me from any other harmless mer chant's clerk found without-arms and permitted the freedom of the city. I acted upon this plan, and It proved a success. I remained there day after day, and, though reported escaped, I was never apprehended. My father, who was a merchant in Pretoria, was aiao in the city. We were seeking an opportunity to render some service to the Boer cause. It was a time when friends of the, Boer army on the Inside could render much valuable service. There was no communication between the town and the Boer armies in the I field. Mrs. Kruger was there, and so was the wife of General Louis Botha. These and other persons desired to get news out of Pretoria My father an l I thought of a plan to get messages through the line. There were some Dutch butchers with English passes that went out of the city every day for meat. My father and I found these men and gave them a round of rum that enabled us to buy their passes for a little. We turned them over to a Boer leader in the city, and he sent messengers In many directions with them. Knowing that this would get us Into serious trouble when the butchers re covered and reported the disappear ance of the passes my father and I hastened to leave. We Informed the British commander that we were non combatants deelrlng to go to Cape Town In order to be out of harm's way during the .war. He permitted us to board a southbound train, and after seven days and nights we reached Cape Town. That train ride from Pretoria to Cape Town was a dangerous one In more ways than one. In the first place we were in danger of . being blown up fit any moment, and in ad dition to thst we were In danger of betraying our pro-Boer sentiments ev ery day. The crew and soldiers had a holy terror of Dewet. They expected him every minute. He seemed to tmng over them like a sword, and they Imagined they felt It on the backs of their necks every time the train pass ed a hill or a wood. If we were to believe what the Englishmen on the champagne, set a glnss on the Apollo, which the automaton performed on. The automaton winked at the crowd, reached for the glass, drank the wine, and then there was a yell on Canal street which could have been heard at the river front. The young man who poses as an automaton is F. Hqward Hill. He has been an artists' model for fifteen years. He must stand alone In his class, for he has such a control of hln nerves and muscles that no other man is known to hove. He has been sitting for two hours st night and two hours In the afternoon for the past two weeks, playing the Apollo, and during the time while he was at work he never moved an eyelash or gave thg slightest movement to his lips. The most difficult part of this work was to move the eyes as the body moved, keeping the eyes fixed. Many were the people who did not be lieve their eyes when Mr, Hill got up and walked. They believed tho cham pagne drinking attributable to some mechanism. Kvsa then many were not fU lofted; they tried to get Inside and fool of him aa ho walked. Bat when ho turned about and engaged In con versation, whoa his snOra body re laaod, then, aad only then, tho aost skertleal wars MUoflod. f 1 . train told us, Dewet was ahead, TMIm wet was JuBt to the right or left or Dewet blocked the way In front. They seemed to think It nothing impossible that the flying Boer might overtake the train and run rings around It as he chose. My father and I had many quiet laughs In our sleeves at these ffilghtened Englishmen. It rather opened our eyes to the British appre ciation of our generals. We had no desire ! remain at Capo Town and looked abouTTor opportune ties to get away. I found a muleteer, Joe Alphonso, from Buenos Ayres, in South America, He had come over on a British ship and the British govern ment had given him a return ticket by way of London. A British regimen was going home on a ship that would sail In a few days. I did not particu larly like the prospect of being detect ed as a Boer on a British ship loaded with British soldiers, but I took the chance and bought the South Ameri can's return ticket I made the trip as a Spaniard. The English aboard were too glad with the prospect of getting home to give me enough atten tion to discover that I was a Dutch man. I could not speak a word of Spanish, but the English were no bet ter off. They didn't know enough Spanish' or DuU:ii iO lifw w 2 used. I reached London and let the biff city swallow me Just as quick as It could. I made my way over to Hol land and there I visited my mother and sister. After a while I determin ed to visit the United States with the Itcket I had bought from the South American. I made he trip without In cident and will stay here where I ant safe. If I thought there was a pros pect of reaching the Boer armies with out being picked up I would Just as soon go back to South- Africa. But the war there Is In such a state that unless one is In the Interior with tho Boer armies he must run a great risk of being captured, much more of a risk. In fact, than he runs once ho h) In the country. Puck: Mrs. Newlywed Oh, mother! John said this morning I was ona woman In a hundred. Her Mother I see In that no cause for tears. Mr. Newlywed But, mother, he used t cay I was one woman In a thousand I FRILLS OF FASHIOI. Wide; gauntlet cuffs are seen on many of the new glorsa for womea. particularly those of heavy pique, Thn Angora dot, so called because It is white and fluffy, to In evidence meshes and chiffons. Jewel boxes In the form of minia ture dress suit cases are a novelty. They are to be had In different shades of leather and are velvet lined. In addition to ermine, caracul, broad tail, astrachan and many other skins In white are utilised by fashionable milliners for trimming purposes. Pineapple albatross a weave that suggests a combination of the ordi nary albatross and crepon with a silky, ahlmmery surface, to particu larly effective for house gowns. The adoption of the low coiffure has been followed In Paris by the revival o fths fashion of wearing the halt loosely Incased in a net attached to a velvet band. This style of coiffure la worn only In the house. Fur toques are relieved by trimming of flowers, aa effective mink model showing facing of yellow and whlto chrysanthemums. Dahlias and rams lias are used oa many of tho new far hats. Laos gowas embellished with am broidery are among tho most favored far tvsnlBf wear. One beautiful tam bour laos robs la embroidered wh tan executed with bhte aad wlua thread aad showing May atatara af gold Uwaad. " "i".y . ' .1