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' An Indian Girl Sees the Sights In Chicago *
in a wigwam , and never
REARED outside the domains of
her reservation home , Lola-kola ,
liie "flower of the Kiowas , " first saw
strenuous civilization when she arived
in Chicago from Indian Territory a
few days ago. Her big black eyes
blazed with excitement and she trem
bled like a frightened fawn when ,
after alighting from a train , she
Etood amid the hurrying throng and
din of traffic at the Polk street sta
tion.
"O save me ! What in the world has
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
arm.
"Why , it Is nothing but the usual
noise of the city , " he assured her.
"The people are hurrying to and from
their work. The b"ells are of the trains
going and coming ; you hear the rolling
of vehicles over the pavements , the
trampling of horses' hoofs on the hard
stone streets , the rumbling of street
cars 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.
She 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 fallins down.
All was strange and bewildering to
Lola-kola. She had not proceeded fai *
when the lights of the city beamed
forth and she couldnot understand
how they could be lighted without
"flints" or matches. , She had never
Been 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 fire , "
Bhe said as she beheld them from a
distance , and on drawing nearer she
Bald : "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
she seemed charmed with new sur
roundings.
"It Is all so delightful , " she said"but
the nolseThat ! 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 the goat
and sheep show in Kansas City.
Mrs. Armer went about Tvith the
goat and sheep raisers with as much
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
Mrs. Armer stood ankle deep in the
sawdust of the stock yards when she
was approached in behalf of the Sun
day Post-Dispatch. Her hat wason
crooked , and 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
3Mtti ! JL3 ! !
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as much at home as a cat on the
Isle of Man. It Is a goat country.
There Is a great deal of acreage which
Is only valuable as pasture for these
thin-chinned grazers , for whom the
grasses cannot grow too short or too
tough. There are many thousands of
goats In the neighborhood of Kings
ton. Mrs. Armer alone has a thousand
of them. She Is one of three women
in that part of the state who have
engaged In the goat Industry , and who
Is the best known , having the largest
flocks and attending the goat and
cheep shows as an exhibitor , seller and
buyer.
LOLA KOLA
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 as 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
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made at the show. She took a buck
at $1,050 and a doe at $220 , both fine
animals , for her Arizona flocks.
"I went into goat raising for two
good reasons , " said Mrs. Armer. "I
wanted to make money , and goats are
a profitable stock in our part of the
country. I started twelve years ago.
I had at first but a few Garst goats
of the Peters flock. These were well
known goats in the southwest a few
years ago. I have Increased my flock
until I-have now1,000 goats. I have
sold 100 goats here.
"I am not the only woman In Ari
zona engaged In the goat nldustry , but
girls. Her home is In an Indian set
tlement in the 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 Kirkwood. Mr. Kirkwood , who
accompanied her on her trip to Penn
sylvania , 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
other women inthe _ business at Kings
ton , but they have about 300 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 some
youngsters which will win ribbons. "
WITH THE FUNNY MAN.
Blobbs Harduppe is given to ex
aggeration. He overdraws everything.
Slobbs Yes , even his banK account.
"Why does she use mourning sta
tionery ? " "Oh , she's done that ever
since one of her epistles went to the
deadletter office. "
"My pa , " said the bright little boy ,
"is always taken at his face value. "
"Is thatso ? " "Yes ; he's the bearded
lady in the museum. " (
Goldrox How is my boy getting on
with his studies ? I hope you find him
quick. Cbllege Professor Well er
.ie certainly is fast.
Wealthy Bachelor Your daughter
tells me she is a good cook. The
.Mother Oh , yes. But she has to live
ivith her to fully appreciate what she
jan do.
Mr. Newlywed My dear , this sponge
jake seems rather hard to cuU Mrs.
Xewlywed There ! I knew that hate-
"ul druggist had sent me tough
sponges.
Wiggins There is one good thing
about Bjones ; he never speaks ill of
his neighbors. Waggins I suppose he
is afraid 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
an idiot has been restored to his right
mnid by a clevah 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 , " answeretl the
green policeman. "I've just been ap
pointed to the force and I wanted to
get my hand in. "
"In your vermiform appendix , " the6
surgeon told him after the operation
was over , "we found , strange to say ,
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a small brass tack. " "That proves !
was right , " feebly answered the sick
man , "when I said it was something
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I had eaten In mince pie. "
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: Boer Scout Escapes British and Lands Here , :
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Johannes Wennips , 19
ANDRIES old , six feet tall , born a
Boer , and for six months a scout
under Botha , Joubert and De la Rey ,
has escaped through the British army
and come to St. Louis.
Young Wennips 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 Cape , 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 gov
ernment.
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 Wennips
came no sqldier of fortune with any
such experience was walking the
streets of St. Louis.
Wennips 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 flred on him , 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.
His 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 July , 1900Wen-
nips , just returned from an exhaust
ive ride , was asleep in 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 wast
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 me 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 I had just
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-
ey I had and turned me over to a
Scotch guard.
I was taken in the morning. That
night I determined to get away. The
prisoners were to be divided 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 suspected me to be a
scout-and so many people not loyalto
us knew me to be a Boer scout that I
appreciated my danger. , ,
My guard drank quite a good deal
durnig the day , and at night he was
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 onlyN26 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't you let me go ? '
With that I slipped a half crown
Into his hand , and he 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
&U the outskirts. It seemed to be that
best chance lay in finding a place
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The Automaton Was Alive *
automaton which has been
THE 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 thing ,
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 the face to satisfy them that the
figure was a real man , and not an au
tomaton. For the most part , they
waited In vain. They seemed to see
the faintest movement of the eye or a
twitch of the lips , but the langer they
remained and watched , the more con
vinced were they that it was a delu-
ion.
Those who were on hand when the
engagement of the automaton closed
aw him I.or the real thing. At 8:14
o'clock Mr. Grunewald entered the
bow window , opened a.bottle . of
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
also In the city. We were seeking ah
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
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-1
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 desiring to go to Cape
Town in order to be out of harm's way
during the war. He permitted us to
boai'd 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 o being
blown up at any moment , and in ad
dition to that we were in danger of
betraying our pro-Boer sentiments ev
ery day. The crew and soldiers had a
holy terror of Dewet. Thy expected
him every minute. He seemed to
hang 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 glass 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. Howard Hill. He
has been an artists' model for fifteen
years. He must stand alone in his
class , for he has such a control of his
nerves and muscles that no other
man is known to have. He has been
sitting for two hours at 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 the 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 the cham
pagne drinking attributable to some
mechanism. Even then many were not
satisfied ; they tried to get inside and
feel of him as he walked. But when
he turned about and engaged in con
versation , when his entire body re
laxed , then , and only then , the most
skeptical were satisfle.d.
train told us , Dewet was ahead , D *
wet was just to the right or left- *
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 aa
he chose. My father and I had many
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quiet laughs in our sleeves at these
frightened Englishmen. fit rather
opened our eyes to the British appre
ciation of our generals.
We had no desire to remain at Cape
Town and looked about for opportuni
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 regiment
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 enougbt
Spanish or Dutch to know Which K ,
used.
I reached London and let the big
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 th
itcket I had bought from the South ,
American. I made he trip without in
cident and . will stay here where I am
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safe. If I thought there was a pros
pect of reaching the Boer armies with
out being picked up I would just aa
soon go back to Southi Africa. But
the war there Is in such a state that
unless one is in the interior with the
Boer armies he must run a great rish
of being captured , much more of v
risk , in fact , than he runs once he Li
in the country.
Puck : Mrs. Newlywed Oh , motherl
John said this morning I was on *
woman in a hundred. Her Mother
I see In that no cause for tears. Mrs.
Newlywed But , mother , he used to
say I was one woman in a thousand !
FRILLS OF FASHION.
Wide gauntlet cuffs
are seen on
many of the new gloves for women ,
particularly those of heavy pique.
The Angora dot , so called because
It is white and fluffy , is in. evidenco
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.
I.n addition to ermine , caracul.broad-
tail , astrachan and many other skins
in white are utilized by fashionable
milliners for trimming purposes.
Pineapple albatross a weave that
suggests a combination of the ordi
nary albatross and
crepon with a
silky , shimmery surface , is particu- .
larly effective for house gowns.
The adoption of the low coiffure has
been followed In Paris by the revival
o fthe fashion of
wearing the hair
loosely incased In a net attached to a
velvet band. This
style of coiffure is
worn only in the house.
Fur toques are relieved by trimming
of flowers , an effective mink model
showing facing of yellow and white
chrysanthemums. Dahlias and
came-
lias are used on many of the new fur
hats.
Lace gowns embellished with em
broidery are among the most favored
for evening wear. One beautiful tarn-
