PRICE 10 CENTS FIFTY-SIX PAGES. THEATRES-^ CIRCUSES PARKS FAIRS AEoaseBJeDt Weekly REGISTERED IN UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Volume XXL No. 41. CINCINNATI-NEW YORK-CHICAGO October 9, 1909. M *4 & vsr w ¥IU fm lyi AA ANNA HELD. IN MISS INNOCENCE. I THE LATEST MUSIC FOR PLAYER AND ELECTRIC PIANOS W. are headquarters for all the latest ON SPOOLS AND ENDLESS ROLLS novelties. Send for our catalogue on AL.C. FIELD Confetti. Cane.s. Knives, Carnival Ooods, Rubber Balls, Rubber and Gas ■ PRICE, 50 cts. to $1.50 Per Roll Balloons. GREATER : 60 pieces, so new every month, that Canes they are old by the time others produce We are exclusive agents for Cincinnati MINSTRELS and vicinity for 1. Eisenstein & Co. them. Send for Catilogues and Bulletins. Prices in Cincinnati same as in New A brilliant ending of the 23rd, an auspi York. UlMITED STATES MUSIC CO.. cious opening of the 24th. L«rc..t Makers In tha World. THE GOLDSMITH TOY IMPORTING CO., 1939-4S IM. Western Ave.. CHICAGO, G. S.A. 122 E. 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Two brothers were born and, kneeling, makes their wish known, which is instantly gratitted. and had lived all their lives on the big range country of Southeast Montana. It looks as though a merry time is in store for Dr. Cook and Commander __^ _ _ _ They both having worked for the cele- Peary, as Bailey and Austin’s claim for the honor is well nigh unassailable, i ~ brated. - L.- O.- Ranch, which comprises and they are confident, when they go before a jury made up of the world’s j-' , i an area of forty miles square, where Arctic scientists, that they, and they alone, will be awarded all the honor and , ' ' ^ _ ; • ,![ ■ thousands of cattle and horses are glory as being the first to discover The Top o’ th’ World. r kept. Neither of these boy had ever , ■ y- •^een a building that had anything but ^ ' '.i:;."; - }_ r ' a dirt roof on it until the fall of 1908, E. Arthur Richardson, manager of the Edwin J. Hadley Company : I ’ ■ I’''.'” — when the elder of the two was sent of a funny set to he had with a country manager. ii! . I .:'.i _ f‘* Chicago with a consignment of cat- Mr. Richardson having an open night decided to fill it under the au - -- - J—- * . tie, comprising 7,000 or 8,000 head. of the local brass band in W-. ^ He, never having seen the sights of a After making satisfactory arrange- I city, was given the privilege by the foreman and all the principal things ments with the band, he approached I f — of intere.st were shown him the manager of the “opery," who was -- k?"* Of all sights, the Masonic Temple Interested him most, and after return- also town constable, village post- - Ij*?' ir j range country he called all his cow-punching friends together, master, auctioneer and sexton of the * | including hLs brother, and began relating his experiences in the great metrop¬ olis and of the sights he had seen. They listened with intense interest to his “Can I have next Saturday night for minute description of the tall buildings. After he had described the height the band?’’ asked Richardson. “ of his favorite, the Ma.sonlc Temple, giving the number of stories, each one “Yes, if yew wanter pay the price,” ... of them a certain height, and the total making 28 storie.s, his brother, taking replied the long-whiskered hermit. a pencil and figuring the fotal height, turned to his brother, and said: "Now, “How much for one night, Mr. Green?” look here. Bill. If this here buildln’ is as high as you tell for. how in h- “Waal, we don’t rent it by the night, we rent it by the hour.” Mr. Rich¬ ardson turned his back long enough to suppress a smile, and replied.