One great advantage of having more than one scene set on the stage at one time is that the audience can look through a doorway from one scene to another, thereby giving a more natural and comprehensive view of the setting of the play. In "Strife," for instance, the audience could see beyond the room forming the scene in action into another room in which a meeting of capitalists was being held, the meeting being the subject of conversation in the first room. There is no end to the possibilities for naturalness in presenting a given action on the turn-table stage.

The New Theatre turn-table stage as it will be when completed for next sea

son will be so constructed that any section of it can be raised or lowered, separately or in conjunction with the other sections. In fact, it was so constructed in the beginning, but in its complete form it was not in working order. When completed it will be possible to build a scene on the first seven sections, for example, present it and then lower it into the cellar to a sufficient depth so that the eighth section, on which a scene has been set, may be driven forward sixty feet a minute to the front of the stage. Or, scenes can be set on any number of sections, according to the scene desired, and changed in the same

manner.

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HE first modern pack mule train ever to be seen in the East has been recently stationed at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, through the efforts of Colonel Hugh L. Scott, the superintendent. This up-to-date pack train, is just now affording surprising and interesting information as to the value and use of the pack system as a quick and almost indispensable method of transportation over mountains and pathless countries where wagons cannot travel.

The train consists of fifty pack mules, fourteen for riding, one chief packmaster, ten packers, one blacksmith, one cargador, one cook, one bell horse, and fifty aparejos, or Spanish pack saddles. It can keep up with cavalry on the march, and carries food, ammunition, medical supplies, tents, forage, axes, lanterns, buckets, cooking utensils and all the necessary apparatus belonging to a command that intends to move rapidly through the country.

In Indian campaigns the pack train has made fifty miles a day over country

without roads. The mules travel loose after "the bell" and can go wherever foot troops can travel.

Down near the Highland Falls end of the West Point grounds the new artillery stables stand, and it is there that the pack train has its quarters. Down there in the corral one finds transplanted a section of Western life in all of its picturesque aspects. The packers wear their cowboy clothes and did not discard their cowboy ways when they left the West.

One of the most interesting figures in the whole "outfit" is Dick the bell horse. Harnessed only with a halter, to which is attached an enormous bell, Dick walks at the head of the train, its undisputed leader. The horse goes wherever he is told and the whole file of trusting mules follow after, their long ears bent forward to catch the sound of the bell. Nor can they be either coaxed or persuaded to linger behind or deviate from the road. While on a practice march it was found necessary to stop two of the rear mules to adjust their loads better. The main pack went on, with Dick swinging his bell, and covered nearly half a mile.

in the interval. When the two mules were made ready they took to their heels, at the mad speed of racers, down the road, heedless of the 280 pounds on each of their backs, never stopping until they caught up with the main train.

West Pointers are daily being taught by the plainsmen how to throw ropes, set up and adjust the aparejos, or pack saddles, how to put the baggage in compact and permanent bundles that will not shake loose, and all the other details of adjustment and knot-tying necessary to the arranging of the load. The loading drill of the pack train is gone through with daily. The fifty mules with Dick in the van, take their respective places, forming a head-on line in front of the long row of aparejos. Each animal is numbered, as well as his equipment and blankets. The animals are then taken in pairs near the piled-up loads resting on a raised platform. Each mule is blindfolded during the operation of "throwing the diamond"-that is, the lashing of the load to the pack saddle. Two cowboys swing on the big bundles of baggage, and with mechanical precision some fifty feet of rope is wound

rapidly, binding and securing the pack, with only one simple knot at the last.

Each animal is let loose after loading and turned into the courtyard of the stables. Here they wander around and wait until the whole train is made ready. Then, with Chief Packmaster Hollandsworth on Dexter, his prime riding mule, and one of the mounted cowboys leading Dick, at the first tinkling of the bell every mule falls in line, and the pack train moves off.

When Lord Kitchener recently visited West Point, Colonel Scott took him to the corral. In order to show him the clean-cut system developed in the United States Army for handling baggage, he gave the order to the chief packer to load the train for a march.

In just fourteen minutes after the order had been given 13,000 pounds of ammunition and supplies had been packed on fifty mules, and the train was ready to start. Lord Kitchener declared it to be the most rapid and best drilled. transportation manoeuver he had ever

seen.

This particular group of animals saw actual service in Cuba during the second

HE dog, says the Turk, was created from the saliva of the Devil and from human flesh, and we therefore found under the old regime the Turk living in the street among his dogs, according them a dual recognition. In their fidelity, their courage, and ardent affection for man the Turk sees their human origin; in their mad anger and greed he sees their father, the Devil. He accords them a two-fold treatment likewise. He will put a bandage on a wounded cur, he will let a dog share his meal, he never disturbs the dog that lies sleeping, with Oriental fatalism, across

the most crowded thoroughfare-but he never allows a dog to enter his house. That is his sanctuary, and the dog is unclean. This was the Turk's creed before the merciless order came for the banishment of the dogs to the Isle of Oxia, and today it is his creed although the whole world has rung with the horrors of these exiled dogs on the lonely island of death.

The Turkish dog which has recently been banished from Constantinople, and the hordes of which have almost entirely disappeared from the Isle of Oxia somewhat resembled the common European wolf in color and size, and had a marked