Republican News Journal. (Newkirk, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1902 Page: 2 of 8
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Great Engineering
peats of the Time
Sera* Uiondcrs That fD«n 1c ficetsmp!i*hjfig in All
Quarters of the Uiorld
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tuner! if t*» b»e- ptopo**d to throw
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atr-kt an ?li ttrn popaicat pro*-
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GOSSIP OF THE ATHLETES
AND THE SPORTS
CXihtat Ls Doing in B lliards. Baseball, CyeLng ltd
Pugilistic Cireles. >
“Dor* tfce pibiie r^a"y kaow wfcetb- j
-r or tot .*. 'tea r-i to «>:*• ;'-o? rata
it bill _ar<d* or
A«ias
•j»r
»ni airf »*»t 5r».•-•■ ri‘ v*
> >*tp*r n preportio:. titi Cr.ttos't
i.I',* o o If WV/rf. -'b.
fit Otrttat * xperor *
project, ,S</rlli*rt I'-att
eeariy !<r»e! plait tfcrotf?
p>.at, rlr»r» r.'erp towari
ir« Hjr «(*a»elf»Jf ft»M
of *1* ratios r/yrata »n
eiita" r» .. ve pr!*;<»•;
plrtei! xl* ***'*tu v, i
'//; '//' It tti'. - f o»
)*ar*
l.» '.uni a>4 I,«abef.
More that 2*0 year* ago Utti i XJV
of Krar.re rieif );.* Atlas' ' ar.<f
Mr-ifit*-rat»ai oy <t* I-s;./ ''a t
of ll4. it .'*, 2///> rt .e* of *ie
»a-s** ?
a i* a *ast,
*&:«&
!ke X«>rtii
a; rfce (seal5
oa • •■'al.o-rt
Wbea '-ors-
ba»* to*’ VA,-
btitfc'd ;t 35
Tbr*
«*■ r.ers * • •
tie El'-st
co«a t;
Sio»r as road-
Kith. Th* Pa
M»* <o » i ro
io»s *be sraek
'? T»H*
r»trr*J atd fia,-
r'>4'» i*Te :t*pr*d a
i V. d a re froit Seattle to
a»- t i >.-.'t ie traiy part
*rr >■ }>tr-? atrai! aid
Katr-a a * » to Jail *ie
A :.etT*e p'at lie*
A sierleas eotr*e»» it
ider * proponed road
7, * . f 7 1 e cor ’ • e r. •
. -J?r. Met »0 a- i ■ te
o tn»t ’-*i fs'ti 'a
< It noo.iJ be '.»
road is the world,
eeeoold be o!f’Ized.
»-• woo id - • «• h-sdredt of tr-!l-
i P-.-f • : > of ’he rr *e wo Bid 'rr
. bst at other* wocid tea t y
able for pr »'a (Wrp.tef ltd lorjr-
:*• tra»ei * eit hardly be boi.t without
jfueerr :r.ef>* / .vr^tteea.
♦ Maflroab a* a t*ar Meaiare.
fieraa; i after mar. ejt •*» to 'he
»o at of Turkey, fca* permix n to
! from the B/-jjor »
ctioople to the periias;
bit Karatrac. Tar*-:*
%
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<
!
1
1
•be
Par
but
we!
»a!>
.'.r ?e*.t ■
> lilt :?
short rust made
it a c.ffioult ityle
of pameT* naked
Oaartpiofi Jacob
Schaeffer ovr ;.?i
recent “fats i t p
b e e.” “Tin it-
ci..'.ed to tkitk
that there are
maty who wooid
nerer prow weary
of e-eeit? the £.':t-
a*» expert* rat-
tle Off *f.e JV, t. t ft.
pror ding the at hor were barred."
S» haefer wa» six'll! what style of
. ..taro* be would recommend to take
■he place of lvt.ocL ba.it tit* “to *h«t
ia.“
I r-% h&trl * Ohh o'
tt r - 'a-
“Why tot Try the
anked the w.zard of
drew two lice* biw
each way. "Here i*
teier be-tt given a
in a tourney, and ye-
experl* game.'
tbe ivoriee, as he
rtlng the table
a game that fca*
public exhioit.on
it combine* all of
Coroe'.t" hi! so isrewi itiical
g’es -* :o “mitkre h.~ ~ 3e *«:-
•irrec from a.sffrtiiti—from hi* hese
nhere h.-> = *:er, i pers ftes: te_tv*r
•i- view that one ray rer hr:tier
would be a little t ig i 'ie laic cf
p./.it*. The gem:, zg he cse oicied
it' door ?*o Bo'twe,. Ei "ttec i.zt ;st
he hid—at: f. W th -er
left he i • red itoner ramcl.r? hoife,
: ill. 'i. r . .f~y. p.ftted hi*
forfel' aid ‘it to CciSfctirot to
t li: for 'he bat: e thit nrcugh: him
feme a r.s»ct . -t d ;f irter aid
many opportunities • . make more. ■o
■ io ':. i g f offer- f-. m a ». *e if
•.-! to ai • is h jiitire: “Tie wc r' J
1 . ve * * wirier it: ! goes.* I Vrow :t
ah -' as we . i* -he sen cce.’ pi.lo-
st phleally remarked Yottig Corbett.
To ali pleader* for a costest wits him
he woo.: say: “IVa-t wicil my frlerc*
. - .- *e ;
■'•? ea*y v ,t»v s- ^ - xye ;-a
popular
old c.::y
r-e: ‘s of rr -y who save gtse bef.-e
Champion Corbett.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
The ecEtesrlal aiaiver*ary of the
d- ilcatio* of Schraaiensurg Petv
f.crm.ee thcreh, Dnmoct. X. J.. t*a*
e- r crated recently. The church is
iir tame to-day a* it wa* when it
»!• twill a'century ago, save f r an
extessic-s. and among its treasure*
•1- me iEaie which wa* used by the ;
£r*t pastor.
Ser. Father McGu re. pastor of a
I..:is: Catholic church in Long
Ift-asc City, fiid.ng that a cumber of j
ZnTttizs habitually left the church
after mass asd just before the col-
let ticn *ti taken up. caused the
cocrs of the cclfice to be !<-?ked re-
cently tinml service was over, and j
tare thai 21 peop’t who tried to es-
cape before the plate came around
were ccnsp cuccsiy unable to do so. j
There are of the Anglican commun-
es tie empme of Japan six oish- ;
51 aLi'ltiuws. 15 lay workers, 1
: :i
<p*
V. n». a * me ~ The s-cccei
■ cf -.hi new champ:cr 1c i s
' bat a repetition of the *xpe-
M vfc J
: Bagdad; it would
convey pze-
-m to the Indian or
*ic qn>»•r
•;.►» 'in. g •.» Rr!)
> ;j xuarr.eri.
Thf !
i;•» 7.500 »•:>* '
bj-*-3CH grea’
cru***** T ?r.
•* aid Eu-
r”1 ®
ten, of At‘-fit fan.
*; wander*
th-oi
: :'h M * > -■ :r' a;
tear* tbe
■ of B: .. ■■:>] IT* ry.
, the Garden
of K;
!**n. 'he place of the *
rk. tbe horr *
of 3 • 5***7 U. d- .:'•-.
A* i he ►. ul-
•y**d interest, the road
at once In eplte of Ger-
:al depremior. Hut—
t.a»her eye • r. the I'ers.ac
*he hopes to reach by •
;n the flauraen*. Great
fai'.r ve. of the
compensation
Rhode-'
tkc oiMt*r cuttE«* cut or tm* p/.h*m* cahal.
nie* by ng loio *Ue m a a u.uun-
Mitt trow the tooil, thus fw.filling (he
t'ripmral phru * * The », intain is
*-ei cry; the nww»*j woo id pity
Betide* (be trie*:' ii( <• r[font! it wt.uld
M ft port two row * of tub i», their wheel*
ittr ed by ttoe* rtishing through g«pe
efi for the purpose, Phlp pat-age*
would thread the dykr at interval* If
it learn to send electricity long d'o-
mi,ci *, thl* power might also beat and
Igitt n good part of England and .pare
• < r watting coal supply.
The propo»e<! tunnel from Itover to
Cainis would be a trifle in eompfii- ton
he»*. than 26 milefc separate England
it.d France, a tunnel iietween them
a .old be the moat profitable public
finrU the world offera. Travel would
le enormoiiM unit high rates could be
tharged, 'I‘he tunnel Is known to be
Gibraltar route from Martel'le*, Mod-
ern French engineer* are ready to
make his work wide and deep enough
to admit a warship The taving of
time In peace wou <1 be e ons.dera bie;
In war French craft cop’d dodge back
and forth, whl e an *r.*wy must a3e
the long way "round. The cost would
be t cOO OOO.bOfl
flu- own < ape find canal Is s sn ail
affair, It has been dug "on paper" for
a century and more; if it were com-
pleted, If existing waterways were
deepened and only ',<< miles of t ew
work done, we should have an Inner
way from Ronton to Jack- .oville
through sounds, hays and canals by
which to,anting craft and gunboats
could go safe from cannon or storms.
There la little doubt that th>* wtil a""’*
day be done.
ale offer* h*r u
* w here.
More glgant'c s'i!) it Cetti
“(up* to Cairo” project, interrupted
now by the Boer war, but certain to be
pushed when It is over. Egypt is build-
in/ her railroad up the Nile, thanks n
pa t to American bridge* and engine*.
To meet it from the south there is al-
ready a ro td from < ape Tow n toMafe-
k ng, and another just built from the
east coast to I’ganda. the country Liv-
ingston found b»hT:d Lake Victoria
Nyanza and a fi..e lake it is, a- big
a* our Superior, and the real source
•>t a building It was! On one »,ec-
in I gar.da a big lion ate to mat y
layers that the survivor* struck
UfcOTIONAL VII W OF THE UUANOA RAILWAY,
If we do decide to cut the Isthmus,
of tl
\Vi
tir»n
trad
w rk ttr.d cowered in their camp-,
trrrnbliop at every sound. The ei,uu-
ric.-rs had to drop their theodolites for
r fie*, to hirdak up the injunction li's
lint-ship p1 iced on the buik’lng. To
work or, this line Chinese and Hindoo
coolies were imported; but they died so
fast in the m w climate that the com-
pany had to catch and Uirne natives to
do the work.
One difficulty bars Rhode's road.
German East Africa back . up against
(be Congo Free State, am ironi one or
the other pertniw-lon must be obtained
to join the Nile and I'ganda lines In a
straightsw* course of 6,000 miles.
The cost of i he portion yet unbuilt may
be $100,000 000, No one know*.
It«it “Sfothlnu llent* tin Dutch."
On any old map of Holland a big
body of water is marked "Haarlem
Meer," or sea. Later maps do not
■how it, for the excellent reason that It
isn't there. It has been turned into
dry land dry enough, at any rate,
though 10 feet below sea level, to sup-
ply half the world with Edam cheese,
and to feed (lie finest of Ilolnteln
cattle.
When Queen Wllhelniina is a middle
Rgi-d wi m in the /,uyd< r Zi-e will u: -o
have disappeared. Dutch engineers
are planning to drain it, leaving only
canals for local shipping. The sea is
i mO mi!--a long bv It) to *10 wide. The
work will cost $70,000,000; the value
of the land obtained vvill double that
sum,
j For that matter, the descendants of
the ditch-digging Dutch in New York
’he gota! feature* of tbe 3:-.r.- b game,
afford* more opei. b.i.isrd* aid coex
away with monotonous r .r - Y . . ur*
permitted three rho*. s jb balk. I tr.-d
t once about 12 year* ego a:.d aver-
aged 16 in a game."
To please me spectator* the little
champion, 1* far from be.nginhi*
real form, although he has but recent-
ly demonstrated beyond doubt that he
* a champion in 1,1* ov n class with no
near rival, clicked off the points with
regularity. The tail : • which
"Jake" might work indefinitely in
• '.raight rail, or say. eight-,T.-vh balk
i.i not to be utilised to any great
extentin a game like the expert*’ game.
-Jiut how about the anchor box in
the expert*’ game?" asked a -pecta-
tor.
“Humph, when the lines were first
drawn for the expert*’game.” replied
Schaefer, "< barlie Parker had not
thought out the anchor box."
“What a farce tbe a richor box is, any-
way.” remarked Veteran Tom Foley.
"All the referee hr- to say to the
shooter wh-n the ball* get into anchor
is: ‘You have had three shot*, now
get one ball out of balk. The use-
)<-.s addition of line- j* to be depre-
cated. Lines only complicate the ap-
pearance of the game to the p- tblie.”
Schaefer and other expert* have
been playing for several wet h a new
style of balk line that was dev:.-ed by
a Chicago railroad man eight-inch,
the shooter to lo:-<* hi* turn if both
ball* get into the same baik, but he can
i.t.c his count. This game is hard,
i The eleinent of luck is a big one and
the effect upon the play is to spoil big
runs. Only the very best judges of
force could attempt position at this 1
style of game, for fear of driving the
two object bulls into the same balk. :
The balls may be in the same balk, nl- ,
though separated by almost the length
of the table. As a study and a severe j
test of the game, the new game is pop-
ular among the shortstop^ although
it will require the good offices of some j
roomkeeper willing to donate a prize
to introduce it as a tournament game.
liNTion F.»n«r.
When a
of 5,000
dreu, two
12 policemen
wearing white
glove* and a fam-
ily delegation at
* railway station
to greet him upon
Ills return from an
eastern trip dur-
ing which he
gained the laurels
nf a featherweight
champion, moral-
ists m a y muse
about there being
a we r c w loose
little fighter has a throng
men, women and chi 1-
baods.
]|oJJ
^a'jrycuy-v"
Not all of t.'ip 'ieterrr.i-atloa. sV*^
and bu -< acnaec. in the baseball
wor d i* wrapped
up in tbe exclu-
sive. sedate and
ise-lookicg man-
ager * of the big
leagues. Early as
• t 1 to disci* s
baseball plans for
next year, it is
rather remark-
a:.,e tea: no "oig
leaguer’’ with a
fight on his
bands, has exhib-
ited -o much enterprise as some of
the leaders in the smaller leagues.
Newton F .-her, manager and catcher
of the Nashville I Team) nine that
won the first championship of the
new Southern ieague/ has laid plans
for next season, and expects to get
the pennant again. Of course, the
Little Iiock club, which lost the pen-
nant to N'ashviile, will be prepared to
repeat the close contest of 1901. Al-
ready the Arkansas people have be-
gun reaching out for players.
F.sher is unique in the list of young
managers aDd players. Although he
plays iu every game as a catcher, he
has what his men call a "good head"
fur business. With a practically
green team—-many of them mere
youngsters—this young college grad-
uate he is but 27 years old—not only
piloted bis club through a hard ai.d
fierce season in the Southern league,
but made money. He played prac-
tically the same team tbroup'hout the
season, adding two twirlers. Iilark-
burn, whom he picked up after the
rival Little Hock team dropped him,
and George Sample. The latter
turned out to be the star twirler of
the Southern league, officiating in 29
games and winning 25 of them.
Sample cost Fisher but $200, and tbs
leader of the team, knowing that
such good pitching would excite com-
ment among the big league managers,
hasjust closed the most advantageous
offer he could get for Sample. The
latter will be a National leaguer next
season, and Fisher will depend upon
Charlie Shields to repeat Sample’s
work. There seems to be little
chance for anything but harmony and
prosperity in the Southern leugue
next season.
72 women—ail irawn from E -'.and
zic America. In addition to tin-e,
there are 26 priests. Iff deacon*, 137 ____
— ttchl-LS- at: worktSff writs f'<r**;gn •• You Can i e.nd
workers hand in hand. There are
rearly tatAe converts attached
to tbe 75 churches and 13s out-sta-
tions. all being bound together in
ere native church, with its own con-
stitution and synods.
Toe Church Times (England) points
out what it calls an "unfortunate
confusion" between the words non-
conformists and separatist-
epote as fo.low-r ‘'The nonco: ,orm-
j-ts believe and profess themselves
be members of the Church of Eng-
land: though there are part- of her
doctrine and discipEne to which they
refuse to conform. They refuse to
srt&rate themselves from her com-
inunion. The free churches of to- 1
cav are the de-.-endants of those '
whom the-e nonconformist- always!
called s‘t,oratb-ts. Nonconformists
thought it was a sin to separate from
the Church of England; the sepa-
ratists taught the very contrary
tamely, that it was a .-In to remain
in communion with her.”
Chicago
Female Feet
They Are of Quite as
Generous Size es Ts
..Generally Believed..
I always thought it * part of the
«tock of lies that envious residents of
other townscircu-
late, t h e story
about the big
fchoes worn by the
women of the
windy city. But
the following was
told me by a
friend, a lady
w hose truthful
and accurate re-
conntals I i m-
piicitly believe:
Being a small
tm lady with diminu-
tive feet.sheoften
WHEN THE SNOW FALLS.
Cartons F’orniatton of Drifts as Ob-
served In tbe Adirondack.
Mountains.
On a good drift-making day the snow j
comes, not in the star-shaped flakes
that look so pretty w hen portrayed on
a page of the dictionary, but in small
pellets, w rites John R. Spears in Scrib-
ner’s. These pellets are iu shape like |
tiny white footballs usually, and they j
come rolling and tumbling down- j
wind as if they had been “kicked for \
fair” by the half ■* ck gods of the gale!
And yet while they r, i! and tumble and
bound they find lodging places, and
as the idler gazes he sees them pile up
in a wall on the erest cf the road cut. j
Higher and higher grows the pile,
forming at first a vertical wall, but be-
fore this has risen three inches it is
Men to overhang the gulch. Though j
round and easily rolled, these pellets j
in some way fit to eac h other as bricks j
would until the overhang is perhaps
a fifth as great as the elevation of the
in
find* it a difficult matter to get shoe*
that will suit her. She has lived on
both side* the water and has visited
many shoe store*, but nowhere has the
had such lit luck as in Chicago. A short
time ago, on her way east from ban
Francisco, she made us a Htt.e visit
here in Chicago. She left our bouse
early one morning for a day's shop-
ping, which included the purchasing
of a pair of shoes. I directed her to the
two largest shoe stores od our noied
retail street. She entered the first one.
A* 1 salt, it was early. Idle i.<V»
w. re raDgtd in various postures a.ocg
the wail. When she opened the dooi
they looked towards her, and two or
three smilingly advanced.
She asked: "Have you ladies’ walk-
in:’ boots, No. 1. letter D i
Blank amazement took ho.d on ali
;he clerk-. The one addressed an-
swered, shortly: "No, cor you can I
find ’em in the town. ’
A little discouraged, she went on to
the next store, which she entered with
| 1 e s s assurance
than she had the
previous empori-
um. As an elegant,
dapper gentle-
man. the kind cho-
sen for the deli-
cate task of sell-
ing shoes to la-
dies, came for-
ward to hear what
she wanted, she
somewhat timidly
put her question.
As the fatal words, "Anytnmg You na<e.“
"No. 1, letter D," fell in trembling ad-
eems from her lips, fell consternation
took hold on the man before her, a
scow! gathered on his manly brow, and
wi h the exclamation: "Lord! No!"
be turned on his heel.
>he vvuuld have pleaded with him.
entreated him to investigate the nu-
merous shelves to right and left, had
not his decision been so absolute, hi*
manner so forbidding. She looked ap-
pealingly at the oihtr clerks, stand-
wall, and then, marvelous and impos- j 5“ a row like 60 ««ur«‘
Triumphant Entry of a
Champion.
! ojthernl I’nnimmorNicjiruguii.we shall lire lining n fair job, Tln-lr new under-
tiauible; nothing blocks it hut llrll-
i.ii'h fcnrs of n "French Invasion "
■ Ilf Dili Work, nml I lie New.
( anal digging is mi ancient nml him
pic art Grl men mill shovel* enough
nml the llnng I* done. The first Suez
canal was dug by the I'hurunh*; that
of Forlnih was begun by Nero. The
( times'' grand canal is the largest In
llie world non miles about a* tunny
yearn old, and of course out of rrpalr.
Nowaday* caruil* are dug by "Amer-
ican devils," as all the world except thr
United Suite* cull* steam shovels. Hilt
for all the "devil's" greed Iu lilting off
n mu at a mouthful, artificial water-
wuya coal more every year. 'I lu y liavf
to lie >o much bigger. The original Erie
CHO a I cost II little over $7,000,000 for
362 miles, That sum was exceeded ten
time* over In Improvement* and en-
largement*. The Mancbci.ler ship
cm,nl, 30 mile*, cost ii million n mile,or
about $200 per rnonlng foot, where Hie
Erie cost four dollar* |*cr foot. The
Km/, canal, H8 miles, cost a liunilrrd
million*. If Unde Hum buy* for a aong north. In length of navigable river* it I der of the pyramids of Egypt, put
accomplish the greatest feat in 111" his-
tory of spades To carry a ship canal
perhaps 115 feet deep and 2,'0 feet Mine
across or through a mountain chain is
no joke.
Ilallronils ■ml World Politics.
Him U-ii years since It ii we in began Die
Siberian railway and one e;n travel
by rail 1207 miles from Moscow to
Lake Baikal, and thence partly by
Hteamer and partly by train to Vladl-
voatock, i,<07 mile* farther. The
hrnniTi through Manchuria will soon
furnish a shorter route yet the long
e*t in the world of 6,4H(l miles from
Moscow to the I’nelfic. The cost almost
staggers belief. The estimate was
$<00,000,000. Henry Norman thinki il
may reach $600,000,000. Wil it pay7
Why, it dursn'l have to. It was built
to make ftmwlu the ruler of the IV
cldc -the bear shouldn't forget Japan
and to develop Ihe country. Siberia,
ground railroad is costing, with it*
branch**, a million n mile for 35 miles.
The tusk vvill he finished in 31/, years
speed that would have amazed an old-
fa “binned engineer. New York la also
building Hirer bridges costing $50 000,-
000 and is about to begin a $10,000,000
tunnel The Pennsylvania railroad i*
planning two tunnels; n private corpo-
ration is to put $25,000,000 into a Hud-
son river bridge. In all, some $200,-
000,000 Ik being invested for transit
about New York within a radius of 15
1 mlh s.
And then the new xteuimhlp lines;
mighty steel works; the arsenals; big
stations in our cities; far-seeing plans
of trolley magnates that swell to hnn-
di i ds of millions and link Boston, New
York, Albany, Buffalo, Philadelphia!
Truly it Is nri age of wonders. And
I .vet—
Not one of all these works, nor all
like Prussia, 1* n fiat country sloping of them together, could equal th
e vv o n -
the French rights in Panama and puts
$200,(810,000 In good money on top ofdf
LestM-p*' $200,000,000 of bad money, that
CAT SOLVED THE PROBLEM.
Ale Hie Inline* uni! Ileinuved All Oh.
■ Inelrs In III. Mnllnu ut
Thrlr Owner*.
There Is lio end to the tnlcs of odd
elm meters and their odd courtships
which the tactful traveler 1 n Ni vv Eng
laud can gather from the lips of old
people In country district*. Here is
one of a lovers’ quarrel vv hlch w as final-
ly healed Iu the way least to he ex
pert ed, > ays Youth'* < dm pa nlon.
(apt. Amo- I leering, of Bentley
Cove, and Miss Amanda N'otl, were op
p,,xlte neighbors. Miss Amanda had
her own home the old Not t homes tend
— and ('apt. Amu*, who had retired
from the sen, hoarded with Widow
Wright. The two *uw a good deni of
eurh other, olid found the eoiiipiiiiiou-
,■11 ip piensuut.
j tupt. Amo* frequently hung over
■ urpa*»r» even the Mississippi region.
T he railroad unites river to river, con*
necta their vast traffle.
without modern machinery. So let’s
not brag too much; only just about
enough. AllTHUIt HANDS
Miss Amanda's fence, offering advice
concerning her tiny garden; he even
wearied his back in gallantly laying a
border of whitewashed stones and
large Ea-t Indian shells along her front
path; Mi-- Amanda in return occasion-
ally lifted her skirt* out of the dust,
and daintily skittered across the
street to inspect Ihe captain’s window
box, und the progress of the cuttings
from her own geranium* growing
t herein.
Of course, Bentley people decided
that the two were considering matri-
mony. So they were, with the deliber-
ation und discretion befitting thiir
years. They hud at length made up
their minds xo fur that only one dilli
culty remained.
Miss N'ott kept a canary; the captain
kept u cut The bird bad been taught
tricks; the cat was a b»uutiful Persian,
brought home on his last voyage by the
captain himself. Alas! It could uot week.
be i xpected thnt the two would ngree.
yet neither would the captain relin-
quish his cat nor Amanda hi r bird.
No dangerous cat should enter the N'ott
homestead; ('apt. Amo* would go no-
where where his pet was not wel-
comed.
There wns a quarrel. They made it
uji next day, but only to the extent of
being again on convi ntionnlly friend-
ly terms; each reninined resolute.
Ko matters rested for three year*.
I hen, one summer night, Miss Am am i
forgot to shut a window, and early in
Ho morning she was aroused by a hur-
ried knocking, and found thr captain
on the door step. He had sren the fall-
en cage and missed his pet; the infer-
ence was plain, lie used no circumlo-
cution, but broke the news at oner;
"Bear up, Amnudn! It’* hard, but It’s
providential. My eat ha* eaten your
canary. Let’* have the wedding next
somewhere in the community. Denver
turned out this big show recently when
William Uothwell, otherwise Champion
"Young Corbett,” returned to his home
the conqueror of the Brooklyn whirl-
wind, Terry McGovern. Twice as many
peoplr as turned out to greet Theodore
Roosevelt screamed, shouted, sung and
crushed toward the carriage drawn
by four Whitehorse*. A little brother
of the champion was hurled through
the air by a sturdy miner “jess ter see
the little cuss kiss his brother.” "Make
way for the champion!" w ns heard on
every hand. Then for days the good
people of the city gave up their hard
money to see their townsman exhibit
his prowess “wid tie mitts dat knocked
out de wonderful Terry."
There have been ovations tenth red
to champion pugilists that will live in
history. But none was any more en-
thusiastic or inspiring!?) than the
Denver reception. “The ehn inpion Mc-
Govern is out. long live the m vv cham-
pion.’’
I’ul-let us see how Denverites agree
with the world in cheering a winner.
For several year* Young Corbett had
rnrriid on a more or less successful
pugilistic career in Colorado. He hnd
won many fights, but hevord the hab-
itues of the resorts frequented bv
pugilists and his own family fireside
he had few friends. Many of the lat-
ter were of the kind who would snv:
“Billy, let me lake a fiver to-day? I’ll
make good when Hick turns my way."
Then came a chance to get a ficht
w th the hero of all featherweight he-
roes Ttrry McGovern. Hut there was
the forfeit to post and the money for
training expense*. Besides, “Young
Warm Tlnir,
"When I said Ed go through fire for
lur 1 didn't know how near the truth
i was coming."
"Thai so?”
“Yes; yesterday 1 bail to lick two
or three of her old flames."-—Chicago
Daily New*.
I'roof 1‘osltlvv.
Amy I uiu certain that Florence is
.in egotist.
Maud Why do you think sot
Amy Because she i* always say-
ing: “Oh, dear met"—Judge.
“How can a wife watch her husband
killing himself by inches—or laps—
and shout words
of encouragement
to him?” said Mrs.
"Bobby” Wa 11-
hour, vviff of the
winner of the six-
day cycle grind re-
cently decided in
New York, in an-
swer to my query.
She had a letter
from her husband
in her lap at the
time, wore dia-
monds and looked
Mrs. '‘Bobby"
Walthour.
in general much more prosperous than
she had appeared before the race.
••Well, I do not think it bad for a lov-
ing husband and father to pedal six
days for $1,500, n lot of glory and a
chance to make a comfortable sum in
the theatrical world, when as a matter
! of fact the work is not near as hard as
1 that done by million# of men for a mis-
erable portion of the reward my hus-
band received.
"I have been called the real winner
of that race. Certainly sitting up
' night after night in that chilly gar-
den, watching the baby and keeping
’ an eye on Bobby, cheering him when
Ihe seemed daffy—you know going
! around an ellipse hour after hour is
bound to affect the ntind and eyes—
and coaching him on how to beat any
I‘team work’ that might he attempted
by rival riders, is far from being an
easy task. It’s all wrong for the news-
paper boys to roast six-day cyclists as
thev do. Bobby was able to walk from
the hotel to our flat and roll about the
floor with the baby a*> soon as he had
removed the dirt and grime of “ie rnee
from h:s body. And what do you think
this ‘poor, half dead, emaciated, crazy,
six-day cyclist wreck’ asked for at his
first meal taken away from the train-
ing-room? Pie! 1 had to buy out a
small bakery to supply him.
, E G WESTLAKE.
Practical Athletic*.
Visitor Why, vvhat is that terrible
noise? Is the house tumbling How n?
Mrs. I'ptodate—Oh, no; that’s only
Geraldine punching the bag. She’s get-
ting into training for Ketchum &
Skinem's bargain snle next Friday.—
Brooklyn Life.
W hat Puiitd Uetween.
Mugi»tra;e—What happened be-
tween yourself and tbe complainant?
O’Brien—1 think, sor, a half dozes
bricks and a lump of paving xlon*.—
Tit-Dll*
sible ns it would seem to the unaccus-
tomed observer, a lip forms cn the
crest of the wall, und soon it begins
to droop and hang dovvyi. Wider and
longer it grows, farther and fart her it
droops, until its shape is precisely like
the lip formed on a huge wave whe:;
it breaks on a shoal-water beach. Lips
that are ten feet wide and hang dowi
three feet clear of all, though but sb
or eight inches thick where they job
the chin of the wall, are not uncom-
mon. By what magic is it that these
frozen, oblong pellets that go bound-
ing a! ' •- merrily as footballs form
into such a shape as that? Of course
if the storm continues a time usual-
ly comes when the lips break off be-
cause of their growing weight. And
then no n> vv lip forms to replace thi
lost one. The snow merely drop* over
into the lee of the wall and generally
fills the cutting.
Another curious feature of these lips
is seen \vh< n they do not fall. A thaw
may come—often does come—and
spread a hardened skin over the lip to
hole it on.
The most wonderful snowstorms of
all that may be seen every winter in
the Adircndacks are those that prevail
when the sky is cloudless. Of these
there are several varieties. Every
week or two wc would see what looked
like a foghorn about the distant hills
and then come drifting across the
creek valley. Doubtless it was a real
snow-laden cloud that had been drift-
ing along until it st ruck our level (1,200
feet above the sea) in the Adirondack's,
when the conditions became favorable
for the release of its feathery burden.
\Ye saw these clouds fill the air with
flakes that were driven along almost
horizontally by a strong gale, although
the tops of our old hemlocks and
spruces ruse into the clear air and un-
obstructed sunlight above the highest
level of the snow-producing air strat-
um. We even saw the snow so thick
in the air about us that the trunks of
trees six feet above the earth were not
visible, although the treetops could he
seen, and the sun shone down through
the shallow storm with strength
enough to east distinct shadows. We
have stood on a quiet sunlit hilltop and
looked down into a valley less than a
hundred feet below us, where a snow-
storm was raging with violence and
the temperature was frigid.
The Man and the llnhy.
Once upon a time a father was sleep-
ing soundly, while the mother was
awake, sitting in bed with a crying
baby in her arms, trying her utmost to
quiet it. Finally her great stock of
patience became exhausted.
“John,’* she said to her husband, as
she pushed him with her foot, "please
get up anil carry the baby around the
room for a few laps. The little darling
is hclding out his arms to you and
crying for you to take him.”
The aroused husband got out of his
comfortable bed, took the baby from
his wife and started on a four-mile
tramp.
Moral.—A call to arms gets the brave
men out.—N. Y. Herald.
Matrimony Exposed.
Mr. Iioubleduff—Heart to heart
talks have come to be understood to
nu-nn the exchanging of opinions, not
necessarily complimentary, between
two ]>eople.
Mrs. Doubleduff (sweetly)—Yes; in
other words, sort of husband to wife
talks.- Chicago Daily News,
but ht-r eyes met here only a stony
glare, there a look of utter incredulity.
Abashed, at vvhat she knew not, feel-
ing herself a freak, an outcast from the
great shoe-wearing world, she turned
and crept out of the store.
But when she reached the streets
and people passed her w ithout seeming
to think there was something Welshy
about her appearance, gradually some
of her confidence was restored, and she
gained sufficient courage to enter an-
other shoe store. Here she uttered
something about wanting a pair of
shoes.
"What size, madam?” aslad the au-
tomaton, as he bent obsequiously over
her.
“Anything you have,” she said, weari-
ly: “any old thing.”
He looked at her,and then beyond, to
see if her keeper were in sight. But
as she did not
seem fierce, and as
she was small, he
decided not to call
the patrol, but
concluded to go
ahead and wait
on her. Shoes and
shoes the patient
man brought
forth; fine ones
and coarse ones,
high-heeled and
low-heeled, broad
Tne Chicago Women, ones and narrow
ones, all the variety, it appeared, fem-
inines had heretofore demanded iu Chi-
cago. When tried on this miss, outly-
ing country lay fore and aft, to port
and starbuard. Finally a pair was un-
earthed from somewhere, a pair that
came nearer fitting than any of the
others. To be sure, the toe was out
of fashion, the heel likt wise, the leath-
er ditto, but they would cover her
feet and would stay on, and she took
them.
Since then, in the ear, on the street,
wherever people congregate, I have
mentally gathered statistics concern-
ing the size of—do not for a moment
think 1 refer to the feet—the ladies of
Chicago. I have found the average
woman to be of generous build. Cer-
tainly the feet should correspond, and
it is no reproach to her if they, too.
are of generous size. But it would
be interesting to have tabulated in-
formation on the subject, know just
what is the average size of shoe worn
by the Chicago woman.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER.
Rough on Chicken*.
In an Ohio town this year the Af-
rican Methodist Episcopal church of
that district held a conference. The
colored population of the little town
made great preparations to entertain
the visiting clergymen. For a week
the town was filled' with colored pulpit
orators.
A few days after the conference
closed its sessions one-of the leading
women of the town drove out to l’ea
Ridge to purchase chickens of Aunt
Hanna, who had supplied the family
for years. Aunt Hanna, coming to the
gate, said:
“I’m sorry, Miss Aliie. I ain’t got n
chicken left. Dey all done enter de
ministry."—Cleveland Leader.
She Liked th«? Sample.
She—Did she cry when you kissed
her?
He—Yes; she cried out for more,—
Yonkers Statesman.
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