The Weekly Times-Journal. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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In Which He Shows the Fallacy of Steaming Up
and Chugging in the Pipes Over Obstacles.
Success Is Nothing Bui Failure Kicked
to Pieces by Hard Work
I llluHtrnteil IIy
■ bel'ry I
JIM NASIUM.
| BAR SON:—Your mothtr pMk(4
up a few Jura of brsndled cli-i
rlea and snipped them to you
today. 8ho enid you wera it 1-
waya fond of cherries. I told
her that whether you liked the
cherrle* or not, I knew you'd appreri.He
the spirit In which they were Bent. Of
course, she didn't tumble to the *.)« for
h minute that I meant the brandy, n
woman never doea read chin music the
way It's played. If you hand then) n
vocal selection In ■harps they'll Hat It
e\ery trip You'll get hep to tlila If you
act to dealing out any Jokers to that
bunch of calico from the seminary out
there.
! weddln* hells to he ringing In your
j Just brcause your el i pal Bill
Jumped the tracea and hitched dt.iihle lust
i w ««-k. If you wait for n year and auk
Ib.Ts tip on the wedding R ime I II ml s
my guess If he don't tip you off to piny
n lore hand H.ll pinched a lovely pi
of brie- a-brae from thp city, and he
now out west taking i hrld.il tour. I t
you can take my tip that before hla wood-
en wedding comes due he'll be taking i
' club ti. >r. I'm not saying thai women
aren't nil right In their place They mi.
I e I never Maw one there. Hut If you v
got one tied onto your heart-strings it s
i cinch that you'll be lugging a lot of
e'ead weight In your sprint for place
love can put the hooks Into all soils of
obstacles in yellow back literature, but
>ou can lake my tip that In real life
poverty nnd dlsuppolnted nmbllton will
This reminds me that 1 don't want the luiV® 11 *r°K*y Hnd hanging on the ropes
In the first round.
i I^ouds of good hull pin vers have put
| their baiting eyes on the blink by expos
! I"K them loo much to the dazzling rsys
j of U soubrette'a lamps. Let me tell you
right here thai the glare of a soubrettv*
j lamps Is a blamed poor light to study by.
unless you're reading between the lines The r"v who *rn,<? "The ll^ht that lies
In wo nan's eyes" was right the— •••« «•
the plain f.icts nil right, boc lust
certainly lie like a show bill I know
you've got a plpce of fancy work out
there that you think Is the real lace, and
inn\ he it la. I5iit In your position you've
rot to thru re how much esrx Ice it would
bo In the pantry iJon't go picking up
parlor ornaments for kii.be
II nnd lhat
forever. You'i
the calico,
I hold In the hill of success so the eztra
weight wont pull you over a precipice
Your mother I? awfully worried over
[ you playIiik ha-ebsll since she has been
reading about the spit ball. You kmw
she ulways was nutty on contagious dis-
eases, and she keeps her Imagination
machinery working overtime painting
pinnies of a lunger on the pitcher's slab
sousing u ,n with tuberculosis g"rnta
and a batter knocking them Into your
system. The way she chews the re*
about you standing on the lot every
d«\ with batted bails crawling with mi-
crobes whizzing at you like a cannon
shnt would make the heroes of Halaklava
look like four-f1u&h«*s in comparison She
thinks It's mighty funny that a health
officer will pinch a guy lor splttlnv on
tne curb st me, and then float Into a
hall came nnd bust his larynx yelling
for the guy who slobbers all over th •
Iruilwr th;si th« other players have to
clinch with She's throwing out u bluff
about butting into the next meeting of
YODILF iNDA- TBIKG- OF-BEAUTY
ISA JAVJ FOREVER-
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Artf YC'JSL
DE BAT BO
rOiTTTYlXACri WAS AFARCE
COMIDY DOWN wlouisyilll
With-batted- balls -crawling-
WI Hi rilCROBEa) WHIZZING AT
YOU-LIKE-A-CAWfiON- iHui-
ig of beaut yls a Jaw
t«-r not clinch wllh the rules committee with a letter to
you get a good toe- knock out the spit bull, but until mother
gets In h--r knockout punch don't you let
the microbes stop you from pulling down
everything thnt comes into your pasture.
I've tipped Hugh Jennings off to a kid
we've had playing down In the village
this spring, and if he ever gets half a
chance he'll cut a swath In fast com-
pany. We dug him up among the scen-
ery up alc.ng Crooked Creek, and a good
deal of it Is still sticking on his mug
mid mitts Hut down under that ful
estate there's the raw material for a
mighty good ball player. There's a lot
of Idamed good ball tossers hiding out
In the long grass who never get a chance
to show their goods.
It's funny how a tall player can douse '
his glim under a bushel andi keep it there J
till some guy with enough foresight to |
i ;ure there's something doing nomes I
alo-ig and fclclc® ofT the measur--* ! Aims I
In t .rvs Angcl->? v. lien the Nation."! P« 3 -
r.iisslon broke th na£ivf son'* li arts cut
*; i by stamp.-ding Frank Dillon can J
of their co;' -;U. ntnfl T.ie.> iuck -Ji
Chase out of the bushes and stuck him
on lirst base because they couldn't g-t
anyone else. They hid seen Hal cutting
up capers out in the alfalfa patches, but
tney thought he would be a Joke In fast
company The scissors and paste fo.ir-
flushes on the sporting desks down there
wept crocodile tears all over the sport-
ing page* • ver the hole Dillon's es ape
had It ft at the first corner, but In a few
weeks they were turning handsprings
over Chase's sensational stunts. The
/GEE!I'M)
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W3NT DO-TDOMLFANY- liOB-K
ateaibsb apmntuitip-iHTCE
PlrE<5' OVER THE-HjlHfr fiAttE
YOU'REUPAfiAINST
faster the company ('has
the better he looked, and
about the candiest llrst
business, while Dillon has
butted Into
(he diamond every Inning. By laying on
the salve in thick layers they got him 'o (
pitch two games, and he handed the i
other guys nine big goose egg* both
tiiius Then he wrapped his clean collars
up in a newspaper and be.if it back to a
little grocery store In Mount Vernon. N. I
aying he didn't want to play ball. I.
Hal-Chase-
BUTTING-TNTO-THE-
ITILRY-WAY-
lie had a side-wheel kick to bin swtng
th.it had the swatters away up in the
atmosphere. There's lots of these guys
who aren't wise to the goods they-v«- got
packed away in their grip, and they sti:-!<
In Ihe dark room on account of their
shriveled ego "Many a rose Is born to
blush unseen and waste Its fragrance on
the desert air."
It Isn t always the guy who Is the big
moke In the minor leagues who cuts the
Success Is nothing but failure kicked t«
pieces by hard work, anyway.
Now. I'm good enough judge of a ball
player to know that you've got the goods.
They're packed pretty well down in the
bottom of your trunk yet, but they're
there all right. The only question Is If
you've got the nerve to deliver them.
There's a bunch of guys in every walk
of life who iiave the ability In large
chunks, but they lose out because they
lots of kids lugging the goods
around packed away in their cellar where
nobody can see them, and they're not
even wise to the fact themselve^. Some
of these guys never butt Into the lime-
light at all. Rochester, In the Eastern
League, dug up a sling shover named
NeU.-n last season and coaxed him Into
the ball grounds. He didn't want to
plav bdl. but Ihey salved him up and
jollied him onto the slab to flip
few, th«
widest swath in fast company. Some- haven't K"t the proper temperament In
times the kid who Is a Joke In the ; their nut to get the results from It. And
timothy belt will kick in when he gets a results are the only things that count
chance against the rail goods and create , on the score card. Everything elso is
a bigger sensation than a blush of shame > only the trimmings around the edge of
in congress. Tommy Leach was a farce the meat plate, results is the whole
comedy down In Louisville, and he meal, side dishes, dessert and all.
warmed the bench a long time for Pitts-j Some guys take the route to the down-
burg while Jimmy William was the whole I and-out club by Inflating ;heir egotism,
cheese at the third corner. When Wll- while others travel the same route bjr
liains jumped tho fence out of the Pitts giving theirs an alum hath. Hut If yogi
burg pasture they stuck Leach in the take my tip you'll Just swim along In]
hole, and he made the fans forget Wil- ( the current of life as one of the bunch.)
Hams quicker than a summer girl for- I Don't think because you can float down
gets her season's engagements Bob L'n- life's stream on your back while some
gl.-iub was considered a gleeful jest while j other guy has to swim dog fashion that
he helped to hold down the bencfi In the you're a blamed bit better than he is,
I.oston American's park, and it took n I because your tirne to sink is going to
nunch or nccidents and tragedies to get eome, nnd when you go down you won't
lum a chance. Hut he's got the Boston I leave any hole In the water, whether
tans smashing each other's lids over hi* i you're president or plumber, king or car-
stunts now. penter. And you won't clog up t lie
i only mention these cases, son, to stream or stick up from the bottom
,1V ht.'a «,,Jf I " | y"u ll,at y°u don't need to get < nough to keep the other guys from swim-
.i*. r in n.. ... . . atmosphere when you stack mlng rlj?ht over top of you, either,
i*.'.. r r nii t, ' against the real goods. You wont do | So don't ever Ret it into your knot
been forgotten, i yourself anv rood hv ^toumin., ■
hugging In the pipes over the hard game
you re going up against. There's a thu i-
derlng lot of obst.#|es In the pathway
of life that are like the «et rocks in a
theater; they look bulky and formldab'e
at a distance, but If you butt Into th. ni
you'll find they're only cheese cloth and
you can kick boles all through them.
It's the guy who don't scare nt set
ks and who don't know when he's
licked, but keeps coming back for more, I keep in trim.
Who acta , cl«inn 1— ! [..•■ M l,.
time you want to be confident
of being able to do the little act you're
down on the program for. About the
two worst deformities a man can lug
through this little old world la a swelled
head and a faint heart.
I must close now and go down to the
blacksmith shop to pilch quoits. Bam
Thompson and ' have challenged any-
thing in the county, and I've got ts
,■ ... i , , . uiniiiifi imi'h ior more,
tlic> had to coax him back into who geta the ctcision In life's little scrap.
Old Time Prize Fights
By George Siler ■
;ttllty. Jim was jailed several times
♦ hereafter and did long service for
everal slat- * He .was a trouhlesom"
• usionier, traveled with a had gang,
I and was kllh-d bv Jcre Dunn in
Chicago on March .1, 1*X.1.
While th •
mr 1S64 was not pro-
du llv- of any real big fistic events,
til l - Were enough scraps pulled off
l make it one of the banner years
of I In* « tvll w ar times The country
wan full of light. The boys In blue
were battling the boys In gray down
south, and the exponents of the art
were having it out In the squared
ciivle in all sections of the country.
Hurdl\ a week went by that some
g > mi. bad. or Indifferent tight was not
pulled off, but short money prevailed.
The fights took place during the
month f January were chronicled
1h i week, and only three lights were
ptiM- i off during February, March
nn.i April The 0f these was for
5 ' id. nnd Jac k How-en and Tom Ma-
I-..le, battled for It near Albany, N.
y Neither man boasted of science.
%• " h knew enough about the
fcttou: game to give the other an
ul lacing, and they were game
.•;.ou«h i > stick to It one hour and
>htrty-eight minutes, when Tom, his
J -e . v. r d with knobs and bleeding
'■ ke i stuck pig. concluded he did not
ban' r after the money.
Jimmy Gardner and Hilly Carey
"i. U- f I :'ooklyn (N, Y.) young-
I got the fighting fever and
i it ^in excellent Idea to try
• h ih«r out on the spot near
ir ■ w sod cemetery to do a bit
h: i . f .r a purse of $50. Hard
M ! I-• • e id of s i n e prevailed, and
;>• ••!,. \ re about equally divided
i' • t .en" -third round, in which
• "r.tv delivered enough hard poke;
i win h m th * purse
? .M i Wei «h and Tom Mcf'abe fur
1 h ' sport for the April month,
they went st each other Just foi
4 ftin of the thing n tr Portsmouth
• rdlng to accounts this was
■' mill, both taking and glv-
g ' r ' Mn ilshment for eight rounds.
~ wf ' Welsh had things pretty
u *i :• ♦ wn way ami scored a
• the knocking out route In
i I . >nth round after battling forty
'e- There w is as much as $17
n the re-tilt. and the man who
' h • T- on«v tm-ne l over his wln-
les-c $13. t. the victor. That
or? than Wehh expected.
played the leading parts,
had a successful run of
months.
? play
three
Dooney was looked after by Harney
Aaron and Jimmy Elliott, and Patsy
by "Kit" Purns and Johnny Monag-
han Dan Kerrigan stood as referee.
r>f the
the
st important fights of
place at Owynned
twenty miles from
>ntes?ant«« being
I Dooney Harris The
In London In 1831,
Inches In height and
un Is, a w eight which
rouajht him Into the
vli'on Dooney en-
attl's In England and
•oontry on December
as unknown, but his
alM* at several exhl-
■ latlon to the rank
experienced no dlffl-
• "le-i to fight Patsy
for that matter.
den
old
Harris demonstrated his skill and
his superiority ovor Patsy before they
hud been nt It two rounds In fact,
he hit him at will and avoided Mar-
ley's vicious and well meant returns.
In the first session his admirers
offered all kinds of odds he would
win In tho second period Dooney.
In skipping away from one of Patsy's
wicked swings, bumped against one
of the stakes and sustained a severe
Injury to his left side, but f r which
be would have won in short order
He give awny several pounds in
weight to a much stronger man and
one that possessed a knockout punch
In either hand.
It therefore behooved Harris to
flght along careful lines, as the least
mistake might have meant his down-
fall Marley's seconds noted Dooney's
accident nnd advised their man to
force the fighting and to whale away
at Harris's body The latter melt
his every onslaught with lefts and
rights to the face, and also took ad-
vantage of every opening, lie took
the Initiative In the sixth round, and
either fought down, threw, or upset
Patsy In nearly every round there-
after.
He won the bets on first blood nnd
first knockont and was declared the
Winner in the seventeenth round. The
fight took one hour and thirty-five
minutes, One of Patsy's eyes were
completely snuffed, his nose was
spread across his face, his lips re-
sembled a hunk of chopped liver, and
his face literally was sliced Into rib-
bons Dooney. with the exception of
his Injured side, left the ring as good
as new.
A week later a pair of new be-
ginners—Mike Leavltt and Frank Mc-
Aleer—hailing from law rence. Mass .
buckled Into each other for $50 a
side, but the affair ended In a row
and was declared a draw In the tenth
>und
Joe Cob urn. champion of America,
ho had matched to fight Jem Mace
r the world's championship, sailed
on May 12 for England, accompanied
by his trainers, Jim Cuslck nnd Jim
Dunn, Joe was presented with a belt
emblematic of the championship of
America several days before his de-
parture. and his admirers hoped to
see him return with the champion-
hip belt of England The match, as
previously stated, fell through because
they could not agree on a referee.
Jimmy Elliott, undoubtedly the
most unfortunate fighter In his day.
on June 3, sentenced to two
Imprisonment at Trenton. N.
J . for enraging in his flght with Jim
Dunn His flght with Dunn took
at Pull's Ferry, near Weehaw-
ken. N J . and ended In a row In
twelfth round after Elliott was
declared the loser on a foul.
number of the spectators were
ted br the Jersey police, but
Dunn nnd Elliott escsped. They both
ered clear of that state, but Elliott,
thinking the affair bad t>een for-
gotten. was arrested while returning
Harris. Marley flght. was
Virginia City. Nov., was the scene
of the next battle Bill Davis and
Patsy Daley were the contestants and
June 14 tb 1 date. Patsy was a new-
comer it) th" field pugilistic. He stood
5 feet 11*^ Inch *s in his fighting shoes
and weighed ISO pounds. The ring
was pit bed brtilnd a high board
fence and nt least n thousand miners
paid $2 r,o each to see the fun Hurry
Orlbbln and Hilly Dwyer looked after
Patsy and Sam Smith and Jim Carter
handled our old friend Bill. Hugh
Kelly officiated as arbiter.
The fight wis hardly worth the
| price of admission, as Davis carried
| too many guns for Patsy. He drew
. the blood from Daley In the first
round and upset him with a right on
I the neck In the second The betting i w'"
was even money and take your pick 19°5
I when they shook hands for the initial
round, but after the second session
I It was nny odds on Bill, with no
takers.
After the second round Patsy was
either knocked or fought down at
every session, and In the seventh.
after receiving a terrible lacing, he
went down for good. The flght lasted
only eight minutes
I nek for me. it did not hit me. My
ears are ringing yet."
"That's nothing," said Altlzer.
"That ball that Larry hit to the left
field bleachers yesterday burned a I
li le in the atm isphere. All that
section ou: over short and third was
c onsiderably warmer for half an hour
afterward."
Miller Hugglns
starting to rap the
at the start of ti
• f Cincinnati Is
ball hard again.
well, bul
a hit in .'
curve, but
used to. I
fade away
and this in
(agonist
as well, i
right any
d wn later, not getting
n straight games.
n's curved ball Is not
to have,' says Manager
course, he still has a
t doesn't break like it
He can work his drop and
about as good as ever,
makes him a formidable an-
but lie can't mix them up
for the curve won't break
I d >n*t believe be
pitcher he was In
Tom Hyer. America's first henvy-
welght champion, died on June 2fi of
cardiac dropsy at the age of 4 5 years
and 5 months
gossip of hh; i i:\t.i i us.
A current baseball writer says that
Lajole- has put lots of ginger Into the
Cleveland team Without knocking
at all. this must be an awfully weak
beverage for some of them.
The Boston National team as befits
representatives of the city. Is an or-
derly and wellmannered aggregation.
Its memlters having more the ap-
pearance of college men of the high-
est type than anything else, says the
Boston Post.
When the team was In New York,
an elderly lady called at the hotel
where the members were stopping
and Inquired for Dr Edwards, the
club physician. When the latter
gentleman appeared, she asked If he
were really the Dr. Edwards who
officiated In that capacity.
He replied In the affirmative. Then
she a «ked If any of the team were
around. The doctor Indicated several
who were sitting In the immediate
vicinity
The lady was greatly surprised.
"Why", she gasped, "they look like
gentlemen" "They are, madam, I
can assure you." replied the doctor.
How Illuminating- The average
provlncal New Yorker evidently can't
got away with the Idea thst J. Mc-
Qraw's blithesome crew are represen-
tative of all professional ball tossers.
"Hlnchman of Cleveland reminds
me more of IjiJoIs than any other
batter I ever went up against," said
Charley Pmlth of Washington "He
stand« at the plate with a half-awake
air. but. like T<arrv, he Is very much
awake and you have got to look out
that he does not burn one through
the box And you have got to put
them over for him, too Never saw
a better guesser on a curve ball "
"Speaking about Ti«rry being half
asleep when at the bat reminds me."
said Falk-nberg. "of one day when I J
pitched him up a "low curve The
ball hart hardly left my hanfl when
Larry took a runnlhg Jump and smash
PI f.ll.lSTIC (iOSSIP.
Jack O'Brien says the first fight be-
tween Jeffries and Corbett was a
"frame up." Sure. Bo, Roosevelt
"framed" with the Spaniards at San
Juan, also
The next number on the pro-
gramme will bo a little song entitled
"Do You Like Our Chicken Stew,
Mister Man"" rendered by Mr. Joseph
Oans of Baltimore.
That's straight. We heard the
other day that Joe is making elabo-
rate preparations to open one of the
swellest hostelries In the United States
(and Philadelphia). He has already
purchased the property, and all that
now remains for him to do is to hang
out a shingle labeled "Ye Sign of Ye
Full House," or "Come Inn," or some
such name
Perhaps the atmosphere that now
envelops the fighting game is so un-
pleasant to his smelling organ that
even Oans feels the necessity of find-
ing a healthier meal ticket xone. He
accordingly put up somewhere In the
neighborhood of $40,000 to start his
new project In the hotel business.
Where he got the money no one
knows—not even Abe Hummel.
Mr. Clifford Bailey has received a
letter, dated May 6 from an old school
chum. Mr. Norman Webb, now a
member of the municipal police force
quartered at the Central Police
Station, Shanghai, China. He has
been in China about two years during
which time he has had several curious
experiences. His letter contains a
graphic description of a Chinese exe-
cution which reads as follows:
"On Good Friday 1 attended morn-
ing service at the Cathedral at 8 a.
m„ and upon my return 1 was invited
to attend a Chinese execution in the
native city. Bather a contrast, was
it not, and somewhat gruesome? I
have always had a desire to see one
of these affairs, and so accepted the
Invitation. I tell you It was a sight
I shall never forget as long jus I
live. In the course of my experience
1 have
quired i
' things that re
tach to stand, but
palm. Tie- tWQ
to be the "Honor
strong sto
this one holds th
Chinamen who wet
Guests" in this affair had shot and
-killed a native policeman in our dis-
trict and were both well known loaf-
ers or "Untt Moongo" as the Chinese
say It was a wretched day, it having
rained for three days previous, turn-
ing the place Into a morass. I went
with two of our native detectives in
a "Ricksha" to the Native city and
then walked out to the execution
ground. This was a piece of waste
land ankle deep in mud and surround-
ed by a high wall, also enclosing the
quarters of the Chinese soldiers, the
city magistrate's residence. At one
end of this recreation ground was a
large mound about fifty feet high, j
When we arrived the whole of the I
enclosure was packed with thousands |
of these yellow devils. Every house
top for hundreds of yards around the
ground had Its capacity taxed, and
everyone was eager and anxiously
waiting. It put you -in mind of the
crowd at the coronation celebration in
London, as every one was laughing
and chatting and seemed to he en-
Joying themselves. There were only
six foreigners present and they were
mostly policemen and detectives. The
Chinese authorities do not like for-
eigners to see these affairs and so
keep them dark, but 1 got to hear
Every situation, no matter how
tragic, appears to have Its lighter
side. Witness the story that came
out of San Francisco to the effect that
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien Is heart-
broken over the showing up of his
long career as a fake and crooked
prlxe tighter. Rich, isn't it? He has
accumulated a comfortable fortune
through crookedness In a crooked
game and now his friends say that he
Is "broken hearted"—will never smile
again—grieving himself to death—
poor things
This Is rank knmmyrot. The only
pity is that there Is no legal way
to get nt this chap He got the
monev fr m public. In ft nutnnar*
under fals* preteiWM. Ud l- probably | J?lly as heavy at the present time as | P™
no more broken hearted than any | ^
f th
lug to meet a splendid 150-pounder
in his prime and expecting live, up-
to-date matchmakers In his old home
to fall for it Even in his palmy
days It would have been murder to
put Young Corbett in the same ring
with Joe Thomas for battle. As he
is today. Young Corbett Is about as
much match for Joe Thomas as poor,
Id, broken down George Dixon would
e for Joe Gans. Young Corbett is '
other crook wh
peeling suckers.
O'Brien
be forgott
of notice
anv mor>
might ter
a grand
the Phlla<
prey
upon unsus-
about it through our native detectives.
Soon after we arrived they brought
an ■>!<! table onto the ground with
an ink stand On this the magistrate
witnesses the execution and signs the
warrant afterwards. All this time th.;
crowd was getting larger and disorder
i eigned supreme, it was a "go and
do as you like" kind of business, there
being no indication as to where the
execution would take place. Present-
ly a stir was seen among the specta-
tors and away at the far end of (lie
ground we saw a Sedan chair making
Its way through the mob. This was
the official conveyance of the execu-
tioner. He came up to where I was
standing laughing and Joking with the
crowd. Under his arm he carried a
leather sheath which contained the
"instrument of death." This Is a
chopper about two feet long and six
inches wide with a keen edge The
next thing we saw caused great ex-
citement, or I might say confusion,
and our attention was drawn to a
string of mounted men carrying rilles
and a funny sort of "Joss" umbrella,
who cantered through the mass of
people followed by the magistrate and
high officials.
"As you look upon the soldier of
the Chinese Empire you would not
give twopence, or to he more homely
"two cents," f r the whole business.
The dirtiest looking lot of humanity
I ever saw. I should say that a week
at the Sunlight Soap factory would
be more In their line.
"Well the magistrate took his seat
at the table and the soldiers just
managed to keep the ground clear
for a space of about ten yards in
front of him. The next thing we saw |
made our blood run cold. AH eyes
were turned towards the entAlice to
the ground where we saw two coolies
carrying the prisoners tied up like a
bunch of grapes and suspended In the
middle of a bamboo pole. As soon as
they arrived in front of the table, the
doomed men were dumped on the
ground without ceremony. They were
almost without clothing and covered
with chains, with handcuffs on hands
and feet, and were the most wretched
objects you could well Imagine With-
out wasting any time a man shaved
off the loose hair on their necks. They
then took one of the victims and
while one soldier held the condemned
man's hands at the back, another
held his pigtail out In front. The
executioner then stepped up and took
his place on the laft of the prisoner
and made ready his chopper. Before
you had a chance to notice anything
more he raised it with both hands
above his head and midst the most
unearthly row and gabble down It
came and off went the head of the
ner. This performance was re-
peated It Is an awful sight and I
am not going to dwell on this <
nds can best let him )
rmlt him to slink nut
keeping silent. But
>ken hearted stories
but about thirty p<
lght h ■ ponderous paunch,
vhl. h m.k.'s him look more like i\ | lon* A* """n *" ,h" h'sd* were
man than a b..xer. Only I "evcred from the trunks a trenien-
Bombs , amj
nt 1;
eighed Kid Sullivan
go before
nnd give
that n
heart.
ght be fatal to that pc
of Baltimore full> twenty-fiv
yet he was knocked out by the
rater In the eleventh round
beUig beaten to a frazzle.
After his bout with Sullivan,
Corbett publicly di
tried for-^rlsa . fighting, and /oun4 went the ball past my ear for a slngta
Only two weeks ag 't
nounced that yung Corlw
tired and was to be seer no v
Inside Um r >P d arena. Jue< thlni of |
it, fouAf Cotbtt* MPlnvt j
*J A has- teen *athe! want- J
aidered bis da'
Now he expec
n. by those who
reer from hie
! fighter to that
ously
flghte:
a be tak<
ve followed his ca-
ys as a preliminary
emorable day when
defeated McOovern at Hartford
and thsn on dtWP to his defeat by
0ulltvaa.
do us row comment
guns were fired off and the people
second j "hoyte^J and laughed
after i "The reason for all this racket is
i that John Chinaman thinks the "Bad
Young nevil' escapes as soon as the head
e con- comes off. and so they make a loud
n end I noise to frighten it away. After the
Job was completed to the satisfaction
of the magistrate, the Chinese specta-
tors took small coins with square
holes In the centre with a piece of
string tied to It and dipped them In
the blood and carried them off Some
took plecea of pupor instead of cotns
About the most horrible part of it was
to .so* the tongues of the men waggle
to and fro and the eyes roll and the
muscles of the face contract for abou*
ten minutes after tho head was
severed from the body. I once heard
a tale about a fellow who had his
head chopped off who jumped up and
ran about the place after being ex-
ecuted This tale however was told
by a British marine, so you can be-
lieve il or not as you like. The sol-
di rs then brought two wooden coffins
and the trunks were thrown in The
le ads being kept out and they are
now on view at the City Gates as a
warning to other mis-doers.
"What 1 particularly noticed was
the abeince of expression or fneMnf
on the face.s of the Chinese who were
pre ' nt It was a morbid sight but
it never affected me In the least; I
mean bodily. Of course I had a civi-
hz I feeling of horror at the time
which was not pleasant A lot of
pb .i "graphs were taken, but owing to
it being in h a wretched day very few
amounted to anything. However, I
managed to get one or two which
I am keeping among the souvenirs of
my sojourn among the heathen Chin-
ess. After this novel cxporience I
returned to my quarters."
THE IU sv MAN.
Figures in Most Successes and <;ivcs
More Time to Public Im-
provements.
Hid It ever occur to you that the
busy man Is the one who always has
the most time and figures in the
greatest number of successes?
II is the busy man In Omaha who
is doing things. It is the man who
has more thnn he can do to look after
hi> own affairs who. is put on the
committees when there are things to
do.
It Is the busy man who pleads busi-
ness and presents excuses when he is
selected at the meeting to perform
somj office, but it In the same busy
man who is finally decided on for the
Place—whether it is a fourth of July
celebration or an investigating com-
mittee that he Is wanted on.
The reason is obvl ius.
The busy man is the one who does
things The busy man is the one who
can be depended upon to do things
It Is the busy men who are doing
things, not only In Omaha, but all
over the world. Such men* are suc-
cessful because they are busy. They
are busy because they are successful.
They have got more than they can
do. They have diversified Interests
to look after and they have acquired
these Interests because they were
busy and did not have time to look
after any more business.
They have become the president of
this and chairman of thnt, and when
a man Is needed to do things they
are also put on the committee.
The man who has not the time
to serve on a committee to further
the Interests of his home town or
who Is too busy to do anything after
he to put on ii oo nun it too la rarely ^
It taken ft busy ifian to be a suc-
cass. it tnkes a busy man to do
things.—Omaha News.
When a doctor Isn't v<
known, women say to him:
der how he makes a living
knew anyone to have him."
rv well
"I w« n -
I never
The average ?
town <1>e n't ( ||
about the salary
irl who work down
sider It wrong to lie
she Is getting
A town may not grow very f i«t,
but ttofi|' 111 mi' t i lto!
amount oT work for the evangelist
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