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Show fa'RME'r witness Mentone bad a teinus Hope of he e wild ride yesterday which very have to repeated want not if ever. ! was coining from several miles In a platform n the country, riding e was ,v and on top of this he a neighbor's buggy that had In a runaway and was i disabled e up on Hopes (,d bottom-sidw 1th the wheels uppermost and iy, lytled in place. on some blankets pe was sitting the on laid upturned bottom weie he neighbor's buggy and riding quietly and peaceably when, just e had got about half way down the hill past the Hemerlck farm, the i,.s became frightened, sprang to side and tipped the buggy entirely bottom-sidup. Ids maneuver brought Hopes buggy up, but also brought the up, and. hbors vehicle right-sid- e i Hope clinging like a bat beneath combination of vehicles, the horses off down the road at a high rate peed, paying no attention whatever he frantic calls to whoa" which ,, shouted to them from his with nothing but his ping hands and feet to keep him ner rePHJ n haul-hom- him st Ir. rot. have j. feet, id tlie t Ik mowed ; y feet the rushing horses veered off to near the side of the road near the poor farm and running into a shallow ditch there tipped the combination vehicle entirely over again, this time with Hopes buggy right side up and the other inverted, and this placed the farmer la Just the same shape he had been when he started. The lines were still within hfs reach, now that he could affoul to use his hands to pull on them with, and he soon had the horses under control and drove into town all right. Rut here a new difficulty confronted hint, for no one could believe his story, nnd after friends had smelled his breath and found he was not Intoxicated, he was in a fair way to have a court of inquiry sit on him to investigate as to his sanity, but fortunately just as the matter was growing serious Indeed two farmers came Into town who had seen the strange spectacle as Hope rushed past beneath the rigs, his hack scraping the ground and his voice shouting to the horses and their confirmation of his story restored his reputation for sanity at once and made him an object of pity instead of suspicion. Tho neighbor had agreed to pay $1 for having the buggy hauled in, but ilace. now he will not do so, for he claims was hard work to hold on and his that Hope used it to haul his own ngth was just about spent whan buggy on. Cincinnati Enquirer. prisoner r- - had qveeh tuvr of ten- - e Im e I 9. lids on d hliJ the tal, what j: peril-positio- eplied tl to tr caw. Irate, is t ,inst of all the eggs of a still family of birds is that laid by icndor. At the present moment re is not In existence one single glass case, in the National museum at Washington. The original owner sold it in London for 1122 ($110) in 1831, whereas its present value is estimated m perfect specimens and the few at more than $10,000. In 1853 two re ate can be seen solely In some other auks eggs were sold in London 83 ($123) apiece, while in 1809 he wealthiest and richest collec-Th- e for 74 ($370) for a condor, which is found in laird Caervagh paid them California and the Andes, Is damaged specimen. A Scotchman of to die out. It the name of Rowell got fwo of these r hopelessly doomed iso practically Impossible to collect eggs in Edinburgh In 1879 for 32 shilfresh specimens of Its eggs, as lings. A few weeks afterward he soli 240 ($1,200) each. e rare and extremely shy birds them for At the present time thero are only thousands of feet above the Ins, in the most rugged and inac-ihl- e from seventy to eighty specimens fastnesses of the San Ber-lin- o Known to be still in existence. Twelve and San Jacinto mountains, of these are In the British museum. This bird died out because of its inice finding and plundering a con's nest is regarded as a wonderful ability to fly and of the difficulty of its sensational event. A prize of $300 movements upon dry land. It used to nest in thousands on Funk island, a uld not tempt any sane man to start on the hunt for a fresh condor egg. rocky islet opposite the coast of Newill more costly are the eggs of the foundland, which at one time was used at auk. or garefowl, a flightless as a kind of provisioning station by inp bird with large head, heavy whalers, who used to kill these fat and !y and compact plumage, the last palatable birds in hundreds. The birds j living specimens of which were were knocked on the head with dubs, overed and killed in Iceland in plucked the feathers used to fetch a 1. One of these eggs Is now to be good price and salted for future cona, carefully preserved under a sumption. put' n doin', ready: don't t i i. toned hern f ns time E tlawyer, In h : or it" i nan fr "Wei! yer I c bune. (I. want' i ed TERMS VSED gro:. oil t: wfori J yon j eg BO be Is t ouriL ere - fore- are. is Ini for hli ! s! rone o st.-- G- so by Bushranger" another instance of Australian slang is a curious case of verbal degradation. From an etymological point of view there is no reason why bushranger should not be as respectable a word as purkranger. In the early. Australian newspapers such advertisements as Wanted, a good bushranger, were quite common The word then meaut an expat fenced hush-maBut when the bush became the refuge of robbers of batiks, mail couches and lucky diggers, the word acquired the sinister meaning that It now possesses brigand, outlaw, desperado. A (so swagntan" or "sw aggie called fiom the swag.' or personal luggage wrapped up In a h'nnket strapped to his hack) is a genuine Australian traveler in search of work, hut a "sundowner is the antljiodean professional tramp. The sundowner strolls front one squatter's station to another, always taking rare to arrive at sunset, for it Is the traditional practice of Australian squatters to give food and shelter to all comers for the ti'katoo. night. n o! vlien : Australia. It was originally a itemptuous nickname for the small tralian farmer, but was gradually epted as a synonym for that class. Jocky, says Prof. Morris, "is a com-tiabbreviation. Anthony Trollope mmitted a good many blunders in book describing his Australian nr. One of them was his definition cockatoo: It signifies that the nn does not really till his land, but l.v scratches it as the bird does. A itic gives (his as the true explana-tn- : when the great rush About 1 the gold fields had ceased, itnml-nit- s turned to the land, swarmed all er the country, and ate up the sub-meof the squatters, who likened 'in to an Invasion of devastating cocka-s.- " them ids, and chi listened By 18i',7 the word had traveled New Zealand, for Lady Barker, au-- r of "Station Life In New Zealand," I tiling in that year, remarked: live heard a man say In answer to a iicstion about his occupation, Im a In ring, AVSTKALIA IJV Oekatoo Is a word of varied mean- - w eno nthi MVCH MOJEy ex-n- ? Too ids?" ?d the WOUTH EGGS he lawr the te iswetT f seif ' KEPT THE 'RETAItlffG FEE tbefl llltl' i, and ed The client expressed his thanks nnd took his leave. A few days ufter the gcntlmtan called upon Webster again, and told him that a compromise had been effected and the matter sutlsfac-U- : ily settled. Webster duly congratulated his visitor on the result, and would have turned to other business, fie wvt.'id be. hut the visitor seemed to have some"A thousand dollars. further on Ills mind. .hc thing "A thousand dollars! exclaimed -Of course, he ventured, after a ntli man. "lcs. But think for a moment wnat pause. I shall not require your serv4m engaged to do. lr. I do not only ices, Mr. Webster." "Id myself at your service In the mnt-iCertainly not, sir. perhaps for a month or more, but "And how about the $1,000 I paid ti'har myself from accepting any faintly asked the gentleman, 'Ter. no matter how large, from the you?'' who was not quite teconclled by payLiir.tlfr. such a sum for services which The applicant, being satisfied with ing never to be rendered. were e explanation, wrote out a check for Olt. ah!'' responded Daniel, with a e amount nnd Rave It to the great unsmile. "You don't seem to bland lvorie, who, after ho had put It In That Is simple. It vety derstand. n pocket, said: foe called In law a "I will now give you a bit of advice was a retaining contract By virtue of the 'alls. If you can compromise this retainer. What should retainer. a heroine I ulso tslncss upon fair terms with the I retain, If not my fee? ialntirr. you had better do bo. Whm Runic! Webster was at the tilth of Ills career, a gentleman iilti d upon him one day to engage hit for the defense in an Important tise at law, the nmount at stake In u Hilt being $85,000. The gentle-i.i- n asked Webster what the retain-- W ry- ot a of N" met- .- g on). k ter I b it on ft r, 10 COf icheJ - If. ie ntf-- i iOir I D'Jlt' gUI' bll'ie mill1 " Iran THE SWO'RD OF 1812 Artt job'lc -- P ' I a' Mini'1 ilsslo ,e thirO t the dc' lie'll ucr t.'. itlft 'l has tils mime upon IL Hrc, the . are not r tlii-nr worn ami Idurrd by nanus that tourheil I Item ' by ysr, it If wo lniiii Mini i rule them we muy tboii tlcfiiihi'r nil. u etnll..? 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I T Ho abort Small, (ii htiv Mll I tUiii But thi i eld awoid I I The annual congress and tournament of the Wisconsin State Bowling, assoeiaiion will be held in Oshkosh during the week opening Feb. 19 and ending Feb. 25. The Grand Rapids (Mich) players proved too strong for visiting curlers from Chicago, Detroit, and Thames-vllle- , Ont., and won the majority of the prizes and trophies offered at the second annual bonspiel of the Grand Rapids Curling club. In an eSJbition match with J. Ferdinand Poggenburg, New Y'orks best amateur player, Slosson ran 400 points at eighteen inch, two shots in balk, in twenty-siinnings, an average of 1510-26- . He negotiated the highest runs ever made on the Llederkranz club tables. His first run netted 93 points, lje followed that with a cluster of 120, and eatne back with 49. making the three runs in succession. Poggenburg scored 214 points, averaging 8 15 25. Willie Hoppe, champion billiard player of the world at eighteen Inch ,balk line, one shot in, covered the forfeit posted by George Slosson and formally accepted the challenge of the latter to play a match for the worlds title. No date has as yet been set and the place is also to be named. The details will be arranged In the near future. It is necessary that the match bo played within thirty days after the posting of the forfeits, hut it is likely that the event, in which the whole billiard world Is interested, will come off in the course of a couple of weeks, owing to the arrangements necessary to be made for the championship tournament at the 18.2 style in Madison Square garden, beginning April 9. x Baseball. The prospects are favorable for the organization of the proposed Sunday league of central Illinois, Iowa and Missouri cities. A 25 per rent tariff will rule In the Pacific Coasr league next season. year the price was raised to 35 cents, but it cut down the attendance. Manager Mack of the Athletics possesses enough players to form two teams wilhout pressing the pitchers into service as infidders or outfielders. A. H. Favour of New York City, former captain of the Amherst baseball team, was elected coach of the Oberlin College baseball team for the coming season. Ist AUTO WHICH SET NEW MILE this score of years $luwt. ' biin aml Veen snd ,nd by an agreement of the conference and if this Is not agreeable to the other conference colleges It then advises that the recommendations of the re- cent conference he accepted, with the minor changes suggested by the united faculties at a lccent meeting. This action was taken by the university senate, the highest ruling body, at a meeting yesterday, and It is final as far as the university is concerned. Boxing. Palmer says that, as Jack O'Brien not willing to meet him at Newcastle, he Is willing to fight OBrien anywhere In the United States for the best purse. If O'Brleu refuses this offer anybody can have a match with Is Palmer. Kid Sullivan of Washington knocked out Kid Parker of Chicago In the second lound of what was scheduled as a fltteen-rounfleht before the Eureka Athletic club at Baltimore. Parker made a good fight while it lasted, but succumbed to a whirlwind of body blows. In the hottest fight Milwaukee has ever seen Jack Dougherty, the local welterweight, secured a decision over "Buddy Ryan of Chicago. Dougherty's victory makes him a stieng aspirant for championship honors, and it is probable he soon may challenge Joe Guns. battle to ho The first heavy-weigh- t fought at Tom O'Rourke's Tuxedo club, just outside of Philadelphia, will have as principals big A1 Kauffman of California and Gus Ruhlin, the Akron giant, who has been unable to get on a bout with any of the big fellows for some time. The bout Is to bo held the latter part of February. Joe Cans and Jimmy Britt will fight at San Francisco next month. Cans will leave Baltimore for the roast next week, and he says every detail of the battle will be arranged by the time he reaches there. Cans agrees to make 133 pounds at 6 o'clock the night of the fight, which Is satisfactory to Britt. The fight will be limited to twenty rounds. Hating with Pat Powers for a block of Providence Club stock. Pitcher Frank Smith, of the Whlt , Sox, says he has not tho remotest idea of Jumping to any outlaw Hub! Link Ixiwe may quit the Detroit Club to manage the New Castle dufy of the Substitute Infielder Bob Unglaub, ot Boston, Is reported as having slgneq with the outlaw Williamsport Club. Youngstown's famous bone-setteReese, has taken Jimmy Williams In hand for a misplaced tendon in his ankle. Clark Griffith declares that he will pitch again next season, despite the great cares of managing the National League Notes. Joe Tinker has sent In his signed Chicago contract. Thu Pittsburg club will give Elmer Moffltt, a pitcher, of South Bend, a trial. Dave Brain, the new third baseman of the Bostons, has gone to the Arkansas Hot Springs to stay until springtime. There are rumors that Harry Stein-feld- t will retire from . sebull to engage in business wltl relatives in Texas. Con Lucid, the old t i adcdphla and Brooklyn pitcher, will manage the Temple team in the Texas league next season. Pitcher Irving Young has re signed with the Boston H ib. Frank Dunn claims to have him under personal ' I lllgh-lundet- The Boston Hub will send litcher William T. McCarthy, an amateur, hailing from Ashland, Mass., south for a try-ouPittsburg will huve the two tallest pitchers In this league In Vic Willis and "Doc Mosklmnn, the new man from Oakland, Colo. The Brooklyn management Is sore on Pittsburg for refusing to turn over Pitcher Case, on whom Brookln refused to waive claim. Charlie Carr, the Reds new first baseman, makes the announcement that he expects to retire from baseball after the season of 1906. Mike Dunlin averaged .827 of a run per game last season the best aver age of any player In either the National or the American league. Barney Dreyfuss never closes a deal Fred without consulting manager Clarke, and never makes an offer without the consent of his manager. Harry Gessler, who is now a M. LL, wants his releaso from Brooklyn. He Is anxious to hook up e with the Johnstown club, of the league. The Boston club has at last traded Outfielder Jim IXdehanty to Cincinnati for Outfielder A1 Bi Id well, who will be played at short field, Abbat-lcchigoing to second base. Catcher Tom Needham of the Bostons, Is reported as having purchased la controlling interest In the Steuhens-(vlll- e On the Turf. (O.) club, which it Is proposed to In the enter league. W. A. Clark Jr., son of the Montana Catcher Charley Street of Cincinsenator has quite a stable of horses in and Pitcher Franlc Corrldon, sold training at Los Angeles, and among nati are rethem are several that will he brought by Philadelphia to Columbus, with the out as signed having ported east In the spring and campaigned law Willlamspoit Hub at Jimmy down the grand circuit. solicitation. The date for the running of the Prerident Pulliam has decided to make some changes in the National RECORD AT ORMOND MEET. league's staff of umpires, and his latest appointment is John Conway of Webster, Mass., who has had experience In the Connecticut and Eastern leagues. Iv.-l.-- t. Pitcher Arthur well-earne- d II. (Doc") llille-bran- d, lato Princeton coach, has settled all controversy regarding himself by signing a three year contract with Washington. Herman Schaefer, the Detroit second baseman, it Is said, has refused to sign a new contract and threatens to Join Jimmy Callahan In his Chicago City league scheme. President C'omiskey has received the signed contract of pile her G. Edward White. The Washington dentist Bays he Is in fine sllape and heavier than ever before. He will go South with the White Sox ull-fledged Southern League. The Atlunta Hub has released utility plajer Bernard McCay. Catcher George Yaeger, late of Montgomery, Is to manage the Gulfport Hub, of the Cotton States league. Second Busetnan Charlie Schwarts of the Montgomery team is to coach the University of Atlanta team. Dale Gear, late manager of the Little Rock club, has settled his plans for next season by signing to play the outfield for Birmingham. The Montgomery club has give Pitcher John McMaklu leave of absence until May 1 to permit him to coach the Cletnson College team. Tho Shreveport franchise In tho Southern league has been offered to Mobile, hut as yet sufficient capital has not been raised In the Alabama city to buy the grant. Manager Gilks of Shreveport has signed Pitcher D. Willis brother of the famous Victor a first baseman named Fred Clark, and Outfielder II. A. King, of last seasons Bellingham team. Erve Beck, who played second base for the Reds during a portion of the McPhee regime, will he back with New Orleans again next season. Beck is now considered a hopeless minor leaguer. The National board has decided that Charlie DeArmond, who played with the Reds aotne seasons ago. belongs to Little Rock. He began last season with Terre Huute and wound up at Little Rock. Four Southern league players have secured coaching jobs Tommy Stmtch with Georgia university, Dock Croziei with Lake Forest, Bernie McKay with Furman, and Otto Jordan with Georgia Military college. Tri-Stat- 's The Cincinnati club has closed a Santa Cathlina consolation Belling ileal by vhleh Charles Street, the stakes has been sit for March 10. All ea'eher who was with the team last of the entries to the original stake, exseason, will go to the San Franeisco cept the winner, Silver Sue, are eliHill, of the Pacific Coast league. The gible to this event. The distance Is miles, and the transateion is a cash deal, no other one and will add $1,000. Hub it. in jockey figuring player "Buck Ewing, the famous veteran The Gravesend race track, home of catcher, Is dangerously ill of Bright's the Brooklyn Jockey club, haa been disease at Cincinnati. He has been gobbled up by real estate speculators, a sufferer for a number of years, hut and after the season of 1906 the famkept his feet until tecently, when he ous Brooklyn Jockey Hub stakes will broke down completely. Attending he trnnsfi rred to tho Aqueduct course, 1"- - cannot recover. a coot lulling interest in which was sephysicians cured by Phillip J. Dwyer last winter. Football. The Faversham Baby. football and game While at father is playing biii cessfully The navy my this year will he played on Franklin In "The Squaw Man. Mother Favor-- ; of Pennsylvanias sham is bringing up the heir to the field, University family's histrionic fame. latst week ground for athletic sports, on Dec. 1. The American game of football as Kate Mnstcrson wrote of her as folnow played Is wholly unfit for colleges lows: and schools." says President Charles "Julie Opp Faversham has for tho V. Eliot of Harvard In his annual retime lost all direct Interest In the port. stage. In her drives In the park, or If Harvard persists In Its determi- while she pours tea gratefully at her nation to abolish football Penn will homo In East Seventeenth street, or meet Michigan next fall and probably at a Twelfth Nl;ht or Professional another western team, said a promi- Woman's l sgue reception, she has nent athletic authority of the Universone theme. To those who Inquire aho ity of Pennsylvania who attended the has one reply. It Is: rerent meeting of the football rules ' " 'Baby's name Is William Crozlc committee In New York. Favershamto he ailed "Illlly. Crc At Washington park. Brooklyn, Feb. zler was Mr. Faversham's mother'!, football team, 1. the New Zealand family name. We mean to bring Bill) which Is returning home from a vic- up on the most approved sHcntlfli a torious lour of England, won from methods. Hocking chair and cradle Irani romposed partly of New York to te foresworn. Never to walk with of playera and partly of substitutes him; to allow him to cry himself the visiting team by a score of 46 to "out" to dlsrlpllne hint from the first 13. Fifteen jnien played on each side week afPr Ills birth. Hut, Ideas the minand the halves were of thirty-fivdarling! he has us nil as his slaves. utes duration. If he hit rough, Mr. Faversham has been rushes to ihone a doctor, assuring Formul announcement made of the marriage In March of me tliHt I am a hard hearted mothei1 MDs Eunice Josephine Fite to Field- and that the child Is surely choking ing Harris Yost, the famous football to death. I roik him. I sing to hint. conch of the University of Mirhlgan. Wo all rnrry him If h murmurs. Mi l Miss File Is the daughter of Mr. and "granny," my mother, Is a elave to Mrs. I B. Fite of Nashville, and the his nurse, acting really as an assistfamily Is socially prominent. The fu- ant underuurse, and the hoy growl ture Mrs. Yost is a pronounced beauty. strong and fat and beautiful hut a Her younger sister, Virginia, on Dec. tyrnnt. Believe me, no woman had so B married Daniel McGugln, a former tunny approved modern thwrlea as 1, football alar and pupil of or read so many scientific works on Michigan Yost and fall coach at Vanderbilt uni- how to bring hint up before ho came. And yet we all glory shamelessly In versity. The University of Chicago recom- otir complete surrender. Como ann mends the suspension of lntcrcollegl- - see him. and 1 predict that you will ate fnothbll for the period of two years all Join tho worshipers." s. Outfielder Jimmy Callahan, of the White Sox, has decided to accept an offer to coach the West Point base ball team. Outfielder Frank J. Shaughnessy, whom Washington loaned to a League Hub last season, has resumed his law studies at Notre Dante. It Is not generally kuown that the Bostons new first basemuu, Jerry Freedman, two years ago, while playing under Dugdale In Seattle, broke a leg. contract. JOE NEALON, h e we gave It him; iiiimt Late News by Wire. Western League. The Omaha Club has tendered a contract to E. O. Marx, a young Salt Iike rati her. IJncoln (Neb.) has traded pitcher Llehhardt. with St. Joseph last year, to Des Moines for second baseman Frank SttgarL President ONeil declarea that the Western League haa no notion of surrendering the St. Joseph territory tc the Western Association. Fenton, the hardhitting outfielder of Xehiaxku University, will be given a chance In the outfield of the Omaha team by Manager Jtourke. Manager Bill Itourke of Omaha, wunts to get Herman Long from Des Moines to manage his team. The Dii'chman la still much In demand. The Iks Moines Club Is negotiating with the Oakland (Cal.) Club to short-stoButk Fruucka. The latter la anxious to play with Dcs Moines having tired of the Pacific Coast. Manager "Ducky" Holmes, of Lincoln, Inst week Hosed the contract for building the fence, grand stand, and bleachers of tne hail park he has leased. The grounds ure within five nil nu tea' ride of the business district. playera under la to San Francisco Star, Who Play Holmes has twenty-twcunt met. First Baao for Pittsburg. "I would rather have u i ati hi r and a medium pitcher than a American League Note. Pitcher "Nick" Altrock has resigned hill lunt plti her and a poor rateher,' gitys Manager Ducky" Holmes, of tne with the Chit ago White Sox. Pitcher Bert Josslyn, lute of Provi- Lincoln Club. "For the catcher can either make or spoil his pllchci dence, has signed a liimton central t. Pitcher Bernhardt and shortstop esp'dally If the boxmun la a youngTurner have route to terms with ster Just developing. Cleveland. American Association. Pitchers August lloff and Mike G orge Teheau states emphath ally have slrned Philadelphia conthat he has nu Intention of selling his tract a. l)lck I'udden Is of opinion that Kansas City Club. Dr. Pat Carney of the St. Paul Claude Uimsnmn will surely make team, has Item appointed conch of the Cleveland's first base. The Detroit Club has received the Holy Cross College team. Illlly Fox It considered by the signed contract of the clever young News to he the equal of sty out fielder, Tjrus Cobh. Holm Ferris h reported as nego second hist nan ltt the country. o first-clas- y s |