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Show na :0! A BEHIND THE- SCENES IN GfHT - FOURTEEN-YEAR-OL- EGG EATER GIRL SAYS SHE IS GOOD FOR 45. THE WARD BOSSES Kansas City Miss Certain She Can Eclipse Record Claimed by Missouri Champion, Who Offers to Eat 42 on Wager, mn 'ww By ERNEST MGAFFEY Montgomery, Mo. Louis GUI, chant plon egg eater, who has offered to wager $50 that he can eat 42 boiled, scrambled or sunny side up without stopping to rest or to think it over has a rival. Miss Helen Brown, 14 years old, of Kansas, Bays she can equal his feat, and then add the usual order of three eggs to the repast as a chaser or as dessert. iron-claMiss Brow writes from Kansas Time was when a "boss was to be to announce her capacity for City marked by his reputation for physical I can eat 45 eggs. she confiBut those days are In the eggs. prowess. I would like to prove asserts. sere and yellow leaf. Strange to say, dently it to you, but you are in Montgomery even in the toughest of the tough" and 1 am In Kansas City, so I cant, wards, the leaders" are very seldom but I thought I would let you know now men who depend on their knock that there is one who can eat more The down and drag out" abilities. eggs than you can." "boss" of aspires to be a Mr. Gill, who has never really eaten dresser" and a wit, not a slugger." 42 eggs at once, but who has a record Pugilism is left to Its regular exponof three dozen, and says there was ents, and though many of the bosses" certainly room for six more, Is a little may be patrons of the sparring worried about the Kansas City wommatches, they have given the an's challenge. He does not know that it method of the past the would be good form to enter an good-by- , and plume themselves on contest against a woman, and he Is smoother plans to achieve success. afraid that It he did his gallantry would overcome his ambition and he is Sucta a thing as a conscience would permit her to defeat him long something that no unscrupulous ward before lie had satisfied his appetite. Iowa has a champion egg eater, boss will haibor, for to him connamed Stephens. lie visited Montscience is a dead letter in politics. Besides, a boss" may be in one party gomery the other day and without any one year, and on the other side of tho flag or brass band dropped a hint of fence the next year. He may support what lie could do. Let me have 18 eggs, he told tho a measure at first and then switch Have waiter at the Hanover hotel. and fight it. 'Expediency is his watchword, and he will support a man half of them cooked on one side and whom lie cordially despises If he can the rest cooked on the other. Add two see advantage to himself in the end. dozen raillslies and a cup of coffee, The questions of party principles have and iny breakfast will be about coman exceedingly hazy interest to him, plete. for the class with which he mingles, Charley IHinnenherg, proprietor of and the interests which he represents, the hotel, was told about the hungry have no time at all to study political guest and ho asked Mr. Stephens If economy, and no inclination towards he hud not make a mistake. The guest offered to pay in advance as a guarthe ethical side of politics. It was a matter of genuine interest anty of good faith. While the 18 eggs were being to meet tile various bosses, big and cooked and eaten Mr Bunnenburg them and and analyze weigh little, to Hied tlnd Gill to let him watch the them as they came into 'my perspective. They were always a trifle curi- Iowa man's performance, but the Misous as to just how I happened to bo in souri champion was out of town and the meeting could rut bo arranged. politics, and I am quite certain they Miss Brown Is only 14 years old. were decidedly uncertain as to just She admits Una she Is passionately bow I came to be holding down a fond of eggs. position when I could not deI can eat 45 at one time, too, said liver delegates; and yet, meeting me Miss Brown, when inter-low- ed at her in the game at every turn, from the home in Kansas City, but I didn't primaries to the national convent ions, wiile any letter to Montgomery, Mo. they knew I was keeping cases," as Did you read about Mr, Gill's they may have expressed It, and that record? in some mysterious way I must be of I said at the time that some value in the sum total of ele- I Yes, and beat could it for the $50. Some ments making up political life. one must have sent the letter and signed my name, and she laughed in The question of silent bosses and a most unconvincing manner. talkative "bosses is one which has Were you ever in an been variously reviewed, and the av- contest? she was asked. erage judgment has been that the was the reply. I eat eggs No, silent boss was the great power. for their own sake, and not for the boss The fact was that the Bilent tport there is In 11. could talk fast enough when lie wantHow do you like em best? ed to, and the talkative boss could Oh, fried over or scrambled, prostand pat" when he so desired. If it vided, of rourse, they are good and was tho nature of a boss to talk ho fresh" did so; if he was naturally a secretive Miss Browns extraordinary man, he kept still generally. The most powers are well known in her seceffective combination was the Boss" tion of the city. who could talk or keep still as occaNo, she declared, I wont go Into sion demanded, and who could neither a contest with tho champion. I could be goaded nor coaxed into either beat him, though. silence or speech against his better Why, do you know, my elder brothjudgment. er, Willie, has eaten 20 eggs at one It could be said in favor of nearly meal; then, too, my sister ato four every real ward boss that he was dozen oranges one after another last not an orator. Not In the sen so of a Christmas. And I could eat those siiver-tongueMany of eggs, too. them could give good, common-senstalks, and effective ones, too, but they did not essay to split the welkin with 8TOLEN HORSES ARE PAINTED, their perorations, and rather despised in their beaits the windjammer" and New Yorkers Adopt a New Way to Disguise Their Equine Booty. his periods. At the same time, for a a had great genuinely speaker they New York. A new art, whereby deep respect and enjoyed hearing him. As for the man with the pen, they stolen horses are made over, was unwere never unwilling to avail them- covered recently hy Detectives Miely selves of his services if he could and Carrettc, ho were Investigating make good with anything to help on the loss of several horses and wagons. They caught Oulsoppi Clement! and a campaign. Gulseppi Capalo painting a horse and F.It.NKST M'OAFFKY. (Copyright. 1908. hy Joseph II. Row leg) wagon which had been stolen from Sales Zahn & Co., Tenth street and Sixth avenue. Tho two men were so frightened that they dropped their brushes and fell to their knees. In their anxiety to He shows that the people who llvs escape punishment they told the denot only the wagon but along the unhoalthful coastB of Cen- tectives that had been stolen with that ihe horse tral and South America survive the in habitants of the higher and cooler altl it, was being painted, and that the tildes of the Interior. He shows aisa performance was a regular thing. They led two officers to a ceil where that the Hindus, who often reach puberty as early as nine years, liv the horse, changed so that it would to a surprising old age. The Inhabh not have been recognized by its owntants of the southern countries oi er, was found. Its tall clipped and the Europe are found to live much longef mane cut short; white spots had been than those of the more northern lati painted over its body. The animal, oncq a bay, looked almost like a cay-us- e tude. pony of the west, with the glaring To illustrate, in England in a population of 27,000,000 there are but 146 spots on its sides and flanks. Mieiy rubbed his finger on one of centenarians, while in Spain, with the of but there a population spots, but the paint had dried so 18,000,000, are 401 centenarians. The probabili- hard that it would not come off. It ties are that the great mortality found was apparent, however, that paint, in southern latitudes Is found in the and not natural coloring, accounted cities, and is therefore not so much for the spots. the fault of the climate as of an indifference to sanitary laws. Mail Coaches Coming Back. Springfield, Mass. Stage coaches Forcing His Chance. again will carry the mall In man So Shadlboy is in trouble again? Connecticut and Massachusetts towr "Yes, a bit of a card scandal." as a result of the decision of th I told him not to play unfess he Central New England railroad to could afford to lose. its passenger service botw He must have gotten your advice Springfield and Hartford to one tra mixed, and decided he couldnt afford a day. The railroad commissions to play unless he didnt lose. Wash- of both states will be asked to tak. ington Star. action. likes and exceedingly blunt in his way of putting things. But he could neither be wheedled nor intimidated. The mere fact that he had promised the support of his delegates in a convention to a certain candidate did not determine that he would support that candidate at the polls on election. But just so far as his word went, that and Irrevocable. promise was d Needles Parts sod Supplies fot fcoti TThulet Sc Vilsoa and Singe Machines SOLO ONLY BY SINGER to-da- y SEWING MACHINE CO. No. 97 North Academy Avenue, rough-and-tumbl- UTAH John Jackson, Mgr. PIIOVO, egg-eatin- g Buy Buggies Built in Provo at 115 W. 5 SO., BY THE I Curb your well with 24-i- Cement n. Tiling or mw COUL ceLiddiard has put ment tiling into these Provo wells: Bp.Wentz, Mr.Weeter, Dennis Davis, Henry Davis, Sarah Tidball, Mr. Hicks, Mr. Bruner, and L. Iloolbrook. 24-iu- eh THEM GIVE GOOD. COMMOtf-JEUS- E TfU.KJ ANY DEPTH OF WATER sm end Center Streets PROVO, UTAH Provo Meat and Packing All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats; Green and Fancy and Staple Groceries. We handle tho Farmers Products, and pay CASH for Butcher Stock. Nos. 47 to 55 North Academy Phone 39-Avenue. all-Fa- come and go. They rise and fall, and one makes room for another. The fluctuations in politics are as sudden and abrupt as the changes in the stock market, and the boss of last year citimay be the plainest of plain One thing zens the ensuing year. Is morally certain, there will never in be an elimination of bosses an are leaders because politics, absolute necessity in every moveministers and ment, and prime presidents are as surely political bosses as are the ward politicians who hold their wards in the hollow of their hands. Some people, good people, too, have started in to fight bosses, and have with them ended up by and getting their aid to improve conditions in certain districts. Fighting a political boss is an uphill job, for are usuthe respectables, to assistance, any too give busy ally and the boys are all with the boss. I remember a reformer who tried to win out on the presidency of a ward He tried club against the boss. two years and was defeated, but the third term he seenefcl to be sure of success. Nearly every one of the members of the club promised him id, and Dugan, as I will call him, had high hopes. The night of the election, with 189 members present, Dugans name was put before the club amid a storm of applause. His nomination was seconded by at least five additional speeches, each a glowing eulogy of Danny Dugans staunch qualities and services to the party. Dugan sat entranced with the praises which were being handed out to him. The boss candidate, Casey, was nominated in a words and feebly seconded by only one individual. Dugan himself was appointed one of the tellers, and a roar of approbation shook the hall as the chairman announced his selection. Dugan went up and down the aisles, and everybody gave him the glad hand and folded their ballots and tossed them into the hat he carried with Theres another for you, Dan, old boy, or Hurrah for Danny Dugan. He had a ballot shoved at him with the injunction, Make it unanimous, Danny; hurl in a vote for your own ticket," and he put his ballot in the other tellers hat and sat down in tho seventh heaven of anticipation. The counting was finished in a few minutes and Dugan smiled as he saw the ballots all going over to one side. Its a walk away, he whispered to tho Its a landslide, man next to him. The chairman said his neighbor. stepped to the front of the platform and announced the vote for president For Peter Casey, 188 as follows: votes; for Daniel Dugan, one vote. Dugan grabbed his hat and madly ARD "bosses limn un Seventh West d t 2. PROVO MEAT and PACKING (3 A young man In New ro:k vas arrested for kissing girls on the street, but explained he kissed them because him seeing so many pretty girls set What a wave of osculation crazy. would strike Baltimore, exclaims the Baltimore American, if the number of pretty girls turned masculine heads like that. France is confronting a serious problem in the excess of the death rate over the birth rate. It is more than a national it is a world tragedy for a nation bo conspicuous in history and in romance, In poetry and gallant achievement as France to be compelled to face, even remotely, the prospect of dying out. A foreign nobleman who has been that visiting In this country says American girls are foolish to marry for titles, as the titled husbands are no good and do not represent the best of their clas3. He need not be giving tithis out for Information, after the have themselves tled fortune hunters been doing everything in their power to publish broadcast the same half-doze- rushed from thfc room, with a perfect howl of cheers following him. It was his last appearance in politics. The term political boss images to man with a most people a stoutly-buil- t plug hat and a large diamond, who smokes long black cigars and rules his ward or district with a rod of iron. Sometimes he is represented as a man with a heart bursting with sympathy for the poor, who squeezes the rich citizen to help out the constituents whose votes he harvests on election day. He is generally typified as elodequently profane, and story-writer- s light to set him down invariably as of Irish birth. As a matter of fact, however, there are just as many different bosses as there are nationalities in the larga cities, for a boss is simply a leader for the time being, and that may be for a few months, a few years or longer. And some of the most successful of all bosses, politically speaking, have been Americans. The present president of the United States is one of the most masterful of political bosses. Who in his party dare openly say him nay" with any hope of winning out against his strength? The boss in the cities, however, especially the typical ward "boss, is often a man who may be evolved by either accident or design. Sometimes a man goes into the game to help a friend out, or to satisfy a grudge, and the glamor of the thing attracts him and he stays in, to finally emerge as And some one "leader. a of the young fellows who go into politics deliberately will work on for years in the same ward, growing up with the people who Jive there, identifying himself with them and their Interests and finally winning the confidence of his constituents so lastingly that they will vote almost to a man as he wishes. rock-roote- d full-blow- n true boss He knows want, and he does from their desires. constituency which terpretation of the is for the open A leads. both follows and what his people" not stray far away If his ward has a favors a liberal inliquor question he Sunday, and even saloon,- if necessary. He on the subject of "the poor mans club and hot against "blue laws and for the maximum of "personal liberty. Incidentally, he favors a low license, usually. If a boss lives In a Prohibition district he fulminates against the demon rum and points out statistically the ruin wrought by drink. This may not prevent him from having his at the club, or his champagne at the political banquets, but makes him strong with the voters whose support he seeks. Ho is on the alert for blind pigs, or places where liquor is smuggled in and sold secretly, and he leads, delegations to the the is strong all-nig- high-ball- s - mayors office and to the legislatures to protest against the vice of drinking. The average political boss is in politics strictly for what is in it, and that means that he is neither in the game for his health, his recreation nor his spiritual welfare. And why not? Do business or professional men enter into their respective avocations for any of the above reasons? I trow not. The "boss has one fixed, set Idea, and that Is to get there, as he would express it; to accumulate a large roll of simo-leon- s and then retire to some respectable residence portion of the city and forget the low, coarse mob with which he tfas compelled to associate while he was getting his start. The successful ones do this, and the unsuccessful ones remain at the same old stand, re. viling the Ingratitude of the ones who made the riffle and got away with their bundle. egg-eatin- egg-eatin- d spell-binde- e Ward bosses often combine to accomplish results, and they often cut the ground from under one anoiher I without the slightest compunction. boss whose never knew but one word was absolutely and entirely to be depended on both as to what he could do, and what he would do. lie could tell to a certainty about how his ward would go, and if he gave Ms word as to the delegates he never under any circumstances broke. He was a man of strong likes and dis- - LONGEVITY IN HOT CLIMATES Tropical Races Are Shown Much Longer Lived. to Be Because In tropical countries more decayed vegetable matter is found and in consequence more miasma, the idea has become popular that only vigorous health and long life are likely in northern latitudes where frost now and then asserts itself. The fact that humanity matures much earlier in tropical climes seems to warrant the conclusion that it must necessarily Sam-boperish much earlier. Dr. Lugt the to popof Rome attempts put ular Impression to sleep by an elaborate exhibition of statistics. He doesnt contend that the warmest climate is the most suitable to a man, under the conditions of modern civilization, but he remonstrates vigorously against the Idea that a cold and variable climate is the most conducive to the physical and intellectual Improvement of the human race. While northern climates may stalwart frames, statistics produce .show that they do not conduce to longevity. In proof of his position the doctor cites the fact that the average Arab outlives the average Esquimau by not less than 25 years. n l |