| OCR Text |
Show MDLED CAVE 'BACK. FOKTVJtE ... atr vhea rt oi rom ith. Jr ths one'j one was In great luck. Main n he won, and as often wished who con-- j nSe play, but Hastings, of after glass to pour glass down his parched throat, af-i- a s city. ' cloth ulte ua ! with excitement, and upon a chance to retrieve his e. The excitement became ta-iplayers left their own crowd around the duellists, after time Hastings threw crabs, Davis followed with, the nick, the cease-floe rattle of the dice and of wines went on all night far into the next day. Hastings Every with excitement. mad and every security he possessed ,uld think of he pledged and lost, st, like the gamester who staked In-I- pallid prove gen-Oth- npleg o o ful long titchlng being e cloth, ie colon rly, en toar r8t am is to be ng quite admin lace, it - A Rod-abaug- WEALTHy MEJt OF adora- - ch lino are the admitted that we are the y the in the world ever has world the st people Sue-Th- e says Cleveland Moffatt In Croesus of wealth vaunted itimated at only $8,000,000, but are seventy American- estates As average $35,000,000 each. of Individ-fortuning the rapid growth In this country there Is est In a list of rich men, printed 1.15, according to which New York at that time boasted only twenty-- ; millionaires. And a pamphlet shed some yeara earlier saya that 45 Philadelphia could show only at $1,000,000 or , states valued richest being that of !, the Girard, which reached $7,000,000. iontrast to which In 1892 there over 200 millionaires In Phila-ilrich-peop- is silver to-da- da. , $1,000,-000,00- the number millionaires, according to best mation, Is over 2,000, while the her of millionaires In the United s is at least 5.000, or half the number In the world. There is family alone, at the head of which ds the richest and most powerful In the world, John D. Rockefeller, to New York city, s plaited with form-l- a em TO 'PDFSE'RVE soft i a veiy nee or Is the name Vercelloni, an Italian or, has given to a discovery that rves the human body without use of ordinary methods of and tly . h Signor h be pun i yard em-iln- ;e gar surah Is and here no necessity g. to touch at all, much Icbs to dissect The old explains the doctor. iod, which Is a very expensive body Is entirely done away with. No ions or wrappings are used. 'be body Is simply placed in known figure which Is laid Inside an nary wooden coffin, and between two a patent powder mixture Is which preserves every ikied, ire of the body, and especially le face, exactly aa it was at death, red through a glass I lid. there is ing revolting In Its appearance, person appearing as though In coffin, a odeli es is and 8llght rately, might ralght t, and In to -- New with flour, little 5 and and high, at point curve took odet r laziness Is a great contributory e of lunacy," saya a British spec-- t The only in mental diseases. to preserve a healthy mind la to a busy life. But modern condl-n- , the compulsory retirement from ifesslonal occupations of men who a reached the age of, say, 55, con-- i n them to spend the rest of their In Idleness. They become respective and brood. They feel mselvea from the m Hue of life, and almost uncon-usl- y a state of rebellion Is set up. m lack of mental exertion the In loses the nutrition It has been ustomed to over a long period of f. Other conditions are act up uch cumulate in mental degenera- .1 side-tracke- d i and story waa told by Mr. Baker, of colute fame: Some year ago, In too, he had a man In hla employ the name of Tim Reardon, who was This filtered a handy man with tools Mr. Baker was walking through yard one day he noticed that thb Ingles on the gnhle end of one of buildings had blown away. Seeing in, he called him, and asked him If could replace the shingles. Of course I can," said Tim. Apd Immediately creeled a temporary using to work on. some thirty fet th. He got his hatchet and aliUiglea and tip on the staging. He had been hut a short time, however, when tripped and fell to the ground, t Custom Pleasta Fair . a Venice the women of the lower sea accept tributes to their and !li. ided era 1 WiWiirfriiii mT beau-fro- m perfect strangers as a mat course. It Is considered not ') proper but polite to compliment lng maiden on the charm of her "utlful cyi-- i op complexion. If one '' wt the skirt of a pr Jr woman slnuatton toward Manager McGrew to the effect that Bill Clarke would he welcome there If New York turns him down. As yet "Noisy Bill's sentence tor next season has not been fixed. Otis Clymer, the Pirate outfielder, declares he has started gymnasium work and expects to be In fine shape when the season opens. Clymer states that poor health at times last year prevented him doing what he Is capa- A "syndicate of fifty actors have announced the formation of an organization among themselves for the pur"Farmer" Burns won a decisive vicof offering $255,000 for the franpose tory over Charles Hackenachmldt at chise of the Boston Natlonnl league Kansas City Jan. 24. Hackenschmldt dab end what advertising It will bring on the first fall, Graeco-Romastyle them. Burns won the next two. The directors of the Little Rock club The Americans won from the Canadosed a deal with Charles Zimmer, dians at the San Pedro. Mexico, golf the veteran catcher, to manage the links tty fourteen strokes. Percy Bar-ei- t Little Rock team of' the Southern ble of. and three local amateurs defendthis year. In addition to manBernard Nichols and league Zimmer Manager McGraw of the world's ed Canada. will do most of the aging a not he would Amerthree local amateurs defended give champions sajs team. for the catching snap of his finger for indoor work and ica. la not In favor of walks or runs. He The American golfers defeated the Trotting. wants the practice on the field where Britishers In the International golf he can see It and, w hile It need not be match at Mexico City, jy the aggreFire destroyed a large part of the long. It must be lively while It lasts. gate score of 6 up. The match was stableB belonging to the Mason CJty ImHe saya It 'would be difficult to divided Into two rounds of eighteen (Iowa) Driving club. About twenty toaa stands the In it one one prove upon game holes, being played pairs, valuable horses were In the barn, and day, only he would like to have the with two foursomes and one pair Oak e abolished. match having been increased to five all were saved but six. Golden was so badly burned that recovery Is players per side. those burned were Central League. At the annual indoor meet of the doubtful. Among owned Hlckok, and Bessie Leaflet, by Billy Regan, a crack Toldo player, Columbia University Athletic associaMerrill. Lee, by has signed with the Springfield team. tion In Madison Square girden, New The organization of the new Eastern "Buck" Connors, the star first base-ma- n York, Melville Sheppard, a schoolboy Illinois Speed association has been of the South Bend team, has been from Brown Preparatory school, Dr. J. T. Montgomery cold to St. Paul. running with the colors of completed, with Athletic club, es- of Charleston as president and W. W. The' Wheeling magnates say that the It Is the report that "Lefty Miller, the tablished a new Indoor running record Llndley of Urbana as secretary. with races to sixteen have designed outof 6:25 for the mile, Cleveland boy, had Jumped to the purses of $1,000 each. The races will S. R. Guggenheim, one of the bon law league. Is false. be a trot, a 2:21 trot, a 2:25 pace have vice orary Miller, Robertson and Doyle presidents of the Aroerl and a2:30 2:16 pace. In addition, there Wheelcan committee of for the the to games, Olympic again pitch signed which are to be held at Athens this will be the usual number of $400 purse ing club next season. events. Champaign, Charleston, Kanspring, has forwarded to Julian W. Springfield has traded Shortstop Mckakee and Paris are members. Cancomchairman the of of finance Alberts the Pitcher Grew for Curtiss, ton team. This was about the only mittee, a contribution of $500 toward Automoblllng. trade registered at the recent Central defraying the expenses of the team that will represent America. league meeting. Two marvelous records were estabAll existing offirlal bowling record Jack Boyle, first baseman of the Tobeach Jan. on Ormond-Daytonlished team were for been broken at Chi ledo club last season, has average signed and mile a 26, being made In 0:28 as manager of the Terre Haute team cago last week when the Ansons rolled 0:18 The mile In in a kilometer scores was of posithe and 1,028 1,052, season. 1,100 This for next against at a rate of 127(4 tion Ed. McKean had been mentioned the Hofmanns for an average of 1,063 0:28 flat. The former record on the hooks miles an hour, la faster than for. ever traveled before.. Bowling congress anything Springfield announces It Is certain to of the American Fred II. Marriott, driving a wonderful , 1,0611-3was made last February by have a city park for weekday games American speed steamer creation of while the Sunday games are to be the Benslngers of the Chicago league. In a tournament for the Illinois state fifty horsepower, accomplished both played at Hill Top, the country championship outside of Chicago be- these feats The only event run off at Ormond, tween Peoria and Bradford teams Clarence Brayshaw of the Peoria team Fla., Jan. 27, In the automobile meet broke all records. Brayshaw rolled was the 100 mile race which Clifford thirty straight strikes, completing two Earp, the Englishman, driving a 100 consecutive 300 games, one In the horsepower car, won In fast time Late New by Wire. n . loul-strlk- Phil-adelphl- Irish-Amertca- n 5 2-- C. M. DANIELS, WORLDS CHAMPION SWIMMER. THE DEAD TO LVfACy Young men who Inherit fortune and devote their time to spending them fall ready victims to this under-- i mining of the brain. Tragedies of the kind are constantly occurring. Many women and girls who belong to the leisured class are saved from a like fate by their devotion to dress and bridge. The zealous pursuit of those measpastimes requires at least some ure of mental exercise. Perhaps that Is the best t.at can lib said of them. It Is dangerous for a man who has led a busy lfe to abandon brain ex ertlon. Me leal science has prolong ed the span of human existence, and yet retirement Is now forced upon men at a much earlier age than hitherto. The only hope for these men Is to cultivate soma engrossing hobby." QVICK. T7UT FOD lr i. being simply in a peaceful sleep." Signor Vercelloni Is of the opinion that the discovery will do away with the religious feeling against cremation, and piay be valuable from the point of view of identification in criminal cases, and also in scientific research. In cases of family disputes, said the doctor, "think of the enormous advantage it would be to be able to gaze through the crystal lid and see the body fully preserved. There Is a bis case, Involving millions of mon ey, in the law courts now which my discovery would have decided without the dispute being dragged before the public. Then consider the historical advantage in having the remains of eminent personages exposed to the Manchester veneration." public (Eng.) Chronicle. LAZINESS LEADS ar, 1 mill, 0. to-da- a. i, ' Ml MiniWNMiSliill V, kind of security. But he would not. Then Hastings hurled dice and box across the saloon, smashing a splendid mirror, and, throwing himself exAmerican League Notes. hausted upon a soft chair, burst Into Third Baseman Barbeau, the Columtears, exclaiming, I can play uo bus recruit, has signed a Cleveland more. I have lost everything In the contract. world, I am a beggar! Jesse Tannehlll will go south early this year to get some extra preps at Davis stood still, calm, unmoved, watching him. Thpn he said: "Mr. Hot Springs. Tis said that Lajole has signed a Hastings, listen to me. I will forego four-yea- r new contract with CleveI have won everything on one land, calling for $30,000. condition and that Is, that you will Pitcher George Mullin tells his Detake a solemn oath never to touch troit friends that he will report lightcards or dice again." The ruined gambler fell on Ills knees to thank er next spring than ever before. Joe Yeager signed a New York conhis benefactor and to take the oath. tract last week, thus putting an end The latter Immediately restored everyto the talk of his transfer to Buffalo. thing he had won, and, oddly enough, Third Baseman I,ee Tannehlll has Hastings kept his vow and lived a come to Chicago's terms and has and wealthy prosperous man. signed. He says his leg Is as well as But the medal has a sordid reverse. ever. In When after years Scrope Davis, reJake Stahl thinks that socker will duced to great poverty, ventured to crowd football from the colleges. ask him for some slight assistance, Jake was a while a pigskin player the hound wrote him a curt, formal re- student at Illinois. ply, In the third person, regretting The St. Louis club will loan Ed that Mr. Hastings was unable to offer drafted from Waco, to St. Mr. Scrope Davis any assistance. Paul or else send hint back to Texas for further seasoning. The Washington club Is making TO-D- Ay strenuous efforts to sign a Toledo High school third baseman named and the wealth of this family Is estiFred Merkle, who has been touted to mated at $1,000,000,000, a sum so huge Manager Stahl as another Jack that the human mind quite falls to Knight. grasp it, a sum so huge that if at the Jimmy Collins now announces that birth of Christ Rockefeller had been be will not send Grlmshaw to Minnemaking a dollar a minute and had let apolis, which club secured him for all these dollars accumulate day and Freeman, Sessions and $1,000. There night for all these centuries, he would was no chance, as several clubs renot yet, 1906, have amassed fused to waive claim, we are told. And If Rockefeller should The National Commission has dey turn his wealth Into gold coin cided that Ralph Glaze, signed by and take It out of the country, say Boston, belongs to Savannah, by reaInto Canada, he would carry across son of having accepted Savannahs the border three times as much gold terms, though he afterward refused as would then remain In the United to sign with or report to the SavanStates. Nor would he carry It himnah club. Pitcher Frank Smith has notified self, for the weight of It would be 1,750 tons. And if he loaded It on the Comiskey that he will not play with hacks of porters, each man hearing the White Sox again. He likes Cohis own weight In solid gold (sty 150 miskey all right, but the team Is not pounds). It would require 23,00(1 men congenial. He wants Comiskey to to move It. And If they walked ten transfer him to either the Washing- feet apart the line of them would miles and would ocreach forty-fou- r cupy fifteen hours in passing a given point None of which takes ally account of the daily interest on this fortune. which Interest, If paid In gold, would require the strength of seven men to carry It for it would weigh 1,000 pounds. Such are the riches of a single family. re-in- f! whippy d ffiacj th a m. cold. ;n sutbenticated ftory his wife upon a cast of the dke and lost, he would have risked the welfare lnvrat of the girl to whom he was engaged If the other would havo accepted that a London dandy of TOpe Davis, an ndred yeara ago, of talent, a man a also but icr One wit. night he a and man named ntroduced to u young Inherited a colos-ununneB who had which he had of much, They cornaway. gambled Hastings hazard, ed to play at the same time that he of fun, soon cut out that sort was about to marry and settle 3f 'ace is a well ti ny ftAILS which, luckily, was soft, and he had no bonea broken, but was stunned. While be was lying there, some one Informed Mr. Baker of the accident and be went Immediately to see Tim, who had Just opened bla eyes. Utf asked Tim If he was hurt, and how hs came to fall. Tim answered: "I don't know, Mr. Baker; I tripped adon something up there, nut," he differmuch make doesn't "It ded, down for ence; sure I had to come anyhow." some nails, to Whereupon Mr. Baker, trying "Well, remarked: fuce. a keep straight th,n man Tint, I like to see time you want next the but quickly, on rails I prefer that you come down lltt.e a If It takes the ladder, even Herald. more tlme."-Bo- Mon JZZffi Q'I'-JZJC- to Judge by the exploits of C. M. Daniels of New York and H. J. Handy, the Chicago phenomenon. Daniels is only Is yeara of age. He was born In buffalo In 1887, and began hla racing In the water two years ago. Placing himself in the hands of Alex Meffert. instructor of the Knickerbocker Athletic club, he rapidly Increased In skill. Daniels recent exploit, swimming 100 yards In 0:57 3 5. a new world's record, is accounted his greatest feat. He Is an athlete, stands 6 feet 1 Inrh in stockings, and weighs 165 pounds. Daniels repeatedly has captured the Junior pistol, revolver and rifle rhampionHhlps of the country, and has won prizes In water polo, diving, rowing, running, high Jumping and shot putting. In setting his mark for the swim he also made fifty and sixty yards In yards In 0:261-- g d Outfielder of the Cleveland American League Club. ton or New York American, or burg National teams. Pitts- National League Newt. Inflelder Miller Huggins has signed a Cincinnati contract. Catcher Pete Noonan of St. Paul has sent In hla signed Chicago cont tract. ' Pitcher Cecil Ferguson, New York's 1HilsvUle recruit. Is said to be ambidextrous. The Cincinnati club has asked for waivers on Pitcher Vowinkle and Catcher Street. The Nationals' leading batsman, with Cin"Cy" Seymour, has 1906. for cinnati Second Baseman Henry Pattee. drafted from Jersey City, has signed a Brooklyn contract. Reports from Chattanooga are to the effect that Brooklyn's clever outfielder Johnny Dobbs. Is going blind. Donovan la trying to land Catcher Jack Ryan of the Columbus team, for the Brooklyns. Pat had Ryan over In St. Loula some yeara ago. Catcher George Olhson has with Pittsburg. That mukea sixteen cut of seventeen contracts sent out by Pittsburg returned signed. Two former noted National league players. Jim Keenan and Jake Stcnzel, will manage a team In the K. of r. league of Cincinnati next summer. The deal for Jim Delehanty still hangs fire. Fred Tenney now wants Brldwell and a pitcher In exchange for James and Hanlon declines to see pt it that way. The Pennsylvania outlaws are after Ixxde Ritter. Ihe clever catcher of the Brooklyn team. I.oole Is a resident grounds, where all games were played last year. President Carson has been notified by Secretary Farrell that the leagues claim . for damages against Muutner, former owner of Wayne club, has been allowed national commission. Mautner suspended until it Is paid. Isadora the Ft by the stands 100-yar- Swimming seems to be most successfully taken up by the young athletea, 0:3125. department. It seems a settled fact now that Newt Fisher will he one of the regu lar catchers on the Nashville team next season. Outfielder Noblett of the Atlanta team waa lust week banqueted by the hoys of the Gordon Institute at team contest and the other the Individuals, ills average for the fifteen games was 232 pins. Wien the teams started Peoria was away behind In every contest, but the phenomenal work of Brayshaw gave them every game rolled. The fifth annual Sunny South shoot closed at Denham, Texas, Jan. 27. There were ten high average moneys for the five professional and the five amateur, making the highest score for the entire program. These averages were won in the professional class by W.R. Crosby, 1.180; F. C. Relsl,. 1.175; T. T. Hubby. 1,159; U Wade, 1,158; Walter Huff, 1.152; liar-ol- d Money, 1,148. In the amateur class the winners were: C. M. Powers, 1,- 180; Harry Taylor, 1,160; H. C. 1,151; M. E. Atklnnon. 1,136; Hatcher and Graham. 1,124; Maxwell, Barneavtlle, Ga. 1,131. Southern League. Harry Keller, of Carnegie, llonus Wagners protege, has been signed by the Nashville club to play first base. Manager Otto Jordan of Atlanta has been engaged to couch the Georgia Military College at MilledgeVllle, Ga. Pitcher Shaffer, signed by Atlanta. Is a nephew of Manager Charles Shaffer, late of Savannah, now of Rich mond, Ya. Sam Imroque, w ho has been play ing In Southern leagues since 1893, Is em ployed In the Birmingham, Ala., fire Ths Western Aesoclatlon. President Shively announces that his league has voted to offer a prize of $1i0 for the best schedule for Its circuit next season. The veteran Tim Murnane, In com mentlng upon the American association meeting, said: "It was pleasing to the major league that a new light broke In from the west In I). M. Shively of Kansas Cli. A bitter rival for years of George W. Telieau, Shively waa picked as a fighter, but on the level, amt while practically the chnm of Pennsylvania. Mr father owning a beaut Pardon, to say, ferryboat that vplies the raging Susqueone has only the most dazzling hanna. receive to girl" the Manager MeCloskey denies the re. smile ind a bow In return for by mark attributed to him that he "la pton of the "brush, aa he pleased to awkwardness. At cafes frequentedwait for able to decide the ability or a young ca'I those Icuguca under Class "It, he the people It Is the custom chair for a player after seeing him work In one stood Just us strong w'tlt the hlghe eri to say, when placing seat, thla Take game." He wouldn't be guilty of such classes. Shively Is a bright basebal women, one of the if be esres to love a man and h here foolish break, Bit or. a beautiful blonde." " tossed an In follow tlH I'"- have to W said Is mar Toledo case he a ly brunette." tre three-me- n In Wat-herhea- d. Baseball. Charles ("Chief") Zimmer, who has been an umpire for the last two years, announced that he would return to the game this season as an active field player. Following hla successful experiment of last year, President F. A. Carson of the Central league has decided to repent his school for umpires. At the same time the raptAlns of clubs will also be railed to attend the session. The Interstate Baseball league, of Kalnmaxoo, Untile Creek, Jackson, Muskegon, and Saginaw, In Michigan, and Ft. Wayne and Marlon, In Indiana, has been lutinthed and will begin Its playing season about May 15. coup-pose- d 1:15:4025. Ills performance waa especially creditable because be lost a rear tire early in the race, and drove the remaining Mxty-twmiles on the rim. The old record for 100 miles stood at 1:18:24, made last year by Fletcher. Cedrino, driving a 1 10 horsepower ear, was second In the race, finishing 59 seconds behind Enrp. Cedrino led from thirty to seventy tnllcs, where he stopped to change tires. o Football. Dick Remp, the Wisconsin eleven' star renter, has been offered the position of coach of the Oberlln university football team for next season. From an authoritative source It la learned that Harvard will play Intercollegiate fool ball next season an usual, anti there will be contents with Yale and Pennsylvania. i The faculty of the University of Wisconsin will doubtless approve the suggestions of the New York football rules committee, provided the other members of the "Big Nine conference will do likewise. Boxing. J "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien Ima received an offer from James tawes of Newcnstle-on-Tne, Engluml, for a fight with jHck Palmer, Britain's heavyweight champion, during the Northumberland cup meeting In June. The purse will amount to more than $250 additional $8,000, with for expenses. O'Brien has refused lo accept unless the purse Is one of with $1,000 for expenses. ) $10.-OO- ) |
