Show I i FIVE MINUTES WITH PROMINENT STORY FELLERS i KICKS Harry Payne Whitney tho day hi hig own and anel other noted horsemen's racers were ero shipped for Lon London on on the Minne Minne- kiha ha said of the tho death of racing racin in New ew York You A good many jockeys jockeR have been hard bard hit A jockey ey told tola me last week a very sad ad tale talo of misfortune I 1 lis listened us- us s- s toned sympathetically All Ali Too Joe OCt said 1 I when a man mana a is 19 down few han hands s are arc extended to him J The The jockey as he chewed chewe a 3 straw smiled bitterly F Few w hands yes hands yes that's 5 right he said sai but think of f the feet ONLY A COUGH Hart O. O Ber Berg tho the Wrights Wrights' man manager a ager er was u-as talking at Le Lc Mans Inns about the Wrights Wrights' ri rights skill said sahl a 3 returned tourist tourist tour tour- in iii New w York lork Hart Hart told me mc how Wilbur Wright bt got ot rather impatient with the th aerial pilots lIe he was teaching to run his machine One afternoon according to Hart a French count the tb most promising of the learners had hac a slipup and fell tell No o harm was vas done and the count excused himself on account of the high wind and so soI forth Wright smiled smilen sarcastically 3 ai as ashe I he the tho damaged machine Hart said it wap wa just like a tenderfoot he once saw in Texas This This tenderfoot thought ho he could ride and anti in front of a lot of s mounted ed a pon pony pon The pony soon threw rew him bun A co cowboy boY helping him ulm up said sala Hello What hat threw you you What throw me Why she bucked something fc fearful Didn't you ou see her buick buck cried the tho tenderfoot I Buck 1 said air the cowboy She She's s 's only coughed J ABOUT THE SAME SAM SAML NIT han lIan Kellar the retired ma magician was talking in Philadelphia about stage stag ma magic magil g Ic is said so it itu It not ho 50 good as u used ed to be The younger magicians ic ans do doDot donot donot I not Dot study and practice as we of the tho previous generation did rid Hence nowadays nowadays nowa nowa- da days s 's stage e magic appears rather tame But nut the dont don't D magicians think so The Thc aro are like an elderly fat fatman fatman man whom I saw at my tailors tailor's 8 tho other oth oth- er day dav Let me see sir ir said the tailor you haven haven't t been in for two or three years ears Perhaps I i had better you ou All right said the fat man You lOU II 11 find finn no chan change e in m my my figure though The Tho rho tailor got to work with his tape The Tho measurements were is called out and jotted down don Tho The fat man said at t the be end enel Well the tho th measurements are arc about the same as tho they use used to be ch oh Yes sir about the same was tho the reply reElY Chest a trifle lower down that's aI alt all sir RATHER A VULGAR TURN You Yon know Walter Crane the En Eng lish am fist said an illustrator Well We WeI 1 I dined lined with ith him in London last year I I and he tall talked rd about the old fa fashioned London Lonrlon halls s. It It seems that in his youth he worked for an engraver n m med Linton and anc now and then he would be le sent fent to a music hall ball to make for some one or other of the weekly papers Music halls have r he been en refined greatly since those Victorian days Back in tho the lOg the the the- were pretty l conro For instance Young loune Crane hl hoard heard tb the lion com corn I ique Bill Brown ono one ni night ht Brown sang a 3 song and tho the encore being enthusiastic en en- brought him out again II He HeI I then thea bowed and ann sai said S 'S Ladies and gentlemen I dont don't know another song so I cant can't sing yo you one Dut But in response to your kind enI encore encore en en- I core I 1 ve ye c got ot a rat i-at in my pocket ant antIll and Ill I'll skin it with ith my teeth THE TItE TRIAL OP OT LEARY Joseph M. M r. r Patterson Chicago's mi millionaire mil mil- novelist st was discussing a ajude judge jude whom ho lie believed to be he corrupt The way n-a n he conducted that trial said Mr Patterson bitterly reminded me mo of the tho trial of Red Reel Face Leary th the Tombstone horse thief There was tremendous excitement in Tombstone when R Red d Face Faco was cap A dozen men were wOre hustled into the time poker room of the Lone Do Dog ant and commanded to consider themselves a jury and t to pass a verdict on tho the no no- thief The Tho men inca went into the accusations accusation There evidence evi i pretty thoroughly was no deuce dence against Red Ked Face Faco in this case He was a villain but in strict justice the they must pronounce him innocent at the time After fter banging a long time on the poker room door the door tho town was full o of noise and excitement the excitement the jurymen were Ilet let out Thc They r found themselves in the tho i b bar r amid a crowd of boisterous citizens rr 3 verdict gents Judge asked sled Not guilty said sail tho the foreman An growling sound ominous arose Frowning glances were exchanged Bronzed hands lingered fingered pistol butts ner nef 5 Not guilty ch eh l' l said the judge Ho TIo bit his lip and ho in a puzzled way Then he be sm d d and said Gents you II 11 have to go JO back to the tho poker room and reconsider that there verdict p o right Back with em Th The fools roared tho the crowd And And the jury y was thrust unceremoniously y back into the thc poker room again They They knew now what was expected of ot them and they thoy the soon came forth and declared that the they found Red Face Face- Leary guilty guilt j At this a l murmur of relief passed round the tho bar and tho the said con con- Guilty eh Well that's more like liko it Gentlemen of tho ho jury you can now d disperse Wo We hanged tho prisoner two hours ago ao A REAL CONVERSION I A member of the Union league of at New York was praising the character of ot tho the lato late Oliver Hazard Perry Ho said Here was a mart man of sincerity He was talking one day I remember of a maid cervant who had got ot religion ion anti and it seemed to me as I listened that his own character was of th the same thoroughgoIng thoroughgoing thor thor- o sort as that which followed the maids maid's change of heartSo heartSo heartSo heart So you are converted Maggie ra gic l' l this maids maid's mistress said to her I dont don't know ma maam ma'am am said tho maid seriously but hut I 1 seem to be e. e A Agre gre great grett t change has come over o me inc h How great a n change l' l said Eaid the tho lady Well WoJ ma maam ma'am replied the tIe I mu maid d I since that there revival al I always sweep under time tho mats now |