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Show I5R3S SECOND SIGHT GREEN-EYE- S rC By LEO CRANE full-grow- n e edge. David threw up his hands in comic pathos. And me df awin thirty per! Milly weve got to quit bein sweethearts. Gee! its a tough proposition, was his comment. Then Krantz flung to the gossips a sensation. One morning he took Milly into Green-eyepresence, into the circular cage. He told her to walk about. Then he put Green-eythrough the drill. When the beast growled, Krantz spoke to him and shook the silken ruffles of the skirt until they tweaked like the cats whiskers, and he taught Milly to give the commands. Then Krantz announced one morning that on the next day Milly would go into the cage alone. David hurried off to find Milly and strenuously opposed the plan. Dont be a silly boy," she said, laughing. ' "But the danger, Milly, the danger. There is no terrible danger, dear boy. He never rushes, never springs, s e Green-ey- e said Milly quietly. really a green eye at all, is blind." David, boy. Green-eyDavid sprang to his feet. Blind! David stared at her, his lips parted in an incredulous smile, he said, Milly . . . you do you know Its true, David, no one knows but David, isnt e They were married in a little southwest town, four months after the escape of Green-eye- . The show made merry at the wedding. There were presents, a check from the boss, and a feast. Some hours after their mar-- . riage came a telegram saying that the missing animal had been captured. The great joy of Krantz, who went on an exalted drunk for the first time since the death of Millys mother, was only equaled by the intense irritation of David. One thing is certain, Milly, he said sternly; youre my wife now, and you dont go back to training tigers no, not even a PAPER MACHINES GRIP " "r " TT"T 111 More Exercises for Boy Athletes ConDangers of Weight-Liftintests to Old and Young g Athletes. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. (Athletic Expert of New York Evening World. Author of Muscle Another mental concentration" exercise is the following: Render the The most important detail to whole body tense (having drawn in a in taking up athletics is the long breath) and push the hands up fact that you will improve only as long as you keep your entire mind on what you are doing. You can stand and one." or pull at chest David lived firm in this decision. swing at a time ,and if an for hour weights Krantz grunted disdainfully and went exerabout moping. Milly thought she your mind is elsewhere all the atom of an not do will cise good. you should be allowed to decide the matDid you ever see a boy in school sitter, and In the light of her pride, ting with his book held up in front of Davids position was the first unpleasant exhibition of mans vanity of own- him, merely trying to deceive the teacher into the idea that he was ership. that boy gained fully as Then Green-eyarrived. He was in busy? Well, much knowledge from the book he was no agreeable mood. Gaunt, fierce from as you will get from athnot reading a wound which had partially crippled do not one of his hind legs, the brute slouched letic exercises into which you whole heart and soul. The your put about his box, and occasionally tore boy who pretends to study wrhen he is at its heavy timbers. is dishonorable toward Then the pride of Milly Krantz grew really loafing athlete who his teacher. The would-bbeyond restraint. Without consulting not put his mind on his work is does the obdurate David, she hinted to old toward ail that Is Krantz that she was ready. There acting dishonorably make-up- . in his best physical was no reason to fear Green-eyand Rolandow, who is, with the possible she was not afraid. exception of Sandow, the strongest Old Krantz prepared the properties diving man, declares this mental conand selected a morning. Green-eyecentration is the whole secret of cage was wheeled to the larger den. prowess. He says he owes his The animal was sluggish and did not evolution from a nervous weakling inrelish the transfer. Now Krantz stood to a giant to the fact that he put all by the door, ready to pass her up inhis heart into every athletic exercise to the cage. He had cautioned her to ward as if trying to raise some heavy he went through. take a heavy chair, an aid that might There is jnuch truth in what he w'eight that was pressing on you. be required, and she carried one of says, and on somewhat the same ida Press the hands upward slowly and those tough whips to bring back to is based more than one of the get with your full strength. Bring them Green-eya lapsing memory of anoth- strong methods down just as slowly, as if they each by the varitaught er masterful woman whose tempera- ous dumb-belThen rephysical culture professors who held a ment had been so like his own. advertise in many of the papers. peat. Ten times the first day, inDavid would not have suspected Here are one or two exercises de- creasing by two each day until you this little drama would never have pendent entirely on mental concentra reach 20. understood why Milly entered the Go through all dumb-bel- l and chest i gers den against his wishes had it weight exercises with this same not been for Firefly, the jumping horse. mental concentration idea, and you On the previous day Firefly had given will find you gain ten times as much evidences of being off feed, and David benefit from them as you would acarose early to see that a soft mash quire in the ordinary evolutions. It is was given the animal. Not finding a , clubs not necessary to use stableman close at hand, he had mixed The or weights in these exercises. the feed himself and was going In with same motions made with imaginary it to the horse tent when the clank Implements will suffice. of a bar against the steel of the big Should you belong to a gymnasium cage caught his ear. Wondering who and wish to use the means for exerwas in that quarter so early, David cise provided there, let me caution slipped into the big tent at that very weighing you to use no moment old Krantz swung Milly into over one pound, no clubs heavier than the tigers den. two pounds and only the lightest David stood completely paralyzed weights in the chest weight machines. with a fearing dread in those first few I have seen many a luckless lad in moments. Silent, unable to cry out, gymnasiums panting away (with open he stood with the bucket of bran in his mouth as a rule) in his efforts to manhand, staring at the slip of a woman, or clubs, and age heavy dumb-bellhis wife, in the great cage. Green-eyhauling at chest weights full to the did not at once move from his positop of the compartments with iron or tion on the floor, and as her entrance lead weights. The poor boys thought had been without noise, it was the they were getting strong quickly in first rustle of her silken skirt that this fashion. As a matter of fact they told the beast of her presence. an utterly were merely overworking David moved nearer, now afraid to different thing. They were straining speak for fear of disconcerting her. every muscle and every organ of the She must act for herself. At the first body, straining and weakening them hiss of the whip, swiftly Green-eeytion. Try them. They are among the to no advantage. lifted to his feet in a movement of best I know. (But remember that It is a strong temptation, I know, to Then, slowly, he mental concentration must be used the ambitious to be able to sluggish grace. turned his head, and the big green also in all other athletic practice.) handle heavier weights than his opeyes stared in all that intensity which Stand facing the wall of your room, ponents can manage. But it is a tempis cruel, bestial. David saw there a few feet distant from it. Put the tation he must overcome if he wants was menace in the beasts pose, and athlete. If other boys right foot forward, throwing the to be a his face went white; Krantz saw, too; weight of the body on it, drawing in a guy you for your unwillingness to worst of all, Milly saw. Her eyes were full breath as you do so. Place the enter such contests, rest content with lined with the tigers. She seemed unright hand on the wall in front of you, knowing that your own course of athable to move or to speak. Her face at the most convenient level (nearer letics will soon render you their phywas drawn and set and Her the height of the shoulder than the sical superior in every way. pale. eyes stared fixedly into those gleamWhen I was 17 I saw for the first height of the waist), and, bracing ing orbs. yourself, push. Push as though you time a lifting machine. Several boys Green-eyuttered a snarl this were trying to push the wall down. were gathered about it, vieing with broke the spell. His bound across the This must not be done jerkily, nor, on each other in tugging away at the den's center was not quicker than her the other hand, too slowly. Then, handles and watching the needle regisShe threw forward the bringing back the right foot, and bring- ter a higher number of pounds at pitiful cry. chair, lost her grip of it, and stag- ing the body again to an upright pos- each heave. No normal boy could regered aside to the door, screaming: ture, bring forward the left foot and sist such a chance to distinguish himHe can see He can SEE!!" place the left hand on the wall instead self. I caught the handles and lifted of the right. Push again as before. 960 pounds. I saw then a better way There had been no waver, no hesitation in the spring. The limping leg Recover your upright posture, let out to stand in lifting and was about to handicapped him, and he fell en- the long breath slowly, draw in an- try the machine again when an eldertangled by the four prodding legs of other and repeat the performance, be- ly man on crutches touched me on the the chair. Then instantly he was ginning again, of course, with the arm. blind again with Firefly's bucket of right hand and right foot. My boy, he said, I tackled one of Do this six times the first day, inthose machines for .a record ten years mash in his eyes. Davids toss was accurate and vicious. The brute rolled creasing at the rate of two per day un- ago. Ive been walking on these (infrantically over the floor of the den, til you get it up to twelve. Now, dicating the crutches) "ever since. At when pushing, every single muscle of least ever since the doctors let me get wrecking the chair with frenzied strokes, biting, snarling, wiping at his the body must be at work. Push as out of bed. It was quite as good an object leseyes. Then he sprang at the bars, a though you felt that the wall would hideous, glaring thing. There was a topple over on you unless you pushed son as I needed. I trust others will wick of hatred burning in each of the it back. That is the only way in which require a less glaring example of such this splendid exercise can do you any evils. green eyes. Milly, white and quivering, flung good. If you are going to let your Parisian Dog Doggers. mind wander to any other subject you herself into Davids arms. While the police of New York city she cried, might as well not push at all. Done Oh, David! David! with mental concentration, this is per- have been importing dogs for patrol clutching him, he can see! the best exercise for all the mus- work, the Paris authorities have been haps Krantz who grunted, and It was old cles. training men for tracking down dogs. phoofed, and snorted in German irasciA tax of eight shillings a year is imconhere is Now another mental bility at the wild idea of her fear. for developing posed on every dog and the owners exercise centration "Life in the open will do It, Krantz, the grip, the wrrist and the foreafm. are supposed to declare themselves. said David. Crumple up in each hand a large Many of the owners evade the tax by See! ach Gott! what couldt make sheet of newspaper till it Is a com- giving four shillings a year to their him see when he aindt no eyes? You pact ball. Stand upright, chest out, concierge. When the fiscal authorities keept still aboudt this seeing, Milly! arms at the sides. Squeeze each of the make Inquiries the concierge denies You loose the nerve, yes. See! couldt paper wads steadily and as hard as the existence of the dogs and the he see these last two, three years? you can, without moving any part of revenue is defrauded. Well blind is blind, aindt No Haaa! The authorities are now paying $30 the arm or, indeed, any part of the it? body except the fingers. Keep every a month to a number of men who can And Krantz, stolid, unreasoning, muscle of the whole body tense as you bark. The men walk along the Btreets puttered about the stake wagon until do this, and press as if your life de- at night, bark outside every house, and he found an ash club. He tested it, pended on it. Relax the grip slowly, when a dog replies take note of the earnestly grunting. and tighten it again, equally slowly. address and send round the tax colThey found Krantz at the bottom of Do this 20 times the first day, increas- lector. cage several mornings Owners of dogs are now attempting ing by two a day until you get it up to later. It had been a good club; but 40. Notice some time bow the fore- to educate them to dodge these dogged there wa3 no bandage. arm muscles stand out while you are dog doggers. Harpers Weekly. Building, etc.) d near-sighte- dumb-bell- s e e e s ath-lleti- c e l. dumb-bells- dumb-bell- s e e boy-athlet- first-rat- e e father, and you, and and I know. He And dont tell; please, David, please dont tell anybody. In the afternoon, David saw her go into the big cage alone. He could not feel confident. But, standing by, he again saw the wavering indecision of the beast, a seeming watchfulness which was really listening. The uncertainty of Its movement, save in instinctive obedience, expressed the doubt of the blind perfectly to one Is blind. who knew. It was on the long western trip of the Consolidated Outfit that Green-ey- e got away. A skidding train, a crash into a heavily loaded lumber oar, and accident presented freedom to the beast through the broken end of his traveling den. This happened in the southern country, where the cattle range, and in a section not without wooded districts. Search was made; cattlemen turned out and scoured the range ; Krantz malned behind the show a week seehad king his lost pet. But Green-ey- e completely disappeared. "He will die now, yes, said Krantz to his daughter, when he had finally rejoined the show. No food, undt he is withoudt the light to hundt it. What can a man kill to eadt when he is tied by the eyes? There is no more Green-eye- . And Krantz refused to be He became a sort of pensioner of the show until some new act could be put under his training. David came to him shortly after this. I want Milly for my wife, he said. "You are a goodt boy, Tavid, agreed the old man. There was no reason why he should refuse his daughter the younger. com-.forte- Green-eye- s e s DYNAMITE TO FIST TRAIN '" going through with this exercise, and you will get some idea of its benefit. In the bitterest weather you can work yourself into a glow by using this grip machine for a few minutes. If you will carry around in your hands two sheets of newspaper thus crumpled up into tight wads, and will grip them every few minutes, you will a develop quickly phenomenal strength of finger and a strong forearm. Carry these wads on your walks and on all occasions when your hands are not otherwise engaged. You will soon get into the habit of gripping them unconsciously. MENTAL CONCENTRATION WHILE INDISPENSIS EXERCISING ABLE TO PROGRESS. (Copyright.) In the days of her babyhood she had bestowed on him the name of Green-eye- . In those days both his eyes would reflect a yellowish green at times not the vitriolic gleam of rage, but a doubting annoyance, and this had been the nature of the animal since the firm training of her father, Circus men referred Krantz. to Krantz, of the Consolidated outfit, as the one man they had known to possess perfect assurance In the den of a tiger, and they could not understand why he did not take this wondrous power to a bigger show. There would have been money In it for him, they said. But Krantz was getting old. He referred to this and said he lacked amhe owned, and bebition. Green-eytween them they made a good living for the daughter. One day the circus men were surprised to find that Milly Krantz had pjit on long skirts. David, the young fellow who topped the highest hurdles on Firefly, and Milly had grown, up together, show children, boy and girl. He walked around her admiringly. Humph!" he muttered in a teasing mood. Youre drising finer than I can ever hope to array the lady of my house. Real silk," and he picked up the skirt to examine Its ruffled TIDE MIND AND MUSCLE . TO WORK TOGETHER Dynamite Had Been Planted by Some Miscreant on Oregon Short Line Tracks In Montana. Butte, Mont. What appears to be an attempt to wreak a similar fate on the northbound Oregon Short Line train that befell the Burlington train last week, was thwarted on Sunday by a lone foot passenger, John Holan, who was walking to Melrose from the north. At a point about six miles this Bide of that place he saw a place where dynamite ahd been planted in a small excavation under the rail, where It would probably have thrown the train Into the river if it had exploded. Not daring to handle the explosive, Holan threw it into the river and hastened to notify the Molrose station agenL When the northbound train arrived It was held back until a thorough Investigation could he made. The offleersi in Butte are inclined to believe that this may have been some of the powder which was stolen recently from the Westerlaken & Peterson mine. The quantity would have been enough to repeat the outrage of Friday night on the Burlington train on the Northern Pacific tracks, which the Burlington uses. Needles, Paris and Supplies fof both Wheeler & Wilson and Sieges Machines SOLD ONLY BY SINGER SEWING MACHINE No. 97 North Academy CO. Avenue, ruovo, utaii John Jackson, Mgr. SHIP BUILDERS STRIKE. Lockout Will Stop Ship Building In United Kingdom. Glasgow, The Clyde s have locked out 6,000 from their yards. This measure is the outcome of the dispute between (he Employers associar s of the tion and the struck rather who northeast coast, than accept a reduction in wages and who have not been able to get the federation to arbitrate their demands. Lockouts have been decided upon at all the yards in the United Kingdom, and workmen in other branches gradually will be locked out. There seems every prospect of a complete stoppage of the shipbuilding industry, a condition that ship-builde- wood-worker- Buy Buggies Built in vo Ship-buildin- g at 5 So., Pro115 V. BY THE ship-buildin- will affect 000 men. directly not less than 250, s in all the shipThe building yards of the country, totaling about 15,000 men, were locked cut Saturday in pursuance of the determination of the masters to close the yards until the northeast coast strikers agrte to their terms. The workmen in other branches, totaling many Bcores of thousands, will necesbefore sarily have to cease work long unless a settlement of the dispute Is reaCh-ed- Curb your well with 24-i- n. Cement wood-worker- . Preservation of Thoroughfare. Washington. Preservation of the thoroughfares in the Yellowstone National park is a subject to which the army engineers having charge are giving a good deal of attention. It is a considerable problem for the reason that the work of sprinkling in order to prevent disintegration is an expensive task, the coRt now being about $200,000, for sprinkling perhaps not more than 100 miles of road. There has been some talk of using oil, but this is necessarily .expensive, and there is considerable doubt of this method of treating the roads. De Sagan Will Renounce the Pope. Rome. One of the greatest difficuthe between lties In the marriage Prince de Sagan and Mine. Gould is the fact that the Catholic church, not recognizing divorce, has refused to annul Mme. Goulds first marriage. The prince Is determined to marry Mme. Gould, and to this end he has decided to become a Protestant, as this will enable the couple to be united by both a civil and religious marriage ceremony. If the prince remained a Catholic, there could be no religious May ceremony. Abolish Horse Racing in Louisi- ana. New Orleans A' campaign to abolish horse racing In Louisiana, backand ed by some of the wealthiest most Influential residents of the state, will be launched before the legislature, which will meet at Baton Rouge will be on May 11. The attempt made to suppress absolutely every form of betting at racing tracks, and it is expected this will result In the permanent closing of the tracks. No suggestion of what opposition the racing interests will make has yet become public. Morse Will Have Millions Left. New York That Charles W. Morse the former banker and steamship promoter, was about to pay every doli from of his indebtedness resulting the collapse of his business, Is a statement made by his counsel. Counsel said Mr. Morse's settlement of the claims of the National Bank of North America was only a beginning, and that he planned to settle all claims as rapidly as possible. He declared that-wheall indebtedness is settled Mr. Morse will have a substantial for tune of at least $2,000,000 left. Tiling 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. lloolbrook. 24-in- ch ANY DEPTH OF WATER lllffl. Mil SU Seventh West and Center Streets PROVO, UTAH Provo f4eat and Packing All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats ; Green and Fancy and Staple Groceries. We handle tho Farmers Products, and pay CASH for all Fat Butcher Stock. Nos. 47' to 55 North Academy Avenue. Phone 39-- 2 PROVO MEAT and PACKING Bribe for Clergymen. Three or four attempts have been made to bribe me, said a clergyman. My friends of the cloth te!l me that they, too, have been occasionally tempted with bribes. Once it was the advertising manager of a health food. He offered a subscription of $100 to our mission school if I would tell from the pulpit how much good health food had done me. I made him give me the money for the mission under threats of exposure, but of course I did not mention his food in the church. The church is no place for health food talks. The widow of a drunkard and genoffered me $30 eral if I would lie in praise of her husband In his funeral sermon. I praised tho man heartily In the sermon no matter how bad a man may be, if you examine his character you will find in it many trails worthy of praise and to the widow I wrote a note of gentle re- A Royal Wedding. St. Petersburg. Prince Wilhelm ol Sweden, second son of King Gustave the popular sailor prince who visited America in 1907, was married Sundaj afternoon to Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna, cousin of the emperor ol Russia, and daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch. The ceremony buke. Often we are asked to date back and was took place at Tsarko-Selo- , accompanied by all the pomp and bril- marriage certificates to say a couple liant display characteristic of the were married in March, 1906, instead most stately court in Europe. The of March. 1907. A man once offered crowds stood for hours in vhe bleak me $1,500 to perpetrate a wrong of and muddy palace square until the this sort. I thrust a tract, in his hand and turned him out of doors. g |