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Show WHAT CAL TITUS DID. HOW HE SCALED THE WALL AT PEKIN j the Skill And IHrLig of Calvin Titos, tbo UlMlttnirln mid Ltf.ti.Di Owe Their Eocapa A Hul l sud Wrtxf lived. To There will be another Yankee Inva-Io- n of the Er.g'.Lb turf next year. The Meeare, Keue bare deilded to over to the other end all their bori-taide. They will be ahlpppcd eon after the regular rviem of rating .la over In New York Mate, or early In the aprirg ThU mure U mnllhsent on the consent of one man Jaroee clever Rowe. If the Urura K;-n- ca trainer wilt go the atable 111 be hipped aurtly, t Eoxball Keene, an excellent borae-mabaa long desired to have tha white, blua sputa" represented In England by a lot of first claaa thoroughbreds. Ever since the euccese of d the beat Eoxball, aa a bore tn England that year, critic claimed young Keene bae been moet anxious to duplicate bl- - namesake's aocceaa. Thla season's crop of by Domino have proved so exceptionally good that the desired . quality pf horse for the trip are In vldence. Thla favorable condition and tha recent trouble over tha reault of tha Elatbush stakes at Sheepshead Ray have decided matters. James Row hold the trump card In tbla movement, however. Unleie he. ta willing to go and look after the borwna In England It Is probable that tha proposed trip will be called off. Tha Messrs. Keene have bad experl-ano- n galore with English trainers, but they dcelra the man who hae proven bla ability for years with them. Not that they believe English trainer In Jt is simply unbounded t competent; faith in James Rowe. The latter baa had great success with Voter, the be it printer in America, while tha English trainer were such signal failures with him that he never won a race while in their hand. Tha Messrs. Keens are afraid of Ilka failures with their other horses unless Rowe goes f with -- them. If Rowe goea It will simply be through a desire for a change of acene. Ihe monetary conB'deratlon would not appeal to him. He U a very rich man. He made the greater portion of his wealth as a trainer, but he Increased if hiaterlany thf&ugh fortunate theatrical speculations He is not a Nomad In disposition; on the contrary, he loves his home. The fact that Trainer John Huggins, one of hi best friends, is in England may beta eome weight with him when ha la asked to decide vvhether the horses shall go or remain at home. n. -- three-year-ol- The charitable act on the part of th men who have been running boxing In New York la one of the bright spots la the last month of fighting. It Is remarkable 7.ow quietly men In all of the figlt ig g ime respond to a call from St.l'nan. The old hampion was broke, ard perhap there were tlnos when lie did not usf hla tnoney lo the best advantage. Tbit mad no difference. Avoiding to the for reports, about $!5(0n was Sullivan from the benefit given him hut big switch and went to find the chll-(rcHe walked and walked until he sme to a pldie where a whole lot of you; en and women were sitting In cirNo lark could pipe to skies so dull ri while the moyquPos ate them. The and gray, n and .women were eating pickles Yet. ere we part, one lesson I can leave nd dry sandwiches and trying to look you, , hippy. I'ncle Benjamin hurried down For every day. the middle of the tablecloth and call-inBe good, sweet maid, and let who will "Children, children," at the top of he clever; kls' voice. Everywhere he went he Do noble things, not dream them, net some of those miserable little chll-ire- n all daylong; who had run away from their .And so make life, death and that vast n picnic. He found them sitting on forever he edge of a sponge cake dangl ng One grand, sweet aong. heir feet and kicking holes in the Charles Kingsley. icing. They were pprehed on loaves of bread and up on top of a plate of ill red ham, they were playing hide and Aat'a Aunt Ulw riiwlw The ant's aunt had to give a picnic, icelt. Some of them bad climbed up because she had been invited to ao Into a great big tin reservoir. There many places by all her relatives, and vere all their clothes on the adg and back they were having a swim. she thought It was tlina to "Didn't I tell you not to go near the soma of th Invitations. "But It "win be such a bother, said vater? asked Uncle Benjamin, shakithe ant's unde, when ha heard about ng hla cane. "Now, where do I find you It. 'It Isnt water," said 'all tha ehll-Ire- n "Dont be foolish, now," replied the ants; "It's lemonade. In cannot "We aunt. go ant's society It took the ants' uncle more than an without going to 6ome trouble." So the ant's uncle said that It would hour to get all tha children together. "W'hy don't yuucome away from he all right, fur he always said somehere? he said, "Dont you hear all thing of that kind when hla wife talkthe men and women talking and sayed about giving a party. He was sleeping early the next ing that it would be such a delightful here If It were not for those mismorning, when his wife woke him and place erable ants? did said; "Benjamin, Benjamin, you say a word," replied Temember to' get the lemons and the - "They-didnt the children, "until you came." sugar?" This made Uncle Benjamin so angry "No," replied the ant' uncle, a he rolled over again In bed. "The gro- that be swung his cane and chased all the children before him back to the cery store was closed. "Then you will have to go Into the place where the table of the ants picnic had been spread. Way over to one house and of A My .. 's Wav tettfed from tha ring for good and hope never again to ba compelled to pull on a glove for the money realized, I wish to make a statement to the public to the effect that during my career I have been robbed out of over $125,000 In purses and managerial share. From ths moment I arrived In this country from Australia I certainly have been up agsirt a stilt game, for when I wasn't swindled out of The purses I fought for I waa being robbed out ? waa entitled to by the tha money different sleek managerrl had looking' after my Interests." CHAMPION JUMPER. - Ray C. Ewry of the New York Ath tatle club 1 tha champion standing Jumper of the world. He also holds tha record for three standing Jumps. He la going shortly to try to break his own records at tha Paris games ht created a new world's record in tha fairest child, FurvvoU have do song to give n. 1 a-- ?, Week. CHAMPION SWIMMER. Appleton, Wl ilalma the champion awloimer of the nortbein tier of states. , da i llob FltHliuninna Wull Boh Fltsslmmona In a Signed State- The wall of Pekin! On the night Of June 13 it loomed up bai k and forbidding against the fur-l- u sky. Outbids In the shelter of the cornfields the soldiers cf the all.ed aun.ea lay. They had fought their way f;om T.en-T- s n and weary and footsore had thrown themselves down on the ground outside the wall. The rain tame down and beat upon them while they slpL Ever add anon the modern cannon on the top of the wall hurled shot and shell among them, and still they slept and gathered strength Tor what they knew was coming-o- n the morrow. The walls of Pekin blocked the way. The wear of years could not break them. Long before the American flag was born that now floated so strangely over the silent camp of sleeping men, those walls bad been built The Tartar hordes from the north could not force them when arrow answered arrow from ths heights. How could the little force without gain entrance when tha rifled cannon belched into the face of the rifled cannon? py Tb Baf)r. One there was lu the American army d who lay on the giound rain-soake- -- MR. HANS HOHL.' Mr. Hans Hohl of that city has performed the remarkabe feat of swlm-mjn- g e across Lake Winnebago, a of nine miles, a trick that has never been equaled, at least In Wisconsin. Mr. Hohl w a?s accompanied by a boat.but never once during the long Journey did he give signs of weakening, and had he attempted It he undoubtedly could have gone much fard.a-tam- the man's kitchen get Side was the ants aunt all alone. She as much as you can carry before the had her handkerchief to her eyes, and cook gets up, was as though her heart would "The last time I was there," mut- break.crying blown tered Benjamin, "I nearly got ' Why, whats the matter? asked up with the kerosene can." Uncle Benjamin. "What in the world une'e back ant's time the the got ther. By to his house he fouud more than a has happened? Mr. Hohl Is a nat.ve of Saxony, BUGLER CALVIN JITUS. . 'Wh, can't you see? replied the and Is twenty-seve- n years, o'd. hundred ants ofi.aU kind?, walking up ants ' "A miserable man came who could not ajiiL sleep that night. Seep of a won kind all taud be While la hla native and down and carrying this way and stepped right on the tawould not oome. He got up and walked number of long d. stance swimming provisions. ble and when he lifted hla foot to the brow of the hill and louked long "You are very late, said tha ant everything was ruined." up events, J'lg most remaikahl performtoward Pekin. A dead city it Uy in e the twenty-fivdo about ance was his f at of swimming aunt. "What did you "Come on, children, aald Uncle tie night. No smoke curlttf up from miles In a strong current In tha swing, Benjamin? Did you atop and Benjamin. "Let us all go back to the the high smokestacks, the busy whirr Danube river. Ha covered the dis- see the spider about It? men's pknlc. After he has treated us of machinery wjs absent Unlighted tance in gtx hours, the best ever made Benjamin had forgotten all about this way, he deserves that we should and unlovely it lay, an eastern city in that kind of cwlmmlnz. the sw.ng. so he had to go back to tease him and all his family." of the past In strange contract to the he and a where the spider kept shop, That la the reason that, when men western cities he knew. He was only earn back afler a while with a wheelIlrltWh-rWk I'fv and women give picnics, all the ants a youth, 20 yjars old, and he carried The English turfman's contempt for barrow loaded down with rope. The h the neighborhood go and plagus a bugle at his side, for he was rated In to had she and time as a mix&uie of merit in judging ant's aunt was lame, the army os a musician. But the band She was at ths atow, efteWTimvieS " has walk wlh a cane, never gets on the firing line and so i Flaliln wHl Klrd. been modified somewhat since the head of the picnic party, and BenjaI this country the fisherman It a he forsook the band and carried the all came of last American, horseman, John HugglDS, min, the anfs unde, man uses hook and line or the net bugle to thi front. He had been in training "by the watch on English with his wheelbarrow filled with ro;e in wip the army two years and had never following his profession, and folks race courses, has taken a place among and baskets and sugar and lemons and had a chance to distinguish himself. would see wonder with to him ; which pare the foremost of the tialncrs In Eng- tubs and glasses and everything the war with Spain be enlisted land. They have recognized, too, that might be used on a picnic. The ants Mart of with a flock of birds to he'p During in CompanyK, First eruiont, and Yet la fish. this Is done as catching and o " went-tDeacon la Jones woods, th-the time test ha another value it Chicka-o- f never 60t any further--tha- n It tells the truth about pace, uin. they got nearer they heard all kinds China, j There the Chinaman may be was he where out In mustered mauga, seen his ll sampan surrounded by strange noises. All the animals and knowledge of para. It Is generally adwhich have been trained November, 1898. lie was back agals cormorants, to see the came out birds all plcnlo the mitted In F.rgbvnd now, ha much to In the service In April, 1S99,. bound to dash Into the water at his order, do with the successes that have beeu go by. The ants waked on until they seize the fish and bil:igthera to tha fdr the Philippines and China. Achieved by the American jockeys came to a bare spot lu the middle of He stood outside the wall and wonthe woods, and there they stopped and oat. Should a cormorant captura a riding In England. 1 Bah too large for It to dered if It could be scaled. bundles-anbaskets. carry alone, d The awakening-o- f the British horse-mee- n put down their "Dont look any harder than the on of will go to Us to companions nice he a will sixths "This place to this fact has caused soiui of of the Geneses river," he "Now, elstance and together they will bring palisades them to pay qulto a little attention to table;" said tha ant s aunt. with foJiis head on one side, reIt mused, the time made In races, over tbalr own Benjamin, while ) am doing all tha to the climb he had when he the Chinaman wishes to catch turferring il tha and go up suppose put work, jou n courses, and some startling tesulU tle ha will do so with the aid of a carved hla name on the highest point have been announced, says an eastern awing for the thlld-eunsticking fish or remora. The fish has of the heights below the middle fall3 The ants uncle said something writer. When it was at first stated on top of It bead a long disc or sucker In Wyoming county. New York. and took then his breath the derneath ns a fact that an English horse cf which It attache Itself beneath "By Jlmminy, Ill do It, he cried, moderate rlarg had run a mile In a race rope and the boards and things and by (lapping hla 'knee, and he went back 133 swings. He hurt his knee moving objects such as sharks, whales, up put In 1 S3 Idea the first of American and the bottom of ships rather than to the corn field to sleep. turfmen waa that the time must have and sprained bis baik and cut his Samake the effort necessary to indepen- Attack tiia toes. stubbed He also Jila been taken by some a m a teur unaccus- - gers. tae sun rose on a scene of T so badly aho ft UehVIh&vamftit. NexTTay To neednT "Yon tomed to the use of the stop watch The fisherman fastens the remora war. The Japanese troops attacked said a centipede, toes," your hurting The time was correct, however, as who was going fast. suppose you had to a long cord tied to a brass ring the wall on the noith with their long was proved, unofficially, by later exaboutita tallad when he reache th guns and. artUlerjv Tha Russians nest toe ou 11P feet.to at uk .then .y.u,u jcou-iperiments. to them formed for a charge. The Gerturtl ground put it overboard, takto talk. afford "Then the claim was made boldly care to keep it from the bottom of mans, the English and the French uncle to ants returned the The ing place counthat English horses in their own where the table wa being set. He th boat When a turtle passes near, swung around the half circle and the try were faster than the horses of Amthrew hla hat over on the gras and tha remora dart -beneath him and fas- Americana brought up the left flank. erica. Since the matter has been und I am very' tired ten to bl shell.- 'Struggle aa h will Along the top of the wall' the der discussion, attention has been aat down, saying. heads of the enemy could oca litle rest would do me a great the turtle cannot loosen the grip of and called to the time taken on certain the ancker and the Chinaman has ondeal of good. casionally be seen by the allied troops English courses, and comparison ha bh the gtound. The watcli towers over ly to haul ia on the Hae, bring Uncle what Benjamin "Why.just'sce been , made between that and' (lie up to the boat and take bint aboard. the gates brlsTTeirwIthTannon, which did. cried all the small anta at ouce. time of American races. The fastest cried swept the country for miles around. tha Benjamin, "Benjamin, mile ever run by a race horse la Amlx Indiana. Tha order came along the line to pre-pa"how could you do auch a ant's aunt, BtavJiy erica was Salvator's milo against time, U one of the commonfor the charge and the men The blue-ja- y thing? in 1;35H, on the straight course at "You ought not to be so careless, gripped their guns tighter and, with est of Indiana birds. It la conspicuMonmouth Tark, N. J., 1810. Salvator tern faces and set teeth, waited the replied Benjamin, "how was I to know ously crested; above It la purplish waa a carrying 110 that It was a cuMard pie? I thought blue; the forehead, the Irregular band Bound of the bugle which would send , m C0lle- pounds. it was a nice cushion you put there for around the neck are black; the wing some of them to their death. same year, Klldeer, four year old. d It was a fight for the most and tall are blue, barred with black; with nlnety-on- a pounds, ran a mil anj-onfjp started to get h's hat th greater coverts, secondaries and part Except for the artillery in ths tn The fastest mlba an(j ralk away. lie bad not gone la a race very tall feathers, except the middle one, possession of the Japanese and a few on a circular course In races were run tir before be became red In the are tipped with white; the tail is much naval guna which the Europeans had this year by Voter, six year old, with with anger. pale gray; dragged from the warships at Tienrounded. Below, the bird 122 pounds, at Brighton Beach, and Get off my hat, all the ants heard th throat, belly and crlssum. whiter. tsin, the little army of the west had Orlmar, six years old, with 109 pounta him say, hOw da-- e you sit on a poor It la 11 to Inches long; the wing nothing with which to fight their foes at Washington park, Chicago, both do ant's hat like that Haven't you 5.70 inches, and the tall at long range. On the other hand, the 5 to measure got lng the distance In l'SS. inches. It bullda a bulky Chinese were well equipped with any manners? $ to 5.7 ' What la the matter, Benjamin? moss, paper, heavy fort pieces, which they hat Beat of twigs, bark, asked the ant's aunt, picking up her strings, gra-- and sometime mud, and mounted on the wall. With them they other sporting M.itr mahope to keep the enemy gt bay. In one of the grandest bicycle races eane and hobbling toward her tr lined with rootlets or other fine But there was one thing with Which From three ta six eggs, cream, witnrsjfJ in Blnladelphia Jimmy j hand. terial tn!c-ahlman. bad not reckoned, and thrt was splotched Irregularly they the yFiej or Mlthael, the marvelous midget from! greenish. huff "P! Wales, defeated with cake Johnny Ncl- -' ants uncle, "has had the tmpuJnre to with different shades of brown and that their guns could sweep the foe off on my hat and ho wont the face of the erth at a distance, bat get lavender, are laid. son,, the wonderful Swede, In the prta-- ' eltdown UP blue- - could not harm them close undr the call of the familiar ence of nearly 5,0o0 spectators, at th most The Th msn f005-"the d reet'on of Another frequent wal's of the rty. The American offi-oIf there was any Wcodtdde track. Jay is 1 an then and e. Benjari'n yawned Through Jthe winter. rprs were first to perceive this fact got doubt In the mlmls of the cycling ia men-wewVr' Ar- - ho world as. to "these calls Jay, Jay, or caw, "Benjamin, la quarrel j pieces at long rangi and inln," cried th caw. I heard. The blue-ja-y with auccceasfu'ly defend his tite of chain-- 1 ant' djng aunt a few rrluntes trr, Tlttl rom'e, teasing, persecutlng.and at times , the!r useless riflpa In their hands, the pou It was certainly removed by thl has come bacV and she say irnrd'erou. It does many unexpected officers brrt"rso'ved upon a chv-gfor little fellow's great" rid. His vlcto'y Betsy Am a da-r- n that ft the children thing- - It sometime robe the nest jafety under the very wsTs of the city, waa clean cut-- in fact, he rode Ntl-so- startednearly , to climb ricat-UInand th birds of their eggs. It doei There the fight would be on more even off his feet, and left a doubt as tc mountain gt up anl w.V.kel away. af other Is heard terms, for It would he rifles also, though of the new wonder in a Won't the against you r lease go and try and find each gool. of its mischief. l It eat rifles, and the ben shots would tell, covrace fought lap for lap. than thl f them? of insect of e many number nd ao the miles in thirty-ninered the twenty-fiv- e "charge came sweep-kindThe ant uncle jammed his crashed a greatand and a half secaerjs a good friend to ths iDg down the line. .The men broke minute forty-on- e Ilk hat down over h.aVyes, picked cover and ran In open order to fro np tanner- ond. , Cer-man- y, W a, ward The wall. Well might th fighting men of Europe stare In amaa mept from behind their hastily constructed mud breastworks. Never yet was seen such a curious sighL Men with muskets In their hands charging a walled city defended by cannon! But the object became apparent in a moment The Chinese, taken by surprise, peered over the ramparts, forgetting their guns. They watched th boys in blue until thiir own wall cut off the eight. Not a man had bee lout TA l)Blor Arts. Among the firot to reach the wall was the joung bugler. Th men of Company E were all about panting In the' crass after their hard run. But the charge of the Fourteenth United States Infantry wag not done. Presently the allied army, still fighting the enemy at a distance, saw a dai k speck against the s de of the Chl-hewall. The officers put their field glasses to 'theif- eyes. "Good heavens' exclaimed one of the Russian captains, "it's a man. Look! look! he's going up the side of the wall. And what's that he's got hanging to him. Looks like why, it is Its a rope." The object was to attract the enemy's attention, so that the reckless fellow who wag tolling up to certal death might not be discovered. But the man on the wall kept steadily upward. He marveled to hlmsell where he would find his next foolhold At his hip swung a cavalry revolver, his only weapon of defense, and in hi teeth he carried the rope. If he oould get it made fast to something at the top the road to the Imprisoned missionaries andthe diplomatic corp would be opened. They were penned up In the legation within a walled city facing death and starvation against the coutless Mongolians of the east Hi hands were Weeding, his breath was coming In, short gasps. The pope became heavier and dragged him dow the further up he went HI head whirled with the exertion and there was the sound of beating drums in hi head. Down below the boys were cheering him on. Their guarded words of encouragement came faintly to hi ears. There was no sign from the top that he had been seen. There was only a step left He took it and his fingers the top of the wall. He drew himself up and looked about him. The top spread out before him like a street wide enough for four teams to travel abreast. - An iron ring' caught his eye. lie made the rope faqt to It and fell on his face Bnd diew hla pistol. There was not a soul near. In a watch tower, 200 yards away, a small regiment of Chinamen were working a couple cf heavy guna. They had not seen him yet He lay still, guarding the end of the rope and waiting for help. He knew they were coming up hand over fist by the feel of the cord. He saw that the stone were wearing off the edge, and he doubled uu hla cap and put It between. He helped the first man over th edge, and In turn they helped the second, and in a second, as If a miracle,' the whole regiment w as standing on the wall. It was a complete surprise. Before the Chinese It, the Amer-tea- n flag wa3 f!oa;ing on the walls of Pekin and the blue flannel shirt was fighting In the streets and driving all i: se - before It The missionaries and minister wer saved. None will ever gauge the aid rendered by the stirring examplet set by that single brave man. The soldier who scaled the wall waa Calvin Pearl Titus of Clinton, Ia. JOSEPH F. MALLONEY. The youngest candidate for President of the Valted States this fall is Joseph Francis Malloney, the nomine of the Socialist Labor party. Jlr Malloney was born in Providence, R. L, .Qttobei--1 6,18 .Siy which brings him Just within the required age of 35 year He is the youngest of nine chiidiea. plg-talle- the-tnr-tl- e ra four-year-ol- d. , one-side- fa RAY C. EWRY." (Champion Standing Jumper of World.) f standing high Jump, and also won the broad ,and three standing standing Jumps. In the standing high jump at cenParis, Ewry Jumped I mcterCfi timeters, which is equivalent to fire feet five and inches, Ewry held s the best previops.reeord of lfve feet four Inches, mnde at Syracuse on April 27, 1900. According to English measurement Ewry's other winning feet performances were thirly-fou- r elght and a half huh'-- Injbe ,.Jtiirc?, tending Jumps, and ten feet ten and halt inches in the standing lone Jump, both considerably worse than the record. one-eigh- th , ' Gt Snlllvaa 13,000. Sullivan came in tor Old John I eome notice in the scramble of promoters and fighters to rake la all they could before the Horton law went out. 1 12-5- hus-ev- ! Um-akUl- - ty keo-e-ye- o. ne ; we-bu- re -- lnj beip-g-eho- 1 e i n le Mlj-hae- er JOSEPH. FRANCIS MALLONEY. When he was 9 years old the povertyt Into which his parents had fallen made it necessary for him to go t work. He worked in a gotton factory for six years and then learned tha machinists trade. In 1S92 be went to Massachusetts and hired out to George R. Pease of Lynn, who Is one of th staunchest Socialists in the country. He took joung Malloney in hand, and the latter became a valuable member of the Socialistic party. II went on the platform 'as a speaker, and. his fcerviaes"hav6 been from' 1893' till now' In constant demand. In 1S9S he ran for Congress in the seventh district, Massachusetts. At one time he was president of Lynn Machinists Union, and was its delegate to the Contention of the International Machinists held In 1S97 at Kansas City. s, It isnt always the man who he, the most nose that knows the most j - Os IN I ' |