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Show CALL HIM JACK, MIGHT ship was due to (he unreliability of in trainthis boat and dur-In- s oarsmau. the by ing The new shell has greater beam than the old and less fullness forward. The new craft Is well advanced and Titus says it will be much faster brother, Willie, and will be seen no than last year's. more In America as a cycle racer. Michael came to America last fall, Palma Trophy Shoot. hoping to remain and regain his lost Sept. 1. 19U4, has been selected for prestige, and once more rank as the the International shoot for the Palma leading pace follower of the world. trophy emblematic of the military This he could never do, however, in team championship of the world. The the estimation ox those who saw his contest will take place at Sea Girt. accident at Berlin. In this accident The American team won the trophy on Michael struck upon his nead, and July 11 of laat year at Bisley, Engthere was left upon his brain a clot land. .of blood which seriously affected his The conditions call for teams of reason. eight men, the members of which must and Tom Eck, be cltlxena and residents of the coun. . James. C. Kennedy them tries they former manager. Interested respectively represent, exselves in his behalf. It was said, and cept In the case of teams representing Eck secured transportation for him to a provincial territory of a government, his former home. Wales, in which case a residence in the province will be sufficient. Each man Is 8ir Walter's Record. to lire fifteen shots at 880. 900 and Since the time of Sly Walter, a turf 1.000 yards, or forty-fiv- e shots in all. statistician says, America has rot had with any position without artificial a race horse retire from the track rest. with $100,0011 or over to Its credit. There are n few horses which will No Boxing bouts at Cornell. race this season whose winn'mis are Schiiniiar.n has put his on the $100,000 mark. already foot upon boxing at Cornell. The re-- : and which with luck may get past it. ' f' was niak-- i One is Afr'cander, the star of the cer.tly Tilled sparring club ' ing gri'ul arrangements for a big fistic Africander has Hampton stablps. races and has tournament, lint the president slep-started in.i ihlrly-foii- r $SI..--Ifor his ownr. Major i ujd in and refused to grant the use of won fol is another high winner, the linivernity gymnasium to the Dalngeriii-lIrish I. ad. lowers of the manly art. and consewith $75.7!o "to the good. they have no place in which during his career, has won $72,345. quently to give their exhibition. The presl u. roll" a hank of has $52.51 Waterboy tournament a ueiil says sparring $.'(.-41McCheaney $ijl,045 and Ilcnuia would none too near to violating the New York state boxing law to be tin-- . s still behind are long way They rounli-nanceby the college greatest winner in American turf hiswhose Domino, gross tory. earnings amounted to $203,300. Cleveland Declares Out. Cleveland will not lie a member of Garrison on Easy Street." Garrison, the Jockey the National Dowling league recently Snapper" This has been determined whose performances fifteen years ago formed. made him the sensation of the turf upon, owing to the number of other Jimmy Michael Down and Out. Little Jimmy Michael, the Welsh rarebit, winner of many a fortune hit thirteen years on the cycle track, and possessor of none of the fortunes now, slipped away quietly to England a few days ago with his e I'rc-iile- tn ; 1 : i . : Was there ever before a contest, either of mind or matter, for a prize of millions? Such a struggle, a race in which two thousand men and the best brains of science are matched shipbuilding against etch other, is in progress today. The contestants are the United States government and a great shipyard. The test is the speed of construction on two battleships of exactly similar type, each to cost about and the question at Issue Is whether the government nr the private corporation Is the builder of fighting vessels. In the Brooklyn navy yard the battleship Connecticut is taking shape and the man who has been delegated to make the race with her building is Constructor William J. Baxter of the United States navy. In the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, at Newport News, Va.. the sister ship Louisiana is being The time allowance ia constructed. forty-fiv- e months from the start, and the judges who will award the laurels of victory are the president of the United States, his cabinet and the two bouses of Congress. It is a race against time, and its result, according to the plan of the Congress that authorized it, will be to show in exact terms the efficiency of our navy yards. The national legia-lator- a demanded proof that the could build Its own ships at less expense than private companies, equally as well and In as short a time. properly speaking, no contest with them it is a race against time. We are. each of us. building what Is designed to be s great battleship, and my task Is to complete the Connecticut within the limit of both time and money act for the Newport Newa company in building the Iziuisiaua. It Is merely a tent of the navy yard not one of the Newport Newa people. "As to whether we shall win there Is a grave question. We are making an uphill fight. The government yards are at a disadvantage in competing with private concerns for several reasons. For one thing the private yards get ten hours' labor in a day for the same price that the government pays for eight lioiira' work. There Is. you see. a difference of something like 25 per 'cent In favor of tho prfvato yards in so far as lalsir Is concerned, In addition, one must take Into consideration the twenty holidays within u year when no work is done in the government yards, but for which, nevertheless. the men ure fully paid. So much lor lalstr. "In the matter of material It is well known that the method of govern A nient purchases Is cumbersome. private concern ran buy at less cost almost all iho niaterlul that goes toward the equipment of a battleship Bo you must realize that we have a hard race to make. "In the matter of time we are also at a disadvantage. When the fleet la at sea we can devote all our time to and stand upon the dock as .yet rough plates of steel In order to realize the magnitude of the ship and of the task which Is being accomplished so quietly by Navsl Constructor Baxter. In the basin to the right the big battleships Iowa and Indiana, laid up for repairs, seem toy hosts by comparison. They are hardly pigmies," said the fonstructor. but they don't compare with the Connecticut. "The battery of the Connecticut Is to he one of the heaviest In existence. In the bow and stern turrets the four twelve-incguns will he placed two In each. To the port and starboard of these will he the turrets for the etght-lnrguns four turrets In all. and two guns In each. Disposed at turrets points between the eight-incwill be the twelve guns of seven-incbore something new In the armaThe secondary ment of our ships. battery will include twenty rapid-firbore, twelve semi guns of ihrec-tnrand eight automatic With the automatic four submarine tubes the Connect lent will be able lo give any ship alloal a very unpleasant quarter of an hour." New York Times. h h h h e h three-pounder- Raar Admiral Walker's Quiet Rebuke r Silenced Pert Yeuth. Rear Admiral John G. Welker devotes more time to canal matters than to fashion plates and rould hardly 1m called spick and span in the civilian clothes he wears at hla work. A stranger would lie far more likely to take Admiral Walker for a countryman than a retired army officer. His long whiskers are of the type so popuhis and rural rolling with lsr dramas, walk might well be taken for the movement acquired by following a plow. A brusque young man In search of the canal commission encountered Admiral Walker In a corridor of the Corcoran building In Washington and asked pertly: "Can you tell me where I will find Walker?'' "Yes." Admiral Walker replied. Just come with me." The dapper young fellow followed Admiral Walker Into his office. The Admiral took a seat behind hla desk and Invited the young man to alt down "Well, what can I do for you?" Admiral Walker assed of the youiig man, who began lo squirm uneasily In his chair. 1 am Walker, tho Admiral continued. John G. Wall.er Is' my full name, but you might call me Jack for shori. Unable to summon up enough voice to apologize, the oung fellow rushed out of the office without saying a word. New York News. Miles Long. Fence Sixty-threOne of the longest fences In the northwest Is being construrtud around the liowcr Brule Indian reservation, on the Missouri river, In the central portion of South Dakota. This remarkable fence will be sixty-three e . RECENT OPPONENTS IN FIERCE BATTLE. , . . Precious Stones in This Country. It Is a little strange, said Irving Ia Russell, that the United Stales, so far ahead In national resources of every other part of the globe in all essential thlnga, should be ho deficient as a producer of precious stones. I am of the opinion that there will ha a big discovery some day of the most valued gems, probably In some out- corner of the land. oft "I do not mean to Intimate that we are exactly destitute of fine stones, but that those 'Tumid are mostly of Inferior quality as compared with tho output of the old mines. In North (!ar-- i ollna a good many emeralds and rubies and sapphires are to be bad, but they are not of auffleient value to warrant cutting. Some very fine pearls have been taken out of the shells picked up In the streams of Arkansas, and at one time the search for them down there amounted to a craze. Pearls, by the way, have gone up In price from 200 to 300 per cent In recent years. s "A great many stones are mined In California, the turquoise found out there bclng cBiyclallY lacking In hardness. Tourmalines also come from California la abundance." Washington Post lie-wa- y sentl-preclou- heau-ThVu- ut Caught Alligator With a Flshllnt. While deer, duck and quail shooting have been better this season In the neighborhood of Titusville than In several years, Rocklcdge, Stuart and a few other places seem to have the expert fishermen. But It takes a Merritt fisherman to catch alligators. We are told that a few days ago a seven-foalligator waa caught with a fish-lin- e. The line was set and baited with a mullet, for trout. The alligator took the halt and the hook fastened itself Had the line boon a In bis throat. rope or chain It would have been twisted apart or the hook torn ouL The alligator tired himself out and was easily taken by slipping a rope over bis mate, HPCiiring hla flippers, and towing him ashore, where he waa killed with an axe. East Coast Advocate (Titusville, Fla.). ot 'Jjzttts:' Manrr For the first time since he wrested the title of featherweight champion of the world from Terry McGovern. the winner of that memorable contest. Toung Corbett of Denver, has bowed his head In defeat. His conqueror la Jimmy Britt, the pugilistic prTde of the cuasi, and the verdict In favor of the native son was given after twenty rounds of fierce and bloody battling. That the winner surprised the fistic critics by making the stipulated weight, 130 pounds, at 6 o'clock, and fighting strong into the bargain, goes without saying. Britt received enough punishment to stop any ordinary man the first seventeen rounds of milling. Then he rallied, meeting Corand made for with punch, belt punch a whirlwind finish. Yet Corbett appears to have fought on doggedly to the close, and thanks to his splendid conlitlon. showed evidence of being able to keep up the world, is on his feet again financially, and Is as chipper as in his palmiest Nedays, says a dispatch from Reno. block on the stood vada. "Snapper" at the Oberon gambling palace Friday night and shouted the odds of the Corbctt-Brit- t fight. He is said to have made a fortune of something like $50,-00- 0 In the Tonopah and Goldfield districts. How long It will last Is a question. Like most of the big hearted fellows In this world, money runs through The "Snapper's" fingers liko water. water like been have popping corks He still has since he struck town. In southclaims like sixty something In millions of talks and ern Nevada, the near future. Iwyg co&rrr' ' ' j pace for an Indeterminate period. But It Is a matter of fistic history that a visiting boxer on the coast must or by either win on a clean knock-ou- t a tremendous margin of points in tier to obtain a derision over a native son on the latter's own hearth. And hail the Dritt-Corbo- tt battle taken place anywhere else except In San Francisco, It is more than probable that a draw would have met with the favor of the spectators. Lou Houseman in Chicago Inter Ocean. prominent events In which members of the bowling fraternity from this city will take part. Erie, Pa., which heretofore made a strong bid for membership, has been decided upon, and will be granted a franchise, it Is stated. The league will be composed of eight cities New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Chicago, Pittsburg, Toledo and Erie. First Clast Battleship Connecticut at She Will Appear The Navy department accepted the the Connecticut, but when the ships come in, demanding repairs, we are challenge. "A difference of opinion makes compelled to give them the preference horses race, some one has said, and and then all work upon the big batllo-ahlIs practically at a standstill. it la the same sort of difference that is responsible for this novel and unIt is accepted at present by naval precedented race against time. experts that the battleships of a navy Late In 1902 Congress authorized form its backbone, as it were. It was the building of the two mammoth bat- with this idea In mind that the planThey ners of the Connecticut and Ioiilslana tleships from the same plans. were to represent the highest degree worked in forming their designs. Tneir Idea was to combine armament of the development in naval construction reached at that time. Early In with speed to couple the speed of a 1903 the contract for building the cruiser with the strength of a battleLouisiana was awarded to the New- ship of the earlier type. port News Shipbuilding company, on their bid of $3,990,000, and on Feb. 7 of the same year her keel waa laid. To the Brooklyn navy yard was allotted the task of building the Connecticut In lesa time and for less money, end on March 10 work waa begun by the employes of the government. The con-teswas on. When an Interviewer sought out the chief government racer last Thursday Australian Athletes for St Louis. the anniversary of the laying of keel he found James E. Sullivan, chief of the de- the Connecticut's partment of physical culture at the St. Naval Constructor Baxter half hidden Louis exposition, has been notified by by a mass of blue prints and plana the president of the Australasia A. A. that formed a paper wall around his desk. But, busy as he was. the conU. that four men will be sent to parEvidently ticipate In the Olympian games. The structor smiled amiably. team will Include one swimmer. The his big job bad not "gotten on hla And when he talked, the others on the team probably will be a nerves." listener decided that this was just the Titus Wants His Laurels Back. quarter mile runner, a 100 yard sprinsingle ter, and one hurdler. C. H. Titus, the sort of man to build one of the greatest fighting machines ever projected. culler, Is having n new ehell built Just the sort of man to lead this race with which be holies to regain his Olympian Dates Set of races. title at the St. Louis exposition. TiA narrow too was Now. I've always maintained that meeting of the championship and tus' boat laat year A. A. U. there should be no feeling of rivalry of and the committee executive forward full too and amidshlp cranky in consequence. A good was recently held at New York. The between the men who are building the deal of tbo aculler's bard luck in tho Olympic track and field games will IiOttislana and myseir." he began with There Is. another reassuring smile. raeo In which he lost the champion- - extend from Aug. 29 to Sept. 3. tu p When Completed. miles long. It is cnmiiosed of four wires placed on posts set a rod apart . cedar and ash posts altcraatlrg. In its construction 250 miles of wlrp will be used, or 76.(100 pounds. To erect the fence required an aggregate of 19,nnu posts. In this long fence there will lie only three gateways, which will be guarded when tho fence is completed. 8ecular Sunday 8chool. In England and America the term " "Sunday-schoolhas a definite meaning. and Is exclusively used to denote a place of religious teaching, 'n Germany, however, the race for commercial supremacy has led to the estabat which lishment of Sunday-schoolmechanics are jtiven practical Instruction In their trades. Thre Is, for example, a school for mason, at which the students, many of them mechanics who work during the week, spend several hours on Sunday morning la learning the higher branches of their craft. similarly there are Sunday-school- s for tailors. Ironmongers, bookbinders, an( followers of other trades even barbers and blacksmiths. s ; Good-By- . Taxes Exceed Expenditure. The expenditure of tho province of Two whispered words "Good-bye- ! For- British Columbia having for years give!" to throbbed them. brain Her dull been less than the receipts, the legis- And thoughts came erowdlng thick has been forced fast. bsnks the lature by "Some Idea of the Immensity of a to increase and where, and when l.nw. Of taxation. The assessment two might nicet again. the from bn They formed battleship may on railways is Increased from $3,000 fact that we already have placed to Good-b'r- ! Her quickened heartbeats tell $10,000 a mile, which, it is prophOf nerves not mode of steel. 7,500,000 pounds of metal in her, al01I1I she stands, mid will retard esied. silll to Tot railway building though the mere shell is barely 'com- the advantage of American roads. No word, no look! that they so parted. of Well, (wax pleted. The total displacement Fur lying tongues had broken faith and 16,000 tons Includes the weight of the trust. Secures Absolution. ship when everything Is in place the (Jnnd-hye- 1 A Forgiving eye sought hers, local of Kilmarnock gentleman" guns, armor, engines, coal, and InciThat only aought the ground, dental furnishings. It Is difficult to admitted to tne provost of that town A mnmi-n- x pause. In which a heart's life passed away. the other day that he was the author give an adequate idea of the tremenAnd Hun retreating footsteps fell upoa her ear. dous power for destruction of such a of the bogus letter regarding the gift vessel when hurled forward by the to Kllmarrock of a Burns temple, at a A closing door, a woman's sob. And she win lies conies momentum of her engines upon an ad- cost of 5110.0011 from Andrew CarneHe gave the provost $250 for the Umn a sea of pride and doubt, gie. versary." Good-by- e lorevermurc! When one stands In the shadow cast local hospital, and the incident was closed. Sees Evlle in Overstudy. by the huge hull of the Connecticut, a officially row of houses, five stories high, and Henry R. Kdmuda, president of the Land Under Irrigation. extending a full long block, conveys Philadelphia board of education, says census bureau estimates that half the The same of sense the size approximately public school pupils of that were ns does the hull Itself as It lies In Its approximately 9.200,000 acres are suffering from Ills brought city huge cradle at the water's edge. On under Irrigation In July of last year. on by overstudy. The principal evlla each side, from the ground to the bul- This Is an Increase since the irrigarerulting, he saya, are nervous affectemporary companlonways tion season of 1899 as reported In the tions and defective eyesight, warks, both have been constructed, and up and census of 1900 of 7,660,455 acres. largely traceable to exceaalve home down these ewarra continuously two etudy and the crowding of too many London Birth Rate Declines. Into the elementary grades. passing streams of humanity the branches In 1881 the London birth rate avei men who are making the race, He champions the abolition of after- 1.OOO of them altogether. But one aged 32.2 a thousand. It steadily de- noon classes and the wiping out of ali I homo must scale the abaky companlonwav clined to 28.5 In 1909 study. t l |
