Show HAS MS HAS DANE TAKEN HIS MUG I TOO OFT TO WELL OF DEFEAT DEFEA T PY nY 0 i E. E iAN VAN YAN LOAN The fhe pitcher which makes males too many trips to the well wen gets gots chipped in iii time and I k p. does doos O 9 not make malce all any ai- difference how durable durable dur duro able the pitcher Is to begin legin with Dresden Dresden Dres Dres- den n china Is likely to go 0 out of business the th vc very ve-ry y first Journey Tho old ohl stone mu mug muc will make several roun round trips trip butth but th the they both m meet t on the ash heap wh when n nh nilI nil all allIs I Is over Constant dropping wears away th the granite and a 3 constant popping on th tin tin- chin chili will c get t the thc toughest t lighter fighter that over pr pushed his gnarled mitts Into a pad lad glove All of or which brings us Ul very naturally to the time question qu now a agi- agi l- l the time public minds mind Did Dill that old 0 black welt well at hip chip a 3 hole hobo holIn In lint Hat Nelsons Nelson's liar or didn't It Tom Torn was tas the time proprietor of a aver avery avery ver very tough mug and mug and this ROCS goes 08 both hoth ways wn's oven cn If Ir he lie sees S It 11 He II carried It to I all sorts of or wells all the way from Crom Honolulu lion Hon to Belfast Ireland He lie never neve shirked slurRed a chance to trot his out on tho the tiring firing lIn line and anI It wa was a nice mark ani anti and ens easy to hit On One nl night ht h he he- went up tip against against ch man named Jeffries In San Francisco The mU rang mug didn't break but hut It lost a a. few fet chips here and there Two years yeans later Sharkey tried again at ConE Coney Conry Island and after aCler the fight light was wa over h he ha had nothing left but bul the handle He lIe J rn made e a few trips to various wells after aeter that Jilt but he lie carried nothing away Jeffries s put mug mur out of busl- busl n ness e ss Kl Kid Broad was another la lad with a fine fino durable stamina Jar A Mexican person pet per son got ot a good crack at nt Broads Broad's crockery crockery crock crock- ery cry one night In Butte Butt an and now the time un un- beaten bo boy with the harelip Is chief booster boost r for Cor or a rubberneck automobile ills His jar went vent out of business an and It ll held water afterward Terr Terry McGovern used to clash stoneware stoneware stone stone- ware with all comers corners and it never took him lon long to destroy destro the other fellows fellow's pitcher pilcher An Aim unknown party from Colorado Colorado Colo Cole rado ratio shot Terrys Terry's carafe caraCe Cull of holes on ono one afternoon un up In Connecticut Terry Tern nent some sorno time repairing the damage damase a and once once more he hl tried conclusions with his con con- Ills water carrier broke In the theme same me old place and Terrys Terry's heart broke with it There Is ono one thing about this broken pitcher game once game a fellows fellow's crocke crockery y goes oes to smash no amount of oC patching 0 or mending will make male It the same again The mischief Is done when the time first crack appears S Youn Young Corbett tt carried his pitcher to the well where the wealthy water spar spar- II ides kle Th The Tiffany water lter nt j the time lining out omit of or Jar and It was Ia not lon long before u oil all II the time second raters c corurn wore were carrying own away bits of or crocker crockery as s sou- sou ve v yen n Lis Li's Edible Millo Hanlon once had hall a stein stin ln that nobody could coul dent lent H Ht 11 wa was so flO of this fact that h he carted It to cv every ry well he could coul find Everybody E had a it crack nt at JJ property And one oba day Iny the bottom dropped out Fellow named Young Voting Corbett did It It hut th there Is 11 a theory l at s Edolie's stein steini had been d by hy 8 several born boin- ha rei m. m IAl I At Al tho present tIme lh thor heron ru I In is a small w ll In the time middle le of or th the tho featherweight Held field entirely h by hUH bits of or of or all an kinds Just Joist how long hong will trill r remain maln in time tho lJ Is a matter for conjecture Of or late years 18 Hat Bat Nelson has been the Lime won wonder er of or tIme the lI lightweight c division Of OC nil the time crockery his has haa been heen tou toughest toughest tough tough- hest h- h est anil anol most mOISt often oCten assaulted He lie won Yon out In lii th the this endurance class clas un and he lie won nil all h by himself At Nelsons Nelson's Jar went up against a h No other Jar would have stood It lL t so long bong Ever er since then Bat Jat hns has been ben keeping his mis cro crockery crock IC ery under tinder cover Those who cl claim lm to havo have hall hail peeps PS at It say y that there thra isa Is A hole In the time bottom hollom and arH that lint It will never ho hold the time golden Kolden fluid again If It this is true hns hums gone Kon the then n of ot time till way world Tho The man was never nc born who could stand an unlimited amount of slam hanging and It Is 18 a significant fact that the tougher a man Is the worse worst he breaks when he tie breaks at nil all If Nelson on no lon longer er has hns tho the stamina that thal enabled him to stand up and present present pre pro sent his jaw ja to the tho star thumpers of the U lightweight division l he will Viti bo be the time softest marl mark In the tho business ss from now on on- If IC his jar is still intact lightweights light bight weights will tb do well vell to n light ht Mh shy of him At th the the- r pre present ent lime tune there Is a L plan to put Bats Bata jar on public c exhibition against a a. jar which Is Js known to lo IJ be slightly damaged If H this exhibition of crockery comes come off ns os per schedule llie there thero will III h be he no need nc-ed to o speculate longer long long- er Tho The truth will come out when NelBon Nel- Nel lelson son semi steps ps up tip to the time well all for the Time after aCter the trip The Tho moral If your pitcher has a crack In It It H. keep away from the well As long as there Is a doubt about t U U. there Is mona money to be he ma made e In the time crock crock- er Cr cry business but when a n pitcher J IP Is once smashed It Is s night good ht for keeps |