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Show He Bids,f?ive Spades and Makes a Slam CHICAGO. A quiet brldgo gnme In tho residence of Jacob Loeb, former for-mer president and now a member of thy school board, was Interrupted. Gathered In n front room nt -ISO) Kim-bark Kim-bark arcnuo wcro Joseph lto:enfleld, Sydney Loeb, Fred I'hlllpson and Herbert Her-bert A. Loeb. The card chumber wan contiguous to the porch, through an open door of which streamed a cooling breeze. Suddenly the voice of a hoy was heard from the sidewalk. "Bid Are spades," he called. The players chuckled and dealt their cards. Mr. Loeb, sipping his kin-onado, kin-onado, uttered a plensunt remark about tho younger generation. So engrossed en-grossed were they that they did not notice the entry of a youth with a- .45 caliber revolver and a homemodo velveteen vel-veteen mask with ragged eyeholes. lie announced himself with the usual formula: for-mula: "Hands up I" Tho players, thinking they were being be-ing kidded, laughed. The bandit Insisted, In-sisted, adding a cuss word or two by way of emphasis. Finally the hands went up. "No fair," objected Mr. itosenlleld. "I've got a good hand for the first time llil" evening, nud now you make me display It to the crowd." The lsltor requested him to Inj Ills wealth on the table. The other followed suit. Herbert Loeb cnntrlh uted $100, Jake $181), Sydney arotliei century, Then a demnnd was mud for jewelry. "Now, look here, kid, you don't wan that watch," said mine host, when hi saw his brother's timepiece going Into the kitty. "Tluit'H n present from hts mother." The watch was returned. My this time Ihe procedlnga were he ginning to Irk Jacob Loeb. "Well, now. young man," said he, "you've mado a pretty good haul. Suppose Sup-pose you get to h 1 out of here." "That's fair," observed the visitor. Wherewith he gathered up his pluu der and got Admits He Is World's Champion Hiker M .tnHmcL FOUT WOUTH. TKTC. If K. P. Lnrabreth of this city Isn't the champion hiker of the world, who Is? Lnmbreth admits tho championship. He says ho la now nenrly 20,000 miles over tho record for long-dlstanco walking, hnvlng traveled three times around the earth, covering 270,000 mile. He wnlked all the distance except ex-cept on ocean trips and then paced the decks of ships constantly to make np for It as much as possible. Ho has walked 23,000 tulles In South America, 10,000 miles In Mexico nnd Central America, 1(5,000 mllna In Can- OP ada, Alaska and Newfonndlnnd, and : 75,000 miles In Europe and Asia. Starting from Liverpool, England, on each of his trips, "the walkln'est man In the world" landed In New Tork for his flret trip around the globe, which took two years nnd four months, landed nt Chnrlcstou, S. C for the second trip, taking two years nnd live mouths, and at Huboken, N, ,1., for the third trip, which occupied three yenrs. "I'm just wnlklng for cxercls-now," cxercls-now," he said. Lambreth Ih "hard as a- nail," appears ap-pears to be about thirty-live ycirj olt Instead of fifty, which Is his real ugc Ho carries a 00-pound puck contnlnlnf everything necessary for his Journey which began nt Liverpool, Kngland January 1, 1807, under n contract wlU various wnlklmr associations of whld he Is a mt'iubor, to pay him $103,00i If he broke Iho world's record. Ho has done this, received ?i:tO,00f. and Is to round out nn oven (lOO.Oft miles by July 11, 102-1, when bo returns re-turns to his home In Texus. With the exception of three months spent In a hospital after being wounded rt the battle of San .Timn Hill, while a member of Col, Roosevelt's Rough rtlders, nnd two nnd one-half years as a shipbuilder at Hog Island during the world war, Lambreth has walked to nnd fro over the earth sine 1807. "Rabbit-Eared, Weak-Kneed Sob Sisters" CENTRAL CITY, COLO. The women wom-en of Central City do not have, rabbit ears; neither are thoy weak-kneed; weak-kneed; moreover, they are not sob-rlstem. sob-rlstem. Rising as their champion In this respect, William M. Kirk, a mining min-ing man of this region, with ?20,000 worth of resentment ns an added Incentive, In-centive, has asked the district court of Gilpin county to adjudicate thecara and knees of the fcmnlo population. Kirk's singular defense of the women wom-en Is embodied In the complaint In a suit which ho has filed ngnlnst T. R. Cudahuy, unother mining man of this section. In the first Instance Kirk demands .20,000 damages for alleged llhel. He alleges that Oudahay, last October, when Kirk was a candidate for county commissioner, published In a local paper ,nn article designed to ridicule him and hold him up to public contempt- Among other things, Cudu-hay Cudu-hay accused Kirk, according to tho hitter's nllegatlonB, of being a "cave mnn love maker" and referred to him , "WIK mil ICIrlc." Cudnhny also r'.-ln '-d according to Kirk's complaint, i! in lit huil been swindled of valuable '.i.niiu property by Kirk. In Ihe course of Cudahay's charges he advised the "rabbit-eared, weak-kneed weak-kneed sob-sisters" of Gilpin county not to vote for Kirk, the latter assorts. Kirk resents such reference to women of Gilpin county. In hts complaint he denies this nnd all other charges that form tho basis of his action. In reply to Kirk's suit Cuduhay pleaded the truth of the charges ho made against Kirk. He asserts In his answer that Kirk's reputation Is not worth the $20,000 value that has been placed upon It Cudnhny was also arrested with the editor of tho weokly paper In which his statement concerning Kirk was published, for criminal libel. He has retained former DUtrtet Jadgo Harry S. Class as connsA Doesn't Want to Hear Gabriel's Horn WATERLOO, IA. William T. Whltnoy, wealthy retired farmer farm-er and ono of tho few survivors of pioneer dnys, has arranged every detail de-tail of his funeral when life, which ho rcgnrds as a misfortune, shall have ended for him. "I wish to bo laid away so securely that I shall never hear Gabriel when he blows his horn," said Whitney, who personally supervised the digging of his own grave In Elmwood cemetery. Tho grave Is of regulation depth, cemented with u layer of solid concrete sides nnd bottom to a thickness of eight Inches, The men who did tho fifork have been pnld and dismissed, but tho boss of tho Job Is under written writ-ten contrnct to construct a cover of cement six Inches In thleUnets nnd this in turn to bo overlaid with two inyers of brick placed on edge nnd solidly cemented. 1 A plain white marker baa been I plnced nt tho head of tho empty grnvo. On top of tho Btono its cut the word "Father," nnd tho dato of birth, 1635. I ' The dato of death will bo cut by a X workman who has already received his I wrige. I , No Minister shall bo present when I j tne body is consigned to Its last renting rent-ing plnce. Whitney has already prepared pre-pared his own funeral sermon. "Life Is an opeu road death Is a stono wall I" he has written In UiIh unique document. Ho holds out no hope for the life eternal, but qualifies this by adding he would not tnke one mot-sol of expectation from those who hopn In nn eternal life boyoud denthV black walls. Music, If any, at his funeral mut bo bright, gny and cheerful, nud there must be no flowers. Tho funeral manuscript Is to he reai' by a close friend before tho casket leuius tho lioiiEo. Tho text now rests In a little tin box at tho head of his bed, tho key fastened securely around his neck with a bit of ribbon. sHesasVIVaVHHHHiHBIii |