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Show I i - : THE TRUTH IS FUNNY. OUR GIANT FATHERS. yvata Bart HOW MEN TALC WERE. ANCIENT TIMES ? Om Authority Wi 119 OF Hrk Oat That Adam ltao 193 Faot la Ualfbt, ! Doolftno lu Proof of Moo Marvin Hart, the Louisville middle- freight who has come to the front with fe bound, announces that he will not do ny more fighting until next fall. He give as his reasons that he does not are to take any chances of hurting his reputation by fighting at ih present time. There is hardly any-sn- e who will accuse Hart of not being game, and it looks as though hf is doing the proper thing in taking a rest after making such a creditable Record for himself in such a short space of time. He is said to be a hard worker In training and a lad who takes great He should pride in his profession. five a grand account of himself when the proper time come Hart had a chance to tackle Kid" McCoy, but modestly declined, saying he was too recently out of the kindergarten to run up against such a hard proposer ition. TALE'S GREATEST ATHLETE. e The greatest athlete that Tale has produced In many years is Albert Sharpe, of New Haven. Sharpe is a star in every branch of athletics that he has taken up. He entered the medical school three years ago and alnce that time he has devoted a part gsf every college day to some form of Col-leg- States a Westerner of medium height, 31 years of ge. He has been without hands for 23 years and has played billiards for nine years. Among the knights of the cue he ranks as a third-clas- s player. This means a great deal In billiards,1 for a third-clas- s play- er is a good deal better than a third-ilas- s Jockey, puglliat or baseball plajer. In fact, it means that he could not hope to defeat the great masters of the gapie such as Slosson and Schaefer, who are rated In the first class, or stuh men as Catton, Carter, Gallagher, Morningstar and McLaughlin, who ar second-clas- s experts. grouped as Against all other men, however, including the amateur champions, this "armless wonder, as he is called, would stand an even chance. Sutton Is comparatively aa good at pool as he Is at billiards. He has defeated John Daly, the champion of Chicago, and many other noted players. Sutton prefers billiards, however, and Intends to make it bia specialty in future. Considering how be ia handicapped, he executes hla shots with wonderful rapidity. Necessarily he uses a bridge frequently. One of the things he caw not explain himself ia the ease with which he executes the most difficult Nell-know- MIL BUTTON Af PLAY. drew shots. Me plays the "line nurse from the tower rail, the balls being, on the upper chalk mark. In a way no other expert can Imitate. He uses s cue of the regulation size. An idea of his game can be gathered from the fact that he averages about seven at bald line billiards and frequently gets as high as 14. At the straight rail game he plays to acor 100 points or no taunt. 14-in- ch DECLINE OT ENGLISH PUGILISM. Of late years there has been a painful dearth of good men in the heavy grade of English pugilists. Since the days when Mitchell wee In hla prime not a single middle-weigor heavyweight who would be accounted better In this country has than a third-ratcome to the front in the lend where pugilism was born. Good little men there have been In plenty, although duripg tha past few rears even the lighter classes have betrayed signs of retrogression, as to evidenced by the fact that at ths present time the championships of every class, from heavyweight to bantam are held by American boxers. During Charley Mitchells last visit to ths states he expressed hlawielf as thoroughly disgusted with the lack of ability shown by Englands present heavy-weigrepresentatives, and wound up by remarking that Terry McGovern could go over there and trim the best of the big fellows with ease. ht er ht ALBERT SHARPE, doing fast time in any of the events. He Is fast, strong, hardy and uses hie bead In everything he does. He Is very popular In New Haven and has thousands of friends who rejoice In seeing him so successful. He la a modest fellow and his success has not turned his head in the least He ia 25 years old and received his early schooling in Hlllhouse High School and laid hit foundation for athletic work In the Y. M. C. A. of New Haven. He Intends to practice medicine. SCHOOL TOR SOCBRETTES. Somewhat, like our own domestic schools, but specialised in accordance with ,the German tendency to specialisation In everything. Is the school for soubrettes in Berlin. Hers these aprlgMly and entertaining persona are taught everything .that belongs to their art upon tha stage. They learn how to dance, how to make up, how to pose, how to talk and bow to do the myriad things that make an entertaining and artistic, soubretts a very valuable In the plays and comedies tR ' faetor whloh they appear. MCOT AND MAHER. The Louisville authorities having sat down on the proposed match between Kid McCoy end Peter Maher, It to extremely unlikely that the two men will ,be seen In the ring; at-- least not for a long time. The principal reaaon. It to said, for stopping the contest was that the Louisville officials had a suspicion that all would not be above board. This came about through McCoys alleged fiasco In Nsw York with Corbett, but which both men declare was a square battle. McCoy has lost the great hold he had on the public heart and It will be hard work jfor him to win It back agaltL- M'GGVERN QUITS ACT1KSI Tarry McGovern has quit tho stags and returned to ths profession where he to, indeed, R eta r boxing. Terry has made considerable money from his play and to grateful to ths public for tha way hs has been treated. Th I won- derful Brooklynite will undoubtedly be seenjta several matches oi the Pacifla coast In ths near tutors, Gardner being hooker tor his fit it antagonist .Thera also seems every likelihood that Frank Erne, the lightweight champion, will be " given tl AND LESS BILLIARD FLATS R. chance hehaa long looked' for of wipa man that remarkable fact a Is It July .In Madi without hands or forearms to one of ing out th defeat pfjaat the best billiard players la the United son gquars Garden. and It. If 11 rl At various times withlnlhe last century assertions have beet) made that Adam and the antediluvian people were of extraordinary height, but the assertions have always been laughed down by scullers who never think for themselves in 1718 Henrton, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, published a pamphlet in which he that thtwe personages of the Bible were of the following height: Adam, 123 feet 9 Inches: Eve, 118 feet 9 inches; Noah, 27 "feet, Abram, 20 feet, and Moaes. 13 feet I. too, aaid a scientific student of the Bible, In speaking of this matter recently, am (confirmed in the belief that the prehistoric races were gigantic, but figure out their statures, by a p roc ess of reasoning different from that promulgated by Henrlon. According to the Old Testament there were glanta on earth In those days whose daughters were married1 to the aons of God. and whose sons became mighty men. Also, the sons of Anak, in whose sight men were said to be but grasshoppers. (Grasshoppers of that period were as large as the twentieth century dog.) The Emmlns and Zamzumraalna were giant nations. Og, the king of Bash-aremained of the remnant of giants; AcGoliath, of Gath, was a giant 950 lived Noah to Genesis, cording years and then died. The average life of man today to about 70 years. It is s, a well defined rule in nature that blpedg and quadrupeds live about the number three and of years required for individual maturity. Thus man In thia century matures in twenty years and dies at the age of 70 years. Dividing the age of we find Noah by three and one-ha- lf that he matured In about 270 years. The average man of today at maturity measures about 5 feet and weighs 125 Five feet in twenty years to pounds. equivalent to 3 Inches In one year. Applying the same rule to Noah's maturing years, we find that at hto maturity he was 67 feet tall and weighed 1,375 pounds. It stands to reason that if Noah was so great In body, Adam must have been equally as large. The mere fact that Adam was never born evidences that he .was s gigantic man. Everything created during the formation ages was according to a very large standard. Ths trees were sky scrapers,- - the animals Immense and all other things In proportion. Why should Adam havs been a freak In this array unemfined trutM that Clemens told some which proved the In tact. coriRtness of his theory. moSt of the humor of the njter-dtnnspeech es which he ha, made tula past winter has lieen tij h.ls presentation" o'f truth Mr Clemens Bpeaks with a playful drawl, and occasionally hla lyes almost dose When laughter Interrupts him he opens lus eyes, nods and looking along the line of faces opposite him. he sometimes smiles lu enjoyment of the joke with them. Mr. Clemens, in epeaklng at his first din ner oflhe things that had happened since he had been away, said, reflect ively: "The Daughters of the Royal Crown there is an A met lean Ideal fof you God knows what specialized form of Insanity it represents. It isnt softening Of the brain; you cant soft-e- n thing that uoes not exist. There are no eligible but the American descendants of Charles the Second. How the fancy product of that old harem holds upr As he concluded this reference hit manner was almost savage. Mr Clemens Is a prudent man, though be says he knows nothing of business, and he does not squander much of hie high grade marketable humor on hla after-dinnspeech. He very evidently makes no preparation for them, and be talks about whatever the occasion may suggest. Alnslee's Magazine. Mi cuniug General Colby, who led the troop against the Indians, la developing Into ... a beautiful woman, aaya th Omaha World-lleralFour day after the battle, in which 100 warriors and 120 women and children were killed, the little girl, then five months old, wee found partly frocen and covered with snow In her mother's papoose frame. She was th only live thing on th 'called her battlefield. The Great Bird, the Sioux "Child of tb Battlefield. er d. got n, gni-mal- college athletics. He first-- made the. basket-ba- ll team in the position of center, and wits subsequently elected captain. Then in the spring he played base ball and rowed In the freshmen crew. In the fall he was selected as a member of the foot ball eleven and this spring he Is filling first base on the 'Varsity nine with great success. In track work Sharpe is capeble of at ,lum' and refer to a man I Aft as m ins! u, eie galuot-- 1 mean a man pre.s nt .it the dinner he as he ne else will laugh wel) Wh Hath Iw.t.n returned to New Voii la11 tall attei tils long stay abrd it (!" purtu ularly appropriate thatbto tiiM tm mal welcome home should coint it did, from the Lotus club n,l on that occasion Joy was He is Mr. G. H. Sutton, n tell 'he plain truth will always laugh theljfpl 9 la taro A SENSIBLE PLAN. Ul( WK1 1laln Irulli. Twain said sadly nut ioug ago: fuium.st thing in the world 1 theitrth flftm Moat er IN Ttora la SELF POSSESSION W altar Damruach, Umj aa la-por- Quality, The man who makes public appearances must have says I have learned by' Wajter Damrosch. great experience that this quality is There have been ttmes on Whin the slightest perturbation my part would have made my orchestra play out of tune. The musicians In an orchestra place just as much faith in their conductor as do soldiers in The best example of thet general. this quality I ever witnessed was abof d an Atlantic liner. The second day put we ran into violent weather. The propeller shaft broke, and we werf drifting helplessly. The wave ran- - Wait and a general scare ensued, ? writer jlystertwe omi and thither and the men were pl nervous. The officers, not knowing what bad happesed, at first, were obA pandemonium viously frightened. seemed imminent. In the midst of it all a young man whom I remember by the name of Stone, who was making his first voyage, came out of hla stateroom in an immaculate yachting suit; he (Was cool And collected. A man who hadbeen racing up and down, clad in one ot two scanty garments, seized him by the shoulders, jammed him against the rail, and frantically said; For Heaven sake what to the matter? What to the matter? "Go and ask the captain, please, replied Stone. Have you any idea of what to going one? Stone pulled out his watch, looked at It and said, as he puffed his cigar: I suppose It to something that happens every Tuesday morning. This to my first trip over, and Im not running In Jive minutes the ship this time. order was restored, because other excited passengers became calm at the of the young man. in multiplication of the. races UimiaU), the lives of individuals aa well as the statures.- Why? " Possibly because our civilization to an unnatural perversion of the life contemplated by oar Creator for us, and as free agents we are gradually destroying the race as s pen alty for our wrong interpretation of our mission. The power to multiply having been given us, death to s natu ral consequence, but death by natural decay. Instead of death by disease, crime, war, pestilence, results of civilization, was contemplated. Hence our civilization and ail other civilizations are more' or less responsible for the Inevitable extinction of the race. A curious mathematical coincidence lay in the above proof of mans decline in Itature and age. Thus the stature of man in a few more than 6,000 years, according to Hales chronology being the age of the human race, and according to my deductions, has decreased from 65 to 5 feet, at which rate of decrease the world will be depopulated In 461 years, or the year 2362. The age of man has likewise decreased from 900 to 70 years In the same time, at which rate the race will become ex tlnct in about 461 years, or the year 2362. As you observe, both deductions reach the same conclusion. There may be an element of truth in this theory, at least It to worth probing. The great trouble with os today Is that we are too easily satisfied; we lack the ability and energy, to figure opt or search for evidences of truth, and instead, accept all kinds of theories and dogmas as they are presented to us, surrounded mostly by a halo of fanaticism. Impossible and absurd. Success. , A Carton Trod. The custom abroad of placing feminine boots and shoes outside the bedroom tor the porter's tender ministration, so severely criticised by Americans, who are accustomed to seeing much smaller else on their women folk!, haa led to a curious trade In Paris, by which- - womans vanity to quaintly illustrated. It appears that ladle with large feet, when staying at hotel nowaday, carry with them a couple of pairs of tiny shoes, which. Instead of the ones they wear, they plaee outside their door for the serDream. Ciuj Crvekar'l rsllforate When the late Charlie Crocker of vants to take away and clean. All the Central Pacific Tallway fame crossed big boot and shoe shops in Paris now the plaint In the 40s by ox team over make a specialty of these tiny footthe old emigrant trail from Council wear. Bluffs to San Francisco, he predicted BntftK Shipping ThrMtnal. that, within a comparatively few years, a steam railroad would be running The danger threatened to British across th continent, following sub- shipping by foreign competition is stantially the same course traveled by the subject of investigation on the part him. Hto prediction was considered of the British Chamber of Shipping. At so absurd by hto associates that he was a recent meeting a resolution was Mr. passed urging British nicknamed Craxy Crocker. ship owners to Crocker had the satisfaction of not induce every firm to take at least two only aeeing hla prediction come true, boys as apprentices In each vessel, to hut of being one of the leading spirits provide suitable accommodation for in the construction of the first trans- them apart from the crew and to give continental railroad. Since Mr. Crock- as much care as possible to their trainier dream 'was realized and the first ng. At present there are not enough transcontinental line was completed, British seamen to man the ships, and five other distinct and separate line unless England adopts the r training method of other nations the compehave been built to the Pacific coast tition bids fair to rapidly become National Magazine. more strenuous. Unc-Pap- TO REFORM MARRIAGE CUSTOMS The Mexican government hat just begun a task of tremendous propor tlons and of an exceedingly delicate nature, that of suppressing the practice of polygamy and of promoting marriages. In many parts of the Republic there to little or no observance of thelawa relating to' plural marriages and In some districts there to practically no such thing as the marital tie. For soma time the authorities have been Investigating domestic relations In the smaller pueblos and settlements and they have discovered a stat of affairs that to appalling. The recent taking of the census in particular served to bring to light many instance where the natives in th mountainous regions lived more like animals than human beings. In some of the pueblos there has not been a marriage to years. In th mining camps of southern Chihuahua, not more than 200 mllea from the city of was found Chihuahua, a hamlet com posfamiliea twelve In the where, ing the population, there had been no marriage from th oldest generation to the youngest Neither had kinship been regarded and families had Interontii hr wol showed im rrte a marked wnwwHjm settlement, known as San Fellxo, to reputad to be the most lawless 114 the State of Chihuahua and nearly all the serious crimes to. the region can be traced to this pueblo. Tb efforts of the Catholic priests toward correcting this condition of affairs in San Fellxo and In many other places have been unavailing. So isolated are many of the settlements that communication with the outer world to difficult and Infrequent President Diet to personally interested to the reform .movement and It to at hie earnest request that th strictest measures are to be taken to check th evil practices. Not alone to Mexico do thee evils exist Across the line to the Mexican colonies In southern Arizona similar conditions are to be found and th authorities of this territory are Just awakening to th fact Territorial officials are making wholesale arrests of th and forced marriages. On 1 not largest colonies, where marriage town to near the generally practiced, from Of Temps, only a few miles Phoenix. Last week officers raided th villages and since then fifty marriages bar taken place among th Inhabitants of the village. riCTCBES IN THE HOME. When we enter a home, among th Aral thing to attract our attention ar tha pictures, and from them we can read th tasts or lack of it of th lady of the house, tor they give us tha keyaota to her character. It w find gaudy chromos, and cheap oil paintings made by "lightning artists, wa know at once that refinement to lacking in that home. Pictures should be selected always with aa eye to the surroundings in which they will b placed, says the Womans Home Companion. If th house la very large and handsome, and money of no eonaldera- tlon, then, of course, oil paintings by tb best artists are preferable. People of moderate. Incomes who wish taste-ful homes should choose water colors, engravings or etching If they can be afforded. Artists signed proofs ar most desirable, but no better than good copies, with the exception of th lgneture, which to supposed to add value. 1. UOWN INDIAN W4RD. OF CREFM FAWN-COLORE- D With girdle and vest of yellow satin Brown and yellow satin to appllqued upon the bolero in the form of rises, and near th edge to an appliqued toeing of pale blue satin oa the band of embroidery. Draped lace and black velvet tab with steel buckle finish' the bodice. Tb skirt is circular and haa a pleated flounce, headed by a band of appllqued satin similar to that on the watoL s,. Young man, get aomethtag worth worrying over. If you have no family, you will worry over a dog or a sick u1- , - truly said .that dancing At any rate, much depends upon the feet both In poetry fend dancing It has I A SOLDIERS as been the poetry of motion. Little Zintka Lsnuni, the little Sioux waif found by the eld of Women and cats ar every busy dead squaw after the battle'- of and to adopted 1690, Knee by tending to tbeir toilets. Wounded Unc-Pap- aa at- THEEM ETON SUITE BappUaa far Soath Africa. fete It does not appear that the English of A, trait. Australia is twenty-fou- r are ready to withdraw from Sout times aa Africa. . British agent are in this large at the United Kingdom, but country asklng'blds op 20,000 bag of Britain population to ten times as -- her feeding oats, 20,000 bags of seed oats, every square mile of 20.00Q bales of glfalfa. ha and 20.00f ithe United Kingdom there are 135 per-- n' 10 bag of bran. It to Hgflerstood that every square mile of Aus- these supplies are' for the' troop to only one and a half Inhabitant. South Africa, v ' No. L Pastel blue broadcloth. Th band of Persian embroidfcton ha ery, and to decorated with rectangular felecei pf black velvet stitched with Eton, very long in front The collar and cuff r faced with lavender featln, over which to, Arabian lace, en ap- plique.' 1 . . J , Cafe au lalt broadcloth, trim- -, told. Two straps of the embroidery oss at the back, and are finished with med with band of cut velvet over cream satin. Th Eton to faced with C velvet Batin, and has strap of brown braid. with cheviot 2. pleated Brows No. :.uV No. 3. . . |
