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Show tue n ?' W. Odd Femirlne Notions . wo An amusing wedding incident ocrui red receiA !v in a icuioie village. The bmle, evidently t tic near ap the crernu' id pioacli hoir .ent ihe bride-maul(one of whom was me vimng mans sistefl on to await her at tb i hutc h This aotiti I 111 ly lost her lie ' When the bed Ihe church ib.ey oliscivc'd the punf-e.a- l in panel iv w siting at tlie hal The looeb-ttllseteel ete-jt- In Beilin a woman car di op a p nny iu tin slot of an automatic ma now idllgc etc be pi u e i i j. womans km $i7..Vn'. That is i In sum plm c on the New Zealand es liman s to compensate a woman who was in a hot an bath under gov ei nment auspn es anil was exfoliated through tlie ignition of the gas lip iKitnadv What is c ilial-leng- a iss4 with the Hhltadelphia National League club, but was sent to that clubs Henesv h 'i,ua Slate b ague laim In 1895 he piu bed the Springfield ( lub Info the Easli-- n pennant and at tne d hi the t lose of the I ace w a- - di a1 Kantas Oil) i luh to the Westell! e . hridc-maidsie- league. The Ohenstu National league duh purchase hi release in the tail ot lvn. and he lemained With that lull continuously until 1901. when he east his lot with Comisl eys Ameinati League tlub Callahan classes high in all depaitinc nts of the game, when in condition Russiars Want Caywood. Wdie Caywood. Joe kev hoi c ..i n of Bald still keeps up his wonderful Hi latest victim riding in Euiop Ellegaanl, the Bane, who captured the world's championship at Rome. The match took place at the Parc des Princes in Paris in the presence of a record attendance. Bald lost the opening heat through a well timed jump of his opponent, the distance between them at the line being a couple of feet In the second heat the American finished a length in advance of the Dane and in the concluding set to the winners margin was about a half wheel. As is always the case in sprint matches on the other side, no pacemaker was nmd, and the time was exceedingly slow until the finishing 200 metres. A Baseball Star. One of the pitchers of the Chicago club, of the American league, has the t shut out of only major league no-hi- Ul - -- whom iciiuede has no supeilor in By BYRON matrimony to bis own sister any one had the presence of mind L utter a word of warning The momel-tou- s question. "Wilt thou have this woman? had been reached when tlie bride opportunely appealed and, after explanations and apologies, the cer- mony was be gun again - l TV a, ffVi mon-Ladt- o the country as a finished saddle artist is likely to go to Russia, where he will ride next season for Count A. W Sietnhock Feintor a wealth) nobleman of Wais-auwho lias one of the largest stables in the land of the Czars, nurnheiing ninety thoroughbreds or more. Cavwood looeiyeci a contract from the Count, which calls for a salary of $7,ono, extra pay for both winning and losing mounts, and 500 for traveling The contract expenses. stipulates! however, that Caywood must be able t 112 pounds, and here w to ride-awhere a hitch may come iu. as WIllWjj cannot make the weight. He hi cabled the Count that the lowest weight he will be able to ride at is 118 IMiunds. and will not affix bis signature to the contract uutil a favoiable icplv is received Caywood says that he can ride at 118 pounds comfortably, and that with plenty of vvoik he could teduce to the 115ound mark and leiuaiu strong, but. to use Caywood s own words. They would have to cut off one of my could get down to rule leet tclciie al 112 pounds " If Count ret moi, cu lo he more t Count A V Hlemhoek Fermor, knows a good thing when he hears of one. he had lett'i waive the three pounds difference in the weight ques lion, as Caywood will show him something about riding race horse's he probably never saw. This is rattier a broad usserfion when one stops to think that the leading jockeys now in Russia ate all Americans Knapp, .Mite In'll, Cash Sloan Moigan. Shields. others hut Rutter, Hamilton and Willie Cavwood is the acknowledged peer of each and every one of these clover ridets, and if he ev or reaches Warsaw should make himself as popular with the Russians as he has with follow eis ot the turf on this side of the ocean eor-lec- b pay order that e mar- replied that I was willing to pay riage be romantic and appropriate. well for the work. a man can She then . said, And for better You must send the clothes In a caw look in his wife things riage, and send for them In the sam nowadays. She way when they are done; put them in a large telescope bag. for neighbors does not cry when must not know that I am doing this, she wants a new she does for, as I said before, dont have to do bonnet; not torment him with petty suspicions R. asked her how know should and jealousies, and she does not how much mo; ey to send her, and she wheedle and deceive him and then would that she call for the replied boast that she man ntauage her husNeve Style of Billiards. I money. said, Perhaps you would band better than all her female A practically new style of game like me to send the carriage for you? which promises to lie very popular in 'Well, she said, It Is a long walk. friends. She can cook pretty often, she is genet ally w ell educated, and New York this winter Is How Is that for a washerwoman? all over tfie' modern young marrying billiards. It is. in some respects, suBob Burdette said If you want to man is a lucky person. perior to any of the various three-bal- l carom games Its essential feature is see how muen effect advice has on a that the cue shall drive the object ball woman stick your finger In a pall of Swimming Is one of the most wett-a- a to one or,, more .cushiuns; and -- their probably the most amt then-pu- tt it out and tookktful, useful of exercises for women. Not that the two shall meet again. Some at the hole. only do the limbs get an equal share very brilliant shots are conceived by 71 the exiaments of this game, and the In connection with the forthcomlSg of exercise but the perfect freedom merest fraction of a second In time, conference on the Increase of lniej-psranc- e from the trammels of dress allow exor of an inch in calculation, is suffamong women it Is stated ceptional play for the muscles of ths icient to baffle the most clever concepthat drinking hkb-it- s body. From the extraordinary intertion. Accurate judgment of fore, disare extendilg est which women have recently taken tance. direction and cushion angles into classes hith- in swimming it is probable that they are requisites in the- - game. Jake er to eomoarativa-i- may rival men in taeir powers of Schaefer and other professional free from them. aquatic endurance. are still playing at the French The gass of liqacademies. uor as an instituThe city of New York boasts of a tion after lunch club which has for its object the prowith the coffee is, motion of aimless courtship lq so far Thinks He Still Can Pitch. . Joe Corbett, brother of Jim, believes v for example, quits as matrimony is concerned. A num-b- e a modern innova-- t of young men have banded themthat tie ear pitch as well as he ever could. Acc ording to a San Francisco Uon, and at mora selves together to make love to dampaper he sag been practicing daily for than one large congress of recent sels, who, it stead of looking for proseveral weeks. He Rays that thp hand-years women whose position in soci- posals are content witi what is called tbe kn po'-- e Their knights escort a good time. r enteral ety is unquestiorable have regretted lnt m as when he was at bfs best ln that growing la.'it among women of them to them ers. piH.lcs and other the Natiotal league His arm Is In their own or'er-i- f mai e tbtjm presents. taxing wine or amusements, to a splendid condition. anil he adds that spirits between miais. Another point and are generally site Bve-evt cl he could go in retire ts the greater decre- - than the vrvttuary mid pilch that ba willi much grea'er frcid-i- i in his eH 'ime form which' enamored swair. t V.Pl )OUtig at(i nixu enter "I have relict- - . narked the Ob The existence of the public Lnu.-eBillings Makes, a Record. and Things, "that server of Al a mill hie of "he New Yotk t'mv-in"private tar" or "'wl:,' loon c l. .ii, tit s trial Trp ca!n.-- t tinie.-C- . K-and girls even certn alv, the Totiger sS-- takes to tidy her hair Dining. tse ir.ilto-atr- e rmiitman, novat!on7 when he calls, and the more (be the mill or. TH- Monk, a mile fir above d"'c cu;.g man tcUiks !ais,. seem., to at.d an Hct.th i 2.r';. establishing of the gr! the have no hes!;a:iry -- cord for a v.erld's snictK.r waaor more. 8s whatever about r- th d- - f rv. trs i - ! - all teeds -- tidiing. ortfag to til-i- l I 1 spent-lovin- 1 1 y ti ? ttr-ni- en -- to his uuial standard. Callahan was born at Fitchburg. Mass., on Marc h 1. 1874. His professional earner began club in with the Northampton.-Mass.- . 1882. He was with the New Bedford. Mass., independent team for the following seeon. fie was riven a trial es ! , V) He performed the feat Sept. 2u. against the Detrc.it team. His record for the season was not up e school teacher ox The young moth- young won.. r would be Justly Alberta territory tells how twenty- were nine people spent the night at her indignant om- nPr boarding house, which consists of a to "The kitchen and three bedrooms. a pared Aid society met here and the Small boys 15fcM&jyr?key. men came for supper' It began to rain ll have been known v unwittingly to give early In the evening and continued all night. The people dared not ven- - great offense by such comparisons. At ture out over the rough trails in the.ihe same time the resemblance Is not The storm. One woman, her little baby, only perceptible but striking. and I occupied my bed, while another babys nose is as broad as It is long, woman and her little boy took the showing two nostiils, which seem to floor. In another bedroom two preach- - open straight into the head; the nose ers enjoyed the bed and two small and jaw project beyond the line of the boys the floor. In the third bedroom forehead; he lurns in his feet with-twwomen and five children slept out bending Ills legs; he does not tfeveii men slept' use his thumb in grasping; he keeps across the bed on the kitchen floor, two women sat his hands perpetually in " grasping to with two children occs- - attitude; he is always trying up, another climb; he creeps on all fours; he pied the couch " . .sleeps on his stomach. All these are V A new handsha... i "coming In. It characteristics which the baby shares Is as silly as the high handshake with the monkey and which differen-whlaffected people adopted for tiate him from the adult human be- awhile. The new ing. idea is to take your V friends hand with The genial waj s ot some French your fingers and lhopwomen are quaintly given away in move it slowly to case tried at Dieppe. One of the the left and then witnesses explained In detail the symto the rig yc, exactbolism of the language used in a hat ly as if'yatt were, shop,- - For example,. Serve that .customer well was taken to mean add pushing a horlzon-lt- . The effect-o- f 25 per Cent to the price,- the pushee Is VA funny at first, and A woman on the west side who It is suggested that the push bolt likes io be ahead of her neighbors shake be the name bv which the latest with her housework thought that InIn handshakes shell lie known. stead of waiting until Monday to do 7, her washing, she would be real smart A former Chicago woman, who k and do it the Friday before. But now living iu a small eastern town, the good neigh bote, poor, ignorant thus tells of her experience in hunting souls, only said: My, bow late In I wanted S for a washerwoman: the week she is with her wash." laundress, but you see the poor peo- Everything depend on the point of ple here are all rich, that Is. they own view, after alb their own homes ad have money In the bank After The young man ot to day who wishes many calls I finally to marry Is in a. more fortunate posiic invi one who tion than his prop pe of fifty or. sixty said. Well, I dont years ago. It U have to wash, but no longer thought I'll do It to accomthat a bride should modate you If you be in her teens in will me well. two-hall- 1902 to his credit. t A "Cr" Have you considered the future state of your body as well as that of your sosl? Have you planned what shall be done with the clay when you have abut-tied off this mortal coll and lie an inanimate mass Grave Subject approaching deterioration? Will you assign your Is body to the burial ground where the gophers may Considered. gnaw your toes? Will jour anatomy be cremated and your ashes preserved In an urn or. like the w here the grow bodies of jcmaliUndiiuis,. wULjtooJifi. hung .la .ihe lree-toj- s may caw at you and tlie buzzards' ptek at ycur remains? The scientific members of the crematory roeietles tell us It Is better to he Incinerated, more conducive to the general palth of the people we leave behind, and vastly more certain of one very desirable tact that the person treated is dead, clear dead and no mistake. After the crematory gets through with the body there is no imminent danger of the corpse rising up In the coffin anil asking for a drink. People who have horror of being burled alive will do well to order cremation in their wills. The only real objection to cremation is that It is fearful!)- - hard on the gophers! Naturally tlie mind is appalled at the thought of being burned, evn in a Fife is a painful thing, and cremation hints so much of bell-fircrematory and its punishment that one hesitates before confining a loved ones body to the process. But when tlie life is gone, what matter? There is no suffering, no pain, no fouiiation, no nothing. All is a dark and Plutonian vacuum, a nonentity, a nihility, a nullity. The body is only waste the soul, ihe light, the being is gone. Why then not do away with the dross, the husk, the hull, the she'll? Is it not infinitely better than to store the body away in the ground where vermin max eai It, where rodents may destroy it, where rot may degrade it, and unhappy though- t- where thieves may break the sanctity of even the last narrow hoiise ard steal It? Is there one who would prefer to have his dry adolesbones rallied by a spectacled professor before a class of damp-earecent and eallow medical students, than to Know his ashes stand in a beautiful urn on tlie inautlcptece where his widows second husband may refer to tbeqa in times of domeslic ihtelicity? Will you lie buried, burned, quick-limed- , mummified or suspended in a tree like dried fruit? There is no use in evading the question. It is ringing You must make a choice or leave it to those who survive your door-bellyou. Perhaps It Is as well to procrastinate, as a corpse la easily satisfied and not given to philosophy or argument! 1 s in befoBP WILLIAMS. t - the bridegrmim was neatly umied Just Bald Continues to Win. posit hed then hearts and us! ead ot wading m the on h ioi the heiome f hedav thev good n itredlv walked down try le and stood beMclf in m silent sympathy lie i upon the oi gainst relied the proceed ug the clei.iyman began the service and Hut l.ipton will probably come again and vet again li would aln ist stem that the In at was never Inult wine i Wei wguld wicm that cup from us have had u more than half a eenturv. There - a lot m possession of-- a thai The other feltow has to lenge vi p come ovei your fence to get at you and you i an choose your own battle It is not likely that the boat ground will be built soon which lan heat our own boats over thai course. If, by any book or crook, England should nail that cup and carry it back home there would be a lot of trouble getting it back, for they then would have the choosing of the course. - Ills l A German piolessor pu.4ej.i.j lu sulxtt All v some difln ultv people seem lo have iu choosing a wile bv 'trial liy music." Ev ei y thing de pe nds cm the taste of the1 ll subject undei study she prelers wsilt- music, and. above ail St i aims intoxicating strains sin-icertainly tnioUins ll she love's Heel hoi i'll she Docs is aitistlc. hut not practical, she pi Her I.st? Then she is ambitious while a devotee of Mozart would be rather prudish Why an .admirer of Offenbac li should lie cunning is not clear; but, rcmombeiing the opera of "Faust, it is easy to understand that any girl preferring Gounod might be romantic and tenderhearted. v ouc clav Few Good Heavy Weights. at present the market for heavy-weigh- t professional fighters is stagnant There are a few good men out and as about all these have been beaten by the present champion, Jim Jeffties interest in their movements is at low eidi Casting about for a suitable' npimnunl tor the lais Angeles giant, haidly a man known can be When Jeffries deleated Boh picked Fitzsimmons at Coney Island several years ago he gave promise of being champion for a long time, and he has made good the prediction. He has gone right through the ranks of the big men and beaten them all. Including Bob himself the second time, and Jim Corbett, with whom he first started boxing as a sparring partner. Ruhlin will .not have another- chance-a- t the champion, so Jeff says. Sharkey has been twice deleated, and there you are. McCoy is in the field. He Is light, but he has met and beaten some of the big fellows, and, perhaps, is as deserving of a chance at outjiointing Jeff s any of them, it begins to look as if we must hb)e for some good man to develop out ot the ranks now including such men as McCoy. Carter, Gardner. Root. Hart and others of the light heavies bu-lan- I Philosophical Observations chine and icciive fact powder tvebrow pencil anX-nei- Another Chance for Lipton. With pUusure he it noted that Sir Thomas l.iitnn hat. aaiu tome after us for thai Americas up Ills hab been accepted and there v. ill be trouble m xt season The American people will be phased that l.ipton is again given the etianee, for if a real sport from another count! wot modi fcis way into the affet lions of the American iieople by his fairness and squareness it is the same Sir Thomas He has been defeated sexual Lipton times oer here, but always caiw up smiling and said the best boat had won. He never had an ext uses save that his boat was not fa- -t enough to beat us This is the hind of sixwts mansion the Vmeruans Ime- - out v ho can accept dt feat gracefully and teli the vntoi hi is a good te.low. but that he bojn s to land him some otlur : s Evtt lab-rir- fci-- W 'i Now that the season Tor asking "How would you like to be the ice man?" Is off, a more modern problem Is propounded: "How would you like to be a If you are undecided, you may inves-Bein- g turtle farther? a Dissertation ligate by reading Texes papers, which are telling of n a man near Orange who has a turtle farm.- When - The 8nappmg Turtle, the sides of his purse beglnto crette friction by rubbing together, be gets out his drag net and hauls in a few hundred pounds of turtles. The big snappers are f!aced in a. pen and fed until they are fat and ready for market. He finds "l ready sale for bis product in New Orleans, where the fastidious are fond of turtle soup of aristocratic name. Every American youth has caught turtles. He recalls, with the some degree of enthusiasm, strenuous battles with the old snapplng-turtland the softslit')! turtle. . Many a fish pole and line have gone the way of debris through a battle royal with a "whopper," and many "an awful bite has dwindled to a sanguinary affray with a beady-eyereptile of the deep. Thus, the American who is reminiscent will ponder on the proposition of like and dislike for the turtle raising business. No boy cow grown to manhood who ever got his finger or bis big toe In the mouth of a snapping turtle will look favorably upon the scheme. The tenacity with which a pup to a leg, is nothing when compared to a hardshell holds to a root or a bull-doe when his passions are aroused and he grips any part of the ' anatomy. He never lets go until his bead if off and even then be is apt to. .taka. hla head. In Ms, month and alde .lpto the watet wRb .stubborn .mien- - He is a fighter from the Bad Lands and ctults only when the oddsagalnst him have.cumplcteiy annlhligted. hia jchanc?a, A. turtle farmer must nttLall jmrta f of chances "feeding hi stock.' If ever a snapper gels a hold on the calf of bit leg the Joy of a turtle harvest are made to look like the proverbial thirty centa. In raising pigeons one can go into the toft, catch a dove or two and stroke their pretty heads, but the turtle farmer who goes into the head-pttlnand a lever to disengage himself. The Texas business will need a crow-ba- r papers say there is big money In the business, but one gets much satisfaction from a peaceful life bereft of riches these days. As for us we dont like turtle soup, anyhow. mud-shel- l, e g mud-turtl- . . 1 hna arrived at the deduction Some pessimlstfcal eUtistk-iathat pumpkins are growing scarcer year by year. This means,' of course, that by the time the city folks get a vacation ahd hurry iato the pastoral country, the pumpkin pies will le al) gone. Some tin e ago the great problem was "Shall we open the mints to the free coinage of silver," etc. Later the quest km of "How to be happy Now we are up against the-rea- l though married, agitated the commonwealth. thing, If we may be allowed the slang of common parlance. "Is the pumpkin pie to become obsolete?" Perish the thought! How we have reveled in the luscious pumpkin slice! It recalt the halcyon days, the days of asplra- -' Uon and faith, before the rude hand of experience a few thing on the page of life. Up to the present time, we have been permitted to recall this Joyous period by occasional communkm with pumpkin pie. Now we are to he forever cut offthe pumpkin is growing smaller and smaller, fewer and fewer each season, and wilt soon be .a mere curiosity for the sideboard, Time-w- as when at cattle shows pumpkins Were fed the bovine beauties to keep their hair sleek, and Ute roan who raised the biggest pumpkin carried off the finest prize. Alas, one by one the thirgs of youth are being swept sway and the pumpkin rolls into the dim beyond along with other beloved things, a mourned days. Somehow these statisticians are depressing. luxury of the They shatter many a happy memory and create hobgoblins as children build Vale tlie pumpkin pie! But we still have, plenty of material left for mud pies. Perhaps we should bg thankful for that. blue-pencile- d mud-house- The ubiquitous typograpnical error bas long been the object of qualifying adjecUves passionately expressed. The humorist, who- - sees fun in otbe seismic isturbances, quotes with glee each startling and nnei pooled utterance made when the types get Typewriter Get a twisted. After a time the victim smiles, too, at the thing which so incensed him. Not long ago the i?tter Plugged Letter. "c" bn f uv typwritcr became" enamorciT bf'Uie letter "o. "Tls said mair and woman. l.V.ng t igether, get the same facial expression to a greater or lesser extent. It wns even so with the "e which, when clogged as round as a sliver dollar, with nary with love and lint, made an Jmprt-iSkta tongue in the middle or a breil. ia the circle The result was alarming. It reminds us now of the editor itf lost all his letter IV all oureV were "os." At the time we were ajsi, fearing lest our constituency would read proof on us and set us dowfrSsa rude, unfinished fellow who bad never been to spelling school. - The result, however, has not beep, heralded to us. andwe are comforted with tne thought that perhaps nobody' read the articles after all! Anyhow, ours isnt as bad as the' experience of the editor TSbo wrote J a fashionable society lady of questionable age, and over it nlaced tbis hea'd: Has Cope to Wabash." When the absent-mindeproofreader passed on the line, it read: ' , "Hag Gone to Wabash. The editor is 'still in the Innermost "recesses of the wood.' waiting for th society lady to relent- There la always Joy in comparison with others woe! d - f Shakespeare called attention to what an infinite piece of work is man. The bard of Avon had In mind the gracious, gallant, honest,' kindly man; the man nhordoea things. Ho referred to the br.iad man wio had love for bis fellow men. Ingerspll said love Shakespeare's Is Ihe only tiling that will pay ifcc per cent No -- map win is can be tbe proiid, holler tb&n-thoideal man. Men ge about smiling graciously at a few , in their set. and scowling at the lower stata. Gecaidonally they scatter gold to the needy when a word of sympathy and fellow Interest would be infinitely better. What Is money to the man w ho needs fellowship and associations thai elevate? It helps for a paltry hour or two. until spent. The sincere interest, or handshake, has greater terernse to cheer. Sympathy will not feed the hungry, but It will elevate the slnkirg. Ijwell says ttls not what we give but what we share. Ixiwell mean 8 we s lould share our smiles, our hopes, our aspirations, our encouragement, and by sharing enhance our help tenfold, aot only to oCbrr Let to ourselves. Be cosmopolitan and put away - M-l- f self-prid- |