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JULY 14, 1906,
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Nimble Athletic Champions
| j& j& of Advanced Years Laugh at Oslerism j&
ATHER TIME has no ter
rors ifor some of the cham
pions.
Men like Collier, polo
player; Fitzsimmons, box
er; Weston, pedestrian;
Lave Cross, ball player;
Ewing Stille, tennis star;
Jake Schaefer, billiard ex
pert, and Ed Goers, hames;
driver, laugh at Hr. Osier
and his chloroform.
They are still stars at
tlieir favorite pannes, and
mean to stay for quite a while yet.
Baseball Is a hard, strenuous pome. Ten
| years is supposed to be about a man's
limit of pood service, yet there are
a number who have been playing twice
that length of time.
Lave Cross, of the Washington Ameri
cans, began In league company at Al-
toonn, in 1885, in the Pennsylvania state
league. He is still good enough to hold
his place at third base on tbo Washing
ton club, and during the whole period
; he has never been out of the big leagues
since he quit Altoona.
The term of service of Jim McGuire.
New York American catcher, has been
• quite as long, and Jake Beckley, of
St. Louis, and Kid Gleason, of the Phil
lies, each have put in their* score of
years on the diamond.
None of these men are hanging on
by tiie eyelids. All are still good, and
. if released would he quickly snapped
up by some other team.
Fitzsimmons has long been rated as
the wonder of the ring. No one knows
just when he was born, but lie owns
that forty-eight years have passed since
he came int 0 being at Helsingfors, Corn
wall. Bob was old when he came to half million dollars, and his Integrity has i had the honor of training tHe two great-
this country, and beat Dempsey. He had ! never been questioned. He is always est young phenomenons In the history
already had a long career, but he went | favored in the betting, and where two of billiards, the late Frank Ives and
Lave Cross, Grand Old Man of Baseball.
right along, meeting everybody, and it j horses are about
took no less a phenomenon than Jeffries one that has
himself to finally bring Ills freckles
the canvas In defeat.
STURDY FITZ.
Fitz is still up and doing. Only
short time ago he went through hard I with hands. H
training for a match with Tommy Burns, | mous winners.
even in speed it is tHe
■rs for driver who car
ries the money.
Geer's shoulders have become rounded
from the driving position, but he is
never excited, and does all the work
has developed many fa-
and says he expects to
Willie lloope, the present premier.
Cricket is a game whose votaries
are able to play until well along In
life. Thus Dr. W. G. Grace, undoubtedly
the most famous figure In the world of
cricket, the first man wh-> ever rolled
In 1863. a. wiry, muscular man of 25,
he startled the sporting world by walking
from Philadelphia to New York is less
than 24 hours. This feat was considered
little short of a marvel, and the time
made then stood for 43 years.
A few weeks ago the record was broken,
the time being reduced by 27 minutes,
The man who lowered the record was
the same who had established it—Edward
Payson Weston.
Although 43 years had elapsed, and the
youngster of 25 bad become the veteran
of 68, he was a better walker than he
had been way back In war time.
During the long walk Mr. Weston was
In the midst of a hot May sun a greater
part of the day, and he tired out two
strong horses and the two doctors who
^ode along lo see that he suffered no
111 effects from a test that would have
tried a young college athlete let alone
a white haired man.
Weston ascribes the maintenance of
his perfect condition to the same oause
that would probably be given by nil the
successful veterans were they lined up
and asked to tell why they are still pro
ficient.
“Tiie simple life Is my athletic sec.rsrt,“
he says. "I have never known the taste
of liquor, and have never smoked. I eat
only one'solid meal a day, thus saving
the stomach from overwork. The re
mainder of the time I take liquid food.
“I realty expect to be able to duplicate
my walk to New York ten years front
now.”
Tills cheerfulness is not the least re
quisite to keeping an athlete young.
“Why did the sitter go aiwrty, Syd-
| r.ey?” Miss Egmont, twisting <a glove,
j looking out of the window at the broad
sunlight, and ‘biting a tremulous lip, gave
a shrug of ihe shoulders that was meant
to convey indifference and was merely
pathetic.
Lady Fay smiled a little wry smile at
her frclnd’s back. Men were unobserv
ant amlnnls, so Frank did not count.
Besides, people in love, what did i(.ey
ever see’ Her left hand went straying
to bet left side. Her friends unanimous
ly lv Id that though charming she was
heartless. Yet undoubtedly there was a
pain there; a throb, a catch, what you
will, hut certainly a pain.
“And you let her go. Frank? Why?
It—It really Is not a bad ait tempt.” She
locked at the canvas quizzically, and un
der cover of tt her little hand again I Him with a pistol and t he burglar, tak-
pressed her side. j j nf , off cap to the lady, also displaced
ask and escaped. She identified his
All His Hays Spent in Harness of
Crime and Meshes of Punishment >9
AJOR 'SYLVESTER, the
chief of police of Wash
ington, conducts a police
department which, like tin
secret service of the Unit
es States, never forgets.
Some years ago a burglar
named W. E. Mason, alias
“Big Bill,” alias “Keegan,’’
made an entry at night
into United Slates Senator
Stewart's house in Wash
ington
senator’s daughter, faced
''She—she did not care—to finish it.” Tie
found phrases hard of making. “She al-'
lowed me (o commence-and then went P^ture and since then Sylvester has been
away.” Evidently, ft was not tillp unfin- after Mason.
ished portrait that rankled. He was Not that he could not find him. lie
watching the effect of his words upon the | found h j m re peated!v, luit always under
• . i « t- ns i — .1 1—L t Lnlf I
arrest, charged with a crime equally or
impassive back. There was a light, half
hopeful. In his eyes that Lady Fay had
never before seen. “T should never have
missed It If T had not seen,” she whis
pered to herself. "I should always miss
It now.”
“What a silly reason! Tf slve had not
cared She wouldn’t have gone away. Oh.
don't tell me. I know. I have had finite
an extensive experience of such matters.
You lionlily remember now—I’m sure T am
very hazy about all mine. Of course,
I've had so many quarrels—and when
there is only one it makes a difference.
But you don't know—you're just two chil-
moro serious in another jurisdiction. The
burglary in Senator Stewart’s house took
place in 1881. Since then Mason bus been
sentenced to fourteen years In Sing Sing,
four years in the eastern penitentiary of
Pennsylvania an,] ten years in the Mich
igan City prison, in th*- northern district
of Indiana. From Sing Sing he was
pardoned at the expiration of three years
for interfering to save the life of Dr.
Barber, the prison physician.
He served the full term at the eastern
penitentiary, and having previously es-
dren, quarreling about something you} eaped from the Indiana prison he is now
there to finish his term. Major Sylvester
are. neither clear what, and sulking in two
absurd, uncomfortable corners. Frank,
vou look diabolical when you frown
had lodged a detainer against him in or
der to bring him back to Washington to
LADY FAY.
Continued from First Page.
Lady Fay watched her friends under her
eyelashes.
"But, Fay—are you never serious?” Miss
Egrnont demanded.
“I sincerely hope not. Only the middle
class are serious. It's what they eat, I
think. I am told their cooking is
Derwent turned away angrily. "But I’m Lhe Stewart burglary charge and
glad I saw you like that-if It had come " il] have h '» at last ,he l " is
afterward it would have been a shock.
Like marrying a prince and finding him
turned into the beast. You might smile
at him, Sydney, encouragingly—anything
to alter his expression.”
“But Fay—” Miss Egniont was unable
to keep her joy entirely absent from her
voice.
“My dear child, I'm a sportswoman—
not a poacher. He’s your bird. Of
course, I'm glad to be able ! 'o add Frank
to my list—though brief, It counts one.
I believe you think—well, absurd things.
I have discovered that Frank can be se
rious. Just imagine a butterfly being un-I
equally yoked to a tortoise! Quite ab-i
surd. And we were agreeably and mu-j
week.
ONLY ONCE IN A GANG.
These arc but Incidents in “Bill" M.1
son’s career, which embraces more < s-
capes and more crimes of a varied char
acter than almost any person known lo
the criminal history of modern times. Ma
son is of an independent spirit and ho
never linked' himself with other criminals.
He has never been known as party to a
gang, except once.
j When the Younger boys rode into North-
| field, Minn., on September 7, I876, Mason
j stood on the steps of the First National
j bank and signaled them to pass by. They
J did so. and Mason joined them at Jeffs
restaurant an r ] told them that the cash-
< noon and leave I0 per cent of his wln-
I nirrgs at faro as a credit account for
| dead broke and thirsty topers. Some,
j times the fund amounted to $30 or $40.
j At other times it was nothing at all, but.
| then Mason always left a $I0 bill for
| the same purpose, saying h.e couldn't
jtrust his luck unless he was charitable.
: Naturally a practice like this attrac) ed
considerable attention.
• The newspapers played up the story
in a dramatic light and Mason became
| alarmed and said he would go over to
Miss Stewart, the Hankins' and make one big play before
jumping the town. He did so, and was
successful. He either broke the bank or
they closed down on him, and he swag
gered out with several thousand dollars
in his pocktt.
Some hangers-on followed him down
to the gamblers' restaurant in the alley,
a place that deservedly shared its popu
larity with Boyle’s, the Sherry’s of the
west, but was a little holt? in a narrow
alley between Clark and Dearborn streets.
They attempted the strong-arm game
with Mason, but lie whipped them all
in a Homeric light, wounding two of
them.
DARING ESCAPE IN MILWAUKEE.
About this time the household of H.
W. Whitcomb, presld lit of .the Wisconsin
Central railway, in Milwaukee, had been
held up by a masked burglar. Mason
was suspected. A Job was put up to
deliver him to the Milwaukee police,
which was successful, and he was taken
to that city and locked up in Central
police station. A flier he had been con
fined for a time he sent for the two
detectives who had arrested him, and
under the pretext that he was going to
reveal the history of the affair, invited
.them into his cell.
Unsuspectingly they walked in. He
seized them both, and, throwing them
onto the lloor, darted out, slammed the
door behind him and lied. One of the
det ectives took a shot at him through
bars, wounding him in the arm,
ot into the street and then into
The wound was severe and
He down in the woods, where
He was tried
ier, J. L. Hey wood, and the clerks, Bun-
tually accepting each other to be rid of ker wiI( . (JX had sent out fur their
up a century of centuries, is now past atrocious, owing to the education acts,
sixty, yet still manages to be picked toll can’t teli why it should be. but it is.”
each other—at least, we found out how
very little we need see of each other.
And now I’ve chattered away all the
awkwardness, haven't I?—and Frank com
pletes the dozen, and I’m off to sing comic wore se ttlin
songs to hymn tunes for the'horrifical'.ion |
of Lady Jane!’’
”1 wonder!” mused Miss Egrnont.
Edward Payson Weston, Pedestrian, Who at 68 Has Made Wonderful
Walking Record.
the bout being called off by tiie interfer
ence of Governor Pennypacker, and lie
is now dickering for another chance
at Jack O’Brien, his conquerer.
A polo player at sixty-five. There is
only one. J Ie is P. F. Collier, owner
of Collier's Weekly, a man of wealth.
produce more in tiie years of activity
that remains to him.
Billiards lias a number of noted ex
ports who are closely pressing the three-
P. F. Collier, Famous Polo Player.
represent his county in contests for the i A door opened, and Frank Derwent en-
championship of England. tered very stiffly.
The eye does not seem to lose its "Oh, Frank.’’ said Lady Fay. “this is
eraft for shooting even after age would ; Miss Egrnont. She wants to congratu-
; ore mark. Yignaux, Rlosson and Scliae- I be expected to dim Us aim. Tiius Buf
fer, though lately forced to yield the falo Bill, who has been before the public
championship to young Hoppe, are next in various guises for the last four de
father of the editor who recently downed | to him the best players in the game. Icndes, is still a marvelous expert with
Town Topics and Colonel Mann. Mr. i Jiacob Schaefer's billiard experience | tiie rifle, and can perform all the feats
Collier is the most ardent of horsemen, tolls the history of the game in this j that first won the admTntion of the
and has been playing polo for twenty- country. He lias been .playing for 33 | public and the undying affection of the
five years. He is a member of both tiie years, and began when throe-ball caroms
Lakewood and Rockaway Clubs, and has i was the form of billiards by which the
been connected with teams tiiat won j champions were determined,
championships. j He made his first appearance at Wash-
Several times during recent, years it j jngton Hall, Indianapolis, October 5,
has *1)000 his misfortune to be injured, 1873. In the interval he has figured jto make an attempt to swim th
once he sustained a broken collar bone, j j n many tournaments, winning the cham- channel, :s rapidly approaching the fifty
But these mishaps have left his enthu- j pionship first in 1879, and capturing the mark, but he has few rivals when it
eiasm unabated, and he is playing again j first bal kline tourney in 1883. lie also comes to distance swimming,
this year is as good form as ever.
late you. I think you said you knew
‘her?”
' Some time ago. I daresay Miss Eg-
mont hardly remembers me." He spoke
a.- stiffly as be held himself.
She gave him one quick glance. The
little color left In her checks fled.
"Mr. Derwent, I believe?” His stiffness
appeared to be communicated to her. "I
tliink we met—”
"Three years ago. There was a river—'
small boy.
SWIMMING AT FIFTY
George Kistler, of the University of j
Pennsylvania, one of the foremost swim-I the river. You were painting, I thJsJt?"
| mers in the United States, who is shortly | He bit ids lip. Her elaborate indefin-
THE POWER OF ATTENTION.
(From The Century Magazine.)
The fact that the mind of man Is
easily distracted from any subject in
contemplation accounts for the slowness
of .the development of most minds, and
for the extreme slowness of the develop
ment of the human mind collectively.
There are historical periods when gen
eral enlightenment seems to have ad
vance! by leaps and bounds, but when
one takes cognizance of the fens of thou
sands of years that man has been at
play in the kindergarten of creation one
is aware of the very gradual and delib
erate character of human progress as a
whole, and this deliberativeness of growth
and the remains of ignorance and super
stition even in minds regarded as edu
cated comes largely from the inability of
men to keep their thoughts employe!
steadfastly on the various objects and
problems of matter, mind and life. The
faculty of attention is strikingly lacking
in t.he savage man; it increases as civil
ization increases, and is a large factor
in the advance of civilization and of cul
ture.
When the power of attention is excep
tional in the individual he Is set apart
from his fellows; hi? Is a genius in the
business world, or perhaps a poet, artist,
Inventor, discoverer, philosopher, reform
er, statesman or conqueror. When the
power of attention in a community has
been stimulated by one attentive mind
or by a group of attentive minds the
world passes through periods of great
mental activity; great reforms take place;
there is great material or intellectual ad
vance, or there are revivals in letters and
in the plastic arts.
The supreme object of the tea.aher is to
cultivate attention in his or her charges.
When a child has learned how to pay
attention he lias learned how to study
and to learn. “Object lessons” are favor
ite devices for fixing attention. Accord
ing to the orthodox theologies religion
has been taught to mankind largely
through object lessons, fn the form some
times of “progressive revelations;” and
the systems of symbols in all religions
may be called simply devices for fixing
the wandering attention of souls for their
sustenance and lasting benefit.
We see, year in and out, the coming
and going of beliefs, customs, popular
heroes or mere popular pets; best sellers
among books, spirts, movements and
fads of all kinds, which figure prominent
ly only as long as they are aide to claim
th'e attention of large groups of the en
tire community. The whole system of
business advertising and t.he infinite num- 1 - vou
lunches.
This was contrary to their custom and
opposed to the plans of the bandits. TIip
harvest was just over and tiie farmers
their banking affairs, which
was the reason of the bank’s industry.
After tiie gang finished lunch they sent
Mason away. He was only a boy at
the time. Just how lie had come into
association with these daring robbers is
not known, but It was his first known
appearance in crime.
What happened afterwards.in that Min
nesota town is pretty well known. Cole
Younger, Jesse James. Bob Younger, Jim
Younger, Bill Caldwell, Clell Miller and
Charley Pitts rode through the town fir
ing tlieir pistols. The Younger brothers
entered the bank and killed Hey wood
because he would not open the safe.
PURSUIT AND CAPTURE.
The citizens turned out and attacked
the robbers, killing Caldwell, Miller and
Pitts. The Youngers and Jessie James,
all badly wounded, rode away. Outside
of the town Jesse James separated from
them and escaped. The Youngers w
the
but he
the country,
lie had to 11
he was presently found,
and sentenced no eight years at Waupun.
At the end of four years he managed)
to escape by cutting the bars.
Nothing was heard of him until the
masked burglaries began to occur In
Westchester county, in this state. He
was arrested in New Rochelle and com
mitted lor trial at White Plains. Ho
escaped from the jail there, was recap
tured at Pittsfield, escaped from there,
was retaken at Poughkeepsie by the
White Plains sheriff and tried and sen
tenced to fourteen years m Sing Sing.
SAVES PRISON DOCTOR’S LIFE.
In his prison experience Mason has
become a capital carriage painter and
was employed by Warden Brush at his
trade. One day a seminsane convict
made a murderous attack on Dr. Bar
ber. the prison physican. Mason hap
pened to be near and threw his pot of
paint into the assailant's face and im
mediately seized and disarmed him cf a
long knife which he hal already raised
to strike down the doctor. For this
he was pardoned after having served out
but a small part of iiis long term.
He was next heard of at Terra Haute.
Ind., where he committed a burglary in
a real estate agent's office. In this af
fair he had two assistants, one of ■whom
gave him up. He was sentenced to the
state prison at Michigan City for eight
three
ypri-tt ne o:liV remained there
pursued for nearly a month and were , » ' ' . pn he effected his escape and
finally in the early days of October. ’ Philadelphia.
rounded up in the swamp in the western th d . iv of his arrlva l here a sec-
part of the state. When taken Cole d bookse!Ier was mysteriously
Younger, with seven 'bullets in him, was | glaln |n his shop on W alnut street, near
Tenth. It was just such a job as Ma
son would have committed—daring, sud
den and in ihe light of day. Ihe niui-
derer and thief got away. Mason was
sought for and finally located in Glou
cester, across the river, by Billy Hen
derson. the private detective employed
by Widener and Elkins. Henderson knew
f the state. When taken Cole
•r, with seven bullets in him, was
found frozen fast in the iee of the shal- I
low water, holding Bob on his body, who i
was more severely shot, and Jim was
senseless. They were all taken, brought !
to trial, pleaded guilty and sentenced to j
life in Stillwater prison. From this ini- j
prisonment Cole Younger, the only sur- j
vivor, has recently been released by spe- j
cial act of the state legislature. ; the chnract( , r of the man and ho took
four men from the central office with
In tlie hot pursuit of tiie mounted
dits Mason, who had no horse, got away
to Mtinkato by rail and disappeared.
Search was made for him unavailing]}*
for a time, but It was not until lie had
been arrested in St. Louis for holding up
the cashier of the Southern hotel that
he was finally identified as the "kid’
who took part in the famous Nortlifield
bank raid.
The Southern hotel roobery was a
spectacular affair. Tiie chief clerk, Fil-
son, was accustomed to take the cash
and carry it into an adjoining room
when he went off watch at 1 I p. m. and
lock it in the big safe.
GETS MONEY BUT IS CAUGHT.
On this nie lit he followed his usual
programme and having counted the
money—several thousand dollars—set it
on a chair beside the safe while he
turned the combination. At this mo
ment a maan with a mask on stoou bo- |
him to Gloucester to make the arrest.
FOUND IN NEW YORK.
They seized him in the back room of
a saloon, but he fought them off and
into the back yard, scaled the wall and
escaped, carrying off cne of the pistols
drawn upon him by the detective. He
was traced to New York and one morn
ing early was rounded up on Eleventh
avenue near Forty-second street by half
u dozen detectives and finally capturedll
I Since then he has made no escapes.
I lie was taken back to Philadelphia
i and every effort was made to fasten the
! murder of the old bookseller upon him,
but in vain. However, another crime
i was brought home to him. A book
maker's clerk, who was accustomed to
, carry the- bank roll down to Stngerly.
i one of the outlaw tracks, was waylaid
in a narrow passage and robbed. Mason
had done this on the very day of the
side him armed with I wo pistols and said . murder and ] t went far toward proving
quietly: “I want that money. Don t an alibi
say a word. Nothing will happen to .v-u ; j_j e was sentenced to the Eastern peni-
if yon are good. Otherwise I will shoot [ tPntiary for f our years. At the end of
„ „„ that time, less its commutation, the ln-
ber of publicity departments—publicity i Suiting the action to the word he took j d j ana authorities waited to receive him
“Ah, yes, I have some recollection of I ns to all sorts of wares and all manner! up the money and still covering the clerk ; and carried him back lo Michigan City
Men young enough to be his grand
sons are no more skilled than the gTay- I
haired veteran.
Tennis, like polo, keeps a man on 1
the go. There are few more exhausting j
games. From the time the first ball is :
served to the finish It Is a ceasless strain, .
and t'he least weakening may bring de- i
feat.
Decidedly not a game for old timers,
one would say, and yet the name of
Ewing Stille Is always found in the list
of entries for the state championship tour
neys of Pennsylvania, and he has even |
been found among the aspirants for the
national title.
Mr. Stille Is past the sixty mark, his
hair and moustache are gray, yet he
Is a first class player, and the man
who beats him knows that he has been
working some.
GEERS AT HIS BEST.
The trotting season has just opened,
and the best harness horses are pre
paring for their trials at the big purses.
It Is noticeable that in the roster of
drivers who will hold the reins in the
big events Is to be found the name of
E.1 Geers. He is another old-timer, who
declines to be counted out.
Geers is now 71 years old. He has won
more money than any relnsman in the
business, and he acknowledges no su
perior today when It comes to handling
a ‘trotter or pacer through the mazes
of an exciting race where the skill of
the driver is second only to the speed
of the horse.
ia ills long career Geers has won a
Ed. Geera^ Famous Jocky and Driver.
English Dteness piqued him. Lady Fay sat watch-
ling both under the screen of a charming
detachment.
"I was painting.” Derwent assured
her. “It was not my only occupation.
I was dreaming of—more_ Important
things."
“Really! It Is so long aigo.” The in-
ditfarence was a trifle too obvious.
“Three years!” cried Lady Fay, shud
dering. “An eternity! Time is a ho.-
lible monster—I am always killing him,
and all the while I have the knowledge
that he must turn the tables one day.”
“Miss Egrnont has found that time ob-
literates Impressions.” Derwent declared,
with unnecessary pique.
"Time's one redeeming feature,” Miss
Egrnont said, with conviction.
“We are growing morbid,” Lady Fay
declared'. “It is hardly a compliment
to Frank's work. I told him he wasn't
nmnsing, Sj-dney. He won't do nice
black and white caricatures like Max—
he won't even do -portraits, which is
nearly the same thing. Don't you ever
do -portraits, Frank?”
“I tried once—it was never ftnlshed-
It was not a success.” He was looking
at Miss Egrnont, not at Lady Fay.
“The beauty of portrait painting <s
thint when the sitter is aggrieved all his
or her friends rise up and call the pic
ture life-like,” Lady Fay said, sagely.
She rose and Wandered round the studio
—a gay little figure like a straying but
terfly. “Why is this canvas turned with
its fa-eo to the wall? Is li—? She looked
raffing eyebrows, at Derwent. “1 ‘ e-
li. ve it is—and I shall be horribly
shocked." She picked it up.
“Don't touch it!" Derwent cried, strid
ing forward. He was too late to pro
ven'; her seeing it. A htilf-finishcd study
of a woman's face smiled out of the can
vas. The woman's face had the features
of Sydney Egrnont.
"Tills is thiee years old, Frank? she
said quietly.
“Yes.” 1
"Why didn’t you finish It?”
“The sitter went away.”
of causes--are nothing but means of s
curing attention, of spreading informa
tion and inducing action through sug
gestion.
WASHINGTON AN ATHLETE.
(From The Philadelphia Record.)
He was an athlete. George Washing
ton, we mean. If he were alive today he
would in all probability he a college boy.
and if he went to college there I s not a
particle of doubt but be would scramble
for a place on the football and baseball
teams.
He was fond of all athletic sports and
games, and it was very easy for him to
maintain his supremacy In them. His nat
with the pistol backed out into the main i Now Major Sylvester will carry
office Wilson gave the alarm instantly : back to V\ ashington to answer for a
and rushed out of the inner room. There j c^-^tted near^Hamt^ years ^o.
was a number ot persons in the outer though he has been shot and man-hauled
office, among them Bayliss W. Hanna, [ j n mo st of the states of the union he is
afterward American minister to Argen- i a dangerous man yet. So Major Sys-
tine A young man approached (Hanna : vester will have to look sharp if he fin-
and" coolly asked him for a light for his ally lands him in the state prison at all
cigar. Hanna pointed to the matches ! 1 t w v 1 * - a -
on the counter and Wilson cried cried; j
"That is the man!” j TRAGEDY OF A LOST SHELL.
At once the man (hilled his pistol and ! (From The New York Times.)
shot at Wilson. The crowd scattered j The Natal Mercury (South Africa) tells
and the man moved toward the Fourth ! the story of a BPrr farmer named Mool-
street entrance of the hotel. The police ' man, who found a 4.7 naval shell lying
rushed in and seized the robber from be- ! on the veldt unexploded and took it home
urnl constitution was good, and regular I hind and overpowered him. It was Ma- to his sister. She wanted the shell for
habits, supplemented by Judicious train- j son The money was found upon him ! decoration purposes, and began to dig
ing and exercising of his muscles made nnd h _ waP committed for trial. While 1 out the lyddite, and, to soften It, poured
him a foe with whom even the Indians! . , „ ' , ... ,, / .. ,,,, , ....
hesitated to contend in athletic match**. 1 helng at the Four Courts police sta- cold water upon It. The lyddite and
It Is claimed that lie could throw n tlon he disappeared very much as Brown water began to effervesce, and the girl
stone across the Potomac, standing on the ! did in Brooklyn the other day. There went indoors, and, from the end of the
river bank at Mount Vernon. ! talli a -bout the police being* willing passage, watched the shell, which lay
His superiority in all out-of-door sports | pnrtfps tQ Mnsml> dlOTppr4l ranee. j upon the doorstep.
HIGH ROLLER IN CHICAGO. | Suddenly there was terrific explo-
Mason next appeared in Chicago ~ i
high roller around M.ke McDonalds an '‘ v .-hnle house was wrecked, every pane
George Hankins’ faro banks. He made p j- g] ass _ every window frame, and every
One night he reached a little settlement I Ms headquarters at "T.he Store,” and It door being cast to the ground, and most
of white people in the midst of a Jumping ; was his custom to coin’' there every fore- 1 of the furniture being unset and smashed,
match. Whoever jumped the farthest j '
would win the hand of a wealthy farm- - -
er 9 daughter. The girl herself was pres-j — A _-._ ranTkrk C - ^ /T\ CYk v- ——— ■ ’
ent, so was the minister, all ready to Order | 3k i I I 1 L 1 ■ 11 B1 w I « „
marry the maiden and the successful ■* 1 YJiLzx LI V-*Lkl Mail 11
competitor. A young farmer named
Jonathan had outdistanced the other
young men who took part, and the
girl seemed very well satisfied at the re
sult.
At this point Washington asked if he,
too, might be allowed to take part In
the contest. Permission was given and
he jumped three feet farther than any
of the others had done.
The girl, not being blessed with the !
power of divination, did not guess that j
the successful young stripling was the !
future “Father of His Country,” and her '
disappointment was -plainly visible in her j
face. Washington finally relieved the sit- ;
untlon by resigning his claim in favor ot i
Jonathan. Then lie stayed and partook of i
the wedding supper. 1
One cannot but wonder if the girl lived -
to know of Washington's ultimate great- ..
ness, and, if so, if she looked back with II s
regret upon the result of iiio jumping I
stood him often In good stead, and when
he was surveying land for Lor - Fairfax I
In Virginia, he won many friends among !
the redskins among whom he was then
forced to live, by taking part in all of,
their games.
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