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CRYING NEEDS OF FOOTBALL
AS EXPRESSED BY HALLOWELL
OLD HARVARD EYD WRITES IN
TERESTING LETTER TO WAL
TER CAMP.
MAKES A PLEA FOR
OLD TIME FORMATIONS.
ADVOCATES HAVING A RITE SO
THAT LIGHT, FAST MEN
CAN PLAY.
With Cainii'i Assertion That Hr Fav
or* Ten Varda* Gain in Three
Down*. It la Believed the Dean ot
Amateur Athletic* Will Favor
Some of Hallowell'* Idea* When
the Rule* Committee Meet*—Say*
Cloae Formation* the Evil to Be
Combatted.
With thousands of football players
and spectators calling for a radical
change in the rules which will elimi
nate much of the brutality that now
exists, James Hallow-ell, an old Har
vard end, for three years selected on
the all-American, has written a most
interesting letter to Walter Camp,
chairman of the rules committee and
the dean of amateur athletics.
Frank Butterworth spoke very plain
ly in regard to the difficulty of mak
ing radical changes in the rules when
he wrote an article in "Outing” some
time ago entitled ' Honesty in Foot
ball.” Butterworth cited that the
present system of play represented the
coach and his methods, and left lit
tle for the individual merit of the
players themselves. For this reason
the change in rules, which would
serve to open the game, would be con
demned by all paid coaches, as it
would greatly decrease their power and
•necessity.
Following is how Hallowell sizes up
the situation and the needs of the
game:
■Roughly grouped, the faults of the
present college game, as voiced by
current criticism, are as follows:
"First. The element of concentrating
brute force is allowed to play too im
portant a part in the winning ot
games. The effort now of a success
ful coach is to weld eleven men to
gether in a compact battering ram.
This battering ram is directed by the
quarterback at the most vulnerable
points in the opponents' defense. The
team which in its machine-like regu
larity most resembles a pile-driver
can win nine times’ out of ten.
Minimize llruie Force.
“Second. The minimizing the ele
ment of brute force limits the possible
players on an eleven (with the excep
tion of a few positions) to a compara
tively small number of undergraduates,
to wit: to those weighted down with
the most beef. The light, active, wiry
man, whose brilliant tackling, running
and dodging add fascination to the
scene, has little place in the modern
rush line.
"Third. Moreover, the value of
bruisers of sufficient muscle and avoir
dupois is now so unduly emphasized
and the supply of requisite material is
therefore so limited that a premium
is placed thereby on an undesirable
feature which now exists to a gfeat
extent, to wit: on efforts to rake over
the preparatory schools and scour the
country for suitable material.
"Fourth. In order to weld together
the different parts of the humanized
pile-driver, the undergraduates who are
selected to form a part of the machine
are by the difficulty of the problem
required to put an amount of time,
practice and study upon it wholly dis
proportionate to the importance of the
game. It ought to be an athletic
recreation; it is now almost an athletic
business.
Stupid and I'nlntrreatiiig.
“Fifth, The game developed by the
above method is so massed that it be
comes stupid and uninteresting. I still
remember with thrills of delight, al
though a backer of the Crimson, the
days when ‘Snake’ Ames and your own
white-haired I.aUrie Bliss and Lee Mc-
Clui.g used like winged Mercuries to
carry tbeir colors on to victory while
30,000 persons rent the air with thun
dering, spontaneous shouts, only ex
celled In electrical effect by the bril
liancy of the play before them. Now,
instead, when I witness a big game X
see 4,400 pounds of beef shoving each
other around the field a few yards at a
time, while carefully instructed under
graduates, under mathematical lead
ers, cheer on the heterogeneous pile in
order to put spirit into it. Moreover,
it is difficult even to see either how
the plays are executed or how they are
stopped.
"Sixth. And, last, the present meth
od eliminates the undergraduates to
an unfortunate extent and turns the
game Into a contest among coaches.
The mechanic who can produce the fin
ished machines which now play the
big games of the year must not only
be a skilled master of his trade, but
must have under him an able corps of
superintendents and second hands.
Radical Change \ecessary.
“Thesa abuses cannot, in my opin
ion. be prevented without a radical
change in the rules. The rules must be
changed, and radically changed; and
this power lies in the hands of your
committee.
“The field Is now marked off by five
yard lines running across the field.
Lay out similar lines running length
wise down the field, but only four
yards apart. Preserve the same rules
as to offside play which exist now, but
also provide that when the ball is put
in play after a down, the men shall
not line up in close formation as they
do now.
"Instead, pass a rule, enacting that
at the moment when the ball Is put In
play only one player on the same team
shall l>e standing In any one of the
quadrangles formed by three lines. Two
umpires on each side could easily see
that this rule is observed.
"Other rules regulating the method
of putting the ball In play and imssi
bly the position of the hacks would
likewise have to be passed, but these
are matters of detail which undoubted
ly could be worked out. With the field
thus broken up. when the ball Is put
In play, and the possibilities for long
passes, quick dodging runs and bril
liant tackling in the open, the Import
ance of mere avoirdupois would be
minimized, and bruts shoving power
ought to be of less Importance than in
dividual brilliancy!
•The game would be open to men
who ought to play it, to the light
weight men of nerve and dash and
eklll. and whose contests exceed in In
terest those of the present beefy con
glomeration by about us much as a
race between thoroughbred horses ex
ceeds in Interest a race between steam
rollers."
MHIII IS TMK raVONITR.
Kan Francisco, Use. 17. Betting on
the approaching Jimmy MriM-Haftllng
Nelson tight la getting active Twelve
thousand dollars of Hrltt mousy was
left with Tom Corbett to place
against (14,M0 on Nelson This wagei
pi* fi'-elly establishes the odds of (to
i. with Hritt favorite, and wise apart,
ins m*e belleve that Ibis Is tubere they
Mil lestisis-
SOUTHERN LEAGUE MET.
The Bnalneaa Transacted by Repre
aentative* at Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 17. —At a meet
ing of the Southern League here to
day the pennant for 1904 was awarded
to Memphis. Atlanta was given sec
ond place and New Orleans third, the
latter club having withdrawn all pro
tests on disputed games. The remain
ing clubs were given the finishing po
sitions announced by the league at the
end of the season.
Next year's schedule will consist of
140 games as formerly.
The question of reinstating 'William
Phyle, a former captain of the Mem
phis club, was dismissed on the rec
ommendation of the president, who
read the letter from Phyle to the ef
fect that if he (Phyle) were not rein
stated he would bring suit against the
league.
Judge William Kavanaugh of Little
Rock was re-elected president. The
present board of trustees and the
board of directors were also re-elect
ed.
A schedule committee, to be appoint
ed by President Kavanaugh, will meet
in Montgomery in February.
The following representatives of the
various clubs were in attendance to
day:
Memphis, Carruthers Ewing and Lew
Whistler; Shreveport, Capt. W. S.
Crawford and R. J. Gilks: Little Rock,
Aaron Frank and Dale Gear; New Or
leans, Charles Frank; Atlanta, Abner
Powell; Nashville, James Palmer and
Newton Fisher; Birmingham, F. J.
Sheppard; Montgomery, B. L. Holt and
E. E. Winters.
President Kavanaugh reported to-day
that the league is in excellent finan
cial condition, the treasurer having
over 15,000 on hand, in addition to the
guarantee fund of SB,OOO.
The question of salary limit for next
season was discussed in executive ses
sion.
To-night a supper was given by the
league officials in honor of Carruthers
Ewing, president of the Memphis club,
at which Mr. Ewing was presented
with a handsome diamond pin.
HOW AVERAGES SHOW
IN AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Chicago, Dec. 17.—The American
League fielding averages were given
out to-day. The leader of the clubs is
Chicago with .925. The leaders in
the different positions are First Base
man LaChance, Boston, .991; Second
Baseman Robinson, Detroit. .901;
Third Baseman Tannehill, Chicago,
.949; Shortstop Conroy, New York,
.958; Catcher Sugden, St. Louis, .990;
Outfielder Robinson, Detroit, 1,000;
Pitcher Jos. Cleveland, .985; Pitcher
(won and lost) Chesbro, New York,
.774.
FIELD TRIALS BEGIN.
Principal Event* at Waynesboro
Will Be Next Week.
Waynesboro, Ga., Dec. 17.—The
twenty-sixth annual meeting of the
Eastern Field Trial Aassociation be
gan here to-day. The members' stakes
was called off on account of the lack
of members in attendance. Pierre Lor
riilard, president, and Simon C. Brad
ley, secretary and treasurer, are in
attendance. Judge M. N. Wallace
Farmington, Conn., and Hop. H. W.
Hopkins of Thomasville are here also.
Drawing for the Derby takes place
to-morrow night, all ages on Monday
night, and subscription Thursday night.
Monday the Derby begins. This con
test is open to all pointer and setter
puppies, whelped on or after Jan. 1
last. There are three purses, S3OO first
prize, S2OO second prize, and SIOO third
prize. All-age contest is open to all
setters and pointers not having won
first at any open stake of the Eastern,
Continental or United States trials.
There are three purses; first prize,
$300; second prize. S2OO, and third prize,
SIOO. The subscription stake is open
to all setters and pointers, regardless
of previous winnings. Each brace of
dogs must run two hours in the first
series. There are three purses; first
prize, $200; second prize, $l5O, and third
prize, SSO.
Dr. H. B. Master will be the only
one from here to enter his dog In the
contest.
This event will bring many sports
men from all parts of the United States
here to roam the fields of Burke.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, Dec. 17.—Spencerian's
inability to shoulder top weight in the
heavy going tells the story of the
running of the Crescent City handicap
to-day. Carnish, at 7 to 2. carried
most of the money. He led to the
stretch, and then tiring, failed to stall
off Luralighter's challenge and finish
ed second. Summary:
First Race—Six furlongs. Telescope,
11 to 20, won. with VanNess, 18 to
1, second, and Mayor Johnson, 6 to
1, third. Time 1:18.
Second Race —Seven furlongs. Mata
dor, 2 to 6, won, with Queen Rose,
20 to 1, second,, and Kilties, 20 to 1,
third. Time 1:35)4.
Third Race —Five furlongs. Tros
sachs, 16 to 1, won, with Totness, 5
to 2, second, and Belle of Portland, 8
to 5, third. Time 1:05.
Fourth Race —Crescent City handicap
mile and a quarter. Luralighter, 3 to
1, won, with Garnish, 7 to 2, second,
and Aladdin, 8 to 1, third. Time
2:06.
Fifth Race—Five furlongs handicap.
Viperine. 1 to 2, won, with Savolr
Faire, 6 to 1. second, and Green Gown,
9 to 1, third. Time 1:06.
Sixth Race—Mile and an eighth.
Auromaster. 5 to 2. won, with Auto
light, 18 to 5. second, and Little Boy,
6 to 1, third. Time 2:03.
PIIKbPS TRADED FOR PEITZ.
New York. Dee. 17.—President Drey
fuss of the Pittsburg Baseball Club,
who has been In attendance upon the
league meeting here, has arranged sev
eral trades for members of his team.
Phelps goes to the Cincinnati Club
In exchange for Peitz. Bransfleld,
Krueger and McCormick go to Phila
delphia in exchange for Howard.
Howard, who Is an outfielder, was
drafted last fall from Omaha.
1 The Philadelphia Club management
Is reported to have made a deal with
Boston whereby Plttlnger goes -to the
former club and Frazer and Wolverton
to the latter.
BIG PHK E FON A FII-I.Y.
I/esington, Ky„ Dec. 17. —The noted
driver, Alonso McDonald, has pur
chased for a Boston millionaire of J,
L Dodge, Paris, K y,, the l-year-old
bar Ally Alice Kdgrr, by Moko, darn
Ml* Vernon, by Jay Bird, for §7,606
AH'e jyiger has a X-year-old mark
made in I Sol of $ This record ah#
Iraa not lowered this year, but at Idem
pbla in the block Farm stake ahe was
a good third to drive Hood and Alta
ASftorlbr to t Mr, and Mr that race *#|n
era rely Uttsd the mile in t II flat. M* ■
Dorrs Id will handle her for hot now
own## the oMun g season
SAVAAWAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1904.
WAR NOW SEEMS
VERY FAR OFF
NATIONAL LEAGUE IN LINE.
AMERICAN HAS SMALL CHANCE TO
PRItSECITB MINORS.
Vote in Favor of New Draft Rale I*
Said to Be About Two to One-
Matter Will Come I p for Settle
ment January l>. When National
Commiaaion Will Meet at Cincin
nati—Garry Herrmann Show*
Friendship for Little Fellow*.
Lovers of baseball In Savannah are
talking of nothing else but the action
of the National League in approving
the amendment of the national agree
ment as proposed by the National As
sociation of Minor Leagues.
Since the American League turned
down this measure last week at Chi
cago it was thought generally that the
National League would follow Ban
Johnson's lead and take similar ac
tion. The action of the National
League, however, shows clearly that
Garry Herrmann of the Cincinnati
Club understands baseball far better
than Johnson does, though the mag
nate from Red-town has been in the
game but a short time, as compared
with Johnson's experience. Here is
the resolution adopted by the National
League:
"Resolved, That the representative of
the National Leagrue on the National
Commission shall be and hereby is au
thorized, at the next annual meeting of
the commission, to vote for the amend
ment to the national agreement pro
posed by the National Association of
Minor League Clubs in the matter of
the rearrangement of the drafting sys
tem, both as to the number of players
to be drafted from any one club and
the scale of prices to be paid for
drafted players, to wit: Class AA,
drafting price shall be $1,500, and only
one player can be drafted from any
one club; Class A, SI.QQO and one play
er; Class B, $750, and two players;
Class C, S6OO and no limit on number
of players; Class D and all others, S4OO
and no limit.
"The representative of the National
League is also directed to confer with
the representatives of the American
League and the National Association
with a view to making any necessary
changes in the national agreement for
the mutual benefit of all parties and
report the same back to the National
League at its next meeting.”
This question of increasing. the draft
price for players from the smaller
leagues will come up for a decision at
the meeting of the National Commis
sion on Jan. 9, at Cincinnati. The
members of this commission are Garry
Herrmann of Cincinnati; Harry Pull
iam, of the National League, and Ban
Johnson, of the American League. Mr.
Herrmann is chairman of this com
mission.
With the National League's action
in mind there is every reason to be
lieve that the commission will favor
the new draft amendment to the na
tional agreement. Pulliam is bound
to vote for it, as the National League
approved the change, and it is known
positively that Garry Herrmann is
for it. This will make the vote 2 to
1 in favor of the amendment and the
recent declaration of war by the Amer
ican League against the National As
sociation of minor leagues will prob
ably go for naught.
Besides Tebeau and the other mem
bers of the National Committee ap
pointed to confer with the commission
will be present to display the "minor
leagues’ side of the case.
BOXING DEAD AS A
MACKEREL IN CHICAGO.
Mayor Carter Harrison laanea
Sweeping Order* to Cloae <7lnb*.
Chicago, Dec. 18.—The death blow
to boxing in Chicago was administered
to-day by Mayor Carter H. Harrison.
To each club that has been conducting
boxing contests of any kind, and to
Chief of Police O'Neill, for enforce
ment, 'Mayor Harrison has sent copies
of an opinion by Corporation Counsel
Edgar B. Tolman, which will compel
even the Chicago Athletic Association
to discontinue its exhibitions.
The corporation counsel was asked
some time ago by the Mayor for an
opinion on the law governing boxing in
Chicago, and the answer received to
day carried the law to an extent that
even Mr. Harrison expressed surprise.
Not only does the corporation counsel
maintain that prize fighting anywhere
within the state is a felony and that
witnesses are guilty of a misdemeanor,
but he shows that by law, where the
elation of bottle and the exultation of
victory are the only inducements for
the boxers to perform before the pub
lic, such exhibitions are illegal, where
the public is invited to attend either
by paying a fee or entering free of
price.
"I never realized to what lengths the
law goes against boxing,” said Mayor
Harrison to-night, "until I received
the opinion of the law department to
day. I have sent copies of the opinion
to all clubs which have been conduct
ing boxing exhibitions and have order
ed the police to carry out the law. No
favors will be shown to any of the
clubs, no matter what the nature of the
organization may be. The opinion
will be enforced as to all."
WRAY'S JOB AT HARVARD.
Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 18.—The an
nouncement made to-night by Prof. A.
C. Coolidge, acting chairman of the
Harvard Athletic Association, that
James Wray had been engaged as crew
coach, has set Harvard to wondering
as to whether Harvard was at last to
have a professional coach for her
'Varsity crew.
Prof. Coolidge only says that Wray
has been appointed crew coach at a
fixed salary for a term of five years;
also that he would coach whatever
crew or crews the captain of the 'Var
sity eight should suggest.
Whether Wray will coach the 'Varsi
ty crews or not remains to be seen. It
is thought, however, that he will oc
cupy the same position at Harvard
that Kennedy occupies at Yale. If
Yale should decide to abandon Kenne
dy and professional coaching. Harvard
will undoubtedly use Wruy for the
class and club crews and stick to ama
teur coaching. Wruy couched the
Weld Club crew* at Harvard up to
last spring and In this capacity was
very successful.
HOW TO IMI'HOVP. HATTING.
Umpire Johnstons bus the follow
ing to say on the subject of hutting
Imprt&ernenl:
"Make the hull livelier Our bails
si* 100 dead, pul more rubber In them,
i,i do whatever is ne<e**ary to make
them livelier, and you will see more
1 hitting the rube alone— tbe>
| are sit right—hut the hell Is too
and ed
] "Why, softie years ego when the hell
woe livelier, you mult h#*i t hat ring
I for a Mw<h but nowaday* M sounds
1 d>uby when the hell i aftisg In svstKl
STAGG SAYS EAST HAS NO
ADVANTAGE OVER WESTERN GAME
Famous Coach Says Western Elevens Much More
Interesting.
Bob Edgren, talking football, says:
Mr. Stagg, the famous Western foot
ball coach, has been heard from.
In referring to Mr. Camp's proposition
to make changes tn the football rules
that would bring about a faster and
more opAn game, Mr. Stagg speaks
as follows:
"I would say that It Is undoubtedly
necessary for some radical action to
be taken to help the game in the East.
The West being so far ahead of the
East in speed, variety and originality
of attack, the game is much more open
and interesting here, and there does
not exist at present the same need for
such a radical change of rules. I would
favor making a change to help the
Eastern game out of its rut in of
fensive tactics.”
I had a talk with "Hurry-up” Yost,
another great Western coach, at Yale
recently, and he was of the same opin
ion as Mr. Stagg.
Eastern men are laughing at the
claims of the West. But, why should
there be a laOgh? Michigan, for ex
ample, has the largest student body
among the American universities. She
has plenty of material to pick from.
Her teams are handled, and have
been for many years, by the most skill
ful coaches in the country. They
have had plenty of competition with
BARNEY OLDFIELD IS AGAIN
KING OF CIRCULAR TRACK
His Record of 50 Miles in 48:39 1-5 Staggers the
Imagination.
Again has Barney Oldfield establish
ed himself as the premier autolst on
a circular track.
His new fifty-mile record of 48:39 1-5
fairly staggers the Imagination.
During the course of this wild ride
he reeled off mile after mile under 55
seconds, thundering around the turns
utterly regardless of his own life, as
his big machine whizzed along on two
wheels or skidded across the flat track
and grazed the outside fence.
Oldfield is the most intrepid of all
auto engineers. Day after day this
man, with nerves of steel, takes his
life in his hands and defies the laws of
gravity as he swings around the sharp
with the bat, which shows that there
is something wrong.
“If the magnates will follow this
suggestion you will find that they have
solved the problem of how to increase
hitting, and that without changing any
of the rules.”
WIrTwAS TAPPED.
Hovr tlie Yew* Was Secured at Yew
Orica n*.
New Orleans, Dec. 17. —Detectives
engaged to investigate the alleged ap
propriation of the news of the Na
tional News Bureau, which was or
ganized to perform the service former
ly rendered by the Western Union at
the local race track, led to the ar
rest of Edward Smith, a telegraph
operator, to-day. Two days ago a
race track wire was found in trou
ble and investigation to-day disclosed
a tapping wire which was followed
over a circuitous route to a board
ing house, and then traced to a con
nection with a rival telegraph com
pany. Smith and others were found
in the boarding house and taken to
police headquarters.
The police learned that two men oc
cupied the room into which the tap
ped wire ran. They have not been lo
cated.
THEY WANT ODELL
TO GO TO THE SENATE.
New York, Dec. 17.—A numbsr of
Republican leaders called on Gov.
Odell to-day, and it is said the sen
atorship was discussed. The Governor
gave no- indication of how he regard
ed any suggestions that were made.
The Times will eay to-morrow that
overtures were made \hat the Gover
nor become a candidate himself. Gov.
Odell would not discuss this phase of
the contest.
As to the United States senatorship,
the Times will quote Gov. Odell as
saying: , . ......
"I am still of the opinion that there
will be but one candidate for the sen
atorship, when the time comes for
the Legislature to act.”
NELSON AND BRrrF~
ARE IN FINE FORM.
San Francisco, Dec. 17.—Both Bat
tling Nelson and Jimmy Britt have
practically reached the stipulated 132
pounds mark for their contest next
Tuesday night. To-day Nelson stop
ped his regular work and went hunt
ing. He is declared to be fit and
strong. ... ,
That the sporting public is greatly
interested in the match is shown by
the advance sale. The house will prob
ably be greater than any for many
years.
There is not enough betting yet to
fix any standard.
OLD FEUD ENDED
IN A TRIPLE KILLING.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 17.—A special
to the Commercial-Appeal from Lux
ora, Ark., says:
An old feud between two farmers
and two merchants living at Rosa, five
miles from here, terminated to-day in
a triple killing. J. J. Warren and his
son, H. H. Warren, both farmers, and
Bd Blckerson. a merchant, lost their
lives, and John Blckerson, brother of
Bd Blckerson. Is held on a charge of
murder.
Over fion.oon Hale* Held,
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 17.—The Galveston-
Dsllas News will to-tnnrrow publish
replies from correspondent* In ninety,
six Texas counties showing that 680,-
000 to 666.000 bale* of cotton are being
held for higher prices. These counties
in 1903 produced 1.(21,1t* bales, or near
ly 71 per cent, of the Texaa crop.
Falrbauite the Speaker.
Washington, Dec, IT.—Vice I’real
deni-elect Chrrle* W. Falrbanka to
day delivered the principal addreaa at
the laying of the corner atone of the
new Y M C. A. building In eouraa
uf erection In Ibis city. Ireeplte a driv
ing enowetoim a great crowd aaaaan
biad M wMiraaa the
the teams of other big Western In
stitutions.
Football, like fighting or any other
sport, is not a matter of geography.
If it were the Western men would have
a slight advantage in the fact that
out-of-door life is more general in the
West, and, as a natural consequence
the average Western man is bigger
and stronger than the average East
erner.
Yost told me that his team was the
heaviest in the country, its line aver
aging something like 220 pounds, and
the backs averaging nearly 200. The
players are from the mountains and
the plains, as well as from the cities,
and they have the strength and force
of the Western open-air life behind
them.
So far as the matter of Eastern
teams playing in a rut is concerned,
I ihink My. Stagg is right. Can any
one who has seen the big games of the
past few seasons pick out one game
that developed something absolutely
new and original in the line of offen
sive work? Yale has the greatest
team, and her plan all along has been
"straight football.” That means sim
ply that Yale depends upon using her
team like a battering ram to smash,
smash, smash monotonously through
the opposing teams. It is not spec
tacular, but it is effective. The spec
tators prefer the open game, with its
variety and dash.
turns of different racecourse at as
high a rate of speed as his fifty horse
power Green Drason can be made to
run. This is the machine that crash
ed through the fence at St. Louis in
August and crushed out two human
lives.
One experience of that kind would
be enough for the ordinary man, but
Barney is not ordinary. He says he
was not made to be killed by an auto
mobile, and the way he has escaped
serious injury and worse seems to bear
him out. He has traveled faster than
any other living man and holds records
for every distance up to twenty miles,
except the nine-mile mark. His mile
in .51 3-5 gives other drivers something
to shoot at, and will probably never be
lowered on a circular track, unless
Oldfield himself does the trick.
RUSSIANS HUSBAND
THEIR AMMUNITION.
Flee Only When There Ie Something
To He Hit.
Che Foo. Dec. 17, Midnight.—Com
mander Mizzenoff. who was executive
officer of the Russian battleship Pol
tava until that vessel was disarmed,
and who on Dec. 15 headed the party
of seven Russians who left Port Ar
thur in a sailboat and arrived here
yesterday with dispatches, said to the
Associated Press correspondent to
night in an interview that Port Ar
thur is a desolate, and except for the
firing of guns, a silent place.
"The Russians,” said he, "are hus
banding their artillery ammunition,
firing only when the effect will be cer
tain. There are 16,000 men in the line
of forts, and their periods of rest are
few. The generals, except Gen. Stoes
sei. live in the forts.
“Every building in the whole town
is more or less injured.
"Gen. Sboessel has put the entire
population on the regular rations suf
ficient to last three months. The am
munition is sufficient to last much
longer.
"I believe the Japanese will never
take the fortress under present con
ditions.”
Continuing, Commander Mlzzenoff
said: "Port Arthur never looked more
sepulchral than on the night of Dec.
9, when the Japanese shells repeatedly
hit a hospital, killing seven of the
patients. Other patients who were
not helpless, fearing for their lives,
fled into the snow covered streets.
Clothed in their white hospital gar
ments, maimed, crippled and pallid,
they made a ghostly show, and it was
some time before the provost guard
forced them to return to the hospital.
A number died from exposure.”
BOAT NIXON BUILT
GIVEN A TRIAL TRIP.
Perth Amboy, N. J., Dec. 17.—The
torpedo boat Gregory, built for the
Russian government by Lewis Nixon,
was given a trial trip to-day. The
Gregory is 90 feet long, is equipped
with two gasoline engines, each of six
cylinders. She is expected to develop
a speed of 25 knots, and is said to be
fitted to carry one torpedo gun. Nine
other boats similar to the Gregory,
which were built by Mr. Nixon for
Russia, have been taken apart and are
now awaiting shipment.
FIRE AT PITTSBURG.
Pittsburg. Pa., Dec. 18.—At 3:20
o'clock this morning fire broke out
in the Gerber Carriage and Automo
bile factory, corner of Beaty street and
Penn avenue and for a time threatened
the whole block. In addition to the
carriage factory, the White Express
Company, Moore’s livery stable and
three private residences were dam
aged.
There were several narrow escapes
from loss of life, and at 3:45 o’clock
the firemen think they can prevent
the further spread of the flames.
Alderman Butler Onatired.
Chicago, Dec. 17.—At a special session
of the City Council to-day a resolution
of censure against Alderman Hubert
Butier was adopted by a vote of 55
to 5, as the culmination of bribery
charges made by him In debate in the
Council. The resolution declares But
ler guilty of deliberate and malicious
false statements attacking the Integrity
and reputations of his colleagues.
For t ulnaii Sanitation.
Havana. Dec. IT.—The Senate to-day
unanimously passed a hill appropriat
ing $326,000 to be used in improving
sanitation In the fifteen prlneipal cities
of Cuba outside of Havana, The bill
will not paas the House until after the
holiday recess, the House not being in
session. -
l.oadas Worse Than 1 ••**,
Itondon. De> IT. —Mrs. M. French
Kheldon the esplorer and author who
arrived si Kouthamploti yesterday, f.
w having spent fourteen months in
Investigating alleged ilityiiiN tn the
f’tango Free Male, saye that site has
Sean mote atrteltlee In loitlrn attests
that in um Cengs,
THE LAZIEST OP ALL BIRDS.
Cowblrd Build* So Neat and Rear*
No Young.
From the Los Angeles Times.
The cowblrd was bom so tired that
if he could compel any other bird to
gather his food for him he would do
so, but he cannot, so he scratches
about all day among the herds of cat
tle and sheep and goes to roost at
night In great bands of hundreds of
his relatives, always selecting a bushy
tree, such as a cypress, for a night’s
perch. All up and down the Missis
sippi river valley is the common sum
mer home of this bird, for only in the
depth of winter do they retreat to the
warmer mesas of Mexico, whither
most of the other birds have preceded
them. In the spring following such a
winter they are to the first to return,
filling all the new year air with their
chatter and lining the barnyard trees.
You must not think that the glossy
black and brown birds to plentiful
around Southern California barnyards
during the winter months are cow
birds, for they are not. They are call
ed grackles,” and seem to be more
like crows than blackbirds. You can
find their nests, big bulky affairs, in
the orange and cypress trees of almost
any of your ranch homes. There are
many, many members to the black
bird family, the sweet voiced meadow
larks and the gorgeous, golden orioles,
as well as the more sober colored
blackbirds and grackles, and of all
these but one forces the hatching of
her eggs and the feeding of her young
onto another bird mother.
In England the cuckoo has this same
habit, but the American cuckoo builds
her nest and sits on her eggs as nice
ly as any robin or dove could do.
Sometimes our roadrunner so far for
gets herself as to lay her eggs in the
nest of a quail or a meadowlark but
not often, but when she does, the bird
upon whom Mrs. Roadrunner tries to
impose generally breaks the strange
egg or else goes away and leaves the
nest alone. Then the field mice and
the wood rats have a feast, to which
sometimes the roadrunner comes her
for ® he is very fond of eggs as
long as they are not her own.
But the covvbird never makes any
such poor job as that. She always se
lects the nest of some smaller bird—
in regions where warblers are plentiful
the home of one of these little singers
is most frequently chosen—and there
as many eggs as she thinks the owner
of the nest will submit to are laid.
Sometimes the warbler goes right on
incubating the intruder, but now and
then the two old birds get together and
dump the egg out on the ground. Nests
have been found in which the warblers
put a mud floor over the first nest and
built another one on top of it, leaving
their own eggs to spoil because they
knew no other way to rid themselves
of the covvbird. If the eowbird comes
back by the repaired nest she will
put another egg in it, and generally
this egg is hatched and raised by the
foster pair on whom it has been forced.
It requires about ten or eleven days
for the young eowbird to break the
shell, while most other birds of its
size are twjp or three days longer, and
thus he has a good start on the other
nestlings in point of growth. When
hatched the eowbird is larger than the
sparrow or the warbler, and conse
quently gradually crowds them into
the background, taking all the food
that should belong to them. As they
grow weaker from this, he grows
stronger, and it is not long until he
tips them out of the nest and is sole
master of the two old birds, who work
ceaselessly to satisfy his awful appe
tite. In a very few days he gets too
large for the little nest and goe9 out
URINARY DISEASES
PROMPTLY CURED
tßy the Celebrated Special
ist, Dr. J. Newton Hatha
way, Who Has Been Cur
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Recognized as the Oldest llstab- TTT .,, ..
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cialist in This Line. TTIIU lllv UuvlUi*
There is no group of diseases that
should occasion the sufferer more gen
uine alarm than those that affect or
interfere with the functions of that
important organ called the bladder.
The condition of the urine is an abso
lute test of the health or sickness of a
person, and for that very reason such
careful business concerns as the large
insurance companies make the condi
tions of the urine one of the most im
portant qualifications for an insurance
FOR SURE RESULTS SEE DR. HATHAWAY.
There is no man better qualified to
cure these diseases than Dr. J. Newton
Hathaway, the eminent physician and
specialist. He gives you the benefit of
25 years of experience at bedsides, in
homes, hospitals and other places
where sick people are; he gives you
the benefit of his vast observation,
study and skill covering a period of
more than a quarter of a century—a
lifetime of endeavor in the cure of the
WHICH DISEASE HAVE YOU GOT?
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actual results that he has a set of
remedies by which any and ail urinary
and uric acid diseases can be readily
cured. These remedies, proportioned
according to the needs of the person,
dispell all uric acid poison deposits
and then strengthen the ligatures and
muscles of the bladder so that they
contract and expand naturally, hold-
Too frequent desire to urinutc.
I‘aln when urtiuuing.
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Inability tn urinate. I
Swelling of the feet and legs.
Uric acid deposits.
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doctors soy you are Incurable, or
whether you don't know just what
form of the disease you have, make it
EIGHT ftEDICAL BOOKS FREE.
If you live too fai sway to call In
peruut be sure to avail yourself of the
dotftbr'* skill by describing your case
In s letter as these diseases can be
cured by the doctor sending the treat
ment tn you. after he has made a
thorough diagnosis of your care hy
correspondence. To all who write him
he will send any on* of the following
eight medical hooka free of charge |,
Dleeesea of the throat and lungs; 2,
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M A MUM MKKtT, lAVANNAH. UK.
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into the branches, where the old birds
still continue to feed him in a way
they never do their own young after
they have left the nest. In Mexico and
South America there is a cowblrd that
sometimes builds a nest of her own
and sits upon and hatches her own
eggs, but no such thing ever happens
among the black hobos of the oriole
family found further north.
How many eggs a eowbird lays no
one knows, but as many as seven hava
been found in one nest of the oven
bird, a kind of thrush found in the
Eastern states. Usually, however, only
one egg is laid in each nest, especially
if the birds to whom the nest belongs
are small and the nest too little to
hold more than one of the covvblrd's
young in comfort. The parent cowblrd
never disturbs the eggs of any of the
birds in whose nests she leaves her
own, knowing full well that if she did
so the nest builder would in all prob
ability desert her home or throw the
strange egg out. Oftentimes more than
one covvbird lays in the same nest, and
as no two eggs of these birds are ever
exactly alike in color, you may be sura
that no eowbird knows her own egg
half a minute after she has laid it.
Union Molder* Indicted.
Cincinnati, Dec. 17.—Indictments
were returned against Albert Patton
and Thomas Bracken to-day for the
murder of Samuel Weakley, the non
union iron molder, who was killed here
early in October. The two men in
dicted are union molders. In con
nection with this case and including
the allegation of dynamite attempts on
the Eureka foundry and a charge of
conspiracy to assassinate non-union
molders, the jury also made searching
inquiry, but no indictment on that
phase of the matter has yet been an
nounced.
Candidacy of Black.
Troy, N. Y., Dec. 17.—The candida
cy of former Gov. Frank S. Black for
the United States senatorship in plaea
of Chauncey M. Depew, is announced
to-day by the Troy Times in a com
plimentary editorial. The Times is re
garded here as peculiarly close to Mr.
Black.
—ln the days when Mark Twain was
an editor out West he was not so well
off as of late years. One morning the
mail brought a bill from his tailor, not
an unusual occurrence. The boy who
went through the mail called the future
humorist’s attention to it. "And,” add
ed the boy. "he has written on the
back that he wants a settlement at
once.” “You know what to do with
such copy without asking,” said Mr.
Twain. "Inclose it with the regular
printed slip stating that all manu
script written on both sides of the pa
per is unavailable.”
—..Oh, yes,” said Mrs. Oldeastle, “I
used to have the Schumann Etudes
Symphoniques, the Qhopin Berceuse
and Barcarolle and the Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 12 all at my fingers'
ends.”
"My goodness,” replied her hostess,
"how did you ever stand it? The worst
I ever had was -a felon one time on
my left thumb.”—Chicago Record-
Herald.
—"Henry,” said his wife, "wfhat do
you need to taka so many bottles
along for, when you’re only going Ash
ing?”
“So we can have something to cork
up messages in and throw overboard,
dear,” he replied, "if anything should
happen to the boat.”
“Oh, I see. Well do be careful, Hen
ry. I shall be awfully uneasy.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
policy. MORE PERSONS ARE RE
FUSED INSURANCE BECAUSE THE
URINARY TEST WAS NOT FAVOR
ABLE THAN FOR ANY OTHER ONE
REASON.
But aside from the question of in
surance it is important that every per
son who suffers from a disease of the
bladder or the kidneys should place
himself or herself in the hands of a
competent specialist who understands
thoroughly what treatment to give to
cure such a condition.
sick. Does not this experience entitle
him to your consideration ? Is it not
better for you to trust your case to Dr.
Hathaway than to someone not so ex
perienced, not so skilled and successful
In his profession?
You can make no mistake calling or
writing this Muster Specialist, for
there is no doubt at all but that he
will cure you. He has cured legions
of others, and why should he not be
able to do as well by you?
ing back the urine or releasing It, as
the requirements of nature may be.
When this is accomplished the cure is
realized, and that Dr. Hathaway's
treatment does accomplish this Is
proven by the written testimony of
hundreds who have been cured.
Be sure to call on him, or to write
him if you cannot call, if you suffer In
any of the following ways;
Calculi, gravel.
Sediment In iirins.
Sugar in urine. * •
Diabetes.
Weak hack.
Dropsy.
Bright's disease.
your duty to call on Dr. Hathaway for
free examination, consultation nnd
advice. He will tell you much that
will be of value to you, and there will
be no charge for It.
Kidney nnd urinary tract; 3. Diseases
of women: 4, Hkln. rectal, rheuma
tism; 5. Blood poison; 6, Nervous de
bility and vital weakness; 7, Mtrlcture;
*, Vsrleocele Head your name and
address for Ih* book you went or de
scribe your case and the doctor will
know which hook to send you.
‘*•11 at least once. If you possibly
can. if not he sure to write. The per
manent address Is