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10 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 ing These Diseases for 25 Years. Call on Him for Free Examination and Ad vice the First Spare Mo ment You Have-Distant DR. J. NEWTON HATHAWAY. Patients Should Correspond Recognized as the Oldest llstab- TTT .,, .. lished and Most Reliable Spe- With inf Imftflr 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? Dr. Hathaway can prove to you by 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. Inflammation of (lie bladder. Stone In the bladder. I Inability tn urinate. I Swelling of the feet and legs. Uric acid deposits. NO CHARGE FOR EXAMINATION- No matter what form of urinary trouble you suffer from, whether most 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, J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D. f M A MUM MKKtT, lAVANNAH. UK. oau MM. • w u m.. IKU ula Iw*ri w•.m. u l m. 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