PEARY'S BIG SEND OFf Thousands Cheer as Explorei Starts For Nor*i Pole. EVERYBODY MOST OPTIMISTIC Commander of Expedition Confident o1 Getting Farther North—Vast Quan tities cf Provisions on Board—Large Assortment of Useful Presents Foi Eskimos. Undoubtedly every one aboard tin Roosevelt, Commander Robert E Peary's arctic bound steamer, felt ( thrill as tlie bis weather beaten vesse pulled slowly out of the recreatloi pier at the foot of East Twenty-fourtl street. New York, tin- other afternooi at 1 o'clock, while from the shore thou sands of voices gave lusty cheers foi the Intrepid explorer as lie started 01 his third quest for the north pole. Ai the ship passed up the stream she wai saluted by three whistles from everj craft that was within sight. From early morning until sailln? time the crew were rushing about, pil lng in as fast as they could the strangt and miscellaneous cargo that goes tc make up an arctic equipment. Thai the crew will not starve is certain tc any one who saw the enormous numbei of boxes and bags containing food of all kinds. "It ain't all salt horse, either," the Irish chef explained, "for we have got arctic fodder to a science now, and we can have otir spring vegetables out of thim tins, ye see, on Christmas day at the pole, when we get there, and it's sure we get there at that." Every one from Commander Peary to the bo's'n nre optimistic regarding the success of the venture. Com mander Peary said: "This certainly has lioen a splendid send off. lam deeply grateful for the honor. Wo are ready for the trip. I have done entirely too much work In that country to be certain of anything, so I'll not promise anything before I start, except that 1 am going to put into it every bit of energy, moral, men tal and physical, that 1 possess. "I feel confident that In any case 1 shall carry the American flag farthel north than ever. Unless the unfore seen happens I shall plant the stars and stripes at the magnetic pole. The Roosevelt has been thoroughly re paired from her last struggles with the ice, has been fitted with two new boilers of 500 horsepower each, making her now an abler ship as regards power than she was three years ago. She is, so far as we are able to make her, equipped to meet any emergency. If conditions are no worse in the next season than they were during the last voyage I shall hope to accomplish the object of the expedition and return In about fifteen months—that is, in Octo ber, 1909. 1 am prepared, however, for a stay of three years." Uuge bouquets of rosea and othei flowers filled the cabin in which Com mander Peary will spend much time during the nest year. The cabin is comfortable and as well furnished as n similar room on a big ocean liner, and it Is far morp homelike. Nor will there be lacking books to while away the tedious hours when the Roosevqit Is winter bound in the northern Ice fields. The publishers of New York have seen to that. They all chipped in to furnish books for the explorer and his crew. All tolD, more than 200 vol umes have been stowed alward the vessel, and (hey represent almost every type of literature and every large publishing house in New York. Among the stores on board tint Roosevelt arn 16,000 pounds of flour, 12,000 loaves of brea l, two tons of cod fish, 200 cases of beans, 2,500 gallons of oil for fuel and lighting, 200 cases of tomatoes and several hundred of brown bread. An important part of the cargo on the Roosevelt i> the large assortment of useful presents that Commander Peary is taking north for his friends the Eskimos. lie knows everybody in the tribe except the babies born since his visit, and not a person lias been forgotten. The presents are all staple things, for on his first expedition to the polar regions Commander Peary found that the Eskimos desired only those things that were useful to them. They cared not for beads, fancy clothes or toys. "I am taking a lot of things for my faithful friends up there," said Com mander Peary. "Some of them are presents pure and simple, while the rest will be used in paying them for the services they render me. It would be ridiculous to offer them money. They have no conception of the unit of value. 1 am taking the men such things as guns, ammunition, knives, steel shoes for their sledges, hammers, hatchets and other useful tools. Those are the things they desire and prize the most. "For the women I have large quan tities of needles, thimbles, scissors and mirrors. They do not want beads, nor do they have any desire for the fancy things that the Indians hanker for. The mirror is the nearest thing to a luxury that appeals to them, and I have a sufficient supply on board the Roosevelt to last them for years." Commander I'eary said he would de pend absolutely on the game to be found in the arctic for his meat sup ply. Some of the foods he will carry with him, ia addition to his supply of pemmlcan, tea and pilot biscuit, * the three staple foods fur use in the arctic, are canned vegetables and a large sup ply of canned peaehes and pears. "I always see to it that every person with me has a dessert on Sunday," said Commander Peary, "and that Is why I am taking peaches and pears." "Silly boy." she saltf, "why did you *et offended? Though my words were severe, you might have seen that I was emiling." "Well," he replied magnanimously, "your mouth is so small I didn't notice it."—Philadelphia Press. Right overtrained turns to wrong. - Spanish Proverb. "I am sorry to disappoint you," said the old time druggist to the suitor for his daughter's hand. "I can't let you have Amy because I've promised her to the son of my partner. But I have five other (laughters and can give you something that is Just as good." YANKEE PEARL CROP, This Year's Yield Promises to B< of Good Quality. MANY FRESH WATER FISHERS Three Thousand Men Fishing Foi M usscls Along Mississippi, Wabash and Illinois Rivers—Our Shell Made as Bcsutiful as Oriental Product. j This season's pearls taken from the j fresh water mussels of the Illinois, Wabash and Mississippi rivers have j maile their appearance in the last few ! (lays in the Maiden lane wholesale dis ! trlet of New York city, having been ' taken there by elammers and dealers, j Iligh water prevented any profitable ! fishing until recently. 1 The new pearls are supposed to be ] an index to the characti r of those to be j found during the entire M ason. One j of the oldest of the wholesale buyers said recently that the pearls shown thus far are of a quality indicating an unusually profitable season. I The American pearl fisheries Indus j try is growing larger, according to western dealers who were interviewed in New York city. Philip J. Mackey of Muscatine, la., who lias traveled up and down the banks of the west ern rivers for many years buying pearls and mussel shells from the c-lammers. said, according to a New York Sun re porter, that tiie fisheries are only in their infancy and that much is now be ing done to develop the industry both in the sale of pearls and of shells, tin' latter being by far the most important commercially. There would be no fishing for Amer ican pearls, Mr, Mackey said, if it wort not for the fact that the mussel shells command a price on which the Indus trious clammer may make a livin-r. this being the certain side of the bus; ness, while the finding of pearls Is pre carious. Hut for a long time the pre!' erence for the oriental shell was so strong that the American shell was used only for making the cheapest kind of shirt buttons, while many grade were considered entirely worthless. It is now found that with pro[>e: machinery and methods of polishinj the despised American shell can b. made as beautiful as many of tin l highly prized oriental shells. As nn instance of the change in this respec Mr. Mackey said the common yellow back sand shells, which until lately were regarded as not suitable even for cheap buttons, are this year ship ped to Paris and Vienna, where thej are made into fancy buttons for waist coats. The shells are sold at SSO a ton for this purpose. There are now, Mr. Mackey said, at least 3,000 men fishing for mussel along the Mississippi, Wabash and llli nois rivers. They are scattered ail along the Mississippi from Keokuk up to Prairie du Chien, Wis., and even farther north. Last year and for sev eral years l>efore the Wabash gave up the largest quantity of valuable pearls but this year the fishermen along the Illinois are meeting with the most suc cess. The efforts, which were begun June 1, to restrict fishing in order to pre serve the beds from excessive activity on the part of the fishermen started witl) the collection of a tax of SSO. which must be paid by every man fishing foi mussels in Illinois. The expectation i> that this will reduce the number of fishermen and give the mussels a let ter chance to propagate. In other states the enactment of similar law has been advocated. The establish ment of hatcheries by the federal gov eminent will ultimately do more. Mr Mackey said, for the Industry tha any action of the states. The yield of the American fisherle: in pearls and In the irregular shape: known as baroques, according to tb latest estimates, brings $.">00,000 a \ at the rivers. The finest Ami :'., pearl ever found was the Queen .Mar; a round white gem found by an I nv clnmmer. who received $17.."11 f,,r ; while $25,000 was finally paid by Parisian dealer. The finding of i . :ir' valued from a few dollars up in a fe-.i hundred is common enough, and evei year a few peariw are found wbic' bring thousands to tiio fortunate c 1::: mers. The development of the fisheries said Mr. Mackey, will mean an in creased yield of line pearls as well a> of shells, and tills will be for the bene fit of the jewelry industry and of vn rious otiier industries in which 11K mother-of-pearl lining of the shell b used. Old Suits or No Diplomas. The pupils in the eighth grad ■ at Washington school In Fond du i.tc Wis., must wear their ordinary clo; es on the closing day of school If the; wish to receive diplomas on tli.it <ii; Miss Minnie Perkins, assistant ii cipai of the school, informed her pti pils the otiier afternoon that vai::t and education did not work together and if any of them put on their day suits or dresses they will be o%: ed to call at her back door on the f->. lowing morning to get a certificate The Head Hunters. ' ■' ' ll 1 sweet girl graduatess U'<>at A m widow" on her cold.n hair That : ..:tj;ger circle of serrated straw With tto thy edges like a timber saw Ah. me, In sophomoric days of old When certain youths on certain nights were bold. When cooing co-eds hurtled Cupid's darts. We used to woo them—and we lost our hearts! But now. alas, we can't caress the curl» Of cuddling female seminary girls Nor even tackle up to date co-eds In "Merry Widows"—lest we lose oui heads! —Robertus Love m New York Sun. Vacation For Government Horses. Thirty days' vacation will hereafter be allowed to every horse owned by the postofflce department In Washing ton. Chief Clerk Conrad has signed an order granting to Charley, a big black horse, thirty days In which to cavort In a pasture in Montgomery county, Md. "Every employee of the government," says Mr. Conrad, "re ceives thirty days' annual vacation and, if necessary, thirty days' sick leave. I see no reason why the horses we use in the department should not have a or a vacation, and here ufter I am going to send each of the horses away for thirty days to rest" ft• I \ ]L < poethy,£% NOTES C.M.DARNITZ y^¥^Mi I Rr/^ 3n) * CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED U/V J-Ff THE HERO IN BLUE. 'Tia not of arms with Virgil we sing, Nor Just of the man with the hoe: 'Tis not for tho Carnegie hero we bring Our verses with praise all aglow. But 'tis for the hero who wears the blue— The blue overalls, well worn; Who wears a Coxey badge or two And checked shirt, soiled and torn. His hands are neither soft nor small, His face not creamy white, But the hero who wears tho overall You Just can bet's all right. He wears no starry diamond ring Nor sports a stovepipe hat. He ne'er puts on the dandy (ling, But ho's the man for a' that. Leave lis our noble Coxey badge blue An<l flaunt your robes of state. We'd rather grub from dinner pails, too, Than dine from White House plate. _____ C. M. B. THE GAPES. It is stated that 3,000,000 chicks died ID 11)07. The most of the bright eyed fluffy ruilles go by tho gape route. England loses 500.000 annually by this disease, and thousands of her pheasants and quail are choked l»y the "branch (gape) worm." Wet weather and sandy soil are gape worm breeders. They were first dis covered in the United States in ITUO, t I and, though various theories have been ! ascribed for their existence, about the , j only thing so far proven is that the ' | gapes are here, j It is a double worm, the male and I female being a Siamese twin. Each , ] head has a sucker that attaches itself " to the inner surface of the windpipe, , sucking the blood, irritating the lining, ( j so that, with loss of blood, constant ir i ritatlon and accumulated bloody mu . ! cus, tiie victim soon dies of weakness j anil suffocation. , j Sixty have iieen found in one pheas i ant, thirty-seven in a poult and thirty five in a chick. Three or four are FIGHTINQ FOB LIFE. enough to cause death, though birds three or four weeks old are little af fected and adults not at all. The earthworm is stepmother to the gapeworm, just as the common hen is believed to breed within her the black head germs. In some way the gapeworm egg gets into the earthworm ! and develops there. | The chick swallows the earthworm i and gets the gapeworm for a side dish. I Then the fight for life begins. The j chick throws up its head, coughs, gasps j and after a hard struggle throws up ! some of the worms. It promptly eats j them. The eggs in these worms are : hatched in the digestive tract: the new j worms fall to the ground; another j chick picks them up and also gets the : gapes. It's on the endless worm style. TREATMENT. | The following remedies are good, i Take your pick: I One garlic bulb chopped in feed for ten chicks, pheasants or poults. Cam phor or asnafoetida in one grain pills three times a day. Ten droits turpentine to pint of drlnk i ing water. I'lace chicks in covered box ; and blow in tobacco smoke or dust I slacked lime through muslin top. The j chick will cough up the stupefied ; worms, but be careful not to smother chicks. Loop a horsehair or trim a small wing feather except the end, dip in turpentine and twirl in windpipe. Worms will be withdrawn with hair or feather. Grease under neck with lard and turpentine, equal parts, Buy an extractor and use according to di rections. Our plan of keeping chicks out of the wet and on boards for three weeks saves us from this plague. The gapes especially attack chick* and tur keys from one to four weeks old and pheasants at change of plumage just when sex can be distinguished. DON'TS. Don't think weasels can't get through inch wire. If there's a loophole, they won't need a lawyer to help find it. l>on't let the poultry roost in the barn. The sparrows will distribute enough lice to make the horses lively. Don't get excited over orders and sell all your best birds. That's fren ssied finance. Don't build your poultry house with out thoughtful planning. No cold air castles for Ceghorns. Don't get gay and go off for fun and let yonr Incubators run themsoives. Pirnics are pleasant, but fires aren't Ice cream and cake. PREVENTION AND CURE. We once visited a poultryman who pointed with pride to a great accumula tion of bottles, patent poultry nostrums and prescriptions and exclaimed, "This is my medicine chest!" But with all this his poultry were always ailing. He may have been long on poultry physic, but was very short on prevention. The man who is proficient in physic and prevention need not make a drug store of his birds. It's much easier and more profitable to lead your fowls safely round the precipices of disease than to get them back after they're gone over. Alia u*rw ifflty 10 neep uicu. well generally when the causes of disease are so well known. Here they are in brief: Filth, Improper feeding, crowding, vermin, dampness, drafts, extremes of heat and cold, exposure and egg tonics. There may seem accidental causes where diseases are introduced by strange birds, originate in heredity or from floating germs. Rut every stronger should be quaran tined. Only strong stock should be bred from, and birds in health nnd sanitary environment offer little encouragement to germs seeking lodgment. Yes, my friend, you are wise to be prepared for war. You should accumulate a library of good medical works, acquire a knowl edge of the symptoms of every known fowl disease, and you should by your study, observation and experiment be able to detect the first symptoms of disease and mnke a correct diagnosis and bare the remedy right there to cure or the wisdom to see the incurable and to end it with the ax. But what does It amount to if you, Mr. Chicken Doctor, have not learned the old lesson that "an ounce of pre vention is worth a pound of cure?" A physician depends for his living on doc toring people who are sick, but has nothing to do with their getting sick. A poultrymon depends for a living on keeping his fowls well and has every thing to do with their being In health or sickness. If through ignorance of the require ments his birds are afflicted and he meets with loss he is to be greatly l pitied, but if lie sins against knowledge j he deserves no sympathy and only con demnation. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. German experts have tested the wa ter glass egg preservative and fln>l j eggs keep well four years. You should make a truck for liauliug your brooders and colony houses from | place to place. The win# may b \ found on a foundry scrap Tile; the rest you can make yourself. There is nothing in the statement that suft feed brings Infertile eggs. W< fed one pen nothing but oats, cut bone greens and soft mash of liran and mlds and tlieir eggs were highly fertile. Your early chicks must not only b< fed well, but they must be kept out o the wind and rain. We use heavy mat ting on the wire pens to break tin wind, keep out rain and the hot sun. If your watchdog went to roost witi the chickens and gut the distemper i certainly shows the scratching littei was damp enough. Maybe when loca option comes your way you'll keep dry Homers In good health carry th( head erect, have a bright, clear eye and the feathers cling tightly to theli plump bodies. When pigeons loaf and puff up their feathers, get the lous< gun. When a thunderstorm threatens ti catch those chicks in a hurry slniplj have a piece of raw meat handy. Oui chicks pile over each other for it, and we gather up a thousand in a few minutes. At one time a fresh egg was equal t< a pound of meat. Now scientists saj four eggs do the stunt. Hut you nevei see a gilt edge sign to this effect in meat markets, and their storage eggs are equal to anything. The real causes of leg weakness in chicks are heavy wings and running or board lloors. To prevent it get them out on the ground soon as they art gape proof and clip the wings. Do nol pull the wing feathers. It is cruel. When you get brain fag take time off or you may serve up stale ideas 01 have a brain storm. Fresh air ami garden spading, chickens and cherry tree climbing are preventives. What are the symptoms and sensations of a brain jag? Is yours chronic? Ireland is not only organized for lib erty, but for poultry culture. Fifteen thousand dozen of thoroughbred egg-, were distributed last year. The appro priation for some counties reachd! $.".000. Women are employed to lec ture on chickens at $45 a month. Thosi women certainly can lecture. I.os Angeles lias the largest pigeon plant in the world. Fifty thousand pigeons, mostly white, are housed in cotes and a large shed building They eat three tons of wheat a daj What a fluttering and flapping of white wings as they rise for flight What a tremendous stir when they re turn. Your customer kicked on your last shipment because the dressed chickens were dark and had a bad odor. Yes. of course they were fresh and yellow when you shipped. You cool tliein too quickly. By putting them at once into ice you drive the animal heat into the crop and entrails and they ferment Gradually drive out the animal heat by three changes of well water before using Ice. "I am going into the poultry bus! ness to be my own boss," says one Don't get gay, my friend. You'll pad die your own canoe against a rock, and It might be n Plymouth Hock poultry farm too. The poultryman not only gets henpecked, lias no holidays, can't blow in money at seashore resorts, but the business, if done rigth. is the most exacting boss. A few side issues put on the varnish. New Problem of Watchmakers. 11. C. Carpenter, a representative of a watch company of South Bend, Ind., held up a sample watch as he stood in his room at the Hotel Baltimore, in Kansas City, the other day. "And now the jewelers have a new jol>— that of inventing something that will make watches used in skyscrapers keep correct time," he said. "Don't suppose you know it, but the perpen dicular steel construction of these high buildings forms a magnet that acts on the wheels of the watches, accelerat ing or retarding the balance wheel. That's why so many -watches in sky scrapers won't keep the correct time. Now the manufacturers must remedy that defect—if it's nosslhle " Offer For Denver's Big Sign. Former Senator James Smith of New Jerst-y has offered S2OO for the star decorative feature of Denver, a wire screen forty high with zinc fig ures representing "Denver," a buxom young mountain lass, welcoming "De mocracy,' a donkey. He wants it for a memento. It is often cheaper to be imposed upon than it is to Qght. This fact re sults In many unfair men.—Atchison Globe MOB FOR THE FLEET Australia's Grand Preparations For American Warships' Visit. FINE SPECTACLE AT SYDNEY. Millions of Electric Lights to Be Used In Illuminations—Large Display of Fireworks—Foundation Stone of Per manent Memorial to Be Laid. The reception of the United States battleship Beet at Sydney, Australia, during its world cruise will provide a notable spectacle. The whole of the coast line, many miles in length, of the fine harbor is to be brilliantly illu minated, the numerous headlands nt the expense of the federal and state governments and the intervening shores by public subscription. Mil lions of electric lights will be used. In addition the British and other warships in the harbor will be ablaze with light., as will the merchant ves sels, ferry steamers and other craft. There will nlso be a display of fire works on a large scale, in which the vessels of the Australian squadron will participate. In the city of Sydney itself the deco rations and Illuminations will surpass those on the occasion of the centenary of the state or the proclamation of the commonwealth, says a Sydney special correspondent of the New York Times. Special arrangements are making for entertaining the officers and inen. Hear Admiral Charles S. Sperr.v and his captains are to be the guests of the Pari-of Dudley, governor general elect and the Countess of Dudley and will bo entertained at a grand ball in the grounds of the government house by I. "l'd Xorthcote, the present governor general, and Lady Xorthcote. A magnificent ball Is also to be given in the Sydney town hall by the lord mn.vor and the city corporation, and ;i large number of (lances, dinners r.'id other entertainments are being ar ranged i>y the citizens. All the the aters and other places of amusement will l»e thrown open free to the visit ors, who will also be invited to attend the great sport carnival in which sev eral thousand public school children will take part. The leading cities and townships in the Interior are most anxious that ar rangements should bo made for en abling portions of the crews to see something of the scenic wonders of the state, especially the Blue moun tains and the Zenolan caves, and it is understood that all accepting the invi tations will be conveyed to the various points of interest and banqueted free of cost. There is, however, great dis appointment in Queensland by reason of Brisbane not being Included in the itinerary. It is proposed to ask the American admiral to permit a party of his officers and men to visit the state metropolis. It is doubtful wheth er it will be in his power to do so. It Is estimated that there will be over thirty war vessels of American, British and other nationalities in Syd ney harbor at one time, and a con siderable amount of water space will have to be set apart for their accommo dation. The vessels will probably be arranged in two lines, each about n mile in length, north anil south of the harbor. The official landing will be an impos ing affair, the visitors marching in procession to the Domain, Sydney's largest and oldest park, under tri umphal arches and past beautifully decorated buildings, where they will be received with acclamation by the thousands of Australians assembled from all parts of the commonwealth. The Earl of Dudley, Lord Northeote and Adm I nil Rawson, the state gov ernor, accompanied by the federal prime minister, the state premier and leading federal and state officials, will i form the reception party. There win j also be several thousand troops on the I ground. ! In anticipation of the event there ! lias been an unprecedented demand for the stars uud stripes, and extensive orders have been cabled to New York and London. In all the public schools the children are learning to sing "Tht Star Spangled Banner," "Mail Colum bia" aud other American patriotic songs. Practically Sydney will be found completely Americanized during the stay of the tleet. At the cere monial parade of the commonwealth forces Ilear Admiral Sperry will be asked to allow detachments from his vessels to march past with the Austra lian troops. Perhaps the most Interesting feature of the visit will be the laying of the foundation stone of a permanent me morial the exact nature of which has yet to be decided. The ceremony will be performed by Hear Admiral Sperry and Admiral Itawson. it will proba bly take the form of a colonnade, with a large central arch constructed of Aus tralian white marble, forming the en trance to Sydney's great central park. in Melbourne the fleet will be re ceived in the same cordial manner as at Sydney, but the details have yet to be arranged. They will, however, in clude visits to Rallarat, the golden city, where the miners are preparing a unique demonstration. The Amer ican element is very strong in Vic toria, which received a considerable accession of population from the Unit ed States dnrlng the earlier days of Australian gold discovery. Her Ear». "You see," said the woman. "I al ways notice people's ears." "Poor thing." thought the other per former In the conversational duet, with •eal sympathy. 'What a mortification It must be to her to look In the mirror and see her own funny little ears standing out from her head." "X feel that I have pretty good ears myself," went on the woman, putting her hand to one of the members under consideration, with a satisfied air, "and I suppose for that reason I notice a feature of which but little Is thought." And the other woman gasped a little with astonishment and It was a min ute or two before she had anything to say.—New York Times. Not Unusual. "Sometimes," said Uncle Eben, "1 ketches myse'f lambastln' a mule foh doln' purty much de same as I would do if I was In de mule's place!"— FIRST REVIVAL OF OLYMPIC GAMES How Americans Got Into the Athletic Contest. TOOK A FLIER AT ATHENS. No Team, Just a Party of Athletes Abroad, Who Paid Their Own Way to Eight Victories In the Events of 1896—Games of 1906 Most Pic turesaue. Since the first revival of the Olympic games which was held in Athens In 180 C the Americans have been in the front rank of the world's athletic con test. In the first revival no American team as such was entered In the events. That the United States had representatives at all was due to the fact that a party of athletes, composed mostly of college men on a vacation, were in Europe that summer and went over to Athens on their own responsi bility. They were not regularly chosen by an American committee appointed for that purpose, and they did not have their expenses paid. In spite of that fact, however, they made a remarkable showing in the first revival of the old Greek games, says the New York Evening Sun. They took eight out of the comparatively few events which made up the Olympic programme at that time. Burke won the 100 and 400 meter runs, Curtis the 110 meter hurdle, Clark the running high and broad jumps, Connoly the running triple Jump, Iloyt the pole vault and Gar rett the shot put and discus throw. The win by Garrett, a Frinceton stu dent, in the discus throw was one of the features of the first contest. lie had been n shot putter and weight man, but had never thrown the discus and had never even seen the event | before lie arrived at Athens. The day i before the contests he went out to the j stadium and watched the Greeks and | the representatives of the other na- j 'ions practicing the old Greek sport, j It looked easy to him, and he got a ! discus and practiced that afternoon. On the day of the contest he outdis tanced all the other contestants with a throw of 05 feet light of subsequent records this throw was not remarkable, for in 190fi Mar tin Sheridan threw the discus more than 136 feet, but it was good enough to win, and the victory, in view of Garrett's absolute lack of experience, was very remarkable. The Americans In the first Olympiad showed that their greatest proficiency lay in the short distance runs and the field events. Tills has been true in all the Olympics since the first. It was because of their superiority in these events that the Americans won the track and field events in 1000 at Paris, In 1004 at St. Louis and in 1000 at Athens again. The first revival was so successful in arousing interest that it was de ckled to hold Olympic games for the championship of the world once every four years. The next scene of the contests was at Paris, where the In ternational exposition was being held In 1000. Again the Americans showed their superiority In the track and Held events. They took all the short dis tance and field events except the dis cus throw, which went to Hungary. The three long distance runs, the SOo meter, the 1,500 meter and the 4,009 meter steeplechase, went to England. Altogether the Americans took seven teen events. The next running of the Olympic games was in the United States, when they were hold in connection with the St. Louis exposition, on American soil the Americans had things all their own way again. All the track and field events but two went to the credit of the athletes who were contesting that time on home ground. Only two out of all the track and field events went to the men from other countries who invaded. Desmarteau, a French Canadian, won the throwing of the fifty-six pound weight, and Kakousis, a Greek, who saved his fatherland, the originator of the sports, from being shut out without scoring, won the weight lifting. | The third revival of the Olympic con tests and probably the greatest from sentimental reasons if from no other was held in Athens again in 1906. It was one of the greatest national af fairs of the modern Greeks, for it cel ebrated the opening of the reproduc tion of the ancient stadium which Lyyurgus had built and Herodes of Attlcus had rebnilt in the second cen tury after Christ. The new stadium, built where the ancient one had been, was as near as possible a reproduction of the early Greek structure. In fact, its builders were enabled to gather some of the carvings that had l>een on the arches of the ancient structure and to incor porate them in the new. The money to build it was raised by popular sub scriptions. It would not have been possible, however, had it not been for the generosity of George Averoff, a Greek merchant, who spent 2,000,000 francs that the ancient home of his country's games might be rebuilt. The opening of the new Olympic games stirred up Greece in much the same way as the old games when Greece was the pivot of the world. From all over the peninsula athletes and spec tators flocked to Athens to attend the games. All over Greece every young man who had any athletic abilit7 started to train for the national con tests. When the day of the opening came the big gates had to be thrown wide open to let in the crowd that held tickets, and very soon,every seat in the vast amphitheater was filled The crowd overflowed to seats on the hills Ardettos and HeliasUis, against which the /iers of seats Inside were built, and made them a black mass of people. The enthusiasm of the crowd was tremendous. They ex pected onco again to see Greece be come the center of the athletic world. Unfortunately for their enthusiasm, howurer, the Greeks who had trained at home for the Olympic games, as did their ancestors, were not the equals of the barbarians In strength and skill. truck and Held went to their country men. Tofalos won the weight lifting, Georgauttas wou the stout- throwing contest, and Aliprantis took the rope climbing contest. Even the ancient Marathon went to a foreigner, ana It wus in wis ocJX that the disappointment of tlie (J reeks reached Its height. That was essen tially their race. Coutouiakis, upon whom they based their hopes, had sworn that he would either win the race or die in the attempt, but he had not the strength to win and was not given the satisfaction of dying a death which would have made him famous. Wheu the automobile of the judges | cuuie into the stadium from Marathon It was followed by a native of North America, \\. J. Sherring of Canada, who ran under the British colors. In spite of the fact that the race which was founded by their ancestors to cele brate the messenger who ran to tell of the victory of Marathon and that the Persians had been driven into the sea and who fell dead as he shouted "Victory!" hj>d been wou by a for eigner, the 75,000 Greek spectators cheered to the echo the Canadian who had taken away their greatest prize. The origin of the Olympic games goes back to the time of mythology. Credit for their foundation was given by the ancient Greeks to the ldaeau llercules. not the mythological athlete, but the demigod who was present at the birth of Zeus himself. The human origin of the games, however, is placed in the ninth century before Christ. They were reorganized, it was said, at the j bidding of the oracle of Delphi and i made a national festival. It was not until 11. C. 770, however, , that the records of the Olympic vic- I tors commenced to be kept. The games took place in the last full moon of the summer solstice and lasted for Bve days. The competitions were open only to freeborn Greeks of unstained character. Barbarians could be pres ent to watch the games, but no wo men were allowed to be spectators ex cept the Elcan priestess of Demeter. Before they were allowed to enter the games the athletes had to sweat that they had undergone the training of ten months which was prescribed and that they would obey the Olym pic laws. What the ifthlctes trained so long to win were simply olive branch wreaths, with which they were crown ed at the expiration of the games. With this olive branch, however, went honor all through the Grecian posses sions and the privilege of living at Olympla at the expense of the state and of erecting a statue In the Altis A three time victor had the right to erect a statue bearing his features. The Olympic games reached theii height during the period after the Per shin wars before ancient Greece began to decay. They were abolished by the Emperor Theodosius In A. I). 3'J4. In the Olympic games of 1900 once more the Americans showed their su periority In the track and field events and went home after having won elev en out of twenty-two contests, a much better record than was made by any other nation that entered a team. The Olympic games this year lack a great deal of the enthusiasm and the dignity which went with the old Greek revival of 1906. It is not that the perform ances lack in quality or that the scene of the contests does not compare fa vorably with that of the former Olym pic games. The stadium at Shepherd's Bush, London, where they are held is great enough to contain the stadium at Athens in its infield. It holds 70,000 spectators and contains 17,000 of them under an immense covered stand. T"uder the seats are great spaces which contain committee rooms and halls for exhibitions of different sorts. The cost of the structure was £06,000, or nearly 5330.000. but the structure does not express the senti ment of a nation. It was built by a stock company as a business invest ment and as such, from what can be learned about the attendance at this year's grimes, seems likely to fall NEW FLYING MACHINE FLAN. Lartdor of London Has Rudderless One That Will Rise Without a Run. A. 11. S. Landor of London, England, who has been studying aviation for fif teen years, is building a machine which, he believes, will be a notable improvement on all other Hying devices. One of its main features, according to Mr. Latidor, is that it will rise without a preliminary run. It lias two independent motors and no rudder. The axles of the propellers are placed at an angle to each other. The whole machine is much smaller than others. Mr. Landor has been told that it re sembles the Wright machine hi senje of its features. lie says that if what he has heard of the Wright brothers' machine is true, they are nearer suc cess than anybody else has yet been. A lady asked the astronomer if the moon was Inhabited. ! "Madam," he replied, "I kuow of one moon in which there are always a man and a woman." "Which is that?" "The honeymoon."—London Satur day Review. ■lis Iff! A R.ella tol© TIJ* SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting nnd Csnoral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ran«M t Furnaces, sto- PRICES THE LOWEST! QDiLITT TEE BEST! JOHN lIIXSO> SO- U# B. FRONT ST,
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