CHOYNSKI'S NEW
BOXING RULES.
B-PiijllW Suggests Improw
raen! In Queensberry Rifles.
FOR JEFFRIES-JOHNSON FIGHT
Thlnka Hia Cod* WW »• AooaptaM*
to Both Fighters—Many Follower* of
Pugilism Said »• Consider Cheynski'a
Substitution Worthy of Not*.
Jo« Choynskl, on# of the cleverest
heavyweights in the ring a doaen
years ago. says the proposed fight be
tween Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson
should be governed by a set of re
vised rules, and he has taken the trou
ble to draw up a code which he thinks
will be acceptable to both men. Choyn
eki's rules follow:
L To be a fair stand up boxing match
tn a twenty-four foot ring or as near
that size as practicable.
2. No wrestling, hugging, heeling, butt
tng or gouging allowed.
3. The rounds to be of threo minutes
duration and one minute between rounds.
4. If either man is knocked down he
imust get up unassisted inside of ten sec
onds. the other man meanwhile to move
übout ten feet away, so as to give tho
man uho is down a chance to arise.
When the fallen man Is on his feet the
round Is to be resumed and continued
until the three minutes have expired. If
the man who has been knocked down
fails to be on his feet inside of the ten
seconds allowed the referee shall glv»* his
decision in favor of the other man.
5. A man hanging on the ropes-- in a
helplers state with his toes off the ground
shall be considered down.
Only Principals and Referee In Ring.
6. No seconds or any other person:* ex
cept the principals and the referee shall
be allowed In the ring during the rounds.
Any second or other person entering the
ring during the rounds shall 1.0 ejected,
and the contest shall continue and no
foul allowed on that account.
7. Should the contest be stopped by po
lice interference the referee has full pow
er to render a decision.
8. Five ounce special gloves, furnished
by the club, to bo used In all contests.
9. Should a glovo burst or come off the
referee shall order both men to their cor
ners, where the glove or gloves mufet be
Mxed to the satisfaction of the referee.
The time consumed in replacing the glove
or gloves shall not be counted as part of
the time of the round.
10. A man on one knee is considered
down and If struck Is entitled to the de
cision.
11. Only boxing shoes, regulation style,
with either chamois, oilskin or rubber
soles allowed.
12. Ilitting In the breakaway is per
mitted.
13. When the referee orders the men to
break they must obey Instantly and re
lease each other at once.
14. The ofllcial timekeeper of the club
shall only time the rounds and the rests
between rounds, and the referee shall be
the only one to time and count on knock
downs in any manner deemed best by
him.
16. if in the opinion of the referee the
contestants are "faking" ho may declaro
the bout "no contest," in which event the
club need not pay the purse or any part
of it.
Ruling of Fouls.
16. If a contestant commits a foul which
In the opinion of the referee is uninten
tional and does not incapacitate his op
ponent from continuing he shall be warn
ed. but if the foul Incapacitates his oppo
nent from continuing or in the opinion of
the referee destroys his chances of win
ning he shall be disqualified.
IT. If a man commits a deliberate foul
he shall be immediately disqualified and !
shall receive no part of the purse.
18. If in the opinion of the referee a
bout becomes dangerous to one of the
contestants or an immediate knockout
seems unavoidable he may stop the bout
and render his decision.
ly. If a second throws up the sponge
when it Is apparent to the referee that
the principal can continue and have a
chance of winning the contest shall not
be stopped, but the second so offending
shall tie ejected from the building and not
allowed to act as second at any future
time before any club.
20. Any controversy arising between con
testants through different interpretation*
of the foregoing rules by each or relative
to points not covered by these rules shall
be decided by tho referee, and his decision
shall be iinai and binding on both con
testants as well as on their seconds and
others connected with them in any capac
ity whatsoever.
21. Any principal, second or timekeeper
who willfully violates any of these rules
shall be debarred from acting In the ca
pacity of principal, second or timekeeper
In future
22. The foregoing rules shall be consid
ered part of the articles of agreement be
tween the contestants, with each other
and with the club before which they are
to box.
In tbe Marquis of Queensberry code j
there are twelve rules. In Choynski's
code rules 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 9 and 10 are
practically taken from tbe Queeus
berry rules, though more clearly de
fined. Taken as a whole the Queens
berry rules are out of date, and Choyn
ski's substitution is worthy of note,
according to many followers of pugil
ism. The National Sporting club of
London has recently adopted new rules
of its own framing and has passed the
Queensberry code up for all time.
London Cellar Restaurants.
Before coffee stalls were Instituted
the humblest places of refreshment
were cellars, where the hard up, as
tiie slang phrase went, could "dive for
a dinner." with a choice of such viands
as tripe, cow heel, sausages and shin
of beef soup. Some of the cellar res
taurants existed as recently as the ear
ly seventies of the last century in
Butcher row. Temple Bar and the net
work of courts and alleys swept away
for the site of the royal courts of jus
tice. It was in this neighborhood
and probably to a dining place of this
description that Dr. Johnson resorted
in his struggling days, when he was
so poor that, as he relates, it was not
4 every day that he could afford a half
penny tip for the waiter.—Loudon
Chronicle.
Queer.
Servant (who has been sent to chas
tise n stray cat for stalking chickens.
I —couldn't—catch 'irn-mum—for tin
nearer I—got to 'im—the farther 'e got
a way.—Punch.
The Better Way.
First Boston Child-Do you believe
in corporal punislvnetit? Second Bos
ton ciiSld No: I can usually make ni\
parents do what 1 wish by moral SUB
sl«»n. Life.
New Photographic Lens.
A "cent British Invention cf interest
to photographers! is a lens by which a
picture nay be taken on all sides at
once.
THE "REGENT."
A Diamond That Restored the Fortuna
of the House of Pitt.
Men have never collected great crya
tals for personal adornment. Even that
"fribble In lace and spangles," the ri
val of Beau Brumtnel and afterward
George IV. of England—even he sought
them simply for souie l'erdlta he was
pursuing.
LOQIH XIV., 1* grand monarque, pur
chased twenty-five larg« diamonds,
ruowtly for La Valliere, Monteapan,
Fontanges, Maietenon. Among them
was the wondrous "Pitt." A slave in
India found It. Having found It his
heart shouted for liberty. Cutting the
Wlf of his leg in order to hide the dia
mond within the silt, he limped to the
coast. To an English ship captain be
offered it for passage to any country
where men were free.
The captain, quite casually and with
nice humor, took the gem and threw
the slave Into the sea.
The guerdon of such jesting release
from servitude was sold to a dealer for
$5,000 and through him reached Sir
Robert Pitt, governor of Fort St.
George, for $102,000, who shipped it
home to England to be faceted.
A Scotch financier, John Law, then
doing business In France, negotiated
for a fee of $25,000 the sale of tile dia
mond to the regent lafterward Louis
XIV.) at $775,000.
It is pleasant to remember that there
by the fortunes of tile house of Pitt
were restored and that the seller's sou.
William Pitt, and his grandson, the
Earl of Chatham, were assisted to high
place and service by opportunities
made possible through the profit on tin
diamond for which a poor slave, seek
ing freedom, was thrown into the sea.
—Everybody's.
AN IRISH DUEL
Rules Were Ignored and the Meeting
Had a Happy Ending.
A duel with a happy ending seems
:iu anomaly, yet one is commemorated
iu Blackwood's Magazine in an article
on Irish "lire eaters." The duel as ar
ranged was between .John Egau, a
county judge, and Roger Harett, mas
ter of the rolls. Both men were hu
' morous, and the meeting upon the fair
ground of Ilonnybrook was character
istic.
Upon the combatants taking their
ground Ilarett, who was the challen
ger, promptly fired without waiting for
the signal to be given and then walked
coolly away, calling out:
"Now, Egan, my honor is satisfied!"
The judge, however, was by no
means contented and shouted: "Hello!
Stop. Koger, till I take a shot at your
honor!"
Harett thereupon came back and.
planting himself in his former station,
said composedly:
"All right, then. Fire away."
Egan presented his pistol and. t.\klng
most deliberate aim, first at one part
of the anatomy of the master of rolls
and then at another, seemed deter
mined to finish him outright. At last
however, he cried out:
"I won't honor you! I won't be both
ered shooting you! So now you may
go your own way or come and shake
hands with me, whichever way you
like best."
Harett chose to shako hands, and
amidst the plaudits of the crowd the
antagonists departed from the field in
much good humor, the best of friends
A Haughty Personage.
Professors iu Germany are impor
tant personages and know it. but few
probably ever reach the pinnacle of
haughtiness attained by the one of
whom this anecdote is narrated.
He was one of the greatest men in
the faculty at Heidelberg. One day
t'se authorities of that city ordered
that the street in front of the pro
feasor's house should be paved.
"If you don't stop that noise." re
r -irked the professor to the pavers. "I
shall give up my position as a member
of the Heidelberg faculty."
The pavers stopped work at once.
The municipal authorities sent around
to inquire respectfully of the professor
when they might pave the street.
"When 1 take my vacation." he re
plied.
Then, and theu only, was the street
paved.
Influence of Sunshine.
M. Pouillet, an altogether competent
authority on the subject, concluded
from some experiments he made that
the cold of void external space must
be at least 250 of Fahrenheit's scale
lower than the temperature of frees
lug water—lhat Is, further below free::
Ing water than boiling water is above
it. Such would certainly be the condl
tlon of things upon the surface of the
earth in the entire absence of sun
shine, and such the earth will eventu
ally become, for it Is as certain as any
thing in the world that the time will
come when (he heat of the sun will
cease.—Exchange.
Neat Way to Announce Engagement.
A pretty plan was adopted in an
nouncing an engagement In Chicago a
few days ago. The most intimate
friends of the young couple were gath
ered at supper. At a signal it large
silver bowl was placed in the center
of the table. The bowl was filled with
water, on which bobbed a toy yacht.
All sails were set. wild on the main
sail were the words. "Bob and Etta
will sail into matrimonial seas Nov.
17. 1909." That was the only an
nouncement. and as every one knew
who Bob and Etta were It was suffi
cient.
Lad to Write Novel on Tramp Life.
Jack Bryant, eighteen years old, see- i
retary of the Mascot Athletic club of
Milwaukee. Is seeking by "beating"
his way around for a few years to get
material for a novel which he plans
later to illustrative of tramp
life.
Knew Him.
"Yes, I'm anxious to get my daugh
ter off my hands, I'll admit."
-Then why don't you let her marry
me?"
"What good would that do?'—Cleve
land Leader.
Who would not hnve feet set on his
neck let him not stoop.—ltalian Prov
erb
It's the easiest thing In the world to
point out the proper course for others
to pursue.
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Goi ..J,
j Mitcug*. aa-
I Morrison
' ' . « . * 1..!« I Ulb
JOHN MITCHIIJ.. TH(I W(IRK „ ||U L .„
reere of these famous labor leaders.
With the exception of oue year. Sim
nel Goinpers has been at the head of
the American Federation of LUIKT
since 18S2 and was oue of the found
crs of the federation, lie was born In
England iu ISSO and came to America
at the age of tilirte -u, settling iu New
York city. A clgi.nnaker by trade.
Mr. Goinpers helped organize the »'i
garmakers' International union when
only fourteen years of age, whlcji lie
served as president and vice president
and worked at his trade until he was
thirty-seven years of age.
.Mr. Goinpers resides in Washington.
Otid his office is located on G street in
a four story brownstone building that
was erected by the local typographical
union and is the headquarters of the
American Federation of Labor. He is
a Due orator, splendidly educated and
has traveled all over the world.
John Mitchell, vice president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
had a most interesting career and rose
from mule boy In a mine to president
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica. At the age of thirteen Mr. Mitch
ell was thrown upon his own resources
and entered the coal mines at his
birthplace, Braldwood, 111. Little did
the miners think that the boy that
drove the mule up and down through
out the devious roads of the mine,
bringing them cars and hauling them
awn.v when filled, waiting on them In
various ways, carrying his dinner •
the mine in his bucket, cracking jolt s,
t- I
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ft
SAMUEL OOUL'EKS.
telling stories and having a generally
good time, wotjkl when grown to man
hood be one of the greatest labor lead
ers the world has ever known. His
activity in the labor movement began
In 18Sr,.
Mr. Mitchell Is also a splendid orator
and a man who keeps his head on all
occasions, as the following story will
show. One evening he was a guest at
a Philadelphia club, where It was the
rule of the organization to call upon
its guests to speak and then to con
fuse thetn with remarks. But Mr
Mitchell could not be confused. The
only uotiee he took of the gibes was
to say:
"1 guess I could get along better
with my speech if I were deaf. It is
often a good thing to be deaf. There
is a deaf old woman I know up in the
coal regions. Once I went to see this
woman, and she asked rue to stay to
tea. I thanked her and said I would,
as 1 was not expected home before
dark. She had been bearing pretty
well up to this point, but now she got
deaf all of a sudden. She had to ask
her daughter what I had said.
" 'lie said, mother,' explained the
daughter, 'that he thanks you. but ha
can't stay, as he Is expected home be
fore dark.'
"At this the old woman looked re
lieved, and I departed."
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, has
held that office for a number of years
and has long been one of the most en
ergetic workers in the labor movement
in this country. He is a native of
Canada, where he was born in 1 859,
and is a graduate
of the Lake For
est University I.aw t
school of Chicago. \
Mr. Morrison learn flHr
<■< l the printer',, 1
trade in 1*7::. ! m;,. '' "W
2S[)tJ he was elect- iL .
the annual conveti
•convention elected
him as one of its
delegates to the rRANK MORRISON.
American Federation of Labor at Cin
cinnati, where he was the unanimous
choice of that convention as secretary.
Since then he has been re-elected at
the annual meetings.
Men Who Write Badly.
"Practice makes perfect" in all the
arts and handicrafts, it would seem,
barring that of penmanship. In that
apparently the more one practices the
more imperfect becomes the result pro
duced, and your real mau of the pen
writes in seven cases out of ten a hand
that would reflect discredit on his own
housemaid.—Bookman.
The Barrier.
"Yes, my husband and I (iv.nrre' In
cessantly."
"Why don't you get a divorce?"
"We can't h?ar to. What would t»>- i
some of Fido?"— Cleveland Leader. i
TT
A Peculiar 'Vith It*
Hubris «il • >1 the
fish hunk i 'i ■ r
-iielhids of i 'i 'J
like those 01 iv
caNßowur.v I . ftj.
<>< l of Its ow 11 "* 11, I
vitncmil ll* • ' i i»
the Island <>f N« '
He wit g <'ll' ibjwii to ]
the water's <«!• > . for wni l j
minutes appai er,t!- * the wa- |
ter carefully. II He . ;ied IHIO the '
river where It WHS aluml I hn*e feel I
deep and. partially s<]Urtlting i'.J-vn.
•presd lt» wings out. submerging
them. the feathers lielng spread and
ru tiled
The bird remained motionless and
kept Its P.VPR dosed as If In sleep. It
remained In this position for n quarter
of nn hour, when, suddenly dosing it*
wings and straightening Its feathers, it
stepped out on the hank Here it shook ;
Itself spvprnl times, whereupon a qnan- j
tity of small fishes foil out of its wings ,
and from amid Its feathers. These the
bird Immediately picked up and swal- j
lowed
The fish >s had evidently mistaken
the feathers for a kind of wped that I
prows In llie water along the banks oft
the rivers in this Island and which
much resembles the feathers of the
cassowary. The smaller fishes hide in
these wei-ds to avoid 'he larger ones
that prey on them. Exchange.
THE MGO:J.
Its Visual No Greater When It Is
High Than When It Is Low.
The artist has to choose between scl- j
entitle truth and"convention" when
he sets our lo paint the moon. A three
penny pie e fixed sit a distance of six '
feet from the eye (say at tl>e end of a
horizontal six foot pole, the other end ;
of which Is made to press the lower
edge of the eye socket) will just cover
the disk of cither tile sun or the moon
hanging in the sky. it is an absolute I
fact that this is true whether tlm j
moon (or the sum be high in the sky ;
or low down near the horizon.
The real "visual size" of the moon's
disk is no greater when it is low than
when it is high. No one who reads
what 1 have just written will believe
me. Every one thinks that he knows
that the disk of the harvest moon or of
the setting sun occupies a larger space j
in the sky when low than when j
high. This is due to a judgment <«•
mental process and is an erroneous
one. The eye is not at fault, but the
curiously untrustworthy mind is. I
What. then, is the painter to do? lie
yields to prejudice and often paints
the low moon or low sun of a size
which compared with scientific fact is
ridiculously exaggerated.—Sir E. Ray
Lankester in London Telegraph.
Her Choice.
They were sisters-in-law and reason- I
ably well disposed toward each other.
One was the mother of George, aged
six months, and the other waC the
mother of .Marian aged six months
and four days. It was Impossible that
a slight parental rivalry should be al
together concealed.
"Marian does not seem to grow very
fast." said the mother of George, with
a suggestion of commiseration in her
tones. "George is much taller"—
(height being measured iu Inches).
"Perhaps he is,"replied the mother
of Marian coldly, "but Mariau weighs
more."
"Oh. well," responded the sister-in
law, with a smile of high bred su
periority, "of course X should not wish
George to be gross."—Exchange.
A Frank Estimate.
To many persons who are not actors
the stage seems a delightful and fas
cinating place. In a book called "The ;
Actress" Louise Closser Hale, herself
an actress, tells some of her experi
ences with girls who envy her her pro
fesslon. One day one of them from
behind a counter in a shop said. "I \
ahould have went on the stage."
"She evidently wanted to talk, and 1
strove to lie Interested," says Miss i
Hale.
"Rut see how tired 1 am." 1 said tot
her. "1 have to work very hard as It j
Is. and 1 had to work much harder to |
gain what little recognition I have j
had."
"Oh, yes," she responded, compla- |
cently gazing at herself in a mirror, j
"But, you see, I have talent."
Dangers of Handwriting.
A young man is bringing an action j
against a graphologist in Paris for
substantial damages. A pretty heiress,
to whom lie was engaged to lie mar
ried, showed a specimen of his hand
writing to the graphologist and asked
for information. This Is the reply she !
got: "If you should meet the man who :
wrote these lines upon your way
through life avoid him. He Is an ego- j
tlst and a fool, has a bad temper and a
despicable nature. The existence of
the woman who has the misfortune to
marry him will be a Calvary." The
marriage has been broken off; hence
the action.
Tho Women.
They ought to vote; they ought to mix j
As man does In his politics.
They ought to vote; they ought to reach
The people by their powers of speech. j
They ought to vote; they ought to show
Mero man the proper way to go.
They ought to vote; they ought to wield ]
Tho sword of virtue In the Held.
They ought to vote; they ought to rise
Superior to domestic ties.
They ought to vote; they ought to smash
The votive influence of cash.
They ought to vote; they ought to take
The load lu giving wrong tho shake.
They ought to vote; they ought to slug
The deadly doings of the Jug.
They ought to vote; they ought to heap
Opprobrium on tho laws that sleep.
They ought to vote; they ought to swat
Election evils on the spot.
They ought to vote; they ought to do
What man does as he oughtn't to.
They ought to vote; they ought to—say.
Is lovely woman built that way?
—W. J. Lampton In New York World.
The Widow'* View of It.
Briggins (a wily otio—No. I shall
never marry. 1 loved a girl once and
she made a fool of me. The Widow j
(disappointed of her prey)— What a j
lasting Impression she seems to have |
made!—lllustrated Bits.
li.»,aOER,FOET
AND EDITOR.
Brilliant Career of a Leader lo
the World ol Letters.
TYPESETTER EARLY Hi LIFE.
Late Editor In Chief of the Century
Became a Publisher Before He Wn
Twelve Years Old—Novel Exparienoe
With an Unknown Contributor—Hie
Work as a Reformer.
Uichurd Watson Glider, poet, lectur
i er and editor in chief of the Century
j Magazine, who recently died at the
' home of a friend in New York city,
was born In Rordentown. N. J., on Feb.
; 8. 1M44. For more than a quarter of a
! century he was regarded as an au
1 thurity on literature.
Mr Gilder came of colonial stock and
. Inherited a scholarly bent. His father,
ibe Kev William II Gilder of the
Methodist denomination, was the
founder of Rellevue seminary. Borden
town. N. J.
ltii hard browsed about as a boy In
I the printing office of the Long Island
| Times in Flushing. While he still wort
I short trousers he could hold his own
! as a setter of type. Perched ou ar
old soap box. he was wont iff set his
j own compositions in type and print
! them. He showed a precocious lean
ing toward letters in his early youtt
I and before he was twelve years old
was writing, setting type for and pub
lisliing the St. Thonvs Register al
' Flushing. N. Y„ whither bis father had
gone tn establish St. Thomas' Hall, nn
: academy for boys.
In the Antislavery Cause.
His education was completed under
; his father's tuition, and when he was
sixteen lie was following national Is
sues, nis ardor for the antlslaverj
| cause led him at this period to unite
with two young colleagues in the pro
duction of a newspaper in the support
of Bell and Everett for presidential
| honors.
lie was always somewhat frail, but
when the civil war broke out be was
anxious to fight, and at the time when j
the northern cause seemed threatened. j
in the campaign of 18G3, he enlisted In j
j Landis' Philadelphia battery, serving j
until l.ee was beaten back from Penn
| sylvanla.
Mr. Gilder's first serious editorial
venture on his own responsibility was
the establishment in ISUB of the New
l ark (N. J.) Morning Register, a daily.
I which ho founded and edited with
j Murray Crane. The Register was not
1 a financial success, and be gave up bis !
connection with it iu a short time.
Ilis literary ability had already re |
ceived wide recognition iu New York, j
which then represented the best
thought of the country, and at the age j
of twenty-six he was offered the edi j
torship of Hours at Home, published
by the Scrlbners. When this publica j
tion was absorbed In Scribner's Month j
ly. organized shortly thereafter, be be j
came associate editor under Dr. Hoi |
land, retaining that post for eleven j
years. When at Pr. Holland's death j
the magazine underwent a further re |
organization and change of owuership. j
becoming the Century. Mr. Gilder fol
lowed It as managing editor. He held ;
this post from 1881 until his death.
During all the period of his editorial j
! work Mr. Gilder was writing from ,
time to time verse, which was the ba
sis of his widest public appreciation j
His first book of verse. "The New j
Day."was published in 1885. and
among these and the six volumes'
which have followed are included son- i
nets and lyrics which have found a !
setting in the American anthology and '
| have beeu rated by critics as sure tr j
pass Into the heritage of the language ,
Novel Experience With a Contributor.
Magazine editors are often charged, ■
| perhaps sometimes Justly, with sb >w '
iug partiality in their acceptance ol !
| manuscripts, but far more often the |
| case is the r pverse, and manuscripts I
j are accepted purely on their merits I
| without the editor knowing or real!/. |
i lng who the author may be. The fol- j
I lowing experience of Mr. Gilder wbib j
j editor of the Century is a case ii ■
I point: He was sitting at a dinner nexi i
| lo a charming young girl whom he I
knew slightly as a clever young wo I
; man with somewhat decided ideas. |
which she s;.ont a great deal of energy :
\ In carrying nut.
"What are you doing now?" he ask i
1 oil interested!y of his bright neighbor. !
i'' i' illv nothing in particular j
j just u iv.-.' is i?ir> reply, "except, per j
j haps, sua t-fs-.'s I have been writ- 1
lng."
I "Oh. my dear < hllil. don't do that:"'
! cried the editor in a tone of horrified I
regret. "Why. do you know, you are;
really wasting your time. People can't j
I get 25 cents for 5.000 verses today."
"Can't they?" Willi sad surprise. "I
j can, though," she continued, "for 1 re
| ceived $25 for some 1 wrote last I
j month!"
"My goodness!" exclaimed Mr. Gil
! der In mild amazement. "Who paid 1
you that?"
"Why. you did!" cried the girl.
Mr. Gilder was far from being a
' recluse. In him the co-operative spirit,
was highly developed. He took an ac
tive Interest in civic life and performed I
valuable services to New York city ns :
a member of the tenement house com I
mission that eradicated many of tbe j
evils of tenement life.
He was a member of several clubs
and one of the founders of noted eo-1
cleties.
Lion Skin Coats the Latest.
As a natural result of the pTicence i
of a great hunter in Africa the Hon '
skin coat has mads Its appearance. {
Few coats will be worn for the excel- |
lent reason that lions are scarce and j
Imitation is impossible. The coats arc
for tho automobile and come from
London. The stitcbiug la done with
thread made from the lion's hair. The
collar consists of the two fore paws
ornamented with the animal's claws.
The pockets and leather buttons also
are trimmed with daws, and the tall
hangs over the sleeve as an added
trimming.
The Hunt j
;;For Radiumt
:: In America j
INTENSE Interest has l>een aroused
In the mining world by the pos
sibility that In tile near futurt>
that priceless metal radium may
b® produced In this country and enor
mous furtuues made thereby. If such
proven, to be to* caae It will be due In
no avmll measure to the gene-unity of
Mr. Thomas B. Walßh, the mill.(mil
lionaire mining king. Heretofore few
prospectors have known juat what kind
of ore to look for in prospecting for
radium. Mr. Walsh proposes to carry
on a campaign of education in this di
rection and has established a fund at
the Colorado State School of Mines for
the free examination of ores which may
contain this most precious of all min
eral substances.
The average prospector might pass
over a vein of the richest ore in the
world, never dreaming that it would
yield many times what a vein of gold
OKE CONTAINING RADIUM.
ore would yield. Mr. Walsh, who is a
practical prospector and who is regard
ed as one of the greatest metallurgical
authorities in the country, is confident
that radium bearing ore exists in great
quantities in the Itocky mountains.
He points out the fact that there are
many radio-active springs in the Rock
ies, notably in Colorado, Glenwood
springs being the best example. Other
springs in Wyoming and Montana and
other western states are known to be
radio-active, and this is held to indi
cate the presence of the precious radi
um bearing ores.
The results of the tests at the bureau
will be held confidential between the
experts and the prospectors. A few
days after the announcement of the
establishment of the fund the School
of Mines received over a ton of sam
ples of pitchblende ore from various
parts of the west. The pitchblende,
for which such an active search is be
ing made, is in many cases found very
close to gold bearing ores. In fact,
pitchblende sometimes carries gold
bearing pyrites.
Mr. Alderson of the School of Mines
is confident that the action of Mr.
Walsh will result in the production of
pure radium in this country if such a
thing is rendered possible by the ex
istence of the proper ore in sufficient
quantities. He has sent to Kennett,
Cal„ for samples of the ore recently
THOMAS I!. WAI.SH.
discovered there, which is said to be
radio-active, and the school has been
provided with the rare instruments
necessary for the determination of the
presence of this most valuable of ores.
The interest in the search for radi
um is confined to uo one locality, which
is evidenced by the fact that those
who are taking up this new and im
portant work have received inquiries
from prospectors in nearly every far
western state. Samples of the ore
needed are kept at the school for the
examination of prospectors, and Mr.
Walsh has decided to send specimens
to the postmasters of mining towns in
the west. Colorado towns will be sup
plied first and then the other western
states as fast as the samples can be
secured. This will enable prospectors
in all parts of the west to make a per
sonal examination of the ores, to de
termine their appearance and charac-j
ter. Pitchblende looks like magnetic i
iron and has great specific gravity,
with the lustrous black of gun metal.
A Bright Boy.
, "The gentlemen who came to see
daddy said 1 was one of the most la
telllgent children they ever saw." said
little Jack.
"Indeed!" said the proud mother.
"Did you recite 'Little Drops of Wa
ter" for them?"
"No. I refused."—London Mail.
Mora Modern.
"Tommy, you have written this sen
ience. 'The pen Is mightier as the
aword.' and it is incorrect. How
should It be changed?"
"Pen ought to be changed to type
writer, ma'am."—Chicago Tribune.
THEY TOOK HIM IN.
A Surprise That Ruffled an Absent
minded Scientist.
A certain foreign scientist who lec
tured in this country was, to nay the
least, careless about dress. Once he
vijub asked to le<*ture lu a city hot far
from Philadelphia, lie wont, taking
with him his dress suit and no other
unit. Having given his lecture, lie
spent the night at the house of a fel
low professor, woke up the next morn
ing, cheerfully donned the dress suit
and sallied forth to give another lee
ture at the local college.
He didn't know just where the col
lege was, but, spying an imposing
looking building not far from his
host's residence, decided that that was
it. While walking toward the door he
suddenly saw an ant hill. Bugs were
his specialty. He dropped at once to
his knees, dress suit and all, and start
ed to scoop otit ants.
The next thing he knew he was sur
rounded by a body of men who bad
rushed out from the imposing looking
building. They seized him roughly
and proceeded to drag him indoors.
He gesticulated. He protested in many
languages. It was of no avail. At last,
however, explanations were forthcom
ing.
The imposing looking building was
none other than the lunatic asylum.
Seeing a man attired in a dress suit
digging up ants at 10 o'clock in the
morning, the attendants had thought
that an inmate had escaped: hence th»
sally and attack.—Philadelphia Record.
VARNISH TROUBLES.
The Complaint That Is Made by a
Piano Manufacturer.
The piano manufacturer was talking.
"A fortune of a million dollars, at
least," he said, "awaits the man who
can invent a varnish which will re
spond to changes of temperature in
exactly the same rate at which wood
responds.
"Everybody who ever has made or
owned a highly polished article of fur
niture knows that the surface is liable
to break into small cracks—become
finely crackled—and thus Its beauty ii»
lost. This crackling is caused by the
fact that sudden changes of tempera
ture affect varnish especially tine
piano varnish—almost instantly, while
the wood beneath contracts or ex
pands at a different rate. This splin
ters the varnish, and thus far no man
ufacturer has been able to get the
best of the situation.
"We are waiting for this entirely
possible elastic varnish, which, when
it shall come, will be more welcome to
the manufacturers of line furniture
than the (lying machine is to the world
at large. A piano, delicate as it Is.
could be stored in an icehouse without
detriment to its polished surface, pro
vided the temperature was kept even,
but changes, especially if sudden, aro
fatal to the beauty of the case."—
New York Press.
Her Patriotic Protest.
The force of natural and instinctive
pride in one's country lias been end
lessly expressed in literatures of all
i times and climes, but rarely more dra
matically than in the following little
Incident:
Grieg, as every one knows, is the
musical idol of all Norwegians, al
though it has been the fashion of less
talented outsiders to underrate him.
One of the most indefatigable of these
i detractors was the German composer
Bargiel, a mau of an instinctively jeal
ous nature.
One day one of his pupils, a Norwe
gian girl, brought for her lesson a con
certo of Grieg's. Bargiel took it from
her with a smile of most superior dis
dain.
"But I told you to bring your music,
I and Grieg is no music!" he said scorn-.
' fully.
| "What—Grieg no music!" was rhe»
j indignant reply "Adieu. H err Prof ess
j or!" And she swept out of the studio,
' never to return.
I To Save Confusion When Moving.
| If you are planning to move prevent
confusion in placing furullure in the
new house in the following manner:
In leisure moments prepare a large
card for each room to be tacked to the
| outside of the door frame on moving
| day. Assign a number and mark a
' card for each bedroom. Letter the
other cards with the names of the
other rooms. Then prepare a number
of smaller tags, attaching a string to
each, or use baggage tags. Mark
. enough to put on all furniture, trunks
'or boxes with the name of the room
: into which each Is to t»e put. Show
J your movers ihe arrangement and
J there will be little or no error in plac-
I ing. while no valuable time and.
j strength will be lost in directing.—•
j Woman's Home Companion.
I "
Prcbably.
Slyer—l wonder why Browne added
the "e" to his name after inheriting a
fortune? Oyer— Me probably figures
out to his own satisfaction that rich
people are entitled to more ease than
noor neonle. —London Globe.
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