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for the
BOXING AS SPORT FOR BOYS
Gentleman.”
Fashionable School.
BICYCLE INVENTED\LONG AGO
Of
.fl
Long-Armed Boy Has Advantage.
families of
heart
last
was treating
LIVELY GAME FOR EXERCISE
Punching the Bag.
Ball and Racquet.
of whis-
without
and much
the public
for the
as any
master
troubled hus-
girl, probably
a
up
is
an
They
iianiaa
gutter and she
What was to
lost both hus-
What of all
owe it
Name
Battle
hand
Letter to
Dr. Kilmer A Co.
Binghamton, N. Y.
An interesting ball game for outdoor
play is possible with the curious rac-
quet shown in this illustration. Two
or more people may play, and the soft
rubber ball used is just of a size to
fit securely into the cup-like receptacle
should be absolutely
was master, she the
Japanese Maxim.
Not every one knows that the group
of three monkeys so often seen in
photographs from Japan represents a
favorite maxim of the Japanese. One
monkey holds his hand over his ear
that he may “hear no evil,” the center
one covers his moutlf with his hand
that he may “speak no evil,” and the
third covers both eyes with his hands
that he may “see no evil.” This group
is found above one of the temples of
Nikko and was carved by a famous
left-handed sculptor.
“Kicking the Bucket.”
When we speak facetiously of some
one for whom we have no reverenca
as having “kicked the bucket” we
employ a phrase that would seem to
be a piece of latter-day slang, but, as
a matter of fact, it dates back to old
England, when, about the year 1725,
one Bolsover hung himself to a beam
while standing on the bottom of a
bucket and then kicked the bucket
away. Although at first used only In
cases of suicide, it has been applied
In the course of years to any death,
without distinction.
Some Antique Mugs.
The college collector of antiques
stopped off at Bacon Ridge.
“Good day, sir,” he said, addressing
the postmaster. “I am collecting old-
fashioned articles and would like to
know if I could find anything like that
in this hamlet. Say antique mugs, for
instance.”
Uncle Jason stroked his chin whis-
kers.
“Antique mugs! By hek, I know ths
very place where thar be two of them
now.”
“You do? Here’s a good cigar. Now
where can I find these antique mugs?’
“Why, down on Main street, in Hi-
ram Spruceby’s shop. Grandad Wheat-
ley and Pap Simmons are in there
getting shaved, and by hek, when it
comes to antique mugs, I reckon
thars’ be the oldest in the country,
stranger.”
Entails Little Expense and Does Not
Present Same Dangers as Many
Popular Pastimes.
on one side of the racquet. This cup
is of elastic rubber. A sharp jerk
dislodges the ball from It. Then the
player reverses the side of the racquet
and knocks the ball in the direction of
one of the other players, who catches
it in the rubber cup, if he can, and
projects it back again.
knife and the pistol. Were it
more, the ugly stabbing and
affrays we read of daily
interesting Pastime Made Possible
With Ball and Racquet—Two or
More May Play.
conjured by any
A man’s peculiar and
for securing himself
in his old age, a worn-
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For Yon
Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham-
ton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. It will
convince anyone. You will also receive
a booklet of valuable information, telling
all about the kidneys and bladder. When
writing, be sure and mention this paper.
For sale at all drug stores. Price fifty-
cents and one-dollar.
Great care should be taken at the
critical period when, the young girl is
just merging into womanhood that the
diet shall contain that which is up-
building and nothing harmful.
At that age the structure is being,
formed and if formed, of a healthy,
sturdy character, health and happiness
will follow; on the other hand un-
healthy cells may be built in and a'
sick condition slowly supervene which,
if not checked, may ripen into a
chronic condition and cause life-long
suffering.
A young lady says:
“Coffee began to have such an effect
on my stomach a few years ago that I
finally quit using It. It brought on
headaches, pains in. my muscles, and
nervousness.
‘I tried to use tea In its stead, but
found its effects even worse than those
I suffered from coffee. Then for a long
time I drank milk at my meals, but at
last it palled on me. A friend came to
the rescue with the suggestion that I
try Postum.
“I did so, only to find at first, that I
didn’t fancy it. But I had heard of so
many persons who had been benefited
by its use that I persevered, and when.
I had it made right—according to di-
rections on the package—I found it
grateful in flavour and soothing and
strengthening to my stomach. I can.
find no words to express my feeling
of what I owe to Postum!
“In every respect it has worked a
wonderful Improvement — the head-
aches, nervousness, the pains in my
side and back, all the distressing:
symptoms yielded to the magic power •
of Postum. My brain seems also to
share in the betterment of my phys-
ical condition; it seems keener, more
alert and brighter. I am, in short, in
better health now than for a long
while before, and I am sure I
to the use of your Postum.”
given by Postum. Company,
Creek, Mich.
“There’s a reason.”
Ever read the above letter?
one appears from time to time,
are genuine, true, and full of
Interest.
“Why is it,” Billy Edwrards the fa-
mous retired pugilist, was asked, “that
American boys do so little boxing?”
'For the simple reason that the
average boy lacks nerve to stand up
before an opponent and allow his face
to become a target for the other’s
padded fist. This, to the best of my
knowledge, is the only explanation, for
certainly boxing entails little expense,
and does not present the same dangers
as football and othor popular pas-
times.”
“Is it possible for every boy to be-
come a good boxer?”
“Certainly. Of course some lads are
better adapted to self-defense than
others. All the great fighters have
been endowed with a natural talent for
it. During their boyhood they had a
propensity for fighting and practiced
continually with and without gloves,
until the ability to dodge and return a
quick blow at a critical moment be-
came second nature to them. The tall
Frenchman First Hit Upon Idea
Two-Wheeled Vehiclk in 1690—
Known as Cebirifere.
FEED YOUNG GIRLS
Must Have Right Food While Growing,
for any one in his selfish life be-
and he taught her not only Eng-
but French. One thing Vaunce
determined upon, and that was
the girl
He
Thk AlAkm went orr
as it rivr
'Mel??
ms AL.1V&4'
Now WHATACUWUS
.LOOKING QoCJV
said Mak.
TRIED TO
SHAKE IT
IwoHcn:
THERL JS IH-SJDE
GuEss III havjc
TO IT.
She was hot tempered,
He was kind and gen-
thought that treatment
beat her when he con-
method necessary. He
boy has a great advantage over a
short boy, in the length of reach. No
one point gives so much advantage,
however, as quickness. Putting all
other things equal, reach, hard-hitting,
gameness, ■ cleverness, and wind, the
one that possesses the most activity
and quickness is going to win. For fat
boys boxing is a capital flesh reducer.”
“Should boys with a weak
box?”
“Well, they may, if they go
easy. Taken by stages, it will
she became more and more enamored.
She would risk anything to have him
near her. It was not long before he
was spending most of his time in her
handsome home.
The woman now exhibited a new
phase of capriciousness. The jewels
which she had so prized she lavished
upon the fireman. Vaunce might view
with complacency any folly, crime or
deceit of the woman but this. Now
she was basely ungrateful. He had
picked her out of the
was going back to it.
become of him if she
band and millionaire?
the fond dreams he had of the future?
The sinful waste of the jewels must
end. The woman must be saved from
herself.
So it was that Vaunce, meaning
nothing more than to scare the wom-
an, said something that opened the
husband’s eyes to the absence of- some
of the gems. The husband questioned
the wife. She, in a panic, said she
did not know where they were—they
must have been stolen. The husband
said nothing, but, without her knowl-
edge, employed detectives. They found
some of the jewels in pawn shops and
some others and pawn tickets in the
fireman’s room.
Man's Chivalry Shown.
An arrest followed. The woman
could not acknowledge the man’s in-
nocence without proclaiming her
shame. . He could have gone free if
he had told the truth, but it would
have involved her. He simply did
what in his rudely chivalric mind
seemed the proper thing to do. He
took the brand of thief and went to
prison, where he now is. The hus-
band, who may or may not have had
suspicion of the true state of affairs,
brought suit for divorce, but named as
the co-respondent the young million-
aire. The latter man, though discard-
ed, accepted the situation. The testi-
mony was taken before a referee in
secret, the divorce granted and the
woman freed.
She has expressed no regret, the
former husband has none, the co-re-
spondent is silent, and only the fire-
man is punished. Strange part of it,
though, is that Vaunce really believes
he is the one that is injured. He can-
not see any moral obliquy in his
having gambled with a human life for
his pecuniary advantage or in being
the indirect cause of wrecking, if not
the fortune, a.t least the happiness of
a generous friend. All he sees is
that his plans have gone astray and
that he faces in his old age the pinch-
ing which he liad planned so elabor-
ately to avert, for the pension he
thought so secure is paid no longer.
Out in Chicago recently Mrs. James
Schmidt told to a court a story that
has been searing her heart for two
years. It has brought shame to her-
self, but it will bring freedom to a
man under a life sentence. Two years
ago the wife of Dr. Haldane Clemln
son died from poisoning. There were
circumstances that directed suspicion
against the husband. There was evi-
dence of quarrels, of some neglect, 01
jealously well-founded. The defense
was a general denial with an alibi as
the main reliance.
To Prison to Save Woman.
But the alibi was weak. It led hirr.
away from his home, but whither!
Where he was not was almost reason
ably determined. It was
actually was that was
mystery. It seemed to
physician should have
account for himself on
■wife died, and they found him guiltj
of murder in the second degree. He
was sentenced to prison for life anc
went there uncomplaining.
Mrs. Schmidt now has come forward
to clear him. And again it was
against his protest, for her statement
brings dishonor on her. At the cost
of the love of her family and of the
friendships that helped to make hei
life pleasant, she has confessed that
he was in her companj' at the time ol
the alleged crime, and it was only at
his command that she did not testify
at the trial.
“Things must be bought,” says Life
Mrs. Schmidt has paid and will go on
paying. The man she saved was ready
to pay, although the price required
was his life. Vaunce, sitting before
the cold ashes in his broken grate,
pays for an unworthy ambition, and
gnashes his teeth at the price. His
ward, in her paint and her life of sin,
pays as she looks at the woman -with
a home and a baby.
at it
prob-
ably mend a fellow’s heart; practiced
violently, it will surely ruin it.
“Boxing, in my opinion, does away
with the
nurfured
shooting
would soon diminish.”
“How should a boy start out to be-
come proficient in sparring?”
“The object at' first is to get your
body muscles in good condition, es-
pecially the arm and shoulder muscles.
The best apparatus for this is
punching bag, either one that flies
against a drum on the ceiling, or
fastened from ceiling to floor with
elastic. The punching, guarding, and
dodging, gives just the necessary ex-
ercise. If a punching bag is not avail-
able, let a boy get light dumb-bells and
shove out his fists in all directions
without quite straightening out his
arm. In addition to this, he should, of
course, be sparring frequently with
boys of all caliber, so that he learns
to tell by his opponent’s eye where
he is going to strike. The lad who
has even an incomplete knowledge of
boxing tactics possesses an incalcul-
able advantage over one who knows
nothing whatever of the science.
“An important point for beginners
to observe is to take off the gloves the
moment you begin to feel tired. Be-
yond this point the nerves are wor-
ried and the boxer is of no use, for
lie loses quickness.”
Remarkable Cases Whidh Have
Come to Public Attention^ Re-
cently, That Surpass in Dramatic
Interest Anything in Balzac or
Dumas, or th® Famous Trial in
Which the “First Gentleman of
England” “Perjured Himself Like
a
done
fore,
lish,
was
that
obedient,
slave.
Finished at
When she was fourteen he was able
to send her to a fashionable school
for girls. She looked seventeen and
seemed already a woman. In that
school she acquired the polish he
deemed necessary. When she left it
even Vaunce was satisfied. She was
radiant. If she v»ras charming before,
she was fascinating now. Vaunce
posed as her father, and she obedi-
ently called him “Daddy.” She was
brilliant in conversation, sang with a
spirit that stirred the blood, and was
so pretty that men and women stopped
in the street to look at her. She
was a bit capricious, perhaps. Some
of the men thought her so.
Vaunce had no tolerance for 'the
young ambitious men who sought the
girl. He had made It clear to her
she -was to accept the attentions only
of the men he approved. He ex-
plained so much of his plans to her
as be thought necessary, and she,
dominated by his will, was content.
He had fitted her, he said, to be the
wife of a rich man. After she had
riches she could think of love.
All of her suitors found her capri-
cious, but capriciousness is not a fault
a man may not forgive in the woman
to whom he is paying court. With her
beauty and wit, added to the vivacity
of her race, she was irresistible.
Vaunce, watching closely, finally se-
lected a husband for her—a wealthy
easy-going man of more than middle
age. The girl, who knew Vaunce’s
money was exhausted and that their
situation was desperate, acquiesced,
and her silly old admirer was fooled
into a hurried marriage.
Husband’s Troubles Begin.
The husband, infatuated with the
beautiful girl, was extravagant in his
attentions to her. Like most south-
erners,. she was a bit barbaric in her
taste, so he lavished jewels on her.
When she tired of this and longed for
gayety, he tried his hand at entertain-
ing. She did not care for society as
society, and exhibited more capricious-
ness than he had bargained for. The
husband, in this extremity, sought
counsel of Vaunce, who now was in
clover. Before the marriage Vaunce
had adroitly drawn the foolish old
bridegroom-elect into an agreement
by which Vaunce was provided for for
life. The world at
Vaunce well.
Vaunce counseled
band to be patient,
at Vaunce’s order,
thinking she was sorry he
tressed, and then the deluded husband
was delighted for a few days. Then
something would happen that would
make him wonder whether he had
married a woman or a devil.
Then came another man—a younger
one—on the scene. He was a million-
aire many times over. When he dis-
covered the woman's love of jewels he
showered them on her. He drove and
he rode with her and was her escort
to opera and theater. The husband
protested. He also objected to the
presents. But, for some time, she ap-
peased him with caresses, declaring
the jewels meant nothing more to her
than the pleasure their beauty gave to
her.
Vaunce was not disturbed in the
slightest. In fact he saw a brilliant
opportunity for personal profit in the
intrigue the woman had gotten into.
If there was divorce or separation it
would not affect him adversely,
pension was secure. Then there
the prospect of a new deal with
millionaire. This appealed to
the
The
cajoled him into
was dis-
His
was
the
the
criminal mind of Vaunce as something
delightful.
Real Love Spoils Game,
Vaunce watched the progress of the
affair with the millionaire with com-
placency until one day he discovered
an absolutely new element had en-
tered into the tangled drama. The
woman, who had no more affection for
the millionaire than she had for her
husband, had fallen in love—badly,
violently, insanely, as only a Sicilian
woman can. The person she had
fallen in love with was a fireman, a
clean-cut, blue-eyed, handsome young
man, whom she had met in the street,
and who had winked at her and flirted
with her as if she were a shop girl.
Clandestine meetings followed and
where lit
shrouded ir
the jury the
been able tc
the night his
education, but with no
sense. He had no conception
difference between mine a.nd
He would do the smallest of things
and the meanest. Trusts were be-
I brayed by him, and many times it was
I family influence and the family money
chest that kept him from being brand-
ed as a. criminal. »
There was no reforming him. and
decent men and women shunned him
as they would a leper. Like most
criminals, he considered himself a
much wronged person, and he was
particularly bitter because society out-
lawed him.
One thing that the man viewed
with alarm was the future. He was a
coward at heart, loved the good things
of life, and as old age approached and
his opportunities for thieving nar-
rowed year by year he became more
and more uneasy. He gambled and
he drank—gambled in the vain hope
of winning a fortune; drank to for-
get for a time what his remnant of a
conscience constantly brought up ac-
cusingly before him. And each year
he sank a little lower than before.
Then came the first act in as queer a
romance as playwright ever has given
to the stage.
Scoundrel’s Scheme.
One morning as he was idly saunt-
ering up Charles street he saw an
Italian organ grinder and a girl of
perhaps eleven or thirteen years who
was playing the tambourine. The
•thing that attracted the attention of
the man was the gypsy beauty of the
kriri. She had all the grace of form
that peculiarly adorns the women
□f the southern countries. She was
vivacious, graceful, fascinating. As
the man gazed at her he could see in
his mind’s eye what she would be or
what she might become in a few years
' if polished, developed, veneered. And
as he gazed an idea seized him. Why
not make the child the medium
through which he might work out
comfort for his declining days? She
could be made most alluring in the
eyes of men. He could train her to his
own ends and make of her an asset
that would be worth all the trouble
and expense. He spoke to the Italian
and gave him a generous tip. He met
him frequently, and after a lot of
clever lying and maneuvering, telling
the man he meant to adopt the girl
and equip her as befitted her beauty,
he actually purchased her for $100.
He gave his name as Vaunce, and as
Vaunce he shall remain. He took the
girl, and patiently, earnestly, care-
fully he went to work to equip her
for the life he had determined she
should lead,
wilful, fiery,
tie when he
best, and he
sldered that
was generous in the extreme to her,
going to the length at times of de-
priving himself in order to add to
her comfort, a thing he never had
EW YORK.—What should
the woman do?
What should the man do?
Questions these that have
come down through the
years—questions that have
given themes to writers of romances
and of plays and that have been the
basis for discussions that have en-
thralled though they have not. solved.
No need there is to go to Dickens for
the pathetic, nor to Balzac for the
Imaginative, nor to Dumas for the
dramatic, ncr to Hugo for the sensa-
tionally sordid.
There are stories of our own day
and In our own courts told only in
tabloid that more than match. There
are men paying in prison cells the
toil that their disordered sense of hon-
or demands; there are women to
whom a realization of justice has
come only after the conviction of their
foriher friends and accomplices.
Within the last few months three
remarkable cases have been disclosed.
In two of them men to shield the
honor of a woman have gone to prison.
■In both instances the women have
voluntarily come forward within a
week and have confessed that they
could have cleared the accused, but
the men, knowing it would be at the
cost of the women’s good name, would
not permit them to testify.
Sordid Romance Here.
But the third case, and now
first time told, is as strange
that, ever was
of romance,
sordid plan
against want
an’s beauty, a wife’s duplicity, divorce,
imprisonment for one of the parties,
penury for the other and a scandal
that it has taken all the influence of
a family of great wealth
distinction to keep from
are Involved in the tale.
In one of the exclusive
the staid old aristocratic city of Bal-
presence
moral
of the
thine.
Had His Troubles.
"Michael Dolan, an’ is it yourself?”
“Yes; sure It is.”
“Well, ye know thot bletherin’ spal-
peen, Widdy Castigan’s second hus-
band?”
“That I do.”
“He bet me a bob to a pint
by I couldn’t swally an egg
breakin’ th& shell uv it.”
it?”
“I did.”"^W^*
“Then phwatsSS^S^^J”
“It’s doon there,”
on the lower part of his wais^
“If I jump about I’ll break it
cut me stomach wid the shell, an’ i?
I kape quiet it’ll hatch and I’ll have
a Shanghai rooster scratchin’ me in-
side.”
Mr. Frank H. Vizete'Jly tells “The
Story of the Wheel” in. the St. Nicho-
las. Mr. Vizetelly says!:
In the year 1690, M- de Sivrac, a
Frenchman, hit upon the notion ol
making a vehicle upon two wheels,
while its rider sat ^astride a saddle on
a wooden beam t/O which two cross-
pieces were flrmli
of these cross J
wheels, kept inj®
connecting rod^H
sented some an in
bicycle, known as
never fitted with hande bars, and was
steered only by the feet of the rider,
which also had to keep his balance.
In mounting, he had to run alongside
and vault into t**e saddle. Once the
machine had been set going by a push
upon the ground with the feet, the
man upon it would draw them up,
bending his knees, and without further
effort could travfel some distance.
When the pace slackened the ridet
had to repeat the pushing, and sc
continue his journey. Much ground
was covered in this way on level
Koads, and especially downhill, in a
short space of time; but it was hard
to go uphill.
It has been claimed by some that
the Celerifere was the invention of an-
other Frenchman named Blanchard,
whom Louis XVI. once commanded to
perform before him on this vehicle, in
July, 1779. Beyond the fact that such
a performance took place, on that and
other occasions in public, there is
nothing to support this claim. In fact,
it was not until Blanchard had crossed
over to England that he excited inter-
est; once there, however, he was
favored by the duke of York, and be-
gan to attract attention. Under the
fostering care of royalty the Celeri-
fere, then known as the “Dandy-
horse,” became popular among the
English, who took to it with enthusi-
asm, but were soon laughed out of
their fancy by jokers and cartoonists.
fixed. At the end
deces there were
^ion by a lath-like
^frame repre.
Celerlferety^BI
KIDNEY TROUBLE
GAUSES LUMBAGO
Remarkable Story About Great Remedy
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She came to me in four days to tell me
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had another attack last November and
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of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root.
Yours verv tnilv,
HENRY SEARLE,
1410 Arch Street. Little Rock, Ark.
HAUGHTY
KAN
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