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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11
IN THE ROPED ARENA

Martin Julian, brother-in.law and rein
stated manager of Bob Fitzsmmons,
gives most surprising bit Of information
in connection with the financial end OF
the Corbett-F tzsimmons match. 1t was
generally believed that Fitz had expert
enced great difficulties in finding hacker
willing to furnish the remaining portion
of his side bet. Julian AYERS that this is
all wrong, but admits that MS partner
has been puzzled. There are so many
men anxious to back Fitz in the match,
according to Julian, that the New Zea:
lander has lost much sleep. He is afraid
of offending some of his friends by shut
ting them out.
Danny Needham is in Cincinnati, but
is unable to get on match, although he
offers to give any one in the city five or
ten pounds.
Corbett thinks Steve o Donnell is sure
winner over Peter Maher. The contest is
to take place on March 18th at Boston.
Shadow Maher has recently been Civ
ing boxing exhibitions at variety show
in Cincinnati.
Phil Dwyer entertained an interested
group with reminiscent chat about the
old-time fighters. He had kind word
for John l.. Sullivan, nothing but praise
for Jack Dempsey and compliment Tor
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11

he quite naturally turns 70 whicky 70
'brace him up, Again the jockey 10 too
weak to ride after sweat bath. Il may
be Turkish bath, bath IN alcohol
fumes, or the barbarous method OF wrap
ing him in manure pile. from which he
is dug out about an hour later more desd
than alive. Even then he Is denied the
most nourshing kinds of food because
they are fattening. Early decay y .
h heru5rr Of the lungs suffered By
Mclaughlin and Garrison and hundreds
of other riders is but one of the many ills
that follow this abnormal training.
= The average weight OF the Jockey Is
ninety-ive to 100 pounds, and this
until they reach middle age though Is
a rule the older riders stay close to the
maximum weight, 1872 pounds: Young
Major Covington, who rode at Haw thorn,
has mounted as light as sixty-fve
pounds, and Tod Sloan rode at sixty
seven pounds.
When the Jockey is in the flush Of his
career he thinks little of his future. With
little education, he caers less for more
learning. Tommy and Harry Griffin. who
70 to school in winter, are exceptions.
The Jocks earnings and winnings go
Corrigan, is fair sample. He has made
enough money to keep him comfortable
the rest of his days. besides he has had
several stables of good horses and has
been staked time and again, but, today
broke" as usual, though his earning
capacity is unimpaired.
Few Jockeys ride after reaching middle
age. Yet heedlessly their earnings 70.
usually by the way of the bookmaker,
and when their time comes for retiring
his patrons and hackers go with its
coming. With no provision for the future
and unfit for anything else, he retro
grades to the position Of hostler or roust-
about around the track. With only the
memories of the mounts and wing Of
his haley IN days to give him touch Of
pleasure or remorse, as his mood may
be, he drifts down to the close OF a
career painfully similar in its beginning
and ending
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11
THE WHEELWOMAN

CLEVELAND PRESS
the snow, the beautiful snow!
sing of the snow as IL whirls
And swirls
l like the snow so much, you know,
Because wear bloomers-Tm one OF the
girls
Who doesn't care how it blows
Or SHOWS;
For have no skirts to nip or zap
And catch the snow as it comes and goes,
My fingers in Boreas' face snap,
And again hail the beautiful snow
And cry, LET her fly
From the leaden sky
Because my boomers are fastened below!
That's the way it seems to the Eastern
girl, but with the California girl it's
different. you see. The California girl is
taking to boomers just the same, snow or
no snow, dust or no dust, talk or no talk.
Every bicycle firm in Los Angeles is
now carrying or will soon carry dia-
mond frame wheel for ladies. These
wheels will be as light almost as the
wheels the lady's brother or husband or
best fellow will ride, and she will have an
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11

2:07,< out Of Nancy Hanks dam. Is said
to be very fast.
The Director mare Lena Holly, 2:leN,
is one of the best road mares in New
York.
Woodruff, 2:16A. by Nutwood, will be
campaigned this year by Thomas Grady
of Philadelphia.
A large number OF men are busily en-
gagged building the speed track between
Oakland and Alameda
Strathmore has sixty-two 2:30 horses
and is the sire Of dams that have pro.
duced forty-eight 2:30 horses.
All the Youngsters that have made their
appearance at Palo Alto this year to date
are by Dexter Prince.
Directress 2:2sM, by Director, is out OF
Aloha, by A. w. Richmond and not out OF
Alice Clay, by Almont.
The Baldwin string of runners left Santa
Anita ranch yesterday for the east.
Fifty thousand dollars is the amount
Lucky expects to win this season.
which is much less than the stable earned
last season on eastern events.
A string of trotters from Palo Alto ar
rived in the city yesterday from the north,
and will be kept at Agricultural Park for
a few weeks
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11

turns into the home streatch FIVE wards
behind bunch of riders that he will
surely beat them past the finishing post.
On the other hand, if heis leading the
bunch he does not ride so desperately.
and fast Splinter may beat him out.
Macdonald is Just the reverse OF Bald.
AS he proved at the great Springfield
meet, if he ever secured lead he would
not be overtaken. He will, without
doubt, become a prime favorite with the
race-going public, and especially with the
Younger generation. Last year he wore
the fieur de lis, the emblem of the crack
San Jose club, and now that his home
will, for the present, be in the Garden
City, he will undoubtedly fly the same
olors
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11
A RIFLE TOURNAMENT
The Southern Counties to Hold Champion
ship Contest

ship Contest
The Hueneme Herald believes that an
interesting contest can be arranged for
championship among the rifle shots OF
Southern California. There would doubt
less be little difficulty in organizing teams
of twenty men in each of the counties OF
San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside,
Orange, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and
Ventura. The shoot could take place,
saw on the Fourth of July, and be held at
Los Angeles or some other central point.
Each team could pay an entrance fee and
to this could be added such purse as the
citizens of the place where the contest Is
held might see fit to contribute. In that
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11

the riders, but it is probable a reception
Will be tendreed them by some of the
clubs after they are rested from the long
trip across the continent.
Their presence will do more to stimulate
racing than any other event could pos
sibly do. Their riding will be in the ma
ture of a liberal education to those riders
who have never raced beyond the confines
the greatest finisher in America, and it
has often been said OF him that if he
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11

A club OF ladies at Riverside bears the
name of the Ladies Spinning Club, which
leaves one in mental perplexity as to
whether they use the spinning wheel of
Margue rite or the spidery wheel of Lu-
ellie.
Society people o. San Francisco. the So
ciety entered by Mrs. Van Ness and Ned
Greenway, INDUCED in "a moonlight bicy-
Gle party the other night, the first affair
of the kind ever given in the City OF the
Golden Gate, and it was big success.
There were perhaps a dozen or more
ladies in the bunch, they all wore bloom.
ers or short skirts and leathern stockings
and looked out OF sight in the pale
moonlight.
Society in Los Angeles might take
to moonlight bicycle riding; who
knows. Surely there never were more
perfect moonlight nights for such sport,
and society will furnish the riders if
call ID upon, no doubt.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11
Her First Appearance In Boomers

equal show with him when it comes to
hill-climbing and scorching on the road.
It's more graceful for woman to ride
diamond frame wheel; it's more digni-
fed it's peasanter for the spectators, its
better all around.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11
WITH THE WHEELr1EN

The local wheelmen are looking to the
future with expectancy. Los Angeles
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11

Coming back again TO things nearer
home, we are led to refer to the disap-
pointment felt by the local sports in the
failure of the Athletic Club To successfully
give Il boxers night on March 9Th. The
boxers nights were beginning to take
1t appears that it was no fault of the
Athletic Club people that the contest be-
tween Began and Frasier was declared
off. and yet the two men both declare
that they were ready and willing to do
their parts provided they were able to see
something in it. The contest did not
come off, and that is all the sport-loving
people know about it, and it is all they
are apt to know.
Began writes the sporting editor of The
Herald that Lyons unknown will be
tried out today i'll a six-round go with
Il well-known heavy weight, and if he
shows up well some challenges will be
sent out. The unknown is in fine con-
dton. Stewart Smith is handling him
and believes him a wonder.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-11

The man with gun over his shoulder,
game bag under his arm and a far away
look in his eye is about to become gem
eral too. Speaking about this man re-
minds one of the fact that California
quail is scarcer and harder to find each
year. \ hunter tells that he rode more
than two hundred miles through the rural
districts OF Riverside and San Diego coun-
ties regions where he would have seen
countless thousands OF quail "a dozen years
ago, and in all of that ride he only saw
two hocks. Not very large hocks either.
The bird will perhaps never become abso-
lutelv extinct for there are many rocky,
inaccessible places where the tough sallcy
bird will breed and live in spite of all the
lavish shot and powder that can be pour
ed out But it is rapidly becoming prac-
tlcally eXtinct-eXtinct SO far as sport or
Use is concerned. How far do you in
san Jacinto have to travel when YOU
want to bag dozen birds? 1t takes about
half day 10 get to any shooting ground.
How far was II necessary to go IA decade
ago? You could not 20 half a mile from
town in any direction without soaring
them up by the whirring thousands. The
cottonwood We're full of them, the weeds
and bushes of the main valley swarming
with them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
Q STOPPED CLOCKS.

There is a tradition in MarSeilles that
on a particular night many years ago
all the clocks in that city were put for
ward one hour, tradition which is said
to have had its origin in the following
story:
There lived in the vicinity of that city
q NJ Nalette, a gentleman of ancient
family and Of considerable fortune. He
had married Marie Danville, daugh-
ter of the mayor of the city, and with
their two sons and two daughters dwelt
in beautiful villa near the city-a seat
which had been the favorite residence
of his ancestors.
AS his children grew up, however. he
was induced to move to Paris, which
place both he and MadameValette con-
ceived to be more suited to the educa
ton of their family. The removal of
NJ Valette and of his family was de-
plored by his tenantry, to whom he had
been as a father, but particularly as NJ.
LIE Brun, whom he had left factor on
his estate, was, though just man, of
harsh and unaccommodating temper.
NJ Valette found it necessary in Paris
to adopt a mode of life which but i'll
accorded with the moderation of his for
tune He made frequent demands for
renewed remittances upon his factor,
and the latter was forced to use rigOr-
Gus and oppressive measures to procure
for his master the necessary means.
The scanty vintage of the preceding
year had made such demands doubly
hard to obey, and LIE Brun became as
odious to the tenantry as Valette had
been respected and beloved. These cir
cumstances were but little known to
Valette, or he would have revolted from
q manner of life which wrung from his
tenants almost all their hard-earned
substance. One night as he slept in
Paris the form of his factor appeared
to him covered with blood informing
him that he had been murdered by the
tenantry on NJ. Valette's estate for rigor
in collecting his revenue, and that his
body had been buried under particu-
lar tree, which it minutely described.
The ghost of LIE Brun requested, more
over. that NJ Valette would Immediate
ly hasten to Marseilles and deposit his
remains in the grave Of his ancestors.
To this request Valette assented, and
the apparition at once disappeared
The morning came to dissipate the
gloom which the vision of the night had
oecasioned, and, though he had been for
some time astonished at the unusual
silence of lie Brun, yet he could not
help considering the whole as Il mere
Illusion Stories of ghosts he had al
ways considered as fit only for the nur-
sery. To take so long journey on such
an errand he knew would be regarded
as the height of superstition, and so he
made no mention of the incident.
You are more thoughtful than usual
father said one of his daughters to
him next morning at breakfast.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

1t was an old-fashioned spelling
class; that is. the little girls were stand
ing in a row, spelling and defining, -
and the visitor was looking on.
Jewel" said the teacher, and one
little pink-cheeked maiden spelled it
correctly, and then gave the definition,
Gem
On that word it happened that the
teacher departed from her usual Gus
tom.
How does a gem look? ?'' she asked
What is a gem2'
The little girl did not know. The en-
tire class looked puzzled. Finally one
lassie frightened. and raised her hand
triumphantly. When she was called
on she almost ''sang out, in the excess
of her zeal:
"A little cake baked in. gem-pan"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
SEVENTEENTH YEAR.
SONGS DOMAIN.

The poem well the poet knows
In ambush turks where'er he goes
Lisps hidden in each wind that blows.
Laughs in each wave,
Sighs from the bosom of the roses
Walls from the grave.
And Orphic laws of lutte and verse
All the symphOniOus words coerce,
That hour by hour their parts rehearse-
Winds, strings and reeds,
In this orchestral universe
The maestro leads.
But though all life and death and birth,
And all the heavens enzoning girth-
Earth, and the waters beneath the earth,
Are Songs domain,
Nor aught so lowly but is worth
The loftiest strain.
'Tis from these moods, in which Life
stands
With feet earth planted, yet with hands
Stretched out toward visionary lands
Where vapors lift
A moment, and aerial strands
Clean through the rift
The poet wins, in hours benign,
At older than the Delphic shrine,
Those intimations, faint and fine
To which belongs
Whatever character divine
Invest his songs.
And we could live more near allied
To cloud and mountain, wind and tide,
Cast this unbeaming coil aside,
And go forth free,
The world our goal, desire our guide
We then might see
Those master moments grow less rare,
And Oftener feel that nameleSs air
Come rumoring from we know not where;
And touch, at whiles,
Fantastic shOres-the fringes fair
OF fairy isles;
And hail the mystic bird that brings
News from the inner courts of things
The eternal courier dove whose wings
Are never furled;
And hear the bubbling of the springs
That feed the world.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
DISAPPEARING BATTERIES.
The Importance of Mechanical In
genuity in Modern Warfare.

The Importance of Mechanical In
genuity in Modern Warfare.
Great guns and heavy armor will be
only incidentals in the next great war.
Mechanical ingenuity il. matters OF
, offense and defense is being expended
in many other lines of fully equal i'm
pOrtance, and a vast array of war ap-
paratus, in which even the civilian
must be interested, is being put in readi-
ness for action should the demand for
it suddenly come. Not the least inter-
esting product of military inventive
genius is the disappearing gun carriage,
of which no end of notifications have
been proposed and in part executed
during the past decade, though the
principle of the apparatus was applied
to it's specific purpose much longer ago
than may be generally supposed. The
first arrangement of disappearing gun
and carriage, mounted in a circular pit,
seems to have been made on jamestown
Island, in Virginia, in the year 1861,
during the great civil war, a conical pit
having been dug in which an S-inch gun
was mounted. The piece was so placed
on a platform at the bottom of the Tit
that, when pivoting, the muZzle was
just clear of the ground. In this way
an all-round fire was made possible.
In 1861 and 1862 guns mounted at sew
aral points were similarly treated, but
the pits were dug deep enough to admit
of embrasures. Mr.. Beverly Kennon,
then in the confederate service, has
been credited with the design of this
early contrivance and also with that of
a counterpoise battery, perfected after
he had entered the Egyptian service
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

several years later as colonel of coast
defenses. This later battery, it would
appear, was sunk entirely below the sur
face of the ground, and it's guns, maya
zines and garrison were always out Of
harms way except during the few sec
Onds when the gun was raised above
the ground level to be trained and fired.
Practical test during the bombardment
of Alexandria in 1882 conclusively dem
Onstrated the value of this arrange
ment, and it seems strange that the
capabilities of the system should not
have been more widely recognized and
appreciated at that time. Several years
later, however, the merits of such dis
appearing batteries were accorded
something like their just measure of
consideration, and foreign powers par
ticularly seemed to suddenly find in
them advantages well worth securing,
so that now they are well recognized
means of defense, likely to perform inI-
portant service in any international un-
pleasantnesses which may require the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

looked into his eyes and held him down
firmly. His rage seemed redoubIet
He leaned backward to make a more
vigorous dash at me, and as he struck
forward the mouth partially opened,
and two tiny streams of venom shot
from his fangs as from a syringe, one
of them catching me on the face just
beneath the eye. Had it gone a little
higher up l should have been blinded
for months, and perhaps had my sight
permanently injured.
'This unexpected attack made me
hasten the capture; so, getting his neck
pressed down to the ground with the
stick, soon had him grasped in my
hand just behind the head in such a
way that he couldn't possibly turn TO
bite me-which he made every effort 10
do for some minutes afterward. TAX
ing him home with much satisfaction.
l made him thereafter my fellow
lodger. While living in his cage l OBJ
served him many times squirt the
venom from his fangs against the glass
of it's front. Thenceforth my doubts
about splitting snakes were removed
The cobra is also remarkable for it's
habit of raising almost the entire body
upright before striking. When anger
ed that part of its body behind the
neck swells In a very alarming manner.
This is caused by the upper ribs, from
the head downward for five or six inch
es or more, spreading themselves out
laterally. The cobra's poison fangs
project beyond the lower lip when it
strikes, so that it can injure fatally
without biting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
Interesting to Collectors.


Nowadays there are collectors of
everything cOllectable, from postage
stamp to a beetle, but the list is not
yet exhausted. In Paris they are col
lecting posters-the large sheets posted
on walls for advertising purposes. The
French posters are some of them gen
uine works of art. The drawing of the
cuts used in their Illustration is very
bold, and the coIOrS are handled we'll
although sometimes in a very startling
manner. Usually the size of the poster
is large but there is very seldom any
attempt made to show a complicated
design. A broad sketchy effect and a
dazzling display of color are their chief
points. Some of the best artists in
France design for the photographer.
There are places in Paris where post
ers are bought and sold, and the best
examples cost from 60 cents up. Post
ers without any lettering are those
thought most desirable for collectors.
and cost about ten times as much as
the others. Rare examples frequently
command fancy prices. Much of the
work is admirable, and the artist is not
ashamed to affix his signature to it.
No better example of the extreme to
which this art has been carried could
be found than the Poster Exhibition,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
A vENoM-sPITTINe REPTILE.
The Deadly Cobra Equipped to Do
Battle at Long Range.

The Deadly Cobra Equipped to Do
Battle at Long Range.
G. R. O'ReiIly writes some very in%
teresting facts about the cobra, ths
deadliest of all snakes. He asserts
that it is able to squirt it's venom from
the ground to the height of a mans
face. So nervous is the cobra that it
will strike at moving object before
it has come within it's reach. 1t is very
wasteful of its venom.
Mr.. O'Reilly was first convinced OF
the venom-spitting habit of the cobra
by this incident: zone day, being
alone in the bush, saw a cobra band
ed with black and white. He was In
an open glade, gliding through the
herbage, delaying a little perhaps for
an opportunity to get at some birds
that were chattering and hopping
about on the branches of a thOrny,
yellow -bloSsOmed acacia. The sun was
blazing down fiercely on him, as, with
half -distended hood held close to the
ground, he slowly passed through the
leaves and flowers. For a few minutes
l watched his movements through my
binocular glass; but fearing he might
notice me and escape in some hole, L
picked up my six-foot hunting stick
and rushed toward him, intending To-
press his head to the ground with it,
and then take him by the neck with
my hand. He saw me coming, and
like a valiant warrior that knew his
power he faced around and stood erect
with expanded hood and quivering
tongue ready to receive me. His bright
black eyes sparkled with energetic de-
fiance, and every fibre of his being was
electrified with excitement.
'While 1 was yet ten feet away he
struck toward me with such force that
the impetus carried him fat to the
ground. In trying to get my stick
across his neck he lodged it, and it
came instead across the middle of his
body. At this moment he was be-
tween me and the sun, with about five
feet between his face and mine. I
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
Frost in Eggs and ApnIes.

An egg expands when it is frozen,
and breaks its shell. Apples contract
so much that a full barrel will shrink
until tue top layer is 4 foot below the
chine. When the frost is drawn out
the apples assume their normal size
and fill up the barrel again. Some
varieties are not appreciably injured
by being frozen if the frost is drawn
out gradually. Apples will carry safe
" in a refrigerator car while the mer-
curry is registering 20 degrees below
zero. Potatoes, being So largely COM
posed Of water. are easily frozen.
Once touched by froe. they are ruined