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The morning times., 1895-09-15
Inan nUnderrround Asiatic CITY.

The Russians have made a singular
discovery in Central Asia. In Turkestan,
on the right bank of the Amou Daria, is a
chain of rocky hills near the Bokharan
town of Karki, aud a number of large
caves, which, upon examination, were
found to lead to an underground city,
built apparently long before tue Chris
tan era. According to effigies, inscrip-
tions, aud designs upon the gold and sill
yer money unearthed from among the ruins,
the. existence of the town dates back to
some two centuries before the birth of
Christ. The underground Bokharan city
is about two versts long. and is composed
of an enormous labyrinth of corridors,
streets, and squares, surrou nded by
houses and other buildings two or three
stories high. The edifices contain many
kinds of domestic utensils, pots, urns,
vases, and SO forth. In some of the streets
falls of earth and rock have obstructed
the passages, but generally the visitor can
walk about freely without SO much as low
ering his head. The high degree of civtli-
zation attained by the Inhabitants of the
city is shown by the fact that they built
in several stories, by the symmetry Of
the streets and squares, and by the beauty
of the baked clay and metal utensils and
of the ornaments and coins which have
been found. 1t is supposed tLat long centu-
ries ago this city, carefully concealed in
the bowels of the earth. provided an entire
population with q refuge from the incur
sions of uomadic sayages and robben.-
London Public Opinion.
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is evidence enough that it must be .
great money-making scheme On some Of
the larger tracks in the West the cost is
even larger than this.
In addition to tue large bonus that must
be paid to the owners of the track for
the privilege of running the book, there
are other heavy expenses to be met. Not
only does the payroll of the clerks amount
to quite a little sum, but the track has
to pay the telegraph companies for fur
n!shing them with the returns from ths
tracks upon which they are making book.
UNDER HEAVY EXPENSE.
This latter fee is much heavier on a
race track than 1t is in aapoolroom. Just
why this is so it would be hard to say,
unless the telegraph companies realize
that the race track books have a larger
field than the poolrooms, and charge them
accordingly.
Then comes the question Of prices. II
the quotations that are received in the
foreign books were correct there is no
reason why the man on the outside would
not stand as good a show as the hacker
of the game. This, however, is just where
TIE stCTtO VI tlc SUNLESS VI VIC
comes In.
The man who is playing the foreign
book does not seem to realize that he 10
getting far and away the worst OF the
prices. II he does, the desire to gamble
Is SO strong that he keeps right at it
until he goes broke.
If quotation on a horse comes into the
pool at. say 8 to /, the marker will put it
up half point or so higher and so delude
the unsophisticated into the belief that
they are getting a better price than at the
track. This is not SO, as the prices are not
only notreally put up but they are shaved or
just as far as they can possibly be without
bringing in a big kick from the talent.
II the betting comes in on q favorite.at 4
to 8 and the book gives 8 to 10, it is
a hundred dollars to cent that the race
track price is even money OF better.
PRICES CUT m TWO.
This is also the case with the outsiders
in q race The first and second choices
will come In at fairly fair price and then
the rest Of the field VIII be quoted at Just
abostone- half Of the track prices.
Such . thing as chalking up the correct
price against a 100 70 1 shot is very seldom
done When the DeIlie colt won at the.
Inland several weeks ago and the bookies
quoted him at loo to 1. those who backed
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tracks is exactly similar to a foreign
book on any other track, and 1t is the
same good game everywhere else that 1t
is here.
1t has kept alive more than one broken
down, outla wed race track. and If the
truth were but known. was running for
no other reason than to allow the selling
of pools on races out of town.
BOTH GAMES ALIKE.
The pool room graft is exactly SIM
liar to the foreign bnok arrangement and
pa Us just as large dividends, but it is much
harder TO get license for pool room.
and then the attendance is not as good
as IL is on a race track.
There are many hundred people who
visit the races and incidentiiy take a flyer
at the foreign book who would never think
OF going to a pool room unless there were
local races to add tO the zest of the sport.
There half q dozen reasors why this
foreign book scheme is such good one
TIE fact that IL costs the hackers of a
foreign book anywhere from $500 to
$1,000 per day to run one of these mints
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telegraph instrument somewhere near the
track and will take the guy" to it and tell
him that the wire which he sees running
toward the track Is connected with ths
foreign book wire.
III he is pretty green be viii jump at the
chance TO beat the book and it doesn't take
the ''tappers" long TO separate him from his
bank roll. Sometimes they VIII pick out
a horse that they thiHk has 4 good show
and will take a chance with the money
they get from him. As rule, hewevez,
they will take something that hasn't chance
in the world and when it loses claim that
they got hold of the wrong wire
The sucker" may put up q big kick but
ii does not do him much good as be cannot
report the swindiers for fear of coming in
for part OF the punishment himself
The class of people who make a practice
Of playing the foreign book does not appear
to be as good as those whoconfine themselves
10 the local races. They are very often
the outcasts from the pool rooms. which Of
late years, have been closed up all over the
country.
They seem 10 be fascinated by the game
and hang around like so many ghosts OF ths
past. There was time possibly when many
rich and they never appear to lose hope that
they will have a streak of luck or as they
term it get good"
TRY TO MAKE COMBINES.
The combination book in the foreign
book is also another field for rich harvest
for the hacker of the game This system OF
playing seems to have q peculiar faScina-
ton for many people, and though they don't
cash a ticket once cut Of a hundred times,
they will go back again and gain with tho
hope always alive that they will some day
strike 1t rich.
Possibly they do, but more often they go
down with a dull thud. 1t is hard enough
to pick one winner, without trying to pick
out three or four.
The profits of the hacker Of the book are
30 large that ii would seem that they never
have to pay off ticket This is very nearly
true, as a glance in front Of tie book any
day will testify. Attheticket writer 'seesk
there is q continual line of men eager to
get their bets down, while at the paying
teiler's window the line is very conspicuous
by its absence.
It's hard enough to win q bet On the local
races, but when IL comes to the foreign book
the best game to to scratch" befcre they
have any chance to make aay threads uYon
your bank rod
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Foreign Book at the Track Floods
Its Golfers with Dollars.
HARD GAME FOB THE PUBLIC
Get the Worst of the Deal at Every
Stage-False Prices and Shaved
Them mAstray-Fake
Wtre-Tappers and Touts Work
Their Confidence Schemes.

On several occasions when 1t was ru-
mored that the outlaw tracks across the
river were on the point of closing down
owing to an inability to make both ends
meet the public in general have wondered
what kept them alive.
1t has been predicted that they would
die half a dozen times, and the fall has
again and again been looked for. The
outlaws have evidently no intention of
"dying," and despite reports TO the con-
trary. have sailed serenely along. and
not only man aged to keep their heads above
water. but have made money.
OF course the question is. By what means
have they been able to do 1T? There is
only one answer-''The foreign book" This
is the keystone to their success, and as
long as they hang on to 1t Just SO long
will they reap golden harvest
The foreign book on the two Virginia
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POINTS ON THEIR STYLES
More About the Big Mill at
Dallas in October
FITZ A KNOCKOUT HITTER
But COrbett Is an Ali-Round Master
of the Defensive-A Parcel of Ifs"
in the Respective Merits of the
Men-Cuts Showing Their Methods
of Training.

To sone of the wise men OF ring culture
the proposed big championship contest
to be held In Dallas, Texas, the last of Oc
tober of this year, in which Robert Fitzsin-
mons is aspifant and James j. Corbett is
holder OF the honor, presents a puzzling
aspect. 1t is true enough that a lot OF
people see the outcome before the thing has
happened, but in spite of the wiseacres
there is parcel OF Ifs" bristiing up in
divers hooks and carners-ugly obstacles
which are liable to give either man a
tumble in the heat and fury of practicable
milling. A piece of advice founded, be-
lieve, on good, common sense, is that
all sports flockiGg to the Lone Star State
lay enough by to get home on, no matter
in their heads
But IL it is hard to pick a winner, per-
haps the next best thing can be done-viz.,
notice the respective fistic fashions and
tactics OF the combatants as shown in their
set-tos with other opponents, from which
probably wise prophets who are to stack
on their prophecies anyway, may be wiser;
or. having CHANGED and lost, may still say.
I'VE wagered the only way it could be
done scientifically; it was the 'fiuke'
that knocked u.s." l ought to be in as
good position as anybody to sort out and
on what is striking in each man,
them both, having seen them IN
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extra preparation must be made for de-
livery-the arms must be drawn further
away from guard position and an openness
must follow. But Fitz has come closer
to getting over this big obstacle than any
other fighter employing such trip-hammer
hits; he has not Kept clear altogether, how
ever, as the rap with which Joe ChoyDsN
brought him to the floor in Boston once,
nearly winning from him, attests, and as
the knockout by Jim Hall in Australia, has
demonstrated. He has always been su-
perior to Hall, and has whipped him two
OF three times, but in one of their contests
in the antipodes, Fitz after having his man
apparently well in hand, was suddenly
caught by his opponent and dropped to the
floor like log. 1t was the same thing that
Choynsh came to SO near doing, and the
same thing that others, though less pro-
nouncedly, have shown some progress at.
The saying still holds, therefore. that .
fighter fierce at knocking out Is liable
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70 get the Same medicine. though in the case
Of Fitzsmmons, when 1t is remembered
what a lot Of men he has sent To sleep, the
rule has been Ifetty near set at defiance.
And this inimunity comes from the fact
that the New zealaDder Is the most pol
isbed breakup feipter for quick open
ing that the staked ropes ever cordoned.
Whereas, most boxers are satisfied with
feinting with the arms or hands, Fitzsim-
mons feints with the knees, 1.-THE body, a
peculiar Swapping motson Of the head and
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His Reason.
lett Is your birthday on Saturday.

He-It Is your birthday on Saturday.
She-Yes, know that.
HeI have been thinking about what I
should give you as present and came to
the conclusion that Dresden china shep-
herd and shepherdcss would be very prets5.
she-But we have pair all ready IN the
drawing room.
He-we had, but I have acc1dently
knocked them down and smashed them
She-Ah,-Judy.
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The Runaway Star.

The greatest velocity that has been rec.
ognized among the stars is found in the
motion of a star known as 1880 Groom.
bridge, or the runaway star" as it is
sometimes called, which is believed to be
rushing through space at the rate of 300
miles per second. This star appears to be
moving in a perfectly straight line throu, II
tho sky, and il may be visiting our star
system for the first time, but whence it
came or whittier it is going no one can
tell, and it is great enigma to astrono-
mers.
Its wonderful velocity cannot be ex.
produced by the influence of all known
orbs in the universe and, on the other
hand, tho combined attraction Of all the
stars cannot stop this wanderer in its soil
tary flight through space until it has
rushed on to the remoter distances, beyond
which the largest telescopes have never
penetrated.
1t has been automatically demonstrate
ed that a body approaching the center Of
our system from an infinite distance cannot
move with a greater velocity than 20 miles
a second If influenced by the attraction Of
the masses in our universe alone, but here
we have been considering a star moving
with eight times that velocity, and still,
Notwithstanding the fact that 1t has the
greatest motion known among the stars,
it would require 1856, 900 years for this re-
markable star 10 complete an entire cir
cult around the heavens. ALI the Year
Round
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LOVE AS | LOVE.

As yon great sun in his supreme condition
Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his
own,
So does my love absorb each vain ambition,
Each outside purpose which my life has
known.
Stars cannot shine so near that vast orb's
splendor.
They are content to feed his flames Of fire.
And so my heart is satisfied to render
Its strength, its all, to meet thy strong de
sire.
As in forest when dead leaves are falling
From all save some perennial green tree,
30 one by one l find all pleasures palling
That are not linked with or enjoyed by thee.
And all the homage that the worldmay proffer
take as pcrfumed oils or incense sweet
And think of it as one thing more to offer
And sacrifice to love at thy dear feet.
love myself because thou art my lover.
My name seems dear since uttered by thy
voice.
Yet, Argus eyed, I watch and would discover
Each blemish in the object of your choice.
coldly sit in Judgment on each error,
To my souls gaze I hold each fault Of me,
Until my soul is lost in abicct terror,
Lest become inadequate to thee.
Like some swift rushing and sea seeking river,
Which gathers force the farther on it goes,
So does the current of my love forever
Find added strength and beauty as it flows
The more l give the more remains for giving,
The moro receive, the more remains to win
All, only in eternities Of Lying
Will life be long enough to love thee inl
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox.
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Drawing the Line.

A dudish looking party in long tail
overcoat and turned up trousers was pick
ing his way gingerly over a muddy down
town crossing when a rakish looking par
ty in rain coat and rubber boots saw
him.
The spectacle of q live walking dude ap-
peals irresistibly to the average mans
sense of the ludiCrous, and the rakish look
ing citizen, initiating the gait and general
bearing of the other, stalked along SOL
EMMY by his side block or two in appar
ent unconsciousness of the fact that he
was creating a sensation and attracting
the amused attention of everybody on the
sidewalk.
In going over another muddy crossing
the rakish looking party, as ii by accident,
tripped the dude The latter narrowly es-
capped fall, and as he recovered himself
he swung his right. 1t landed on the jaw,
and his tormentor went down as if pile
driver had struck him.
"You can ape me, don't you know" he
drawled, ''but, baw Jove, you mustn't
monkey with me. "-Chicago Tribune.
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THE MONGOCIAN BUILD.
AS a Rule, Cinnamon Are Muscular and
Athletic Specimens of HuHanity.

fAb N hultg are anu
Athletic Specimens of HuRanity.
One of the surprises encountered by the
traveller when lac is first among MDngolians
is their physical development. Americans
are wont to judge their bodily structure
by the specimens in the laundry shops Of
Sam Lee or Wi Ping, and the loose cloth
ing of the Chinaman conceals his brawny
arms and legs when he has them. See
ing Tibetans in the Himal Gyas-stocky
chunks of men, with an abnornGal muscu-
lar development-had not brushed away
my idea that the Chinaman was rather a
slim, unmuscular oriental, something like
the willowy Hindoo but when l landed in
Singapore and first saw numbers Of coolies
stripped to their work was thunderstruck
at their massive proportions.
The Chinese are commonly said to he
diseased race, a people pormeated with blood
pOisOnS, but one does not see it in the aV-
eragG specimen, and one does see at every
street corner men with limbs and tOrsos
like Sandow, men who would be marked
down for football players in any American
college. Not but what disease is always
an accompaniment of so crowded popu-
lation, not that it's manifestations fail to
being a taper fingered mortal, is tough,
sturdy, fine fellow, with thews and sinews
like an athlete, and plenty of ambition
and courage-within his racial lines Nor
have l found any exception to the rule.
The Mongol from the borders of India,
where, going east, you first strike his
homely coarseness, to the confines of ia
pan, where you say goodby to his lovely
cherry blossoms and his smiling bows, is
everywhere, in physique, the same strong,
enduring man. The Chinaman is filthy in
mind, body and estate, the Japanese is
equally clean, but in mere physical quality
they are very much alike. That the Mon
gol's nervous structure is less fine than tho
Aryan's is evidenced by the fact that the
average Chinaman will endure unblanched
the pain of a surgical operation which
would seriously compromise the reaction
airy power Of most white men, and this, if
anything, adds to his value as a mere hui
man animal.-T. A. Dodge in Forum.
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Sold at Banner Stationery Store.

The Golden House" is n novel with a
purpose, and an admirable purpose; but
In addition to its moral, which the read
er must read for himself, it is filled with
those delightfully."- unexpected and telling
turns of thought and expression, with
which the writings of Mr. Warner
abound, and which, sometimes, make
the reader forget the story in the style.
Half of Mr.. Warmers book is devoted to
that useless, but ornamental, set of men
and women in New York, WhOt have al
most succeeded in making art the fash.
ion. and who spend all their lives in
mingling the deep red of the hot house
plant with the neutral tint OF the I'M
blemishlng, etfervescent fermentation of
Rheims and Epernay. The other half of
the novel pictures Il class of men and
women who live in RivingtOn street, and
the alleys adjacent, and who, when they
mingle anything, mingle the fumes OF
cabbage stalks and beer-both usually
stale. 1t treats of squalOr: of filthy sur
roundings, acquiesced in as being a mat
ter of course; of wonderful patience in
deprivation and in suffering; of incapac-
ity; of ill-paid labor; and of that kindest
spirit of sympathy and helpfulness which
distinguishes the conduct of the poor to-
ward the poor; and which the rich so
rarely entertain for the poorer for the
rich.
Mr.. Warner knows both halves, and he
has studied both halves. If he has no.
thing but gentle irony for the one, he has
nothing but helpfulness and sympathy
for the other He is writing at the one,
he is writing for the other. He is show
ing one half how the other half lives, or
tries to live.
Certain persons whom we have known,
and who some time ago made a serious
Little journey in the World" under the
personal guidance of Mr.. Warner, will be
recognized among the inmates of 1.-THE
Golden House," and even if we are not
particularly pleased to have met them
again, we will be interested to see how
lar they have gone upon their journey,
ana now they behave as they get nearer
to their journeys end. In his earlier
novel MIR. Warren made an honest, man
ly protest against the utter worldliness
OF the world, as the upper half of the
world is familiar with it, He exhibited
the rottenness and the holowness of
modern society in America, as it was
pho ographed upon the sensitive mind
and the clear soul of pure American
young woman. He showed how hard it
was for her to struggle against her sur
roundingS and rise above them. In this
later work he goes a little further, and
he shows what happened to the Jacuue-
mlnot bud when it finds itself with the
cab6age-stalk in the garbage. barrel of
the East Side. He has not tried to make
fashion artistic, but he has attempted to
make the Golden Rule fashionable, in
the best sense of the word. And little
deeds of kindness and little words of
love will be more fashionable, in the
World TO which half of us are going.
than are all the canons and the laws of
art.
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The ground was grassy plain on the
other side of the Beirut river, intersected
by little water courses and studded with
groves of pine trees, some full grown and
tall and Others making q thick underwood
or scrub, in which the jackals, which we
came to hunt, were hidden. We had q
brace of beautiful Persian greyhounds,
which shifted and ran about, but were
perfectly useless, but our real pack con-
sisted of two battalions of zouaves and
spahis, who drove the pines in full uni
form, encircling them and gradually di-
minishing the circle, shouting and scream
ing until tho jackals ran out and went
tearing down the water courses, with the
army at their heels, firing at impossible
distances.
think l never saw so animated scene
the wild Algerine horses and their wilder
riders, in scarlet trousers, red morocco jack.
boots and white burnooses floating on the
wind, the whole relieved against the bright
green pine groves and purple mountains
or the bright gold of the sand bank. The
huntsmen and whippers in consisted of a
French general and two colonies. General
Ducrot's wife and l were the only ladies'
My little Arab mare leaped everything
she came to like feather and seemed to
enjoy it as much as l did, and Nine. Du-
crot, though on heavy French horse, fol-
lowed with much pluck and animation.
After four hours of this and killing sew
eral jackals the spahis offered us as a
sort of fete their national dance-a dance
the principal figure of which consisted in
turning head over heels and administering
a severe blow on your partners head with
your foot-and also what they call '!fan-
tasia, " which is two or three hOrsemen rae
ing against each other, the horses absolute
ly touching, the brides held in the riders
mouths, while they present, aim and fire
at full speed with wonderful precision
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