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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-11

court OF reference as a final authority in
matters of controversy; to establish a uni
form system of handicapping; to decide on
what links the amateur and open champion
ships shall be played
Not even the experts have the hardihood
to venture to pick the winner of the coming
games because Of the great number OF IN
known players who will appear. Even
naming the sixteen who will fight it out in
the finals is q delicate task. Taking public
form as a criterion. and that is the only true
basis to work upon, the favorites can be
easily named. The Chicago division is a
formidable one, being headed by Charles B.
Macdonald, the present champion; Herbert
Tweedy, and James FOrgan. These three
are generally counted upon to figure in the
sixteen Many think that Tweedy is the
advantage OF much tutoring in England and
that counts for considerable in the est-
nation of the sharps.
The crack of the Newport Golf Club is
A. NJ. Coats, who visits Scotland annually
for the purpose of learning all the new
wrinkles. The St. Andrews Club will be
represented by half a score of cracks. in
addition to a score or more of moderate
players. These include L. 3. Stod6art, who
beat Macdonald in 1894. and F. W Men
zies, at one time famous cricket player in
England. William W. Sands and Arthur
L. LivermOre, beth members of st. Andrews.
are ranked among the dangerous men.
Sands holds the record over the links of his
club with & score of 50.
The Shinnecock Club will have three good
men N the Rev ". S. Rainsford J. F. Gray
and H. G. Trevor. each of whom hold the
club record OF SO for the links. The Tuxedo
Club will bet many of its numerous dollars
on DR.. E. c. RushmOre. The crack man Of
the Palmetto Golf Club is a. H. Fem, while
the pride of Massachusetts is Herbert c.
Leeds, of the Brookline Country Club.
Leeds, however. is not the only high class
golfer in the Massachusetts division. Good
golfers from down Boston way are F. 1.
Amory Gerard Bement. Laurence Curtis,
Quincy A. Shaw, @. T. Rice John Moor
head Jr.. Charles T. Hanks. NJ. ]. Henry
and R. J. Clarke, which is but partial list
Of good players who play match games with
Leeds right along.
In the host from Philadelphia to be reck-
oned with are DR.. Charles Claxton, L. AZ
Biddle. w NJ. McCawley. Mahlon Hutchin-
son, the two Bohlens and R. A. Griscom.
Washington will be represented, doubtless,
by Henry May, who may have outside
chance. on the form he showed at LenOx
last summer.
James A. Tying and other high class men
in the New Jersey clubs who rank with him
such as Jasper Lynch, DR.. Paul T. Kimball,
Henry P. Toler and R. B. Kerr are also
talked of.
1t can readily be seen that the champion
ship is a wide open question, and the man
who wins will rightfully be a nine-days'
wonder in the golhng world.
MAXWELL WILLSTON.
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made a great many enemies among the
toughs and bad men, but he won scores of
community. His courage is best illustrated
by the following little incident related by
q witness of the scene:
zone day de Mores had business in Miles
City, Mont After he was done with his
business he went to the hotel to take a
drink. The barroom was well filed, but de
MOres walked straight to the bar, ordered
his drink, and asked never a one of those
in the room to Join him. This was IN
pardOnable.
LAS he was turning away from the bar
the report Of pistol rang out. The bullet
passed a few inches to the right of the
Frenchman and embedded itself in the bar
Another bullet just grazed the Frenchman's
coat sleeve.
What does ell this mean?" cried de
Mores, turning to the barkeeper That
gentleman merely shrugged his shoulders
z Well said de Morse. If I am to be
the target for these gentlemen's pistols
may as well sit down and let them shoot
at still life A little more whisky, please
The young Marquis sat down and quietly
slipped his whisky. The action rather dis
concerted the cattlemen for the moment,
but one. little uglier than the rest, cried :
Boys, we might as well teach the
damned foreigner lesson first as last and
with that he blazed away. Quick as a flash
the FTenchman drew his pistol and fired
twice. The first shot dropped one cowboy
in his tracks and the second one winged
another. De Mores was indicted for murder,
tried, and acquitted"
Several men after that swore to shoot the
Marquis on sight One of them, William
Lufey, started out to hunt up the French
man. The latter got wind of it and went to
meet Luffey- The latter got in the first
shot, but it failed to land. The next in
slant de Mores began to pump lead into
him from a Winchester, the first shot kill
ing the man. The Marquis was indicted
tried and acquitted for this also. For four
years de AIores conducted his scheme, but
his capital running short at a critical pc
riod, the business collapsed. This was in
1887
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-11
SILVER sPLINTERs.

Jelly s1icers are obtainable in gold and in
silver
Mustache combs and brushes are mounted in
Roman coIOred gold.
New berry sets in cut glass and g1lded sill
yer are not only timely. but attractive OBJ
jects.
Java lizard skin bags and purses. with
mountings in the new rose gliding. are attract
i've objects
The new sugar and cream holders in cut
glass include several sizes and many and vary
ing shapes.
Silver candlesticks are more used than ever
for table decoration. and their bright-colored
shades are an important feature.
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FANTASTIC De MORES
GIGANTIC SCHEMES OF. THE &c
CENTRIC FRENCH MARQUIS
CAREER IN AMERICA.
ais Last IyndertsaI1fnG was "A DecInrR-
ton of War Agafnsf Great Britain
IS story of His Death Doubted.

Until something more definite is heard
about the young Marquis de Mores none OF
his former friends in this country VIII pc
l{eve the widely circulated story that ne
was murdered by Snoussis tribesmen in the
Desert Of ahaFa They believe that the
Marquis viii yet turn UP alive and well IN
some corner Of the earth. unrufed, smiling
and confident.
Yet ne story of the death of de Mores
seems based On a solid foundation, and II
It proves to be true, as it probably WILL
the world has lost the nest picturesquely
unique figure of the century Inc uIsl
rt1mOr of the murder was followed a day
or two later by a cablegram from runs
saying that servant OF the Marquis 4au
arrived there with the announcement that
de Mores and a large number Of his party
were murdered by natives near Gadames-
The servant was one Of the few to escape
the attacking party, and managed 10 Ieacn
Tunis on foot
If the motive of the killing could be care
fully investigated it might be found that the
death of the de Mores was due to some
thing more powerful than the native feroc-
1ty. About June ! Paris was startled by
the news that de Mores had declared war
against all Of Great Britain. II tae name
Of any other man on earth had been useo
IN this connection Paris would have re
garded it as a huge joke. The idea OF G
single individual declaring war against a
great powerful nation representing nearly
800 0O0,O OF subjects ought to be 1unny-
But Paris took the news seriously 80 ala
IL
The Marquis was On his way to the
Khaufa's camp, near Dongola, when he was
killed L was his intention to join in the
war Of the Mahdists against England The
English invading forces are now well on
their way to Dongola, and by September or
October hey hope to retake Khartoum
For many months past de MOres lived IN
the Great Desert. He hated Englishmen
with the ferochy of a mCnOmaniac. For
many years he wrote pamphlets denounc-
ing the English, and asserting that the
root Of all evil in the world was due to the
English He hoped TO see the day when the
last EngIishman was wiped off the face OF (
the globe, and then there would be a chance /
for universal peace and prosperity
When the English first began to think /
about invading the Soudan and long before /
the public got wind OF the news de MOres I
5ourneyed post-haste to Northern Africa. I
He had many friends among the native
leaders in Algiers and Tunis and they saw
to it that he was taken safely from one en-
Of Arabs to another. Everywhere
he preached the doctrine of a holy war
against the English. urging the natives to
revolt and drive the invaders out of Africa
Talk of this kind was like pouring oil on
burning finder In his last letters to his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-11

256, over railroad embankment; Long Acre
So6, sand bunkers; ''Peek-a-Boo;'' 165, rail-
road embankment; Windmill, 204, up hill;
The Brae, 226 up hill; Ben Nevis, 266, top
OF high hill; The Knoll, 287, indicated by
name; Round Top, 200, another hill; Low
lands, 317. grass lands; Eastward Ho, 1888,
sand, roods, and artificial hazard; Peconic
$50, same hazards; The Dell, 23S, artificial
hazards and down hill; Hame, 49, drive
up a steep hill.
The United States Golf Association, which
VIII manage the championship, was only
formed on December p, 1894, at a meeting
in the Calumet Club attended by Theodore
A Havemeyer and Winthrop Rutherford of
the Newport Golf Club; Thomas H Barber
and Samuel L. Parrish, of the Shinnecock
Hills Golf Club; Laurence B. Curtis and P
S. Sears, Of the Country Club. of Brookline;
John Reid and H. o. Tallmadge of the St.
Andrews Club. and Charles B. Macdonald
and ]. A. Ryerson, of the Chicago Golf
Club. The officers elected were Theodore
A. Havemeyer- president; Laurence Curtis,
vice-president; Charles B. Macdonald. vice
president; Henry o. Tallmadge, secretary
and Samuel L. Parrish, treasurer
Among the best known clubs belonging to
it are the Chicago Golf Club, the Country
Club Of Brookline Mass, Newport Golf
Club, st. Andrews Golf Club, Shinnecock
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EVERY MAN AGAIN. : THE FIELD.
SCENE OF THE CONTEST.

The SninnecoCk links are considered to
be the best N the country. There are two
courses, a 9-hole links near the club house
on which the play is chiefly in the open.
which is used by the women, and the
white course" a playful allusion to the
outcropplng sand bunkers, which is for
men. It has eighteen holes, six having
been added last spring, 50 as to bring into
the course Ben Nevis the highest CT the
ShinnecOck hills, appropriately named after
the highest mountain of Scotland. The hole
is on the very top of Ben Nevis" and as
a reward for the uphill struggle to reach it,
and make the two preceding holes the play
er has before him a glorious panorama of
the dark and deep blue ocean, and, on the
land side the silvery waters of the bay
backed by the green clad hills.
Throughout the white course" save
where the sand bunkers SHOW the turf is
excellent and affords fine lies for the balls.
In following the ball the players always
cover more ground than the surveyors
measurements allow in making the rounds
How much additional ground is traverse
is matter of personal skill at the game
T0 the novice the round often seems a
journey OF miles
FANCY NAMES FOR HOLES
A list of the holes on the Shinnecock
course. the obstacles and the distances in
yards on a straight line from the tees fol-
lows: The News, 275 yards, over a road !;
Belfry 265 two artificial hazards; Crater
226, over railroad embankment into a hol-
low; Plateau, 220, across the railroad; ;
Bastions 161s high artificial hazard; Cloister.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-11
BUTTERFLY VEIL PINS.

Dainty. delicate and almost gossamer-IiKe
in appearance are the butterfly veil pins.
which have won a deserved popularity. They
are in all sizes. from the baby butterfly
scarcely bigger than a good sized pea to the
bigger insects that hover over garden beds.
The colors are vivid and variegated in exact
imitation of nature. and in many instances
the wings are gemmed with diamonds. Those
in black and gold beautiful. Some are
made entirely of pearls and others of pale
gold, not painted in gaudy hues. but veined
and streaked with darker yellow. These
veil-pins cost from SO to SIS, and are singu-
larly appropriate for use with diaphanOus
gaIlzes and NeilinPs.
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THE sT1TNEcoCTl LINKS WHERE THE GOLFERS Will PLAY.

Hills Golf Club, the Essex County Country
Golf Club of Massachusetts, and the Phila-
delphia Country Club. The formal objects
of the association are to promote interest
in the game of golf; the protection of the
mutual interests of it's members; to estab-
lish and enforce uniformity in the rules of
the game by creating a representative au-
thority; its Executive Committee to be
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viii enter the lists, each with the hope of
winning for his club the $1,000 silver vase
offered by Theodore A. Havemeyer, presi-
dent of the United States Golf Associa-
ton.
Last year the first national champion
ships were held in the links of the Newport
Club and Charles B. Macdonald of the Chi
cago Golf Club the trophy. There
were only thirty-two entries in last years
games, and the fact that the number will
be nearly five times as many this year
shows better than anything else the length
and breadth of the popularity of the sport
The games will be under the supervision
of the United States Golf Association,
which represents every golf club of note
in che country. Many radical changes will
be made this year in the regulations of the
play, there was some dissatisfaction
over the rules which prevailed last Octo-
Der at Newport when Mr.. Macdonald cap
tured the coveted trophy. Last year the
contestants were matched against each
other by lot, and as the element of chance
settled the question of the opposing play
ers the lucky ones in the draw had an
advantage over their less fortunate rivals
In this way several men worked into the
finals who might otherwise have been
bowled over in the early part of the tour
nament-
EVERY MAN AGAIN THE FIELD.
By the new rules each man is practically
pitted against the field and the winner
viii be the best player in the lot. The
rules covering this point are as follows:
I'm the amateur competition the contest
ants shall play thirty-six holes medal play
The best sixteen scores shall then be taken
and the contestants making these scores
shall then play eighteen holes, match play
until buf two competitors remain who
upon a separate day, shall play the final
game, consisting Of thirty-six holes. match
play
IN other words the sixteen players who
make the best scores will play in the finals
These sixteen will be matched in pairs
and the victors will play until but two re-
main and the victor Of the final game viii
get the cup.
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GOLFERS TO BATTLE,
AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
PROMISE TO BE A ROYAL
STRUGGLE.
$50 CRACKS TO COMPETE.
Players from All over the Land VIII
Try to Win Glory in the Shin
nec0cIz Links.

NEW YORK. July 10.-It is estimated
that there are 9OO 600 golf players in this
country, and nearly every one of these
will await with interest the result of the
amateur championship games to be played
next week on the links of the Shfnn
Hills Golf Club on Long Island. Thou
sands of golfers viii come from far and
near to see the plays Fully $50 experts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-11

Sarah Bernhard has come to the defense Of
Maurice Grau, apropos of the failure of the
theatrical firm Of which he is member. The
news Of the failure told her she alight-
ed at the railway terminus on her return to
Paris from America. She declares that -Grau
is not in any sense Barnum but "a great
impresariO-the greatest that there g and the
most honest" The artists whose affairs he has
managed. she says. will aid him in T-4IAbilitat-
ing his fortunes In this connection. she men
tons the names of the De Reszkes, Melba and
Calve. All this and much more the Figaro
publishes over her Signature.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-12-26
Tho ne-Hoss,s Farmer.

tr4s #
Times change, and people are shiftea
from one point of observation - an.
other, and, later in life. we are often.
because OF our past experience, enabled
70 see things to a better advantage
IMAM we could see at the outset.
Nhen we were a boy the man who
cultivated only .'patches-who hoed
ms crops chiefly, and devoted his time
TO garden truck. poultry and the like.
was regarded as ..one.hoss, farmer
ana heid IN contempt blythe man. or
az least by the sons of the man, with
bne broad acres, new appliances and
spanking fine teams. But things have
changed. The staple crops have run
away down in price. They don't pay
good interect on the fne fixtures Of
the big leans and the broad acres.
new system is necessary. The Zone.
moss farmer must be initiated. The
acreage OF cotton. corn and wheat
must De cut down. The home larder
must be looked to first. Diversified
farming must be resorted to. The
southern planter must become the
southern small farmer. He n1nst
grow fruit and vegetables, and raise
ms OWE meat, his poultry, his eggs.
honey, and the like, and not depend
ON cotton alone to sustain him. He
must live, as 1t were, nearer the house;
must think of the crib, the barn.
lott, the cellar, and the smoke house
must stock up for home consumption.
and raise a small surplus of each to
sell IN order to get him that which he
can not raise, but must have.
In this line lies the farmers redernp.
ton. He can work out his own saliva
tion if he will pursue this course. Let
him make his wants as few as possible,
and his surplus of each product OF the
farm limited. Then the consumers n
the cities who do not produce will seek
him out, because they must live. The
farmer then becomes the master Of the |
situation. and for that which lie pro- |
luces he IS bound. under such condi- /
lions to get good prices. Southern |
cultivatoI.
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WILL" she answered, pettishly. We've
all our lives to be 'spooney' in, and, be-
sides, l have other obligations" She
turned and left him, regardless of the
pleading, reproachful eyes that she
knew were following her, and for the
rest OF the evening she hardly noticed
him at all. Indeed. he kept out of the
way Is much as possible, for all this
inerriment was to him, in his present
mood, gall and wormwood.
He had just returned from lonely
smoke in the library, and, somewhat
soothed, was returning to join the
others, who We're gathering about the
big fireplace in what good Mrs. War
rem designated as the "sittin'-room," to
observe that time-honored custom of
watching the Old Year out and the New
Year in. He told himself, sentimental
ly, that he would quietly take seat at
Madge's side, gain surreptitious posses
sion ofsaer hard, and thus they would
enter upon the New Year together.
But Madge was not in the group
about the fireplace, nor was she in the
room; and, even as he looked, the Of
fensiyely handsome and aristocratic
Martindale rose quietly and made his
exit through the other door. For a
moment Braden stood dazed--then,
with jealous intuition he turned and
made his way to the conservatory, and
there, not ten feet from the door, he
recognized the figure of Martindale.
But the latter did not see nor hear the
eavesdropper. He was busy kissing the
willing lips of some one in feminine at
tire whose face could not be seen, but
whose dress and figure, in the dim
light, looked only too familiar to poor
Braden. Utterly crushed, the latter
turned silently and FASTENED up to his
room.
where's WHIP" some one asked, sud-
denly, when New Years greetings had
been exchanged and the merrinent had
subsided to some extent. No one pres
ent had seen him, and Mr.. Warren in
terrogated the servants.
No, sir, e hain't in is room. sir. Mr..
Braden hain't.' said Alfred, the butler.
"Hi saw i'm go hout the front door
habout hour hago. sir. Yes, sir. e
'ad is at an coat on, sir
1t seemed very strange, indeed, until |
Mr.. Warren, who had gone to his study |
for goodnight smoke, found on his |
aesk a note from Will. In 1.-THE young !
man begged forgiveness for thus alb
ruptly taking his departure, intimated
that Afadge would doubtless explain |
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-12-26

! know a little temple.
It's walls are dim and low,
Yet up and down its darkened aisles
The blessed angels go.
And he who keeps the temple
Should pray to God tonight,
That Faith may light the altar flame,
And Hope may keep 1t bright:
That love may bring the sacrifice
Which Love delights to give,
And all the angels innocent
May tarry there to live.
And may no evil spirit
Have in It place or part
What is this temple beautiful?
The temple of the heart.
Ola Moore. in Youths Companion.
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and requested that his luggage be for.
warded to him at Philadelphia. That
was all.
Papa Warren, as, at a most unseemls
hour, he prepared to retire, ito go OF
like that when--confound It'll [ sup
pose my poor little girl will cry her eyes
out, but she's well rid OF him, just the
same!" Which is way parents have Of
trying to console themselves in such
cases.
Near the end of the one street in a
little western prairie town stood tiny
one-story frame building containing
two rooms. In front of it two weather
beaten tin Shingles swung and rat
tied in the winter winds, making dole
full music for the occupants of the
shack to listen to in bad weather. On
one Of these signs was painted: eva.
Braden, j. p" and on the other "John
Pinkhan,, Constable"
Tt was a bleak December afternoon.
rapidly merging into dusk, when Mr..
John Pinklam emerged from the heat
and tobacco smoke of the stuffy little
Office into the frosty outside air. He
was ruddy. corpulent man, with good
hunored eyes and ready laugh that
could, it was claimed, be heard all over
the township. But this evening he
looked serious and neglected TO whistle,
as usual, on his way up the street.
He walked into the office of the ''llo-
tel" and with q profound sigh seated
himself by the fire. all by himself. Pres
emily Birch Hunter, the landlord, en-
tered with supply Of firewood.
eHuIlo. Johnl''
@HulIo, Birch."
Hunter busted himself about the
stove for few minutes. then looked iii
and asked:
Comm up u tn New Years ball, / |
-eckon, John 81
Pinkham shook bis head and sighed,
1onderously: sSope. 7 got t. keep
vigil in t'.aiaht.' .
Hunter nzddea undesstanatngly /
ledge HARM Sae 81 his speII IS ~