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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-06

claimed ~ MS friends that the transfer
was made IN an undetermined manner,
and he vii ride under protest. but re
Will do soma tall riding just the same.
and II he does succeed in getting back
lntO the amateur ranks he WI leave some
records for the professionals 10 sias
against FOR some tlrTle 10 come.
Some good work is expected OF Hil. o.
Aberdeen. He : n excellent trim 5 quite
familiar R.th the track. and has recovered
"a deal ~ his old time confidence
But the strong card OF professionalism.
SO FAR as Seattle IS concerned. VIII -
rhrls Dow Everybody wants 10 see Dow
ride WIN thu professionals. Only year
ago last Decoration day Chris Dow rode
hts first race. lie came rapidly 10 the
front. ard, but for the unfortunate acci-
dent az Victoria. by which his collar bone
was broken. would have been riding away
I'D among the front ranks OF the profes-
s!onals by this time. But Dow has now
recovered his usual form and Will make
the EFFORT OF his life tomorrow
Jim Esary. or Cyclone" Esary. as he IS
better known among wheelnen, has at
last permanently decided % ride In The
amateur class for a While longer. and Sc
attic VII look 20 him 10 take a. least one
first nriZe. Cyclone" Is classed as an
unknown quantity among wheeimeH
Sometimes ne will ride Ike wh.rlw.nd.
and again he all bring up The tai end
Ru. Inst the satua ne IS EAtfe Enety p0pU-
lar in Seattle, hnd II he succeeds IN win
Ming A race AID The prospects ara tia,
he will. the yell that viii follow VIII be
heard an Portland.
The programme VIII open with bicycle
parade at - o'clock "A. m. under COM
mant OF Capt. Frederlc,. TIE start will %
made from Pioneer place. the procession
being headed by the officers Of The Queen
city cycle cab. THE Renton Hin Wheel
tyub has been asked 20 participate, and.
should they accept, they VIII be given ths
place % honor. directly behind the on
city are cordially invited 20 participate in
the parade.
Tho afternoon meet viii commences
promptly Al = o'clock. and the events VIII
be pushed through as rapidly as possible.
the IDEA being % do away with the tedl-
ous waits that are 50 apt - occur.
Following < list OF the officials OF the
meet:
Committee in charge. +. ". Hurlbut. Z.
y. F0nes referee r. - Dorr Judges. W.
= TAFT " 4 McNeuly. J. \ Forehand:
timers TFof Van perveer. &. II. Teaf,
T J. liaistesd. starter. Prof. r. h. Trena-
STnan. clerk ot the course. r. ., sharpe;
announcer u A. Chadwick. ump.res. II.
len. james T. King.
The Afternoon Programme.
One-n1i.e novlee-F w. Elliott. p. y.
Callahan. \ : Poliet'. Walter Spencer.
" ". Mckenzie. a B0rnstein. J. II.
1aGAte. FIRST prize. go.1 medal. ST. sec
ou8. SILVER ruej.t! $ u.
.5 eT..an' f.2ke. an = ~ .v D.
" r. PenWeN. 2. 4 Wolfe. J. y. Bssry.
\ fesfe- 4, : Nr.gh- " r Part h0fo1aeW
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-06
The following table shows the standing


Nanaimo, b. c.. Sept. lin the cricket
match today between Oregon and Nanas-
mo the latter aon by one innings and If
ty-three runs.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-06

Hzvic- Used Chsrh>rlsir's Cofgh Eers-
ely u nv izsailv sna fogsad i % De 1-Sl-
class article. ;ase I4eas4re n rssra'i. ilerss-
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-06
THE BIG BIKE MEET.
Greatest Event For Nheelmen
Ever Held in Seattle.
roMo9Rows RACE PROGRAMME
II 70 All For the Benefit OF the New
Ctnder Pafh-Dow, Esary. Aoer-
droth and other Flyers.

TIE arrange rae7ts for the grand tscT- =
.rsees a. the y NJ - A psTa to1orTo~
s-s al! completed. aud from every .rcic
E.an ne IT, vi u gEanl.c s4scess,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-06

BROOKLYN. sept 5-AOG&S game vas
called in the seventh inning on account OF
rain. Attendance. 30.
Score r BIZ E
NhAt4Aslad ....- ......---..-.-.
E4OJhAta -+-.------..~ I
Batte-ies-Dwyer and Peltz. Payne ard
Burre4s
r.aladelnhia Sept. 5-Morn4ng Game:
Philadelphia 20. Chicago 5. Afternoon
game ostpone5: rain
WASHINGTON CITY Sept 5-WaShingtoa
Csty-St Louis game postponed: rain.
New York. Sept. 5.-PttsbUrg- New York
game called after flrsr .An.ns or account
OF rain Score. 70 O
Boston, Sept. First game:
Score R B. H z.
lSSAVH-~ -ss.-- -....s ....-...-o 40 :
ia Klobdanz and Camel: Cuppy
and thinner.
Second sameI
Score r. 3. n. E.
C!eyeiand... ...... ....... .....T IL 5
BatteriesSullivan and Camel. Young
and thinner.
Baltimore. Sept. s.-The Baltimore-Lou-
isstlle game was postponed on account OF
rain.
The following table shows the standing
NJ
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-06

Take james street cars 1or bicycle race
rafTpr tav
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National Iaague GsmeS.

Brooklyn. Sept 5.-Today's game vas
called in the seventh inning on account OF
rain Attendance. 30.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
The Leap-Year Bird.

One of the most interesting species Of
birds described by Mr.. Eliot is the red
necked phalarope, a beautiful bird, OF
which we see little in these islands,
the London News says. but which is
upon it's native heath in the arctic re-
gions of America. 1t is especially re-
markable because, as rarely happens
among birds, the female is larger and
more brilliantly colored than her mate.
And it is the hen bird that does all the
counting. 1.-THE male" says Mr.. Elliot,
sis as coy and retiring as the most
bashful maiden, turning away from the
preferred attentions, first to this side,
then to that, even flying to the opposite
side of the pool, or to another nearby;
but all In vain. for he is followed by the
fair one who has chosen him from his
fellows, and there is no escape. At
last, like any other poor bachelor so be-
set, he yields, and the nest, slight
structure of dry stalks, is placed in the
center of tuft of grass. The eggs are
four in number. On these, the poor
male, the victim of woman's rights, is
obliged to sit the greater part of the
time, the female amusing herself on the
pool near by"
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
Polly Rebukes the Parson.

An American gentleman had par
rot named Kate. She had a splendid
time of it, for she was never kept in a
cage. She was SO tame that there was
never any fear of her not coming back
to her owners, and She few about
wherever she liked She could talk
very well, and sometimes her speeches
were quite uncannily clever, and very
amusing. Here is one of the stories her
owner told about Kate:
'Kate used to sit on the mantle while
father said grace, and as he always
used the same form of thanks, the par
rot got so that she knew 1t by heart.
One day the minister took tea at our
house, and, of course, faher asked him
to say grace. Kate was on the mantle,
as usual, and, before the preacher had
finished his first sentence, she shouted,
THAT amt rightr The parson went on,
but Kate kept shouting That amt
rightr at him until he finished, when
she flew to my fathers shoulder, and
said, coaxingly, Pa, you say it! Faith
er asked the blessing to please the par
rot, and when he got through Kate
perched herself on the preachers chair
and muttered: That's the way to say
1T The parson was a very serious man,
but the parrots caper tickled him
greatly" WESTMINSTER Budget.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
Fastidious Pike.

An Englishman is in straits because
the young ducks are all being caught
and eaten in a loch at Pitgeveny,
EIgin. He writes to the London
Field:
81 am Just broken-hearted because
the pike are eating all my young
ducks. We shoot them, catch them,
and kill them all the year around BY
fair means and foul, three or four
every day, and some have young
ducks in them. In one was o young
black headed gull, o young duck, and
ths toes and skull of another; in an
other were two small ducks and two
small coots. There are thousands OF
young coots on the loch, but the
brutes of pike prefer the ducks.
Fish are notorious eaters Of ducks,
and what is the Englishman's misfor-
tune has been the luck Of many q
fisherman for bass, pickerel and trout.
A live young bird tied to hook, not
impaled. cast gently on still water
of an Adirondack stream, has raised
many trout "as big as hand saws. !"
and resulted in tho death of few, but
the boys who used birds Is bait are
not usually skillful enough to land
the big ones. A small bird is as good
as young field mouse for trout bait,
and that is saying good deal. as any
woodsman will admit.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
Selling a Down East Farm.

We heard the other day of quaint
old Jackson fellow who had rock-rib-
bed, pond-bordered farm to SELL with
the farm buildings perched on the pin
acle of windy hill. A w0uld-be pur-
chaser came along one sultry day of
last summer and baited his horse for
an hour under the dooryard trees.
"This is a fine, cold, breezy place on a
hot July day." remarked the farmer to
his guest. "But how is it in winterY
ooh, jist the same, jist the same" was
the bland and circumspect reply" "But
it seems to me-" went on the stranger,
stretching out his hand toward the bar
rem lodges, 'sit seems to me the feed
must be mighty short over there in a
dry time" sWhy, of course ex-
claimed the farmer, "of course, when
it's wet there's feed enough; and when
it's dry-why. the lower the water in
the pond. the bigger the pastur'." He
sold tie farm.-Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
The Train Was a Trespasser.

General Manager McDoel, of the
Monon route, tells q story of queer
little strip of track which would form
goodcompanion piece for the Indiana
road which the Tribune described the
other day as running, or rather mean-
dering, "from haystack to Terre
Haute." The railroad referred to is
located in North Carolina. 1t is now
part of the new Southern system, but
was formerly known as the Western
North Carolina Division of the Rich
mond and Danville. One terminus is
at Asheville, N. c., and the other at q
place called Murphy.
"It may have been improved since,
but at the time of which speak"
said Mr.. McDoel, est consisted of O
little more than two streaks of rust
and right of way. It had all the
weaknesses to which neglected rail-
roads are exposed; the ballast was
thin, the grades heavy, and the ties
rotten. 1t was good thing for acct
dent insurance companies, as almost
everybody who took this road who was
acquainted with its character pro.
vided himself with policy. As. q
matter of fact, however, there wasn't
very much danger, as the trains were
not given to sprinting, and the reg
ular accident used to occur without
any serious results. The trainmen
had by long practice learned just
when to jump, and the passengers by
following their example, like the wild
goat in the mountains following the
leader, Jared as we'll as they did.
'sThe fastest train went at the enor-
nous rate when the wind was not un-
favorable) of ten miles an hour, and
80 was called the 'Asheville Cannon
Ball." Well, one day this cannon
ball jumped the track and went tear
ing into a nearby cornfeld. While
the rest of the trainmen were sitting
in the shade waiting for the wrecking
train, the conductor came up and said
to the engineer:
"sJim, I am afraid you are in for it
this time. I miss my guess if you
don't get the bounce for this.
"sOh, what are yen giving us?"
said Jim. 1T was not my fault, it
was the rotten old road. Besides. we
lump the track somewheI on an
average of three times wed and the
superintendent wouldn't know what to
make of it if we kept on the track for
ten days hand running =
That's all right, replied the con-
ductor, 'but you're off the right way.
So long as you keep on the company's
grounds it don't matter much, but we
have no business in this mans corn.
field, and you know it.
'Sure enough, the farmer brought
suit against the company for trespass-
ing aud damage to his roasting ears,
and the engineer was obliged to seek a
new situation. Chicago Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03

Hundreds of employees in the yards
of the American Steel Barge Company,
at Superior. Wis, witnessed . singu-
lar occurrence. A bony, played-out
old bay horse walked into the shallow
water in the slip known as Howard's
Pocket, and slowly moved father out
into the deep water, unmindful Of the
shouts and missiles of the spectators
on the shore. When in about three
feet of water the poor animal cast one
wistful look around, then deliberately
put his head under water and held IL
there until life was extinct. In
short time after this the owner, ped
dler, appeared upon the scene and al
most committed sssuicide himself when
he learned of the astonishing deed Of
his four-footed servant. The horse,
it is said, had been poorly fed aul
oyerworked. Chicago Tilnes-H Herald.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A learned German estimates ths
force of a thunderbolt at so, 600 horse
power.
A new feature OF the Soudan expe.
dition is to be portable Roentgen ap-
paratus for diagnosing bullet wounds
and fractures.
Recent observations in the Mediter-
razean prove that the deepest spot in
that body of water is 2406 fathoms, or
nearly three miles.
An order has been issued by the
Rock Island Railroad that hereafter an
emergency surgical supply box must
Rbe carried on each of its passenger
trains.
A man feels drowsy after hearty
dinner, because o large part OF the
blood in the system goes to the stom.
ach to aid in digestion, and leaves the
brain poorly supplied.
Long distance telephones have been
placed in the smallest Swiss villages,
making it possible to communicate
from one end of the country to the
other. The fee ranges from two to
eight cents message.
The Egyptian Government has de-
cided to send an engineer to Holland
for the purpose of investigating the
system adopted there of draining low
lying lands, with view to applying it
to those districts of the Nile delta bor-
derino ON the Mediterranean.
A Denver (Col.) inventor has per-
fected device for locating defective
rail joints on electric railroads. The
inventor says that an electrician with
two assistants can test and mark all
the defective joints on several miles OF
track in day with this instrument.
An aerolite was seen over the south
west suburbs OF Paris recently. The
sky at the time was blue and q few
stars had come out. The sky was
lighted by fash similar to that
caused by the burning of magnesium.
A luminous aerolite passed. through
space. 1t was in the form of large
tulip OF electric light.
Everyone does not know that DR..
hansen took captive balloon with
him on his adventurous Polar expedi-
ton; but such is the case. 1t was an
English military one. After some ex-
periments it was finally made of skin
Thoroughly oiled) instead of silk, as
at one time intended. The hydrogen
was compressed in steel cylinders.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03

useful and then they should be made
To know IL rFhav should ha raised tn

useful and then they should be made
to know it. They should be raised to
habits of industry. The girl of ten
years should help her mother in house
work and in nursing the baby. The
boy of ten should begin with the hoe
in the garden and the Ak at the wood
pile. The piano is all right, and so
is the pony, but work should be mixed
with pleasure. Sometimes I think
there is too much schooling and col
leging going on in this generation and
too little work. The curriculum of
our public schools is now nine long
years, say from eight to seventeen,
and then comes three or fonr more Of
college and no work in all that time,
no habits of industry, nothing but
books, books. books. There is hardly
sweet girl graduate in the state who
can make her own dresses. She goes
to the milliner and keeps her poor old
father on strain. Pehaps the college
boy takes an honor and gets his name
in the papers and then, of course, he
must study law and dabble in politics
and depend on the old man for q sup
port. These kind of nice, smart, good
for-nothing boys are in every city and
town and village. They know nothing
of the practical concerns of life.. They
couldent plan house nor run saw
mill nor an ice factory nor brick
yard nor even q little farm.
They know nothing of horti-
culture or the science of growing flow
ers and evergreen. They couldent hang
a door or make gate latch or put up
roller window curtain. But they
know little Latin aed Greek and some
geometry and perhaps can tell you
whether the deluge came before or
after the flood, and they can play base
ball and football and dance the german
and wear tanned shoes and belly bands
to perfection, but they are good boys
and go smart and have such nice man
ners and winning ways that their
mothers are proud of them, but their
old fathers are serious and perplexed.
College life is very facinating both to
boys and girls, but to most of them it
is waste of precious time. Education
should be mixed with labor. 1t should
be hard to get, not easy.-BlLI Arr,
in Atlanta Constitution.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
China,s Queer Picture.

A curious picture possessed by the
Emperor of China when looked at by
daylight represents COW standing
upon the grass of sunny meadow.
When the light cast on the picture
is artificial, the COW is enclosed in q
shed, and seems comfortably housed
for the night.
The secret is that in reality two pic
lures are painted upon the canvas by
the clever Chinese artist. The "day-
light cow" is painted with peculiar
pigments, which are only visible by
daylight. while the night COW is
painted in colors which only show
when artificial light is turned upon
them.-New York Journal.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
THE RIVER.


Wish I could get back to-day
To the meadowy fields OF May
Where we went the shadowy way
To the river;
Where little world of joys
Blossomed round the barefoot boys
AS they went with iocund noise
To the river.
Splash! splash!
The wavelets dash,
And the splintered sunbeams fash
Where the naples
Used to CULVER
On the cool road
To the riyerl
Wish / could get back to-day
Where the moses trailed in gray
And the lines felt the spray
or the river;
Where, above its banks Of green,
Well loved to loll and lean
Az tuo SuduOW dnu the Sncen
OF the river.
Splash! splash!
The wayelets dash,
And the splintered sunbeams flash
Where the oak leaves
Used to culver
On the cool banks
OF the river.
Wish / could get back to-dayl
But the gold has left the gray;
Long the winters, brief the May,
And the river
With its gloom and with its CLEANS,
Where LIES dying sunset streams,
Ripples through an old man dreams
Family ever.
rank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
An Armless Baby.

The wife of John Gunther, 243
South Dallas street, is the mother of
girl baby eight days old who lie with
out arms, and apparently has no
shoulder blades. The infant weighed
five and one-hslf pounds at birth, and
is in good health. Baltimore Ameris
can
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
Animal Habits.

The frog deposits its eggs in shallow
water, where the warmth OF the sun
promotes speedy Matching. The com.
mon snake often selects bed OF de-
composing vegetable matter. The
crocodile and the clumsy sea tortoise
go ashore to lay their egga
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03

Alabama irons are proving in Genoa,
Italy, an economical substitute for the
English and Scotch metal.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03
MALIND.

DY HELEN W. p1EnsoN.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-03

MALIND, don't you
want ter see what l got
IN this bundle?"
81 should admire
to-" said NIalind, push
ing back the purple
slat sunbonnet which
shut her in from all
side views, and made
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-11-05
A Pulling Case.

Toledo, O., Oct. 30.-Henry Ramm
attacked his wife and party OF ladies
who were going to church with re-
volver. He shot at his wife but missed
her, and the bullet struck Mrs. Schmidt
in the arm. Mrs. Ramm fed as Mrs.
Schmidt fell to the sidewalk. The
maddened man pursued his wife two
blocks, firing at her constantly. She
escaped into neighbours house, Ramm
then returned and began fusilading
Mrs. Schmidt, after which he turned his
attention to his stepson, and fired sew
eral shots at him without effect, and
also turned his weapon on the crowd
that had collected. Ramm then
walked across the street and, taking
off his hat, fired bullet into his own
forehead above the right eye. He was
taken to the police station to die, but
later he got up and walked about the
room and asked for paper to read.
The physicians are puzzled.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-11-05

hoo hal With a small, fat piece of
tbo 49, ~ covered with felt, Max coaxed
il .s s.dnF bubble along the floor, rolling
rs. - Mough made of rubber instead of
"G at soap and air.
b,a anen the champion bubble maker
and Nd" =, uny little globule from his pipe
tba. pIaged handball with it in way
bnbh, IouId have destroyed an ordinary
banS a' The first blow from the boys
kea au Again Max blew small bubble.
banEda ns II attached to the pipe bowl,
brot Isu both pipe and bubble to bis
smoi-e John, who blew mouthful of
plobo -lsnt into the heart of the little
IT, making it look like a big pearl.
bubblo eilloAe aid not seem to affect the
tscb D.s i IN the least. for when it was de-
ike 'a . IRON the pipe it rolled around
chairs marble bubbling up against
WHO'S Who's i. and persisting in remaining
dropnoSS Ho sound until heavy book was
bepdeJO a "a 1t, when the bubble first
estts, u, nattened out and then burst,
the Gag lag small cloud of smoke along
49,. he was loath to tell what it was
IL the soapsuds that -sade
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-11-05

A terrible explosion of gas occurred
at the South Wilkesbarre shaft of the
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company.
1t is reported that six men were so
badly burned they will die. The mine
was not in operation and only about
fifteen men, mostly repairers, were
inside. So great was the force of the
explosion that it shook the surface for
miles around. Smoke coming up the
shaft prevented the rescusrs from going
down. The mine is one of the most
gaseous in the anthracite region. Five
years ago seven men persisted in an
explosion there.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-11-05

his bubbles SO substantial, but he said
any chemist would tell boy how to
mix the magical compound. The last
feat that the youthful bubbleologist per-
formed for the reporter was the making
of huge bubble, blown from long,
slender sfemmed pipe, after which an
other bubble, blown from another pipe,
was formed all around the first one, thus
making a bubble within bubble-a
most wonderful effect. Some day, SO
Max says, he will make bubble big
enough and tough enough to float in the
air above the housetops and carry with
it a little basket like a toy balloon