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KEPT HIS WORD.
A Railroad Promoters Promise to '
 Man Who Lived on ; Hi1I.

A Railroad Promoters Promise to n
 Man Who Lived on HifI-
 A. B. Smith, of the Burlington, was talking about railroads and railroad building, and he told of the most ma ignant bit of false pretenses which any railroad advance agent was ever guilty of. It was somewhere off in West Vir'- ginia, and the man whose business 1t was to go across the country and win the favor of the residents, so that they would vote bonds, struck an inter mountain region, and found that par ticular county was practically dom mated by an old farmer away up the ridge. The road wanted something like $100,000 from the county, and the slxirmishing party appeared unto the man of the ridge with a request for his assistance. The old fellow, whose name was Searles, was willing, on one condition, to help out. He wanted the road to come near his own place. Cushman, the agent, looked over the situation, and after time prom ised.
 s.The line," he said, will run within 100 yards of your front gate. Is that near enough?"
 Searles said it was, and an agreement was signed. Then Searles began an ad- vocacy of the bond proposition, and the concession was voted with hardly a word of opposition, but with the front gate understanding.
 Two years later Mr. Smith happened to be hunting in that county, and he stopped at Searles' house. Their con versation turned upon railroads, and the old man, pointing to a long rife over the mantel, said:
 The next railroad man that comes Into these hills I'm going to shoot with that.'
 MT. Smith, who had not yet disclosed his identity or occupation, asked for the reason. The mountaineer told of the bonds.
 But said MT. Smith, 'if there was m agreement the bonds are invalid''
 No, they ain't," the other responded sadly. He done it. He run it within the prescribed distance She's within them 100 yards
 sBut I don't see any railroad near here''
 Nope. Ye can't. But she's here. She runs through this hill by tunnel. which starts q mile away. She's inside the named distance. but bein as I ain't ground hog or a rabbit I can't git di- rect access to her. r.'-Chicago Record.
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lodged. Columbia is nearly seven miles up the river, on the west bank, oppo- site Hyde Park. Harvard occupies a farmhouse and barn called Red Top No. 9, above Kipp's cave and about half mile above the upper mark of the course-which may be the lower end if conditions of wind and tide seem to make 1t preferable to row north. The Harvard men climb from their boat to Red Top up a steep hill along wind ing path which leads through vineyards and under green orchards. Pennsyl- vania is stationed directly up the hill from this point, and her boathouse is but three minutes walk from the ferry. All the boathouses are of one pattern, long, temporary structures of unpainted boards with roofs covered with tarred paper held down by cleats. Cornell is in town, on Prospect street, ia what is called the Hicks house, place more ac- cessible to busybodies than the other headquarters, and Yale's brief stay will be in the Stuyyesant manor house at Edgewood, nearly opposite the Harvard outfit.
 Yale doesn't love Poughkeepsie, and shows its spite by training in New Lon don, coming here at the last moment. I have heard this course criticised-by the Poughkeepsie committee, because the contributors to the fund want to
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Cpmpensation.

As is frequently the case, he does not taks as kindly to the obligations and observance of society as his wife does. It is possible, too, that she has indulged him more than she ought to have done in the way of giving her personal attenc,on to details of house keeping which affected his comfort.
 Now, she said, T hope you are going to be amiable for some time to come"
 More so than usual?"
 'fVery much more so"
 "For what reason ?'
 Because you are going to need all the good humor you can command I am go- ing to give an afternoon tea"
 "Again!"
 ssYes. And I do wish you would get over your unreasonable aversion to such things"
 My dear, I will admit that I have an aversion, but I deny that 1t is unreasonable"
 I'm sure you don't let them interfere with your comfort" Not to any greater extent than I can help"
 And every one I have given was great success"
 .'Yes, my dear But there's consider. ation which prevents me from approaching your triumpphs as I'd like to- can't help being influenced in my sentiments by the fact that when your afternoon tea is a success the breakfast coffee is always an unbroken series of failures. w Washington Star.
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THE MAMMOTH JEW FISH
It Is Caught Around Catalina
 Island, California
Headquarters of the Ananias Club for the Pacific Coast-A Wonder fuI Fishing Ground-some
 Royal Battles.
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Catalina island, lying in the Pacific ocean, 20 miles off the coast of South ern California, is famous for it's fishing banks. Indeed, it has been jocoseIy referred to as the headquarters of the. Ananias club for the whole Pacific coast. But, as matter of fact, more genuine big catches have been made in Catalina waters than anywhere on the western side of this continent. It is here that the tremendous leaping tuna of the Pa cific are found; and here the 500-pound jew-fish offer sport to the ambitious fisherman who does not mind being lowed out to sea several miles in the battle royal which always precedes the capture of this king of the bass family. Here it is that the frisky yellow-tail gambol about in the briny waters, and schools of slim, shining barracuda, tawny sculpin, gamy albicore and rare little pompano turk in numbers so great that the catches are really almost be yond belief.
 Catalina sportsmen invariably fish with rod and reel-a mere "pot-hunter'' gets no quarter. A Canandaigua (N. J 1Ad1 DlOhC buC WO1lu record recently when he landed 251- pound jew-fish with a light rod and a 15-thread cuttyhunk line, after bat tie lasting three hours and thirty-five minutes. The gamy monster lowed the boat with three men in it out 21s miles to sea; and the fight took place after dark. The worlds record up to that date was 235 pounds with 21-thread line and stiff tarpon rod.
 An even more gamy fish is the leap ing tuna of the Pacific, which ranges in weight from 90 to 800 pounds, and is from six to ten feet in length. A pe- culiarity of this fish is the fin upon it's back, which folds up at the fsh's con venienee and fits snugly into little groove along MT. Tuna's spinal column, entirely invisible when the fish is wet; and the tuna can fold or unfold this fan-shaped fin at will. The prey of this mysterious monster is the flying fish, great numbers of which skim over the surface of the sea in this region, with
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YALE-HARVARD-CORNELL
Their Crews Will Battle for Su-
 premacy on the Hudson.
The Feature of the season in College CircIcs-Other Races That VIII Be xnterestin g--Gossip of
 the Crews.
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Highlands, N. YAPoughkeepsie is pretty town, with shady, well-kept streets and fine residences, but few visitors, except bowling collegians who want 24 hours of excitement daily, need see much of it during the races of next week, as New York can be reached by numerous special trains in an hour and half. The town is deeply interested, however, and has raised money to pay the expenses of the visiting crews and to build their boathouses and floats. Of course the Vassar girls up on the hill are not the least interested, and most of them will stay over to see the fun. There will be about 900 of them, of whom 897 will wear pink, gray, red or other shirt waists with blue serge skirts. This is an unofficial estimate based on preliminary observation.
 Thus is the stage set for the great week of sport which will culminate in the -Harvard-Cern match next Friday. The crews are pleasantly
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MAP OF COURSE.

nomenal and in finishing the pull the body is thrown back in way that is startling when first seen. The great desideratum seems to be to have the oar pushing the water as long as possi- ble, with a very quick recovery and reach to follow.
 More than crew or boat, it is ques- ton of coach and stroke. It is Cook against Lehman. Cook himself says that the pristine purity of his stroke has been sullied by Yale through his own necessary attention to business, and that this year he is making radical improvements, the necessity of which was suggested by last years experience at Henley. It is probable, therefore, that both crews will row long, slow stroke, with plenty of back and leg work, and with Harvard for once get ting slightly the longer reach.
 Interest, of course, centers in the work of the Big Three" but there will be plenty of other sport. On Wednes- day, weather permitting, the freshmen crews of Yale, Harvard and Cornell will begin the sport. As between the two former, the contest of methods will give in advance some idea of the mer- it's of the opposing stroke, and will modify opinions of the big race of June 25. A Yale or Harvard victory will cer- tainly, under the circumstances, be ac- cepted as a good augury for the var sity crew of the winning side. The Yale freshmen will, however, suffer even more than the big crew, from unfa- miliarity with the water.
 On June 29 comes the race between the Cornell, Columbia and 'sPennsy" freshmen; on July 9 the series closea with the Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia varsity crews.
 It will be noted that both Cornell crews contest twice, once with Yale and Harvard and once with Columbia and Pennsylvania. It is the willingness of Cornell to race anyone that makes this big meeting possible; and however much one may deplore the strawberry shortcake indulgence of some of the old crew, there is nothing but praise for the manly attitude of Cornell in this matter. In the unlikely event of Cor nell victory, both Yale and Harvard would be compelled to meet the fresh water men next year. But if Cornell should finish at the tail end of the pro- cession there will be no Big Three. next time. Yale has the choice of course for 1898, and will undoubtedly choose New London with Harvard for sole antagonist, while the other three crews may meet in Poughkeepsie again.
 So that, for many reasons, the results of the Poughkeepsie series will be watched with the keenest interest.
 OWEN LANGDON.
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WILLIE VAS STRONG.
He Was No Fauntleroy if He Did
 Wear Blue Velvet.

He Was No FauntIeroy if He Did
 Wear Blue Velvet.
 A small boy in a violet velvet suit and naval cap, with long black eurls falling below his shoulders, stood in front of stone house in Michigan avenue, not far from Twenty-eighth street, one Sunday morning, watching the Sunday bicycle riders go by. The boy had countenance like wax doll.
 A ragged street newsboy, evidently strayed out from the downtown dis trict, with an armful of Sunday papers, came dragging pair of unwieldy shoes along the stone walk where the boy with the black curls stood. The newsboy was half a head the taller of the two, but evidently he was about the same age. His face was smudged with street dirt and his clothes hung about him like a scarecrow's. The boy with the black curls looked at him with eyes as mild and innocent as baby's.
 In front of the stone house the news boy stopped and searched through his coat pockets for dirty cigarette. Then he shuffled up to the boy with the black curls. Gimme a match, will you? ?" he asked.
 The boy did not reply. The news boy repeated the question. The boy with the curls only stared at him. The free hand of the newsboy suddenly swung out and struck the boy with the curls on the cheek.
 The next instant the Sunday bicycle riders whowere going by caught sight of a medley of violet, soiled clothes and flying newspapers, with a fringe of black curls standing out all around, which finally resolved itself into a heap of rags on the sidewalk, with ruff1ed lace collar and violet velvet sailors cap and jacket on top. The sidewalk for radius of two rods was carpeted with newspaper supplements and display advertisements. A pair of lace cuffs were rising and falling with dull whacks over the face of the newsboy.
 The rags and velvet were still mingled on the sidewalk when a man hurried down the front steps of the stone house and seized the velvet jacket from be- hind and lifted it off of the heap of rags. He stopped for minute to brush black curl in place, and two neighbors ran up and inquired if his son was hurt.
 ~No,' he replied; Willie is stronger than he looks. ''-C Chicago Tribune.
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row more than three miles Defore--welL it may have been necessary measure of discipline. but it looks like desper- ate one. Certainly the Cornell veterans had been 1nisbehaving in training. but there are Cornellians who think Coach Courtney should have reasoned with them with tears in his eyes instead of ordering them from the table.
 If it weren't for the mighty impress sion made by the doughty Cooks long record of victories for the blue, most of the disinterested winner-pickera would thing very kindly of Harvard's chances. The crew are an uncommonly fine lot of fellows. strong, clean, long, and lean, with a tremendous reach and healthy appetites. They certainly pique curios- ity more than any other crew. They have read for their examinations in quarters generally with feet propped on veranda railing and newspaper for textbook-they have been trained on less heroic lines than in the past, and they have a new stroke. It was the Cook stroke which sent Yale to the front, giving Harvard the wash of its long, slow, clockwork motion. Harvard clung tenaciously to it's choppy, jerky, and obviously faulty style, but it now seems to have outdone even Yale in length of swing. Rudolph C. Lehman, the new coach, teaches an English crew action wfich is most remarkable in taking and leaving water. The reach forward for the dip is something phe-
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their glittering, iridescent wings out spread in very bird-like fashion. The tuna sometimes leaps from the water ten or fifteen feet to catch these crea- lures, which dart up and away the in- stant they see their deadly enemy. h. deed, the Pacific tuna will take no bait but the flying fish, and is most easily caught at twilight or on moonlight evenings, which seem to be favoTite hours for sallying forth in search of tnothsome refreshment.
 One June night last summer c. P. MorenQuse, of Pasadena, hooked a 137- pound Jana that fought gallantly for nearly four hours before it surrendered. At the very first rush the fish took 500 feet of the light, 21thread line. and the skiff, with three men in it, went skim ming along after the living engine that lowed it with irresistible power for a full mile down the coast. The gamy fellow then kept towing the boat back and forth with such velocity that a passing power launch presently came to the rescue, and it staid by the in trepid sportsmen for 1Zs hours, so great was their danger of capsizing. Fisher men declare that the tunas have more vim and go in them than a tarpon of double their weight; and they have run away with more lines and broken more rods than any other fish on the Pacific coast-save only the big jewish.
 As has already been hinted, some re- markable fish stories are told at Cata- lima. One August morning in the sum mer of 1895 a school of porpoise chased a drove oi yellow-tails into a cove at Whites landing. Ahead of the yellow tails was swarm of sardines, which.
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Domestic FeIicitx.

Mrs. Uptown is not the most genial woman in the world. but for some req son or other when her husband came home the other day she greeted him with sunny smile. For several min utes he was speeches. with surprise, then he gasped:
 Put on your hat and come right along with me"
 Where to?" she asked.
 'To the nearest photographer, so l can have your picture taken while you've got that face on you. You are not going to look that way again in a thousand years"
 Then she resumed her normal express sion, only little more so, if possible, and the visit to the photographer was declared off.-Tammany Times.
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in the wild pursuit. were driven quite up on the beach. where they were scooped up by the basketful. The fish ermen at once cast their net for the yellow-tails, and, like the disciples of old, were not able to draw it in for the multitude of fishes. Old fishermen who had lived on the island for years united in saying that this was the largest draft of fishes ever seen on Catalina shores. There is still another story which. while it is vouched for by reliable wit nesses, almost staggers belief
 A school of yellow-tail chased swarm of smaller fry into shallow waters near the beach, and four-year-old boy took his stand among the fishermen to cast his line for sardines. An older brother took the precaution to tie the end of the line round the little fellows waist to prevent his losing it. A scream from the child attracted the attention of the excited fishermen, and they beheld him being lowed out to sea; a gamy 40- pound yellow-tail. in his chase after q sardine. had caught on the hook. and in his frantic efforts to get away was dragging the line, boy and all. out to sea.
 The boy was rescued, however.
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get 'the worth of their money in longer stay of the principal crew; and by New York friends of Yale, who think that the crew ought to have the benefit of longer practice under local condi- tions, and of standardization to the in~ land air. If there is force in this argu- ment, Harvard has the best of the Big Three," having been on the ground more than two weeks. It certainly seems as if Yale's actions in the Hudson valley are very different from those on the sound, while coxswain might study the sweep of the tides in the Hud- son for much more than two weeks and still have plenty to learn. Still, Yale has way of winning on the water she has good coach and strong crew to pull famous stroke.
 Cornell may not be out of the big race, but the wiseacres do not predict much better than last place for the strawberries. The experiment of re- leasing much of the best material for a crew and making 1t up of light, young men who have not been called upon to
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other animal. In many respects it re- sembles the human brain. With its master, the dog experiences the vicissitudes of life. Ceaseless experi- ments toward race perfection leading to many kinds of blood mixtures are responsible, too, for intensifying the natural nervousness. The doctor thinks that 75 per cent. of the animals killed who. on account of queer actions are suspected of hydrophobia, die in nocently. Like nervous men and wom. en, they sometimes become excited, are epileptic, morose, lazy, lose appetite, and sometimes even turn against their best friends. If treated rationally they might soon recover their usual health and equanimity.
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Wa. She Teasing Himf

Its dog-gone funny" said Mir. Sportze, that I can go out with the finest equipment in the market and not get more than two or three little fish, while country kid can get a string of them as long as his arm with nothing but a hickory pole, a hook on string and few worms"
 It merely shows how crude the rural fish are in their tastes, dear" said his wife, but he isn't sure whether she was exhibiting that sweet womanly sym pathy or not.-Indianapolis Journal.
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Quick Pudding.

One cupful of sugar, one-quarter cup full of butter, 2ls cupfuls of flour, one cupful of raisins, one cupful of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking pow der and yolks of three eggs. Rub but ter and sugar together, add beaten eggs, milk and flour, into which the powder has been sifted. Bake in moderate oven. Serve with the following sauce: Beat whites of the eggs to a stiff froth with cupful of sugar. Pour over this q boiling paste with two tablespoonfuls of butter in it; flavor to taste.--House- keeper
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Dr. Meguin, in a lecture delivered be- fore the Paris Academic de Medicine. stated his opinion that dogs, from their close association with human beings. are subject to many of their nervous ailments. The brain of dog is much more highly developed than that of any
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spirituous Sarcasm.

q wonder" said Mir Drinkhorn, as he filled his glass with the ease of an expert, q wonder who started the custom of calling drink of liquor 'smile?'
 q wouldn't call that one there a smile,'' said the barkeep. 1t Is nothing shy of horselaugh. a-Cincinnati Enquirer
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A man who has no one to tell his troubles to feels about as dismal as woman who has no one to tell othe, peoples troubles to.-N. Y. Press.
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Couldn't Lose Her.

My friend" solemnly remarked the man in black. you don't know how hard tits to lose your wife"
 "Hard?" he echoed. My dear sir, il is simply impossible. "-C Chicago Times. Herald.
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A YoufhfuI Iinr

What are you two boys doing in the pantry ?' asked Mrs. Chaffie, sharply.
 Bob is trying to steal some jam. !. replied Johnnie, in an indignant tone of voice.
 And what are you doing there, too ?'
 Me? Weller, was tryin' to coax Robbie not to do it. I'm having lot oi trouble with him."-N. '. World.
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Fence posts are now being manu- factured of cast iron, with q screw in the end, so that after they are driven into the ground short distance they bore their way into the earth, as they are turned around by detachable lever and can be easily removed by a reverse motion.
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A Gentle Hint.

Elderly Maiden-May ask you what your name is?
 Huber"
 "A beautiful name! wish mine was like it."-Fliegende Blaetter.
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 Trade Usages.

"IIere,' said the city editor, "you say this burglar was caught at his work. That's wrong."
 Why" asked the green reporter. "A burglar never works. He plies his American
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Why They Do II

She-A woman marries man to keep him indoors.
 He-And man marries woman fo keep her in hats. Yonkers Statesman
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THE FIDDLE
TIE FlNtsH

POSITIONS SHOWING THE FAMOUS
 LEHMAN STROKE.
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Nervons AfImenfs of nocs.

he boy was rescued, however.
 R. A. B.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-10

the chief characteristics of his battles with
Corbett and Fi;zsimmons, while Maher
did not cut loose with his terrible right
until a few minutes before the fight was
stopped Inspector Mclaughlin had
warne1 the men before th y entered The
ring.
There was not much opportunity 10
measure the men. Sharkey shows skill
on his feet, but has a whole lot to learn
a bout fghting. His knockdown was
scarcely clean GU. He caught Maher a
left on the chin, staggering hlm, and, as
he was going, landed with right on the
side of the head and half-knocked, half
pushed Maher through the ropes. The
sal or was half crazed by the possibility of
a victory and stood over him, when
Choynski, his chief adviser, left his cor
ner, ran along on the ledge outside the
ring and besougbt the bnrly seaman to les
Maher regain his feet and renew the battle
In the center of the ring.
Maher's knockdown blow was a clean
and straight right-hander from the
shoulder and the sailor plainly felt its
effect The referee decided the fight a
Draw, but the sports will back Maher If
they ever meet again. The Palace Athle-
tic Club, where the fight took place, is
controlled by Brady, the manager of Cor
bett.
After the battle the police rUng up the
pa,roi-wagon and conveyed the prisoners
TO the station. Principals, seconds, time
keepers and referee were locked up, but
were bailed out an hour later.