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The times., 1898-11-13
MAJOR TAYLoR's NEW MARKS
He Lowers the One-MiIe and Half
Mile Records.

Philadelphia, Nov. 13.-Major Taylor
lowered the one-mile record today by
three-fifths of n second at the Woodside
track, a one-third of a mile affair. and
pronounced now the fastest track He
also lowered the one-half mile record
and lowered it twice, cutting another fifth
off the second time, owing to botch in
the pace failing to bring it down below
0:45. His mile was made in 80, cut
of three-fifths of a second from the mark
held by Taylore. the Frenchman. The
major was paced the first third by the
Crooks quint team, the second third by
the Sager team, which picked up pretti-
ly, and the finishing third by the Callahan
team, which made a jump Unexpectedly
and compelled him to make a jump to
close a clear ten yards. This was n Won
derful exhibition of riding, but when.
without rest, the major went out for
the half and did it in 0:45 As, lowering
the record of 0:4S held by Windle, his
work was more remarkable. In this ride
he was paced all the way by the Crooks,
Fisher, Eckbefg, Cleland, and Newhouse
quint, owing to the failure of the Gala
han quint to make a pickup. His second
and Sager teams.
Taylor finished in 0:45 3-5, cut of his
former time. Five watches were held on
the trials. and almost TO a dot agreed.
Over 100 spectators saw the trials.
The times., 1898-11-13
FORTUNE TELLING.
Many CreduIous People Are Its Vie
Tins,

From the Boston Adyertiser.)
There is no end to the credulity in hu-
man nature when II has not been trained
up on a treilis of good. hard common
sense. Sometimes one thing leads you TO
this conclusion. sometimes another My
latest sympathies went out 10 a man who
talked very loud in a crowd and so let
me know just what victim he was be-
cause of his abnormal bump OF cre1ulity.
Said he to his friend. looking at him
sidewise to see just how he took it: He
told me that that diamond was not in this
city. but that / should find it in New
York Strange wasn't it? But he told
me l had lost something just the instant
| sat down In the chair. He told me he
could find it for me, but that must give
him s25 and he would give me written
contract TO find the diamond. Then when
he found ii l must pay him SIS.
But that is worth more than the dia-
mond" said the incredulous friend. "Oh,
no. indeed" said the enthusiastic friend
Indignantly That diamond is worth
$50 to get 1t back
But what is the sense?" protested the
man. You pay the man s25 and ne gives
you contract that he will find it. Now,
until the day the humbug died you could
not say anything because he could always
maintain I am going to find it II you
want to be such an idiot as to keep the
! old cheat going, why you can throw away
SIS on him. BY the way, what did it cost
you to get that interesting information?
-'Only So hurriedly put in the credulous
man, land l know he possesses soms
strange occult power because he told ms
things that have happened all right. Then
/ too, didn't he show me lot of contract:
! he has made and also showed me the ties
| timonials in regard TO what success he ma:
! had in finding keys, articles of all kinds
money, wills and people-and things?'
added the man. getting excited
You must cool off and save your So L
| cool WITH, said the incredulous man
land let that scoundrel of a fortune tel
| Ter alone
Maybe 1 WILL" said the credulous mar
but l really should like TO see if he ca
do what he~says he can
As they departed one commiserated an
! the other considered.
The times., 1898-11-13
FAMILY SHOE STORE.
HONEST SHOES. $40 and 3i2 Seventh Street

straint. as is shown by the regime they
themselves think II necessary to impose
upon their nation with regard to sexual
vice and also after less revolving fash
ion by the wild scenes of drunkenness TO
which so many OF US have been witness
Expose men of this character TO the en-
ervating climate OF China and TO that in
sidious sapping of the moral nature
which we all who live among Chinese are
probably more or less sadly conscious
of in our natures, and are not the results
likely TO be the same as those so often
already recorded in history? China is not
likely nowadays to encounter a conqueror
more dominating than Genghts. But so
completely was the old Mongol spirit ex
tinguished in that branch OF his family
that established itself in China, either
owing to climatic influences or contact
with the Chinese, that just when Timour
was about to begin In Western Asia his
course of brilliant triumphs, his relations,
established on the throne of China, vacat-
ed II without a struggle. Yet Timour was
a descendant only in the sixth degree from
Genghis himself, the conqueror of very
different China from that which English
men know now.
We must never forget that just as
England disarmed the Indians, so the
Manchu dynasty disarmed the Chinese.
and the result probably in ooth cases mas
been effeminacy and contempt, as well
as dislike. for the forbidden weapons
II is very hard to say how our charac-
tiers alter by prolonged residence in Chi
ma We see II rather in one another
than by self-consciousness. II will be
only what we may expect il the Russian
soldiers sent to guard Russian railways
through China. and the Russian officers
sent to drill Chinese soldiery after few
years become almost more Chinese than
the Chinese, their own discipline under
mined by. the very men they Were sent
to discipline.
The times., 1898-11-13
FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.
How the Natives Conquer Their Con-
Querors.
tFrom the Celestial Empire.)

from the Celestial Empire)
The regular practice Of the Chinese has
been for centuries to conquer their con-
ouerors not by force of arms. but by gen.
tie persistence in their own course VINO
does not know charming women who ac
cent all masculine counsels or commands
with sweet smiles and ready acceptance
In words vet never bulge from their own
line of conduct one ioJa? 1t is some
thing after this feminine fashion that the
Chinese have tanned the Manchus, even
as long years ago they tanned the Mon
gols Nayi Have they not, after this
same fashion. tanned the barbarians from
the West? Shanghai is still nominaliy an
English settlement. BY no force of arms
are the Chinese recapturing 1t. For
eigners having cleaned it and biult houses
and made roads and introduced carriages
and laid on water and electric light, the
Chinese are steadily and calmly pushing
| the foreigners off into the outskirts by
themselves crowding the roads, hiring
the carriages, filling the houses and en-
joying the water and light, which they
would never lay on to one of their own
cities-if let alone-but which they are
| yet capable of enjoying when they find
them ready to their hand.
| Russia is now making a dangerous ex-
pertinent. She is undertaking TO build
railway plOttNttu ps Htt SoluitiN
| She is going to officer and drill the troops
| of Shans. All this means the residence
for many years of many Russians in Chi
ma. Russians not always of the highest
| class too. And Russians are not of quite
another race from the Chinese, like the
| Anglo-SaXon. They are, after all, of the
| same stock originally, with many points
of resemblance at first starting. Is it not
possible that by residence in Ceina they
may be rather inddctr7nated with Chinese
ways and methods of thought?
| The French have bur short time ago
acquired Tonquin, eyet already so many of
them are said to have taken to opium
smoking as to have introduced opium
smoking resorts into Paris for the con-
venience of French officers. What will
happen in anotherfcentury, If this be true
already, one hesitates even to imagine
| Now appear the Russians on the scene
men of fine physique, sbnt already with an
insufficiently developed power of self-re-
The times., 1898-11-13
RIDICULING THE CZAR.
Queer Proceedings mt n yieuns
Peace Meeting.
From the London News. }

tFrom the London News-)
The Society of the Friends of Peace OF
this city, held a conference here last
night. Among those present were Mark
Twain and Prussian ex-cOlonel. who is
the founder and representative of new
creed known as United Christianity"
The president of the society opened the
conference with pretty statement that
the Car had lately presented a French
church with silver bell, bearing the
motto. Some pour la PaiX et IA Con-
corde des Peuples." Herr Won Esydi, the
ex-colonel. said that little or no success
could be hoped for from the diplomatic
discussion which must follow the Cars
proposal and that more might be expect
ed of a meeting of the sovereigns But
even if it all failed. the idea which had
been sown would grow and bear trult.
and a new generation would appear born
under the impression that 1t was possible
for the world to exist without war
Mark Twain addressed the meeting IN
English. He had doubted, he said,
whether the world would ever be able
to put stop to war. but the car had
convinced and made a convert OF MN
This speech was not translated for the
benefit of them assembly, because the
government representative had not been
Informed of il beforehand and douhtei
whether all Mr.. Clemens had said would
bear translation.
The eccentric painter Dieffenbach. ~
his pilgrims dress and tousled hair. was
the last to speak. He denounced ihe
church- for the absurdity of hallowns
the numbering of the people by blessing
the soldiers weapons and the eannons
| and celebrating thanksgiving services
/ after victorious battles. He also declared
| the killing of animals as bad as war and
| that animal food made the eater biood-
i thirsty The president here interposed 10
bring his speech to a conclusion.
The times., 1898-11-13
COURAGE UNDER FIRE.
Interesting Experience of War
NeteranL
From the Hartford courant.)

(From the Hartford Couraut.)
Few men live, even in war, with their
courage constantly screwed Ito the
sticking point" The best we can do is
to compare the statements of those who
have been under fire. The most reliable
of these statements come from those who,
like Grant, say that they feel like cow
ards at heart when the battle opens. Is
it will power, then, that makes the cour-
age? All agree that the severest strain is
when men are lying or standing idle with
shot dropping around them. There is
plenty of opportunity then to exercise
will power. Some do. Said a veteran who
received his baptism of fire on South
ern battlefield: I'VE were lying flat on
our faces with shot kissing over us. Sud-
denly ~aw .plunging cannon ball come
bounding along the ground. l knew
was directly in its path. In minute
it would strike me. l had time to crawl
out of its way. l reasoned that that
was the proper thing to dol owed that
much to my family. But l didn't dare
1 thought of what the boys would say
l ducked The ball struck in front of me
! and went over, covering me with dirt
He said further that all the time the men
We're obeying the command to cover
the colonel who gave it was standing
erect. unconcernedly clipping twigs from
a bush. How he escaped being hit was
a marvel to the narrator, yet he said that
as the men looked at the officer their
courage stopped oozing out of their
boots" Every true officer appreciates NE
virtue of good example. He also realizes
1 that, will or no will, when every man
! is under tense strain if one of them gives
way others will follow. No sight of the
| flag, no memory of the cause they have
| espoused, no prestige of regimental honor
| can hold them then under a calling fire
| The only dictate they obey is the first
| one of nature-self preservation.
| How much of battle courage is ficti-
| tious? That we believe we can answer
little. We know of the stories about
| liquors being served to the men as they
| fesscdly authentic statements that or
certain critical occasions, gundowder mix
ed with whisky was given to the Con-
! federates to make fiends of them. But
what's drunken man in fight? The
policemen can tell You. While he may
be brutal with another man in similar
condition it is not once in hundred
times that he is not easily mastered by
sober man.
Does the fighter become a mailman
Is he maniacal in his conduct? If 50. h,
loses his senses and cannot govern him
self. which is not the case, taking la g'
bodies of men together Good critic:
have said of the French army that i
could defeat the Germany army if
/ could withstand the first shock. Th
Germans, at home, are more like pom
derous machine than any other soldier
The times., 1898-11-13
DARTMOUTH DOWNS WILLIAMS
And Wins the Championship of the
Tri-ColIegiate Lengue.

Hanover, y. H., Nov Fin one of the
fierces struggles that was ever played on
Alumni Oval Dartmouth defeated Will
liams for the championship of the tri-col-
legiate league this afternoon by score
of ten to six. This victory gives Dart
mouth the championship for the sixth
consecutive year. Williams showed
strength beyond all expectations. and in
the first half got the ball within two
inches of Dartmouth's goal. Dartmouth
braced up and when the signal to pay
was given, Lowe. Dartmouth's big guard
put his shoulder to the mass and held the
Williams men on their tracks. 1t was the
finest exhibition of defensive playing ever
seen at Hanover.
The times., 1898-11-13
SWARTHMoRE WINS.
The Columbian Eleven Wns Simply
OutcInssed

After two twenty-five minute halves of
hard football playing the stocky Swarth-
more College boys succeeded in defeating
the Columbian team yesterday afternoon
on the grounds Of the latter, by score
of % TO G. All the old footballists were
present at the game, and many were The
comments as TO the outcome of the Col
umbian-Georgetown game on Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
ii Is the general opinion that by the
time that Columbian's new team gets
down to business she will give the
Georgetown boys tussle for supremacy
in the coming game.
The team that played today had only
two days in which TO practice together
To sum up the contest, one can safely
The times., 1898-11-13

in the world. They become an unthink-
ing. solid mass. moving at their officers
will. The Frenchmen' do more think
ing for themselves. Thus they can make
a fierce fight, like madmen, but, when It
was against such a strong wall as the
Germans put up they showed that they
still had their minds under control for
themselves and fell back. If they had
had more unreasoning pertinacity, the
critic holds, they could have driven the
Germans. 1t is maxim that the coolest
man is the nerviest.
The times., 1898-11-13
RESULTS. OF THE RACES
At lakeside.


Chicago. Nov. 12.-The bright. pleasant
weather drew a good crowd to the Lake
side track today. The course was sloppy.
but not deep. Summary:
First race-Seven furlongs. Czarowitz,
even. won; Summer Sea. second; Alvin
W., third. Time. "a H.
Second race-one mile. Boney Boy.
even. won; Mr.. Johnson. second; Facade,
third. Time, l:i7 l-2.
Third race-Seven furlongs. O'Connell,
even. won; News Gatherer. second; S a
Robber. third. Time l:32 3-i.
Fourth race-Five furlongs. Caaovas,
even. won; Frank Bell, second; Dave
Waldo, third. Time, 1903 l-2.
Fifth race-One and an eighth miles
Boanerges. even. won; Swordsman, sec
ond; Prince Blazer, third. Time, 1853 1.
Sixth race-Five furlongs. Johnr lie Viii
liams, to !, won; Ella Penzance, cond
Nat p. third. Time, 1:0i 1-2.
The times., 1898-11-13
At I.QtOug0.

Cincinnati, Nov. 12-The weather was
favorable, the card fair, but the attend
ance light at Latonia today. Four ia
vorites and two second choices won.
Summarizes: ""
First race-one mile. Lord Frazier.
TO /, won; LEV Anna. second; Royal
Choice. third. Time. 1:49 3-i.
Second race-One mile. Chancery, S to
5. won; Shinfane, second; Estabrooks.
third. Time :501-2.
Third race, six furlongs. Horseshoe To-
bacco, to >, won; Flop, second; Primate.
third. Time. lis L..
Fourth race-Five furlongs. Souchon
even, won; Florrisson, second; p. ina
Vera, third. Time. :05.
Fifth race-Mile and 800 yards. Sam
ovar, S to 5. won; Joe Shelby. secoId; /;
Barton. third. Time. 2:2l 1-2
Sixth race-One mile. Star of Bethle-
hem, even. won: McCleary, second; r. b.
Sack, third. Time. las L.
The times., 1898-11-13
Lonsevi,. of nnlIet Dancers.
(From the Philadelphia Times.

A statisrician has been devoting himself to a
study of the eminent in this particular art, and
his investigations seem TO establish the fact that
they are an unusually long-lived lot. The is-
nous Carlotta Grisi is living now at the age OF
seventy-seyen, and one of the ballet dancers at
the Opera in Paris is seventy; but he is man.
Amala Ferraris is still teaching at the age OF
tinue that work for some time to come. Fanny
Elssler was seyenty-four when she died and
Taglioni has passed her eghtieth year. Rosia
Mauri, the popular premiere at the Opera in
Paris. IS over fifty, and has begun TO talk oi
retiring
The times., 1898-11-13
LAFAYETTE DEFEATED.
CorneII's Eleven Proves Too Fnst for
the Easton Team.

Ithaca, N. Y, Nov. 12.-Cornell admin
istered a crushing defeat to Lafayette
this afternoon, defeating the Easton play
ers by the score of Al to 0. From the start
it was evident that Lafayette was in
company too fast for her. The Cornell
backs, Morrison, Windsor and Perkins
jabbed big holes in the Lafayette line for
large gains. Cornell simply used close
formation plays with an occasional sprint
around Lafayette's ends.
In the first half Cornell scored twenty
nine points. In this half Lafayette only
secured the ball four times and this was
on kicks.
The times., 1898-11-13
Rudolph A. Ashton Assigns,

Rudolph A. Ashton, a produce dealer
doing business at No. 937 Louisiana Ave-
nue., yesterday filed deed of general as
signment to Walter A. Carroll. for the
benefit of his creditors. The assets are
listed at LAP, and the liabilities at
1904 20.
The times., 1898-11-13

WYE HAVE just Sc
M cured from Hine
w & Lynch, of
Pou g hkeepsie,
y. Y, makers of the finest
footwear On the market,
their entire line of Mems
sample shoes, embracing
fine Calf, French Calf, Pat
ent Leathers, Enamels,
Winter Russets. Germania,
and Vici Kids, in the latest,
swellest, and most desira-
bic shapes. They repre-
sent the genuine shoe
'aristocracy' are the
most expensive made-and
being samples, are put to-
gether by hand labor from
extra select feathers and
finished with extraordi-
nary care. There is not a
pair in the lot worth less
than S., and many SO and
81. We place them on
sale Monday morning at
the unheard-of-price of
S2.o5, and they ought to
be all sold in the day.
The times., 1898-11-13

Export and "Culmbacher"
are the acknowledged kings of light and
dark beer. "a bottles sent in unlettered
wagons for only s125 Wash. Brewery Co.,
Fourth and F Streets northeast.
The times., 1898-11-13

000 nm Drink and Drug Inebriates re-
0uu uuu stored by the Kelley Cure. Au-
thorized Institutes. 2ll North Capt.
tol ST., Washington, D. c., and Greensboro. N. C..
Write confdentially. je7-h
The times., 1898-11-13

Score-Georgetown, II; V. NJ. l., 8.
Touchdowns-Rice and Murphy. Goal
from touchdown-kenna. Goal from field
-Kenna. Referee. Hadley Doyle. Um-
pire-Nelson Gurnett Linesmen-John
Keane and Julien Hill. Timers-Paul
Head and J. Drouan.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-07
WOLCoTT b ESTED

BY "Mysterious Billy Smith Before the
Lenox A. c. Last Night.
New York, December 6.-''Mysterious
Billy" Smith met Joe Walcott, the col
ored fighter, at the Lenox Athletic club
tonight, and after fighting twenty hard
rounds, Referee Charley White decided
on him as the winner. The men weigh
ed las pounds. Smith never fought
harder in his life, and in the eleventh
round he knocked Walcott off his feet
with a right swing on the jaw. A few
moments later both men went to the
floor from a clinch, and Walcott stay
ed down on one knee for eight seconds.
1t looked then as if Nalcott would go
out with another good blow, but by re-
peated clinching he lasted the round
out, as Smith was unable to get the
mark.
Walcott was rather slow in his
movements and got in so close to Smith
that the latter was unable to do much
damage at close quarters. Walcott
was favorite in the betting. His
friends bet one hundred to seventy on
the colored man on the ground that
Smiths recent fight with Tommy West
at Bridgeport, Conn, was not up to the
winning form, and they argued that
the last time Smith and Walcott met,
also in Bridgeport, the negro had the
upper hand.
Smith won cleverly tonight, and
when the referees decision was gwen
there was very little adverse criticism.
Before the big fight, Kid Broad of
Cleveland, knocked out Mike Kearns,
of Philadelphia, in the seventh round.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-07
IN A FEW DAYS
The Peace Treaty Will Be Signed.
All the Larger Questions Disposed
Of

Paris, December 6.-The joint COM
mission met at p. m. and is still sit
ting as this dispatch is sent.
1t has developed that yesterdays ses-
sion was of far greater Importance
than generally supposed. 1t resulted
IN the Americans uncompromisingly
rejecting SPANS request that, for a
term of years, the ships of that coun-
try and its products be admitted to
Cuban and Porto Rican ports under
the same regulations and customs tar
if as American ships and products.
The Spanish commission for some
days has been playing for time. The
Americans were anxious for a decision
on the question of a coaling station in
the Caroline islands, religious toler-
ance in the Carolines and the release
Of political prisoners. The Spaniards
were unwilling to answer these points
until they heard what the Americans
proposed to do for their industries
which had been built up by the Cuban
and Porto Rican trade.
This is why Spain contended that
the articles of treaty should be dis
posed of in their order, while the
Americans wanted to first settle their
pressing needs.
The session of yesterday was prac-
inol tx- ffOhf -
cedure. Finally the Americans yield
ed and then the Spaniards proposed
their shipping and commercial ques-
ton, which the Americans rejected in
its entirety. The session then ad-
journed with neither side in an espe-
cially amiable fr- me of mind.
1t is learned that there were differ
enceS of opinion among the Americans
on the shipping question, and numer-
Gus kilograms were exchanged with
Washington. Finally the American
commission was instructed to refuse,
the principal reason being that Porto
Rico is about to be declared within the
coast line of the United States, white
as regards Cuba, the authorities at
Washington would make no promise
as the American occupation there is
not fixed and the future Cuban govern
ment must make it's own treaties.
When the commissioners emerged
from the foreign Office this evening
after another long session, Judge Day,
president of the American commission
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-07
A BRIGHT WOMAN.

Miss Grace Espy Patton is Colorado's
superintendent of public instruction,
and she has jurisdiction over 1900
school districts in IS counties, en-
ploying over 800 teachers. Miss Pat
ton is a Democrat and in 1896 was
president of the Woman's Democratic
club. Under her supervision much at
tention has been given to extending
the kindergarten system, furnishing
school libraries and introducing man
ual training. Miss Patton has very lit
tie use for male school directors. be-
lieving that women school directors are
conscientious, energetic and unpre-
JUDGED, the inference being left that
men, as one of her woman adherents
phrased it, are only fit for carrying
trunks" and as rule are incapable of
distinguishing between principle and
politics."