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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-20

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AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
1S95-Newport &c. 3. Macdonald
Runner-up C. z. Sands
1Ss6-Shinnecock HilIs......H J. Wigham
Runner-up, J. c. Thorp.
1s97-Wheaton. ]. Wigham
Runner-up, ". R. Belts.
1s98-Morris County ............F Douglas
Runner-up. W. B. Smith.
1Se9-Lake F0rest........H n Hartman
RunEer-up. Findlay Douglas.
leoo-Garden City-............W. r. Travis
WOMEN's CHAMPIONSHIPS.
1Ss5-Morris County miss Beatrix Hoy
Runner-up. Mrs. A. Turnure
Gold medal, Miss Beatrix Hoyt.
1S97-Essex County. Miss Beatrix Hoyt
Runner-up. Miss n. c. Sargent.
Cod medal, Miss eBatrix Hoyt
1s9S-Ardsley. Miss Beatrix Hoyt
RUnner-up. Miss NJ K Whetmore.
Gold Medal. Miss Beatrix Hoyt
s9-Philadelphia.. Miss r Underhill
Runner-up, Mrs. c. F. FOX.
Gold medal, Miss Beatrix Hoyt
13o0-Shinneeock ....AIiss f. C. Griscom
Gold medal Miss Beatrix Hoyt.
In 1880 a wOmans championship was
held at Neadowbrook and won by Mrs.
c. S. Brown with a return Of 132 for
eighteen holes.
There have beer many improvements
made In clubs links and balls during the
century, but the general style of play
has not been materially changed. The
substitution Of the gutta percha ball for
the one made Of feathers and leather in
1848 was the most important change. and
hen naturally clubs were invented and
altered to suit this changed condition
Strange to say. the Rev. Robert A. pat
terson. for many years principal Of the
Binghampton Ladies college. is credited
as being the inventor Of the Equity
bah before leaving St. Andrews for this
country. Tn 1545 ne rolled lot Of gutta
percha clippings into "a ball. painted it
white and used it on the links 1t did
not prove Of much value, but was grad
ualiy improved on until in 1913 the old
feather ban received its death blow.
The transition Of the clubs has been
marked, but the time has now come
when the best players IN Great Britain
and this country are now practically
OF one mind In the choice oe ciuo heads.
however they may differ in opinion over
the length and sUrpleness of the shaft
and in the grip. distance and swing. The
craze for new designs in clubs ran riot
in England and this country during the
past FIVE or six years. Freak clubs have
been devised. some Of which are Of value.
but they do not supplant the standard
clubs, which have apparently reached a
high state Of perfection
The game has made great strides in
this country. and the play Of the experts
now closely approaches the standard as
developed by the amateur and the pro-
fesional Of Great Britain. The outlook
for the new century Just begun IS truly
bright, and the time should not be far
distant when The homebred PLAYER should
take his place on an equal footing with
the best exPonents Of the game IN Eng
land and Scotland
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M --------- -------- -. -
 SOM E GOOU ADYICE.

1 Don't talk too freely to the stenogra-
 pher and typewriter whether she is
 pretty or not This is good advice in a
 general way, and it has the special
 backing of the Maryland court of ap peals That court has decided hat the
 publication of letter dictated ard
 typewritten containing libellous matter Is legally complete, although its con- tents have not been made known to any person other than the stenographer. The court ruled: Neither the preva- lence of any business customs or meth ods nor the pressure of business which compes resort to stenographic assist ance can make that legal which is ille- gal, nor make that innocent which would otherwise be actionable. Nor can the fact that the stenographer is under 1contractual or moral obligation to re- gard all his employers communications as confidential alter the reason of the matter" Under the ruling publicity within the meaning and intent of the libel. law Of Maryland is sufficiently ac- complished when the objectionable mal- ter is dictated to the stenographer. The libel is published" under such crcum- stances as fully for legal purposes as though it were printed in a newspaper a nd puhlisbed hroa dcast
 Perhaps what Is good law in Mary land in this matter is good law in othar States. Anyway, 1t Is wise not to give your feelings too free utterance even to your stenographer.
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any kind are due to ono or two causes.
 The first and most common cause is the
 fact that all men who are employed
 around animals get careless. Long inn
 lmunity makes them reckless and they
 take chances which would frighten a
 novice half to death At first they are
 careful never to enter the cage of a lion or tiger without the proper weap- ons and unless assistance is near at
 hand. But sooner or later they go into
 a den without anything with which to protect themselves, and some big cat
 takes advantage of the opportunity to even up an old score. The second among the causes is the reluctance of
 animal owners to kill or dispose of 9 | valuable animal even after It has shown its disposition as a man killer. In the case of rogue elephant 1t Is a difficult matter to get him out of the way, even when a deliberate attempt is made. Unless the proper weapons and excel lent shots are at hand a full-grown ele- phant will stand being shot at for an hour or more without showing elgns of giving up the fight. Several cases are on record where a rogue elephant, after having been chained down for cxecu- ton, has broken loose from his bonds and driven his executioners to seek places of safety.
 The chances which an elephant man Is forced to take wkre never better il- frustrated than in the ease of Big Char ley" the brute which killed Hoffman at Peru IndA on Thursday. Hoffman had been with him for years and the brute had often shown great affection for him. Hoffman wag man subject to moods, and at times he had been (known to lie down in front of his huge 'charge and half in fun ask the elephant to kneel on him and end it all.
 Come on, Charley" he would say: I'm tired of 1t all Life is not worth living. Kneel down on me and end It."
 But Charley would coil his trunk around him and lift him up to his feet. Then he would trumpet with eatisfac- tion and Hoffman would give him a choice inotsel to eat.
 Almost every man who has to do with elephants or other tremendously heavy animals has been more or less seriously injured by them by accident. One of the oldest elephant men in the business was almost crushed to death in game of elephant football. He was in the ele- plant barns one night when a big tusk- CT tackled somewhat smaller brute and gave him a shove which sent him off his feet. Tn the fall which resulted the elephant man was caught under the falling elephants head and was so badly crushed that he has never re- gained his health. Half the men in the I business can show big sears or other relics of what was possibly only love pat on the para of their big charges. The daring of the men is shown by the fact that 1t Is no trouble to get keepers for such brutes as "Gipsy" and other elephants and tigers which have rec- ord of form two to half a dozen men killed or crippled for life Chicago Tribune
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provided in the bill is much after the order of that which has been tested Tn | South Carolina. The governor is to ap- point a commissioner to carry out the
 and comptroller are to form a State 1 board of control. In each county there
 is to be local board Of control, which
 is to grant license to county dispensers to sell. There is to be only one dispen-
 for special reason by the State beard of control. The county dispensers, as far
 as possible. and all officials in the sys-
 tenn are to be persons who do not drnl.
 intoxicants. and all are to be under
 heavy bond. The county dispensers are
 made liable to suits by Wives, parents,
 etc., for damages resulting to them
 through infractions of the law. Liquors
 are to be bought by the commissioner
 from distilleries or breweries in the
 State when they can be had as cheap
 and of as good quality as can be pur-
 chased elsewhere. All are to be tested
 by the State chemist, and none which, arc impure will be purchased They are
 to be put into packages containing not less than half pint nor more than gallon, and the dispenser is to sell in
  these original packages, the seals of which must not be broken nor the liquor drunk on the premises of the dis penser. Heavy penalties are prescrib- ed for violations of the law. and State officials are authorized to seize as con traband all liquor brought into the State except that which comes to the commis- sioner and heavy penalties are imposed upon common carriers for bringing it. Travellers, however, may bring not more than gallon as part Of their baggage. Druggists are permitted to buy from Che dispensaries such liquor as may be needed in compounding medicines, but they are not permitted to sell 1t as a leverage. Persons wishing to buy liquos must make written application upon of ficial blanks, and it Is to be refused to minors and drunkards. Places where illicit sales of liquors are made are de- clared public nuisances, with provi- sion for the protection of hotels. A ma jority of the voters of a county can pre- vent the issue of a license to dispenser In that county
 Florida undoubtedly needs good li- luors and good roads. If this bill givss her both it will be great public ben lift
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SHOOTING HAILSTORMS.

| The rape-growers of France are
 much encouraged by the belief that they
 can fatally shoot an approaching hail.
 storm. The United States consul at
 Lyons, who has seen the operation, also
 believes they can. The consul tells of
 having been present during the visible
 dissipation of several trouble-threa | ing storms. The machinery used was
 gun in the shape of an inverted cone, the opening at the mouth of which was a little less than two and one- half feet
 in width. A tripod three feet in height
 supported it. The gun itself was six feet, six inches above the tripod. At it's base was forged breech which held forged iron block. In the center of this block was an aperture six inches long, about the size of large dynamite cartridge, in which was placed metal lie cartridge containing eighty grains of blasting powder, wadded with cork and tafhped like an ordinary miners blast. It was discharged by needle on lever attached to the base of the forged iron holder On an occasion al- luded to Consul Covert saw fifty shots pierce the approaching storm clouds. The effect was at once noticeable. The clouds either ceased to move or changed their direction. They were riddled, so to speak, and broken into fragments, and only mild and refreshing shower of rain came instead of tho threatened precipitation of destructive hail.
 dailstorms have done so much dam age to vineyards in France that he ability to dissipate them with cannon will be very valuable. It is believed | that one cannon will afford protection to seventy-five acres.
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 cities. It has been generally thought that this method of selling beer was illegal, but it has been permitted for years, and has grown steadily in fa- vor. A petty quarrel between the County, board of Charleston and the State board as to which has the right to appoint beer dispensers has brought from the attorney general the unwel- come opinion that neither has the right. In his view the beer dispensa- ries are without warrant of law. The beer dispensers are alarmed out, un- less the courts should take action, there Is no apparent reason why what has been done illegally for some years may not continue. to be done.
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A Chicago Chunsonnctte.

Break! break. break on your three horse
 truck. Q man, With the help of the husky wreckers of
 your covered moving van. Break all that is good and costly, break
 skillet and stewing oaii. For my appetite flew, seeing things that
 you do On eating I've placed a ban. Break! break. break the plano that seems
 to buck At the efforts of your great husters to
 heave it upon q truck. No longer l yearn for music, for strains of In my dreams come the smash and the
 whitening crash Of the chattels once dear to me. Break, break. break all the fragile china
 ware And pile 1t up in the ruins of niy once loved parlor. chair. Lay low the extension table and splinter
 the cbiffonier, Keep on breaking away all the llvclong day, For this is your time of the year. Break! break. break nll the legs from the
 kitchen range, And likewise the parlor heater. l'H stt
 them on bricks for change. Break all that you haven't broken, then break away with your men With n last good day, since we re parting For never will move again.
 Chicago News.
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swered without q moments hesitation, ''The locomotive e"-Waehington Star. Major Crust--So you refuse me, Miss Pendant? | Miss F.--I am very sorry, Major Crust, but your son just proposed to me, and I accepted him. Major C.-Good gracious! You don't mean to say the boy has been such a fool!-Tid-Blts. How did you attain the reputation of being so very profoundly inquired the habitual interrogationist.
 By making the idea in a poem diff- cult to discover" answered the great author.
 And by what method is this best &C., complished?"
 By not putting any idea into it."-- Washington Star.
 Mrs. De Good--Why aren't you going to church?
 MT. De Good-Last Sunday the roof leaked, and three or four drops went down my back. 2 Mrs. De Good--The roof has been re-. paired since then.
 MT. De Good--IIuh! Then they'll be wanting money to nay for the repairs, New York Weekly.
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PR EPAR I1ORY.

Billzins--Im trying to cure myself of the tobacco habit.
 Bifkins-HoW?
 Bilkins-By smoking some cigars my wife bought me.-Ohio State Journal.
 Juvenile visitor Cat dog show)--What kinu of dog is this!
 Attendant-Pure bulldog miss.
 Juvenile visitorHow can anything be pure with mouth like that?-Chi- cago Tribune.
 American mamma Gin Paris)-Hush, dear. We mustn't talk So loud. We'll be overheard.
 American daughter-Thats all right, mamma. We're talking French.-Chi- cago Tribune.
 What is the great motive which now auilnates the ambitions of the human race?' inquired the abstruse lecturer And the man who thinks the rairoa ds are becoming an irresistible power an
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SHE COULD SPEAK TT.
The old Mammy's French Succeeded

The Old Mammy's French Succeeded Where Ollendorf Failed
 A dapper little man with a goatee
 very much waxed mustachios (both
 hirsute appendages palpably dyed) and
 the unmlstakable air and manner of a
 Frenchman boarded down town ave- afternoon. He had a couple of heavy grips in his hands, so that 1t was evil
 dent that he was bound upon journey.
 The car was filled The Frenchman de-
 posted his two grips In the aisle and
 made grab for a strap. The car was just then getting on the straight track from the Circle, and the Frenchman
 missed his clutch for the strap and fell sprawling in the lap of very large, very black, but very cleanly looking old nanny, who had an old fashioned ban danna wrapped around her head and heavy gold loop earrings in her ears. The Frenchman's silk hat was knocked off his head and the top button of his light overcoat flew off as he sprawled about in the lap of the old black mann
 my. The passengers Uttered. In re- covering himself the dapper little Frenchman sat for an instant on the edge of the mammy's lap, and he looked for all the world so like precocious in fantile charge of the old black woman that the laugh that went around the car was more or less jhstifiable. At length the Frenchman scrambled to his feet, however. picked up his silk hat, waved 1t gracefully at the old nanny and rnurmured some words of apology.
 "Oh, dats all right, honey" mur- mured the old black woman. "No hahn done Ans done held many a bigger boy dan yo' all in dis heah ol, lap O mine!"
 Then another and a louder laugh went around the car. It was clear that the Frenchman hadn't understood what the old nanny had said. for he looked at her in puzzled sort of way, and then looked into the faces of the passen- gers as if to discover the reason for the prolongation of their merriment.
 The passenger next to tho old mann my left the car at the War department and the Frenchman took the seat. Before the car turned into Eff teenth street he began to manifest con- uneasiness, and beckoned to the conductor. The Frenchman jab- bedered in his language at the conduc- tor, who regarded him with a bland grin. The Frenchman wanted to get off the car at the Pennsylvania station, but he didn't know how to express the mat ter in English, and the more he talked at the conductor the more the conductor grinned at him and shook his head.
 At length a shy looking young man across the aisle, blushing a good deal,
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FLR TENT pTBLIC SPIRIY.


 The more the people think and talk over the action of the four Police com- missioners who put officers on the vet eran reserve list who are still capable of doing full duty the more disgusted they become, and the indications are that the public meeting which Is to be held tomorrow evening will be spir- ited affair. If the offending Police com missioners are not already convinced that their action isn't approved they will be convinced by what is said and done at that meeting. They will then have the choice of obstinately standing in defiant opposition to the wish and opinion of their fellow-citizens or back ing gracefully or ungracefully out of their indefensible position. By the way, has anybody thought to invite them to appear before the meeting tomorrow evening and give what explanation they want to give? If nobody has 1t would be polite and just if somebody would. Many wduld like to hear what they have to say, if anything, and they would be interested in hearing what is said, even thought they might not like it.
 It is to be hoped that some citizen or citizens will go to the meeting to-mor- rdw evening with a plan, and that talk will not be the only result of the meet Ing. Prompt and wise action is needed.
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leaned over and addressed the French man in his best article of Ollendorf French The Frenchman gazed at the young man with a on-comprehending stare. Clearly the young mans French must have been very Ollendorflsh in- deed. The puzzled shakes of the Frenchman's head only aroused the young man across the aisle to further linguistic efforts. The whole car was
 Continued on Seventh Page.)
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An opinion by the attorney general of South Carolina may lead to sus- pension of the beer selling privileges granted by the South Carolina Board of Control. The dispensary, when es- tablished. was restricted to the dispens- beer, however and the dIspensary au- tlorities. seeing opportunities to add to the earnings of the system by di- verting the profits otherwise accruing to the illegal handlers of the beverage
 granted beer privileges in many of the
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GOOD t 0G0RS AND GOOD RO4DS.
 That is an ingenious and pleasing mo- tion which has found expression in a bill now pending in the Florida legisla- ture. The idea is to put the liquor traf- tic in the hands of the State government and to apply the profits of the business to making public roads. The machinery
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents. and other small adv ertisements, One Cent Word each ID. serriou. Five Cents Word for iui' wees (seYen timesI. l.,
 Blsplay advertisements, per Inch. one 'n, to sertioD, S1.20: each subsequent insertdon, G ro cents; one week. S320: one month. SlO: o1s cents per line. Notices of Births. Marrt- ages, beaths, and Funerals. 60 ceDts each' Loc8. Notices. 1N cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited 70 thetr sunobjcctionable). and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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This dress Is of white ground foulard, lowered with black. The lapels are of lace, tied across the front and orna- mented with application flowers of sky blue muslin. This trimming is repeat ed on the skirt The corselet Is striped with black ribbon velvet.
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In St. Louis there is concern known as the American Electric Power company. Its president and other members are under ten years of age. The company furnishes the light for the house occupied by the parents of the president. The boys operate the plant without assistance from older persons and consider themselves rivals of the great lighting companies of the city.
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iAA DARLINGTON PUBLISHING co
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.

DELlvERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY 15 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MoNTH, $3 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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Oscar w. Chapin of Buffalo, for him. self and others, has commenced legal proceedings against the police authori- ties, commissioners, etc, of Buffalo, re- nuiring them to show cause why they should not be removed from their posi- tions for failing to force the directors of the Pan-American Exposition to close the grounds on Sunday. It is thought that the exposition may be over before this question can be settled.
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A rich landowner near smolensk, Russia. died not long ago. and after the funeral his heirs looked vainly for the will but without success. A few days later young man, seeing a gra- phophone on the table in the library put into it record which he supposed was that of popular Russian song. To his amazement and terror, instead of song he heard the dead mans voice recite the words of the missing will The heirs were notified of the discovery, lawyers were summoned, and they lost no time in examining the record containing the will. It was found to be fawless. and the question then arose. whether a will left on graphopone cylinder would be deemed valid by the courts. This question is now before the Supreme court of St. Petersburg.
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There has been talk that the shoe
 making industry is leaving New Eng land, but the Boston Commercial Bull letin says that during the past three months 1t has been impossible to pick up paper published in any of our New England shoe towns without sec ing accounts of manpfacttrers who are building new factories because they have outgrown their present quarters, or else they intend to stay where they are and build additions. Tn more than one instance these additions are larger than the original plants.
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It has been discovered that there are four Confederate veterans in the poor house of Laurens, South Carolina, driv- en there by the infirmitles of age and by destitution. It is said similar state of affairs exists in several coun- ties of South Carolina, and that these men are denied the right of ballot. Gar lington Camp, of Laurens, has appealed to other camps of Confederate Veterans and to the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy to speak out in this mat ter in an effort to remedy the evil. The State camp will be asked to memorial ize the State legislature at it's next ses- sion to provide, by appropriate legisla- tion. for the establishment, at some suitable place in the State, of home for the needy Confederate veterans
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According to German papers, Profess sor pr. Voges, the director of the Na- tional Board of Health at Buenos Ayres, has found remedy for mosqui- to bites, He states that he discovered 1t by accident during his trip to Para quay to study the pest He had been supplied with all sorts of remedies, among them ''naphthalene," an article of no value whatever against the pest; but on using 1t for mosquito bites he found 1t of surprising effect. It neu- tralizes the poison, even when the spot bitten is greatly inflamed. If fresh bites are rubbed with naphthalene no swelling follows. The professor consid- CTS naphthalene almost a specific against mosquito poison.