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Passing of Infant Prodiries.

A question analogous to that regard
ing departed stage favorites is the one:
What has become of the scores of in
FAINT prodigies who in the past quarter
century have fitted across the theatre
cal horizon, giving great promise of
histrionic success, but who have then
disappeared among the flotsam and jet
sam of stage life?
1t seems but yesterday that Corinne
was being heralded as child wonder,
an Infant phenomenon" and riding
through the streets of the one night
stands in her tiny dog cart as the fea-
ture of the Fannie Kimball Opera
Company. .-' ,. ,"'
Other infant prodigies have disap.
peared from public gaze entirely, 9th
ers are quite forgotten, while in a few
cases, at least, the bubble of precocious
genius burst quite as quickly as it was
blown. But in many instances the phe-
nomena really have fulfilled every
promise.
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Dodging an avalanche.

Orders were given last week by the
local council at Bleiberg to the peas
ants near that place to remove all out
side objects and to descend to the next
village in expectation of the fall of a
lawine. The peasants objected to this
and one of them, a miner, named Tai
ga, refused to leave until 3 o'clock in
the evening, when a rumbling above
frightened him.
With a child in his arms he began
to descend in the darkness; but was
caught by the first lawine, which
knocked him down and rolled the
child down the hill. After finding it
with difficulty he looked round for
his wife and baby, who We're nowhere
within call a rescue party of half
a-dozen men, after much digging.
found the woman alive and breathing.
after being twenty minutes under the
snow.
The men had scarcely reached the
village, when the second lawine came
laundering down. Since the catastro-
phe of 1879 the cottages have been re-
moved some distance to the right Of
the mountain.-London Telegraph.
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Jim Jeffries has decided to train on
The Pacific coast for his coming battle
with Bob Fitzsimmons. The Califor-
MANS native air agrees with him, and
N his old training quarters he Will
indulge in the stunts deemed necessary
70 condition him for his second trial
Of skill with the man from whom he
wrested the championship title.
Fitz is getting into shape at Bath
Beach, assisted by one Gus Rubin,
who formerly aspired to high honors
among the heavies.
Thus separated by many leagues OF
space the rivals for the championship
crown can criticise each other to their
hearts content without risking per-
sonal encounter before the proper
time. That they will make the most
Of their opportunities in this direc-
ton cannot be doubted. The prellm-
mary exchange of courtesies and dis
sourtesies is apparently an indispen-
sable adjunct to championship fight
In these degenerate days.
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"GloRY" OF A TITLE.
Americans Love tn. Distinction .. MUG

Americans Love the DISTINCTION - Much
Is Any Foreigner.
It is interesting to note how the title
that any member of an American fami-
ly may acquire sheds its luster over the
whole family. They all bask in its
misunderstanding that title sheds
radiance and in spite OF the fact that it
only too often does not A titles a
title for a that, seems to be the para
phrase among some of Uncle Sans cit
izens, says the New York Sun. The
fact that Philadelphia girl who mar
ried the other day had beauty, money
and position seemed to be of small
moment. Her parents, even, were
scarcely mentioned in the newspaper
reports of the wedding. All other con-
siderations were eclipsed by the other
fact that her sister had married titled
foreigner, and not a very big title at
that. In every published account the
bride was described not as daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. -" but as the sis
ter Of the Countess - The fact
that the marriage of this same coun-
tess sister turned out most unhappily,
and that. finding it impossible to live
with her husband, she was some years
ago obliged to get legal separation,
counts for nothing. The titles the
thing.
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Glad for End.
A Milwaukee divine tells this story

A Milwaukee divine tells this story
on himself:
In a celebrated Eastern theological
seminary it is, or was, the practice of
the faculty to require the students to
take turns in delivering sermons,
custom, by the way, to which, as
rule, the young aspirants for eccle-
siastical honors did not take kindly.
Among those who attended the
school was a young man who now oc
cupies the pulpit of a well-known
Methodist church on the East Side,
who, however, formed an exception TO
the rule above mentioned.
In the course of time it came his
turn to speak. He prepared his dis
course with great care. and when Sun
day arrived he acquitted himself
handsomely, everyone present listen
ing to his words with marked atten-
ton.
At the conclusion of his remarks one
OF the professors mounted the rostrul3
and announced the hymn:
"Hallelujah, tits done"
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Jockeys who have been ruled on the
big tracks and are forced to make a
living ''on the ground" after having
been used to the luxuries which come
IN their prosperous days In the saddle,
have a hard time OF it. The life OF a
Jockey who makes the circuit OF coun-
ty fairs and has to rely upon what he
can make in this way is hardly one cal
sulated to attract, according to those
who know. Here is what one jockey
who has been there says: During one
season, being unable to ride on tho
big tracks. had to 60 to the bushes
In plain English I had to ride at the
county fairs throughout the West. I
was Ia the saddle morning, noon and
night, for didn't even spurn the OPP
portunity to ride under the glare OF
electric lights. For a winning mount
at county fair the jockey Is supposed
to receive IS, and for a losing mount
the munidoent sum Of 81. That's what
you're promised, but / have received
as low as $3.50. What 1 most dislike
about the county racing game Is the
fact that every Jockey, in order to hold
his own, must be fighter. There are
jockeys riding at these petit larceny
tracks that would put man out of
business for a IS bill. Then, again,
there are some good boys riding
necessity"
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PuEilis tic Notes.

While in New York Jeffries was
given a ST Bernard dog. FitZsimmons
while in Chicago purchased a young
lion.
kid" Mccoy is spending the winter
at Monte Carlo. He is accompanied
by Charley Mithell. The bank is still
running.
The gloves which Bob FitZsimm ons
will wear in his fight against Jeffries
are being made in Chicago under the
direction of Charles T. Essig.
The broken hand which Harry
Forbes received in his recent bout with
Tommy FeltZ is healing, and will not
interfere with the trip of the bantam
champion to England.
Terry McGovern is to make himself
useful in the management of the sta
BILE of thoroughbreds Of which he is
part owner, and which ran under the
name of Sullivan & Harris.
Benny Yanger says he will fight no
more good men at 1875 pounds, mark
that forces him to give away several
pounds in weight. Hugh McPaddep
has challenged Yanger to fight at 122
pounds ringside.
kid" Broad is labeled from Cleve-
land Ohio" He lived there when a
boy, but at the present he has no
home. The Morrison hotel in Chicago
and the Delavan in New York are his
stopping places when he is not fight
ing.
Tommy West is charged with quit
ting before Young Peter" Jackson at
Philadelphia, and Martin Julian. man
ager of the club before which the men
fought, refused to give West the losers
end of the purse. West has brought
suit against Julian for the amount.
Bob Fitzsimmons, who has engaged
Gus Rubin as sparring partner.
makes the statement that he considers
Rubin an exceedingly clever man. and
that the Akron giant will yet be heard
from in the ring. With this encourage
ment Rubin has decided to begin
fighting, and will meet Peter Maher at
Philadelphia.
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Capt. John A. Cook d Provincetown.
Mass. has started for San Francisco,
where his stanch steam bark Bowhead
awaits his coming ere pushing through
the Golden Gate to nose her way in
quest of whales Behring's straitward
and beyond. Capt. Cook goes to en-
gage in the ninth campaign of his IA
years of Arctic whaling life. With
him goes the sunny-faced wife who
has shared with him on other voyages
all the rigOrs and monotony of Arctic
winter life experienced while frozen in
on shipboard.
Capt Cook is one of the few men OF
this generation who have been sue
cessful in this perilous and little un-
derstood pursuit. Mrs. Cook is one Of
the few white women who have pene-
trated to the very heart of the wilder
ness of foes and bergs lying within
the Arctic circle-the one. in fact. who
has wintered farthest northeast on
that side of the continent; the one,
too, whose period of sojourn in that
land of desolation, darkness and dead
~ storms unquestionably exceeds that
OF any other white woman past or
present.
Capt. Cook is only IS years old, but
he has been sailor for % years, Tor
he took ship at the age of II, and
was master at the age of 10. In 1878,
at the age OF %, he made his first whal
ing trip, in the North Atlantic, as
boat steerer on the schooner William
Martin of Boston. In the autumn Of
1879 he sailed as second mate Of the
schooner Amelia OF New Bedford on a
similar cruise. In May, 1881, he went
out third officer on the ship California
OF New Bedford, cruised tn the South
Pacific, was absent 81 months, and the
voyage proved splendidly remunera-
tive.
He began his next cruise as first Of
icer on the bark John and Winthrop,
in 1885, and secured New Zealand and
Australian seas, and in 1887 he went
out in the same capacity on the bark
Coral for cruise in the Okhotsk sea-
On his next voyage, in the Arctic, in
1889, he was chief ohacer on the bark
Ohio-"the ship which never re-
turned"
While the Ohio was threading the
watery lanes in Behring's icy strait,
north bound, her bow was crushed in
below the waterline by a submerged
foe, the accident occurring just as the
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-18
Japanese and Americans.

The comparative beauty of the jap
anese belle with her western sisters
has been under discussion in America
recently. There is no doubt that the
Japanese woman is a pretty creature
SO long as she is young, but she fades
early, and does not grow into that
graceful maturity so characteristic of
tiae Americans and English. AS rule,
the japanese are extremely sallow,
and use much paint and powder. Beau
ty, according to the Japanese standard,
consists of q long, oval face, regular
features, almond-shaped eyes, slightly
sloping upwards, a high, narrow fore
head, and a mass of straight black
hair.
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Captain Cook.

ship was emerging from a closing field
into wide expanse of open sea-
The crew hastily broke out and
shifted cargo aft, thereby tipping the
ship by the stern and lifting the bow
upward. this proceeding enabling them
to bring the crushed portion above the
surface, when, with blankets and
boards, they temporarily "smothered"
the leak. The ships head was then
turned south. in an endeavor to get
from the ice-thronged sea- but the foes
enwrapped the craft afresh, wrenched
away the improvised leak-stopper for
ward, STAYED in the bows, and drove
the ship hard and fast upon an ad-
jacent island.
The masts were cut away, spars,
provisions and sails were gotten upon
the barren island, and the crew began
to make provision against future hard
ships, but on the day succeeding the
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-18
EPI6lInEAll
FAsis Tables Have che Bsst

EAolH Tables Aove tho best "A
lGorkees Affords.
The food bought by the Chinese liv.
ing in America is often quite as ex-
pensive as that of the whites. In
stead OF living almost altogether on
rice and chop suey, as is the general
impression, Cinnamon, being quite as
fond of meat as Americans, buy pork.
beef and chickens. Chop suey is made
to sell to curious white persons VINO
visit Chinatown. In the vicinity of
every large city where there is any
considerable Chinese colony, there are
truck gardens devoted to raising vege-
tables exclusively for Cinnamon from
seed brought from their native land.
These vegetables are unknown to
Americans. But the Chinese also con-
sumo large quantities of the finer
kinds OF American vegetables.
The Chinaman has a sweet tooth
also, and in the best Chinese restau-
rants in San Francisco, New York,
Chicago and other large cities, the best
of wines are served to Chinese as we'll
as American customers, together with
the finest and most expensive foods
In the average Chinese restaurants in
those cities good board can be had by
the Chinese for from $15 to $40
month, and these restaurants are
largely patronized. AS rule the
Cinnamon are compelled to lodge in
mean quarters; but in New York and
San Francisco there are a number Of
well appointed homes occupied by the
families of well-to-do Chinese mer-
chants, which the American seldom or
never sees. In New York there is an
apartment house, up to date in every
respect, occupied by Chinese families.
The Chinaman sticks as closely as he
can to the traditions and customs of
his country, which are strange to the
occidental, and, therefore, subject for
comment and often for derision.-
Forum.
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Jacob Schaefer's hacker in the matche.
which are proposed between the wiz
ard" and Vignaux, the French cham
pion, for the balk-line championship
and with Kerkau, the German, at
the "straight-raii' game. wheelock is
probably the most successful of all
American bookmakers and is gener-
ally reputed to be rich. He spends his
winters abroad, returning to New York
in time for the racing season. He Is
now in Paris. Wheelock was for a
long time a partner of George Slosson
in the billiard business in New York.
A letter received in Chicago from
Schaefer's wife says the wizards"
health is improved and speaks hope
fully Of the match proposed with Wig
nluX.
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,,t1li,I,e
Who Follow This III
erative. Occupation.

Arctic whaling is in most respects
quite unlike other whaling In south
Aern seas the boatmen are afforded an
sple space for any and all maneuverA
In Arctic waters the attackers must,
perforce Of circumstances, labor disad-
vantageously because of the cramped
and contracted working field.
The stricken bowhead usually at
tempts to escape its assailants by seek
ing cover beneath an ice foe. To prs
vent the headlong diving OF the whale
beneath the ice, the steamer Is rushed
between noe and whale for the Npur-
pose of alarming and turning the
mammal out toward the clear water.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-18
Where English Athletes Excel.

In only one branch of track and field
sports are Englishmen better than
Americans. That is long-distance run
ming. At sprinting, middle distances,
hurdling, jumping, weight-throwing,
vaulting, cycling, ETC., Americans are
easily superior 70 Great Britain 8 best.
The reason Englishmen are better
at long distances is because almost as
soon as their legs are strong enough
to stand the strain little schoolboys
are taught to run cross country. Part
of the weekly routine is one or more
long runs for all in the school who are
able to run. The same is true of row.
ing. English crews beat Americans
because most British oarsmen have
rowed singly or in crews since they
We're children.
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Zine Training Earns In Kentucky.

All over the famous blue grass re-
gion of Kentucky are farms where
horses are raised and trained exclu-
sively The business is coextensive
with the region, but finds it's center in
the neighborhood of Lexington The
horse farms about Lexington are
larger than are to be found in any
other part of the state. New York
millionaires have been attracted to the
business of producing fine horses and
have established estates that are
small Kingdoms in extent.
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s,.,t ss6.ooo to see, Ev.n.

The extremes to which some people
will go for revenge have seldom been
better demonstrated than in the case
of two rival shipowners in the north
of England some years ago. The
manager of a local colliery invited
tenders for the conveyance OF large
quantities of coal to America, and
when the contract was given to one
shipowner the other Immediately Sc.
to work to wreak vengeance.
He first approached the owners Of
the colMery and offered to carry the
coal across the Atlantic for shilling
a ton less than cost price, and as this
effected considerable saving to the COL
liery, the proprietors countermanded
the former contract and closed with
the second orfer. The shipowner was
content to suffer a loss for FIVE years
In order to spite his rival, and at the
end OF that time he capitulated, for
his revenge had cost him $S5, 900.
Success is more or less q bluff, ano
the reason SO few men succeed is that
they mostly all get calleo.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-18

fronts, the latter bordered with b
group OF tucks and edged with black
velvet Through these passes q black
velvet g1rdle fastened with an old sill
yer buckle over the plated front OF the
nuns yelling, or taffeta.
This front is crossed at the top, leav-
ing q slightly low neck. The wide
shoulder collar is or yellow cluny gui-
pure, bands of which finish the flowing
sleeves and the bottom of the skirt
LIE Costume Elegant.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-18

True luxury to the mind Of the aver
age woman consists in not thinking
about clothes at all; in being caught
out in the rain without having to give
a thought to ones apparel; in being
able to ring a doorbell without consid-
ering whether the brass will leave a
mark on ones glove and so render its
time of usefulness trifle shorter. It's
not the average woman who saves her
gowns until they're hopelessly out OF
date and then cuts them down for her
daughters; it's the exceptional member
of her sex who economies in this fool.
ish fashion.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-18

and beard Of supervisors have reported
a resolution to the erect that the per-
init for the month Of May be given to
the club that gives the most money to
public charity or to some public Inn
provement in sum not less than
$4,000, to be paid before the permit Is
granted. Supervisor Curtis said the
exhibition would draw at least $45. 900
in gate receipts, and it was only just
that the club securing SO valuable a
privilege should contribute to the pub
lie good.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-18
Trial for Derby Colts.

One of the American derby colts, The
Giver, a brown colt by Tiger-N1iss
Gift, won the Castro mile handicap
at Oakland, beating the Summers
gelding, Water Scratch, who was origi-
nally entered in the same derby, but
dropped out. Water Scratch was evil
IDENTIFY the best After getting away
badly and going wide at the turns he
was just beaten out by the winner in
the last stride, the latter going away,
however, at the end.
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i ~ 81 19po -, Coloea.
1sSS 10 makes woman look big, In
WineOme and classic. Clear
~ = Ton the blonde; cream white
80 6runette. 1t Is not the woman
NAAte Who has all the attention, and
- w3de-eyed young thing in white,
o1A . blue ribbon, who captures all
- sbeaux. 1T added to thy charms,
stA1ArOmeda, when, clothed in white,
AAGa didst traverse the isle OF Seri-
hns.'
Black suits the fair" Ovid tells u.s.
~ became Brisels; she was dressed in
AoaOk when she was carried OF. It is
- thinnest color stout woman can
WoAr; indeed, the woman who wears
s0lnak 70 best advantage is she who is
1out and has black eyes and hair. It
- IN echo from Paris that In gowns
~ oortAin colors flesh seems to shrink,
m others to expand. A subdued shade
- blue. hehotrope. and olive green,
VIM black, Of course, are the colors
a10or which flesh seems least osten-
AA1i0us, while wedgewood blue, pale
Hrav. ana almost any shade Of red are
- be avoided. Mauve and tho higher
0AaAe0 - green ere the two colors that
- deoosation about the throat and
aAouldeRs are especially helpful in di-
0inishinE the effect Of the flesh.
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L.s.ss 1A... for J.os....

Latest IAeos for Jackets.
The postilt0n will be attached to the
3nck OF some OF the new black Eaton
saaGkets for wear curing tho esrly
ii wing. Some OF the models Of these
t11Bart wraps are lined with pinkish
Woo1oG brocade and trimmed with fine
n6k SILK aDpliquea. Again, the jack
hAs bolt or the semblance OF q
! = from which the position falls,
Il takes the form OF q killed tab
two nat narrow ones. supplemented
- overlapping tabs that are shorter.
- give Q slight change, some dresses
have . detached belt and position.
watch can be worn or not as one de-
uasss. It Is simply one form Of girdle
~ osk - wear with shirt waist. and
Uaeh stock to match. 1t 10 very pretty,
hnaAs OF plain ar panue velvet
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Clusters CIR

Talking about IN
of a paragraph in III
concerning some
were said to be TIKI
animal owned by g
ter" says a writer
Ledger. 81 had
Office inspector w
and was in the
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The report that Herbert Kelsey am.
Fife Shannon are considering an offer
to enter vaudeville is without founda-
ton They have never thought OF
such thing. They will continue at
the head of their own company next
season under the management of Har.
ry r. Pierce.
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German. H,1,,ard Champion.

Kerkau, the German billiard cham
pion, who may play a match OF
straight rail- billiards with Jacob
Schaefer, the American champion,
holds the worlds record at that style
of play, but it is believed the "Wiz-
ard is easily his superior. In Ger
many the straight rail game is played
great deal, while Schaefer does not
play one such match inAfive years.
George Wheelock, the bookmaker, Is.
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Bobby Walthour, the champion bicy-
clist, will be confined to his bed several
days as the result of fall in the race
with Leander at Atlanta, Ga. The skin
was torn from the inside of both
hands; the flesh is exposed on one
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Mrs.. Cook.

Frequently the whale gains the Ice
and darts beneath. At such times tho
animal tows the fastened boat At q
whiriwind gait to seeming destruction,
against the ice. To avoid collision and
smashing the boat the crew then At
tach a float-usually poke" or blad-
der-to the line and cast line and 6oae
loose with 4 hope that the mammal
may arise and be captured in some
other lead" later. but often crows are
Obliged to sever the line without at
taching floats in order to escape col
nsion.
In southern waters whaling the prof.
its of the cruise are mainly derived
from the sale OF Oil extracted from the
''blubber." Scarcely any OF the oil OF
the Arctic whale is saved, the baleen,
or mouth bone" being the product
sought by Arctic whalemen.
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Muncie Is Polo champion.

Muncie and Anderson closed the
Western championship polo season,
Muncie winning the game, to 4, and
has the Western championship with 20
games won and IL lost.