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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
GRANT AND OCHlLTREE.
The Grievance the President Had
Against the Colonel


After the war" said n veteran Of
hceholder. "a warm friendship sprang
up between General Grant and Colonel
Tom Ochiltree. although they had
Fought on opposite sides. When Grant
appointed n large number of pcopIe
VIII had been under him to federal
ofiic' .. he also appointed Ochiltree.
Tom had been under him I'm a sense.
Tom was made United States marshal
In Texas.
well, you know. in those days Tom
took a very deep interest in the ponies
and was sort OF patron saint Of rae
Ing In the new southwest. He was so
much admired by horsemen generally
that II became quite the thing for own
ers to name their horses after him. At
one time there We're not less than n
dozen horses running at various tracks
under the name OF Tom Ochiltree.
Everything went lovely until Tom
came up to Washington. several months
after assuming his new duties. In the
course OF his visit he called at the
White House for conference with
the president. After talking general
ties for awhile Tom noticed that the
president seemed TO have something on
his mind-didn't appear to be rs frank
and cordial as usual He finally asked
General Grant what the trouble was,
limiting that the chief executive might
not be satisfied with the manner IN
which the marshars office was being
conducted.
well, I'll tell you.' said the presi-
dent 4 don't like the way you've been
running about the country, following
the races. l see by the sporting col
umns Of the papers that first you are
In Louisville. then you're in New York,
next you're in Saratoga and next some
where out west. l would rather you
stayed at home and looked after your
office. Washington Post.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01

The value of odd minutes is illus
trated by story told in curious lit
tie volume OF advice printed in Eng
land. a large firm required manager
for one of its departments and ap-
pointed ~ O'Clock for arrangement OF
terms with the selected applicant. He
arrived at five minutes past -, to find
a dozen directors waiting. the chair
man watch In hand. The chairman
announced that they could not engage
a subordinate who had wasted an hour
of his employers time. and on the ap-
plicant deprecating such exaggeration
the chairman explained that each d.
rector had wasted five minutes and
that made an hour In all.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
The Three Meal Habit.

Our three meal habit is a fearful
tax on our working capacity. 1t trebles
the temptation to overeating. Our
champions stagger under the weight of
a physiological handicap. One-half Of
the functional energy OF the system is
diverted by the exigencies Of digestion.
No other hygienic mistake has done so
much to make us a generation OF dys-
peptics as the custom OF after dinner
work Its victims. moreover, incur the
risk OF contracting that form of moral
dyspepsia called pessimism. 1t tends
to rob the working day of its reward.
Success
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
WORTH
$4,000

Every OF the people of Virginia should know
offices We below list Of
offices ask by
We i've will. et IN
CONDITIONS In to fort
yearly paidup
with n
If You
cluseon at
aud will be- received ftcr
swering simply number thus:
After all of the
rtot address the bottom of the fold and place
sealed envelope" don thing this envelope Write n
telling us That you are sending enclosed solution problem and
hNou order Also order sealed
FREE LANCE, Fredericksburg,
The smaller envelopes will he numbered
@2 when "A of three leading
sealed order which land
of the priD The will be
of June I'd,
Through wekn Mai
chant this handsome will he of
"stone windows that all Doubling ThOm
Just what when call this II
al ct to
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
SECONDHAND SMOKES.
selling Cigar stubs l. "a Lucrative.
business In Naples

Buying and selling cigar strbs fs n
large and lucrative business In tho
city OF Naples. and many persons are
engaged IN II. Some OF them have
htt'e stalls or shops near the docks
the arsenals and the manufacturing
establishments where workingmen are
In the habit of passing to ana from
their tasks. Others. with less capital
have little stands at street corners n
board laid across a saw horse. upon
which their stock In trade is displayed
while the petty dealers in this line OF
business exhibit their stock I'm little
piles upon tile sidewalk. sometimes
not even newspaper being under
them.
The supply comes from the cafes.
restaurants. hotels and other public
places. Men and women pick over the
garbage heaps and the dust boxes. and
boys run up and down the pavements
in front of the hotels early every morn
ing looking for "snipes." Some of the
restaurant and cafe keepers sell the
privilege of picking up the cigar
stumps in their places TO dealers. and
the proceeds amount to n considerable
sum during the year. In other places
1t Is one of the perquisites of the head
waiter.
Some of the stubs are taken 10 fac
tories. where they are cut up and man
ufactured into cigarettes and smoking
tobacco. but the greater part Of them
are sold TO the lower classes of work
ingmen. sailors and dock wallopers
who smoke them in their pipes. At
the entrance OF the navy yard. which
is upon one Of the most frequented
streets in Naples and I'm very con-
spicuous place. half Il dozen of these
secondhand cigar dealers can be found
when the men are coming out OF the
gates at the close of their days work.
Ihe employees are not allowed to
smoke inside, and their wages do not
permit them to indulge I'm the luxury
OF cigars or even smoking tobacco nj
nrst hand, so. for centissimo. which
Is the smallest coin imaginable-one
hfth OF l cent-they buy n cigar stub.
crumble ii up i'm their hands and cram
II into their pipcs.--Chicago Herald.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
AIcohoI and Tobacco.

According to the London Lancet
when evil effects ensue from smoking
tobacco they are very much intensi-
fed by indulgence in alcohol. Pyri-
dine, the chief poisonous constituent of
tobacco smoke, is not so easily soluble
In water as in alcohol. Pyridine bases
can be easily traced in the mouth of
an immoderate smoker and especially
the smoker of cigars. An alcoholic
drink is, therefore. calculated quickly
to wash out this poisonous oil and to
carry ii into the stomach.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01

my friend" said the missionary who
was trying to convert the wealthy man
DARN, do you not know that II Is
easier for the camel TO get through the
eye of the needle than
Ethan 1t is for me-" the mandarin in
terrupted. Ito get through the need OF
an idol. eh? Very Philadelphia
Record.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
LIQUORS. CIGARS, GROCERIES.

LIQUORS. CIGARS, GROCERIES.
Mis-. j. r. Monroe,
Commerce St, fredericksburg, Va, keep
the largest and most varied stock o
Wines and Liquors in the city. She can
furnish you Whiskey at prices from 81 40
to - per gallon. 1t includes Star A,
Kentucky Rye, Live Oak, Lord Balti.
more, King Lear, Jefferson Co. Rye, Wig.
wan, Indian Hill and many Others.
Wines OF every description. Apple
Brandy $3.50 to 81 per gallon. A full
line ofCigars and Tobacco, Groceries, etc.
MRS. j. +. MONROE.
BIB Commerce St.. fredericksburg, Va
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
A word and note OF song are Otter
crystallized tears set to music.

When 1t was proposed TO Dmiu un~
Central Pacific railroad. civil engi
neer Of twenty-five years experience
reported that the road could not be
completed in twenty years with all the
money OF the Bank OF England to back
the enterprise. But 1t was built and
completed seven years before the expi-
go. 49, ~ the time fixed by congress-.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
PITY TO Punish Both.

Strenuous Father Tommy, this hurts
me as badly as IT hurts youl
Tommy-Wel,. then. pop (boo-hooD
seems to me there's no use in two suf-
ferin' for the faults OF one! Let's call
it off.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01

Ascum-Hello. Where did you get
that black eye?
Downes-Hunting
Ascum-Gun kick you?
Downes-Oh, no. was just hunting
trouble.-Philadelph Press.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-05-01
18th
Rear

Ihis mas been our banner year ana ~.
nave done more businessthan ever before W.
nave the conndence OF the people, aud q proof
OF II - the increase OF our trade sfPure
cause OF Our stock IL the largest. purest
ana best selected In the state, and we can
Onr Canada ~ ~, ., SryoSo1y.
neIlea Mhiskey on the market Farmer's
Dehght, Tenderloin Rye. Kentucky club rive
onel Rye. all AT $500 per gallon, nave os
equal Blue Ribbon. SL9c. Apple BIossom'
$i,a9, Choice Rye, $3.50. and Golden Star'
80 per gal Apple Brandies. $500 and
$500. Peach, blackberry, California. French
snu finger Brandies. Kidney Gin, New Eng.
land and Jamaica RUNS, Wines and Beers
TRI Al WILL cnnrur.rl... 49,.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
UMPIRES FOR MORE PAY
BOSSES OF THE DIAMOND BELIEVE
RAI= - WAGES NECESSARY.

CHICAGO, Jan. 30.-One of the star
UInpireS in the business has as yet af
fixed his signature to a contract. and,
what is more, Eot man in the bunch
tional leagues offer liberal increase over
the salaries paid to umpires last season.
Although they have formed no combina-
ton and entered into no formal agree
ment, the few really good umpires in
the business will not sign contracts I'M
til their demands as regards a raise in
wages are granted by the magnates. The
best known, and, for that matter, the
today are Cantillon, Sheridan and Con-
molly, of the American league staff, and
EInslie, O'Day and Brown, of the Ma
bonal league forces. Not a man in the
list has signed a contract with any league
for the coming season, and, furthermore,
they are apparently in no hurry to do
business In Joint of fact, the only two
umpires now Under contract are Bob
CarrutherS and silk O'Loughlin
One umpire who ranks with the best
and is wintering in Chicago gave a true
outline 'of the situation yesterday He
said:
NO; we have not formed any trust
nor combine, but we have simply decided
not to sign contracts until the American
and National league people see fit to
give US fair salaries. We all know that
ar umpire can either make or spoil n
game Of ball. An Incompetent man can
set the greatest bunch of ball players off
their feet by giving a few bad decisions,
and, what is more, set the average base
hall crowd crazy. In these days, when
ball players are drawing S., 900 and 81 00O
for their seasons work, it is only fair
that umpires who have made their rep
utations should receive fair pay None
OF US is in hurry to do business. but
if the magnateS are willing to talk bnsi-
ness, we stand ready to meet them half
way. Then, and not until then. will we
consIder the subject of signing contracts -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
TERRY TO MEET HARRIS
MGOVERN WILL CONSIDER OFFER
If SULLIVAN is DEFEATED.

CHICAGO, Jan. 3O.-Abe Pollock, Har-
ry Harris friend, and the man who has
posted a forfeit of $500 for Harris to meet
any man in the world at 122 pounds fOc
the featherweight championship, found
Sam Harris, Terry McGovern's manager,
yesterday afternoon. Before the pair
parted Pollock had secured a promise of
a match for Harris against McGoVern,
the weight to be 124 pounds at the ring
side
Pollock told Harris frankly what he
had done and Harris listened attentive
ly. cpl give you a MATCH Sam said,
after some thought ST will promise you
this: If Terry beats Dave Sullivan at
Louisville, on Feb. p, 1 will match Nc
Govern against your man for the first
fight after that, and will agree to have
Terry make 124 pounds at the ringside.
l know we can get a purse somewhere.
This was the agreement when the men
parted.
H K Wilkinson. representing several
rich Omaha followers of the boxing
game, called on Pollock yesterday, and
said that he would cover his forfeit OF
$500 today in behalf of Oscar Gardner.
when the money is up I will make a
proposition to you," Wilkinson said.
Gardner can beat any man in the world
at from 116 to 122 pounds, and we are not
going to let you get away with the title
without a fight for it,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
NO GAME FOR CHICAGO
MINNESOTA WILL NOT PLAY MICH
IGAN IN THE WINDY CITY.

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Jan. 30.-Director
Baird made an announcement last night
that will be hailed with joy by all Mich
igan football enthusiasts, as the cordial
relations with the University of Chicago
are assured for three years at least.
Mr.. Stage and | have had considerable
correspondence said Baird land things
are in such shape now that there is no
longer any doubt about Michigan-Chicago
football games.
I'VE will play on the Midway next
fall on Nov. IA. The year following We
play there on Thanksgiving day. In 1904
Chicago will come to Ann Arbor for
some date in November, outside of
Thanksgiving day. We will work so as
to conflict as little as possible with Chi
cago in our games with other teams n
Chicago.
Then you will not play Minnesota in
Chicago next thanksgiving?
mo. We will not. Nov. Is is too close
to Thanksgiving day anyway. We will
play the Gophers either in Detroit or Ann
Arbor, but probably the latter
ANY definite arrangements for a. game
with Wisconsin next afall?"
NO; not yet. But we have in nowise
abandoned our contention that we har e
as much right to play in Chicago as any
where else
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
CENTURY ROAD PRIZES
WILL BE RACED FOR UNDER NEW
CONDITIONS.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Members Of the
Century Road Club association will have
sixteen club prizes of various descrip-
tons to compete for this year. Novel and
up-to-date conditions will obtain The
century and mileage contests will not be
separated. The first century and mileage
medal will be awarded to the member
making the best record in both these
classes of riding. Thus the awards will
be for the best general performance OF
the year, instead of for each kind of rid
ing separately.
The new plan adopted by the Century
Road Club association is to allow 120
points for every century run made with
in the standard limit of fourteen hours,
and l point for every mile ridden in adj
ditiOn. This places premium Of 20 points
on century Each members record at
the end of the year will be as many
points as he had ridden miles, plus 20
points for each century ridden inside of
fourteen hours.
The women members will contest for
the Cornish trophy solid gold medal,
to be awarded to the woman making the
greatest number of single centuries in
the year. Only one century may be COM
menced within any period of twenty-four
hours, SO that under the fourteen-hOur
rule at least ten hours rest must be taken
between centuries
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
RYAN PUT GREEN OUT
TOMMY WAS THE AGGREssOR ALL
THROUGH
The Frisco Boxer Could Not Get to
His Shifty opponent, and the
Latter Pounded Him to
n Full Stop.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 30.-Tommy Ryan,
81 this city. who claims the middIeweight
championship of the world, tonight
knocked out George Green, of San Fran
cisco, in the seventh round of what was
scheduled as a ten-round contest before
a large audience in Armory hail.
From the first round, in which Green
was forced TO take the count, until the
decisive blow was landed, the result was
never in doubt. Ryan was the aggressor
TIN 0ughout, and Green was at no time
able to Withstand the furious rusheS of
his opponent.
In the first round Ryan made it apparent
thai it was 70 be a fast fight, so far as
his side Of the argument was concerned.
a hard right in the ribs, he landed again
with his left on Green's jaw with such
telling effect that the latter was forced
TO take the count.
In the next round Ryan rained body
blows on his opponent, whose distress
caused him again to go to his knees for
mVe seconds. Just before the bell sound
ed Ryan again knocked his man through
the ropes. Green made the best showing
in the third round, when he landed half
dozen times but without any apparent
effect on Ryan.
In the beginning of the next round
Ryan landed a clean highlander on
the jaw, which knocked Green down. Aft
er this Green was in great distress and
ran around the ring to avoid his OPP
pcnert. Ryan was waiting now only to
land knockout, and, after one minute
and twenty seconds in the seventh round
quick as a flash, he landed another right
on the jaw and Green went fiat on his
back He was counted out and had to
be carried to his dressing room and re-
VlYed with some difficulty. Ryan an
nOGnced tonight that he is ready to fight
any middleWeiSht in the world.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
RACING BUSINESS GOOD
NEW YORK COMMISSIONERS SO
REPORT.

NEW YORK. Jan. SO-The New York
state racing commissioners, August Bel
mont, E. d. Morgan and John Sanford,
in their annual report to the state legis-
lature, find the business of the racing
associations and the breeding industry
for the year 1901 to have more than full
filed expectations. They believe that
the stability of the breeding industry can
be best maintained by breeding thor
oughbred horses, which is the first es-
Sential.
Overnight races we must have" says
the report, "but no racing association
SHOULD be permitted to confine itself to
these overnight races. 1t cannot do 50
and fill any needed or desirable place in
the racing system in this state"
1t is .poinred cut that last year the
sales of th0roughbreds at public auc-
tiCn in this state amounted to 81, e21, 7SS-
a sum far i'll excess of any ever before
realized in any single year. OF this
amount 1851, Ga was paid for yearlings,
$22c, O76- for brood mares, $317,070 for horses
in training, $4,000 for stations and $751;
0oO for weaulings There We're 1,677
yearlings sold, and, as they realized
$780,. OS4, the average was a fraction in
excess of $500 a head.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
LEWIS QUICK FINISH
YOUNG PLUNGER HAD A SHORT BUT
METEORIC CAREER.

SAN FRANCISCO, jan 9O-Harry
Lewis, the young plunger who for a few
short days dazzled local race track cir
cles, is missing, and many mourn his
departure, which was very sudden.
He left last night for Chicago, 'weIch-
ing on about $4,000 worth of bets and
leaving many creditors. Yesterday Lew
is gave a bad check to George Rose, and
the other bookmakers being warned,
only one or two accepted his markers. ?
They demanded coin. He tried to place
$4,000 on Lass of Langdon at New Or
leans, but the bank on which he drew
check returned the answer he had no
funds.
Then Lewis left the track, but it was
known only to a few that he borrowed
several good sized sums, pawned jewelry
and, after clearing up quitesa sum, left
on the Santa F'e limited for Chicago. 1t
now turns out he had no money, but
won a large sum on Muresca, and on the
strength of this set up as a plunger.
Lewis career here was short, but me-
teoric. He is supposed to have won in
a single week 10000. Most Of this money
was quietly withdrawn from banks yes
terday. Lewis claimed before going that
Denny Lynch tried to beat him out of
$1,000 by claiming to have. bet that sum
at Hot Springs for him, while the money
was never placed. Lewis probably will
be officially declared a welcher tomor-
row and ruled off the turf.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
COMISKEY FEELS HAPPY
PRESIDENT OF WHITE SOX HAS
TEAM OF PENNANT WINNERS.

President Comiskey, Of the White
Stockings, was at baseball headquarters
yesterday minus his worried look for the
first time in several weeks. The occa-
sion for his returning good spirits was
the completion of his team for the
coming pennant race and the solution Of
the third base problem with which he has
been struggling all winter
COmiSkey incidentally disclosed the Dol-
icy he has been pursuing in putting to-
gether his team by calling attention to
the individual and collective speed of the
men selected:
I'VE will beat a lot of teams next
year." said he, without their knowing
how we did it. And it will be Just be-
cause we will have them up in the air
all the time with men on bases On last
years work Green and Davis are the
slowest men of the regulars, and any
one who calls either of them slow gets
himself laughed at
The records bear out the White Stock
ing owner and indicate that the 1902 team
will probably be the fastest aggregation
on bases ever put together Isbeil last
season stole forty-eight bases. Mertes
and Jones were next with forty-four
apiece. Tom DAILY stole forty-two for
Hanlon's team. Strang, whose advent
rounded out the team day before yester-
day, stole thirty-nine bases and did not
play for several weeks of the season
in New York George Davis made thir-
ty-siX, and Danny Green thirty-five
steals respectively. That makes an aver
age of more than forty-one bases for the
seven regular men, and if Strang had
played the whole of the year it would
undoubtedly have been higher.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
DRAWN UP
COACH stage SAYS TROUBLE WITH
MICHIGAN IS SETTLED.

CHICAGO, Jan. Coach stagg yes
terday affirmed the statement of Man
ager Baird, of Michigan, that the final
agreement on football schedules had
been reached. The maroon coach further
stated that, in spite of the fact that thGe
was to be no direct stipulation in the
contract that Michigan must be govern
ed by Chicagos wishes in arranging
games with other teams on Chicago ter
ritory, it would be understood that Michi-
gan should not arrange any conflicting
contests.
Manager Baird will come to Chicago
the last of this week, and at this time
the agreement will be, signed said
Coach Stage. Il think Michigan will re-
gard it as obligatory that she arrange
no conflicting games on Chicagod ter
ritory. About other games during the
football season of next year [ have moth
Ing to announce yet. AS soon as the
agreement between Chicago and Michi-
gan puts that matter out of considera-
ton l will begin to arrange the complete
schedule.
''The Thanksgiving day game with
Wisconsin and the game with Michigan
on Nov Is were, of course the affairs
of most Vita Importance and were
looked after first
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
Fancy HorseHesh SOLD.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Among the high
est-priced animals disposed of at the
horse sale today were:
Hilda Hills, m, trotter, by Wilkes
Boy-Bonnie Bells to S. r. Holt, Indian
apolis, $1,000.
Molly Oil, b m, trotter, by Robert Nc
Gregor-Mabel, S. r. Holt, Indianapolis,
Helen Fife, br m, trotter, by Expo Ii
ton-Nalid, ]. S. Guyer, Westhost, Conn,
81 800
Zelda, m, trotter. by TJltfmus-Daugn-
ter of Mambrino Bitten, j. H. Shuts,
81 600.
Mapletta. br h. by Onward Beaulah,
j. H. Shuts, 81, 400
Besika, m, trotter, by Jay Bird BIZ
cara, S. r. Holt, $3.50.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-31
CaIifOrnfa-Via the Sunshine
Route"

If you contemplate trip to California
this fall or winter consult the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Ry.
Beginning Tuesday. Oct 18th, and ev-
cry Tuesday thereafter during the sea-
son high-class Pullman tourist sleep
ing car will leave St. Paul and Mime
arolis, running through to Los Angeles
without change-arriving Los Angeles
Saturday morning, four days.
The line is by the celebrated c., NJ &
st P. "Herdick Route" to kansas
City, thence over the A, T. & S. F. Ry..
making the most popular and interesting
route to the South Pacific Coast.
This service includes the personally
conducted feature" west of Missouri
Rivera special conductor accompanies
each car, whose duty it is to carefully
look after the wants Of each individual
passenger.
Write for the cheapest rates and for
copy Of the Sunshine folder, contain
ing full particulars Of this famous route
j. Il. Conley, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent,
c., NJ & St. p. Ry., st. Paul.