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SPORTS AT COLLEGE PARK.
Field Day Of Maryland Agricultural
College,

Yesterday was the annual field day of
the Maryland Agricultural College at Col
lege Park. Mr.. William w. Weldon of the
class of 1897. but now of the Johns Hop
kins University, was present and particl-
pated in the events for the purpose of MAX
ing records for the future Maryland Agri-
cultural College students to break He
came out first in most everything he en-
tered. but will not receive any prizes.
The following is the outcome Of the ath-
letic contests:
In the tennis tournament finals Ogier de-
feated W. Mitchell, GO and 60, and also
defeated Crone, 60 and 6-1.
Weldon won the 1O0-yard run in 10 sec
onds.
The 12O-yard hurdle was won by Stoll.
c. G. Hines won the potato race.
The 22O-yard run was won by T. H. Wee
don in % 3-4 seconds
In the three-legged race Brown and By
ron won in Is seconds.
The quarter-mile race was won by Tur-
ner. Time, 50 2-5 seconds.
In the company relay race only Com
panies A and c entered teams. Company
A team won In 3 minutes and 81 seconds,
The egg race was won by WhIteford
with Hines second.
The standing broad jump was won by
Weldon, with feet and Inches
Weldon also wnn the running broad
jump, with - :. snches
Weldon VIC D., running high jump
with feet la, 3es.
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Ants and Farmers.
From the London Chronicle.

One Of the most interesting points con-
nected with ant existence Is that which
shows us the evolutions which has attended
their ways and works. All ants do not ex-
hibit the same standard Of reasoning power;
some live at a lower intellectual level than
others: and while certain species may be
said to represent the acme of ant-develop-
ment. others linger behind in the intellectu-
al race. Recently we had one of those USE
full corrections regarding certain ants
which exact observation affords. Professor
W. W. Wheeler, writing regarding the hab-
it's of a new farming or agricultural ant,
which was believed to sow "ant rice" and
reap it. tells us this belief must be given up
The ants certainly carry out from their
store grains Of the rice" which have be-
gun to terminate, and place them outside
the nest There the seeds grow, and it has
been believed that the crop thus accident
ally produced represented an actual sowing
of the plant by the insects The growth of
the rice is a pure accident, and the idea
that these ants are farmers will therefore
require to be deleted from the pages of the
text books.
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Not q Wife to Be Trified With.
ON the London Telegraph

From the London Telegraph.
The Times of India tells the following
story to show the character of the Arabs OF
Yemen. among whom there have been some
disturbances lately. man OF the Zaraniks,
who has several times cut the new tele-
graph lines, and who was punished more
than once, was caught on one occasion by
an Arab sheik in charge of the lines. The
sheik intended to send him TO Needy for
imprisonment, but the wife OF the accused
came In and stood as a guarantee for his
future good behavior. The sheik accepted
the bail and released him, but shortly after.
ward he again resorted TO his old practice
of cutting the wires. and bolted away to
another village. at distance OF one days
march, where he has another wife. Tho
sheik then sent for his first wife who stood
security for him, and told her he would
disgrace her among the Arabs IL she failed
to bring in her husband. The woman asked
the sheik not to spread the black Sheet
"a custom OF the country when anyone come
mits a breach of trust) until the following
day. She started that night. taking q sharp
dagger concealed under her clothes, to the
village where her husband was staying. ShA
found him asleep in his abode. and stabbed
him. cut his throat and carried his head
back to her home The next morning she
went to the sheik and presented the head
of her husband. saying. Here 10 your or3ua,
inal. and am freed from the bail. p1eoGa
do not af1ix the black sheet"
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THE ISLAND OF FELLOWS.
No Reference to Journalism-In Mar
Unique Even Nature is Jaundiced.

| From the Pail Mall Gazette.
On the day 1 made acquaintance with st.
Pierre, in Martinique, the sunlight was as
bright as ever saw sunlight during nearly
four years Of a West Indian life. But just
as many men wore yellow vests to match
the gaudy turbans of the women as though
| the day had been hot and wet instead of
a burning, dusty winter day Of the usual
Creole kind. The houses that were not pink
washed were mostly defiantly yellow; the
baskets poised on the turbans Of the girls
at the landing stage were brighter still; the
skins of nine out of ten of the damsels were
the color Of clean but dulled half sover-
eign. The moral hue of the place might be
VIGOROUSLY blue" but the physical aspects
Of 1t were yellow, orange, bright bronze.
The oranges in the girls baskets were de-
lightful to rest the eyes upon-deep, mot
tied green, as ripe, fresh-pulled orange
should be.
All this tide of yellow, fiecked with pinks
of walls and reds q bodces, stopped where
the dark-green forests began to roll up to
the grim watching tyrant. Mont Pelee.
Black against the deep, forget-me-not blue
of the sky, the hard features of the mon
ster showed, no breath issuing from the
cruel wrinkIed mouth. You could not look
up without a thought of the mockery Of the
whole situation: the idle naughty cityful OF
quadroons and octoroons dancing and sing
ing so near the shadows Of the awful noun
tain woods, from which the fer-de-lance
snakes Issued nightly to make mortally
dangerous the suburban roads and squares.
The yellow elements of life, the laughter,
and the drapery, and the light, passing love
fancies-all these were the unstable, the
threatened things. The mountain and the
woods were the enduring, the ultimate lords
Of the landscape.
But to the right. far above the south
cliff, there showed something that spoke OF
a force above those Of man or volcano. A
white CLEAN, high, but not broad. showed
plainly against deep green breadth Of for
est Shading the eyes. 1t was possible to
see that it was a figure-a dazzling, draped
woman's figure. In a moment the facts of
the case made a return to the mind. This
was the great Virgin Of Succor. the figure
placed to remind an erring, but not unde-
vout town. that the things which are seen
are temporal, while the things that are not
seen are eternal. May eternal peace dwell
among all those poor souls who for so many
years have found the wine shop and the
dancing cafe dangerously near the cooling,
austere influences of the great cathedral Of
St. Pierre!
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REHABILITATION.
NEW STAMP CRAZE.
The Collectors Now Classify Their
Holdings by Eras.
From the London Express.

L li'm the Express.
Many celebrated stamp collectors are lust
now concentrating their energies on collec-
tons of stamps Of the Victorian era Such
a collection possesses singular interest, for
it will not only illustrate the artistic prog
ress that has been made in designs since
the Inauguration Of the postage stamp, but
1t will also demonstrate in a fascinating
fashion the expansion of the British empire
Il take it there were about 20 600 distinct
and representative issues throughout the
British empire during the reign of Queen
Victoria" said Mr.. F. R. CHM, the we'll
known stamp dealer of 143 Strand, W. c.,
to an Express representative This num-
ber," he added, does not, of course in
clude variations Of type or varieties rare
on account of a misprint or other trivial
popularity. Already there is a run on Vic
torian stamps of high value. For instance
a Cancelled f1ve-pound stamp selling a few
weeks ago at 25s. is now worth 35s. An alb
solutely perfect collection of the Victorian
era would have to include a British Gui-
ana pink circular stamp, which it is prac-
tically impossible to purchase ir the open
market, and the Mauritius post Office stamp,
which is worth several hundred pounds
sterling.
Among stamp collectors there is a grow
ing tendency to specialize. 1 have found
that the demand for foreign stamps has
been growing less for some time past,
whereas British colonial stamps have never
been so greatly sought after. AS almost
every colony. dependency and outlying
province of the British empire has it's own
issue on which the sovereign's head appears,
the accession of King Edward will practi-
cally inaugurate an entirely new epoch in
philatey. 1 have received demands from all
parts of the empire for the new issues of
English stamps.
1T is a noteworthy fact that alongside
this increasing demand for colonial stamps
is an equally great one for those of the
United States. We anticipate big demand
for the new American stamp bearing the
head Of the late President Mckinley.
Among the other new stamp issues prob
able in 1902 are those Of Germany, necess-
tated by the Kingdom of Wurtemburg re-
lnQuishing It's rights to issue its own
stamps. The Russian government, it seems,
has decided to have new issue, the occa-
sion being to mark the 200th anniversary
of the foundation of St. Petersburg. Prince
Ferdinand's head will soon figure on the
stamps of Bulgaria in place Of the lion IA
miliar to the collector. A special corona
ton stamp will be issued. too. when the
young king Alfonso Of Spain is crowned.
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National League Teams Standing

The Senators lost their second game at
Chicago yesterday, after playing ten in
nings, by the score of 2 to L. Those clever
twirlers, AL Orth and Roy Patterson, in
Obliged themselves in pitchers battle, and
although the pair broke even on the day in
the matter of totals. the latter must be
credited with victory. as his club not
only won, but the Chicago pitcher was re-
sponsible for the winning run.
The game was we'll played from start to
finish. the three misplays OF the Senators
having very little to do with the score,
while the one error Of the champions was
also Of no consequence.
Shortstop Bill Coughlin, although a little
stiff from his injury in Sundays game,
was able to get into the game and played
sensational ball. one stop of Davis liner
being ringer. Delehanty led the team at
the bat. being the only man to get over one
hit. a single and double, while Pitcher
Patterson led the Chicagos with two sin
giles.
but in the second the Chcagos broke the
ice by placing one tally to their credit.
After Mertes had fouled out to Carey, Is
bell reached first, as his little fly got away
from Wolverton. Isbeil Immediately stole
second getting good start and beating
Clarke's fine throw and went to third on
Days single. Sullivan soaked nice sin
gle over second and Isbell beat the throw
in al the plate.
In the fourth the Senators also hung UP
one run and tied the score. Delehanty
started the fun with double to left-center
and went to third while Keister was being
put out at first by Daily and IsbelI. ''Scran-
ton Bilr' Coughlin then threw all his
weight against a fast inshoot two bases
resulting, and Delehanty crossed the plate
Ciphers were hung up in regular order for
the next five innings, and it looked as
though drawn battle would result, when
the tenth inning opened After Washing
ton had gone out in one-two-three order
the champions decided it was time for sup
per and broke up the drawn combina ton
by scoring the necessary run to win.
DAILY was given the only base on balls
charged against Orth in this inning, and a
pretty sacrifice by Sullivan put the veteran
on second. Mr.. Roy Patterson then made
his second single of the game, nice liner
over second base, which both Coughlin and
keister made desperate attempts to inter-
cept. and Daily raced home with the WIN
ming run.
Case Patten and Clarke Griffith will prob
ably fight it out today for the same clubs
Manager LOTUS has been called home to
Dubuque, Iowa, by the Illness of his wife,
and the team is in charge Of Mr.. De1ehanty.
Following is the score of yesterday 8
game:
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L O N G q I T T E R s
TABLE OF EXTRA BASES IN
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Freeman Leads, With Keister, Dele
hanty and CoughIin Of the
Senators Close Up.

The following tables show the number of
extra bases made by the players of the
different teams of the American League:
Freeman Of Boston has made the most
total extra bases, SO, followed by Seybold
Of the Athletics, with 80, and Bradley of
Cleveland and Keister of Washington,
third, with 30 each, and Delehanty and
Coughlin of Washington being fourth, with
%. respectively. Freeman of Boston, Dele
hanty of Washington and Lave Cross Of
the Athletics each have made Is doubles,
thus leading the league in that respect.
Freeman leads in triples having eight to
mis- credit. Bradley of Cleveland leads in
the number of home runs. having made G.
Seybold of the Athletics being second and
kelster and Coughlin being tied for third
place, with 4 EACH Washington leads in
total extra bases and home runs, having
loo and II, respectively, to their credit
followed by Boston, with 166 and 10, re-
spectlvely, the Athletics coming next, with
LAO and IA, and Detroit last, with 80 and g.
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Wales and Australia Garry OF the
Palm for Nomenclature.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
I'VE have some odd names for towns in
this country" said a postal clerk at the
post office in this city; hundreds of them.
and here are just a few: A. B. c., Bugg,
Tug, Toy, Topsy, Ono, Catfish. Sunfish,
Vim Uz, Vox, UT, longs. Sweetlips, Keno
pohn. Reclamation. Blood. Tonic, Log and
Turtle. These may be pronounced without
dislocating the jaws. but in some of the for
eign countries may be found veritable
tongue twisters. The palm may be accorded
to Wales. however. and what do you think
of this:
Llanfairpwllgwngyle, Anglesey.'
mo. this is not a lot OF letters thrown
promiscuously together, but is really the
name of a town in Wales. Here are two
more equally bewilGering:
AanuwehIiyn Talyilyn, Bwich, Brecon-
shire
Llanuwchllyn Bala, Merionethshire
They say that the Welsh language is
about as hard as Russian and 1t would
appear that this assertion is not far out of
the way.
Some others are: Langwyllog' 'Llwyn-
dafydd.' Uandrilloyn- Rios Tlansaint-
dafydd.' neutrality-suspicious. Llansaint-
well in Scotland, as the following two names
will show: 'Tynholm Kirkcubbrightshire
and 'Tdgh-na-brnaich.'
Now that Hawaii is a part OF the United
States. just try, to pronounce these names
Of towns In the far-away islands: Hama
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Promoting in England.
From the London Chronicle.


What is the smallest amount for which a
company can legally be f1oated? In lee
ture delivered last evening at the London
Institution G. F. Emery said it was seven
farthings. AS long as he had the necessary
seven shareholders a promoter could make
the shares one 7farthfng each, and no legal
question could be raised. Mr. Emery told
some amusing storiesfsof the wiles of the
bogus promoter Onei was about an astute
gentleman who actually induced a London
banker to subscribe E500 toward mining
property in Africa which was nothing more
than a barren Held. When the banker dis
covered the fraud helewrote an angry let
ter, demanding the return of his E5O0. The
promoter replied through a lawyer to the
effect that the bankers letter amounted to
an attempt to1gabtain money by threats
and, as that was punishable offense, he
thought Of taking proceedings at the Man.
sion House That disposed of the banker.
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A Blind Stenographer.
From the London Chronicle.


Many excellent suggestions for helping
the blind were made at yesterdays confer
ence in the Church House. but none APP
pealed more eloquently to a thoroughly rep
-resentatiye gathering of people interested
in the blind than the presence at the re-
porters' ia Bile of blind stenographer, who
with recently invented machine before
him, took verbatim report of each speech
in turn Two years ago a .Braille Maya
zine" offered prize for the best system
of shorthand for the blind MI Henry
Stainsby. general superintendent of the
institution for the blind, Edghaston. and
four others, put their heads together. COM
peted, and won. The shorthand used Is built
up upon several systems adapted to the
Braille method OF dots. These dots are
embossed by the machine. which Is noise
less. upon paper tape. This flows out into a
basket, to be read back by the fingers of
the stenographer, and recorded on a type
writer,
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STANDARD BALL WANTED.
New Haskell Sphere Said to Be Revo-
lutionizing Golf.
From the New York Telegraph

from the New York Telegraph.
Among the golfing fraternity on both
sides Of the water question has arisen that
is assuming alarming proportion. 1t has
arisen over the Introduction of the Haskell
ball, and 1t is curious but true that players
who heretofore talked volubly of scores
now discuss nothing but balls
At first thought this would seem to be of
slight importance. but when it is realized
that the new sphere may operate to ruin
the accuracy Of the game it will be seen
that 1t becomes a matter of some moment
to say the least.
The question is, perhaps of more serious
import here in America than in England
for this is the home Of the alleged pernicious
ball. and 1t is to be presumed that more
will be used here than abroad for that
reason.
The Haskell ball is a contriyance nut on
the market by American manufacturers
1t Is made OF composite material having a
core of gutta percha about the size Of a
marble. Around this are wound thin strings
Of elastic and all incased in a casing of
gutta percha about an eighth of an inch
thick. The advantage claimed for it over
the ordinary gutta ball, which replaced the
is that it will fly from twenty to thirty
yards farther on the drive.
That it has this advantage cannot abso-
lutely be denied. but neither is the state
ment wholly true. At the recent English
amateur championships 1t was observed
that the mediocre hitters did exceed by
many yards their ordinary drive, but the
big hitters in almost every case failed to
lengthen their shots in the same ratio The
explanation generally accepted is that IL
hit with the force exerted by the longest
drivers the ball more or less collapses not
having the hardness and recovery of the
gutta ball.
But If hit with less force it carries and
runs farther than the gutta ball hit in the
same manner
Now, here Is where the trouble lies Golf
courses, both American and English have
all been laid out on the known bases to
which first-class players can drive the gut
ia percha ball. II ball Is to be introduced
with which all the players can carry twenty
or thirty yards farther. these distances
will be quite wrong; and, apart from the
enormous expense of remahing courses
room will not be available in most cases
for eighteen holes the statutory number
Many prominent experts are advocating
the adoption of a standard ball as in base
ball, foot ball and other games, but there
are those who maintain that to do SO
would impair the individual element, which
is one Of the games distinctive features.
No wonder. then. in view of all these
problems, that the golfiacs are in futter.
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/, Speaking Italics.
From the Youths Companion.

A piece Of parliamentary repartee quite
as good os the famous retorts in the house
OF commons and our Congress comes from
a New England university. Two students,
ranged against each other in debate, grew
very warm and took to commenting on
each others oratortcaI manner. One of
Them spoke with much emphasis, letting
the stress Of his voice fall expIosively on
certain passages.
? His opponent opened his speech by say
ing: My friend on the negative thinks to
win this debate by speaking exclamation
marks and italics"
The other could do nothing at the mo-
ment to turn the laugh which this speech
raised. but when his turn came he "got
back at his opponent with this retert:
my friend on the Affirmative says
speak italics should say that he uses
italics in the way they are used In the
English Bible. not to emphasixe, but to
mark what is not original and inspired
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Mali

amaze Honolulu and Laupahoehoe.'
Here are a few twisters in New Zealand:
'Kaiwarauara.' 'Kaukapakafa,' 'Waiman-
garao' and 'Waiorougmai.' Victoria comes
to the scratch courageously with these:
'Yackandandah.' 'Wandiligong, 'Yarram-
yarram' and 'Coongulmerang.' In South
Australia may be found 'Orroroo' and 'Ood-
lawirra,' and in Cape Colony We have 'Tey-
attayaneng.' 'Umzimkuhu' andZurrbraak.
In the Transvaal they have towns named
Withheld and 'Piet Potgeiters Rust In
Natal. Ixopo: in Queensland. 'Bogantun-
gum and 'Goondiwindf and 'Metenmeer-
Zorg'"
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noon. in the gymnasium of that institution,
officers of that Generalization and the various
teams Of the university were elected as fol-
lows: President OF Athe Athletic Associa-
ton. Joe Seitzso NewtYork; secretary. Cyril
Gdnther. Buffalo; manager of the base ball
team, Jozack Miller. Bolton. Tex; assistant
manager, Harry v. Carlin, BROOKLYN;
manager of the varsity crew, Bernard C.
McKenna, Long Branch, N. j.; assistant
manager, Seth Shepard, Washington. D. c.;
manager of the track team, NJ J. McKen-
ma, Utica. N. z; assistant manager John
O'Brien, Clinton. Mass; manager Of tennis
teams, Richard Keedy, Baltimore. Md.
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Professional Golf Match.

John D. Tucker and Arthur Smith, pos
sibly the two best opponents of golf in the
District, will play match game of eigh-
teen holes on Wednesday at o'clock at
the Columbia golf links Tucker leaves
for Lake Champlain at the conclusion Of
the match, and is engaged to 20 to Pine
hurst, n c., in November
Tucker played Vardon to sensational fin
ish at Pinehurst, n. c., couple of years
ago. and the best game of golf ever wit
messed In this section is looked forward
to by local golfers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-10

Two-base hits-L. Cross NJ. Cross, Three b,sa
hits-M. Cross Mitchell. Holmes. Home run-Har-
ley Sacrifice hit-Casey. Stolen bases-Barrett or
Gleason. Harley. Davis. Fultz Base on balls-Off
Mu!lin. 6; OF Mitchell. 1. Hit by pitcher-Elber-
field First base on Detroit. s; Philadelphia
Struck out-By Mullin, 8; by Mitchell l. Double
play-Geason Elberfeld and Dillon. Umpre-Mr
Sheridan. Time Of game hours and 10 minutes
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Cleveland, 10; Baltimore, 5.

Cleveland continued it's good work yester-
day at home. defeating Baltimore by the
score Of 10 to 8. Lawson was knocked out
Of the box in the first inning and Shields
was also hit hard. The batting Of Laioie
was the feature. the big fellow getting a
home run and three singles Score:
TEVCJANn p.,r,,xon-
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st. Louis, 8 Boston, 8.

st. Louis. playing at home yesterday, de-
feated Boston by the score of to g. Dono-
hue was effective throughout, while Win
tiers weakened toward the end and was hit
hard A home run in the seventh inning
by Heidrick was an important factor In the
victory. Score:
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Detroit, 10; Athletics, 5,

The Athletics made errors back of
Pitcher Mitchell yesterday at Detroit and
as consequence the Tigers won out easily
by the score of 10 to 5. Mullin was hit hard,
but his support was good Score.
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ST. LOUIS
BOSTON.

Earned runs-St. Louis, 8. Two-base hfts-Friel
Stahl. Three-base hit-Donahue. Home run-Heid
Parent and Ferris. Hit by pitcher-By Winters. 2:
~ ~, Donahne, l. Struck out-By Donahue, a by
Umpire.Mr. Connolly. Time of game-1 hour and