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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-04-21
THE SCHEDULE.

The following schedule has been ar
ranged for this week. in the pool tour
nament at the Howard st, pool room:
Monday, Brown aud Clark VS.. Viers
and Ockerman; Tuesday, Schumacher
and Waller VS.. Seybold and Davis;
Wednesday, Hard and Garrett VS.. Sey-
hold and Davis: Thursday, Schumach.
er and Waller VS.. yiers and Ockerman;
Friday, Brown and Clark VS.. Hard
and Garrett
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Members OF the reportorial staff of
the Beacon Journal, who spend many
Of their waking hours whacking pool
balls about green cloth, have challeng,
ed the reportorial staff Of the Democrat
to pool match, for trophy kindly of.
fered by Mr. II, NJ, Frees, manager of
the Grand pool room and bowling al.
leys The Democrat accepts, condition
ally. But two of the Democrats rep
ortorinl stan make protenslons at pool,
and they both have been without prac.
tlcc for q long time. The challenge is
accepted, however, meaning that these
two will meet any two men Of the
Beacon-Journars rcportorlal stam, nj
any time, to be settled later.
FINE LETTER HEADS.
Art Simms manager has had printed
some very attractive letter and enyel
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-04-21
LEAGUE
Is Doing Some
Practicing.
Democrat Accepts Bea-
cons Challenge.
Barberton Base Ball Players Are
Busy.

Pittsburg lost. Louis ..
Batteries-Tannehill and thinner,
Wicker and Ryan.
Cincinnati . Chicago /.
Batterles-Phllllps and Bergen. st.
Vrain and King.
Todays games: 4
Boston at New York.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Everybody is talking base ball these
nice days and the fans are hungry tor
the umpire's opening cry Of play ball.
Tho promoters of the City league feel
much gratificd at the interest shown
.a'nd anticipate good attendance at
their games. The different teams are
about selected and there will be some
new faces on each team and as all
of the new men have made reputa-
tion on the field, patrons may be as
sured of some good ball.
The weather has prevented much
practice so far but from now unit
May 10, each of the four teams will
practice twice or three times weekly
and will be in good shape for the open
Ing.
The Niagaras new suits have arrived
and they are beauties-white trousers
and shirts with "Niagaras" in blue
belts and stockings. The Niagaras
took their initial practice Saturday al
Summit Lake park and all showed III
very well. They will have very fast
ipfield and good hitting team, and
are banking much on their new twirler
kittinger who shows great speed and
command and who is also fine bats
man. The North Ends will get some
hard practice this week also, and as
most of their players are now in goot
condition they will need but little loos
ening, up for the start. Among III,
new players are Keller and Weary
both catchers; the latter played witt
an Iowa team last year, and has 1
good record. The North Ends nrc
therefore, well fixed behind the bat
and will not miss KRONER who vii
catch for the East Ends.
Among the local players who will b'
with the City league. perhaps no bet
ter or more popular player may b,
mentioned than Homer Berger, our eff
clent County Treasurer, who will wea
II Kirkwood uniform and take care o
good part of their outiield, Will
Mr. Berger has not played regularl
for some time he Is still agile and en-
with little practice, come pretty nea
showing all the local heidcrs some
thing
There will be II regular practice gam
at BucNtel grounds next Saturday b'
tween the North Ends and either til
Werners or Barberton, while the \
ngarns win probably play in Kent an
the South ENDS ut Bnrbeiton. I'll
Buthtel game will he free and all III
invited to come out and see the boy
get their first workout.
tgf NOTES.
Tuholsky IL full Of confidence.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-04-21

kidnapped in New YORK. comes to
the Grand Opera house Saturday for
matinee and night performances.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-04-21

Deep hollows, dark
circles, wrinkles at
the corners, tell
the story of pain
and sleeplessness.
Much of the nerv-
ousness, sleepless-
ness and suffering
In general, endured
by W. m en-, Is
caused by a dis.
eased condition OF
the womanly or
gans. When that
diseased CONDITION
IL cured there are
no more hollow,
dark ringed eyes,
Or. Pierce's Favor
ite Pre- scription
cures irregulaiity,
inflammation, III.
cera,ion, and fe.
male weak ne SIS.
stops enfeebling
drains, strengthens
the nervous system
and gives 10 th,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-04-21

Grant Nickens the cOlored prize fight
cr was in Akron over Sunday, having
come here with his wife, from Cleve-
land. Nickens says that times are very
dull with him now, as with all the
lighters in Ohio. The state law pro,
hibiting prize lighting is in active oper-
alton everywhere and has prevented
many matches which he otherwise
might have had. Nlckens appears to he
In excellent condition, and says that
he never felt better in his life.
ENERGETIC SCORE-KEEpER
The Submits defeated the Furnace
ST. base ball team in game on the
Riverside grounds, in North Akron,
Saturday, by score of ~ to 20 Tho
SUBMITS declare that the Furnace st.
score keeper multiplied the runs made
by his team by ., in figuring the final
| rpsult
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-04-21

Once in a while there is written a
play which deals with heart interest
without mixing up problems of a So
cial character with the action OF the
characters. That Is the kind of u
play "Tbe Gypsy Cross" is which Will
be produced at the Colonial theatre to-
morrow night. 1t opens in Holland
among the picturesque Dutch people
and ends in New York. 1t is full of
action and interest. Seats at popular
prices are now on sale.
In the field of theatricals it will be
difficult to find more pronounced sue
cess than Willard Spencer's now ia
nous comedy opera, Miss Bob
White in which Marguerite Sylvia
will appear at the Colonial theatre on
Thursday next. The production in this
city will be identical in every partic-
ular with that at the Chestnut st. The
ater Philadelphia, where the phenome-
nal record of one hundred and twenty
five consecutive performances was
reached. The sale of seats opens to-
morrow morning.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-04-21

mother health Tor her duties, and happi-
ness In their performance.
vMy niece was troubled with female weakness
for about -four years before asked for your ad-
vice y writes Mr. ], W McCresor, of 69d st. and
PRINCETON Ave, Chicago his oYou advised her
10 take pr, pierces tnvofite Prescription which
she did faithfully for niue months and now we
must acknowledge TO YOU that she IL a usN rom
an We cannot Thank you enough for the cure.
We have recommended your mediciue 10 all our
friends and believe II to he wonderful die
eovcry,"
Or. Pierce's Medical Adviser, paper
covers, sent free on receipt of aI one
cent stauips to pay cost Of mailing only.
The cloth-bound volume for 81 clamps.
Address Or. r. " Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y.
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"TackS' Cans, the veteran catcner,
is visiting in the city and may don lie
pad and cage for one of the local
teams. ..,,.
Kittinger looks like conner.
Baily Is as Dimble as ever.
Bedur showed up well in practice
Saturday and will give them all a
chase for batting honors this season.
No nondescript uniforms this year
every player will appear in neat and
clean suits every game.
The players will have all the field,
and no one will be permitted outside
the stand or bleachers.
ILLOGICAL DECISION.
The fact of man being accidental
ly injured during boxing bout, thus
preventing his continuance, cannot be
used as IA basis for penalizing his op-
poncnt. Santry was hurt by Il fall
while boxing with Tommy Sullivan
at Chicago, and was compelled TO re-
tire. The referee declared It no con-
test. As Sullivan was ready to con-
tinue, the decision and long end OF
the purse belonged to him-New York
Telegraph.
ANOTHER BOWLING TOURNA-
NIENT.
Still another bowling tournament will
he begun and ended before the present
season Is at an end. The new series,
which will be played on the Howard
st. alleys, will be between two man
teams, and the number of teams enter
ing will be limited to ten. Manager
Frank Cohen. of the Howard st. alleys
is arranging the series as compliment
to the bowlers. and to finish the season
in fitting manner, and he will charge
no entry fee.
The money to be received from the
use of the alleys in the series, will bt
divided into three purses, which vii
he awarded as prizes to the winning
teams. This means that the alley
will practically be donated to thu
bowlers. The tournament will be oper
to any bowlers in the city, but tho
number Of teams taking part will b'
limited to. ten.
Each team will play just one game will
every other team and the series vii
probably he ended in two or three
weeks after it Is begun. Two gamel
per night will be played. The schedule
will call for three teams to come to tht
alleys on the nights of play. Two o
the teams will play one game, and thel
the winner in first game will play th,
third team. The series is unique, ant
has aroused n great deal of intcrcs
among the Dowiers of the city.
JEFFRIES HAS HIS DOUBTS,
Champion .Jeffrcs is naturally in
cllncd to regard with suspicion Fit2
simmons latest proclamation. TIL
boielmuker says he will seriously con
slider the matter when he sees II forfei
posted by the Cornishman. No one cal
blame Jeffrics for feeling that way
The champion is quite willing to tax
on Fitzsimmons and Corbett in order
Grant Nickens the colored prize figh
: cr was in Akron over Sunday, havin
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-06-07

The heart-breaking pity of it all is that
safety was so near-at the end of
ones fingers almost. For just over
the ridge the grass and palms are
everywhere as green as any in the
tropics to-day, while up to the very
crest of its northern slope are the in
effaceable marks of ruin and disaster,
as if some sea of flame had brimmed
to the very crest of the ridge, to suck
back again before overlooking on the
other side.
So it is the the village folks of Car
bet that one must turn for the last
act in this horrible tragedy.
Thomas T. Prentiss, United States
consul at st. Pierre, was sitting on
the veranda at his home in the early
hours of the following morning. A
friend came driving by in buggy.
you had better get out of this"
he called to the consul. 81 am getting
out, ard getting out as fast as l can"
"Oh, you are just merely a little
scared" Mr.. Prentiss replied. There
is no need of anyone going away
cit is better to be safe than sorry"
retorted the citizen as he whipped UP
his team and FASTENED on.
1t is from this man, who witnessed
the disaster a short time later from
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sombre by q thunderstorm, which
brOOded over the mountains and from
whose dark clouds came intermittent
flashes of lightning. The nervous
started at every thunderclap and anx-
iousIy asked one another if that was
not Mont Pelee, while others sought
to trace the rlinding flashes to their
source, to see if they were really the
mere play of lightning or volcanic
blazes from the time-worn crater,
which many believed, and all hoped,
was long ago extinct. Then a heavy
mist settled over the city and its sur
rOundings, and under it's depressing
influence the day wore itself to a
close
Saturday, May 3! Just five days
to the obliteration, to death, utterly,
wholesale, sudden and tragici And
yet st. Pierre went forth that day to
carnival doings, local celebration IN
honor of something or somebody.
Facts are meager as to that one day
and those following, for it must be
remembered that nobody survived the
horror that was so soon to come. But
there were some who had spent days
in the city just previous to the trag-
edy-some who had left it only a
scant half-hour before the holocaust.
Grieving for their own lost dead and
with nerves unstrung by the narrow
ness of their own escape, it may be
that their overweight minds are
coming visions now, but these tell ear
nestly of a column of smoke which
arose, black as a pail, from Pelee's
white shroud to rear its pillows of
Grape into the form OF a great up-
ended coffin. However that may be.
there is evidence that all festival gay
ETY. went when showers of pebbles be-
gan to rattle over the city, with now
and then a shower of sand, of grains
hot to the touch, despite their long
fight through the air.
st. Pierre, it is now said, was In a
more sober humor that evening than
it has been within the memory of those
who tell disjointedly the tale of the
days that ushered in its doom. And
when on the next morn1ng-Sunday,
that was-another growing note was
heard from Pelee and a small river of
hot, black mud, touched here and
there with red, was seen to come snak-
ing down out of the mists screening
Pelee's summit, to cascade over
hundred-foot precipice and then to
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! domes, over facades and arches and
roofs and angles of populous and
light-hearted city-the next swept a
lone mass of white-hot ruins. The
sun glistened one moment on spark
ling fountains, green parks and frond-
ed ponds-its next ray shone on fusing
metal, blistered fiame-wrecked squares
and charred stumps of trees. One
day and the city was all light and
color, all gayety and grace-the next
its ruins looked a though they had
been crusted over with twenty CEN
turtles of solitude and silence.
Prof. Robert T. Hill, United States
government geologist and head of the
expedition sent out by the National
Geographical society, has just come
in from daring and prolonged in
vestigation of the volcanic activity in
Martinique.
Prof. Hill chartered a steamer and
carefully examined the coast as far
north as Port de Macouba, at the ex-
IRENE edge of the island making fire.
quent landings. After landing at Lee
Precheur, five miles north of st.
Pierre, he walked through an area of
active volcanism to the latter place
and made a minute examination of
the various phenomena disclosed.
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PROVED EQUAL TO THE OCCASION
So Potter Palmer Raised Clerks SAL
airy Instead of Di8charging HIM

So Potter Palmer Raised Clerks Sal
airy Instead of DiGcharging HIM
Paul Cores had joined a group of
hotel men who were reminiscent about
the late Potter Palmer and his pecu-
liarities as hotel-keeper.
when 1 was at the Palmer House,
he said, there was one chap who
proved equal to the occasion. 1t was
when the old man., as we always call
ed Mr.. Palmer, was putting in par
ticularly cranky month. 1t seemed as
if everybody about the hotel was book
ed for dismissal. One day Palmer
walked into the bookkeeper's Office,
and, after looking for minute at a
man who hadn't been working for
more than a week or two. walked
quietly up to him, and, moistening his
lips with his tongue, in his peculiar
fashion, said:
Er-when is your month up?'
"The young man, recognizing the
voice, tossed his pen on the desk with
out looking around, hoped back on
his stool, pushed the stool out Of the
way, and replied:
Now. by gumI And I've got my
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| ing of their arrival the company ap.
peared.
They pondered long, and then gave
fatal assurance that all was well. The
people read the assurances which the
papers printed, drew a long breath of
relief and then turned their attention
to other things, to affairs of business
and pleasure and all that goes to
make up the indolent, happy life OF
the pleasure loving natives of this
isle. And that night-the night OF
May THE wise men fastened back
to Fort de France
The governor and his family were
to have followed the next day, the
French cruiser Suchet having been di-
rected to leave her anchorage at Fort
de France at o'clock for the purpose
of bringing home the governor and his
party.
That plan, if carried out, would
have brought the cruiser to her doom.
and her crew will never cease to
thank their saints and bless the blum
dering mechanic who broke something
IN the engine-rOom as the vessel was
about getting under way, which acct
dent delayed her departure and proba-
bly, saved the lives of all on board.
Wednesday night-eve of horror!
There are none left alive to tell
what the city was like that night, but
just around a little promontory at
its southern edge nestles the little vii
lage of Carbet, pretty town of some
six or seven hundred people And
not one of them was hurt, the town
having been screened by the high
ridge which lay between it and St.
Pierre and runs sheer to the sea.
It's northern wall was precipitous
and built close up to it was the south
ern section of st. Pierre, a thickly
populated district whose houses left
barely enough room for streets, the
buildings budding close to the steep
and wooded ACTIVITY, as if seeking to
escape on the other side of the ridge.
The intervening distance was short.
By the broad, finely graded, bridge =
and tunneled highway which connect
ed city with village, one would judge
that five minutes brisk walk would
be amply sufficient to reach the one
from the other.
But none sought safety by that
road-at least none escaped by it.
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seeing mighty carcass dealt with by
fire en- masse. That spectacle stirs up
the rustic imagination, and remains
fixed in the memory long after all
the other Accomplishments are forgot
ten. 1t is something to boast of in
long after years that on a certain oc'
casion the village oracle saw with
his own eyes" an OK roasted whole,
and he will mendaciously VOW that he
never tasted better food in his life.
To have had such an abnormal expert
ence as that gives personal conse-
quence to the narrator, and elevates
him, for the moment, far above the
younger members of his little COM
munity. 1t may be fairly claimed.
therefore, that the waste Of good food
in the present is more than balanced
by the treasures of memory it leaves
Rehabilitation Globe.
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FOLLY OF ROASTING OXEN WHOLE
London Newspaper Condemns the Prac-
tice as Barbarous.

t1ce as BarbarOuS.
The rural mind cannot, apparently,
free itself from the traditional idea
that the roasting of an OK whole must
be included In any program of high
festivity, if due honor is to be done to
the occasion. Already several small
towns have notified their resolve to
celebrate the coronation in that an
cient manner, and it seems to accord
with the popular wish. 1t may be
doubted, nevertheless, whether any
who partake of the ill-cooked fare will
remain Of that opinion. Large animals
subjected to the barbarous process are,
as they must be, done to cinder out
side and nearly raw inside. By the
time the heat has penetrated to the
center the exterior coating OF flesh is
burned to brick-hardness, and has no
flavor of meat nor the least nourish-
ment left in it From the utilitarian
standpoint, therefore, there is nothing
to be said for reviving the old prac-
tice. It is in watching the cooking
that the chief pleasure hes: there is
something both grand and novel in
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The special correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing from st.
Pierre, Martinique, says:
1t is not so very long ago that 1 viz
tied this poor st. Pierre-this now
city of the dead. 1t had, 1 am told,
undergone but few changes until the
coming of that frightful day which
changed it so utterly.
Where all is now aching desolation
a chaos of ruined walls, blackened
stumps of trees and sickening stencil,
there basked in summer sunshine a
little city splashed through with vivid
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color-red tiled roofs cutting sharp
lines on walls of creamy white, yellow
and orange and bird's-eye blue, min
gled with the green of tropic verdure.
Over the doomed city the morning
OF May 1 broke in miracle splendor,
skies bright and blue, and foliage
washed to a tresher green by hard
rain which had swept over the island
the preceding night. But it was the
last fair day that st. Pierre was to
know.
Those who by chance were in the
city that morning, and who by far
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ST. PIERRE'S DAY OF DOOM.
TO the the Population
Was Danger, Though Warning Was Ample.

other-the effect to the cause. Their
minds were not grooved to such
analysis; they were too simple, too
West Indian for that. Sufficient that
the rumble had gone
Up near Morne Rouge, abode of st.
Pierre's well-to-do, there was a
lawn party that evening, which car
ried it's gayety far into the night
zitzas tinkling in the tropic air, and
mantilla-draped girls dancing in the
moonlight to the click of castanets.
Friday, day of the evil omen, dawn
ed over st. Pierre. 1t was made
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grip packed and under my desk, ready
to start right away.
Palmer was stunned at first, but
quickly rose to the occasion, and, STEP
ping up to the young man, patted his
shoulder, and without the culver OF an
eyelash, said:
No, no; you take me wrong 1
don't want you to go. l merely want
ed to know when your month is up,
so that 1 may know when to increase
your salary
when the young man recovered
his breath the old man was gone,
says the New York Times. But his
salary was increased all right, and he
became Palmer's confidential clerk.
and remained with him till he died"
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luckier hazard were out of it before it's
fall, tell Of how short-lived the fright
was and how quickly the mercurial
population regained it's buoyant spir-
its. Some there were who looked
grave when ashes, white and fire as
powdered magEesia, began to sift
from the great cloud which hung over
Pelee's crest, but it seems that none
thought to connect these myriads of
floating particles with the deep, muf-
fled rumble which had just been
heard; none to trace the one to the
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ARE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD
PoPpies Bloom After Being BurI I'd 70,
Twenty Centuries.

Topples Bloom After Being BurI I'd fol
Twenty Centuries.
The extraordinary resuscitatine
power of light received a very curious
illustration few years ago in the sill
yer mines at Laurium. The mines had
been abandoned more than 1000 years
ago as unavoidable, and consisted for
the most part of the Stag produced
by the working of the miners. An en-
terprising Briton discovered that the
mines contained plenty of silver which
could easily be removed by the supe-
rior modern appliances. He discov-
cred, however, something far more
valuable than the silver-viz, some
peoples of species which had disap-
peared for twenty centuries, the seed
OF which had lain dormant beneath
the Stag for 1000 years. When the
Stag was removed to the furnace the
next visit to the mine found the en-
tire space covered with a most COR
geous show of peoples. After their
twenty centuries rest they had bloom
ed as vigorously as ever, without the
aid OF single drop OF water Or any
restorative other than the gun
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Made an Impression.

A school inspector was talking TO
the class about the duty of showing
their best qualities at home. After
giving several instances of the kind
nesses given to and received from his
own children at home, he said: Now,
children, tell me where 1 should be
most missed If / died?" A little boy
raised his hand aud said. "In heaven,
sir"
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a neighboring elevation, with a few
who survived the wreckage in the of
flng, and the few who looked on the
cataclysm from distant points, that
the only eyewitness versions can be
had.
The hour of the disaster is placed
at about o'clock. A clerk in Fort
de France called up another in St
Pierre and was talking with him at
1855 by Fort de France time, when
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Lord Castlemayne, an unpopular
statesman, while travelling In Ireland
refused aims to some sharp wftted
mendicants and was answered: Just
chuck one tinpenny out OF your coach
an 1 answer it will trate all your.
friends in Athlone.