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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

cause he had held Yerkes out and bet on
him, ran over to Celia and said:
You were fool to take that 500 on
him.
betting, big fed, a crippled horse having
his first out on a track with ugly surface
and turns, horse just off the cars, and one
! big bookrnaker telling a bcokmaker worth
81. 600 600. that he was fool to take a
miserable 500 on such a horse.
That kind of a thing reminds one OF
$3.50 limit on singles and doubles on cases.
What a difference in Chicago. The other
day at Harlem the writer saw man bet
$500 with Jim OLeary on Schwalbe at
to. /. oLeary not only took the bet, but
.T'ii bet 500 more at 6 to L." was the
reply.
In Chicago. with all its cheating and lack
of power. they beg for money. In ST. Louis.
Why?
1t hurts racing very much, this trick OF
lodging bets. Say a man goes out with $500
to bet on 5-to-1 shot. Up goes the price
and in he goes with his money.
BET you $500 on Badge" he says. ~. :,
NO Badge" says the bookmaker. rub
bling to to l.
bet you at that price" says the man.
mo, no; don't want it at all. Is the re-
ply; 80 ,-
Not only when dealing in hundreds. but in
Sc bills. the lowest bet allowed by rule.
The other day Herman Hoffman. who is
IN the ground at Kinioch, tried to bet a
hnokmaker So at 2 TO l on Mino to show:
Minao. staie hatfack. had a hoy named
.Fogg up. Fogg was riding his first race.
Hoffman viii bear out this story.
One day 3 man tried to bet two OF the
bigrcs: bookrrakers at Delmar 81 on S-;o-
l shot.
Don't want tt said one
Cannot use it." said the other.
L The cause of all this is that n!De-tenths
of the hookmakars at Delmar~ arc booking
on slender capital and on other peoples
money. They average $3.50 each. That 81
SEQ has got to make $500 q day at leas. or
not less than six families can live very
comfortably on an original Investment Of
90 500. which is handled with negative abii-
ity.
This cheap and close bookmaking hurts.
The writer nss TO hesitation In saying that
IL there was a bookmaker at the local
tracks who would take from $500 to $500
on horse under L. to l. he could handle
Sl5a.Go a week or close to 5000 day.
1t may interest those who are Inclined to
string bets on Barney Schreiber's horses
at Saratoga to know that the .Dutchman
says that they all are high In flesh and not
vet fit to. win. They had been sick all
spring, and Trainer Brandt allowed them
into form.
Fable, the dam of Rainland. Nose Gold
blatt's crack colt. which is only led by one
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

colt and one filly In number OF races won
| as a 2-year-old this season. sold here in a
sale in 1897 for the small sum of $50. This
citation began Its activity. or else the sue
cessful broodmare would be now in the cot
ton fields of the South instead of an hon.
ored member Of a big breeding establish
mene.
Fable has yet to throw loser. all her
produce trained having earned winning
brackets. Aside from Rainland. she being
the dam of Barrack. Cheer Up and Fay
Belle. The latter won twenty-one races and
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

Barracks winning mark goes over that
line. Fable is daughter Of Blue Eyes. dam
Folle Farine. by Whisper. and is an out
her sire, dam. grandam and grandsire were
all bred at that establishment. owned nv
Colonel l.. p. Tarlton. the famous racing
judge.
Folle Farine. her dam, is a half sister to
F'alsetto, the sire of The Picket the Amer
lean Derby winner this year. II Is the opin-
Rainbow can beat any 2eyear.old in training
mile. and he believes he has all his Derby
engagements next year at his mercy.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
The first meeting of the year at Dehnar
Park ended last Wednesday with the record
of having been the means Of distributing
SlGSl15 among winning owners. daily
average Of se,T3. ]. K. Hughes was the
leading winning owners. with T. P. Hayes a
good second. Owners with $500 or more to
their credit rank as follows:
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GOOD WESTERN JUDGES LIKE
sWATERBOY TO BEAT M'CHESNEY
Bookmaker Dinkenpe Former McChesney Man, Haggn
Horse Race Saratoga and Was Much Impressed
formance-The Ethics of the Betting Ring Local
Tracks-Form Lack of 1t.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Westerners who have seen Warerboy race
In the East have something like the respect
for him that Fasteners who have seen
1dcChesney race in the West have for him.
Joe Dinkenspeil. Delmar bookmaker. at
tended the opening OF the Saratoga meet
ing. He is much impressed by Waterboy's
race. Mr.. 'Dfnkenspeil saw McChesney run
all OF his best races this season.
my money goes on waterboy." he says.
81, like many. thought McChesney would
surely beat him until saw him race. Now
think McChesney cannot do it. 1 saw
waterboy take up 1T pounds. set all the
pace, subdue Hermis, Goldsmith. Gunfire
and other good ones one after another.
They took turns running at him, but he
made them all stop. He ran the distance
one and one-quarter mile-in Eos 10. a rat
Ting performance. The track was fetlock
deep in sand and is not by any means what
we would call fast. McChesney cannot beat
waterboy on<that kind Of track. He
wants a fast, hard track to do his best on"
my dear Dinkenspei!.'' said George Ehr-
Itch, the original Mschesney man, "can
sFsS. eS tell pc ns sfa, he cannot wa, the
10y. His races go to bear this out. He
th:sS!yaysyen By setting 4s,t the pace ecn..rsr
men. -kaiu MI. Ehriicn me- esHeg
not be rated. Mcchesney viii lie along
with his horse. You can rate him with a
the pace made for him. He will lie be-
hind the wind splitter. then come on
II grant you that 1t is In his favor, said
thing am sure Of. and that is that he can
not do 1t on a sandy track like that at Sara
tosa- Further: am quite AZ; sure e, that "a, the he
pace to good ones and win that way"
Tom Gallagher, one-time a sporting Cd
itor of st. Louis. always a dead-game
sportsman. a crack billiard player and now
q skilled apoiogist for the in-and-out run
ming eeen on race tracks at Chicago. took
q tremendous fall out Of W. w. Darden
because of a marvellous form ieversai
Msdnesday. Il Is seldom that Daily Racing
Form gets down to burning q race run
ia Chicago. but Mr.. Gallagher fairly sets
t1fS 10 Kunja. The mare could not get up a
eallop on Tuesday. On wednesday. same se
way weighted. with better horses. and az 81
10 /. she broke down the barrier Tour times
in her anxiety to get away; ran six furiongs
in i;ili-S the mile in i:io. the mile and
one-eishth in l;1 and the mile and three
Kunsa IL lao mare any time she is
rigft She is a great work mare, but a no.
torious in-and-outer, whether through
i iresS i In ST. Louis while running in J.:
Tn,4es.s coiors. Darden got her out OF
: sesiinr race. She ran a wonderfully
,myso ser 70 chicago. where she lay low
, roSh NJ WSeaneSday isst. Darden's 81. Louis
.s.s; dd not RsSs x L. the q, Isas
nomenG shpv are noted for not holding
~. M NE. 80 themseives
:, ,n.r. w.s anything wrong about Kun
a.. ,,,,,rovsrcent It Is a safe bet that I'M
is.. D.rden has lost his "cold feet
he ,va, not In with 1t to any profitable ex-
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

horses cross country, men who train them.
men who ride them and men and women
who like to see them run and jump may
as well abandon hope OF seeing chasing at
Jamaica. Pressure has been brought to
bear upon the officers Of the Metropolitan
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

Bas dor was the leader among the win
ming horses. but the money was we'll dis
tributed. OF the winners. "a were favorites,
a percentage Of .35. Winning second choices
numbered 81. Horses that won $500 or more
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

Jockey F. Smith scored the most winning
mounts. but Of those who rode daily Trox-
Ter had the best percentage. The riding
record Of the meeting IL as follows:
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Danny Maher is going on well, but is
scarcely likely to ride again this season.
He has improved rapidly in appearance
temperament can be when every fiber in
his body is longing to be up anS doing. He
takes things tally phil0sophicaliy, though,
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-20
NOT HIS FIRST LOVE

But Martha Gusts, this loving, devoted
wife, was not his first love. The heart of
Washington had been won before he gave
it to her. This other love was a Miss Bet
tie Fantleroy. she was the daughter of
William Fantleroy, a wealthy Virginia
planter, at whose home he had frequently
visited during the time he was engaged in
surveying. 1t would seem from what BIZ
ographers have been able to gather con-
corning this love romance of the first presi-
dent that Miss Fantleroy had not been
favorably impressed with Washington as
a lover and that she had refused his offer
of marriage.
At that time Washington was 20 years
old. His active, out-of-door surveyors
life had probably made his personal APP
pearance such as would not attract a young
lady of Miss Fantleroy's mold, although
his anners were refined, courteous and
gentle, and his address. that of an educated
gentleman. He is described as being six
feet two inches in height, broad shouldered,
and weighing 200 pounds. He was ire
mendously large muscled. 1t is said that
he wore a No. Is boot and that he could
not buy gloves large enough to fit his big
hands. His hair was a chestnut brown,
his cheeks were prominent, and his head
was not large in comparison to every other
part of his body. Added to all this he was
awkward and was an morn eater
This was a description of him when he was
a young man. OF course, his personal ap-
pearance changed when he grew older. Had
Miss Fantleroy seen him in his later years,
and known the fame to which he would
arise, she might probably have given a diff.
ferent answer.
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NET ALL RESPONSIBILITIES

History tells us how he met these re-
sponsibilities-how he transferred the raw
militia into the trained veterans; how,
with miserably meager resources at his
command, he struggled to equip, clothe,
feed and maintain them; how for ten long
months he entrenched Boston and, with
out a single battle, so harassed the enemy
that he compelled them to evacuate the
city; how for many weary weeks, with only
$4,000 half starved troops, poorly clad and
equipped, he held the city of New York
against a force four times his own numbers
and at last, having been compelled to evac-
uate it, he crossed over into the Jerseys,
pursued by the enemy, when he suddenly
turned on them at Trenton and Princeton,
amidst a storm OF wind and snow, gained
the two most brilliant victories Of the war,
and drove the British from the state; how,
with men whose shoeless feet stained the
snow in crimson red, he passed the winter
at Valley Forge and in the spring defeated
the foe at Monmouth; and how in the sue
ceeding years of the war he endured hard
ship and suffered privation, sacrificed his
own fortune and separated himself from
the endearments Of home, manfully and
heroically bore up in defeat without losing
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-20
HIS PLACE IS SECURE

1t was not his public life and services
alone that have given to Washington the
commanding position he holds in the af-
~fections of the American people. His per.
sonal character, his unimpeachable integ-
rity, the purity of his motives, and the
tenor of his whole private life have had
much to do with it. He was able to be-
come first in the hearts of his countrymen
because he deserved this distinction, and
because by his honor and truth, his wisdom
and Judgment, he rose above the intrigues
of the selfish and jealous men and the tur-
moil of party passion and pointed the way
to national strength in national righteous
ness.
The acts of no man in public life have
been free from criticism, nor has his char
acter remained unassailed, but fewer of
these shafts have been turned on Washing
ton than on other men who have held sucn
high positions of trust and honor; but they
canno dim the luster that has gathered
around his name or detract from the rever-
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PURITY OF CHARACTER

In purity of character and freedom from
vices Of every kind, Washington stands as
a model for American youth. His reply to
his indignant father, whose impetuous ma
ture was aroused by the apparent wan
toness OF the cutting of his ~favorite cherry
tree: Father, | cannot tell a lie; | cut the
tree, was a striking symbolical ~illustra-
ton OF the development In boyhood of the
character of his manhood. During the war
with France, when Washington was a
colonel in the British army, many of the
men in his regiment of provincials were
frontiersmen, coarse and wicked and pro-
fame. He abhorred the vice of swearing
and, determined to break it up, issued the
following official order:
Col. Washington has observed that the
men of his regiment are very profane and
reprobate. He takes this opportunity to
inform them Of his great displeasure at
such practices, and assures them that if
they do not leave them off they shall be
severely punished. The officers are de-
sired, if they hear any man swear or make
use OF any oath or eXecration, to order the
offender % lashes Immediately, without a
c~ourt-martial. For a second offense he
shall be more severely punished"
On one occasion, while he was com
mander in chief of the arm struggling for
independence, he invited a number of Off
GERS to dine with him. At the table one of
the guests, in the course of his converse
tion, gave utterance to an oath for the pur-
pose of emphasizing a remark. Immediate
ly Washington dropped his knife and fork
and with such suddenness that it attracted
the attention of the whole company pres
ent. While they were looking at him in as
constituent, he said, in very deliberate
tones: Il thought that | had only invited
gentlemen to my table to-day"
So prevalent were profanity and vulgar
ity in the army during the first year of the
revolutionary war that in l7S6 he issued the
following notice to his soldiers at New
York:
E'The general of the army is sorry to be
informed that the foolish and distasteful
practice of swearing is growing in fashion.
He hopes that the officers will, by example
as we'll as by influence, endeavor to check
it, and that both they and the men will re-
feet that we can nave little hope of the
blessings of Heaven on our aims if we in
suit it by impiety. Added to this, it and
profanity are vices so mean and low, with
out any temptation, that everyone of sense
and character detests and despises them.
The general hopes that every officer and
man will endeavor to live and act as be-
comes a Christian soldier
During his army life Washington did not
forget or neglect his religious duties. His
morning and evening prayers were always
offered, and, whenever possible, he OBJ
served the other means of divine grace. AT
one time, when the army was encamped
near Morristown, N. j., he called on Rev.
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promise which Washington did not ap-
prove. One of these, although a slavehold-
er himself, was the recognition of slavery.
He had fought for national liberty under a
banner which, in the declaration of indie
pendence, had declared that "all men are
born free and equal" With Adams and
Jefferson he believed that the corner stone
of the new republic should be equal rights
under the law for all men, with no recog-
nlzed aristocracies or peculiar rights for
certain classes or races. 1t was to this
unfortunate compromise that he alluded
when he wrote:
There are some things in this form, l
will readily acknowledge, which never did,
and | am persuaded never will, obtain my
cordial appreciation. But l did then con-
ceive, and / do now firmly believe, that, in
the aggregate, it is the best constitution
that can be obtained in this epoch, and
that this or a dissolution awaits our choice.
1t is the only alternative"
As president Washington gave many
evidences of his ability as a public civil Of
fetal. He had not the scholarism of JEFF
ferson and some of the earlier presidents,
but he had clear judgment, keen foresight,
incorruptible integrity, and a common
seHse way Oh Ioohlng DIT anu ueclulHS NIT
tiers that seldom led him into error. The
public questions that arose during his adj
ministration were new and perplexing.
Whether he was advised as much as our
later presidents were the records do not
disclose. One thing, however, is certain,
he did not have the help of the newspapers
in his decisions of tangled problems as
much as the later-day presidents have had.
Some of his executive acts were criticised,
but as time removed the prejudices then
existing and threw greater light on affairs,
the acts he performed and the opinions he
expressed and held have proven, in the
main, to have been correct. His public
services as president were devoid Of self
ishness and ambitious motives, free from
party prejudices, and prompted by mo-
tives that he believed to be for the best
interests of the nation.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-20
Results of Thinning Fruits.

Pruning by thinning the fruit may
have a very important though indi-
rect effect in controlling the bearing
year of many plants. If an individual
fruit spur be carefully studied, it will
be seer that there is usually an alter
alton in fruit bearing for the aso
that the demands made by the fruit
are so great hat a fruit bud cannot
develop the same year. So in the bear
ing year, a leaf-bud develops to con-
tinue the spur the following year; and
in this following, or barren year, a
fruit bud is developed for the succeed
ing year. Alternate years fruit bear
ing is then largely a question of food
supply. If we Wish to make a tree
bear every year, it is necessary either
to supply more food material, or to
remove a portion of the fruit.-Prof.
w. M. Munson.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-20
WASHINGTON IN CIVIL LIFE

The independence of the colonies having
been secured, the great problem which
faced the new nation was the formation of
a constitution which would harmonic the
conflicting views of the leading men from
the different colonies, who were clamorine
for certain reserved rights of local admins.
@tration, and which would, at the same time.
give to the general government a central
lied power hat would meet its wants and
needs and enable it to take its stand, equal
in efficiency and endurance, among the
other great nations of the earth.
A convention was called to consider this
momentous question. 1t met at Philadel-
phia in 1887. Washington was sent as a
delegate from Virginia and by a unanimous
vote was placed in the presiding officers
chair. The result was the present consti-
tuition OF the United States excepting the
amendments). 1t created a nation with
supreme powers for all the purposes of gen.
eral government, but it left with the states,
as state governments leave with cities and
towns, those minor questions of local gov
eminent and law which our forefathers
thought the states could best solve for
themselves.
There were some provisions in the COM
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-20
WAS OPPOSED TO SLAVERY

As intimated already, Washington was
opposed to slavery. Having inherited large
landed estates in Virginia, be was, as a
matter almost of course, a stakeholder. He
had at the time of his death 1914 slaves. As
early as 1855 the system of slavery is known
to have met his d~isapproval. During that
year, in a letter written to Robert Morris,
he said: There is no man living who
wishes more sincerely than / do to see
some plan adopted for the abolition of
slavery Marquis de Lafayette, who
assisted so greatly in the securing of our
independence as a nation, was extremely
anxious to free America from the reproach
which slavery had brought on it, and, in
answer to one of the letters he wrote to
Washington on the subject, the latter re-
piled: "The scheme, my dear marquis,
which you propose as a precedent to en-
courage the emancipation of the black peo-
pie Of this country from the state Of bond
age is a striking evidence Of the state Of
your heart. | shall be happy to join you in
so laudable a work"
In the last will and testament of Wash
ington there was this clause:
upon the decease Of my wife, it is my
will and desire that all the slaves which I
hold in my own right shall receive their
freedom. To emancipate them during her
life would, though earnestly wished BY me,
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-20
Loves FinaI Age.

The last age of love in a mans life is the
dotage. This is peculiar to wealthy old
men, and its most pronounced symptom is
a mania for presenting diamonds, and open
ing bottles for chorus girls who call him
papa. At other times in a mans life he
has some slight misgiySags about love being
always conducted on a reciprocal basis;
but when he reaches this age he throws
fear to the winds, says a writer in Aims
lees. He knows he is loved for himself
alone. The man at % doubts his power to
win a woman's heart. The man at rs is
coek-sure that he is a charmer nothing
feminine can resist. He knows the ratio
of his fascination has increased. with his
advancing years, and he quarrels with his
family, who are cruel enough to suggest
that the debutante he leads to the altar
may have a weather eye on his will.
"'The last age Of love is the most danger
Gus of them all, and is generally fatal. In
fact, love is like the measles. 1t is safest
and goes easiest with man when he has it
early in life."
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courage or hope and turned these reverses
in the end into glorious victory for his
armies. With the meager resources at his
command and the powerful foe he faced.
it is doubtful if any other soldier general
in history could have accomplished what he
did. Could Alexander, could Hannibal.
could Napoleon, could Wellington! With
all due Difference to the great abilities Of
the revered military commander who de-
feated Lee and won Appomattox, could
Grant? And then his consideration for the
feelings, the wounded pride, Of that de-
feated foe! At Yorktown came the clos
ing scenes Of the long and bloody struggle,
and Corvallis, surrounded by the Amer
leans, was compelled to surrender to Wash
ington. As the British were marching from
their Entertainments to lay down their
arms, Washington thus addressed his vie
torious and e~xulting troops:
my Brave Fellows-Let no sensation of
satisfaction for the victory you have won
induce you to insult the enemy. Let no
shouting, no clamorous huzzaing in
crease their modification. Posterity will
huzza for us"
This virtually ended the war, and the fol-
lowing season not an armed British SOL
der was treading American soil. The
yoke of England, that had so long on
pressed the colonists, had been lifted from
their necks.