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Costly Fish Cakes.

Hot fish cakes in the wagon of Louis
Hayes made Walter Mcdonald hungry this
morning and he thought he would sample
one OF them. The wagon was near 7th and
ii streets at the time Mcdonald climbed
upon 1t and helped himself. Judge Kimball
fined Mcdonald S.
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Public bequests of the late Mrs. Sarah E.
Potter of Boston will aggregate about
$3.000.OO0 Besides providing for public be-
quests or 81, $4,000. the will also devised
the distribution of the residuary estate
among thirty-seeen charitable institutions
In Boston and vicinity.
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BOWLING BATTLES.

Four leagues had matches on the Palace
alleys last night, a majority OF which were
interesting and well contested resulting al
follows.
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POST-SEASON GAMES.
Clevelands Won Series From Pittsburg.

BY winning yesterdays game at Pitts
burg the Cleveland Americans took the last
seasons series from the Pittsburg Nation
ais. Five games were played two of which
were tied. OF the other three Cleveland
captured two
The game yesterday was close up to the
seventh inning. Cleveland then found Rob-
ertaille for five hits and two runs, and in
the eighth scored two more on three hits.
Flaherty was sent in to pitch in the NINTH
but 1t was too late. Pittsburg's only run
was scored on Wagner's two Dagger and
two outs. Attendance, $500.
Score by innings:
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FOOD FOR THE FANS"
Latest News Concerning the Big Base
Ball Teams

There will be a big chopping of salaries of
the players connected with the Brooklyn
club next season. Manager Hanlon said
jast night that he was completely disgust
ed at the way his men played ball this sea-
son. The club, he claims, lost S12 600 on the
season, and. as a consequence. a great
many Of the players will find a big cut in
their salaries when they receive their con-
tracts for next season.
Boston and Chicago were the only teams
IT, the American League that played their
full schedule of 154 games st. Louis and
Detroit played 152 games and New York.
Cleveland, Philadelphia and Washington
only 151 games, because it was impossible
to play off the postponements that occurred
during the season In the National League
st. Louis was the only club that played the
full schedule. All the other clubs in the
league contested in 1J3 games, except Phila-
delphia, which played 152 games.
Whether the story is true that the Boston
team was after Stahl of Washington or not,
the fact remains that there would not be
much wailing or gnashing of teeth were he
with the team. Umpire Jack Sheridan
says that player will be the talk of the
country in another season. Watch him,
I hat lad is coming very fast. Washington
has put up some stout battles this year,
and, had Stahl been in the form at the be-
SiIiiuIS VI Tie ScdSoH lie was dllST ne ST.
his gait the tailenders would have won more
games by a good deal-Boston Herald.
The veteran Boston scribe, Tim MUIR
name, on the last western trip of the Bos-
tons, paid his first visit to Detroit since
1887 when the Detroits won the National
League championship and subsequently
cleaned out Comiskey's st. Louis Browns.
In speaking of his visit Murnane said:
IT found two principal members of that
great team still In the city. Charlie Ben
nett has sold out his cigar business and
is fast losing his taste for the things this
world can offer. while Sam Thompson. big
and strong as ever. is playing ball with a
local team and can cut the ball from
deep right to the plate as weil az ever.
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to bite and kick him. A fine of $40 was i'm
posed.
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Pittsburg. .... 0 o o o. 2 2
Cleveland. 0 2 2 o. II 2
MISUNDERSTANDING. Robertaille. F1aherty and
Phelps; Cleveland, Hess and Bemis. Umpire
Mr.. Klein.
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Departmental League.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
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Yale Meets Syracuse.

Villa Nova VS.. Georgetown, at George
town.
George Washington VS.. Richmond College,
al Van Ness Park
Gallaudet VS.. University of Maryland. at
Kendall Green.
Brown and Pennsylvania, at Franklin
Field
Harvard and West Point, at West Point
Princeton and Annapolis, at Annapolis
Yale and Syracuse at New Haven.
Columbia and Amherst at New York
Haverford and Lehigh, at Bethleh hem
Holy Cross and Tufts, at Worcester
Cornell and Bucknell, at Ithaca
Lafayette and Bloomsbury at Easton
Swarthmore and Delaware College, at
Wilmington.
State College and West Virginia, at State
College.
Dickinson and Franklin and Marshall, at
Lancaster.
Carlisle Indians and Albright, at Carlisle
Wesleyan and Massachusetts, "Aggies," at
Middletown.
Dartmouth and Williams, at West New
ton.
New York University and Trinity, at New
York.
Virginia and North Carolina, at Char.
lottesville.
Colgate and Hobart, at Hamilton
Michigan and Ohio State. at Columbus
Chicago and Iowa, at Chicago.
Illinois and Indiana, at Champ2aln.
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&os Snued on Tenth Pagsl
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A Monkey at Work.

Monkeys, like men, should learn to
work." says Keeper McCrossin, of the
Philadelphia ZOO. He has taught one
of his charges to overcome her distaste
for soap and water and to WELD a scrub
brush with skill. Every day the mon
key goes carefully over the inside of
her cage, scrubbing the floor and ceiling.
back wall and iron bars as carefully as
it could be done with human hands. Me-
Crossin saw the monkey initiating him
in his scrubbing operations. Tightly
clutching paper bag, she rubbed, it over
one railing after another, evincing great
enjoyment. Then McCrossin gave her
a big wash cloth and instructed her how
to wet it in pail of water. 1t was long
before she understood what SOAP was
for, and even yet she occasionally takes
bite out of a cake to make sure It is
not something to eat. II intend to teach
the other animals to scrub their cages
If possible" says McCrossin. "All the
monkeys in the cage take great interest
in the scrubbing operations, but the
trained animal will not allow them tn
touch the brush, soap or pail Of water. At
first she attempted to scrub one or two
of her brothers, but it precipitated such
q fight that ehe dared not repeat II. -
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H. A more truthful representation
would shGw the city rising from a
swamp with the feet still buried in the
mire j ~ 4 g. {
George NJ Pullman laid the founda-
ton of his fortune by prying the BUSH
ness section of the: city out of the
swamp which threatened to consume it
in the first half of the last century.
Now the center of the city, with its
long streets Of towering skyscrapers,
is but II feet above the level of the
lake, while the suburban. towns to the
south and west need a second Pullman
to lift them from the ,swamps.
In the Lake Calumet district to the
south, in Burnside Pull1pan, Kensing-
ton, Bryn Mawr,: densely populated
sections. and in the Desplaines river
valley on the west, the spring foods
are as greatly feared as are those of
the southern Mississippi. Transporta-
ton is spelled navigation" by float
ing sidewalks in these sections at this
time. The first floor rooms are given
over TO the denizens of the deep and
are classed as the family aquariums.
Aquatic sports are the popular forms
Of amusement, and babies are taught
to swim before they can walk.
The record up to date this year is
four deaths by drowning, and a prop
erty loss of some half million dollars,
to say nothing of the movable side
walks that are travelling southwark to
become feature of the drinking water
at the St. Louis exposition. An ade-
quate sewerage system is problem
the city has yet to solve for these SUBJ
urbs
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with the force he
was called upon to Investigate were not
fully aware of all the deficiency and
inef1ciency that existed. and possibly
some that didn't exist? Did he sup
pose for an instant that he could startle
the dear public by telling them their po-
llcemen were in the habit Of frequent
ing bar rooms for the purpose of OBJ
tanning liquor refreshment during their
hours of duty? What is a policeman
for, if it is not to consume the surplus
of beer?
No, the worthy captain told the peo-
pie Of the city nothing new in his re-
port. AS for deficiency, the tax
dodgers have been evading taxes for
years on the plea that the city did not
need the money. as one policeman for
every three saloons was enough. that
the city could not be expected to pro-
vide greater percentage of customers
than that in exchange for the license
fee charged the saloon keepers.
When it comes to inefficiency, so far
IS slovenliness is concerned, what can
reasonably be expected in this town
where the millionaire private citizen
who travels about in a glass case is the
only person who can appear at functions
de luxe with unsoiled linen? Capt. Piper
evidently expects the impossible of the
Chicago policeman.
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EMPRESS SOLD HER JEWELS
How Eugene Managed to Dispose Of
Her Valuab les to Save Her
Dynasty.

! The story of the Servian jewels must
recall to ex-Empress Eugene her
own experiences when the waves first
began to dash about her throne. She de
termined to sell the greater part of her
Jewels in hope to do something to save
the dynasty. Publicity had to beavoid..d,
and market was not to be found in E'u
rope. newly thrilled by the horrors Of
Sedan, says the St. James Gazette. The
.empress looked to the east for a market.
! An Englishman was on his way home
for a holiday. A telegram at Bombay
awaited him from one of the greatest Eu-
ropean financial houses and informed
him Of the determination Of the empress.
The difficulty. had been to find man with
sufficient influence to be able to approach
the princes of India in secret with a view
of selling them the jewels. Not less hard
was it to lay hands on the man who had
moral strength sufficient to carry with
him surreptitiously hundreds of thou
sands of pounds worth of jewels in lands
where the queens writ did not run, and
where the protection of the constable is
not Immediately availa BILE. ;
Every care had been taken to insure
secrecy. The jewels had been taken to
pieces; the gems removed from their set
tings; the latter '"jointed" to admit of
their holding and being worn around the
waist of their bearer in a belt of soft
leather. The Englishman put on the
belt, armed himself with, trusty re-
volver, engaged a trusty servant. and
set forth on his mission. For threS
months he wandered over road, rail and
river The responsibility Of his trust,
the constant danger of discovery, the diff
ffculty Of disposing of his burden were
worries that combined to kill him.
AT last he was successful The jewels
were sold to prince who esteemed them
the more for that they were the property
of distressed empress. There would
have been trouble, no doubt, had the mat
ter been known at the India office, but
the man who dischar ged Misunderstanding
afforded an example of courage and solid
worth in trying conditions which merit
a place in the story of commercial in
tegrity and disregard of personal. dan
ker
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Chicago els he has but re-
Gently published.
The truth of the, matter is Sir Ed
ward didn't see Chicago He admits
that much himself. for he distinctly
says he did not go to the stockyards,
and Chicago without the stockyards is
Eot Chicago at all.
Though Sir Edward says the town
has no reason to exist, there was one
thing which he heartily approved Of,
and that was it's breezy hospitality
This is but another reason for believ-
ing that the eminent Englishman
would have reported favorably upon
the police force had he been asked to
undertake the job of inspection. for
the Chicago policemen are noted for
their hospitality-they will drink with
any person who can produce the price,
and at any hour of the day or night.
But, seriously speaking. this record
breaking globe trotter, who does a
stunt at character sketching cities
from. the windows of a limited ex-
press, is unjust to Chicago when he
judges 1t by the dirt. the filth, the
smoke, the SCOT and fog that is appar-
ent on the surface on a February day
That was just before the house-clean-
ing time, for the city usually gets a
bath once. year, provided the graft
investigating committee has been hold.
ing active sessions for the IL months
previous. Chicago with its face washed
is a different city from that seen by
Sir Edward. There is foundation be-
meath the mire of filth, and the street
cleaners usually touch the high places
in the cobblestones once each year-in
the spyingtime.
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H'5"esa' been annexed to
the city. The pedestrian falls through
the holes, runs rotten nail into his
toe, and sues the city for $4,000 for
personal injury.
Ten years ago there were 46 claims
of this character pending against the
city. On January l, 1904, the 46 claims
had grown to 2.S76, in which the total
damages asked was $38,666,952. OF
these cases 80 per cent. are due to de-
fective sidewalks. and more than so
per cent. are due to defective sidewalks
in the suburbs. There is such thing
as growing too fast for your pocket
book. and Chicago is rapidly finding
this out.
Judgments in these personal injury
cases are piling up against the city SO
rapidly as to threaten bankruptcy un-
less some means is found of stopping
the growth. At the present time the
city owes it's manned and deformed in
habitants, who have, according to the
evidence produced in court, become
physical wrecks by reason of municipal
negligence. the neat little sum of $4,-
979,7O0. On this five per cent. interest,
a total of $25o,000 annually is paid.
There is not dollar available to pay
the principal, which is growing at the
rate of about half a million dollars a
year.
Instead of continually multiplying in
territory it would seem that Chicago
might profit by few problems in SUBJ
straction. The city is learning in the
school of experience that there is more
in this world than the one item OF
square miles,
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PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS.
Most Thieves Are Such Because Cir
cumstances Have Been Too
Strong for Them.

During the period of my incarceration
l conversed with some hundreds of pris-,
oners belonging to what is known as the
professional or hardened criminal class
those desperate, hardened, clever GRIM
inals of whom we hear and read so much:
got at these mems sentiments, ideas
and feelings, and I believe l am safe:
in saying that in only two instances did
/ encounter prisoners whom put down
as utterly irreclaimable. AS for the
remainder, they were professional GRIM
inals simply because no other profess
sion was open to them, says the Nine
teenth Century.
To suggest, as some writer's do, that
these men are burglars, housebreakers,
pickpockets or whatever it may be, be-
cause they banker after pursuing these
occupations, is to my mind sheer non
sense These men are professional Grim
inals because their wills have been weak
and circumstances have been too strong
for them They assert that these pro-
fessional criminals are mere wild beasts,
impossible of being brought back to the
path of rectitude, is, to my thinking, not
only absurd, but untrue. No one at,
tempts the reclamation process either
in jail or out of it. Once man has worn
a prison suit, the world, whatever may
be it's protestations to the contrary,
tacitly declares him an outlaw, every
pariah, an outcast; and, unless he be a
man of strong will and fierce determina-
ton, or has private means or friends to
assist him, he almost naturally relapses
into crime. 1t is, in fact, his only al
tentative, and the men, he has met in
prison are the only persons who will as
sist him. l confess feel sick when
read the pulling sentimentality which
from time to time appears in reviews
and newspapers anent the innate de-
pravity of the criminal, knowing as
do the struggle, the almost hopeless
struggle, the ex-prisoner has to make if
he is to exist without infringing the
law.
No doubt there are prisoners aid So
cieties which receive and spend the vi
carious charity of the public. These So
cieties will, l know, receive the pris-
oner on his discharge and make him
clearly understand that he is an ex-pris-'
oner: they will dole him out the paltry
gratuity he has earned in prison, and, if
he wants anything else, they will en-
! 9loy him to chop wood or at some such
congenial labor-at a profit to the So
ciety. These institutions may do excel
lent work for all know, but the excel
lent ork has not come under my notice.
How they expend their funds has always
been mystery to me- because in not one
solitary instance-and have made
hundreds of inquiries-have l been able
to trace the fact of their having rendered
efficient aid to any discharged prisoner,
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4 DREAM OF NAWCAToRs.
Cutting of the Isthmus of Panama
Was Planned by Men Of Science
Decades Ago.

is almost as old as the discovery Of
America. writes George Ethelbert
Walsh, in Cutting Hemisphere in
Two" in st. Nicholas. It was when the
conviction spread abroad in Euro pc,
that Columbus had only discovered a
new continent, and not new western
passage to the wealth Of the Indies, that
men of science and travel be- IAN to
think of opening navigable channel
from the Atlantic t. the Pacific AS
early as 1881 survey was made to see
if North and South America could not
be cut in two. Capt, Antonio Pereira,
governor Of Costa RIGA. explored route
by way of the San Juan river, the lake
of the same name, and the rivers which
empty into the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa
Rico. This early survey was the first
actual beginning of the story of Pan
ANA, which now promises to reach a con-
clusion within the next ten years. Diego
de Mercado, about 80 years later, made
a survey of the Nicaragua route, and
recommended to King Philip, of Spain,
the construction of an interoceanic
canal along the lines described by him.
From that time to the year when the
French company, under the famous
French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps,
essayed: to cut the Isthmus Of Panama
in two, the Nicaragua and Panama routes
have been periodically. surveyed and re-
surveyed until probably no other out-of-
the-way corner of the earth has re-
ceived half as much examination and
geographical attention. = 49, ,','-',s : :
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caught sent to the
penitentiary. The bOokmaker who. in
these righteous. days, carries his office
in his hat and buttonholes you on the
street to take your money on loosing
race, commits a misdemeanor, and
when caught, which is seldom. is fined
$40 and costs. The doctor who makes
a speciality of searching for personal
injury cases, who finds in a bruise
on the shin bone a severe and perma-
nent injury, who testifes to this ef-
feet in court. and receives for his
trouble large slice of the judgment
secured against the city, passes in the
best classes of society as successful
physician. The lawyer who follows the
doctor, takes the case of the injured
one into court, pleads effectively with
a jury, and divides the judgment with
the doctor, is on the highway to polit-
ical preferment.
The latter two bunko the municipal-
ity quite as much as. tho others bunko
the individual. 1t Is to this class that
the city attorney attaches much of
the cause for the rapid increase in the
number of personal injury cases.
There are known. combinations of doc
tors and lawyers in the city who do
nothing else but follow this nefarious
business Of bleeding the city. When
Chicago can rid itself of this class OF
bunko men it will save so per cent. Of
Its personal injury judgments. =:
IT,: WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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pdlIleS 10 uNeSll-
gate ard spy upon
the police of Chi
cago. says the force
is both deficient
and inefficient.
Wonder, row, if
the captain thought
to tell the people
of this town some
thing new when he
put in that report?
Did he suppose for
an instant that the
people who have
boon hrO,,ohf I'M
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Benevolent Microbes,

She was shy Of germs in the water,
She boiled and killed them BY steam;
She was shy of the germs in the butter,
And microbes that flourish in cream.
She was Shy of germs in the sirloin,
Of germs in the marrowfat bone, :,
She was shy of germs in her money,
And germs that you meet at the phone
She was shy of the germs at the playhouse
OF germs on the tramcar slips;
But she wasn't bit shy of the microbe!
If there were any on Archibald's lips
Tit
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Jones, the English
artist, to investi-
gate the police de-
partment he would
have found much
to mitigate the Of
lenses of the po-
licemen: In fact,
Sir Edward be-
lieves having to
reside in Chicago
sufficient punish
ment for any
crime in the CAL
endar. and has
said so in a book
of American trav-
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classes, TIL u g h
they are recruited
f rom different
schools and have
different standings
in society in the
eyes of the law.
The man who shows
the IN S op h i S
ticated the explo-
sion on the lake
front and extracts
from his pocket
his wallet is called
a thief and when
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, 2 8 = So

Auntie Ito little niece, aged seven,
who had, been,left temporarilyein charge
of brother, aged three)-Well, Effe,
dear, l hope you have been quite a
mother to him while mummy's been
away.
Ef1e-Oh, yes, auntie, dear. have!
I've smacked him three times.-Illus-
trated News. ! ! ? as
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Education in. Oklahoma.

Oklahoma has seven educational in
stitutions of higher learning under cor
troll Of the territory, and many schools
and colleges under the supervision OF
religious denominations. The state has
more than 100000 children Of school
age, and 5000 young men and women
In the institutions Of higher learning.
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tor personal in
jury that are be-
ing filed in ever
increasing num-
bers against the
city. The spring
flood tears to
pieces the "im-
promptu" side
walks laid across
the prairies Of the
suburban towns
that, in the desire
for still greater
"bigness," h av E
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Problem in millinery;

l why, oh, why" remarked thu, OBJ
server Of Events and Things, .'.wtll ! .
woman smile with delight when she sees
a hat 81 a mflliner's window, and frown
when she sees the same hat on her neigh
bor's head Ply onkers statesman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-15
Dangerous DELAY.

: Julia-Fancy, dear, Capt. Slasher has
asked me to marry him! Should give
him an immediate answer? Remember
he's only known me three@months..
: Clara-Answer him at once, dear.
When he's: known you a bit longer he'll
want to back out!-Tit7Bit
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The Method,
.Exclusiveness
Z : 49,
CQuldn't See.

Francis mother had sent him to the
butchers one day to find whether he had
pigs fes t." Francis SOON returned with,
this statement: ! / j J II - =
Il could not see. He had Ills shoes
on."-Li:tle' Chronicle: >.>'>5>A %,ta> !