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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-11
'Tis not all of life to live
Nor all of death to die"

/ know many people-SOme OF
whom are church members-who are
living very irregular lives. Some
times they pull, and seem to be
making Roadway; but sometimes they
stall and pull back; then they jerk and
break the traces or kick out. The
Lord surely has to exercise a great
deal of PATIENCE with poor fallen hu-
mainly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
JAMAICA RACES.
Four Favorites and Second Choice
Finished in Front

The Jamaica racing meeting was finished
yesterday in the presence of the usual
crowd of 5000 patrons. Form was in better
working order than usual, as four favorites
and second choice finished in front. F. r.
Hitchcocks Dandelion apparently had the
Remsen Handicap for two-year-olds at five
and half furlongs at his mercy, and the
plungers went at him so strongly that he
was pounded down to 10 to 20 favorite.
His victory was correspondingly easy, as
he made all the running and won handily
by two lengths from r. T. Wilson, Jr.'s.
Gamara, II to second choice, from whom
he received seven pounds. Pasadena, the
top weight ran third, two lengths back.
The time was :06 4-5, fifth of second
slower than the track record.
E. r. Thomas two-year-old Diamond was
another victorious favorite in the first race,
a handicap for all ages, at six furlongs.
He gave scale weight to everything in the
race, was backed down from to 5 to IL to
10, and, after leading all the way, won in
drive by head from Monet, to 1. in
1:13 2-5. Race King, a 20 to / shot, was
The surprise of the day came in the
second race, at nine furlongs, when Bar LIE
Due, 50 to 1 shot, got home in front.
beating Brigand, to 1, by head, while
Namtor, the to favorite, was a head
back. after experiencing the usual hard
luck. The time was 1:55 3-5.
Frank Farrelfs Champlain, heavily
all the pace in the third race, at a mile and
seventy yards, weakened near the end, and
The Huguenot, 3 to /, beat him a nose In
hard drive in 1:45 2-5. Garnish, to 1, was
length and a half away.
In the fifth race, at mile and six
teenth, Princess Atheling, backed down to
tens, after wheeling at the start, was
rushed into the lead in the middle Of the
backstretch, only to die away in the last
furlong Eagle, to favorite. then came
on and won by length from Prince Salm
Salm, to- 2, who finished four lengths be-
fore Belle of Belle Meade, to 1, with
Princess Atheling neck back. The time
was / 40 As.
Goldfeur, to favorite, took the last
race for maiden two-year-olds at six fur
longs, by half a length, after showing the
way from the start. Yorkshire Lad, 6 to l,
ran into the place by four lengths in front
of Courier, Is to 5, who beat ROderick Dhu,
Is to l, a short heat. The time was liza 3-5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
IN THE FOOT BALL WORLD.
What the Big Four Teams Are Doing
in the WAY Of Practice.

Two thousand more applications have
been received for the Harvard-Yale foot
ball game than there are seats. If these
two teams lost every game they played
they would still play to capacity" and
the same is true of Yale and Princeton.
The rivalry and fame of the Institutions
give their games a vogue which is peculiar
to itself. Only the West Point-Annapolis
game attains quite the same distinctive
features of patronage and hurrah. The
seating capacity at Yale field Is about 3d.
600. With the attendance at the Harvard
Yale game there as the biggest drawing
card. Harvard will this year play to an at
tendance of 1900 in four games, the three
other games being those with Pennsylvania,
the Indians and Dartmouth. 1t is safe to
add 10000 for the other games of the Har-
ward schedule. There are three games on
the Yale schedule that mean a combined
attendance of about $1,000, the Harvard
game with $4,000. the Princeton game, with
1000. and the Columbia game, with 12.tO0
The West Point game drew about 5000, %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
olvmpias Defeat oregons.

The name Olympia was again to the fore
Yesterday, when the reserves bearing that
tattle-scarred title, defeated the strong
Oregons on the Olympia Athletic Club
grounds, the Colosseum The score at the
end Of the thirty minutes fierce play stood
Olympia. 5; Oregon, o. The team work of
the victors was the special feature of the
contest, although the individual work of
McMormick, full back, who scored the only
point, stood out prominently. Mr.. Briggs of
the o. A. c. refereed and Mr.. Sutton,
Georgetown, umpired. Following is the line
up of the Olymp;as: E. Bowles, r. E.; Fos
ter, r. n; Patterson r. G.; Sands, c.;
Reynolds, L. G.. Mackey, L. T.. Fisher, L.
E.; Talbot, L. IL. B.; Mccormick, F. B.;
Thompson, r. H. B.; N. Bowles, @. B.
-eams averaging 40 pounds wishing games
please address Mr.. T. Renix, 7th and A
streets southeast 50 ~
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has been shortstop on 1.-The, nine for three
years and has considerable experience at
end. He is fast and good ,tackler but is a
bit light. Mills was in ths scrimmage for
the first time since the Pennsylvania game,
and Nichols got into signal practice for the
first time since he banged his shoulder last
week. Roger Derby. who played left tackle
his shoulder falling on the ball the first day
of practice, had his first taste of real foot
ball on the substitutes yesterday afternoon,
playing at right tackle.
Noyes was quarter back on the substi-
tutes, playing for the first time since the
West Point game. Captain Hurley was
out watching the work of the squad, but
his ankle has not sufficiently recovered to
allow him to get into the lineup. Wendell,
the freshman who is substitute right half
back, ran all but two yards of the length of
the field for touchdown. on a kickoff, the
varsity eleven giving him good interfer-
ence. Sperry ran seventy yards for a
touchdown on a play outside tackle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
VICTORY FOR "rEcHs.~
Defeated Georgetown "Preps" by Mar
row Margin.

The second game of the season between
the Technical High School and the George
town Preparatory School foot ball teams
was played yesterday afternoon, on George
town Field, and the High School boys won,
after hard-fought and interesting game
by score Of to b. The first game which
was played by these teams was also won
By the Technical team by score of 18 to
6. The "Preps" team has been consider
ably strengthened since then, and yesterday
made the winners work throughout the en-
tire contest to win.
The Technical boys made their touchdown
In the first half, Smith going through the
linz and over the goal line. and soon after
kicked goal. In the second half. after
working the ball up to the Technicals' 15-
yard line, Laub circled the Technical right
end for a touchdown. Fitzgerald tried for
goal, but missed.
Smith, Duggane and Backus played the
best game Sfor the winners, while Pallen,
Fitzgerald and Laub were the best for the
losers The line I'D:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
CONFIRMS HAzELToN's STORY.
New Witness for "Nan" Patterson
SAYS Young Held Pistol.

A witness who corroborates the story Of
Milton w. Hazelton, the aged resident Of
Oneonta, N. Y, that Caesar Young the
bookmaker, shot himself while in a cab
with Nan Patterson, in West Broadway
June last, came to the front in New York
yesterday. The witness is John Latour
who is in the Tombs awaiting sentence,
having pleaded guilty to grand larceny. He
also served fourteen months in the peni-
tertiary five years ago. Latour's story
came out through a letter he sent to Nan
Patterson, dated November 1. 1t was as
follows:
do you remember the red-headed fellow
that looked in the window and showed you
where the drug store was? 1 am the lad.
didn't go to the front till seen those two
men. That is true. l was there when they
looked in the window, but they went away
as soon as they seen it. If can do you
any service 1 will only be too glad. am
In the Tombs at present locked up
Latour Is twenty-nine years old. He says
that on the morning of June he went to
work at O'Clock, leaving his wife Ill at
home. About $50 O'Clock he started for
home to see how she was He went down
West Broadway on the west side of the
street He lived on the opposite side. He
declares that he noticed a cab going down
In the same direction that he was.
"As the cab passed me" he says. II heard
a shot flred. I looked into the cab and saw
a pistol in the right hand of the man who
sat there on the right side OF the cab
When the cab had gone half block fur
Their 1t stopped climbed up on the step
and looked in. The man still held the pss-
toi.
1T told the woman to go to a drug store,
and pointed one out to her, but the drug
gist said it was no case for him and told
them to go to hospital. went along
home and told my wife that had seen
man shoot himself. and after returned to
work told several Of the fellows there the
same story. When got home that night
my wife advised me not to say anything
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
STARTER FITZGERALD RESIGNS.
Jockey Club Official Gives Up His Post
to Go Into Business.

"Now I want you all to line up, shake
hands with me and say goodbye Such
was the finale of a short heart-to-heart
talk which Starter Chris Fitzgerald held
with the jockeys in the weighing room at
Jamaica yesterday afternoon subsequent to
the fifth race. He had commenced his ad-
dress by advising them to take good care
of their money now, while they were able
to make plenty of it. You are small and
light now" he said, land hardly know the
value of money. But by and by you will
grow big like I am, and will no longer be
able to make it so easily. So take care of
it now, and keep it for when you may
need it. Ride straight, and be obedient at
all times to the starter"
Fitzgerald after seven years of faithful
service as starter to the Jockey Club. has
resigned his position to go into business
association with w. A. Engeman, the pro-
prietor of the Brighton Beach race track,
and president of the Brighton Beach Rae
ing Association.
His career as a racing official, as told
by himself, is follows: II first started
horses in Toronto twelve years ago. having
been asked to handle the flag in place Of
Caldwell, who had been engaged, but was
unable to be present. The following year
I started at the ST. Asaph track, Virginia,
for H. D. Mcintyre, until that track was
outlawed. That same summer took Start
er Ferguson's place at the Milwaukee track,
and from there was chosen to go to New
Orleans as starter for the Crescent City
Jockey Club. This coming season will be
my tenth at New Orleans.
81 was engaged as patrol judge by the
Jockey Club at Monmouth Park in its last
year. Next I became clerk of the scales
to the Jockey Club, and seven years ago
1 was appointed starter, and have full
filled the duty ever since. I am sorry, of
course, to relnquish my duties, since they
have always been so congenal in every
way. but 1 have accepted business con-
tract with w. A. Engeman to assist him
in the management of his various enter
prises, such as the Brighton track the
Brighton baths, his quarries and SO forth"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
On Charge of False Pretenses.

The police are looking for young man
who is accused of false pretenses. 1t is
charged that he induced people to believe
that he could purchase coal for 81 a ton
cheaper than the market price. The mat
ter was reported last night by Leo Bailey
a War Department clerk, who said young
man called at a boarding house conducted
by a relative of Mr.. Bailey. engaged board
and said he was a railroad man on a va
cation. Incidentally he told of the scheme
whereby he could get cheap coal. and was
given $25 with which to make a purchase.
Then he disappeared. 1t is the belief of
the police that the same man has been
operating a similar game in Philadelphia
and Baltimore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
Bullet Passes Through Car.

An investigation is being made by the
police for the detection of the person who
fired a shot through the window of a
Capital Traction car near 7th and B streets
last night about $50 O'clock. Car No. 395,
In charge of Motorman Barker. was moving
north and was just about to leave the
mall when the passengers were startled by
bullet crashing through the glass. The
missile came from the direction of the Bal
timore and Potomac depot, and passed
through two panes of glass. William Nash
Of 40 M street, q passenger aboard the car,
was slightly cut about his nose by the
broken glass. He was the only passenger
who was injured. It Ia believed the shoot
Ing was accidental and that 1t resulted from
the careless handling OF weapon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
Atlantics Lineup.

The Atlantic lcot ball team would like to
arrange games with any team. averaging
115 pounds. The lineup Is as follows: Nc
Carthy. L. E.; Buehler, L. T.; Swank, L. G.;
Peake, c.: Lewis. r. G.; J. Salb. R. T.;
Wooden. K. E.; Kemper. @. B.; Noyes, L.
H. B.; Priest, r. H. B.: c. Salb, F. B. Ad-
dress all challenges to Daniel Priest, SO2
G street nOrtheas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
Belmonts Want Games.

The Belmonts would like to arrange
games with all teams averaging 100 pounds.
The lineup is as follows:
J. Mccarthy, right half back; H. Mess, right
end; B. Parker, right guard f. johnson, right
tackle; T. Kengla, center; H.: Hoover, left half
back; J. Nolan, left end; Mcdonald, left guard;
R. Howard, left tackle; A. Welcker, quarter back;
Ants, full back.
Address all challenges to E. Johnson, 931
Rhode Island avenue northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
Mcclure and Camel After Franchise

FORT WAYNE, Ind, November 3.-John
Camel. first baseman of the New York
American League team. and James Nc
CURE, catcher of the same team, are here
for the reported purpose of purchasing the.
Grand Rapids franchise in the Central
League from Mautner of Fort Wayne and
Heenan of Terre Haute
Ten thousand dollars is the price asked
Camel, it is said, will play second base
and Mcclure will catch If the deal shall
be closed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
On Carroll Institute Alleys.
NATIONAL GUARD BASKET BALL.
corcoran Cadets outplayed the Urell
Rifles

The urell Rifles and corcoran Cadets bas-
ket ball teams Of the National Guard
League met last night In the armory gym
nasium and the latter won in the last few
minutes OF play by score of 2s1a to IA.
Inere was large attendance OF rooters
present. Both teams played hard game
and on several occasions the players lost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
Yankee Won German Golf Honors.

The finals in the tournament for the golf
championship of Germany were played at
Berlin yesterday. The championship cup
was won by DR.. G. o. Walker an~Ameri-
can, with Franklin H. Mason, the American
consul general at Berlin as runner-up
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
De Orc Pool Champion.

De Orc won the pool championship of the
world at 11:45 o'clock last night at st.
Louis, defeating Keogh 125 to 100 The
score once stood 1O7 to So in favor of
Keogh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
their heads and were smuggling each other
until stopped by the referee. Neither side
had much team work. The lineup:

Goals-Handiboe (3l Rice "a. Boyle, Draeger
f2l, Chisholm. Bateman and Garner t2). Fouls
Cercorans. 10: Ureils. 16. Referee-Mr. Orlando
Ross Timers-Messrs. Hazard and White.
Scorer-M. p. Brittane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
BOWLING BATTLES.

Crack Rollers We're Lined Up Last
Night.
Following are the results Of the bowling
matches on the Palace alleys, all the con-
tests being close and interesting:
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-17

arm. ono roll was so big that the post
age on 1t was 40 cents. Tho State had
10000 blanks printed. and a Portland firm
had as many moro.
From one to 40 dead porcupines are
represented by each blank on which q
return is made. An official says that
when the returns are all In they will
show 10000 porcupfnes killed.
or tho towns and plantations which
have reported thus far, Whiting, In WASH
ington county. shows the largest number
of bounty-paying porcupines. GAG which
at 25 cents each will cost the State sl6l5D
The other places which have thus far re-
ported are Medford, 196; Prospect, .so
Harrington, IS; tho town OF Dedham and
plantations OF Macwahoc. Long and High
land.
The appropriation to pay tho bountles
for the year is $500 and 1t Is thought the
returns already In will nearly use this
I'm. 1t is limited that one Of the first
acts OF the next Legislature may be 70
repeal the porcupne bounty law. The
hunters are mostly boys. Many farm
ers think they do moro damage by set
ting fires than they do good by killing
porcupines. Lewiston Journal.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-17
FACTS; And
fANCIES
Abott Dwarfs and Myths That
Have Been Read About
Bit Never Seen.
DESCENDANTS OF pYGM !. ::!;
a Pathological and Distinct 4 Race Race
That May Have Existed
iii Remote Ages.

evends 1re useful, because sometimes
+he.,. nit ,a on Tho track Of authentic
facts. In tho Homeric period reference
yyns made to tho race OF pygmies, ana
yet nobody believed In their existence.
II was only III comparatively modern 'r
TIN 90 TINT ignorance had to yield to
eN.4lcnce when races of pygmics ~ero
;,o,rd ~ Africa aud in Asia III Europe
n,nular myths gave al, important roie
~ ii.,orfs and pygrlies IN England, Scot
land and ireland. 81 u, !,
IN Denmark they wero cnHed Kobold;
m Germany, Niebelung and they we're
-fferred to II, Russia. and even IN
s,rancc. as IL the legends reflected tho
distant recollection Of populations Of
little people who really lived IN for. OIL q
ayes. 1T Is now proved concluslvely Una.
the ancient popular Isllef was ROUNDED
IN fact. It links the tradition to its
starting point. The race Of little peoplo
existed almost everywhere.
Numerous skeletons Of dwarfs are
found in Egyptian rpscropoli, in Greek
an6 Roman statunry, in the frescoes OF
n mp4ii, and Bs ms somo ornamental
cerafr1ic vases Of FRoman Gau Numer-
nus skeletons Of pygmies, mingled with
those Of men Of ordinary stature, have
been found in O. number OF prehistoric 70
sepulchrcs. &,
We should also mention the ske'>tons
OF pyg,nies found IN the sepulchres or
the neolithic period at the time Of the
excavations In Switzerland under the
direction Of h1iesch and Ilillnlanr. Then
came the discoveries OF NJ. Manourbrier.
ana Of vacherHd de 2Lapouge In Heroult,
and in the cases of the Cevennes, and
more recently those Of NJ. Thiemus in
Siberia. .s
II Is certain that there existed in re-
mote ages, a race Of dwarfs which re.
main,,d as a distinct race for a long
| time. Traces Of them are found among
the Romans and the slavs. According
Ito Gulturan OF Comar. these races Of
dwarfs popped Switzerland and the
whole OF lower Alsace, while Miesch
| and Kolllnann claim that they were the
primitive people Of Europe.
| The assertion Is also made that, in
asmuch as traces of pygmies are found
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-17
"The Comic Opera Queen" in '"rhe Runaways."'

+ witch hazel, or }wlch hazel, is the name
applied to an elm which grows in con-
siderable quantity. The leaves Of this
shrub or small tree resemble those o.
the hazel and its wood is often used to-
make the chests or boxes for provisions.
formerly called wyches.
The American hazel is found in damp
woods from Canada to Louisiana II IS
shrub with long and plant branches
which sometimes reach the height of 20
feet, but usually not over 10 feet. me
flowers, from buds formed during the
summer, open just as the leaves are
falling in October and November. It's
yellow petaled flowers blossomtng at this
time Of year give it q strange appear
ance. which together with its healing
properties helped to fasten upon 1t the
name witch hazel. The fruit, which Is
d twb-seeded capsule. natures the follow
Ing summer. t55
The wood Is white and close and the
bark and leaves contain a large amount
OF tannin. The trunks are usually
twisted, and owing to the spotted bark,
sla tish and white. the shrub is known
throughout New England, at least, as
spotted alder. "a
The small branches are often used as
d.vping rods in locating water. so
great is the faith put In the shrub.s
Sometimes 1t grows to be as thick through
az the butt as q mans arm, but usually
1t is from one to five inches in diameter.
and this is the size desired by the witch
hazel distillers.
While witch hazel is found generally
throughout Connecticut, 1t grows much
more thickly in some places than others;
for instance, Simsbury Is rich IN this
shrub, and in parts of Litchfeld county
lit abounds 1t is also found in goodly
necttcut and In the hill towns nearby.
So great has been the demand for brush
that it has been largely cut off In many
places In Niddlesex county, especially
along the river towns, and the manu-
facturers are reaching back to the coun-i
try towns beyond to secure their supply.
1t usually takes three to five years for
a new crop to grow y Ii
Essex is really tho home Of the witch
hazel distileries for there 1t has been.
distilled for many years, and also III
neighborilfg villages.
About five gallons of alchohol to every
barrel Of extract Is used. The secur-
ing of tho brush has proved a pro1ltanle
business for the farmers, as It Is gain
cred in the fall and winter AS high as
$500 pounds has been carried at one LOAD.
THE brush delivered brings $3.50 q ton.
Where tt Is purchased standing the price
varies as to conditions in gathering, etc.,
from 50 cents to 81 per ton. Its yield
can be Imagined when 1t Is known that
about eight tons have been cut from
18 acres It Is easy#to cut. and being
loft In piles. Is gathered up, openings be-
ing left for the wagons to come through
Hartford Courant.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-17

in many parts Of the world, they prob
ahly were tho advance guard Of the
resent variety of the human race,
lust as in the case Of animals the big
came from the little. 1t was toward
tho close of tho ninth century that all
.,ace of them as a COLLECTIVELY was lost.
Nevertheless, after that period isolated
specimens of them were found from
time to time. particularly In the differ
ent courts Of Europe. where they We're
employed as testers
At the present time, as everybody
knows, dwarfs stlll exist; but there are
8dwarfs and dwarfs. DWarfism, or the
edimlnutlon more or less remarkable OF
Sthe ordinary stature, has been Of late
the subject of important Investigation.
There is evidently pathological dwarf
That type has an ensemble Of clinical
sIgr., giving him place set apart for
himself. Professor Poncet, Of tho Unl-
yersity of Lyons, and NJ. Rene Lerlche
In a very interesting communication 70
the Academy Of Medicine, entitled
$"Dwarfs OF the Present Time and Dwarrs
or Long Ago" have Just brought UP me
question whether among the Datholoslcal
dWarfs there has not often been errun-
eously included an important category Of
dwarfs that should be separated from
4 them. because they belong to nothing In
pathology and because in reality they are
only very little men, remnants Of the
ancient race of dwarfs,
These isolated specimens some down
from prehistoric times. They present the
popularity of being an clinical attribute
and consequently hereditary, while the
only dwarfs considered in medical lltera-
( ture are creatures reduced IN all their
1 proportions andsYhose Fundamental char
acter Is their happiness for reproduc-
stlon. % n NJ 4. 4, !,
M, gLerIche separate the ancestral awarf1
i'i Ism which III determined by the ataYlo