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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-01-12
'M|LL"|N CLASSIC BOSTON

BOSTON, Jan. l2.-For the third
timc Joe Choynski. the blond-haired
veteran from California, and kid"
Carter the South Brooklyn light heavy
weight, will face each other in the ring
They have been matched to fight
January IA before the Criterion Ath-
letic club of this city. The bout is
scheduled for Is rounds.
On March 2, 1902. the pair met in
Chicago and Carter won in one round
They met recently in Philadelphia and
put up a great battle whish was nota-
bic for its hurricane nature. The 90
in Boston should be ripper. Both
men arg training hard for the mill,
the Californian at his home in La
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And Now They Wed.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. l2.-Miss
Christine Ledlie Wheeler, daughter OF
Mrs. Charles Wheeler and sister OF
the Countess Pappenheim, was mar
ried today to Captain Philip S. G
Wainman, of the Royal Worcester
ST re regiment, England. The cere
mony, which was largely attended by
persons of social prominence. was per-
formed in the Church of the Redeemer
Bryn Mawr, and was followed by an
el"borate reception and wedding break
fast at the home of the brides
mother.
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A FAMOUS REMEDY ron SICK.
HEADACHE.

The cause of this complaint Is not
In the head at all; II comes from
the stomach, A stomach that has
become clogged by over eating, drink
ing or abuse In any manner will warn
you by bringing on sick-headache.
Cure the palms and distress in the
stomach and the headache stops OF
itself. AL bilious attacks, dyspepsia,
belching. bad taste In the mouth,
are cured by this remedy. 1t Is cali
ed DR.. Gunn's Improved Liver Pills.
and is sold by druggists all over the
United States for 25c per box. One
receipt Of price. Samples free. ADJ ID.
dress DR.. Bosanko Co, Philadelphia,
Pa. For sale by Chas. McNab, corner
Washington street and Riverside
avenue.
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Texas Stock Men.

PLANO, Tex, Jan. 12.-The Texas
State Swine Breeders association held
well attended meeting her today.
Some of the papers presented were rs
follows: How Shall We Promote the
Hog Industry" John w. Stewart,
Sherman, Texas; Texas vs.. the Nor
thern States for Hog Raising" H. Z.
Singleton, Mckinney, Texas; "How to
Use Alfalfa for Best Results J. c.
Cobb, Dodd City, Texas; Selection
and Development of the Breeding
Male" NJ. NJ. Offutt, Cleburne, Texas;
Swine Diseases, Prevention and
Cure. George p. Lillard, Seguin, Texas.
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Back 10
Her Home

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. PA
Miss Josie Troxell is home again after
a lively experience in Colorado. Her
mother is at Colorado Springs and be-
longs to the Williamites. a religious
organization. Miss Troxell says she
was enticed there by report that her
mother was ill and prevented from re-
turning Her uncle. j. w. Lowry.
postmaster of Knightstown, and her
sweetheart, c. +. Edgerton, of Rush
vile, went to Colorado Springs and
rescued her.
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CALLS LEAGUE MEETING.

President w. II. Lucas of the Pa
cific National league has called a
meeting of the magnates for this city
next Saturday, There will be repre-
sentatives from Salt Lake. Ogden,
Butte. Seattle and Spokane. 1t Is
just possible that after this meeting
as they have been in the past They're
muddled enough now anyway.
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The supreme court at Olympia has
sustained the constitutionality of the
law making it a felony tc live off the
earnings of dissolute women
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Tacoma will be In the Pacific Coast
league all right. Yesterday the
Coasters leased grounds located at
Eleventh and X streets.
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James B. Gray
Stevens Street and Spyague Avenue,
Phone Red IL.

Sl6oo-Four-room cottage. on East
Nora avenue. city water ana
sink in kitchen. nice lava
shade trees, graded street. an
phalt sidewalk. lot 5oxts3s
this is n beauty aud must b
sold at onea
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THE SURE WAY

to prevent Pneumonia and Consump-
ton is to cure your cold when it first
appears. Aoker's English Remedy
will stop the cough in a night. and
drive the cold out or your system.
Always quick and sure cure for
Asthma, Bronc,Stics and all throat
and lung troubles. If II does not sat
isfy you we will refund your money.
Spokane Drug Co.
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LINCOLN. Neb, Jan. 12.-Magnates
OF the Western Baseball league who
were to have met here some weeks
ago but later decided upon post
ponement finally got together today
Tor the purpose Of arranging bust
ness for the coming season. Circuit
changes are to be made and the meet
fng will be one of unusual Importance.
I'm order to avoid conflict the mag
mates will probably be governed large
ly by the wishes Of the major league
officials. Foremost among the mat
ters to receive attention is the di-
vision of territory. in which the
franchises of Milwaukee, Kansas City
and Omaha are concerned.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-21
III REGW BITING NDCZgE7NG III e0EHdEZI

got away from the herd, and I felt
quite proud as 1 wandered along the
path. Preached the pool all right, but
after 1 had quenched my thirst 1 did
not turn and go back as I should have
done.
1 stood there and sucked up water
in my trunk and squirted it about, and
was having a happy time of it when
all at once 1 scented a lion. Before
l could turn to run away, the beast,
who had crept up through the grass
and bushes to within ten feet of me,
was on my head. He was a full
grown lion, and the weight of his body
as he sprang almost tumbled me over.
He began biting and clawing savage
ly, and the pain was something awful.
Il remember that my mother had
told me to rush through the thick for
est in case a lion sprang upon my
head, and away l went. The limbs
and bushes soon brushed the beast off,
but he leaped upon me again from be-
hind
1 dropped down and rolled over.
hoping to crush him, but he was too
quick for me. When 1 scrambled up
/ found a second lion ready to assist
the first, and then 1 trumpeted to the
herd for help.
Both beasts now attacked me, but
while I fought them / heard my
friends coming. The first to arrive
was one of the bull elephants, and
with his trunk he seized the lion who
was clawing and biting at my back
and dashed him against a tree and
broke every bone in his body.
The other beast fed, and though
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guide that this whole little grove had
sprung up from branches stuck into
the ground after a windstorm had torn
them from other trees along the road
"A still more wonderful tree Is the
catalpa. known to most boys on ac-
count OF its long bean. which some OF
them use for smoking after II is dry
The catalpa has such remarka bic
vitality that even after a tree has been
cut down and sawed into lengths the
lengths have been known again and
again to strike root and sprout and
finally grow up into good trees.
II saw a fence In the Middle West
that consisted Of "a straight row OF
beautiful catalpas. each Of them near
~ twenty feet high. The row was so
automatically straight that ! won
dcred how the trees had grown so. es-
pecially as the row was nearly half a
mile long So / rode over 10 them and
discovered that barbed wire was
stretched from tree 10 tree. evidently
aH division fence. Later ] met the
owner of the land and he explained 10
me how the trees had come 10 grow in
90 perfect "a line.
"About ten years ago. said he. i
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the fields. Harry led them across the
orchard to a side hill overgrown with
sumach.
There" he said, its right in that
clump. See where I broke a twig off,
SOS I'd know where TO find it again.
The mother bird will let you go
right up on top of the nest before she'll
bulge"
Sure enough. as they crept up so near
that the sumach leaves almost brushed
their faces. the mother bird flew off
with startling whirr of wings and
took up her station on a neighboring
tree.
The nest itself was loosely construct
ed Of fine twigs and was scarcely more
than rude platform, about a foot
from the ground.
1t was a marvel that the three small
nestlings ever managed to keep from
tumbling out.
What queer looking feathers the lit
tie birds have" remarked Janet; why,
they're all quilts
Yes, explained Harry; Il was read
ing about 'em the other day. The lit
tie cuckoos keep the quill-like cover
lngs on their feathers until just before
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was spinning in the moonlight one
night. So she tried to put the evil
eye on the COW. but her charm went
wrong as usual. and instead of Civ
ing curdled milk she made her owner
rich.
In the nearest town there was a
physician whom she tried once to
change into a duck. But she hadn't
changed him at all except that some
times at unexpected moments he
would suddenly say, "Quack! quack!"
The physician should have been
glad enough to escape so easily. But
he wasn't. he had himself operated
on and took medicines by the gallon.
And OF course old Thunderblunder
was mortified beyond words because
she hadn't changed him into a green
winged duck with a red head and a
yellow bill. So nobody was happy
over the matter
The other sorcerers and magicians
were ashamed, too, because they said
that mistakes Of this kind served to
discredit the whole profession, and
they even talked Of forming a union,
to be known as the Amalga ma led
Sorcerers and Witches. to punish
members who made blunders.
Inkyink, the Chief Magician was
the maddest Of them all, for he knew
that he was TO blame in a measure
because he had given Thunderblunder
her diploma. He used to shut his
eyes when he went abroad so that he
wouldn't have to see the half baked
entertainments that were to be found
in every village.
There was a dog that the old witch
had tried to transform into a pig. and
she had succeeded only in giving him
the pigs twisted tail.
His owner promptly started a new
breed with him that became very pop
ular with old ladies. That is how the
pug dogs came into the world.
Then there was a village drunkard
whom she tried to change to a pump;
but instead he remained a man. only
he suddenly acquired such a wonder
full thirst for water that he became
strictly temperate. and finally he was
elected burgomaster and was pointed
out as a model citizen.
The climax was reached when old
Thunderblunder was offended by a
goose-herd. She tried to change his
biggest goose into a lion that would
eat him up. The goose didn't change
a bit and old Thunderblunder went
home so angry that she absolutely and
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they fly. These must be most ready
from the size of them"
What does the mother bird feed
on?"
"Caterpillars, mostly. Sometimes
she'll eat forty at a meal. The cuckoos
kill heaps of the tent caterpillars that
you find on apple trees. 1 found a
tent yesterday that was just chock full
of holes where the cuckoos had thrust
their bills through it."
"kuk kuk!" sounded a mournful
voice.
ugh! I felt a drop of rain" said
Janet, "and l promised mother I'd
come right back. 1 guess Mrs. Cuckoo
wanted to remind me of it,
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truly ground her teeth until each enc
had a positive razor edge.
About five minutes afterward Inky-
ink and the Board of Magicians came
along that way, and instantly the
goose rushed at them. seized Inkyink.
bit him in a dozen places and dragged
him into a ditch. The Board of Man
ayers tried 10 help him, and the goose
turned on them, biting them in legs
and arms and faces and driving them
away in mad flight. Several of them
left their magic wands in their hurry,
and the goose cheWed them to pieces.
so that they had 10 work nights to
make new ones.
OF course they soon found out what
had happened. Old Thunderblunder
had failed to turn the goose into a
complete lion. but she had filled its
breast with a lions courage and given
it a lions strength.
After that no magician dared to go
along that road. for the goose seemed
to be able to smell a sorcerer a mile
away and would rush to catch him,
although she did not harm other folk
at all.
When Inkyink got out of the hos
pital he called a council, and the as
sembled Board of Magicians decided
to punish old Thunderblunder.
Now, in the central part of the
mathematical middle OF the Black
Forest there was an enchanted TRAN
gle and in the middle of that was
magic circle. And in that magic cir
Gle, chained fast to a blasted tree,
with a chain made of three parts of
lightning and two parts of magnetic
iron, was a mad broomstick All the
arts of the best sorcerers had failed
to break this broomstick to harness. It
would kick and rear and plunge and
lite as soon as anyone tried to ride
on it. In a word. it was a bucking
brocho of a broomstick-the only one
that ever was known. and no doubt
there will never be another like it.
The chief sorcerers felt so ashamed
at being unable to tame it that they
had kept it a secret. So none of the
common witches knew anything about
it.
In an indigo midnight in the dark of
the moon, when the north wind was
blowing from the south, which only
happens once in ever ten thousand
years. the broomstick used to grow
tame enough to be led. And as this
time was just at hand, the Board of
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the elephants went crashing abou,
and hunting for him for half an hour
he could not be found.
My hide was yet tender, as was
only a little over a year old, and tbs
lion had bitten and clawed me in
terrible way.
I not only had that pain to endure
but one of the bull elephants gave me
good mauling with his trunk a.
further punishment for my foolish
ness
When he had struck me a dozen
hard blows. he said:
You deserve TO have your ribe
broken for being so foolish. Have
you not been told a hundred times
never to wander away from the herd
Had we not been within call the lions
would have finished you in ten min
utes more. If you ever break
the rule again we will beat
you to DEATH
beyond the pool where the gro1ird
was very soft, and ordered to lie
down that the cool mud might taks
the pain out of my hurts. 1t WIS
two days before 1 got out Of NV
muddy bed, and it was fuiI
month before my wounds were heal.
ed.
On my trunk to-day are two Ions
scars made by the lions claws
1t was a good lesson to me. and one 70
last me a full year, and yet 1 did
more foolish thing than that after
time.
Some boys are prudent and careful
while others are needless and head
strong and always getting into trouble
1t is so with young elephants. I am
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tell the truth, it was just as easy for
me to do this as to select any other
arbitrary figures representing wealth
which there was no human means to
estimate accurately. So I at once
made the computation and found that
the aggre gate wealth of the million
aires outside of the metropolis was
$4.6O5, 600, 900, and that the aggregate
wealth of all the millionaires in the
country was 50, 125, 100000.
This is an enormous proportion of
the total value of the property in the
whole country to be in a few hands.
It means that one-fifteenth thousandth
Of the population own One-twelfth of
the wealth. That statement, however,
may not be exactly fair, for 1t may
safely be presumed that each OF these
millionaires is at the head of fam
lily of five, and that this aggregate
wealth really belongs to 10000 persons
Even then the proportion is exceeding
ly great, for here we find that one
hree-thousandth of the population
own one-twelfth Of the wealth.
Most of this wealth is undoubtedly
clean money and has been made hon
estly and decently, the principals
sharing their prosperity with the men
who helped and benefiting the pubic
at the same time. But most of this
huge aggregate is the sum OF COM
paratively small fortunes of a million
or a little in excess thereof. OF the
enormous fortunes not made by the
rise in real estate values, volumes
would have to be written to give any
where near any idea Of the ways that
have been employed.
Copyright, 1904 by John Gilmer
Speedy
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-21
THE WITCH WHO
WAS NOT THOROUGH
And How the other MasicianS Fooled Her Into
Ridins Bucking Broomstick.

In the Black Forest there once lived
an old witch who was so ugly that
most persons who caught glimpse of
her asserted that she was. without
doubt the worst witch OF them all.
But this was not strictly correct.
Her intentions We're wicked enough
for any dozen witches; but she had
never been thorough in anything, and
1t was the same way with the witch
business. So. although she was grad
uated from the Witch Academy with
honors and possessed a huge cowskin
diploma on which was written in the
best blood that she was Bachelor of
Arts in Witchcraft, she really did not
know the trade
Almost all her charms went wrong
Once she tried to transform a stingv
peasant into pair of boot, and in
stead she changed him into only one
boot, which was of no use to anybody.
Another time she waved her magic
wand over an old hut and ordered it
to become a cavern. But it transform
ed itself into a pretty cottage, and the
old woman who lived in it was so de-
lighted that it made all the witches i'll
to hear her talk.
OF course old Thunderblunder, which
was the old witch's name. would have
loved dearly TO tinker with her spells
when they went wrong, but she
couldn't. Old Inkyink, the president of
the Board of Magicians, who held a
patent on all charms, had decreed that
there must not be any second attempts
at any one charm. He explained this
order by saying that If every witch
were to tinker at her magic no work
would ever be finished; and besides. he
thought that a witch ought to know
her business well enough to make a
success out of the first attempt.
Consequently poor old Thunder
blunder could not correct her errors,
and before long the country around
the Black Forest was full of imper-
feet enchantment.
There was a COW that gave the
finest vanilla ice cream, much to the
delight of the children of the village
Old Thunderblunder hated her owner
because he had walked through
new ball-gown Of cobwebs that she
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sure 1 was one of the needless sort.
ana even now Pete often tells me that
get into trouble because 1 am in
cHned to rush into things instead of
stopping to think.
The herd did not move very far un-
I'll L was nearly recovered, and then
one morning we got a bad scare. It
was an hour after daylight, but some
OF us had not yet risen to our feet
after lying down for the night, when
there was sudden yelling and shout
ing of natives close at hand.
Guns were fired, bells rung and
drum were beaten, and in a minute we
were all wild with fear-all but the
Oldest bull elephant. He trumpeted
for us to come to him, and as we
gathered around him, he said:
There are white hunters in the
open ground to the west of us. The
natives are to the east, and they are
making all this noise to drive us out
where the hunters can shoot us down.
Now then, 1 shall take the lead and
break through the line of natives. You
must follow me in single file. Do not
stop for anything. If you can strike
man with your trunk as you pass
along, do so. We will break through
and gain the dense forest on top Of
the hill, and there we will be safe. All
ready, now, and here we goi"
We started with a rush, l being the
very last one. and in my next chapter
l will tell you of several things that
happened, one of which will be sure to
make you laugh heartily.
(To be continued.l
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kuk! kuk!' generally means a storm.
Janet. Janet!" called a voice out
side the window. Il say, don't YOU
want to see a cuckoo's nest? Harry
says he'll show it to you if you hur-
ry."
ooh, mother, may go, please?" beg
ged the little girl; Il don't believe it
will rain
We'll, I'm a little afraid, with your
cold"
But I will come right back" inter-
rupted her daughter; please say yes
mother, dearl'
Mother evidently was not proof
against such pleading. and soon the
three friends were hurrying off through
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Magicians repaired to the place and
each one mumbled a charm and seized
the chain. The broomstick plunged
and kicked, but allowed himself to be
led out.
When they got to the regular meet
ing place of the witches. the Board of
Magicians hastily chained the broom
stick fast to the council rock. And
when Thunderblunder appeared. Inky-
ink made a speech complmenting her
on her talents, and said that, in tok-
en- of his esteem, he wished to present
to her an Arabian broomstick of the
purest blood.
Old Thunderblunder Immediately
burned with a desire to show off, and
she leaped on the back of the mad
broomstick. At the same instant the
Board of Magicians cast off the chain
and the 'broomstick, with a yell of
rage, shot up in the air, bucking like
mad.
1t carried old Thunderblunder up to
the clouds and down again to the tree
tops in one jump. The next jump took
them up to the clouds again, and when
they were over a village the broom
stick bucked in earnest, and down went
the witch.
There she lay, groaning and lament
ing. for a dozen bones of assorted
sizes had been broken inside of her
and she felt as II she had appendicitis
and measles and rheumatism COM
bined. which is pretty bad.
A pretty peasant girl came along.
lifted her head and gave her water
Then she took her home. where they
nursed her till she began to feel bet
ter.
Old Thunderblunder. ugly as she
was. could not help but be melted
by the kindness of the peasants. So
she not only swore off from witch
craft herself, but told the good folk
how they could drive away all the
other wizards. such as mailing horse
shoes over their doors. and all the
other simple arts that the peasants
Of the whole world practice now.
As a result. the witch business be-
came so poor in Europe that many
Of the sorcerers went into bankruptcy
and some actually starved. The 9TH
ers became discouraged. one stormy
night they packed their magic potions
on pack broomsticks and mounted
their saddle broomsticks themselves.
and they all emigrated to Thibet.
where the British are after them now.
And that's all.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-21
Little Jumbo,
Or the Adventures of an Elephant as
Told by Himself.
CHAPTER IL

l.
When I was a year old I was about
the size of circus pony, though much
heavier, and my mother no longer gave
me any attention. Sometimes 1 wan
dered through the forest in company
with four or five other elephants, and
sometimes we gathered in a herd num-
bering as high as fifteen.
1t would have been a very lazy life
indeed but for the dangers. Some days
we would travel twenty miles, feed
ing as we went. and again, when we
had found a place to our liking, we
would rest for a whole week.
There were always many white hunt
ers in the forest, and the natives were
always planning how to trap us, and
had many fright before my first ad-
venture came.
One day, when the herd was resting
in the forest where food was plenti-
full, and we had not been alarmed for
several days. 1 started out by myself
to get a drink at a pool about a mile
away. Two male elephants We're act
ing as guards of our herd, and had
either one known of my purpose he
would have called me back, but l
sneaked away as a boy often does and
it happened that no one missed me.
This was the first time 1 had ever
The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-21

Bill Roberts to get down his wait
Thought that he ought to strike a
gate;
So ev'ry morning he would flea
Along the streets fast as could bee.
"Hurrah" the neighbors cried, cts
CRATE
To see him run so swift and strait"
But he replied: II cannot weight
Because 1 still have too much wait!"
He ran until he got a pane,
And then he said: Its all in vane
That I should strive and try like that!
l see I can't try out my fat"