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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26

Eddie Graney'a exhibition Of ref
erealng IN the Nelson Britt fight
was the faireat I have ever seen.
Neither boy could say that he had
given him the worst OF II.
Had Jeffries refereed I arm sure
there would have been a kick lie
would probably have favored Brit
where he could and when compelled
10 break the little fellows Jeff would
have been able to give Britt great
material assistance.
Graney could not have been i'm
proved upon.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26
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was on base. the seors was tied
A feiler nit. an Ia yelled 'aiiaoi~
| run. an threN myself down fat.
An slid an slid tell you what
"a says he would a. tanned my hide
r Ia been Scared when he said
'Sfidef~
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26

A Seattle club pitcher. one Hall.
first name Cholly. flung high and
elung low Sunday for the Rainlers
against the Black Diamond team
and according 10 tho Rainlers sue
eeeded in holding the coal miners
down 20 a score Of 70 0 until the
fifth inning. when the game was
stopped on account OF the rain and
bad grounds The Black Diamonds
tell a different tale.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26
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a superb Bill

An EUROPEAN SENSATION.
1.-THE FREDERICK FAMILY
ALICE s+Aw-wtslsTLER
e-oreER aATcHLEss AcTs-s
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26

And 10 thlnk that Tacoma can
oven support a bail team. They're
all In dreamland. In dreamiand.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26

Il IL probable that the Hanlon-
Herrera match viii be the go during
the first week ia November. unless
one or other Of the puFa gets frozen
trilbles In The meantime Burns
and Sullivan viii positively be the
card for October IL and NcCarey
proposes to match the winner %
this match with Philadelphia Jack
O'Bfien for the mlddleweight cham
plonahlp Of America. Tommy
Burns claims the championship, but
Il Is doubtful II he viii ever so
under the ropes again TO defend A.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26

II there isn't a superfiuous supply
OF tho damp in the air Wednesday
afternoon. ths tribesmen will try at
some Of the webfooters' plumago
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26

out Of a. Poe Cans or Gardner
would be too tough nuts 10 crack
and his chances 10 win would be
only about even
II Nelson 81 sincere Ia what he
said about meeting any mhn IN
the world hs will soon BE- seen In
the ring again. Cans W. probably
entitled 90 the most confederation.
Alaska has now gone by the
boards. The latest from the land
of ice and snow IL that the mink
tefA have taken n stand and Wiil
allow no more ring sport Phila-
delphia Jack O'Brien has been Try
Ing 10 get back home from the
land OF the frozen north. The
other day Jack ran into a Hnag In
the form Of a big miner and al
most lost bis reputation. Jack
was all but knocked out In one Of
the rounds lie was revived, how
ever. aud won the decision.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-09-26

BASEBALL TERM ILLUSTRATED
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
PoTTER's BOWIE KNIVES

The State Historical soCietys museum
has just received from the Misses Re-
becca Lewis Potter and Fanny Potter
teresting relics of their father, the late
John f. Potter, who in war times was
known the country over as Bowie
Knife" Potter. In 1860 Mr.. Potter was
member of congress from the first
district of Wisconsin. A felow-mem-
Der was Roger A. Pryor of Virginia.
Pryor in sharp debate on the slavery
question fell foul of Potter, who gave
him as good as he sent. Pryor chal-
lenged the Wisconsin representative 20
a duel which the latter accepted. When
Pryor's second called on Potter, accord
ing to the rules of the code" to name
the place, date and weapons, Potter
coolly suggested bowie knives. Pryors
friend recoiled in horror from the use
of such barbarous weapons between
gentlemen and at once dropped the
affair. Bowie Knife" Potter became
a popular hero in the north, and it was
long the correct thing to present to
him bowie knives.
In the collection just presented TO the
society, and now on display in the room
devoted to Wisconsin war relics are the
bowie knife and pistol habitually worn
by Potter himself while in congress in
those stormy days QS57 63); the knife
with which he proposed to fight Pryor
"a long, uglylooking weapon, calcu-
lated to stir with horror the most in
veterate fire eater" two confederate
bowies presented to Potter on cere-
monial occasions, and a tin dispatch
box carried in the revolutionary war
by Mr.. Potter's grand uncle, for the
fighting spirit appears to have been in
the Potter blood.-Madison Democrat.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
THoReAu HOUSEKEEPING

r r Henry ID. Thoreau, who kept house
by himself for two years in Walden
woods, had been woman, he would
have made the finest housekeeper in
the land. AS 1t was, considering that
he was only a man and had but
chipmunk or two to help him in his
small round of household duties, he
did pretty well; and he said, moreover.
that housework for him was a pleas
ant pastime-he had n full grasp Of
the fundamental principles of all good
housekeeping. g.-Simplifyl SIMPLIFY De-
crease the dust area! If Thoreau's
husband-supposing again that Thor
eau had been woman-had brought
home new piece of gimcrackery bric-
a-brac as a present one evening Thor
eau would have hurled it far out into
the middle of Walden pond. Perhaps
he simplified to the extreme, and that
is why his home Is said to have lacked
the atmosphere" that bids the visitor
welcome and makes him want to sit
a while and be at home.
The good housekeeper will have her
house simple, with plenty of "atmos-
phere" to boot. But how many women
are there who when they go to shop
do not come home laden with some bit OF
tapestry, or a new piece of floor cover
ing, or a great bargain of dainty china
C'real Dresden, John dear! I'd have
TO wait years for such another!D?
And so the pile accumulates. and the
dust area of the house increases, while
the housewife wonders why she must
say to the friend who reproaches her
sweetly for nom observance of some
social duty, "Ahl but there Is so much
work to my house. you see 1t seems
as though it were never done"
I wonder if there will ever arise the
woman who, some day, will be brave
enought to make war OH her own
home--who will go from room to room.
martialing all the forces of her common
sense, say This is useless, and this
is useless, and this is useless" and
make of the many useless articles a
beautiful pile of old junk.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
FOR "FussY" APPETlTEs

When the appetite of the family be-
gins to falter and every one feels out
of sorts try leaving the meat out OF
the daily menu for few days. Eat
fruit and green things in large guam
titles Grapes are said to be a specific
for malaria and fortunately they grow
plentifuly in malarial communities.
Doctors prescribe lettuce, tomatoes ana
lemons for liver troubles, but salads
should have little vinegar in them when
eaten for health's sake. Pineapple is
a delicious breakfast fruit, and is be-
lieved to be very efficacious for diseases
of the throat. Grape fruit, also chlcory
and lettuce salad, with plain oil ana
vinegar dressing are excellent for th'
nerves.
| The English people eat watercress
plentifully, believing that it is remedy
for lung troubles Figs and dates at
night are not only a delicious little
bedtime bite but decidedly wholesome.
Don't drink extremely cold things
carly in the morning or late at night
and don't go to bed too early. Too
much sleep is not good for digestion.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
sHlPsHAPE ON LAND

One of the ouantest charitable inr
stitutions in the world is the Royal Al
fred Home for Aged Seamen, which
houses one hundred English mariners
in the outskirts of London. 1t is sup
ported entirely by voluntary contribut-
tions. and King Edward is one OF the
most generous as we'll as one of the
regular subscribers to the fund. The
main idea has been to make the place
as home like as possible. and to this
end an effort has been made to preserve
i'm large measure the environment to
which the inmates are accustomed.
The dormitories are cut up into tiny
cabins as OH shipboard, and in place of
the familiar iron cots these veterans
of the sea turn in at night in hunks
and stow their clothes and other be-
longings precisely as they would on
board ship. Day and night the hours
and half hours are struck ON ships
bell I'm the main hall, and even in the
mess room the atmosphere of the sea
is retained as an aid to appetite. The
house governor is himself an old sea
captain of forty years experience In
commanding men, and his rule Is en-
tirely along nautical lines.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
BRA<D HOrE ,

strate beyond doubt that the brilliant
crystals were actual diamonds. AS the
work continued various notifications
were worked out, as the experience OF
the Investigators became greater, until
now success seems imminent. The
crystals are positively known to par
take of all the characteristics of the
diamond i'm crystalline structure, hard
ness and chemical composition, as DEM
onstrated by combustion experiments.
The largest crystal yet obtained is
only one-half a millimeter in length.
and while this is only a spark, 1t in
dicates that the process is capable of
yielding diamonds of good quality, and
that some day in the not distant flu
ture the laboratory processes of Moth
er Nature, as exemplified in the Rand,
may be duplicated in mans laboratory
and in commercial way,-New York
! Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
COUNTRY House STATIONERY

Fashionable stationery for country
house use formerly was considered
correct" when it bore the name of
the house and the nearest town or
village. But nowadays such simplic-
ity is no longer "good FORM" and coun-
try house note paper must have almost
as much postal, railway and telephone
information on the sheets as would
be proper for the letter paper of a bus
mess house. The note paper for use
in Harbor hill by the Clarence II.
Mackays bears in it's upper corner a
reproduction of a telephone post and
wires, the cross-arm showing the tele-
phone number of the house Edward
l.. Rossiter. whose house at Green
wich is called the singular name LIE
Crepuscule, goes the Mackay device
several points better. The "crest" on
his note paper shows locomotive
coming head-on, a mailbag and a tele-
phone receiver. Opposite these in turn
are the appropriate railway and post
office addresses and the telephone
number.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
LOGGING CAMP cENTRALs

Several years ago the farmer awoke
to the convenience of the telephone,
and rural systems are both plentiful
and extensive. The latest development
of the idea is the connection of the
logging camps by use of the telephone.
These camps. many of which are miles
from the nearest settlement, are now
connected with their offices. and orders
are conveyed to the foremen over the
time consuming method of employing
messengers.
Many times after a heavy fall of
snow communication with these camps
has been impossible through ordinary
means and the ability to talk with
been found to have most beneficial
effect upon the men, who, when the
wire is not in use for business, are per-
mitted to communicate with their fam
lilies and friends.
Field stations are established at con-
venient points, whereby the men can
communicate with their own camp
and not long ago one of these field
stations was the means of saving the
lives of two of gang of three Work-
men who had been caught under
falling tree. The third member of the
party summoned aid over the teie-
phone, and rescue was at hand in half
the time it would have taken to run to
camp for assistance.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
THE LAWS DELAYS

Dickens famous case of Jarndyce
VS.. Jarndyce seems but an infant be-
side a case in the Spanish courts
which has been running since 1911.
The case which is between the Marquis
de Viana and the Count Torres de
CABRERA, was originally brought to set
tie a dispute concerning a pension,
but instead of settling the dispute it
started fresh controversy. The case
is still upon the calendar and has
kept engaged generations of lawyers,
whose fees have kept the original sum
down to reasonable basis. Com
pound interest upon the sum at issue
would now make it matter Of
millions. and the magnitude of the de-
cision tends to prevent a settlement
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
PAINTER AND PRINCE

OF Theodore Watts-Dunton, the poet
and critic, whose engagement has been
announced, a publisher said the other
day:
Mr.. watts-Dunton told me a story
of Rossetti.
"Rossetti, as he sat at work in his
big house in Chelsea one day. was
visited by certain African prince. The
painter showed the prince a number
of his pictures, and the latter, much
pleased, said:
"'Paint for me, sir, portrait OF my
father
"'Is your father in London?' Rossetti
asked.
"'No. He is in better place than
London said the prince, He is in
heaven. He has been dead for twenty
years
"'Have you a photograph or anything
of that sort said Rossetti, that 1 can
copy?'
"'No. said the prince. There is no
likeness of my father extant'
Then, or course, can I pant MN,
for 1 never saw him. said the other.
But the prince pointed from one to
another of the splendid pictures in the
room.
"'Did you ever see, he said, the sub
jects of these pictures? Did you ever
see Mary Magdalen, or Circe, or John
the Baptist?
mo said Rossetti.
"'Yet you have painted them well.
You have painted Mary Magdalen par
ticularly well. Therefore, said the
prince, I am sure you are quite COM
petent to paint my father. Paint him,
sir. I'll take no denial
"Rossetti, at a loss what else to do,
made a picture of an African chief, and
week later the prince called to take
it away with him.
HE studied it on the easel long
time. Then he burst into tears. Be-
tween sobs he exclaimed:
"'How father has changed
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
HOW COFFEE WAS DISCOVERED

HOW COFFEE WAS DISCOVERED
When you drink your next cup of
coffee return thanks to Hadji omar
Ii was he who discovered the divine
berry in 1885, 619 years ago.
lie was dying of hunger in the will
derness when, finding some small
round berries. he tried to eat them,
but they were bitter. He tried roast
ing them, and these he finally STEPPED
in some water held in the hollow OF
his hand, and found the decoction as
refreshing as if he had partaken OF
solid food.
He hurried back to Mocha, from
which he had been banished, and in
viting the wise men to partake of his
discovery, they were so well pleased
with it that they made him saint
The story is told that coffee was in
troduced into the West Indies in 172S
| by Chirac, "a French physician, who
gave Norman gentleman by the
name of De Clieux, captain of infan-
try on his way to Martinique, a single
plant.
vessel was driven out of her course,
and drinking water became so scarce
that it was distributed in rations
De Clieux, with an affection for his
coffee plant. divided his portion OF
water with it. and succeeded in bring
ing it to Martinique, although weak,
not in a helpless condition.
There he planted it in his garden,
protected it with a fence of thorns,
and watched it daily until the end OF
the year, when he gathered two pounds
of coffee, which he distributed among
the inhabitants of the island to be
planted by them.
From Martinique coffee trees in turn
were sent to Santo Domingo, Guada-
loupe and other neighboring islands.
Hadji Omar's name should be enrolled
among those of the other benefactors
of the human race.-London Daily
Mail
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
~ ERCHED in the foothills back of

~ ERCHED in the foothills back OF
of the most picturesque homes in
the west. 1t was built by ll. c. Brand
for a suburban home and overlooks his
ranch of 5000 acres.
Like many recently built Southern
California homes it is of solid con-
crete. 1t is modelled after the East
Indian building at the worlds fair in
Chicago, with slight adaptation Of
the mission style of architecture in that
it is built around a court, in which Will
be placed fountains, ferns, palms and
flowers, which in this land Of almost
perpetual sunshine and balmy atmos-
phere can be out of doors all the year
around. All of the rooms, which are
ON one floor, front on this court.
From the cement floored portico sur
rounding the house can be obtained a
view that cannot be surpassed even in
this land of beautiful views. To the
south. twenty miles away, can be seen
the peaceful Pacific. while nearer at
hand are the belchng chimneys of the
City of the Angels. TO the north. with
the foothills for a background, is the
old San Fernando mission.
one does not have to look away from
the ranch, however, for things of in
terest. Back of the house in Canyon
de Los Animas, which will be converted
into one of the prettiest private parks
i'm the country, is "a little gulch where
the Indian horse thieves made then
last stand against Fremont before amy
one dreamed of the wonderful POSSIBLE
tiles of Southern California. Down II
the valley, on the edge of the ranch, il
the 150-year-old adobe of the Verdugos
who as one of the leading Spanish fam
lilies of the early half of the last cen
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
OLDEST MAIL BOAT

Handling mail on unfrequented
routes furnishes the romance of the
postoffice department in all countries.
Pony expresses, dog sledges, bicycles,
automobiles, sailing. rowing and even
ice boats have all been employed in the
United States postal service, but the
oldest mail route exists between st.
Kilda and the island of Lewis, off the
Scottish coast, sixty miles away. The
mail boat is dispatched only when the
wind is blowing from the northwest,
and consists of log followed out for
the reception of a tin case. in which
are deposited the letters and their
stamps or the equivalent in coin.
Wind and tide carry this curious
carrier onto the shore of the larger
island, whence the letters are dis
patched by mail steamer to their desti-
nation. Occasionally there is mishap
to the little boat and the letters do
not reach their destination. This oc-
ours but seldom, and until the postal
business grows to a volume warranting
a more up to date method of commune
cation this device, which was in use
when the postal service was first estab-
lished, will still be employed.
Frances oldest postal station is atop
of the Eiffel tower, where a sub-station
has been established for the benefit of
those who desire to post souvenir cards
to their friends from this point. The
souvenir post card craze has attained
such proportions that the office pays a
bopdson1e nrofit
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
CURIOUS MoRruARY URN

RovIDING the dead with con-
veniences and luxuries is a
quaint custom which originated
in prehistoric times. The Chinese Of
today cover the graves Of their dead
with quantities of substantial food
and dellcaces. The Indians of cen
turies ago had an eve to the future
bodily needs of their departed ones
Quite the earliest evidence, perhaps,
Of this thoughtfulness was found in a
recently discovered prehistoric tomb
in Latium. The picture shows two
unique funeral urns, one of which Is
fitted with a window. The other ap-
pears to be formed either of real bones
or to be representative of vertebrate
structure. 1t has been suggested that
possibly both these curious discoveries
are reproductions of dwellings used
at the time of their construction. With
the body were buried all sorts of small
articles
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
PHOTOGRAPHIC ADVERTISING

From Germany, the home of inven-
ton, comes a new terror to shoppers
who already find the advertisements
sufficiently alluring to coax from their
pockets money intended for other pur-
poses. The new device consists of
phonograph provided with record
upon which is impressed the latest store
news. This is fastened to the entrance
door in such a fashion that the opening
or closing of the door will operate the
mechanism of the talking machine
and as the customer enters voice an
nounces where the most attractive bar
gains are to be found.
The additional force required in open
ing the door to operate the phono-
graph is so slight as to be unnotice-
able, and the company is already at
work upon house machines designed to
give speeches of welcome to the arriv-
ing guest. Perhaps when the idea is
taken up on this side of the ocean
the elevator conductors in the depart
ment stores will be spared the monot-
ony of announcing the departments on
each floor as they are passed. Instead
the cars will be provided with phono-
graphs actuated by engaging clutches
fastened upon the sides of the shaft,
and the monographs will enunciate
distinctly the various attractions on
each floor, giving the conductor his
full time in which to answer questions
and handle the crowds.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

Photography, which has caught the
Empire State express in full motion
by the cinematograph, has also been
brought into use to depict with equal
fidelity, action so slow as the growth
of a flower. By exposing a plant every
quarter of an hour for sixteen days to
a camera it is now possible to watch
a bud open gradually; to see the
blossoms close at night and reopen
in the morning; to see the leaves in
crease in size and the stamens peep
out. And all in the space of minute
or two.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
--0--
ON THE MEMORANDUM

William F. King of the Merchants
association tells a story of a boy who
had a faculty of losing one job and
getting another almost simultaneously
Meeting him on the street one day, a
friend said to him: well, Jack, who
are you with now?"
Pm with John Smith & Co."
rs this a permanent connection at
last?" asked the friend.
II can't tell about that yet" replied
Jack. I'm only there on memoran-
dunn, you e.'-New York Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
HISTORIC sPoT CANYON

At the Identical point in the canyon
which was the scene of the Fremont ac-
cident the reclamation engineers have
decided to build a dam of solid mason
ry to hold in check the floods of the
North Platte river, and to be known as
the Pathfinder dam, commemOrating
the achievements of the nations dar-
derful region the preliminary work is
already under way to control the floods
which are wholly unutilized, but which
annually cause the loss of millions OF
dollars in the destruction of property.
A million acre-feet of water, not a
drop of which is now in use, annually
will be directed through canals and
bitches upon three hundred thousand
acres of land, with soil of inexhaustible
fertility and wanting only irrigation to
make it rival in productiveness the
valley of the Nile.
Under the terms of the reclamation
act all of the land under this project
which belongs to the public domain is
open TO entry under the homestead law
in tracts not exceeding eighty acres,
nor less than forty acres. Actual and
continual residence on the land is re-
qured and each entryman must take
water from the government irrigation
system and pay in annual installments,
not exceeding ten, the proportionate
amount charged against the land in
cluded i'm his entry.