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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

championship of Australia and re-
turned to this country with prizes in
cash and other forms valued at $l0,-
900. He was in about $50 races while
in the antipodes, and in course of his
tour defeated the famous Dane, Thor
vale Ellegard. Bicycle racing in Aus
tralia has for some years past been
one of the most popular forms Of
amusement, and at one of the recent
, meets there was an attendance OF 3D.
600 people. Lawson, at these great
meets, usually came out victorious. bit
in the opinion of MacFsrland, who
made a good showing hn2self, there
was nobody like Taylor. the .colored
racer, for a drawing card Australia
appears to have gone mad over tho
black blcyclist, but he could not de-
feat Lawson. Lawson is an ex-Chi-
cagoan and was one Of the Lawson
family which was famous in the old
cycling days. John Lawson, who died
some years ago, gained great fame as
long-distance ride.
n. c. Hopper, of Minneapolis. low
cred the worlds bicycle record for the
three mile open lap race at Ogden.
Utah recently. The record was preyi-
ously held by W. E. Samuelson and
was GIL. Hopper made the three
miles in 6:O7 3-5.
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AIRES AND WORKING GIRLS ARE
THE PRINCIPALS
SETS BLUE FLOODED TONGUES WAGG|NG,
A Common Occurrence Which Hub Society Refuses
to Get Used To--Wealth Looks for Beauty
Wherever 1t May Be Found-Pov-
erty Not Bar to Love.

Boston.-The little god, Cupid, has
set this city by the ears again as only
Cupid can every now and again. The
pranks Of the little archer have had
blue-blooded Boston at his mercy time
after time. but this latest escapade
has beaten all other efforts. and has
loft society in state of collapse from
which it is not expected to recover
soon.
Boston society-the society. which
lives in the alphabetical streets of the
Back Bay, is more exclusive than a
hermit, that graduates from Harvard
to State street and from the Puritan
club to the Somerset-is shocked
again.
1t is the same old shock-the shock
that hits Boston just so often and
knocks its eyeglasses off-a Boston
Bluestocklng has gone and married a
shopgirl.
According to the Boston corre-
spondent Of the New York World you
would think that Boston would be
used to such an occurrence by this
time. Harrison Grey Otis started it
when he chose the daughter of an
East Boston baker for his bride, and
since that day probably no less than
20 scions of old Puritan families have
found their fates behind the counters
ct Jordan's or Whites or. even
Houghton s.
But Boston simply won't get used
to it; it insists on being shocked
every time it happens, hence the fact
that Marlborough street resounds with
"Did-you-evers' and "l-want-to-
Knows" and even the flowers in the
public gardens are shaken.
This time the shockers are the
usual characters; Harvard man. tall
handsome, blue-blooded, broker, rich.
% years old.
Shopgirl. poor, beautiful. young.
good. of humble parentage.
Marries Machinist's Daughter.
Names? Oh, yes. that is a detail.
though the case is so like all the
others of the past that any names
might do. This time, however. the
young man happens to be an Adams,
which is very, very important among
Boston names, as everyone knows.
He is only an Adams by the second
marriage of his mother, however. and
retains his fathers name of Clapp-
William F. Clapp in full, age %. son
of Mrs. Samuel G. Adams. of No. 2S4
Marlborough street. The bride was
Miss Ellen Gertrude REESE; her father
is simply a machinist at the govern
ment arsenal in W.atertown.
It is the most complete of romances.
for it grew out of another Of the same
kind, in which Miss Reise's twin Sis
ter was one of the principals. So.
to tell it correctly. the first romance
must be referred to first.
The father of the twin girls. Mary
]. and Ellen Gertrude REESE. was a
sergeant in the army, stationed in San
Francisco, when the. girls were born,
q years ago. He was good soldier,
but a better father, so when he could
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

They would be married on the sly
and 80 on the round the-world trip
together. 1t would be fine honey
moon!
At first the Young woman objected, but
love finally conquered, and, on the od
of August, 1899, in a little Episcopal
mission church out in Ruxbury, they
were we'd by Rev. Edward L. Atkinson.
You see, even to the name of the clergy
man this was a true Boston romance, for
Rev. Mr.. Atkinson is of the family of the
great Boston statistician who tells you
how to live on two cents a day and solves
the Philippine problem weekly in tho
| Transcript.
The bride was on her vacation from
! the store, and went to Newport to spend
it. So did young Bigelow. On Septem-
her it was time for him to start on mis-
trim around the world, and of to San
Francisco he went. From there he and
his bride telegraphed the Bigelows in
Boston that the wedding had taken
place and also Informed the brides
parents. Then they went aboard the
vessel to Japan and let the families DO
all the worrying.
! OF course there was something ter
rible in the way of worrying around the
Back Bay. Also out in Watertown. But
by the time Mr.. and Mrs. Bigelow, Jr.,
got home the tempest had died do"D.
| the Bigelows and the Reises were so
! glad to get the youngsters home that
| they forgot all about being angry, ana
| the matter was settled.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bigelow went to Nor
yich Conn, to live, happy and content
ed. and the brides twin sister, Ellen
Gertrude, was invited to pay them q
visit
This was the beginning of the second
romance, the one that at present mas
Boston upside down.
Around the corner from the Bigelow
doyecot at Norwich lived Samuel G.
Adams. a rich Bostonian, member of the
hig wool firm and very blue FLOODED. He
had married, as a second wife, Mrs.
Clamp. wealthy Boston widow, who had
one son, fine, handsome young fellow,
William F. Clapp, freshman at Harvard.
Young Clapp knew young Bigelo~,
! and went around to see him. He also
saw Mrs. Bigelow's twin sister-and-
we'll. here was a scion of a Boston fam
i]y and a Jordan & Marsh shopgirl.
The result could have been only what 1t
was. They fell in love.
Leaves College to Earn Living.
All during the summer the courtshlp
went on, and by the time young Clapp
was about to return to Boston with his
parents everything was ripe for another
romance. The young people said moth
| ing about their affection to anyone.
and nobody but the Bigelows knew of
| it. Ellen REESE went back to her place
in the big store, and young Clapp went
back to Harvard, for, of course, he
was Harvard student.
But he could not wait to graduate. 80
he left college at the close of his fresh
man year, little more than boy. He en-
tered brokers' Office in State street. but
soon left there and obtained an impor-
tant position with the New England
Telephone company, which stationed
him at Taunton.
From there the courtship was con-
tinued, and one day, not long ago, Miss
Ellen Gertrude Reise resigned from
Jordan & Marsh's and took the train to
Providence. There she was met by
young Clapp. and they were married.
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ne got out of the army and came east
to do more in the world. Machinery
was his trade, and he obtained posi-
ton at the Watertown arsenal, where
he is still employed. He and his wife
brought up the girls in pretty little
cottage at No. 70 Dexter avenue. Wa
+ertown. and there the couple still live
with their two younger children.
When the twins became OF an age
when they could work and thus add to
the family income, they obtained en-
ployment in that home of romance the
dry goods establishment OF jordan.
Marsh & Co.. where they were placed
At the etoye counter. Owe. this estab-
liehmsnt there should ay . tag pear
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29
UNIQUE FIGURE IN HISTORY
Mark Twain Says Joan Of Arc
Stands Alone in Story Of
World.

In Harper's Magazine fori December
Mark Twain. who has recently made
thorough study of the original docu-
ments bearing on the life of Joan Of Arc.
pays a wonderful tribute to this slight
girl, whom he calls by far the most ex-
traordinary person the human race has
ever produced"
"All the rules fail in this girls case.
In the world S history she stands alone
quite alone. Others have been great in
their first public exhibitions Of general
ship, yalor, legal talent, diplomacy, for
titude; but always their previous years
and associations had been in larger
and smaller degree preparation for
these things. There have been no ex-
ceptions to the rule. But joan was COM
petent in law case at 16 without ever
having seen law book or courthouse
before; she had no training in soldier
ship and no associations with 1t. yet
she was a competent general in her first
campaign; she was brave in her first
battle, yet her courage had had no edu-
cation-not even the education which a
boys courage gets from never-ceasjns
reminders that it is not permissible in
boy to be a coward, but only in girl:
friendless, alone. ignorant, in the bosom
of her youth, she sat week after week
prisoner in chains, before her assem-
blage of judges. enemies hunting her to
her death, the ablest minds of France.
and answered them out of an untaught
wisdom which overmatched their learn
ing. bafied their tricks and treacheries
with a native sagacity which compelled
their wonder, and scored every day .
victory against these incredible odds
and camped unchallenged on the field.
In the history Of the human intellect,
unframed, inexperienced. and using
only its birthright equipment Of untried
capacity, there is nothing which ~
proaches this. Joan Of Arc stands alone.
and must continue to stand alone, By
reason Of the unfellowed fact that in the
things wherein she was great she was SO
without shade or suggestion Of help from
preparatory teaching. prectiea or sD
viropment."
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

caroms and straight pool, 600 points at
pool and 500 at three cushion, the man
having the highest number OF buttons
on both strings at the end of the game
to be declared the winner. The Gu
bans challenge is directed at Jake
Schaefer. Cure, Fournil, Vignaux and
other masters of the cue, but if any
OF the pool players care to accept the
conditions De Orc is willing to play
them. De Oro's challenge is the result
of his position in the pool world. The
Cuban is to pool what Jeffries is to the
ring. De Orc now has no opponent.
and from the outlook no one will care
to tackle him at continuous pool in the
near future. Finding that he has no
more opponents at pool, De Orc faces
the choice of engaging in billiards or
being idle. De Orc. is a capable bill
iiard player, but is hardly as strong as
Schaefer, Fournil, Cure, Vignaux and
several others. At pool, however, he
is their master. and he has hit upon
the idea OF compromise between the
two games. De Orc is willing to play
under the conditions named for side
bet of $1,000. He declares that such
game would involve neither the pool
nor billiard championships, but would
be extremely interesting to lovers Of
both styles of game. De Oro'S recent
victory over Keogh makes him the I'M
disputed champion, and while there are
several topnotchers at pool, not one Of
them will take a chance with De Orc.
This wonderful Cuban is regarded as
the most remarkable pool player OF
the century. For II years he has been
champion of the world, with the ex-
ception of few occasions when the
sitle Slipped from him by default,
owing to illness. But he has never
been beaten in match, with the ex-
ception of rather unimportant one
with Al Powers. In his first match
against keogh at st. Louis during the
worlds fair tournament the score at
one stage of the game stood ZIG to 67
against De Orc. 1t looked impossible
for the champion to win. The crowd
had started TO leave the hall, believing
that DE Orc was finally beaten. But
shey had not considered the genius OF
the cue. DE Orc went to work in
earnest, got the balls rolling right, and
Keogh never got another shot except
break shots. The score of that game
was l25 to 11G in favor of De Orc. In
the final game of this tournament the
men met again. Strange as it may
seem, practically the same thing hap
pened as before. keogh ran up a score
Of 80. while De Orc was gathering 66
Not one man in the audience thought
that De Orc could repeat. One en-
thusiast offered to bet 500 to SIC
against the champion. De Orc took
the bet. He nervously twitched his
cue. bit the ends of his mustache, and
to the surprise of everyone in the hall
De Orc performed the remarkable feat
of running SO points, shattcring the
worlds pool tournament record. De
Orc holds practically every record al
pool. He has a record run Of 72 al
straight pool on five by ten table
He also has the tournament high-run
record of SO, and has been known to
make more than 100 points without a
miss on more than one occasion ct ex
hibitions.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29
knows now At any rate it was not

knows now. At any rate it was not
long before the girl found herself
growing fond of the handsome young
student. She knew little about him
he refrained from telling her of his
fathers great wealth or his family
connections. When she did learn all
these things. however. Mary REESE
was properly staggered. and when
he besought her to be his she re-
belled. fearing the consequences when
his family should hear that the scion
had made such mesalliance.
Horatio Bigelow. though, was not
to be put off in this way, for he loved
Mary REESE. He told his family about
it. and his family was beautifully.
magnificently shocked. and when a
Boston family. backed up with s3o.0o0.-
600. gets shocked, it is something
worth seeing.
1t should not be! said the family.
Never! 1t was foolish idea on the
part of the boy. He must be sent
around the world to see other places.
other faces. and forget the pretty
daughter of the humble arsenal ma
chinist. A shopgirl. Ugh!
Young Bigelow was no fool. He
loved Mary REESE. she loved him. and
he preferred her. only too wisely. to
any OF the specialized. erudite. blue
blooded Back Bay young persons who.
in his family's estimation. would
make the sort of a bride he should
have. He knew his family thorough
ly, and was aware of the fact that to
cross them would be disagreeable. So
he agreed to the trip around the
world. but he had a trick up his sleeve
all the time.
To Mary Reise alone he contided it.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

They were at the same counter, looked
very much alike. and this fact and
their beauty made them much talked
about.
One day a young man, Horatio
Bigelow-another good old Boston
name-and the son of Albert S. Bge-
low, the copper millionaire. saw the
girls. He was attracted by their
beauty, but managed to choose be-
tween them, and selected Mary as
the object of his alteration at first
sight.
The next thing was to get an
introduction, and this is not the
easiest matter when the girl is
Jordan girl. Young Bigelow
knew, perhaps by experience, that
he could not win mis- way to
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

(Copyrisht. 1905, by Joseph B. Bowies)
Naples, Italy.-Dear Old Partner in
Crime: Well, sir, We have struck
place that reminds us Of home. and
your old grocery store. The day we
got here dad and took a walk into
the poorer districts, where they throw
AL the Stops and refuse in the streets,
and where nobody ever seems to clean
up anything and burn it. The odor
was something that you cannot de-
scribe without a demonstration, and
after We had turned pale and started
to go away, dad said the smell remind
ed him of something at home and
finally he remembered your old grocery
in the sauerkraut season, early in the
morning, before you had aired out the
place. Your ears must have burned
when We were talking about you.
If you want to get an idea of Ma
pies, at its worst. go down into your
cellar and round up all the Goldfish,
onions. kraut, limberger cheese. kero-
sene, rotten potatoes, and everything
that is dead, put it all in a bushel
basket, and just before the health Of
ficers come to pull your place get
down on your knees, and put your
head down in the basket, and let some
one sit on your head all the forenoon.
and you will have just such half day
as dad and had in the poor quarter
of Naples, and it win not cost you half
as much as it did us. unless. after
you have enjoyed yourself in your cell
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

After a tour of
the country Ivor
Lawson and Floyd
MacFarland, t W o
speedy merchants
of the cinder
track, have re-
turned to this
country. While in
Australia bot b
Americans made
a good showing,
but Lawson par
ticularly reached
the top of fame
~
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

anything was dug up, but that the
whole thing was put-up job to ROD
tourists. But when we got to locali-
ty where the dasoes were digging the
ashes away from house. and were
uncovering parlor, where rich things
were being discovered, he saw that 1t
was all right.
suppose I never ought to have
played such thing on dad but told
him that anybody who saw a thing
first when it came out Of the ashes
could grab it and keep 1t. and just as
told him a work man threw out
shovel full of ashes just as you would
throw out dirt digging for angle
worms, and there was little silver
urn with q lot of coins in it. and you
could not hold dad. He grabbed for
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

Mary Reise's heart by any filtration
over the counter. So he wisely went
higher up and asked the manager
of the store, whom he knew, to in
troduce him. Bigelow was then a
junior at Harvard, and the reputation
of Harvard juniors is not so terribly
good that tie managers Of big Boston
stores are throwing their best and
prettiest salesgirls into their COM
pany without knowing something
about them. However, the manager
had faith in this junior, and Bigelow
and Miss REESE met.
Fear Family's Disapproval.
Whether it was love at first sight
ON her part as well as his nobody
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29
FLAKE Yumr
Opportunities
By HARLOW N. HICINBOTHAnf.
Chicago millionaire.

Men make their opportunities by hard work and by eonserv
ing their employers interests No how are employed
establishment the employer will keep watch OF the man he hnds
working hours overtime The working wants to work
without telling the employer anything about The employer will ind
When the do thing he ought do without ask
how ought be DONE if he makes mistake If he dong
the work lie will be told quick enough Let him just Jump
the breach do best of ability him work
day as If he carrying message 0 Garcia
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

the ovens, and meat cooking in the
pots? 1t seems the most wonderful
thing to me Of anything Lever saw.
We went all through the streets and
houses, and saw bathrooms that beat
anything in San Francisco. and when
we went into a building occupied by
the officers in charge Of the excava-
tons, and dad saw q telephone and
an electric light. he thought those
things had been dug up, too, and he
claimed that the men who were re-
ceiving millions of dollars in royalties
on telephones and electric lights were
frauds who were infringing on Pompeii
patents 1000 years old, and he wouldn't
believe me when told I'm that tele-
phones and electric lights were not dug
up: he said then he wouldn't believe
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

Record time was made in the third
annual regatta of the American Row.
ing association over the Henley course
on the Schuylkill river at Philadelphia.
In the eight-oared junior college event
the Cornell crew took first honors and
broke the record for the course, which
is the same length as the English
Henley, one mile and $50 yards. Cor
nel.'s time was 6:34. The best previ.
Gus time was that made By the Argo-
naut crew of Toronto in 1903, when
1t rowed the course in 6:36.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

ing the coat-of-arms of Cupid. two
hearts stuck together with an arrow.
for it is from Jordan's that so many
beautiful young shopgirls have
emerged the brides of Boston's bluest-
blooded young men.
The REESE sisters were among the
prettiest girls in Jordan's. and that is
saying a great deal for them. 1t is
like saying that a young woman is
the prettiest girl on Fifth avenue.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

c e n t l y resained
the title OF pool
champion OF the
world by defeat
ing Jerome Keogh
at Buffalo recent
ly. The Cuban
offers to play
anyone a combin-
alton game of
pool and billiards.
De Orc declares
that he would
prefer to play a
combination game
0f fh~oD ,,,,h:>~
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29
The opportunities are

The opportunities are
here yet. But there are
no opportunities for the
boy who sits down and
grulnbles about there
being no chance of ris-
ing in this business"
Opportunity will never
come to those fellows.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29
SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS

A most unique challenge has been
issued by Alfredo De Orc. who re-
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29

Australia is a rich field for racing
cyclists, that is for the top-notchers.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-29
The Bad Boy Writes from Naples
Dad Sees Vesuvius and Calls tho
Servants to Put Out the Fire
They Have Trouble with
"Dago" in Pompeii.

BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. Former PUB
Usher Of Peck's Sun. Author OF
.PeckS Bad Boy" Etc.)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-27

do some work in the course of the
year.
This will not be a favorable year
for work i'm Grand Ronde as the beet
crop is so per cent short and 1t will
soon be harvested.
Large quantities of salmon have
been dried and put up in various ways
by party of Umatillas which spent
several months in the vicinity of Wei
ser and Ontario. Several tons of wool
was also gathered this season by the
various parties of squaws in the
mountains and sheep ranges of east
EN- Oregon and the members of the
tribe who have been absent all sum-
mer will return home within the next
two weeks heavily laden with tro-
phies of the hunt and rewards of hon
est toll.
1t is wonderful to think that u few
squaws will gather several tons OF
wool from carcasses, fences, bushes
and trees in the course of summer
but such is the case.
This wool is washed, carded and
dressed in excellent condition and
made into mattresses and heavy
quilts which are used by the members
of the tribe or sold.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-10-27
SUIT FOR DIVORCE.
Mrs. Parr Alleges Many and Serious
Reasons Therefor.

Divorce proceedings have been
started by Martha Parr through
Judge James A. Fee as attorney,
against Frank Parr.
The two were married in May, 1908,
and it is alleged in the complaint that
the defendant has been cruel and
abusive to the plaintiff. and that he
has called her vile and indecent
names, choked and beaten her and
otherwise acted improperly towards
her. No home was provided for her
except with the father md mother of
the defendant, and she alleges that she
was driven from that place by the
mother and sister of the defendant,
who told her that Frank was going to
get another woman. For a time last
year the two were in Portland, and
while there the wife says she was COM
pelled by her husband to work as a
chambermaid and waitress while her
husband loafed. Mrs. Parr also main
Ains that her husband is a dangerous
man. and that she fears bodily harm
Or death from him.
Consequently, an order is asked re-