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only $25, but the important thing was
that he knocked out what had hereto
fore been supposed to be the fndisput-
able right of boarding house proprietors
to levy on their guests' effeots when
board bills are not paid.
Incidentally 1t was brought out that
the English law, which is much given
to hair-splitting, recognizes q fine dis
tinction between a lodging house and
boarding house. Under the act Of 1853
an innkeeper may detain the goods OF
guest who fails to settle his bill. The
same right is accorded the lodging
house keeper. But the act takes no
cognizance OF the boarding house keep
er, and according to Judge Woodfall he
-or she--in the matter Of collecting
bills cannot claim. the privileges OF
either the innkeeper or the lodging
house keeper, and has no right to i'm
pound the baggage Of defaulting pa
tron. The paying guest" can be made
to pay only by means Of summons or
suit. The decision has caused great
CONSERVATION in Bloomsbury, and there
is talk OF appealing for a special act of
parliament, or turning all the boarding
houses into lodging houses-
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yes, il you like. Where is it? III
get an elSka." !"
s'Will you? There's good chap"
l wouldn't trouble you, but there's no
body j can trust, you know wouldn't
ask any of them rascally Germans
Here again the word was little like
'sChermance," but only Il very little.
a thought to myself, Hahn went ON.
that I'd ask you to do it, if you didn't
mind, being a man I'd trustwith any
thing, DISCOURSE, my dear Crook.
All right. Crook answered, with an
embarrassed laugh. Not that I've met
great many people who say that.s'
All, but / know / could trust you
anywhere. my dear Crook" the other
went on, with his eyes intent on tho
younger mans face. for Hahn was a
man Of near fifty. with short gray
beard. i knew could trust you, es-
peeiaily as YOU know it's an important
thing for me, with wife and a family
at home. Things have been very bad
lately. and clear hundred pounds
II can get as rnuch-or even eighty
or ninety would mean good deal
more to me than you might think.
Where will you stay in London.
AT Standish's hotel. Letters will
find me either there or at the Aberigine
club"
tidnh you, Thank yOa eyer 50 mucn,
my dear Crook, :, concluded Hahn, grip
ping Crooks hand with ferYor. Have
they got your eklSa2 won't keep you
any longer-se good of you to come
and all. Goodby! They will be bring
ing my medicine. Goodby. You'll be
sure to take particular care none OF
the bottles are broken. won't you ?
That would be terrible--spol the dozen
and it's one of the reasons I'm ask
ing you to do it, care being SO impor-
tant. you know. Good by!"
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Special Foreign Service
LONDON, Dec. 24.-Not a few
American tourists who have found
themselves stranded In London have
had their baggage seized by boarding
house keepers because they could not
pay their bills, and have soxrowfully
returned home. leaving their trunks,
as little Peeps sheep did their
tails. behind them. But under a re-
cent decision of Judge Woodfall the
transatlantic visitor who finds himself
short Of the wherewithal will no longer
be under the painful necessity OF Ieav-
ing his baggage in the hands OF the
stony hearted boarding house mistress
who refuses to accept his assurance
that he win send her a check as soon
as he reaches New York. With his
unreeeipted bill In his pocket. and his
baggage piled on top OF a cab, in the
English fashion, he may depart smii-
ing. For Judge WoodfaH has explicitly
laid it down that a boarding house
keeper has no authority te-detain the
personal effects of boarder who falls
to settle his BILL
It was against a Bloomsbury beard
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some old pundit who made no difficulty
in bringing out thousand trade dol
lars for ft-about q hundred pounds on
the exchange-so that I've suspicion
1t was worth a good bit more. And
this trip to India, too, I took some
thing. I found some absurd clockwork
figures in Switzerland that q watch
maker had made to afnuse himself
little dolls that walked about on
selves, and struck the hour with their
fists on a bell. They were bit out OF
order and tarnished. but very small
JOB put that right, and got my price
and q very good one 1t was. from a
maharaj jah. An Indian prince with
money to spend is like a child for toys y
And are you bringing anything good
back with you?"
"No-nothing OF my own. There's
something rather interesting belonging
to another man. however; a dozen
rial believe, the real stuff, and most
amazingly old"
'.Old ?" queried Lyman w. Merrick,
who had proper respect for the an
tique. What would you call old, now,
In Imperial Tokay?"
The exact vintage of this / don't
know" Crook answered; s'but the own
ct tells uf6 IL eiSnty years IN DOttle,
and that's something very special in
any wine. think"
Eighty years! You don't say! And
what might 1t cost?
That I can't tell you, either. I be-
lleve he came on it very cheap In a
deal-he's a dealer IN everything, a
man named Hahn. But he expects to
get hundred pounds for the case, or
pretty near It."
That's very near eight and a half
pounds bottle. as r>figure it. Forty
two dollars. any way: no bad price for
a bottle of wine
They're magnums, OF course"
Yes. and Tokay Isn't sioppin,
around every day, even new, I guess.
Come to think of it, I don't ever re-
member to have as much as seen a
bottle OF Tokay."
Very few have, and fewer still have
tasted 1T. More. nine -tenths OF the few
who have tasted tor think they have
have only tried the adulterated stuff
expanded by the wine merchants from
the Inferior brands OF Tokay."
Is that SO" commented Mr.. Mer-
rick. absently. Then he added, "Say.
Is that case OF wine in the holdg"
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a great deal of money for that, but
need some, and. like other men,
like to have enough. My trade de-
pends wholly on the fact, that what
may be cheap in one part of the world
may be dear In another. So I buy in
the chea pest market and sell Sin the
dearest, according to the divine laws
buying and selling, you understand
like "a dealer-though perhaps that is
what lam, after all. / am a special
list In things sufficiently profitable to
make steady trading unnecessary
even impracticable. For instance,
have bought orchids in South Ameri-
ca for shilIings and sold them in Lon
don for hundreds Of pounes Though,
OF course, orchid hsnting is q pretty
regular trade in the bands OF some
oh, yes. I've heard of that caper:
and good trade, too. So you're g.
judge of orchids. eh %
'sOrchids and-other things. / was
after orchids In South America when
/ got q rough diamond from an
aberigine-a Botacudo and very
shy sort they are. and treacherous
for good large hunting knife. It
wasn't great diamond, you under
stand, but 1t was worth a few hundreds
pounds, You know, not doliars-and
that was q good deal more than the
knife cost-though it was a good one.
Il don't always bring things home
to sell, of course; sometimes I take
them out. / remember I once bought
very old Chinese manuscript roll An
London for ten shillings on speculation.
/ hadn't ghost OF a notion what it
was all about. l admit haven't now
and it was pure luck; but the next
time I was in China-I got there as
soon as I could after the relief of the
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Harvey Crook went off a little anus
ed. Hahn was thrifty soul, and had
made an enormous fuss about eighty.
or hundred pounds worth of old
wine; no doubt sick mans fancy had
something to do with the matter. As
for things having been bad with Hahn
OF late. that seemed very unlikely. But,
OF course, he reflected. q wife and fam
lily must make a good deal of differ
ence; though-ne doubt owing to his
slight acquaintance-he had never
heard Of. Hahn's wife and family be-
fore.
The voyage home on the Rajapur
was pleasant enough, the cooler season
making it's influence felt to some ex-
tent even in the Red sea. Among
Harvey Crooks fellow passengers he
came much In contact with Mr.. Ly-
man w. Merrick, wealthy American
and a very good fellow. who was TAX
ing his first holiday for many years
in the shape of tour round the world
with his daughter. Daisy. and, OF
course. had made the Delhi Durhsr HIS
chief objective. Harvey Crooks many
tales of his experiences by land and sea
vastly entertained Mr.. Merrick, and
went all the way to reconcile him to the
necessity. repugnant to his habits OF
hustle of travelling in slower vessel
than the mailship because Of the I'M
possibility Of obtaining berths in anye
thing faster.
well, Mr.. Crook" said the Ameri-
can, as they sat smoking I'm deck
chairs on an early day of the voyage,
Mr.. Henry Crook, I believer" Mr.
Merrick paused, for there CHANGED to
be two Crooks aboard.
Not Henry-Harvey Crooks my
name. That other passenger is Mr.
Henry Crook-a stranger to me; the
stout man, / mean.''
"Ah-jesso. Well, say, Mr.. Harvey
Crook. you've had pretty adven-
t'rous life. anyway, though it hasn't
been SO long q one as mine: vurry
adventurous life. I'd say. Might man
ask what's your calm, anyway
Harvey Crook laughed. MY trade"
he said, "is-but / don't think 1t has
any name Of Its own; unless you like
to call me a carrier!"
"a carrier, Mr.. Crook ?"
well. yes, carrier for profit, you
might say. You see. I'm man who 8
very much alone in the world, so far as
relations go, and I've got a great taste
for moving about the earth in search
of whatever may turn up. don't need
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boat, but all I could get, and quite
good enough. Want me to do anything
for you aboard ?"
Harvey Crook was sitting by the
bed and Hahn took him by the wrist.
Il want you to take a case," he said,
"a case Of wine. Will you? I'll do as
much for you some day. It's yalua-
bic stuff
Harvey Crooks home going baggage
was small enough. for he was carry
ing nothing but his personal belong
ings. "All right" he said. tI daresay
l can. Want me to take 1t to GUS
toner at home ?"
No. no-not to a customer; only to
take 1t and see 1t isn't damaged. II
you will, of course I'll pay the expenses.
and I'm good for a commission when
the stuff's sold. don't see why L
shouldn't get hundred for 1t if walt
bit. It's dozen magnums of Inpe-
rial Tokay-eighty years In bottleI
It's been lying lost for three-quarters
of century, and 1 picked it up for
next to nothing. on a deal for some
thing else. No doubt it was part Of
some present-perhaps to the old Mo-
gul. You'll take 1t for me, won't you ?"
oh, yes, I'll take 1t. But what shall
I do with it when I get it home? I
sha'n't be wanting to sit still, you
know"
Thank you, thank you. my dear
Crook-that will be all right. If don't
let you know before yoE start, I will
by the time you reach England-the
mail will be some days ahead Of you,
Of course, though it starts week later:
and. if necessary, I'll cable. You shall
hear from me somehow as soon as you
arrive. You may be assured, my dear
Crook. that 1T sha'n't hamper you In
the least-not in the least; I should
like to get it off my mind at once. VIII
you take it with you noW?"
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BY
ARTHUR MORRISON
Author OF
Nhe Red Triangle - ..The Hole in
the Wall. Tales of Mean
Streets" etc.
CHAPTER 1.
The First Maanum

-HE year 1902 drew to close. and
Delhi was swarming thrice It's
common size In preparation for
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total attendance was 81, ,O82 Well, the
fans can have their own opinion.

fans can have their own opinion
Western league for Topeka in 1905.
That is the slogan which Cooley and
Crow, two euphonious names, are
working on.
That is what I have in my noodle, .
said the pleasing Dick as he emerged
from the private Office of w. F. Logan
after paying down $500. as half of the
price of the franchise which he and
Herman the Great bought.
AS soon as todays game is over, ''
he said, Il shall get around and dig
INTO this business. Topeka in the
western league looks good to me-
Herman Grow: Sure it's the
Western league for me if we can get
IN That is what I am working for
what we are after"
How viii they do it? That is the
question which worries some of the
Interested now. Hush, don't say it
loud but 1t is believed to be a fact
that there won't be any trouble at all.
Why? Because the Western associa-
ton has no agreement.
If the latter sentence is true. as it
is well suspected to be, Topeka can
walk right into the Western leaelle
and Mr.. O'Neill, Genial Tip, need NOT
pay one cent or anything like S2,5OC
for franchise in this town.
Il don't believe that we are playing un-
DER any agreement, said ". F. Logan.
I don't know anything to that effect I
was on the revising committee to look af-
ter the bylaws this year and not a thing
was mentioned. Not a single word When
the league started a two years agree
ment was in effect, but that is five years
ago, and l think none has ever been re-
neWed.
And that is the beauty of it." smiled
Cooley.
Some of the fans have been fearing
that we would have so cent ball if we 90
into the Western league. Not a bit of it.
The rules of O'Neills circuit say YOU
can charge 25 cents at the gate if you like
The only iron-clad part of the Western
leagues bylaws is that you have to
charge 25 cents for the grandstand So
that part of it won't cut much figure
Now something as to the guarantees in
the Western league Denver and Pueblo
guarantee a visiting team $50 day for a
game and $40 for rain days. The teams
further east guarantee $40 a day and SIS
for rain days. The far jump to the west
enforces the higher guarantee on the Col
oradO towns.
Cooley is enthusiastic over next year s
/ DrOsDectS.
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Yale 1e. Syracuse 0.


New Haven, Conn.,, Oct. Yale scor-
ed her second victory of the season by
defeating the University of Syracuse IS
to 0. The game was we'll contested
and in the first half the snappy play
and good defensive work of the visitors
gave the Yale team plenty of hard
work. But one score came in the first
half. New players in the second half
turned the tide in favor of the blue.
The Yale team with Captain Shevlin.
the only veteran in the line and Flynn
the lone veteran of the back field ac-
quilted himself well. The worst fault
of the play was the slowness of the
linemen in getting away on the snap of
the bali.
Yale found the defensive of the visi-
tors a proposition worthy Of their sOlv-
ing and only toward the end of the
second half did the Syracuse line begin
to waver Many times Yale found her
self lacking the coveted five yards and
was forced to punt.
7. Jones. the former Exeter quarter
back, was the particular star of the
game. His run of 80 yards through a
broken field on a broken punt was a
magnificent piece of work and his 80
yards dash for a touch down set the
spectators wild. Captain Shevlin was
strong at running back the kick OH
and Yalefs defensive formation for
this play proved effective. Fumbling
was frequent behind the Yale line.
Both teams were penahzed considera-
bly, Yale lost go yards in this way and
Syracuse 45.
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Sterba, the crack end man who was
on the side lines with a bad ankle
said: 'If we had been able to put
our full strength in the field. it would
have been a different story. feel
confident that we can hold K. Z. down
to a smaller score than we held
Washburn."
Coach Outland of Washburn said,
1T was very apparent that our team
did some ragged work in the first half
Caldwell and AIiliice were not in con
dition for a hard game, and Hill was
suffering from his injured shoulder
Then of course there is this to con-
slider. We allowed the Normal to
play without regard to the anti-fresh-
man rule, while we adhered to Chicago
conference regulations strictly"
1t was too hot weather for football
but the biggest crowd Of the season
thus far was out to see the game z
c. Quigley of st. Marys, refereed with
his usual ability, and he certainly
can't be accused Of giving Washburn
the best of it, John Fleishman, the
ex-K- u. player, was umpire No one
was hurt. though Washourn made a
good many changes in its lineup dur
ing the game.
Emporia kicked of to Ware. who
returned the ball to the center, and
then dropped the ball when he was
tackled. The Normal tried thrice to
penetrate the Washburn line. and
failed. Washbur took the ball or
downs at the center of the first. On
the first scrimmage, Millice got around
the NormaTs right end for ; yards
on the second White went around the
other end 20 yards for touchdown
1t looked like easy picking for Wash
burn. The time was two minutes. and
goal was kicked, making the score
to 0.
Washburn kicked off, and Emporia
was soon forced TO punt. The ball
went only Is yards from the line of
, scrimmage. Incidentally it might be
mentioned that Washburns punting
was not very good. and the Normal S
was still worse All the punts were
too high. The wind had something g
to do with this, however. The ball
changed hands several times, Wash
burn three times being forced to re-
sort to a quarterback kick, and both
sides fumbling several times. The
play was all in Normal territory. how
ever, and finally Washburn recovered
a quarterback kick on the Normal IS
J yard line. On a tackle back forma-
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FREE FOR ALL FIGHT.
Players of the Columbia and wesleyan
EIevens Start Riot.

New York, Oct IA free for all
fight in which the players of both
teams participated and which amount
ed to a small sized riot, marred the
football game this afternoon between
Columbia and Wesleyan. The fight
came near the end of the second half
when Bailey, the Wesleyan fulback,
without apparent reason jumped on
Dave Armstrong, the Columbia left,
with both knees. Bailey was ordered
from the game, but instead of Obeying
started a fight. He was joined by his
teammates and in u moment there was
a general fight in which all the play
ers participated. Men We're knocked
down and rolled about the field and
many bruised faces and battered heads
resulted The police rushed onto the
field and finally separated the fighters,
and the game proceeded without Bal
ley. who was the cause of the trouble
The final score of nothing to Moth
ing tells a story of hard fought con-
test between teams which were well
matched. For so early in the season
the game was fairly we'll played, al
though there was considerable FUN
bling at times and neither the often
sive or defensive work of either team
was what it might have been at all
stages of the game.
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Washburn Wins Hard Football
Game From NOrmals.
Teachers Nearly Tie Contest in
First Half.
BLUE BADLY SCARED.
Patch Up Weak Spots in the
Second.
Sons Of Ichabod Make the Final
Score 80 to 6.
BLUE BADLY SCARED.

II Washburn had not pulled VIII
nams out of the line and set him to
work stopping the line bucks of the
State Normal in the second half of
Saturdays game, it is highly probable
that the Washburn bell would have
failed to ring last night, and the
Washburn rooters would not now be
rejoicing in victory over the heavy
Emporia team by a score of % to s.
At the end of the first half the
score was only II to in Washburn's
favor, and the ball died on the Wash
burn 15-yard line in the possession of
the Normal. The atmosphere over
the Washburn bleachers was as blue
as the futtering Washburn banners;
the team had been scored on, and
what is worse, outplayed, during the
first p minutes, and in spite of the
score in their favor the Sons of
lchabod were showing signs of panic,
and bets could probably have been
found that the Normal would win
But things happened at the Wash
burn end of the field during the 10
minute inteTmissiOn between halves.
Caldwell, who had been playing full
back, and backing up the line on de-
tense, was not in condition for a hard
game, and his weakness was appar-
ent. He was put on the side lines, and
Williams taken from tackle to fiji his
place. Sharp went in at tackle, and
Eldon Tice took Johnson's place at
end. There was nothing doing for the
Normal in the second half. and as the
wearers of the blue piled up touch
down after touchdown and put them
selves out of danger of defeat. the
rOoters in the bleachers grew more
easy and the big college bell COM
menced to clang out the news of vic
tory almost the instant the referee
blew the final whistle.
But there is this TO say for the Nor
NAL, they played the game minus
three of their best men-Hensley.
tackle; Hindman, tackle. and Sterba.
end All of these were knocked out
in the Ottawa game last Saturday,
and were being saved up for the Kan
sas university game next Saturday.
which, according to the Normal peo-
pie. has not been Cancelled, as was re-
ported.
Coach Samson of the Normal team
summed up the defeat as follows:
s'The trouble with our team was
that some OF our best men were out
and we were obliged to substitute sew
eraI green hands who did not know
the game Our ends We're especially
weak"
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Cambridge Mass Oct. Harvard de-
feated the University of Maine eleven here
team was outolassed in every department
especially in kicking Although they tried
repeatedly to punt, only once did they
succeed, while the Crimsons kicked the
ball over the lot Harvard time and again
plowed her way through the main line for
great gains. and when an attempt was
made to circle the ends it went through
in easy fashion. Fumbling was a feature,
both teams being guilty about as equal
number of times.
In the first half Harvard using her reg
ular team scored IS points. mainly by
bucking the line. In the second half, with
a team OF substitutes 6 points only were
scored. but at no time did the men exert
themselves. Parkers playing at left guard
for Harvard, was the feature.
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he Normal as badly as washburn

the Normal as badly as Washburn
did.
Coach Samson. of the Normal tear,
is an old Princeton player, and that ne
understands the art Of making a foot
ball team is shown by the strong bunch
he has collected.
Last Saturday the Normal beat OF
taWa university II to Q. What will
Washburn do to Ottawa on October q ?
Captain Hill of Washburn wanted to
play the game out, in spite of his in
jured shoulder. He said he was just
beginning to feel like playing when
Coach Outand took him to the side
lines
F. c. Quigley is about the best Off
cial that ever appeared on the Wash
burn field. He keeps things moving,
and is watchfui.
Tice, johnson and Munford are
having a hard fight for the position of
right end on the Washburn team.
Harold Tice seems to have a mort
gage on the job of varsity quarter
back for Washburn. He improves
with every game.
Platt played a fierce game at tackle
yesterday when Hill retired. Snat-
finger also showed up well at center.
The game started on time, or nearly
so. This is a distinct Improvement
Now if Manager Stahl will keep peo-
pie who have no business there from
getting in upon the side lines, it will
be still further improvement.
Dr. John Outland, the Washburn
coach, said after the game: 1.-The Nor
mails gave us a hard fight I consider
the team one of the best balanced
have ever seen"
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IOWA WAS VERY EASY.
University of Chicago Eleven Won by
Score Of ~ to o.

Chicago, Oct THE University Of
Chicago was very agreeably sur
prised at the ease with which they
downed the Iowa eleven today, when
they ran up a score of 42 to 0.
In the first half Chicago scored six
touchdowns and Parry kicked the
same number of goals, while Iowa
only succeeded in making one first
down, the score at the end Of the half
being So to 0.
In this half Eckersan and Bezdek
each got away with a 75-yard run for
a touchdown. Parry played a mag
nificent game at left end, but was
taken out Of the game at the end OF
the first half.
In the second half the Hawkeyes
braced up considerably, though not
sufficiently to make any difference
with the result. They carried the ball
to Chicago's 50-yard line, then kicked
to the 20-yard line, but there they
blew up and could go no further. The
Maroons then took the ball and after
a short battle secured a touchdown
and goal, ending the second half with
Finals: Chicago AZ. Iowa 0.