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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-06-28
SMoTHERS IN MUD PUDDLE.
North Riverside Qowa) Mar Is Found
Dead by Roadside.

Ocdu Uy HOduSTue.
Sioux City, Iowa, June 22.-John
Higgins of North Riverside fell into a
mud puddle at the side of the road in
that suburb and was smothered TO
death. He was suffering from an cpl.
LEIPZIG fit. For several hours he lay
with his head in the soft mud and a
little before noon he was found by a
workman.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-06-28

storekeeper seldom makes q failure.
Statistics show that the fewest fail
hures are among them. The successful
storekeeper often becomes the infu-
entail man in some large retail es-
adjustment, his early training fitting
him for just such an exacting posi-
ton"
Mr.. Horace Bacon, also Of the firm
or v. & A. Bacon, OF Boston, In a let
ter =, the author, says:
Same boys take to trading by in
stinct. Before they are in their teens
they play store selling in exchange
for Plus, nails, and the like, little ar
ticles If paper, fly boxes 'snappers,'
and the like, which such boys know
how to make. This shows a natural
aptitude for keeping shop and should
be encouraged. Such a boy, when
through the high school, If left to his
own choice, will undoubtedly prefer a
position in a retail establishment to
one in a lawyers Office or technical
school. Watch this boy; he will work
his way up the ladder, advancing by
his W efforts until in time he has
come to be head clerk and later is
given an interest in the business, or
starts a business for himself. This is
the kind Of a boy who should be a
storekeeper. =
There are boys, who from child
hood are deeply interested in their
books, preferring to read for instruc-
ton and amusement, rather than to
take part in out of door games Of
baseball, football, etc. Some of these
are interested at a very early age in
mechanics and electricity, others in
history and mathematics. These boys
should have a technical or college cd
ucation to develop their natural ten
denotes and should be framed for en-
g%ineers, electricians, lawyers, bankers
or for other similar positions to which
they are naturally adapted and which
appeal to their tastes.
Boys like this should not be store
keepers"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-06-28
MRS. WOOD FEARS ENEMIES
WOMAN WHO ACCUSES PLATT OF
BiGAMY WILL KEEP OUT
OF WAY.

Colon, Mich, June 22.-Mae Gather.
her proposed suit to establish her al
legged marriage to Senator Platt, yes
terday began to direct the gathering
of evidence she intends to present to
the courts.
81 am going to stay in Colon" she
said, because ! am afraid to go else
where. After the menacing attitude
of certain persons in the last two
years r more and the evidences that
came before my eyes of the harm in
tended for me, I have decided | will
remain in Colon until the time for
starting the suit.
without wishing to try my case in
the newspapers, | can suggest with
propriety, | believe. that unless there
were something of a foundation to my
story, l would not have been bounded,
threatened and 'jobbed' as l was in
1903 and later.
81 expect that some attempt will be
made to throttle me. But here in my
old home, among friends of my child
hood, | feel safe and do not think any
job can be successfully worked on
me.
81 have two friends who have
knowledge of the location of the man
who performed the ceremony" she
said, land when | need him to testify
as to what occurred in Suite 15S at a
certain Fifth avenu hotel | think he
will appear. That is, unless some
great influence manages to suppress
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-06-28
"Simply Absurd, Ridiculous"

Washington, June o. Senator
Platt yesterday, after reading the pub
lished accounts of the suit for divorce
filed by Miss Mae Wood, declared that
1t was simply absurd, ridiculous"
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dent does result when the centre man gets
very weary from practising in the gym
| nasium.
Once recently one Of the men missed his
grip and grabbed at the arm Of the centre
man who was holding the ladders apart
at arms length while resting on a lower
rung with his feet. The centres arm gave
way and there was a general fall of the
whole group to he floor of the gymnasium.
The men are taught to be prepared for
emergencies. however, and the result was
that none was hurt.
Physical education at Hamilton has been
developed as complete system only for the
last few years. Before Crossley came, the
place was in charge of DR.. Hadlock, who paid
more attention to he set rules of gymna site
exercise.
When Crossley first came to Hamilton II
was made question whether he ought to
follow out some college system, such as that
in vogue at Amherst, or to pursue his own
original plans, which he made use OF in
the Columbia Athletic Club 1t was de-
cided that it would be better to leave him
to his own devices and to SEQ how the
scheme would work out.
President Stryker of Hamilton has lent
every aid to the athletic side Of the insti-
tuition, and to his earnest cooperation is
ascribed much of the SUCCESS of the cole ge
in that line. 1t is noticeable that in the
smaller institutions thero is greater
bread dth of spirit shown in the matter OF
athletic and gymnastio sports than in the
larger colleges. In the latter apparently
study and the results from study are the
chief aims, and the athletic idea meets
with some disapproval.
In the smaller colleges, however, instruo-
tors and faculty come into closer touch
with the men whom they are teaching,
and there is not that objection sometimes
made to athletic sports as prete1t for
idleness. 1t may be that small colleges az
ford better opportunity to instructors to
size up their students and therefore to realize
that not all men are enga ging in athletics
to waste time.
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| nasium exercise are at work every afternoon
in the fall and winter terms practising for
the pyramid and Roman ladder work that
| forms part Of an annual exhibition given
in March by the students in theatre at
Utica.
One of the pyramid formations calls for
no less than thirty men. and this means
| thirty who have practised so long that
they have won places from the others who
| were trying to get a chance to show. Other
men who have more facility in other styles
of work can do better with the Roman
ladder work.
1t ia an ambitious affair, the annual e1-
hibition of the gymnasto work Of the
Hamilto on students. The programme in
cludes wrestling sparrng and pushing up
heavy weights. as we'll as work on the
parallel bars high diving flying rings and
on the springboard and horse.
The Roman ladders and human pyramids
are the chief features OF the exhibition.
This show was started a few years ago and
was held in the Majestic Theatre In Utica
for the first time. There was great trepida-
tion lest the show might lose money. because
there Is not much chance to mako money
on athletic sports at Hamilton.
Crossey had managed such AFFAIRS be-
fore. having arranged society circuses
and the like for his athletic clubs. The
show made profit which helped the ath-
letic association materially. 1t was re-
peated with less trepidation the following
year and last year it brought to the athletic
funds the sum of $500.
The term circus work is likely to frighten
people who think only Of dangerous feats
that sometimes form a feature OF ring
work. At Hamilton however, due allow
ance is made for the immaturity Of the ath.
letes, and in consequence nothing is at
tempted which is likely to result in injury
to any of the students.
The Roman ladder work occasionally
proves big strain on the man in the centre,
who has to support the ladders while his
companions Chamber up and do their
blanche work. Occasionally slight acci-
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wagon about twenty five feet over all the
other boarding house keepers OF Washing
ton and their women friends sat up and took
notice.
had made the money in the stock market.
That was enough for her friends. They,
too, got into the market with a olatter,
and they've been in and out of 1t ever
since. As astonishing number OF Wash
ington women spend five hours day watch
ing the boards in the women's rooms OF
the bucket houses. and some Of them, en-
ploying the pure hunch system beloved OF
femininity, have cashed in in the high
figures
Then, too, there are many Washington
folks who think that owing to their pro-
pinquity to committee rooms where legls-
lation is discussed tney have something
more than winning edge on the situation.
A group of about dozen Capitol employ
ees made big thing Of it in sugar few
yestigation into the methods OF the sugar
trust. There are lot of men strolling
around here now who. while they don't
proclaim the fact, re known to have turned
Il trick or so in cotton through advance
information with reference to the Govern
nent figures
The time has gone when the annual
messages of the Presidents had any notice
able effect upon the stock market, but
there are many Washingtonians who fat
when those messages did put the figures
up or down by cleaning advance tips IA
to what the general drift of the message
was going to be:
In comparatively recent years certain
Washington men have profited by getting
hold of facts az to the contents of special
messages sent to Congress by Presidents.
A certain group of market players here
with Government printery connections, by
asceraining in advance the warlike drift
of Mr.. Cleveland's famous Venezuelan
!, message sold the market to the tune of
thousands OF shares before that message
was made public and cleaned up most
handsomely.
Capitol derived tips, however. do not
always work out to the advantage OF the
tipster. A stenographer employed in one
Of the committee rooms of the Senate told
u little story upon this point recently.
Il took flyer on the strength OF re-
mark made by the old man." referring to
the Senator who heads the committee, "to
one Of his callers n while ago said the
stenographer. 1T was my first try at the
market.
-One OF his constituents was calling
upon him at the committee room. They
famed over the political situation back
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self that il Tennessee Coal and Iron was
going to be so good ten days later it ought
to be pretty good that very day. So down
town he went and bought $1,000 worth OF
Y. c. and l. on one point margin IN
bucketshop at a5.
The stock went to e2 a couple Of hours
later and the man who'd been let in on the
real good thing by the Senator was cleaned
out. All the money he had went on the
deal.
He felt so guilty over having played the
stock before the time named by the Sem
ator that he didn't say anything to the
Senator about his loss. Tennessee Coal
and Iron lowered around the nineties for
just about ten days, and then It began 70
soar steadily. by leaps and bounds, until
1t touched 100 and over.
IL the Capitol employee had waited he
could have made pretty fortune with his
81, 900. As it was, when the stock began to
lump, he told the Senator of what he had
done and the Senator bought enough OF
il on the rising market for the employee 8
account to let the latter out with his 81 900
and little profit.
There is a negro messenger hailing from
Boston in one Of the Government depart
ments Of Washington whose play in Copper
is eagerly watched and followed by large
number OF Washington market punters.
This negro has been dashing in and out
of the market with as high "a 5000 shares
OF Amalgamated Copper at clip for the
past couple Of months. He has been taxi
Ing two point profits going and coming,
aud he has been most infalllbly, almost
weirdly, right at every market twist.
This colored man was at one time SER
want in the Boston home OF big Boston
man in the copper market-not Lawson,
but another one He has become a rich
man in two months, and will be resigning
his Government job presently.
1t is curious to observe how all the black
board watchers. the ten share lot buyers
as well as the heavy dealers, sit up and
take notice when this black man strolls
into one or other of the brokers plants-he
patroni1es nearly all of them at different
times-and gives his Copper orders. He
deals only in Copper, and every time he
buys or sells the tip "a to what he is doing
buzzes no and down the line like wild fire.
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home and then when the caller. a well.to-do
individual, was about to take his leave,
said he to the old man:
WV Whats a t,,vg9 good on the list senat0r'
@The old man tetered back and forward
on his toes knowingly for minute, winked
solemnly at his caller, and then said to him:
Better buy little Humdrum and Haw-
Vile naming railroad stock that's pretty
in the next two wee ks
"Now, this sounded pretty good to me.
The old man il in the market bigger than
wolf all the time.
II had s., 200 saved up. During the lunch
Stock Exchange house and bought Hum
drum and Hawville with my savings, putting
up two point margin.
I'D just slipped the money across the
to watching the board for a while when the
man who'd taken my money said, said he:
Gimme some more money Fine, quick
action, that. I'd been wiped out while
lighting smoke, l didn't give the man
any more margin money because didn't
have any.
THAT afternoon, when the Senator came
into the committee room, | mentioned the
matter to him. I've been with him for a
good many. years SO that | can rise to a
Question Of personal privilege with him
Fine tip, that one on Humdrum and
Hawyille, you gave to so-and-so this morn
ing, Senator l said to him, mentioning
the name of the constituent.
Great, wasn't it?' said the old man:
That son of gun Is the worst enemy l
have on earth, and that's why gave it to
him. calculate that stook'll go on about
fifteen points in the next two weeks
"'Well, it went off three OF those points
in just four seconds after I'd bought into It
to the tune of So 200 this noon hour, told
him. which will help me lot toward
buying house and home
1The old man leaned back in his seat and
roared very enjoyably, then he told me that
he d more than make the amount up for
me, on something else. and / know that
he will, OF course, But the next time I'm
going to come pretty near knowing whether
he's sidetracking an enemy or giving some
thing out right
Another Capitol employee suffered the
fate OF the SOONER" in playing valuable
tip given to him by a Senator on a stock
thai has had sensational rise recently.
"Jn about ten days from now the Sen
ator told him about three months ago. you
can run down town and buy little Tennes-
see Coal and Iron for yourself"
The man who got the tip argued to him.
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college-are taught to do that before almost
anything else.
The net result is that most of the fresh
men and sophomores at Hamilton are well
built chaps before they get through with
their two years of required work. The fresh
men classes average young in years, and for
the most part the students are not very
formidable In build when they enter.
The classes are large, too, for one man
to handle, but in some way or another at
tention is paid to individual cases and the
exercise is adapted to personal needs
There is no system Of anthropometry at
Hamilton. 1t is the Uncle John system, If
1t is anything, which is followed.
After the first two years of college the
students need not go into the gymnasium
at all unless they want to, but the fact is
that very few seem desirous of availing
themselves Of the opportunity to be relieved
OF this part Of the college work.
More advanced forms of gymnastic work
are taught those who wish it; and to q select
few acrobatio feats out Of the ordinary are
taught. In fact there are some men at Ham,
nton who could respectfully support their
end in circus troupe.
There are few who can turn triple somer-
saults, it is true, but the lesser feats that
every one is familiar with can be done by
most of the upper class men who have paid
attention to the extra instruction that
Crossley gives. High hand stands, tumbling
and other work Of this kind are favorite
relaxations for the upper class men.
There are about 250 students in Hamilto
College. OF these more than half are fresh
men and sophomores. At least IS per cent.
OF the men who do not have 10 take gym
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up to the door Of his house. and his bodys
Contained in plain coffin. was placed In Ito.
second cab carried a party Of undertakersf
men, and they were driven over the bleaa
moorland to the village Of MOscar. six milee
away, where Mr.. Bright many years ago
erected a magnificent mausoleum TO shelteo
the collins of his first wife and his son. Ho
used to sit in It for hours beside the cofflns. |
There was no religious ceremony. as MN
Bright, although born Jew. scorned al
religion.
Mr.. Bright made his money az steel die
maker to the Royal Mint and mints In othse
countries Fifteen years ago he retired
from business burned his books and rec
fused to sell the goodwill Of the business 10
any one.
His favorte amusement was to drive .
six in hand through the streets Of Shefneld,
and occasionally he added outriders and
positions TO his equipment.
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knew of their insolvency. Nothing was
done to this firm, however, which is now
said to be doing as high as 5000 shares
day. There is no anti-bucketing law in
Washington, or at any rate, II there IL
one, not the slightest pretence is made OF
enforcing 1t.
Beginning about ten years ago a little
knot OF five ordinary, every day Washing
tonians, O couple OF whom were employed
in Government departments, did mighty
we'll in bucking first the bucket shops and
later tho straight exchange houses Of WASH
fnuton. One Of them did run a $40 note
into million dollars in the course Of four
years.
Every cent of his big accumulation was
taken away from this man during the
Northern Pacific squeeze few years ago,
The fact that he was caught mapping and
cleaned out on that occasion didn't change
the fact. in the minds OF the hundreds OF
Washington thkers who had been dazzled
bv his success, that he'd got hold OF the
million after long initiation az a piker.
It would, Of course, be impossible to say
inst how many Washington men got the
market bug from the accounts OF the $40 10
Al 600 600 mans luck, but there must have
baan lllnQTeuS VI tucih' NAohJ ~ sh~oo
are still fighting the game, so that the ad-
yertisement gained by the blackboard
exhibitors through the big winner was an
enduring one.
The very calamity which forced the
40 to 81, 900 900 man to the wall led to an
advertisement Of the stock specializing game
that brought a large number Of Washington
women into the market. Washington
boarding house mistress in very moderate
state Of prosperity happened to have zoo
shares OF Northern Pacific stock hidden
away at the bottom OF an old trunk,
The stock had been given to her by an aged
railroad lobbyist in return for her Kindness
to him during severe spell OF sickness.
Looking upon the stock AZ being about on
a par with a lot OF fake gold mine STOCK
that she had in the course of her boarding
house keeping career taken from insoi-
vents in lieu of the price of their board
che had put it away without much thought
Rut she got 5000 share for her 200 shares
whan the squeeze occurred. and when she
began to ride around Washington In deval
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do almost anything they feel like doing
after they have had a certain amount OF
the required work, and believe that most
Of them look forward to their hour in the
gymnasium as one of the best parts OF the
work each day"
Freshmen and sophomores are required
to take three hours week OF drill and at
tendance is counted as in any other college
course. The classes get to work in the
afternoon.
The boys are on the floor fooling around
while the phonograph is being rugged up.
This Is big affair with large horn so that
the music can be well diffused. Having
no piano and nothing to keep time with,
Crossley decided to make Use of this phono-
graph, which he had in his room.
Different tunes are played for the dif-
ferent classes and as the music changes
the exercise varies. An assistant stands
by to change the record as 1t draws out to
the end, so that there is continuous stream
OF music for half hour.
Sometimes instead of having the phono-
graph play the men sing tune as they go
along. 1t is quite feat to keep tmo with
body and voice and the variety is just the
thing that makes the work attractive for
the students.
The half hour drill is modelled on lines
original with Uncle John. AS well as build
ing up muscle, the feats are designed to
promote fexibility Of snew and for this
purpose there is plenty Of work with the
wands. Control over muscle, the old aero
bats idea, is the chief thing taught. In
fact there Is sort Of circus atmosphere
to the whole drill.
Deep breathing exercises and an occa-
sional turn with the dumbbells make up
the usual programme of set work. Then
after the photograph has ceased discours-
ing its strains follows period OF jumping,
parallel bar work and the short horse.
This takes up altogether half hour.
When this time has passed the men are
left to do what they please. The gymnasium
floor is on the third story of Soper gym
nasium. On the second floor is running
track about twenty laps to the mile, which
is laid with tanbark.
Those men who care for running go down
and take turn about this. Others go to
work in the practice for the team gymnas-
tics, which make up an unusual feature OF
the Hamilton College work.
In the basement is swimming tank
so by 20 feet, and swimming is required.
All men who do not know how to swim
and the percentage Is large in an inland
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The Hamilton College system OF bodily
training may be said to be unique. Coached
BY former champion athlete and circus
performer and exercising to the strains OF
monograph music the students at Hamil-
tou College. at Clinton, N. Y, learn unusual
and complicated formations in acrobatio
work. The percenta &c Of students who
ate UP this style Of gymnastio exercise
h out OF all proportion to the number
| 10 other colleges. Inasmuch as all the
stunt work is optional the keen interest
kbovn in it is proof OF the working out Of
rational system.
II is bard to say whether the system
or the instructor at Hamilton is the more
interesting. John 7. Crossley, who has
r. been at Hamilton since 1899, was in his
early days one OF the fastest sprinters
10 the United States and at one time held
Tho title OF professional champion beyond
bill dispute.
Besides that he was an expert pole vaulter
md back in the late COS was doing 10 feet
inches at that game when feet was con-
eered better than an average perform
kn He and another old timer named
Edr toured the Continent giving ex-
Editions OF leaping, and played before the
Queen OF the Belgians and the Queen
bowger Of Spain.
Later on he became part OF Barnum
Bailcy's circus and he was the original
man who raced against the horse at the
BID Hippodrome and did the double somer-
Aults over the elephant. The circus busi-
bees he followed for eleven years, and this
hid the foundation for the abilities that he
bow communicates to the Hamilton men.
He and George Goldie, who is in charge
.! physical work at Princeton, were cham
bon athletes together. In 1889 Crossley
vent to Washington and took charge Of
ths Columbia Athletic Club there. This
Employment he held until 1898, when he
bent year at the Orange Athletic Club.
In 1899 be went to Hamilton, first as track
team trainer, and later was put in charge
oieverything athletic at the Clinton college.
as is So now, but he still can do double
tomersaults. and be does not ask his boys
to do anything that he cannot first show
them himself. Gymnasium work under
Uncle John, as every one at Hamilton calls
him, is made fun just as much as possible.
4 follow some rational system says
Uncle John, something that the boys can
enjoy. II the work in the gymnasium
we're real drudgery, thero would be no
Interest in it after two weeks OF the year
had passed As it is I let the students