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ended in the forty-Second round, after
Nelson had fouled the colored fighter.
1t was the most remarkable sporting
event ever pulled off in the United
States. Cans fought the best battle
of his life, and his opponent was
worthy of his years of ring general
ship. Nelson seemed impervious to
punishment Cans landed four blows
to Nelson's one, but each round the
Dane would bob up apparently re-
cuperated and ready to force the fight
ing. Nelson was outpointed by the
clever negro at almost every stage
of the fight, and finally threw away all
chances of winning the coveted title
by sending a crushing blow to Cans
groin while the two were in a clinch.
Cans dropped gasping to the floor
Referee George Siler had repeatedly
warned Nelson for rough tactics and
him according to a strict interpreta-
ton of the rules. When the deci-
sion was rendered there was not a
tators. Cans now comes undis-
putedly into the title for which he
has fought for IL years He is the
olde of the light weight fighters
lacking only two months of 80 years
and has fought more than $50 fights
in his struggle for worlds champion
ship class. The best remembered of
these was the fake" which he lost
to Terry McGovern at Chicago in
1900, and which put quietus on the
boxing game in that city. Nelson
claimed the championship after his
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biography and typewriting, mechanical
drawing, ETC., which would fit for a
business career, and then there have
been the educational lecture courses
under the direction of the university
extension work of the various univer-
sites which have been conducted at
night, and then there has been the
night law school, and the night med
:cal college, where those employed
during the day could fit themselves
for professional life, but there has
never been any school where one
could pursue a complete university
course at right But now it seems
there is to be such a school founded.
and Chicago is the place where it is
to be located 1t is said all the de-
tails of organization have been per-
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HIGHER INSTITUTION OF LEARN
ING TO RUN FOR THE DAILY
TOIlER.
First School Ever Founded Where
Student Could Pursue Collegiate
Course After Work of Day
Was Done.

In the larger cities of the land peo-
pie have long been familiar with the
all-night restaurants, the owl cars that
1un at intervals all night long, and
other all-night features of swift metro
politan life Recently in New York
there has been opened an all-night
bank, and Chicago and other cities
are arranging to follow the example
thus set, but up to the present time
no one has ever thought of the night
university.
There has been the night school for
instruction in the elementary branch
es of the English language and for
special courses in bookkeeping, ste
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Parade to Have Novel Feature.

A novel feature of the parade at the
time of the national encampment of
the Spanish War Veterans, to be held
in Washington next October, will be
a drill team composed of the wives.
mothers, daughters, sisters and sweet
hearts of the soldiers of 1898. The
team will come from Toledo, o., and
will comprise about 35 or 40 women
They will be clad in suits of khaki
cloth, with skirts slightly above the
shoetops, to show the army leggins.
They will wear the regulation mill
tary compaign hats of gray, and are
armed with small silk flags. This team
is well drilled, and it has carried on
prizes. at several memorable drill
contests The soldier girls will march
up to the White house, headed by a
band, to pay their respects to Com
rade Roosevelt
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match In the same place The explos-
ion which followed was astonishing
and quite little disconcerting, but he
had discovered dynamite, and his for
tune was made. While nitroglycerin
will not explode while in liquid form,
it becomes explosive the instant the
particles are separated so that each
has sufficient air about it, This fluid
vaporizes whenever sufficiently shock
ed, and is then so inflammable that
the mere heat of the shock sets it on.
The name of the German who spilled
his nitroglycerin was Nobel, and he
patented the combination and became
immensely wealthy.
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Serve as IIIumInants.

The fre-f1ies of Jamaica emit so
brilliant light that a dozen of them,
enclosed within an inverted tumbler,
will enable a person to read or write
at night without the least difficulty
Indeed, it is an expedient to which
many resort. These flies are in size
as large as a common hive bee, and
perfectly harmless. Their appearance
in unusual numbers acts as barom-
eter to the nctives, and is an indicat
ton of approaching rain.
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the best fighter in
the light weight
division in the
world. In one of
the most gruelling
contests ever seen
in the prize ring
he was given the
decision over Bat
thing Nelson in
their recent meet
ing at Goldfeld,
New. The fight
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Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness OF the fabric is
hidden behind paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trouble
can be entirely overcome by using De-
fiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes
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Clumsy EXCLAMATION.

I'll never speak to you again, Jack
Harkalong, You're deceitful wretch
You told a friend of mine you saw
me with my new hat on at church
last Sunday, morning, and that / was
a sight,
1.-THE spiteful thing! Dear. said
you were sight for sore eyes-"-
Chicago Tribune
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ropean police as Count Ether" be-
cause he was a scientist who, when
wanted for a burglary, always van
ished as quickly as that volatile spirit.
Won Schmidt was discovered by his
efforts to patent his invention. He ex-
planned to a patent agent in Berlin
what his patent would do, and offered
to make his way into the attorneys
safe, but the attorney called up the
police instead.
Acetylene gas, one of the most i'm
portant ind ustrial inventions of the
last decade, was stumbled upon by ac-
cident by a man named Wilson, who
had an electrical furnace in North
Carolina for metallurgical purposes.
From time to time he used great
deal of rock salt in his furnace stock,
and also limestone as a fux- When
ever these two materials were fused
together, as he noticed after a while,
the Stag produced by the intense cleo
trical heat included a dirty grayish
substance wholly unlike anything he
had ever seen.
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Time for Disappearing.

1t was 1870 by the cuckoo clock
Father" said the dear girl, used
to be crack football player"
.1-er-guess I'd better be going,
rejoined the young man He's rarh-
er near-sighted, 1 believe. and might
mistake me for the ball. Chicago
Daily News
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Not Afraid.

Guardian-If you don't change your
way of living, my boy, poverty will
oyertake you
Derelict-It can't catch up with me;
I'm going too fast--Detroit Free
Press.
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Dead Broke.

Mrs. Stubb-This paper says when
a man drinks it is always hard to
break him.
Mr. Stubb-Nonsense, Drink will
break a man quicker than anything in
tee world.-Chicaco Daily News
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Edison and the Photograph.

Edison and the monograph.
The greatest of our inventors,
Thomas A. Edison, owes his invention
of the photograph partly to an acct
dent. Edison had been working night
and day to perfect the telephone, and
had constructed a number of small
sheepskin drumheads, to test their
value as diaphragms as compared with
metal and other substances To some
of these sheepskin diaphragms he had
attached magnetic needle which was
intended to project toward the magnet
and assist in conveying the vibration
caused by the human voice.
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She Knew 1t All the Time.

She Knew II All the Time.
know anything new"
"Only that 1 am going to marry
that little Widow Shy"
THAT knowledge may be new to
you, but I'll bet it isn't to her.
Houston Post
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Father Mapped.

Wife, told you to be ve-y careful
not to wake the baby while 1 was
gone. Were you?
Husband-Yes; 1 never woke him
once But he woke me up three times.
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IAN eminent physician says people
should live 140 years.
We'll, guess my mother-in-law is
going to.'-Houston Post
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These did not fulfill Edison's expec-
tatfons, and were discarded as useless.
His assistants soon discovered that
by holding the drumheads close to the
mouth and making cultural sound, a
noise approaching music could be Sc
cured, much the same as when a piece
of paper is wrapped around a comb
In attempting to playfully stop one of
the men from playing on it, Edison
touched the little needle, but no soon
er had he done SO than he gave one
of his characteristic starts and re-
quested the operator to repeat the per-
Torrance. 1t was repeated, and again
he touched the needle, with evident
delight. He went among his assist
ants, asking them to hum, sing and
talk against the little drumhead, he
keeping his finger ever so lightly on
the little needle.
81 have it," he suddenly exclaimed,
and retreated to his office and COM
menced drawing diagrams for new ma
chinery, which his assistants speedily
made, and a few days later the first
photograph was put together 1t was
crude affair, the pin making an i'm
preston on wax. 1t talked imperfect
ly, but it showed Edison that he was
on the right track, ana ne rapidly I'M
proved it, until now it is almost per-
lection. The photograph was at first
regarded as a mere toy, but later it
was sold for 100000
Millions i'm Air-Brake.
The inventor of the air-brake,
George Westinghouse, is one of the
best known inventors of the present
day, but it was a long time before he
could get any moneyed men interested
enough in his air-brake to back him.
Perhaps the one thing in his life that
Mckee Rankin regretted was that
when Westinghouse offered him half
interest in the air-brake for $500 he
did not accept it.. This invention net
ted Mr.. Westinghouse many millions
of dollars and brought him worldwide
fame.
1t was just the other day that a
young man, Gerald B. Livergood, re-
fused 100000 for a street car device
that could be utilized to show the
names of the streets automatically, as
he believed that his royalties will
make him a millionaire. Hardly a day
passes that does not see some new in
vention, and fortune is always ready
to smile on the one who keeps a light
heart through adversely and turns his
thoughts to inventing something for
the betterment of mankind.
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on the notion of making arm-pit
shields seamless with sheet of cloth
covered rubber, and it brought him
an income of many thousands a year.
The man who invented the metal fast
enings for buttons must have been a
bachelor. for it did away with sewing
but it made him a millionaire.
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Looking Forward.

But what does he live on"
He is living at the expense of a
lawyer who expects to be employed
to break his rich uncle's will when
the uncle dies.''-aouston Post
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LITTLE THINGS THAT
HAVE MADE FORTUNES
Simple Toys and Puzzles Have Brought Millions to Their inventors
Some of the Greatest Discoveries Made Purely Through
Accdent-Edison and the Photograph.
There's millions in it."

The man or woman who eOnceiveS
an idea that is patentable almost in
variably has visions of immense
wealth, but how often the dream is
realized may be found by consulting
the patent office authorities, the men
who handle thousands and thousands
of these children of the BRAIN that
never bring to their inventors even
the amount of money necessary for
getting them patented. But, on the
other hand, there are great many
patents that have made their origin
ators immensely wealthy, and famous
as we'll
One would naturally suppose that
the greatest returns would be from
the large affairs, such as the electric
railroad, the telephone and the tele-
graph, but such is not the case, for the
small household inventions, mechani-
cal toys and puzzles have given quick
er returns and greater profits for the
money expended than any of the lar
ger affairs.
At some time or another in life ev
erybody has turned his mind to get
ting out a patent, and the usual cry
has been, when one man succeeded in
amassing a fortune, that he had luck.
Luck never enters into the patent
business, except in so far as one in
vents something at the time that
something is wanted by the buying
public. The man who invented Pigs
in Clover happened to strike the
public fancy, and millions of people
all over the country were chasing the
little marbles into the middle pen.
That man made millions on his simple
puzzle because he launched it at the
right time.
inventors Do Not All Die Poor.
The rewards gained by inventions
In the past SO years have been far in
excess of those that accrued to the
earlier inventor, although the general
public has believed that the great ma
jority of inventors either die in the
poorhouSe or the insane asylum. This
impression was due partly to the fact
that Whitney, who invented the cot
ton gin; Good year, who first vulcan
lied rubber, and Morse, the father Of
the telegraph, all died poor, and de-
rived no benefits from their fnven-
lions.
Naturally, when great invention is
put upon the market the inventor is
exploited in all the newspapers and
magazines, but when some little trifle
is brought out there is hardly any no
tice taken of the man himself or what
he has given to the world, but it is
just such little things that have been,
if not the source, the start of great
fortunes.
]. w. McGil1 in 1867 invented the
little metal paper fastener without
which no office is now considered
complete, and though but a trifie it
made wealth for it's inventor. Such
little thing the rubber tip on
pencil brought 100000 to its inventor,
Hymen L. Lipman, and that small
piece of metal which you wear on the
heel of your shoe to protect it had
made up to 1887 over $1,000,000 for
its protector.
A man named Garfield first hit up
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The sarbed Wire Fence.

The barbed wire fence, about which
many have said unkind things as they
disentangled themselves, was worth
over 81, 500, 600 in royalties to the orr
ginator. A countryman, whose loss
from eggs being broken on their way
to market was serious thing evolved
the idea of packing them in separate
compartments, and this simple device
is now used altogether, and the coun-
tryman is not obliged to toll for his
daily bread
1t must not be thought from this
that the field of invention is occupied
entirely by man, for it is not Woman
has entered into competition with him
in this field, also, and some of her pa
tents have been as useful and as good
money-makers as those belonging to
the sterner sex Inventions by women
cover all the branches of life, and,
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Life often seems but a shipwreck.
whose fragments are friendship, glory
and love. The shores of time that we
pass during our life are covered with
these derelicts.-Mme- de Stael-
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DISQUALIFIED.

OISQuaIIfcd.
You would like to be a humorist,
eh?''
Yes, sir
"Married?"
yes, SIR
Got a mother-in-law?"
Yes, SIR
you won't do; you'd never dare to
write mother-in-law joke."-Houston
Post.
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Discovered AeetyIene Gas.

For weeks he noticed this substance
without giving more than a passing
thought to it, and continued to dump
it into the river upon the banks of
which he had built his furnace. Soon
the pile of Stag was SO high that the
top reached above the water, and then
a curious thing occurred. The water
would sizzle and steam as the Stag
was dumped in, but this day, as the
last of the Stag was poured onto the
little island, some of it remained red
hot. Suddenly there was a brilliant
burst of flame, so prolonged and so
hot that there was danger of the fur
mace catching fire.
Then Wilson began to think The
next day he took some of the curious
looking substance and wet it with wa
ter, but, much to his surprise, nothing
came of it Then he struck a match
and held it near the mixture, and inn
mediately a bright flame was produced
and Wilson knew that he had discov-
cred something valuable. His discov-
cry was acetylene gas, and he made a
fortune out of it.
A German manufacturer of nitro
glycerin was the inventor of dynamite,
but was not seeking for it at the time
he received proof of its explosive quail
tiles Nitroglycerin is liquid which
will not explode, but will burn rather
with steady flame, when fire is APP
piled. One day the manufacturer
and little later dropped a lighted
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Sports and Athletics.

Joe Cans, the Baltimore negro,
has proved conclusively that he is
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strange to say. quite as many patents
are granted them for improved ma
chinery as for articles of woman's
wear.
The first patent ever granted to a
woman in the United States was for
a machine for the weaving of straw
with silk or thread, and this was pa
tented in 1909 by Mary Kies. Mary
Jane Montgomery invented the now
ing machine, and in 1866 she took out
a patent on a machine for punching
holes in corrugated metal. Her many
inventions netted her a considerable
fortune, as fortunes went in those
days. A woman in California made
over $50, 700 from her invention of the
baby carriage, and woman in Wash
ington, Mrs. Johnson, made a good
thing out of the invention of the ice
cream freezer, for before that time all
cream was stirred with a spoon until
it was frozen.
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Criminals as Great inventors.

Criminals as Great inventors.
Criminals have played an important
part in some of the worlds greatest
inventions, and some have made small
fortunes out of their discoveries.
Charles Filler, who devised the new
lock-stitch sewing machine, was serv-
ing his fourth term for burglary when
the idea was perfected. When he was
released his idea was backed by some
capitalists, and he was given a salary
of $4,000 a year to superintend the
construction of the machines, in addi-
ton to a royalty. At the same time
he sold his English rights for $50, 900
cash and $4,000 worth of stock of the
English company
The discovery of thermite has help
ed science and mechanics to such an
extent that one steel manufacturer re-
marked tina. it would, when in gen.
eral use, decrease the cost of steel
ships one-third, yet the inventor was
Fritz Won Schmidt, known to the Eu-
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victory over Jimmy Britt, Septem-
Der 9, 1905, during the fight carnival
at Colma, Cal. Cans also had beaten
Britt, and the claims of the rivals
supporters increased the interest
which preceded the fight to fever heat.
Cans sought the recent contest, and
contented himself with $11, 900 of the
purse, while Nelson received $22, 500
before the fight.
Fred Beell, the Wisconsin wrestler,
won his match with Ed Adamson at
Chicago recently, after a hard fight.
Beell took the match in straight falls.
The match meant considerable to both
men, as the winner had been prom
ised a meeting with George Hacken-
schmidt, when the noted Russian
wrestler visits this country.
, 1906-06-09

day afternoon. The washed and the
u~nwashed" were present in goodly
numbers to sample the light refresh
ments served and to purchase supplies
of soap, etc, from the line of Larkin
products which the society is handling
The ladies intend to hold these sociaIs
once a month through the summer.
Z & 4
DR.. and Mrs. Brown entertained
charmingly at dinner Wednesday even
ing, their guests being Mrs. West, the
Misses McClellapd and Mr.. Burrage.
The Whist club was pleasantly en-
tertained by Mrs. ]. H. Davis Monday
evening. The club will play next time
with Mrs. Lehman.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Holiday enter
tanned Mrs. Reece Davis and Mrs
Blake at dinner yesterday.
The birthday of Mr.. Stephen Boyd
was pleasantly celebrated by a dinner
party at his home Thursday evening
at which the guests were Rev. and Mrs.
A. C. Hogbin, Mr.. and Mrs. J.. E. Gates,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hardman and Mr..
and Mrs. Elwyn Condit.
4 z z
Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Gibson were the
hosts at a beautifully appointed dinner
party last evening lat which covers
were laid for Mrs. West, the Misses Nc
Clelland, DR.. McNiff, Mr.. F. S. Burrage
and Mr.. Frank Holiday. Clever place
cards added to the amusement of the
occasion.
4 4 4
Rev. and Mrs. B. w. Preston ant
little daughter, will arrive from Mus
catine, Iowa, the latter part of July tc
spend their vacation, and during their
, 1906-06-09
BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL

Six months ago a competition was in
augurated in the Baptist Sunday school
which has proved both interesting and
successful, the school being divided in
to the blues" and the reds" with
Miss Alice Holiday and Miss Matilda
Frazee in charge of the sections as
~lieutenants. The aim was to see which
side could enroll the most new mem
bers, and the understanding was that
the victors were to be the guests OF
, 1906-06-09
Home Made

Have your cake, mullins, and tea bis
ruit homemade. They will be fresher,
cleaner, more tasty and wholesome.
Royal Baking Powder helps the house
wife to produce at home, quickly and eco
nomically y, fine and tasty cake, the raised
hot-biscuit, buildings, the frosted layer
cake, crisp cookies, c%rullers, crusts and
mullins, with which the ready-made food
found at the bake-shop or grocery does
not compare.
Royal is the greatest Of bake-day helps.
aorAl BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK
, 1906-06-09

their less successful rivals at the end
of a given time. Victory perched on
the blue banner at the end of the first
period and the reds gave a picnic in
honor of the blues at Undine park
yesterday afternoon, which was enjoy
ed by members of both divisions to the
number of 100 or more.