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much, indeed,' promptly replied the
you KNOW
,,:t MBut your honor" began
Not an honor,' said the secretary,
~ am Mr.. Secretary, and this is Mr..
President,' nodding in the direction
of the amused president, "o or plain Mis-
ter Cleveland and Mister Lamont
would eo be better, in the circum-
,"Bloime me, now, what d 'ye thynk
ell when he got outside WITH hob his s. com com
panlons after the audience. y eth ,
guy nor. of a whole bloomin, country,
y know, an tn war minister. an til
ters.' ''
Cleveland Kidded Corbett.
James J. Corbett, who in his salad
days rather plumed himself upon his
ease Of manner in meeting up with all
sorts Of renowned persons, employed
! the "your excellency' title in address.
ing the first president he ever met, Mr..
Cleveland. ~ - = - '0N'
~ am honored to meet YOU, vour ex.
I cellency,' he said with finely re.
hearsed formalness when MI. Cleveland
received him. ...sI-.- : -
Glad to see you, Jim,'' responded
the president, with eyes a-twikfe and
Corbett wilted bit. He didn i edoe
in the "your excellency' thing after
that, but addressed the chief magis.
trate as Mr.. Cleveland or Mr.. Presi.
dent. -. ~ >. (. ~ - ' :
Peter Maher, the eminent big man Of
g ;Ln1hiaae!Pnla, and the only heavyweight
his day, was licked in a punch by eyery
other heavyweight on earth. called
upon Mr.: Mckinley one day during The
"Cap 'n,o said Peter, holding ont
the massive right that never succeeded
IN landing OIL anybody except dub spar:
ring partners, "Oi'm PLACED t. meet
mot captain, Mr.. Maher.,, wbis.
pered Private Secretary Cortelyou in
the big pug's ears, Mr.. Mckinley han
1eIt m The army, you know
tn commander-in-chafes'' retorted Ma.
her, witt unexpected quickness. &
captain is good enough for me. .
me my brevet rank, Maher-maior =,
Thereafter, for the remainder of the
interview, Maher addressed Mr.. Nc
L
Kinley as Maize, !" and everything was
all right.
A Meeting Of Fat Men.
| Tom Sharkey was pretty raw one
and not long out of the United States
naval service when he was dragged to
the White House by his main plugger
and press agent to call upon President
Mckinley. The president received the
blocky lrishman most cordially. q
! believe / have heard that YOU
served your country as sailor7o said
I Mr. Mckinley, NJ ,.i1 to. put the pug at his
ease. ~ q -s s .-
! Oi was masther-at-arms whin Oi
got me charge, soor,1 corrected
lSharkey. 81 "
IS But q mastersat-ar5ns in ,-,,r .ea
service i I sailor, isn = hefv vensured
the president. 's'1
He may be al q, sthot. soor. 80
lplied the stokd Slf 1key. without cranl1
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w 7 ASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-When
wv Terry McGovern, accom-

Va
w Terry MeGovern, accom-:
panied by his "private Sec
retary,' called upon President Roose-
welt recently during a partly lucid in
terval he gave utterance to an express
sion which, somehow or other, nearly all
: pugilists employ when they are visiting
presidents Of the United States.
Mr.. Roosevelt, says a writer in the
Philadelphia North American, chatted
pleasantly with the peculiary y acting
little slugger for a space and then, by
certain manifestations Of restlessness,
indicated that that would be about all
Terry took the hint. He gave the
office to his "private secretary,' and
the president gave the two little chaps
q parting handshake.
''Well, president said McGovern,
as he backed out ,'if there's ever any
thing [ can do for you, why I live in
Brooklyn, you know, and I IN there to
give. you lift any time you tip me
"Nearly all pugilists say that, or
something like it, to presidents: They
: never make it clear just why, or how, or
when, a president could ever by any
chance need the services of pugilist.
They just cheer the PRESIDENT s thorny
paths by telling them that they, the
pugilists, approve Of them, and that
they'll "be there" in the hour of
need.
John L. Knew Five Of Them.
The mighty John L. has. in the prog
ress Of his echeckered life, told FIVE
presidents that he, John, was wit 'em
the catholicity of John g political ideas,
for these presidents were both repub-
icans and democrats. John told them
all that he was theirs command
Mr.. Arthur was the first president
John L. ever called upon. The world
ton boy at that time, for he was still
fresh from his triumph over Paddy
Ryan, and just beginning his career Of
triumph John was exhibiting at a
local variety theater. and with his man
ager and a couple of sparring partners,
both 'tgood fellers,' he dropped in at
the White House to 'mitt" Mr.. Ar
can presidents. ~
The champeen of the world forgot to
remove his expensive plug hat as he
entered the east room with his COM
panions, and his manager, with a deft
rear movement, took it off for John
Sullivan didn't like that. He resented
having his chapeau removed by another
man, even his manager, at any time or
place, and he told his manager so out
e of the southwestern corner Of his facial
orifice. ~~ y G..#- -. :.
Hey, cut that growled John, in
dignantly. "The boss wouldn't mind
seein' me in me id-he wears one of
EN- himself, don't he's I guess he's a
right guy enough not t. min 'sseein' a
guy wit his top on.'
''How's Things, Boss7''., (
! Johns manager soothinglyg explained
to him that, while the president no
D., doubt wore beaver at certain times,
he dldn 7 sport it in the house nor 20
to bed with it on, and Sullivan was ap-
tpeased ,.5 =
HoW's things, boss7', John T..
greeted Mr.. Arthur when the suave and
handsome president stepped into the
east room. 9 You k.s,w who i am from
me pitchers. don't you9 7 I'M yours
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! peratively needed his presence.
Some of the renowned pugilists Wis.
iting the White House have appeared
to be at a loss as to just how to address
the president. Charley Mitchell, the
English fighter. called upon Mr.. Cleve-
land during the latter's second incum-
bency, and the best stab that he could
make at addressing the president was
to call him /" Your 'Ighness.N Secre-
tary Of War Dan Lamont, who was with
Mr.. Cleveland at the time, gently
sought to put Mitchell right.
There are n, highnesses in this
country, you know, Mr.. Mitchell, - he
said to the British scrapper The
president feels that it is very kind in
deed and wholly well meant for you to
bestow that title upon him, but---er-- SO
Mr., President is the nearest we get
to the title business & ~
Oh, thynk you, Sthynk you, your
ludship 81 said Mitchell ehusively to
Secretary Dan
Thank you, Mt. Mitchell. very
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a roar was as impossible as it is to
walk into the lions den and kick the
boss maneater in the face. : Yours
truly realized that he was a lobster,
served a la Newburg, but there was
nothing doing in the way of remon-
strance-nothing possible. He knew
ne was getting it where the prima
donna has her meal ticket voice-but
not. the howl. 1t was onA of those oc-
casions where at paying up time it was
smile, assure the polite big mitt op-
orator that the evening had been wildly
and captivatingly hilarious So far as
enjoyment was concerned and then
wander out into the still night with
highly enhanced opinion Of the code of
honor Of "hoss' thieves All of you
cruisers have been there before now
and know just how it feels.
Therefore, if Prexy Eliot still holds
firm to the faith Of honesty in the So
ciety card game and that it is a game
where cheating is impossible he is
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ing smile, "but divvle rope do Oh
know. I'm no sailor. " ~
HE has full..rigged ship tattooed
,"WeH,'' said Mr.. Mckinley to the
press agent, smiling. H'couldn It he learn
the necessary ropes from thats''
Ed Dunkhorst. of Buffalo. called the
| ' human freight car,'' and the most nm
imaginably fat of all perennially
! ! sGl1ugged 81 pugilists, called upon .Mr
Cleveland at time when the president
was trying out German medical man g
system Of reducing the flesh. The presi-
dent and the pugilist were about of
glrth; and Mr.. Cleveland commented
| upon that fact as soon as Dunkhorst
had taken his numbering departure.
'.Does that fellow fight at that
weight2' he INQUIRED of the head ush.
eyes, sir, - was the reply. =
"Well, then, I guess I can 90 on
fighting at mine,' said Mr.. Cleveland
grimly, and he. Immediately ceased ad-
dressing himself to the German medi-
cal mans system for weight reducing.
Mr.. Cleveland was at that time being
savagely attacked by his own party
for his attitude toward certain demo-
cratic measures, and he was fighting
back. The head usher neglected to in
form Mr.. Cleveland that the 'tHuman
Freight Car" infallibly got licked cat
-o- Roosevelt and Jeffries.
During Mr.. Roosevelt first term,
| Fitzsimmons called upon him several
times, but there was never any truth
in the yarns that gained currency thru
: ont ha hot NJ I. \
on one occasion put on the gloves with
the Cornishman. Mr. Roosevelt himself
disposed Of that story when plainly
/ asked about it by Washington CORE
spondent. g' s1
"I like big game,'' he said, ubut
not quite 50 big as that. If I were to
put on the gloves with Fitz he would
be under the necessity of pretending
that he was boxing, or, if I urged him
to let himself out, he might knock my
head off. I don't like to see man
pretend to do anything, and I don 4
want to have my head knocked off. J,
The last time Jeffries was in Wash
| ington he called upon Mr.. Roosevelt.
The boilermaker was hog fat at the
time, and the president promptly com.
mented upon his apparent lack Of CON
~ should think you'd enjoy keeping
trig and fit,'' Mr.. Roosevelt said to the
big, stolid chap. Wouldn't moder-l
| ate !! amount Of horseback riding and the.
medicine ball and q ten-mile daily
trudge, say, and about an hour IS box
ing q day, keep you about right ii
weight I'd be as big as all, outdoor
myself if didn It exercise constantly
and fight increasing flesh. .5. \ s
jeff grinned.
If you ever had to train for q FIGHT.
sir, he replied, n.you might feel SO
sore over the grueling work Of it that
When you had the chance to chuck
as big as Percheron horse. That =
the way feel about It. I'm cetf;ns
even for all the hard training I Jve ha5
Which seemed to ssttle Ii, for III
R00sevelt Had 10 nore kos ~ fhs4ss :. !.
ion the subject % keeping &. 8. 49, IS =
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CZENk AND HA5 EI/V
Av7H ~(l/25E7I

truly, John l." and he held out his
hand of might. EE-...-E'- -, =
II should have known you even had
you not been announced, Mr.. Sulli-
van,' gracefully replied President Ar
thnr, taking the big mans profered
hand. John L. gave the president
hand a bone crushing squeeze, but Mr..
Arthur was too game man to vince.
" You re- chunky, guy nor, and you
look, as if you could ha' learned t
han i your docks if you'd gone in f'r
it an trained" observed John L. then,
at the same time giving the president
an encouraging dig below the waist
line with the outstretched fingers Of his
mighty mi s3ty right. ''Ever had tn mitts
"Not since I was lad, replied
President Arthur, and i was d poor
hand at it them - 80 "a
Well, I just dropped in, guy, said
John j.. then, preparing to execute his
getaway. Come down an have q
peek at me show if you cit time. Me
manager here,ll stake you to box. &
punch up a couple . dubs ev ~ night
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''Turn, Turn My Wheel
SCOTCH MURDERED
7
A Bum Spiel for the Bonspiel

Jock Frost is + the air, me lad;
The pond is frozen DER now.,
Let's tax the stanes and play the game
We a hae played before now.
Here comes MACPHERSON WI his broom O..
(Or should we say his besom?)
An Jock MacLean in ,kilties digit
An Macintosh sac gleesome.
Now soop 'er up an soop 'er down,
(The rest we hae forgotten; q
We spiel the dago, coon and Turk, t.
But our Scotch, we ken, is rotten.)
We put AVA our gowfin' claes,
Our niblieks an our brassies; - -
We drink the Scotch that's reekin' hot--
Nae lemonade WI lassies.
When Ice Is keen and wind is sharp
We can tax in skinfu'
(The sentiment is to the good,
But the dialect is sinfu'.)
HEX in Chicago Tribune
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an you might gitesome points. Well, SO
long, and he held out his hand again.
Any time you need me, boss, you can
ind out where me show is by buyin,
a copy O., tn Clipper an lookin' over
tn road list. 4 voted FIR Hancock, but
| IN wit you all right, boss, and
| am yours truly, and John i. backed d
out from his first audience with presi-
dent. 55
John j.. has told all Of the presidents
since Mr.. Arthur's time, and told some
ct thea several times, that he "a be
there with the helping hand any time
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opponent as there would not be the
slightest question in the world but that
both men are entitled to meet at the
heavyweight limit.
Roddy may be all the candy around
dear old STuruntuh, but if he strays
west to the alkali patches and crawls
thru the ropes against jeff there may
be pibroch music in the Caledonian So
ciety Of Toronto. It won't be the fes-
tival brand of piping either It is more
probable that it will be the funeral
march. 49,.
Jeff is big nuisance in the boxing
game, q stumbling block to the prog.
ress Of weuld-be heavyweights and
withal perhaps a bit conceited and in
chned to value himself highly, but
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Saints to Jump.

=
e T. PAUL is to have regular break
~ necking ski slide. It isn't needed
at all to break the American,rec:
ord, on any level bit of ground in the
slothful city. Just put any st. Paul
resident on a pair of skis and then have
a citizen Of Minneapolis mention com.
parative wealth, population and prog
ress to him and he will jump high
enough to smash all the American states
before fore he HIl lights again.
the wallop Minneapolis gave the, Jim
Hill burg in the packing house mat
ter and any loyal saint would break
the worlds record in the same manner.
st. Paul is foolish to pay out any
money for ski slides when the trick can
be turned on level ground and without
an inch of snow. ..'.
The hunch isn't copyrighted.
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they summoned him to the nation s seat
or anywhere else. s. "
Called Cleveland t.Your '1ghness.'' a
This offer appeared to affect the
somewhat icy and punctilousIy polite
Mr. Harrison quite considerably, FOR he
replied with degree Of warmth that
might have been deemed suspiciously
bantering in tone, had Mr.. Harrison
been addicted to Sbantering, that he.
very first time that he felt he i'm
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World Can Roll On.

HEY can go right ahead and dig
the Panama canal.
There is no use Of waiting
any longer about a revision Of the tar.
Peary can hike right back to climb
the north pole and George Bernard
Shaw need not stop in his analysis Of
human emotion; ~ q s,..5's
There is no longer anv need Of delay
in completing the city and county build
ing and Sid can proceed with the nara
t1on OF the tale of the non-discriminat-
ing rat. . -,
Mattsson and Gordon have met and
settled their long-standing and wordy
war over who was~the best "rassler."
Gordon won.
The world no longer has any excuse
to keep from wagging right along. .,
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More Jefrtes Done

TT UEsDAY'sS wires brought the re-
port that James Jeffries, stung
in the pride over the announce
ment that he was afraid to meet Jack
Johnson, would come from out Of the
alfalfa districts and meet the Senegam-
blan t,ls q for the sake Of loyalty to himself
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Cans and Herman.


G TILL the talk is flowing about the
y great NEW Years day battle at
Tonopah,' in which lusty press
agent is. attempting to figure it out
that Kid Herman has a chance with
Josephus Cans. 49, :
If Cans fights on the square and
properly fits himself for the battle this
than a truckriding hobo has of ousting
John D. Rockefeller from the Standard
Oil company. Cans is far and away
the clever man of the two and can hit
harder. His giving the bout to Her
man was an act of charity to let the
Chicago plug have a bit of the money
and at the same time pick up COM
Portable wad himself. -
Herman is fair second class man,
but no one can hardly see where he
starts in with Gans-that is with Cans
going right. If he wins it will be SIM
ply because the Baltimore buffalo has
handed out the double cross or failed
to get in proper physical condition.
But we have wild-eyed stories of
Herman training stunts, the same line
of CUFF about this one Mickey Riley,
who had Just as we'll be classed as John
Doe, and the ever-present pipes about
the great $4,000 arena.
TOnopah is another one of those fan
nel-cake camps out in the desert, and
can only gain distinction or a right to
have its name printed on the map by
pulling off a big battle or unearthing a
mastodon, or taking some other outre
and extreme method.
These western fights are getting to
be nothing more or less than method
of advertising a lot of wildcat mining
ticing to the followers of the game, the
surroundings are on the bad order. So
just shake the paprika bottle bit over
the dope that drifts from Tonopah way.
If it is on the level it Is not bat
tie, but killing with the hole already
dug from Kid Herman in the Pugilist-
ing graveyard.
If it 3 on the level Herman hasn t
any more Of a chance than the yearling
calf has of biting the bulldog.
+ + +
''Prexy' Fortunate.
S6NREXY' ELIOT has been q
T. most lucky man.
The other day in discussing
the ever present thought of athletic
railing at the rudeness Of football and
basketball and in the course of his re-
marks was quoted as saying that he
favored tennis and rowing as collegiate
sports as it was as impossible to cheat
in those games as it was in game of
cards.
Of course "Prexy'" meant a friend
ly, honor game without stakes, but an
unthinking world will be likely to fail
how society ostracized the card cheater
and thought the same plan should hold
good in athletics.
This is good reasoning, but there are
no officials over society cardS games to
call down the cheaters and "spread-
ers' as there are in athletics The
worst stinging ,ver received in a poker
game was administered to your Uncle
Fuller in the house of hostess where
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going over to Denmark to look over
the inscriptions upon the tombstones of
his ancestors and to incidentally have
look In at the. Hague peace building.
Bat is manifestly becoming too dove
like for a real fist and skull artist.
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when it comes to the heavyweight class
he is as lonesome as man in canoe
IN tho middle of Lake Superior. II
ne will battle again there is but one
bet on the outcome.
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7zlD LHA<Z1/nN TzSHZER5,

CHAMPION PUGs GIVING
always ling
oeis when
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Nelson in Danger.

Nelson in Danger.
n ATTLESOME NELSON is still
N floating about the country talk
ing loudly of battling, but not
taking on anyone. If the distinguished
Dane does not quit talking and get
busy with his punches of five the Nobel
peace commission will be putting the
bronze metal and the $4,000 prize on
him one of these days.
For. fighter he appears to be keep
ing the peace better than any other
pug in the business. He even talks of
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Failed to Make a Hit.

NJ Week Of s the Tcman "as 1ass Wrestler: aai .
What she did in the way Of
aronsing a great and popular en-
thusiasm would not sound as loud as
the whisper Of church mouse in pipe
Of q cathedral organ.
Minneapolis, to its credit, does not 90
very strongly on the so-called "woman
athletes.'
!. i. i.
''Turn, Turn My Wheel
TINE wrestling wheel turned once
more, this week so far as heavy
weight championship affairs
were concerned. Fred Beell, ten days
the champion Of America, lost to Frank
this.
The next announcement will prob
ably be a grand rubber match at Madi-
son Square Garden or some other equal
ly populous point where the people are
easy-to get together in large numbers.
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stationed in the vestibule the magnifi-
cent marine band orchestra, under the
personal leadership of Lieut.. William
H. Santelman, the director of the
band. A special programme had been
prepared for the wedding. The mu-
sic was selected for the most part by
Miss Roosevelt herself.
Mrs. Roosevelt Enters.
A few minutes before noon Mrs.
Roosevelt, accompanied by the men,
bers of her immediate family, de-
scended the main staircase, and, I'M
der the escort of several military
aids, entered the. east room by the
main doors. She was escorted to a
position on the left side of the plat
form. which was reserved for the
brides family. Designated members
Of the bridegroom's family, including
his mother and sisters, already had
taken their places on the right side
of the platform. In order to keep a
way clear for the wedding party white
satin ropes were stretched from each
side OF the main entrance to the east
room to posts located ten feet west
Of the platform and thence, around
the platform, to points on the east
wall t..
Mrs. Roosevelt graciously acknowl-
edged the greetings which she re-
ceiyed on her entrance. She wore a
superb gown, richly designed Of
hoo,yz, croo M .c0torod hrooodo 5E an
which were figures Of blue and brown
interlaced with threads OF gold. Tie
gown was made in princess style, with
a long train of the brocaded material.
The trimmings were Of brown chit
fon. embroidered in blue and gold.
The yoke Of. the bodice was formed of
embroidered chiffon, as were the trim
mings on the elbow sleeves. Exqicite-
~ designed panels on the skirt were
made Of the blue and golden en-
broidery. She, wore diamond orna-
ments. s5s.
Groom and Best Man Arrive.
Two or three minutes after the en-
trance Of Mrs. Roosevelt the BRIDE
groom, Mr.. Longworth, accompanied
by his best man, Thomas Nelson
Perkins, Of Boston, descended the
staircase, and entering the east room,
took his place at the foot OF the plat
form to await the arrival Of his
bride.
Promptly on the stroke Of noon Miss
Roosevelt. escorted BY the president.
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labor bestowed on the task. The
color scheme was white and green,
ferns and lilies predominating.
Bishop Satterlee of6ciates.
Rt. Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee,
bishop Of the diocese of Washington,
performed the nuptial rites, using the
stately ceremonial of the Protestant
Episcopal church. President Roose-
welt led his daughter to the altar and
gave her to the young statesman from
Ohio.
Miss Alice had no bridesmaids, for
from her host of girl friends she
could scarcely have selected any with
out hurting the feelings of the others.
The bridegroom was attended by
Thomas Nelson Perkins, Of Boston, a
member Of the corporation Of Harvard
university.
Nearly all of the ushers were Har-
ward men. Indeed, the notable cere.
mony might we'll have been called a
Harvard wedding" for, with the
father of the bride, the best man, and
almost all Of the other attendants
enthusiastic alumni Of the old school
at Cambridge, the flag Of crimson
fairly divided honors with the orange
Blossoms and bride roses.
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Roosevelt. After the Informal re-
ceptions the bridal breakfast was
served in buffet form in the state and
private dining-rooms.
Francis Joseph Sends Greeting.
vienna, Feb. 19.-Emperor Francis
Joseph has sent congratulatory telel
gram couched in the most cordial
terms to President Roosevelt in con-
ne 'e'[l with the marriage of his
daughter, Alice, to Congressman
Longworth. ..e.
Boston's Bells Ring for Alice.
Boston, Feb. 19.-The bells of Bos-
ton realed at noon Saturday in OBJ
seryance of the wedding of Miss Alice
Roosevelt. This was by direction Of
Mayor Fitzgerald, who arranged that
for five minutes the bells should be
sounded on the public buildings and
on many Of the churches. -