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weight in tn matther iv soul. On tn other
hand, there's little Miss Maddigan, tn
seamstress. She's all but left at tn post;
she's tostled all tn way around, an comes
in lame, bad last. But she's tn only wan
Nv tn lot that's kept tn weight. She
weighs ninety-six pounds-siX Nv it ben' tea
an toast an ninety iv it-seul. An amid
EXPLANATIONS iv rage firm Chancellor Day,
who has plunged heavily on Dorgan in
this Futurity, an cries " joy fir IN a thou
sand Father Kellys, who have backed TIL
FLY, her number is hung out.
mo, sir. whin 1t comes to gon' up to TIL
scales to have their souls weighed people'll
be as shy as they are in a customs house.
TIL people that wud make tn invintion pay
wud be tn last to want to be tested by it.
TIL pa-apers might keep records Nv tn re-
suits: 'Msther So-an-So, tn great cap
tain Nv finance, died. yesterday, universally
regretted. His estate amounts to nineteen
millyon dollars. There ar-re two large be-
quests to charity. Wan is thrust fund
set aside f'r his maiden sister Annybelle,
who will receive FIR life tn income on eight
hundherd dollars in stock W. tn Hacken-
sack Meadows Comply. TIL other is
forty-two dollars to buy a wooden leg fr
his brother Isaac, in Abilene. Kansas, it
made be tn estate against, tn brother f'r
set Nv false teeth bought fr him in tn
year nineteen four Tn balance iv tn
property is left in trust f'r tn minor
childher until they ar-re ninety years old.
TIL deceased requested that his soul be
measured be troy weight. 1t tipped tn
beam at wan pennyweight.'
Dye think TIL soul can be weighed?'
| asked Mr.. Hennessy. II know It's there,
but l think-I kind Nv fell wondher-I
| don't hardly know
| II see what We mean," said Mr.. Dooley.
| Scales an clocks ARE not to be thrusted
| to decide anything that's worth deciding
| Who tells time be a clock? Ivry hour Is
! tn same to a clock an ivry hour Is differ
ent to me-. Wan long, wan short. There
| ar're hours in tn avenin' that pass be.
| tween two ticks iv tn clock; there ARE
hours in tn arly mornin' whin a man
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Temperance in Denmark.
rom the Baltimore Sun.


In Denmark reformers do not attempt
total abstinence from alcoholic drinks but
aim at supplying beers and other drinks
having less than 2h per cent Of alcohol.
At the same time they seize upon the social
attractions OF the saloon and establish
Temperance homes" which are combina-
lions in one building of a restaurant, beer
saloon and rooms for social gatherings
amateur theatricals, concerts balls and en-
tertanments of other kinds. Here families
gather for a good time, enjoying the social
feature and taking part In amusements. 1t
is claimed that the light beers served make
the people the more ready TO give up
whisky and class themselves as temper
ate."
The cause Of "temperance"-based on the
consumption of light beer-is, In fact, boom
ing in Denmark, and sobriety is said to
make real progress. Arrests for drunken
ness in Copenhagen In 1905 were but 10 per
1000 of population, against 81 per LOCO in
Gothenburg. where drinking is controlled
Denmark puts tax on light beers and
there is no politics in temperance 1t Is
the shrewd appropriation and expansion OF
the social feature of the saloon" that dis
tinguishes the Danish system.
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~ EATING emf" inquired the CHR
weigh out.


I'd rupy one.
Me? 1 couldn't beat a drum"
replied lie man with that melancholy MINI
bus.
Breaking even?"
Yep I'm doing that. Haven't been out
to the track yet, and am not going out
''Frigid pedals?'
Worse than that-amputated, said the
man with the gloomy brow. Il got mine
all in lump, and I've been from Sedala,
Missouri, ever since, when it comes to the
pony gag"
well. you might as well get it of your
chest-Ive got little time," suggested the
chirruper.
II hate to talk about it," said the sor.
rowful one. Did you ever go to bed and
pull the covers over your head and stay
there for forty eight hours and refuse all
comfort, consolation and nourishment!
That was me when it happened. 1t occur
red quite a bit ago, but all the same l
guess / still hold the Jonahdoo record.
IF hadn't met Abe Nahon. the business
manager of Frank Farrells ball club, the
New York Americans on a little trip L
made to New York just before that Ben
ming meeting began, why, all OF those
riches that 1 might have had wouldn't have
Nahon on the night before was coming
back from New York. Abe, being close to
Frank Farrell, is necessarily pretty close to
Big Tim Sullivan, and Abe knows a lot
! about the ponies himself-used to work
| alongside of them before he got to manag-
| ing a ball club on the road.
"'Going to take in the Benning meeting
| when you get back. OF course" Nahon said
| to me that night.
] IF anybody tells me anything, maybe.
/ said 1. otherwise. I'm going to be lot
| busy and may not have the time
Then Nahon began to act mysterious I
| felt as II something was floating around
under his hat.
well. start something, I said to him.
| You've got one. Let 1t out. What's its
| name and when's il going to be?'
well he replied, sort of reluctantly.
| I'm under cover about II and 1 can't out
with the name-woudn't be on the level
| with Tim. But it's one of Big Tins, and
| ming of the meeting. Can't tell you the
name-but it's an Indian name. He'll con-
| meet. There'll be price. Name of an In
] dian, see? That's good enough for you.
You can get down. I'm thinking of un-
betting myself on that one. It's a cherry.
Don't let 1t get by you. About the second
\ day of the meeting. TN be good
well. that was enough. Name of an
| Indian or an Indian name, and to run In
| Big Tim sullivan's colors. probably on the
second day Of the meeting. Nahon him.
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Ihaw Photographs in
Demand in England

special correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, March 10, 1907.
TOW greatly Britons have been inter.
ested by the Thaw case NAV he
judged from the fact that D. st cara.
bearing pictures of the prisoner and hin,
beautiful wife are having a larger sale than!
any photographs in England
"Only month ago." says the manaeins..
director OF the Phileo Publishing Companv
I'VE began printing the Thaw cards. and Wa
have since been busy night and day trying
to supply the enormous demand We haven,tI
card in stock now. The impatience Of,
people to get the photographs is extraordi-
nary. Here you see, is a bundle of tele-t
grams from all over the country begging
US to rush fresh supplies Of the Thaw ards
1T is rather curious fact that the de-
mand for the photographs is fully ten times
as great in the country as in London Had
1t been possible to get pictures earlier we
should have sold half many again Our
issue has already reached half a million
and the cards are selling just as steadily az
they were three weeks ago. I have never
seen such craze; they must be selling in
the shops by the thousand.
I'VE have a dozen different portraits Of
Mrs. Thaw, who is the greatest seller, the
most popular picture being one which shows
he. in dressing gown"
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can't sleep that Methusalah's age cud
stretch in. Clocks ARE habichool liars
an SO ARE scales. AS soon as amy
thing gets good enough to weigh We can't
weigh it. Scales ARE FIR tn other fell
low. I'm perfectly willin to take ye'er
weight or ye'er souls weight firm what
TIL scales say. Little I care. pound or
two more or less makes no difference But
when 1t comes to measurin something
that's precious to me, I'll not thrust it to
a slight improvement on a see-saw.
But what do l know about 1t, annyhow?
What do 1 know about anything? I've
been pitchfn' information into We fr more
years thin annywan liver whit to coledge
an tell ye now 1 don't know anything
about anything. l don't like to thrust
mesilf forward. I'm a modest man. Won't
somebody else get up? Won't We get up
Tiddy Rosenfelt, won't We, Willum Jen-
nings Bryan, won't We, Prisdint Eliot, won't
We. Professors. preachers, doctors, lawyers,
EDITORS? Won't anybody get up? Won't
anybody say that they don't know amy
thing about anything worth KNOWN
about? Thin, be Hivens, will. All alone
I'll stand up befure me class-an' how
an say: Hinnissy. about anything that
can't be weighed on a scales or measured
with tape line I'm gn'rant as-ye'er-
siif. III have to pay We back tn money
1 took firm ye FIR yeer schoolin'. 1t was
obtained be false pretenses'
How can l know anything. whin l
haven't puzzled out what 1 am mesilf. I
am Dooley We say, but we're on'y a casual
observer. Ye don't care anything about
me details. Ye look at me with a gin'ral
eye: Nawthin' that happens to me really
hurts We. Ye say, I'll go over to see
Dooley, sometimes, but more often We say,
I'll go over to Dooley's. I'm a house to
We. wan Nv Thousand that look like q row
Nv model wurrukin'm mems cottages I'm a
post to hitch ye'er silences to- I'm always
about tn same to We. But to me I'm a
| millyon Dooleys an all iv thin strangers
| to Me- 1 naver know which wan iv thin ia
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The Coat the Race Badge and the Long Shot,

ness card I was bound there on a car.
When / reached the cleaners plant
found that it was in charge of a small,
curly haired boy who couldn't speak Eng
lish. I clomped and stomped around like
a bull moose at understanding time and
he finally understood that I desired to see
somebody to whom 1 could address lam
guage with which 1 was familiar. He took
me by the hand and led me out and down
the avenue three Of four doors away to a
groggery.. His father was in there doing
things to; the free lunch
"'Say you, gimme my badge 1 gulped
to the boys father. the boss of the cleaning
plant, as 1 grabbed him by the lapel. Slip
it to me, quick! I'm in rush. Badge!
Badge! Horse badge! To see the horses
rum and I made galloping motions with
my hands. Say, do you know what In
blazes I'm talking about? 1 want my rae
ing badge, and I want 1t quick, or, b'gee,
there's going to be a sudden riot in this
neighborhood, and
"You see, 1 went at the man that way be-
cause I was excited and all het up and
didn't know any better. He got up from
his table and stared at me as If he regarded
me as some new kind of bug. Then l per-
ceived that if ever I was going to get a
clutch on that badge I'd have to cool out
and 20 into the thing in detail. So took
him by the shoulders to reassure him, and
1 explained 1t to him. A suit Of blue clothes
which my wife had sent to his place that
morning contained, in the right-hand inside
pocket of the coat, a badge emitting me-,
the holder thereof, to admission to the Ben
ming race track during the continuance OF
the racing there. Would he repair instantly
to his establishment find that blue coat,
and let me have my badge out Of my coat
pocket?
I'D have saved time If I'd done it that
way In the first place, instead Of soaring
the cleaner to a freeze He walked quite
docilely to his dump, poked around among
a heap of clothes for a minute and then in
formed me that the suit had been taken to
the scourer's only half an hour before
manded the scourer's address. 1t was away
up in the northeast somewhere along about
sth street, but doped 1t out that 1t wasn't
very far from the New York avenue car
line, the line that carries you to the track.
The boss of the cleaning plant scrawled me
a card in Yiddish, which was an order upon
the scourer to let me get anything wanted
out Of the pockets Of that blue suit
Right here I'll own up. 1t never occurred
to me to let that Internal gift badge slide
and go out to the track and buy an admis-
sion badge. Which, by the way. is the
devil of having q season badge. When
you've got one you'll allow yourself to be
torn by wild dogs before you'll dig up to
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way on board the car ana 90 IL vi NV
lone. at that, for the motorman WASH
stopping for folks with his car ALREADY
packed.
"weu the mathematicians on the car had
Il doped out that we ought to make the
track three minutes before the horses went
to the post for the first race, and that py
sprintine for it from the car to the gate
we might be able to get into the track
grounds in time to get a get down on the
first race They cheered me furtner py
calculating among themselves that as the
first event was to be a maiden jockey race,
and as there would in consequence prooaply
be quite q delay at the post, we ought 10
be able to make 1t comfortably enough.
Every one of them on that car seemed 10
have good thing in that first race, at
that. which made them all bunch the car
forward with hand and heel.
But none of them had Oclawaha.
".Hey what's this trick O. Big Tins In
the frst-Oclawahoo, or something like
that? 1 heard one Of them ask his seat
mate.
lone O. Tins crabs was the sententious
reply Lob, Sissage. Tins on'y got a
few badge horses kitin' aroun' now. Moth
in to that one
ut was just twenty-eight minutes past
two when I hoped off the car at the be-
ginning of that long shedded-over board
walk to the Benning gate. Me to DO the
fat mans gallop for the gate. I had to
wait two minutes in line to buy badge
Still they weren't OFF, or I'd have heard
the yawp. When got in through the gate
plunged ahead, and was yelled at by two
or three Pinks for climbing over people
Just as my shoes touched the inside of the
betting ring ] heard that hoarse. siren
They're off!
II stopped still. For half minute 1 was
painting too hard to care much. Then
nudged over to the outside of the ring to
see the finish of the race.
oh, you Big Tim baby" the gang began
to YELL
They amt nothin' to 1t but that Ocla-
woohoo thing O. Sullivans, l heard a book
maker standing on a stool, say, as he took
down his field glasses and stuffe them into
the case.
side men standing near me as the horses
streaked under the wire, with Big Tins
colors in front.
what was the price against that one?'
1 asked a fellow standing by me, and my
voice sounded to me as II somebody else
That Oclawaha sag?' he said. oh, any
OIL ting youse wanted, DO. seen lot o.
hundred T. one at tn openin'. but Tins
people got their checks down, and l rink
thin like that. Kind O. soft fr them,
.sFhisu be about all Now ask me again
why ] don't go out to Benning any more!'
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get into a race track You want to fear of,
the coupon and get your coins worth out of
the blamed badge, and you want, besides, to
be able to flash 1t upon the hoi polloi who
have to buy their way in each day. That
was me.
II nailed car and finally scrambled off
and galloped to the scourer's address.
asked nineteen black-haired infants, each
and all of identically the same age, that I
met in the basement hall of the scourer's
shack. where the scourer happened to be at
Just that instant, and each Of the nineteen
took just one look at me and ran screaming
to the rear of the house. Then the scourer
emerged from the darkness Of the rear of
the hall and asked me what 1t wasn't, yes?
l explained 1t all to him, very patiently
Blue suit sent to him only a short time be-
fore. Important papers belonging to me in
pocket of blue suit Handed him the card
from the cleaner. giving me permission to
rubber through the pockets Of my own
coat.
He led me back through the zimmerman
black hall and through the reeking back
yard to a shed in which five or six under
sized men were at work around lot Of
steamiEg watts. The boss scourer began to
toss the heaps of clothes around, and then
he shook his head and handed me the sad
and sweet gaze, pointing to the watts.
IDS in soag alreddy yed,' he told me-
referring to my blue suit.
Il figured that there might vet be some
hope, and so directed him to pull the coat
out OF whatever vat 1t happened to be In
and let me feel around in the pockets. He
gave a lot of orders in a strange tongue to
his men, and then they all got busy pulling
over soggy-looking masses in the watts that
somehow or another reminded me of the
days when. as the oldest boy of the family.
kittens that were carelessly left under the
old frame house. After ten minutes of the
ploughing around in the watts had chance
to give the There she blows! for my blue
coat finally hoated to the surface of one of
them. The boss scourer held 1t out on the
edge of the vat for minute to let it cool
out, and then dug my hand into the right
hand inside coat pocket
Then my hand came into contact with a
soaked, soggy mass. which pulled out
identified my racing badge by the string
still hanging to the remains. The rest Of
1t was pulp.
the names of flowers and CROPPED my way
out through the stygian hall to where
could make another sprint for the car.
It was then a quarter past two, and had
Just fifteen minutes to reach the track In
time for the first race-they started the
first one at $50 then. ] had to fight my
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"'Oh, that badge OF mine, l said to my
Office did about four minutes solid work
and spent all the rest of the time thinking
of that Indian name. had kind Of sneaky
notion that I'd name the private car or the
steam yacht that 1 was going to buy with
my winnings-that I'd name the car or the
yacht Oclawaha 1 swung back home at
noon. grabbed little to eat and was ready
to start for Benning at a quarter to /. ia
been staked to a season badge the week be-
fore. When 1t was handed to me 1 had
stuffed 1t into the inside pocket of the coat
l was wearing at the time.
oh, thata badge of mine I said to my
wife just before making my, getaway.
Wish you'd dig it out for me. It's In the
right-hand inside pocket of that blue coat
in the closet. Please don't stand there
and look me over that way. I'm in a rush.
But calmly replied my wife, I'm
looking you over this way, as you call it,
for the simple reason that + sent that blue
suit of yours to the cleaners this morn
ing. / suppose you remember that you
asked me to send 1t to the cleaners two or
three days ago, don't you? The cleaners
wagon, in response to my postal, came
around soon after you left this morning.
land you. of course. didn't look through
the pockets before you let the man have
the suit?' / gurgled.
"'You know very WE'LL severely replied
my wife. that l never look through your
pockets under any circumstances. Why,
were there any letters or important
well. after I'd begun to gnaw on the
mantel bric-a-brac and she saw that 1 was
sure enough in earnest she poked around
and found the cleaners business card. The
suit cleaners plant was away of down
town. In something less than a minute
after my wife had found the cleaners busi-
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Among City Landlords.

Translated for Transatlantic Tales from Ffegepds
Batter
Smith, don't know what we fellows are
going to do. All the tenants go to the
country"
Jones {sadly)-"Yes, / know. ] read in
scientific paper the other day that all cities
Hereafter would be built in the country"
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fine man ye were if ye didn't drink, an
askin' did We leave much.
An little We care Everything is mill
yon miles away firm ye. FIR tn first time
in ye'er life ye'er alone. Fr the first time in
yeer life We ARE yeersilf FIR hiven knows
how NANNY years we've been somebody
else. we've been yeer wife, ye'er family,
yeer relations, tn polisman on tn beat
tn doctor, tn newspaper rayporther, tn
foreman at tn mills, tn laws iv tn land
tn BARTENDER that gives We drinks, tn
tailor, tn barber, an public opinion. fh'
wurruld has held a lookin' glass in front
iv We frn tn day ye were born an COM
PEELED We to make faces in it But in this
here particular business We have no wan
to please but ye'ersilf. Good opinyon an
bad opinyon ARE alike. Ye're akelly
unthroubled be gratichood an revenge.
No wan can help ye or stay We. 4ere
beyond tn sound Nv tn alarm clock an tn
facthry whistle an beginnin' tn Big Day
Off whin tn man Nv Science shakes We be
tn elbow an says: we've got to weigh out.
An he weighs an figures: Wan hundherd
an forty-seven firm wan hundherd an fly.
Siven firm naught can't be done; borry
wan; siven firm ten leaves three. l find
that tn soul " our late lamnted frlnd
weighed a light three pounds avfrdoopoise.
NO. sir 1t won't do. Twill nfver be
pepylar. People won't have their souls
weighed l wudden't FIR all tn wurruld
have tn wurrud go through tn ward: Did
We hear about Dooleys soul? No, what!
They had to get an expert accountant to
figure it's weight it was that puny.'
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self, one Of the wise crew. intended to
loosen up on It. 1 felt glad with myself
on the return trip to Washington that
had had the luck to meet up with Nahon.
1.-The Benning meeting began on the day
after l got back here. On the morning OF
the second day of the meeting l saw 1t In
the entries. Oclawaha. Timothy d. Sulli-
van, owner. to go in the first race, an AFFAIR
for maiden jockeys. Oclawaha was an In
dian name, all right. All had to do was
to shut my eyes and 1 saw money.
II blithely inquired Of my wife how she
would like to spend about three months in
Egypt and along the Riviera and then help
me pick out a nice new twelve room house
on Connecticut avenue extended. so that
could buy the same. She stared at me So
licitously. told me that she thought l must
be overworking and advised me to take a
few days off.
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Murderous Assault
Foreto1d in a Dream
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
SHEFFIELD, March 90 1907.
1.-TWO weeks ago John French, young
miner of Sheffield went to a jeweler
and bought gold wedding ring to
rIaca on the finger of pretty Norah Cole.
Yesterday he pawned the ring and used the
money he got on IL TO buy revolver with
witch he attempted to murder the girl. Al
ter seriously wounding her and two other
people he blew out his brains.
The affair is one of the most melodramatic
that ever occurred in Sheffield, and cur
ious fact IN connection with it was that 1t
was foretold in dream which the mother
If one OF the victims had on the night be-
fore the tragedy occurred.
This was an elderly woman named Fitz-
simmons. Her son. Thomas Fitzsimmons
was French's landlord-or rather his host,
for il was purely as an act OF charity That
the miner was taken into the Fitzsimmons
household some FIVE weeks ago, at a time
when he was out of work. Soon afterward
French fell in love with Norah Cole, who
was a servant in Fitzsimmons' employment
and before long he succeeded in making her
promise to marry him-the arrangement be-
ing that their marriage should take place
at registry Office in a fortnights time
Apparently, however, the miner who was
Of rather brutal type. had gained the
girls consent largely through bullying her
for a few days ago she told him she had
changed her mind. And next day she was
war cd by her employers mother not even
&c g out with French, who. the elder Mrs
FitzsImmors declared. was dangerous The
old lady asserted that on the previous night
she had dreamed that shots had been fired
In their kitchen and that the assailant was
French.
Next day, when the Fitzsimmons family
end two OF their neighbors were sitting In
the kitchen. French suddenly came in. Co
ing up to Norah Cole, he asked her II she
intended TO marry him. and the girl pluck
lily replied that she was not going to have
anything to do with him. French then drew
revolver. fired at the man Ftzsimmons,
then at Mrs. Elizabeth FitZsimmons who
had a baby on her knee and then turned to
the girl
lie told her TO prepare to die. She fell on
her knees and implored him not TO kill her.
bu; hi was unmoved by her appealing cries.
lie fired three shots at her and then shot
himself in the head with the last bullet in
the revolver and fell dead.
FitZsimmons escaped with but slight in
jury but Mrs. Fitzsimmons' nose was
blown away, while the girl was seriously
hurt.
On French's body being searched a pawn
ticket for a wedding ring was found in one
OF his pockets. With the proceeds the man
had first taken out a gun license. Then he
bought the revolver and cartridges.