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Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03
CORBETT'S HEART
ACHED FOR VICTIMS
"GENTLEMAN jim" SAYS HE FELT
SORRY FOR BEATEN MEN
FIinohed from Delivering Knockout
When He Saw Hunted Look In
Whipped Mans
Eyes

James j. Corbett, the celebrated mime
and monologist, was talking the other
night about the Jim Corbett, pug, thai
used to be. and got around to the state
of his feelings when he won the cham
pionship of pugdom. Somebody In the
group had asked him if he had ever beer
able to experience any genuine feeling OF
sympathy for the man he had sent wei.
tering to the floor of the ring all in and
counted out.
ITO ask me if / ever felt sorry for q
fellow l licked,'' said Corbett in reply tc
that, sis like asking me il L ever ate an
egg for breakfast. / never hit a fellow a
hard blow, sending him dazed and limp
ing down the dismal path toward Out
Vile, that my heart didn't ache for him
even in the heat of battle.
That's the square truth / knew that
| was there to do just that thing to him
if could. 1 knew that if / didn't do it to
him he'd for a sure thing do it to me. ]
knew that the prize awaiting me for do
ing it was big and more than worth while.
I knew that the sting of being licked, If
had to experience 1t myself, would be in
tolerable And yet, with all of this in
mind, l repeat that 1 never started one of
my opponents down toward that gloomy
prize fighter goes that didn't feel sorry,
mortally sorry, for him always deep down
under the pelt of me.
II always caught in the eye of the man
was trouncing the expression of the
man who knows he is being licked; Il
hunted, desperate expression; wounded,
hurt expression; and when I caught that
baffled and pathetic expression in the eye
of man whom L was beating and stab
bng and binding with his own blood, /
want to go on record as saying now. after
it's all long over and done away with,
that felt like miserable brute, a bully
unfit to live and the whole thing sickened
and raked me- beyond measure. That's
how 1 always felt about it. I felt
ashamed of myself-ashamed of being
where / was of doing what l was doing,
ashamed of the mad shouts of the men
around the ring to go in and kill and
slaughter the poor devil already rocking
toward his finish, ashamed of the whole
Internal baboonish situation from the be
ginning to the end.
zone of the things that was often SAID
at the time was that | hated poor o!d
John L.. and that l gloated' in my vic
tory over him. There wasn't much of a
foundation of truth in any of this stuff.
L was a very young man at the time
got the championship by thrashing Sui
livan, end there isn't the least doubt IN
the world that was afflicted sorely with
the big head, both before and after that
fight / was young and vealy before the
fight, at any rate. TO feel considerably
wrought up over the slurs.that was told
John l.. had put rpon melt was my boy
vanity that was touched, you see Jonn
l.. has often told me since that he never
gave utterance to those scoffs before the
fight and he told me IN such a way that
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03
OCCIDENTAL DEFEATS
SHERMAN REDSKINS
PREsBYTERIANs ROLL UP SCORE
OF TEN TO FIVE
Rush, Quarterback, DisIocates Leg
and Indians Seize Chance to
Cross Lines to the
Posts

The football team of Occidental college
defeated the Sherman Indians at River
side yesterday afternoon by a score OF
~ to 5.
The Presbyterians were especially
strong in defense and at no time were
the tomahawkers able to get through
their lines. Collins and Bruce Merrll
made continual end runs and were able
TO advance at will around the redskin
wings. Fred Thompson made several
pretty tackles through the barbarian
ranks. The punting of Wieman was a
sharp contrast to the work of McGee
for the Indians
The Highlanders made their first
touchdown at the beginning of the OPEN
ing half Bruce Merrill and McCiung
were the stars in the play Merrill exc
cuted a long forward pass for forty
Yards and McClung relayed it to a touch
down. Wieman kicked the goal.
The Indians also scored in the begin
ming section and made their touchdown
after a tumble by Rush, who had dis
located his leg a moment before Ine
speedy little quarter was unable to get
to his catch and the Indians seized their
chance to cross run the lines to the
posts. MCGEE failed to clear the goal.
Brewer was substituted for Rush in
the second half and proved worthy
successor to the fast quarter. Wieman
added the remainder of the Presbyterian
ten by booting a field goal from place.
ment on the forty-hve-yard line.
Twenty-five-min halves. Cromwell
referee, Bird umpire ana Mc1Senny head
lineman.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03
MR.. BUSINESS MAN

8 Every train from the cast brings
g hundreds of colonists. The head
&, of every family is looking for
8 home. He has the money to buy
@ 1T and the money to fit 1t out. The
O. first place the visitor, the tourist
8 or the coIonist turns for informa-
8 tion is the daily paper. Does your
8 announcement or that of your suc-
8 cessfuI rival meet his eye: VIII
8 the newcomer seek you or the man
3 who advertises I'm The HeraIdf III
8 you are not wide awake your
8 neighbor will get him.
o Are you pursuing n penny wise
o method of postponing the day
D when you will begin to make
8 things hum by advertising In The
B Herald. Your competitor Will be
8 delighted If this is the cnse. when
8 you reach your place of business
3 this morning take up this vital
o point without delay.
8 The Herald Will guide the col
o. onist to your door.
D @ @ o o @ 8 @ % % o @ @ O @ @
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03
TURF RoeUEs RUN TO FORM
If THEY WANT TO
SOME OF THE GREATEST RACERS
ARE USELESS WHEN UGLY
Old Trainer Tells Stories of sulen
Devils That Remind Local Horse-
men of ormonde's Right
at Ascot

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-'Look at the old
rogue-ears pricked, tail a-swishing, and
he won't run fast enough to keep himself
warm, although everybody knows that ii
he'd try he could beat anything now
running on the New York tracks," OBJ
served a keen trainer at the Gravesend
track the other afternoon, when the once
fine thoroughbred Cairngorn now turned
rogue, was running along in the sulks,
far in the rear of very ordinary field of
horses.
There's a crackerjack that can't be
figured on at all any more, now that he's
turned mean and cunning and sour. He
was meant for one of the clinkers of the
game. But he has always been more or
less Of sulker. Now he's gone COM
pletely into the rogue class and there S
no curing that.
Fortunately not many of them do go
cunning that way. Still, it's easy to
remember plenty OF instances of soured
horses. Ormonde's Right, for instance,
was meant for a top-notcher. But his
disposition was always against him. He
was a maneater from an early age and
had to be muzzled. He had the conforma-
ton and the power to run fast and all
day. but he turned cranky and mean and
crafty early in his career.
"Under bamboozling and petting and
cajolery he'd go out once in a great
while and put it all over the best of
them, but even his trainer could never
tell when that one intended to run
straight and true, and so he was never
any kind Of betting proposition. Ordi-
narily he'd stand stock still at the bar
rier or wheel when the barrier flew up,
or If he got off he'd sulk IL the boy tried
to kick him a little to make him over
take his flying field and catch his horses
easily, and, then, having done that much,
he'd pin his ears and chuck it as if
somebdy'd hit him behind the ear with a
beer mallet.
keenan, Rogue
"rheh, going further back, there was
Keenan,. Keenan, was one of the greatest
race horses ever produced in this coun-
try. But he turned from a sweet dispo-
sltioned colt into one of the sourest
rogues in American turf history almost in
a night without anybody ever being able
to offer an explanation. He raced not
only in the United States. but in England
and India, and the profoundest student
of idiosyncrasies of race horses was never
able to dope it out how Keenan, was go
ing to run after he had taken it into his
head to join the sulkers brigade. Once
they got keenan, all sweetened up while
he was racing in India, and entered him
for the great Indian cup. which Is run
at Calcutta. His trainer gave it out that
Keenan, was acting as pretty as a semi
nary girl at her graduation exercises. and
as II was known that the famous rogue
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03
Sly Fox at 20 to I

"Unable to stand their rough guying
in those circumstances. especially as they
had all played Warrenton to cop-and
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03

l thoroughly believed him and believe him
now. But even supposing that he did
make those remarks, as / o, course be-
iieved he did at the time, 1t was the fash
ion of that day for prize fighters to scold
their opponents furiously and viciously
before they fought.
But I'd no sooner got into the ring
and seen Sullivan than 1 felt sorry for
him. knew that was going to lick him.
There wasn't any vanity in that but pure
confidence, combined with hunch. / was
as strong as a young bull moose, better
In that early day than ever was after
ward, and I could see plainly with half
an eye that John l.. WASH right, not up
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03

Warrenton called out as being away out
to front right into the stretch-I started
to the door with my ticket in my mitt
ready to be torn up.
''Well, leave it to you to figure out
how stunned / was when the operator
after having, of course, made no mention
whatever of SLY Fox since the announce
ment that he'd been left at the post,
came out with the whoop:
''Sly Fox wins, e-e-e-easy, by five
lensths!' Well, I got my thousand win,
but / didn't bet after that on any more
notorious rogues. found 1t too ex-
citing.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-03

Where the Hog Loses-When young Wander
bilt was In Europe native of France taking
him for his own chauffeur, told him what H.
thought Of those dogs OF Americans who rush
shout French country roads trying to kill pAo-
pie u have sick hog, said tho peasant
(which I VIII drive into the road and you kill
it. Then ] VIII collect from your master and
divide ''-Arsonant
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06
The Most Noracious Beast

RUT the killer whale creature ten to twenty feet
long, and closely related to the dophIns is prob
ably exoeIled in righteousness bv no living mammal
Il IS swift and wonderfully strong, and seems TO Kill
for the sheer love OF slaughter Three or four killers
Will churn rapidly along the surface of the ocean
and when they encounter whale. matter how
enormous they hurl themselves q it like a pack OF
wolves. II Is SAID that the whale is often 50 par
alyzed, apparently with fright, At the onslaught of
these terrible creatures that 1t submits passvely to
its inevitable doom.
Even whale captured by whalers has been known
70 be seIzed and dragged out OF reach 10y these fear
less ones. In the stomach of killer only sixteen
feet long have been found thirteen porpoiscs and
fourteen seals The largest and ferccst OF the bull
sea hons seek the shore in when killers appear
The young walruses sometimes climb up on their
mothers backs; but a killer has been seen to dive
beneath, Tlsc with terrific force and knocking the
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

takes little things valuable things of his own, or
small articles of value belonging other people-uP
into his room at night and deliberately sets fire to
them for the pleasure OF observing them burn
Isn't that a nice closet skeleton: Ii any OF you
should entertain Mr.. Mcfarland over night, L
should advise YOU to be on the lookout.
Now as for our rubicund friend BaInbrdge here.
1t viii be a matter OF no little entertainment 10 YOU
know his criminal history. He poses railroad
man and a capitalist He is. But he is leading a
dual life. His other occupation, gentlemen IS that
of forger.'
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

bridge; but the speaker quickly interrupted HIM
Quiet. Mr. Bambridge! Quiet, There IS 10
necessity for be incensed than the others
You know very we'll that | stating only the ri, n
truth You have been taking this little FLYER u
crime now for some wears Heaven knows vau
don't need TO; YOU have money enough II must
he delight in deviltry. 1t IS we'll known % some.
carefully you think YOU have covered Your tracks.
We know Your game very WELL and what YOU ma -e
out of it. The trouble with YOU all Is that y.u re
so used to secrecy that YOU have To believe the
secret does not exist and 1t you, much rs
Coanrled on page II
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

pup into the water, dcvour before its parent could
and It further 10 escape. So II that the killer
deserves the right the title of the most vOraCous
and terCest mammal in the world.
The champion short distance runner among the
mammals IS undoubtedly one Of the antelopes and
though ike human sprlnters, Its pace is killing
that It can be kept up for only comparatively short
distances Vet for mile or two It's speed makes a
galopIug horse seem almost stationary. Yet some
such the sprlngboks have remarkable STAYING
power, and have been known again and again 10 run
a pack OF greyhounds a standsill The long dis
tance OF the foureggcd creatures are assur
edy he wolves, keeping UP their trcess steady lope
for league upon league. before which IN the end the
strongest deer drops Of exhaustion
Let Us ind the other extreme: the slowest moving
animal For the honor Of this there Is none 10 dis
pute with the sloth, that half living being which
sometimes spends its entire existence in one tree
creeping slowly along a branch, and now and then
teebly munChIng part of a leaf 1t is a veritable
"mossback for the green color which is seen in its
fur. and which must be of great protection among
the green foliage, IS caused by 4 minute vegetable
growth which fades and dies when the animal IS
killed.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06
Which Are Intelligent

THERE IS Just one wild animal in the world which
Is-L We may use the term term Phllo.oI Ihic enough
Of mans Will and this Is the elephant One 4
these mighty animals can be caught when fully adul-
and a comparatively short time VIII tcCOrue absl-
lutey tractabe, submitting itself rs master not
autonaton like or IN a sulen, spIrItieSs way. as
leopards go through their tricks. but with most
remarkable Willingness which enables the animal o.
learn and execute most intricate duties. such as
Joining in military tactics IN the capture of other
elephants, in pilIng and arranging teak lumber
what a shock 10 the deepest instincts a an
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

have seen this man wantonly set FIRE TO his own
property and find a seat somewhere. and seem TO
take genuine delight in seeing his valuables de
stroyed.
why, this is monstrousl" cried Mcfarland
The shoe pnches just little, eh, friend: con-
tinued the stranger, 1t wasn't bad till 1t came
to YOU was it? For all that, gentlemen, you have
for your associate nothing more nor less than man
with a mania for ncendiarism Whether he has
ever burnt his own boats or not, is not proved
though the authorities have their opinion. But his
servants and his family could tell YOU If they would
that this mania Of his IS so uncomfortable that he
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

animal such as an
elephant, capture and
dominance by puny
man must be. after
untold generations of
HE as master of al
the jungle. we shall
realize better the mar
vel of its philosoph,c
acceptance of this
radical change Ii we
do not explain II on a
basis OF rational per-
ception OF the new
perspective of HE. We
must credit the clc-
phant with . fatalistic
disposition hard 10
cCrrelate with the HE
OF q Wild aulmal.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

twenty feet IN length-twice as long as the largest
The smallest mammal would be puzzler to most
Of us, but there doubt about lis being of
shTews-tinv. mouschke creatures related to the
moles The smallest Is about as long ones little
finger and vet IS active and hardy enough TO be
n.ng around all winter It's coat OF fur protecting
II against zero weather.
We cannot but be astonishcd when we discover
the contestants far the doubtful honor Of being the
mos, VoracIous animal in the world, and with this
characte II would perhaps he correct include
herceness. Lion and tiger come instantly to mind;
but the feats OF these beasts Of prey pale when
pared with TWO other groups: no other than the
ones already mcntlonol-shrcws and whales
Three tiny shrews have been placed under or
dlndry glass tumbler and have begun fighting at
once, showing that their name is we'll deserved In
less than eight hours only lett this ravcnous
wild beast IN miniature having SLAIN and devourcd
its TWO companions, each Of which was as large and
a heavy as itself No hon. however hungry and
fierce, could begin TO accomplish this feat in the
same time.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06
The Best Jumpers

THE antelopes doubtless take first place in the high
Jump, their thin plpestem legs lifting them so
high and 50 easily that they almost to fly. but
even with record Of fifteen feet for the running
broad Jump the deer family entitled only 10 second
place. The kangaroOS the strongest entry for
tins event with an apparently authentic Jump Of
twenty-five feet for standing five feet in height
There Is little dispute this as record for actual
distance covered; but when we consider Compara-
tive records the kangaroo banner goes down in dis
grace before a contestant not a tIthe large-the
long tailed jumping mouse of the Eastern United
States, which send its three inches of stature
hurting through the air for distance of ten feet
10 equal tins the kangaroo would have TO clear two
hundred feet and a tall man less than eighty
yards at spring.
Ii we open an event for flying leap excluding of
course the bats as belonging the professional
tyersl, number of contestants VIII enter including
several rodents, and even a monkey But the palm
IS borne off by the colugo IN inSectivore of the
Est Indies, which easily scale a distance of
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

: V1EVE '7'V1-' 1'8IT.3Ir VIIIN VIIJ IUUI
IN every five feet Of advance.
Now as 70 voice. Suppose we line
up al the harry creatures of the earth
and let each below or scream or roar
It's loudest IN turn, 10 See whose voice
would carry the tarthest The giraffe
and a number OF Others would not
even attempt 70 Ioin in, for they are
Nolceless and can only look patheti-
Cally at their more fortunate comrades.
Let Us suppose the lions roar has
rumbled across the plains and trcetops.
and the wild ass has sent its Crv al
most as far; then one after another
each takes lis turn, the elephant with
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

IF asked to name the largest mammal should
i probably answer quickly The elephant -; then,
remembering that all not fish which swim in the
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

bottom whale of the Pacifi
probably larger than any otl
creature, living or eXtlnC
which ever moved OF
breathed upon the surface
Of the earth. Il is worth
little for its oil and whale
bone, and this, combined
with its activity, has re-
suited in the examination
Of few individuals. The
extreme length IS about a
hundred feet. with weight
Of some one hundred and
fifty tons, the Iawbone
alone being over twenty
feet long The enormous
size OF whales may be ap-
preciated from the fact
that a newly born baby
whale measures about
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

a terrific blast of its trumpet tone making III
the competitors which have preceded him uneasy
At last a hIdeOus black monkey with pendent beard
and sulen face swels out its throat and sends e, O.
howl which in volume and power quickly decides he
question. The hoWl,ug monkey
Of the South American f-r--es
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

n prize belongs 20 Tie
Is. which can squeak.
,ut so weakly thar We
hardly know whether
we have heard any
thing or not.
With the sounds f
the nature faktr war
still ringing lnourca-s,
It Is with trembling
that our thoughts r--c
10 the CO1sl..cra--. o
of the most IntclI-r-c
mammal II has been
said. and with truth.
that this problem
must remain an eng
ma until we I'm. .w
New-York tribune., 1907-10-06

too this time, for the SUI
bottom whale of the Pacih
nrnLn h1,- l. rrer- hntc arnt, 81
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-27
SETTLERS WILL LOSE LAND.
Klamath Falls Aroused Over Recent
Ruling by Garfield.

Klamath Falls--A decision recent ly
made by Secretary Garfield has com.
plicated matters in township 81, range
10. This tract of land was secured on
scrip by Daniels & McKael, Wiscon-
sin timber firm, several years ago, but
their filing was rejected at the Lake
view land Office. the officials asserting
that the scrip was fraudulent. On ap
peal to the commissioner of the general
land office and to Secretary Hitchcock,
the Lakeview land Office was upheld
Recently the Wisconsin firm secured a
rehearing before Secretary Garfield,
who rendered decision reversing the
one formerly rendered and giving the
lands to the timber company. The
tract of land is within ten miles of this
city and is especially valuable for tim
Der, while some Of it is suitable for ag-
ricultural purposes. Several persons
from Klamah Falls have homesteads in
the township and have made improve
ments on the land, but according to the
secretary's decision, must give up the
lands.
In few instances holders made final
proof on timber claims in this town
ship and disposed of them to third per-
sons. The situation is quite complicat-
ed, and it is likely that another rehear-
ing will be requested.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-27
Schmitz May Yet Get Bail.

San Francisco, June 22.-Some de-
cision by the District Court of APP
peals is looked for soon in the ap-
plication of Mayor SchmitZ for re-
lease on bail by writ of habeas cor
pus. Judge Hall is out of town, but
Judges Cooper and Kerrigan are in
chambers. They have taken the
mayors application under advise
ment, and it is understood, though
not officially, that the writ will be
granted. This does not necessarily
mean that the mayor will be ad-
mitted to bail, but that his allega-
ton that he is suffering from an in
durable disease. which may be rem
dered fatal by confinement. entities
him to fuller hearing before the
court to determine it's merit.