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The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22
County News
From Our Exchanges

Mrs. Victoria Audsley will leave
Sunday for Hot Springs where she
will seek . curt for her rheumatism.
i, M. Null and w. b. Mullins At.
tended the state encsmpment Of The
g. A. Il. at Trenton this week. They
left Tuesday. The epcsmpment lasted
two days. Wednesday and Thurs.
|day.-Miami News.
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22

The stout old ldndiddp gew 70 TIC ovsv.
loaded peasant.
ing rufianf Can't you see he intends
TO steal your rucksacks or-or black
mail you or somethingf ID there no
manservant about the place whom the
landlady can call to help herr'
All four Of the actors on the little
stage glanced up, aware for the trt
time OF an audience. and had tina
grand duchess eyes been younger she
might have been still further puzzled
by the varying and vivid expressions
Of their faces. But she saw only that
the dark browed peasant man who had
glared SO haughtly ut poor Frau Yor-
van wal throwing OF his burden with
haste aud roughness.
II do hope he hasn't already stolen
| anything OF value" cried the grand
duchess. Better not let him 60 until
you've looked into your rucksacks,
Remember that silver drinking cuU
you would take with you
She paused, not so much In deferencs
10 virginia's quick reply az In amass
ment at Frau Yorvan's renewed GO
ticulations. Was 1t possible that tn
woman understood more English thaa
her guests supposed aud feared ~
the brigand. perhaps equally well In
structed. might seek Immediate ~
venge2 His bare knees alone werv
evidence against his character In tn
eyes Of the grand duchess. They gav>
him a brazen, abandoned afr. an1
young man who cultivated % long
space between stockings and trousoe
might be capable Of any crime.
"Oh. mother. you're very much nh
taken" Virginia was protesting. TN
man Is a great friend Of mine and ~
saved my life. You must thank hin
II It were not for him ! might ssvo
have come back to yos."
At last the meaning Of her woe0
penetrated to the intelligence a u
grand duchess through an arms 9
misapprehenston.
"He saved your iifsY' 80 ecAsel
"Oh. then you have beea IN oano1l
Heaven be thanked for ysor safso
and also that the mans not t1eeay Z
know English or I should never q
give myself for what rye said. Hss
Is my purse. dearest. Catch Il -
throw and give It to him just ~ II I
There IL at least EGO In II. and
only wish ! could afford more. Bu
what Ii the matter. my childf "a
look ready to faint"
As she began to speak she snatchs
from q desk at which she had bee
writing a netted silver purse. BIZ
while she paused. waiting for virgini
to hold out her hands, the girl fcrbad
the contemplated act Of g~ensrosit
with an imploring gesture.
{ "Iie viii accept no reward for VIII
: he has done except our thanks, %
4 those I give him once again." The q
( answered. She then turned to n
I cnaaialahuntSE and. madaL him-a pEe
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22

Andrew W. Bridges sold his farm
this week to NJ. Nupies for $4,000.
The farm consists OF about lis acres
and IL located about one mile north
west OF Slater Mr.. Bridges has own
cd this farm for over 10 years. Al
presen. II IL rented 10 Cbas. Edgar,
who will give possession the LIST OF
March,-Slater Rustler.
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22
Good for Everybody.

Mr.. Norman II. Coulter, . promi.
nsut archivsct, In the Delbert Build
Ing, San Francisco, says; al fully en-.
dorse ell that has been said OF Elec.
trio Bitters as Q tonic medicine. It Is
good for everybody. 1t corrects
stomach, liver and kidney disorders
10 . prompt and efficient manner and
builds up the system" Electric
Bitters 10 the best spring medicine
ever sold over . druggist's counter;
% . blood purifier II 10 uusqusled.
500 ~ ell drug stores.
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22
Sunday Excursions Resumed.

Sunday, May 18th, the Alton will
cell tickets TO Kansas City aud re.
turn for OIL 30. limited TO Date OF sale.
Intermedi ate station rates In proper.
sion. Good going and returning only
on Slater Accommod alton.
u. U. +. Hawthorne, agent.
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22
No Use to Die.

Il have found out that there Is no
use TO die Of lung trouble as long ss
you can get DR.. Kings New Discov.
cry" says Mrs. J. p. white, Of Rush.
boro, Pa. ~ would not DO alive to-
day only for that wonderful medicine.
II loosens up q cough quicker than
anything else, and cures lung disease
even after the case is pronounced
hopeless" This most reliable remedy
for coughs and colds, lsgrippe, ssth'
ma, bronchitis and hosrseness, is sold
nder guarantee At all drug stores.
SOC and 100. Trial bottle free.
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22
Best Healer in the World

Rev. +. Stsrbird, Of East Ray.
mond, Maine, says: ~ have used
Buckleu's Arnics Sslve for several
years, on my old army wound, and
other obstinate sores, and find u the
best healer In the world. use II too
with great success In my veterinary
business" Price 26c at oil drug
stores.
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22

The wind storm Wednesday destroy.
ed one Of Arrow Rocks old land
marks, situated 10 John McGufin's
yard. The fall of the tree damaged
several panels Of the yard fence also
breaking down ell the telephone wires
that came In contact with Its branches.
Arrow Rock Statesman.
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22

Mrs. Annie Crowdtr sold 20 acres
Of land northeast Of Sweet Springs
last week TO J. w. N~ightwiue, OF
Springfield, for Us per acre. The
trade was nsgotistsd by J. II. Mo-
CURE of this city.--Jss. Tarnsr, z
student In the high school whose
home 10 out ssst OF town, IL very III
with pneumonia q ths homo Of Chss,
Scott In town where he 10 boarding.
His mother came In last week 70 walt
ON him end she wss stricken with The
same disssss. Both are very ILL.,
Swest Springs Herald.
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22

Two men iroa Higginsvills. one
|Otso Lindseruo who was formerly
with CAsslsS Paul u The tils tsctory
IAsrs. will open W acoal milne on Ne
The Marshall republican., 1908-05-22
CHAPTER v a.,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

hlmmeI!" exclaimed
Frau Yorvan. and
ZACH. mmel!" she
exclaimed again. her
voice rising to a wall,
with a frantic uplifting
Of the hands.
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HILLMAN'S CHANCES GOOD.
His Time Better Than That of Eng.
lish Hurdlers.

NEW YORK. May 16.-The obstacles
that will have to be cleared by the run
neTs in the 4GO-meter hurdle race in the
Olympic games at London will be three
feet in height instead of two feet six
inches. as generally supposed In this
country. This innovation will come rs a
surprise to the Yannee runners, who have
always been used TO topping the lower
tfmbers. In all such events over here the
two feet six inches bar is used, and all
our records were made under those condi-
tons
A still greater surprise is the fact that
the Britons are showing fine form in the
4oO-meter hurdle event. Several of King
Edwards athletes have beaten sixty sec
onGs over the three-feet hurdles and one
lad. T. NJ Donovan. has gone the route
in 81 40 seconds. Compared with this are
the records of Harry Hillman of the New
York Athletic Club, supposedly our best
man at this style of racing AT Celtic
Park in 1903 Hillman ran 40 yards over
ten hurdles in ID 10 seconds. At Trayers
Island in 1904 he accomplished the same
feat. running all alone, in u 3-5 seconds.
At ST. Louis in 1904 Hillman ran the 400
meter hurdles in 53 seconds fiat. All Hill
mans records were done over foot &
inches hurdles but even at that his rec
ords are better than those recently ac-
complished in England
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SOME SUPERSTITIONS HELD BY
SOME OF THE PLUNGERS -TRI-
FILES GUIDE THEIR JUDGMENT

one of the paper smokes before race he
is bound to lose, no matter what he goes
to in the race.
When the touch for the cigarette
comes in time, as it did just now he stays
off the race altogether, no matter how
much alive the one he has picked may
look to him. He's been nursing that
same bug for two years now.
Nearly all of the high-notch players
of the cayuses,' went on this racing man
of wide experience. give ear to the buzz
ing of their own particular kind of super.
stitious bugs, and some of these are sure
the queer insects. l can remember whcr
the only generally prevalent race track
superstition was the hunchback thing
Most OF the bookie whangers believed
that they could for a sure thing get the
money If they could touch the hump OF q
hunchback on their way to the track OF
within the track grounds. But this one
petered out five or six years ago. when i,
developed into regular hunchback in
dustry or trust
.Hunchbacks got to thronging the track
trains, and they hung around the entrance
gates to the tracks and paraded I'D ana
down the lawns. waiting TO have their
humps touched. They looked for the
piece of change from those who touched
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Miller's Riding Disappointing.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. May 16-When
Walter Miller takes his departure for
New York today there will be no regrets
on the part of the California turf devo-
tees who are heartily sick of his erratic
form in the saddle. If a less fashionable
Jockey rode in such an n-and-out fashion
he would be hauled over the Goals in a
iiffy. If Miller sees fit to ride eavorte
last one day and win with him the next
time out no official action is taken. A
perusal of the form chart shows that Mil
Ter has been riding very inconsistency
of late.
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When the Olympic games were held In
Athens, Sheridan had never thrown IN the
Greek style He went out on the field
an entire novice to the event. but seeing
that in order that his country he repre-
scented with credit he must master the
sport of lifetime in few hours. he
gave himself up to assiduous practice. and
though he had only two days he learned
the style completely that on the day
of the competition he beat the best men
of the world, including the champion OF
Greece.
Prince George of Greece personally COM
plimented the big Irishman. and said it
was the greatest athletic feat he ever saw.
The stadium is nearly finished. The
running track is three laps To the mile and
twenty-four feet wide, and 1t has no
awkward corners. Outside the cinder pain
is concrete cycle track $40 yards In
length and thirty-five feet in breadth. spe.
cially constructed for speed and safety.
and this track cycle and motor cycle
races will be held.
The grass arena is 235 yards long by a
little under one hundred yards broad. 1t
contains on one side a swimming tank
about 100 yards long and fifty feet In
breadth. with a depth of twelve feet in
the central part, where high-diving com.
petitions are to take place. Water rolo
also will prove a very attractive event.
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mittee on selection will have enough data
to decide on the American team.
Although many names figure in the list
of those empowered to do the choosing
the real work will actually fall to two
men-James f. Sullivan and Julian w.
Curtiss. Undoubtedly these men. with
the success of the team at heart, will
decide wisely. and name the best possible
athletes on their showing at the several
tests
The competition at Shepherds Bush.
where the stadium is located. will really
resolve itself into a matching or the
world against athletic America. 1t is rec
ognized. and is fact driven home by two
previous successes in Olympic contests.
that Uncle Sans athlete is the best there
is, and to beat him will be the aim of
every competitor. whether he hail from
England. Germany. France. Russia
Greece or even far-OH japan.
Making all due allowance for the cordial
feeling entertained by Englishmen for the
United States and the courteous treat
ment all the competitors are certain 10
get nevertheless a majority OF the one
hundred and fifty thousand persons who
can see the games. seventy thousand or
them seated. will undoubtedly be lined
up in sympathy against the men from
the United States
Records of Our Athletes.
Can the strength of the foreign attn
lete, aided by the sympathy of the crowd,
operate to down Uncle Sans performers?
Those who have carefully studied the
men who will represent the United States
contend that 1t is the strongest aggre-
CATION that ever aspired to win honors
for the United States in competition
with athletes from other lands.
Barring only the long-distance run
ming, where perhaps England's long-stand-
ing supremacy at this game Will be main
tanned. there is q wealth of material for
every sport and the main task of Messrs.
Sullivan and Curtiss will be to decide
whom to rule out.
For the sprints the candidates include
Cartmell of Pennsylvania, the tntercol-
legiate champion in the one hundred and
two twenty-yard events: Clyde Blair, Chi
cago; Archie Hahn, both of whom have
done As seconds, and Dan Kelly. who
went in 9 3-5 at Spokane. Wash. in 1906.
These men will probably be called upon to
face Minory Fulfil of Toxic University,
who is said to have done one hundred in
. % on the grass. This performance is
sworn 10 by the timers
Any of these men will probably give
battle to the best that can be turned oct
on the other side.
Still more impressive is the showing OF
the Americans in tie quarter-mile event.
PENIS intercollegiate champion. j. Il.
Taylor. a negro. is conceded to be the best
quarter-miler that ever put on spikes.
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en- hurried he would have won first

been hurried he would have won first
place.
Garrells, the great Michigan athlete.
an all-around man, is a great hurd1er:
so is Martin Sheridan. the New York
policeman. who is now credited with
being the best all-around athlete of
modern times.
Sheridan is a good jumper. but in this
case men like ~Ewry. Cook of Cornell,
who made such great records while at
Chillicothe as a schoolboy. and Mount
Pleasant the wonderful little Indian of
the Carlisle School, are looked upon to
make a showing.
For the shot-put there are a number
of famed hurdlers, including w. w. Coe.
with a record of forty nine feet six
inches; Horr of Syracuse Kruger OF
Swarthmore. the intercollegiate cham
pion. Martin Sheridan and John Flana-
gan.
Sheridan With the Discus.
Flanagan is the best man with the
heavy weights, though Sheridan Is also
good and McGrath. another New york
policeman, has been coming along with
some remarkable performances
In the discus throw, which is an espe-
cially favored event in these classic
aan,es, Sheridan is the best man In the
| world.
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pains when he does make his now
only occasional visits to the tracks TO
find out whether jockey carrying his
coin is wearing ring to the post or
not.
He used 10 be fond of Jockey Miller,
and often played that boys mounts. but
never when he ascertained that that kid
had on his haZel-nut diamond ring.
is Miller wearing that fool gewgaw
today" l once heard him ask one of his
betting commissioners.
The commissioner hustled out to the
paddock to take an observation of Miller
the jockey weighed in. He returned
to Mr.. Gates with the observation that
Miller wasn't sporting his big rock that
afternoon, and Nj. Gates got down a
boulder bet on Miiler'S mount in the next
race. Millers horse finished bad fourth.
but that didn't change Mr.. Gates dope
with respect to his ring superstition He
probably argued 1t out that Miller's horse
would have finished last in the field of
.ourteen if the boy had been wearing
his Kimberley"
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BY CLARENCE II. CULLEN.
.neciaI CnrreSnnndence of The Star

Special Correspondence of The Star.
NEW YORK. May 16, 1908.
A few afternoons ago +. r. Thomas was
standing on the lawn at the Jamaica
track. talking with his betting commits
sioner. He was just dismissing the com
missioner to the ring to get down heavy
wager on his selection, when racing
man of his acquaintance strolled up be-
hind him and placed an arm around his
shoulders.
Hello Ed he said. Give me one of
those cigarettes of yours. won't YOU
Thomas looked distinctly annoyed and
let. out an ejaculation that proved 1t. He
produced gold cigarette case, touched d
spring and held the case out to his &C
ouaintance. But at the same time he
called back his betting commissioner. who
was making for the ring.
Never mind that bet. Fred said
Thomas to the commissioner. when the
latter turned in his tracks and came back
al the summons. I'm stay off the race.
A racing man standing near the group
eiacidated this little incident.
Thomas. he said, is of those
superstitious mustang players. His main
bug is that when anybody maces him tor
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n MEXICAN Drawn and speed are
N getting the finishing touches for
- the competition against the
II world in the Olympic games at
London next July
week from next Saturday the inter
collegiate competition will enable men,
bers of the committee to decide which
of the various college athletes can
worthiest represent Uncle Sam against
the worlds picked athletes.
week later. June 8. three simultane-
Gus tests will be held. one at Franklin
Field. Philadelphia. another at ST. Louis
and the third at San Francisco.
At these amateur athletes not connected
with colleges will have a chance to show
what they can do.
With all this matter in hand. the com
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1t Is Conceded That the
Athletes of the World Will
D. Al.-d oni,,c4 tho


Athletes of the World Will
Be Aligned Against the
United States in the Olympic
Games at London in July
Anything tosBeat Uncle Sam
Will Be the, Motto-The In
tercollegiate Games May 30
and the Olympic Tests To
Be II e d simultaneously,
June 6. in Philadelphia, St.
Louis and San Francisco,
Will Give the Committee on
Selection Data to Determine
Just Which Men Are Best
Fitted to Represent Uncle
Sam = With Champions to
Pick From Like Martin
Sheridan. Taylor, Lightbody,
Horr, Hillman, Sheppard,
Dray, Kruger, Haskins, Flan-
agan, McGrath. Cartmell,
Hahn. Kelly and Cooney 1t
Seems Hard to Credit That
the Laurels Won at the Two
Previous Olympic NJ e is
Will Have To Be Surren-
dered.
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picker
No less a sage of the turf than Dave
Gideon has the bug that the horse that
picks up n piece OF accidental over
weight In a race is one to be looked
out for and played if the dope gives him
any kind of a chance in the world to
cop. / won't say that Gideon can show
you how this has sfted out in actual
practice during period extending over
zoo years. for he isn't quite that Old
although nearly-for it is said that ne
remembers the races won by Eagle, the
great Virginia thoroughbred, shortly
after the war of 1872. But Nh. Gideon
can take YOU back long time on that
overweight dope of his, and he can
show, too, how it has gained the change
in TtInar'ta bic number of instances.
las a matter of fact. there is some
sound sense back of this bug, Tor the
horse that picks up the piece or over
weight gets his ride by jockey who
has been unable to reduce himself 10
the carded weight, and when an owner
Is willing that his horse Shal! take up
some additional pounds In order 10 per
nit certain boy to RIDE, the inference
is reasonable enough that the owner
knows that he has got a pretty sooo
horse that day.
"Eole Pearsall, the heap big whanger,
has got the superstition that IL ms
morse KICKS announcer uol sc go f'oo~
its all over and there's no chance.
.John w. Gates bug used to be that
Jockey who wears a diamond ring Oh
one of his fingers while riding can't get
horse home in front. This, he ciaimed,
was a bug based upon long observation
and experience.
ION. day. several years ago, Mr.. Gates
backed a horse ridden by that master
borseman-cor a little while. when he was
behaving-Grover Cleveland Fuller. he
bet S2J 600 on this mount OF ruler s. ana
he stood to win $4,000 If Fuller Drought
the horse home.
Fuller wore a big solitaire diamond
ring that day. The horse was a hard-
headed brute that needed to be restra n
ed under wraps until the final spring iof
the wire that was his characteristic
Fuller followed instructions and took
the horse up. under forty wraps. as they
saw, Immediately after the start.
.'But the tightly wrapped reins pressed
the diamond ring into the mesh or the
iockey's third finger OF his left hand,
causing him excruciating pain. Not only
that, but Fuller was worried lest the
wrapped reins would warp the ring out of
shape and loosen the stone, and he was
afraid he might lose the rock. So he was
unable to do himself justice in riding.
In order to stop the pain and to flag
the chance he thought he stood of losing
his hunk of ice. he loosened the wraps
and gave his horse his head at the be-
ginning of the back stretch. The result
was that the horse, that should have been
saved for tne finish, shot his bolt be. ore
the top of the stretch was reached and
was dsgracefully beaten at the end.
When asked why he hadn't obeyed in
stru~tions AM saved the horse for the
finish. Fuller told about the way the ring
hurt him, and about his fear that the
stone might drop out of it's setting, and
this story reached the ears of Mr. Gates
Ever since then he's taken particular
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other fast man for the quarter.
Sheppard Strong Candidate.
For the mile and the half mile Mel
didate Sheppard's sensational running
has done much to add to the fame OF the
Irish American A. C. OF New York, for
whom he has brought a number of rec
ords
Although Sheppard's best event is the
mile, he is nevertheless lightning fast for
the half mile. and the man who beats him
Will have to go some. Sheppard went the
distance indoors in ! minute and So sec
onds. which is the indoor record.
Guy Haskins, If he be permitted to run.
and James D. Ligntbody of Chicago are
sure to be formidable rivals to Sheppa I'd
for the honor Of winning the mile event
for the United States.
Haskins. who captured the mile event
for the University of Pennsylvania in the
last intercollegiate meet is in trouble
| with his faculty. and his standing is
somewhat in dispute. though just what
| ruling the A. A. L. will make on his
case is still in doubt
On a ten-lap indoor track Lightbody
went the distance in 4 minutes and "a
seconds, but Sheppard beat even this
With minutes and - seconds indoors
phenomenal performance and one that
is likely to stand for long time.
1t Is pretty generally admitted that
Shrubb will be tie winner in the distance
runs. for the consumptive-looking little
Englishman. on form, is better than any
body who could be sent from this coun-
try. unless 1t be Longboat. But it is
said that the Canadian Indian will not be
declared eligible. In which case Nor
rissey. winner of the recent twenty-five
mile Marathon race at Boston. will be per-
haps the reliance of the United States.
Americas Men Of Might.
For the field events the United States
has many men of might
At the Penn relay games April %
Walter Dray of Yale cleared twelve
feet six and One-half inches, beating
his own worlds record by one inch
Against this phenomenal figure there
Is only one M. Ek To nd fhat l.: o