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there she was in the hall. all tittivated
up in her ready-made automobile things
l know the coat she had on was ready
made because I saw one just like 1t for
Sill IL yesterday-and you'd have thought
she was the only human being on top OF
the globe that had ever SO much as smelt
gasoline from an automobile. deed you
would. to see the way she preened herself
and went on. And that bottle-nosed
husband of hers
"Oh. talking about bottles. you know
that skinny. angular quarrelsome old
crank of a widow that lives on the fifth
floor back fiat. Mrs. Vanderbilt she calls
herself? Well. she was taken out of her
fiat to a hospital today. and the doctor
who came here to get her was cautious
to give 1t out that she was going to have
an operation performed for appendicitis.
but what do you suppose was the real
trouble with her? Why. when the jani-
tors wife went up to straighten out the
fiat after the quarrelsome old thing had
been taken to the hospital, she found one
whole clothes basket just filled up with
bottles: just hundreds of bottles. hear
So it's pretty certain that the old cranky
thing was taken to the hospital for some
thing else than an operation for appendi-
citis. She had just a plain case of Jim
jams. 1 verify believe. so 1 do. and
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blessed by the Greek Church Numbered
in their ears. is an experience upon which
Wood looks back one of the strangest
in his adventurous life.
Wood next found himself on the bridge
Of the Retribution beside Chinese Gordon,
while Chinese forts guarding the mouth
of the Yangtze kiang tried to put them out
of business. and nearly succeeded. too. for
a piece of shell sliced the watch fob from
Gcfdon's pocket And Woods adventure
didn't end there by long shot. Our own
Commodore Perry had excited the jeal-
ousy of England by opening the ports Of
Japan to the world some years before.
and not to be outdone the British govern
ment built a fine steam yacht a pres
ent for the mikado. Capt. Harry Edger-
ton of the Retribution was detailed to
take this yacht to the city then called
''Yeddo." and the boy William Wood.
youthful veteran of the Crmean and the
Chinese wars at the time. was a member
of the crew. His were among the first
European eyes to look upon Nippon and
her people, and the impressions this visit
made upon him have remained with him
to this late day.
In 1862 Wood was in Salt Lake City.
Those were the strenuous days of Nor
monism. when men of that faith fought
alternately with the wilderness and the
GENTLE and 1t was then. while the Nor
mons still dreamed of the Independent
empire that had been the goal of the trek
to Utah. that the faith finally found Its
way into Canada.
That confidence has remained with Will
liam Wood. Either the bitterness Of the
times passed him by or else his was
nature too kindly to rot in the passions OF
those other times. No more devout Nor
mon can be found than this old man. and
never did meet man who expressed
more cheerful tolerance of all the world
and its opinions. And nowadays. instead
of retiring to his pretty cottage home in
Salt Lake City-for Wood is now man
of earthly substance-this old sea dog OF
brakes breed is pioneering on the very
edge of western Canada-and enjoying II,
too He owns a couple Of thousand acres
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well. there's something in that. my
dear" he replied. just as If it were all
true and not just fooling. Now. here's
a place that ought to be pretty dressy.
The Delaware Water Gap. You see. my
dear. I've got the same ideas as you have
about the dressing business. like. you
know. to put on my evening clothes for
dinner every evening, Just like I do at
home here" and he glanced at his tat,
tered makeup of "house clothes and
grinned. Makes a fellow feel sort of
lonesome to find himself at a summer
resort where he can't sort of exploit his
wardrobe. Certainly does And l under
stand they're some d-essy at the Della
ware Water Gap. Think you'd like to
drop over there on our private car and
investigate it. anyhow"
"Maype-I'll think It over" she replied
with finger at her musing lip. Whats
that one you've got there with the pretty
pink Govern
"This?' said he. holding up the booklet
This is all about the Massachusetts
coast. All the diplomats and folks like
that go to the Massachusetts coast fol
the summer. you know, and there's
place there they call the summer capital
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bottles in a closet and never drink any.
thing that the bottles contained
"Oh. by the way, you know that Gid
derino girl up on the next floor. that's
pounding the piano all the time and driv-
ing the folks on that floor crazy with
her humping? Well. she's always tell
ing everybody she knows that she has
her gowns made by eittabundle the
SWEETEST dressmaker in Washington. and
what do you suppose the janhor's wife
told me this afternoon? Why she was
cleaning up the Gidderinos' fiat this
morning while they were all out up there.
and in sweeping up in the clothes clos. Is
she saw the tags sewed in those dresses
of the Gidderino girls that she brags so
much about. and. would you believe il.
every blessed one of those dresses is
ready made and she buys them all on 9TH
street! Greatest joke on that NONSENSE
cally uppity creature that l ever heard
in all my born days. and the very first
time l meet her in the hall I'm going 20
drop some little hint about 9TH street,
just to see her wither and shrvel up.
and IL She
We'll. bless my soul and body il the
man isn't sound asleep and snoring in
his chair. OF all the impudence, Going
to sleep right while I'm talking to him,
Oh. these inconsiderate, brutal men
folks!'
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as a prominent Wall street broker, might
reasonably have been expected to ex-
and probably something good deal more
substantial. that the skids were auto
matically adjusting themselves under the
New York race track 1t is interesting
time his words having been printed in
The Sunday Star March "a. 1907 His
words sound extraordinarily prophetic in
view of what has happened to racing
since he gave utterance to them.
The situation as regards the contin-
uance Of high grade racing looks bad to
me at this time" said Mr. Bennington in
that interview. at a time as l say. when
the racing bodies of the east imagine
themselves to be planted on the rock OF
eternity. l am not speaking of the sit
uation in any one section of the country
in New York state. for instance-but
everywhere.
Then. after pointing out how the ra cling
game was In bad state in New Orleans.
in California and In Arkansas. Mr.. Ben
nington went on:
There seems hardly chance in the
world that the Chicago race tracks will
be reopened for years to come. If ever
again. The game is as dead as a door
nail in Missouri 1t was not Joe Folk
alone who killed racing in Missouri. The
projectors of the game in that state per-
mitted 1t to fall into evil ways. SO that the
people were aroused against 1t. St. Louis
will hardly ever again be the great rae
ing town that 1t once was. The game
merely struggles along in Kentucky.
Why. even> in such a free and easy sec
ton Of the country as Montana, where
there are bush tracks. the eXploiters
of the game are being fought by power
full crowd unalterably opposed to racing
in all Of its branches. and l have heard
that up in Seattle. where the folk could
scarcely be accused Of smugness. a de-
termined effort is on foot to put stop
to the rather far racing they have there.
THE game seems certainly to be totter-
ing here in Washington''-I obtained the
interview from Mr. Bennington while he
was visiting Washington. The system
Of betting adopted here at Bennins dur
ing the last meeting may be practicable
enough, even il II is abominably ex-
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always thought she was drinking wom-
an, she acted SO crazy sometimes, and
her nose was mighty red. and
"How's that you say? That my nose
is red. too. and that therefore l must
drink in secret myself? How dare you
say such a thing, You know very we'll
that the very slight redness of my nose
and nobody else ever notices it and
makes mean comments on 1t but you-is
due to deficient circulation. caused by
the fact that l have to stick in this fiat
all the livelong time and never go any
where except to the theater two or three
times a week. What's that? I am too
eager to accuse other people of doing
things like drinking? Oh. so you're TAX
ing up for another one Of them. are you?
How long have you been on chummy terms
with that withered-up old Vanderbilt
woman. I'd like to know? Never saw
her but once in your life. Ell. and then
she looked like a nice. clean, honest. re-
spectacle person. with not sign or
symptom of drink on her. and you don't
believe that she ever tasted liquor in her
life. and you think she is really going
to be operated on for appendicitis just
because her doctor says SO, Ell? Well.
you're like all the rest of the men-just
great, big, hulking. pigheaded simpletons.
That's all I've got to say. AS If wom-
an would have millions and millions OF
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asperating and uncomfortab BILE work, but
1 can hardly believe. knowing what l do
of the profound hostility against racing
existing in certain strong quarters here.
that the game will be allowed to go on
at Benning much longer under any cir
cumstances. or with any form OF betting.
Some legal method. 1 am confident. will
at no distant time be found to stop rae
ing altogether around Washington. l
have talked with a good many Washing
tonians about it since arriving here. and
they all appear to be 'forninst' the game.
They say that the Washington men, most
of them government people really can't
afford to play the ponies. and that when
they lose-as I suppose some Of them
must some time. what do you Think
they are bound to go shy in the paying
of their legitimate bills. all Of which ar
rays the merchant class. as we'll as the
officials more or less responsible for the
proper behavior of the government en-
ployes against racing"
1t was at this point that Mr.. Benning-
ton gave utterance to his remarkable pre-
dction with reference to the game in
New York
II have gone over the situation as 1t
appears to me and in accordance with
information thd has reached me in all
New York" he said. Il think l hardly
need elaborate as to the situation in New
York. The game is in a parlous cond-
ton there. to put 1t mildly. The hostile
legislation aimed at 1t may be deferred for
a time, but it seems impossible to suppose
that it will not be spread upon the books
sooner of later. / can't see how any
thing is to be gained by lodging the issue
or by seeking to give out the impression
that the game is not only not menaced
in New York. but as safe a church.
There is a tremendous feeling against
racing in New York. and 1 know of no
imagina BILE reason why this fact should
not be looked squarely in the face. Nor
are the people back of this agitation
against New York racing by any me ans
fools. merely SNUG individuals who don't
know what they are about. They know
very well what they are about.
think 1t must be obvious to any thought
full man who knows the racing game in
this country that the ineradicable gam
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bling feature of the game is capable of
doing a very great deal of harm. espe-
cially among poorly Unbalanced young fell
lows. and that It has actually caused .
great deal of harm already. There are
two sides to all questions-I say that at
the risk Of being accused of making a
bromide And the side OF the anti-rac-
ing crowd is one we'll calculated to gain
sons who have in no wise suffered them
selves through the racing game
When this interview was printed in The
Star it was taken up by a number of the
New York papers. particularly the papers
that derived portion of their revenue
from printing the form charts and other
racing information. and Mr.. Benningtons
predictions were ridiculed. 1t was de-
clared by these papers that he didn't know
what he was talking about; that racing
England in Threadneedle street: that
thered always" be racing in New York
and betting on the races; that the sup
porters of racing were too strong for
the anti-racing folk. and SO on and so on.
Nevertheless, during the remainder Of
the year 1907 it was frequently pointed
out in this correspondence that the New
York racing interests were standing upon
the brink of a crater. SO to speak and.
with excellent authority for making the
Gov. Hughes would fire his first broadside
at New York racing In his message Of
January l. 1908. The broadside was fired
all right. and that was the beginning OF
Gov. Hughes victorious fight against
New York race track gambling. Even
when the anti-gambling bill was beaten
by tie vote in April the proposition was
not given up. and about three weeks ago
1T was stated in this place that the anti
gambling bill would pass the New York
state senate at the special session when
it came up.
All Of which is adverted to. not for the
benevolent purpose of giving the present
writer chance to point to any particular
omniscience or things on his part. nor.
again. to give him an opportunity to gal
loaf. but merely to offset the general
claim made by everybody he knew in New
York that when he predicted the passage
Of Gov. Hughes anti-gambling measure
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THAT the average Washington small
boy. when he sets his mind on any
thing that is of paramount importance to
himself. is bound to succeed is we'll shown
in the following instance:
During the closing series of the games
which were played here recently Willie
Fowler, the popular business man Of the
Washington club. found il necessary to
send a messenger down town on some
matter of Importance: and tie messenger
he chose happened to be a bright-faced
little kid about twelve years of age and of
good appearance The son of some people
in good circumstances, from all inuica-
tionS.
1t was on Friday when Mr.. Fowler
started his messenger off. and when the
boy returned in so short a time Willie
gave him a ticket of admission into the
grandstand on account Of the speed the
little tyke had shown in delivering the
message intrusted to him.
Now. Friday. out at this park is ladies'
day and a ticket purchased by a gentle
man on that day entities him to bring two
ladies into the grandstand free.
You may judge, then. of Mr.. Fowler's
amusement when short while after he
had given his youthful messenger the
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demand for panamas sort OF oleo OUT
after the big craze for them. but no"
there's steady demand for them again.
hut not enough of a demand to send the
prices spinning way up as was the Case
IN the summer of 1903. when every chap
who could beg or borrow thought that he
,,,., must have a panama or croak In the
o,,eron, IN get one. We've got 'em here
AZ nrices ranging from SIS to $50.
..There.s something queer about the
way the hankering for a panama
clutches a man once he begins to ache 10
-oss.ss ono n hits even men who are by
no means dressy fellows-men VINO can
mass the inviting array OF Things !"
tailors' and haberdashers' windows WIN
out ever being tempted Maybe this -
because the chap with a sure-ehous"
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these places. Now. l believe they don't
have any deer up in the White noun
tains. and there are all kinds of swag-
gerino plants up there. and we might"
The White mountains sounds nice. but
had mountains ought to be SO whitley
Whitley that they call them that?" she
suggested. Il thought mountains ought
to be sort Of purplish and all that. You
know the mountains down this way are
called blue-Blue Ridge. you know"
Here's a lot of pretty ripping stun
about the Maine woods he said but,
gee! If we went into one of those camps
why. we wouldn't be able to put on any
Jugs at all with our buds. would we?"
"Oh. WE'LL" she said. musingly. Il
could get four or five handsome outing
suits. you know. with buckskin-fringed
skirts and leggins. and all that. and
you could get some Of the loveliest things
to wear. like Dustin Farnum in The
Virginiau.' and we might like the Maine
woods for a little while. What do YOU
think?'
"'Fraid It might be too lonesome" HI
answered. Fellows go up there fol
fishing trips and the like. mostly. ant
they don't put on the kind of side were
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real. sure-enough summer resorts to 60
to"
Here's a basketful OF information and
pictures and stuff about the lake resorts
OF northern Michigan. The 500. Macki-
mac and all like that. Like to take a run
up there?"
Br-r-r-r!" she answered offhand II
was only reading the other day that
foks that are drowned I'm Lake Superior
never come to the surface any more
their bodies I mean
Well. We wouldn't naturally have to
get drowned. at that" he commented,
calmly. How'd You like to go out TO
the Yellowstone-heres a lot of Yellow
stone stuff-and get drowned in one OF
those boiling springs or geysers or what
ever they call EN-? That 'ud be a nice
warm way of drowning. any way
BY this time she was a little tired Of
the game. and so she pushed the booklets
away and wrapped an arm around his
neck and said. delightfully."-:
MY. amt I glad that your two weeks
vacation begins next week and that we're
gong to have the grandest old time
trolley-riding and all that! Amt / lust
GLADLY GLADLY. gladly
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mania that away.

DUSINESS-LIKE burglars are de rigeur
u in New York now. and have been any
time these ten years past but this fellow
Jack Gormley. class A porch climber. who
executed a tidy getaway the other day
after having been safely nabbed by the
police, certainly showed himself to be a
cautious sort of cuss.
When the cops swooped upon J. CORN
ley's beautiful apartment they found a
very beautiful and stanch safe built into
one of the walls. very naturally, j.
Gormley declined to tell them the combi-
nation of his safe. and SO they had to
scamper around and get an expert safe
man to open it. In the safe they found
some 500. 900 worth OF precious stones. fine
plate and the like. that ]. Gormley had
lifted in the progress Of a few recent
nocturnal excursions. The cops jes' LATED.
It seemed so curious and singular and
SIGH like.
what for the safe, Jack?' they in
uuired Of Mr. Gormley.
why. dye tink l wanted lot O.
thieves raidin me layout an pinchin' me
junk?' replied Mr.. Gormley. virtuously
And so the brilliant cops took j. CORN
ley to the station. where. on account Of
his intimacy with a number OF king-bee
Harlem politicians. he was permitted to
give straw bail-and this In spite of the
fact that J. Gormley has been mugEed
as an expert burglar. in every leading
rogues' gallery in the world. from Cairo
to San Francisco. Very generously. too.
the authorities having J. Gormley in
their custody neglected to temporarily
confscate some $1,000 in currency that
he had on his person. And so J. CORN
ley. knowing all about the little straw
bail arrangement. proceeded to beat it
thew turned him loose and he is now in
the land of Whereabou Unknown. while
the wise New York cops are scratching
their heads about it and calling him a
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silly and shoddy snobs on earth, those
Sumbuddy people in the third floor front
fiat are the worst was the way she
opened up, ignoring the suggestive crack
ling of her husbands newspaper. They've
been away for a little while. 1t seems
though I'm sure I never noticed their alb
sence-and the way they did lord it around
over what they call their trip to Europe.
Their baggage was all Uttered up with
Europeans labels till You couldn't see for
looking It's a wonder they didn't have
labels pasted on themselves. 1t would have
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looking for Now. here's a swell mess
of Junk about the turquoise land of Colo
RADIO. Looks smense, too. Mountains,
springs and all that They tell me lot
O. dead game swaggeroffsky folks live
out there, too. How'd you like two or
three months crack at the turquoise
land of Colorado?''
long time to get there. doesn't it? What's
that pretty one there with the bluey
Govern"
This one" he said. picking the book
let out Of the stack lis all about the
lakes of Wisconsin-Oconomow and
Waukesha and those places. How'd you
like little wallop at Wisconsin? Full
O. lakes, they say. and canoes. and
there's slews and slathers Of toggy-look-
ing people on the porches OF the hotels
in these pictures. Notice 'em? All
dressed up like Astor's goat. And that's
us-the tog stuff"
But. she inquired. reflectively. ARE
those places considered real summer-re-
sorty like? Wouldn't everybody just
imagine we were taking a ride on the
cars If we went to a place like Wiscon-
sin? You see. what we want is lot OF
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out there and actively superntends the
farming of 1t all.
He is in Washington on little pleasure
trip having always had desire to- see
the National capital of the states. as
he calls Uncle Sans territory. and after
he has looked around he is going back
to take up his life again.
Come out to McGrath any time In the
next fifteen years. he said to me after
we had wound up long chat. THE last
time you were out we only had a little
town In fifteen years we'll have city.
and I'll be waiting at the station to drive
you around"
And l shouldn't wonder but that he
would.
T,OTHER day one Of the Chicago
! papers reprinted that famous
spectrum story Of Uncle Joe Cannon's.
Uncle Joe always uses it to show that
there seemingly isn't any limit to the
power Of real money. and then. too. It's
about as characteristic a story as any
one of the many genuine ones that find
their origin in the noddle of the Speaker.
But never mind the way the Chicago
paper told the story. for this is the way
Mr.. Cannon tells tin fact as he told 1t
one afternoon just before the adjourn
ment of Congress to bunch of repub
licans around Jim Tawneys table in the
appropriations committee room.
Away back in my school days." said
the Speaker, I'VE used to study the spec
trum You know that the yellow. blue.
orange and all the other colors are re-
fraoted by the suns rays when they pass
through a prism. got nightly interest
ed in it all. but what saw and what all
the other scholars in the school saw
didn't complete the brilliant exhibit of
what the sun can do. 1 now know that
what We couldn't see. along with while
lot Of other equally unseeable things, are
we'll known to scientists, and that the