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cestry he inherits a middle name like
downtown street. and enough cash re-
serve to enable him to live without pro-
longed mental strain. So he goes to Har-
ward, graduating eightyfourth in the
class of 'so, and after that nothing in
the Sun gives him one of its native New
Yorker two-line obituaries, stating that
deceased was born in 1852 joined the
Union League Club and will be buried to-
morrow afternoon at half past from the
family residence on 9Th avenue Palm
Beach and Newport papers please copy.
-
ga s long as he stays at home and
takes on age and flesh i'll the regu-
lar way. which is largely done by sitting
in club window of afternoons in a row
along with a troupe Of other trained Pom
eranian club men. all with the little tufts
under their ears neatly trimmed and their
paws up. he doesn't attract any consider
able attention. It's when he inyades the
bosky dells of the interior United States
that he begins TO sort Of fun out and get
weighty below the Plimsolls. The woods
are full of these human snowballs from
New York that get bigger the farther they
roll away from the place where they
started.
THE town where he goes to give the
peasantry a taste of pleasure is generally
one OF those places that got showed UP a
siding In it's early youth. and never
found it's way back to the main line. But
even at that it's doing pretty we'll consid-
ering the climate and the difficulty which
the suburbs have I'm trying to keep from
looking from farming land. 1t has in its
midst at least one leading citizen who
once went to a banquet at Fort Wayne
where they served watermelon with real
champagne wine at two dollars bottle
poured in through the plub, and then
had the coffee after they got through in
stead Of along with. There are several
others of social prominence who are wise
to the fact that correct dinner coat is
not one that can be taken of easily just
before sitting down to the table. Wealth
Ter citizens are often seen to smoke a
noble ten-cent cigar called the Andy
Jackson brand, on account Of ii being
full of old hickory, with a gilt band
around IL just the same as IL it came from
Havana, Cuba. There has been a debut
party where regular city caterer fur
nished brick ice cream and fully eighteen
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the rocks, falling hundreds Of feet strik-
ing with q noise like a cannonade of ar
tllery. Here the mist is SO dense that
We can see only ope-third OF the distance
and we can hardly catch sight OF Living
stone Island. which lies in the center. No
tice the rafnboWso The sun is shining
through the foam. There are rainbows
the great gorge. One a thousand feet long
has stretched itself from wall to wall,
about 800 feet under which we are stand
ing. 1t is a perfect bow. and it's colors
are more gorgeous than those of any rain
bow l have ever seen. 4 child stood here
the other day and asked her father why
men did not lower themselves down by
ropes over the rocks and get the great
bags of gold which the fairies say are
always found at the ends Of the rainbow.
At tho Devils Cascade.
Our next trip is to the Devils cascade,
on the other end Of the falls. The dis
lance is about two miles. and We must
cross the bridge and walk through the
park. We frighten the monkeys. and
strange birds fly about our heads as we
go. A thick mist is falling-we cannot see
the cataract until we are right upon it.
We sit down opposite the lip of the falls.
and watch the great rivers of water pour
ing over lac black rocks in volumes Of yell
low foam. The Zambesi Is now at it's full
and it Is consequently muddy. Right in
front Of us is the great pit into which it
falls. 1t is q mighty cavern. hundreds Of
feet deep. We cannot see it's bottom, for
out Of 1t is rising such volume Of steam
and foam as exists nowhere else in the
world. The western end Of the fall
Is cut of from the main portion by Cata-
ract Island. which lies several hundred
feet out in the river. The western cata-
ract alone is greater than any fall In
Switzerland it is only q little section of
the Zambesi, but II 1t could be carried
to the Alps 1t would be one OF the wonders
of Europe which tourists would travel
thousands OF miles to see.
The most remarkable view OF Victoria
falls is from Livingstone Island, which
divides the Zambesi in it's center. This
island IS on the very edge Of the falls.
and when the river is high there is
hardly a perceptible mark OF division,
the great cascade Of a mile wide going
down in one mighty sheet. 1t was upon
this island that David Livingstone took
his first view Of the cataract in 1855 He
reached the island from the upper Fam
best, coming down in a canoe. While
there. he cut his initials and the date Of
his discovery upon a tree. and the let
tiers and figures are still to be seen. 1t
is said that he also planted an orchard,
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Takes Him Around and
Shows Him the Aquarium
and the Eden Musee and
Dead Mans Curve and the
Flatiron Building.
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dollars worth of imported mustard green
was wrapped around the chandelier
StTvo be sure the annual engagement OF
I the Bessie Hopkins Stock Com
pany with a change Of bill every night
and a set of plush furniture and a silver
card receiver given away on Saturday
evening to the lady and gentleman hold
ing the winning coupons Is still reck-
oned as a gay week. and one replete with
box parties ard tl4ater suppers. Also
boiled custard and chocolate layer cake
have more or less OF a lead on Camen,-
bert and yeiioWychartreuse for finishing
off the heavy meal of the day, but as I
say they still manage to do quite we'll in
their simple urban way.
But not for holy second would it do
for the Town Mouse to seem to be pleased
with anything. II he ever was caught
looking satisfied the By-Hecks might not
know he was a regular New Yorker. So he
calls the snuff-colored waiter at the Pal
ace Hotel 'Garcon' and then wears q
look Of real pain on his face when in
formed that the latter answers only to
the name Of Roscoe. After eating his way
through a line Of food that would keep
poor family two days, he pushes his chair
back and regrets In an audible tone OF
voice that outside Of Sherrys and Rec
tors a man can't get decent meal in this
country. He occasionally let's fall re-
marks regarding little breakfast he had
the day before he left town with dear old
Clyde, meaning Fitch, and may also be
heard casually referring to Otis Skinner
as Ote. Should the weaIthiest citizen
take him out for spin in his new ma
chine he will remark on getting back that
it's really astonishing how well one of
these inexpensive American cars can 20
sometimes.
when he reaches the point where he
simply cannot stand to stay away from
Broadway another hour he gives the side
tracked metropolis a farewell treat by
repairing to the depot In the regular hired
conveyance, with his fossy travelling
clothes on. consisting in large part OF
shirt with stripe like the awning over
a grocery store. a. wescut with diagonal
pattern. the same a. q cross-town car
line. and a pair OF English tweed trousers
turned up SO far at the bottom that he
can scarcely be said to be wearing them
at all.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Copyright. 1908. by Frank G. Carp ,uter.l
Special Correspondence Of The Star
VICTORIA FALLS. Africa
HAVE been wandering for days about
the Niagara of Africa. Its awful
wonders grow upon me and l am
appalled, at it's grandeur. Away off
here in the wilds of the black con-
hundred miles south Of Lake Tanganyika,
as far north Of Cape Town as Galveston
is distant from New York. hundreds of
miles west Of tie Indian ocean, and still
farther from "ta Atlantic. Is one of the
grandest natursl features of old Mother
Earth. 1t is thA rs of the mighty Fam
best, one Of the ere.. rivers Of the globe
Niagara. Now that I have seen both.
I find it almost impossible to liken one to
the other. Each is Of its own kind and
each beyond description beautiful. From
the point OF striking views, and as a rag
ing CONFUSION of nature, I should call
Victoria falls by far the greater. The
two may be compared to play. Mag
ara is a drama with but one act. Victoria
Is equally great, but of many acts and
many scenes, each Of which has features
OF its own
As to the volume OF water. the Niagara
Falls probably surpSss those of the Fam
best. for over them pours the watershed
Of half a continent. The great basin Of
Lake Superior is 900 feet above the At
lantic. and almost one-til!rd of its drop is
at Niagara. The Zambesi has it's source
in swamp which lies mile above the
sea and its waters have already fallen
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Mouse endures 1t patiently while the City
Mouse. wearing smile that begins at
wisdom and ends at pity and has bored
to-death written all the way across, takes
him around and shows him the Aquarium
and the Eden Musee and Dead Mans
Curve and the Ffatiron Building and
feasts him betimes at those downtown
lunchrooms where they ladle in the soup
with the Australian crawl stroke and beat
the eggs at the same time they eat 'em.
Finally, the worm turns. The Country
Mouse takes the City Mouse kindly but
firmly by the faultlessly cut lapel OF his
morning coat and. as they say in the
latest popular song hit, these words to
him he then does speak, as follows:
You need not show me any more wax
works. After the second visit the sight
of John W. Kern as he looks in paraffin.
with glass eyes and Iceland moss whis-
kers, on a hot day. begins to pail. Like
wise. am carrying q full line Of Aqua
rum products and would not care to look
at any more samples at present. know
all there Is to know about fish anyhow
The mayor Of my town 1s the original
homeless sardine. and the meanest man
eating shark In captivity Is the president
"a ouA AoCai uuiiuIiik anu loan association.
/ may also add that am somewhat
a-weary Of the sort of fodder shops that
you have so kindly steered me into. There
may have been a time when 1 drew the
napkin we'll up over the chest like q
carriage robe before starting in. but I
assure you that I can now eat gravy
without having to be undressed with a
spoon afterward. would ask, is or fs not
Delmonico's still open? If SO, lead me To
it.
= While 1t Is true that 1 have not vet
been to a manicure, am in training for
that event. In fact. have often had the
back OF my neck shaved and bay rum
used on the hair. even when was not
going out in society. but merely for the
luxury Of tho thing.
IS 81 REALIZE that the suit which am
now wearing looks like the kind
you get from the Great Pneumatic AMI
Specific Tea Company for 200 green
coupons, but after you have led me to
q tailor who's expensive enough to call
himself draper, and have suitably
adorned me with few Of the proper
gauds. baubees and trappings. have
feeling that l will be more of a blithe-
some treat for the faded eye than am
now. After that desire to be introduced
into the haunts and homes of the rich
where the buffers have their faces in
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BY IRWIN s. COBB.

HERE was a long
piece in the paper
about the meteOric
rise of a famous
cotton speculator
who had come to
the city without q
cent and after q
few years had
been able to fail
in such a manner
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, IT. HEY Are Twice as High
1 as Niagara and Almost
: Three Times as Wide-A
! Dangerous Canoe Ride Above
! the Falls-Among the Hip
; popotami On Livingstone
Island in the Midst of the
Cataract-A Look at the
Devils Cascade and the Won.
derful Rain Forest The
Zambesi Bridge.
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IS A ND then. in due season. when the
crops are laid by, the Country
Mouse from the junction comes to the
city TO see him. For awhile the Country
Evening journal., 1908-11-11
CROSSAN GETS
INTO TROUBLE

Andrew Crossan, one of the witnesses
against John Goodwin, when he was
held in $1,000 bail for the upper court
by Magistrate Robertson on the charge
of attempted bribery. was himself ar
rested and was arraigned before Mag
istrate Householder at Delaware city
yesterday afternoon, on the charge OF
illegally voting on election day. He
waived a hearing and was held in $500
hail for court. Jacob Rupp of Delaware
city furnished the necessary security.
The defendant was represented by w.
T. Smith.
Crossan was arrested on warrant
sworn out by Goodwin. lie is accused Of
voting in Red Lion hundred when he
resided in ST. Georges hundred.
In his evidence given before Mag
istrate Robertson against Goodwin at
the latters trial. Crossan admitted that
he voted at Delaware city, although
he had moved to MacDonough. near
Mt Pleasant on September last. He
said. however, that he had been back
to Delaware City two or three times
he said that Philip Oliver came after
him in carriage on election day.
Evening journal., 1908-11-11
643 PLAYERS ARE
ON RESERVE list

NEW YORK. Nov. 1l-According to
the figures OF a leading ball fan. wno
is fond of keeping track of such things.
just 6fS PLAYERS are ON the reserve list
of thee lubs in .he two big major
leagues The Athletics have A. ana
the Philadelphia Nationals %. Tie
New York Americans and the Cleve-
lands have 80 each.
The White SoN are credited with a..
while 40 belong to the ST. Louis Browns
and 33 10 the champion Detroits. Wash
ington also has 30. while the Boston
Americans lay claim 10 S5. The New
York Nationals wiz call upon a. men.
the same number claimed by Pittsburg
Cincinnati has 40 and the Chicago Cubs
80. The Brooklyns havc reserved 80
and the ST. Louis Cardinals 80
AS he has left the maaagement Of the
Cincinnati Reds John Camel is receiv-
ing offers from some of the leaGinp
minor league clubs. T. IS sail that
Owner Chaplin. Of Rochester. wants
Camel 10 take the management. bat
that the former Red manager does moi
feel Like buying stock in the club
which is a condition named by Chaplin
Tho Boston Americans have sold out.
fielder Chadhourne and Pitcher GlaN
to the American Association for $3.50,
each. This is the first weoding-ou
sale Of the winter,
Evening journal., 1908-11-11
SEASON SAW
GOOD BASEBALL
Official Averages of National
League Show High Order
of Fielding

The onicial fielding averages Of the
National league show a high order of
FIELDING as a rule It is generally
agreed that the fielding this season
was of the highest class especially in
the National league.
No one will be surprised TO find that
Chicago National leads in team play
with the notably high average of 1853.
the highest on record for a team, if
memory is correct. Pittsburg is sec
ond with 964 No less than six of
the teams have percentages Of $50 or
better while the seventh is but a point
behind that figure. ST. Louis was the
weak spot I'm fielding in this league.
In Individual work Bergen of Brook
lyn, leads the catchers who have caught
in 100 games with an average of .9Sa.
Bresnahan OF New York caught in no
less than 139 games and he has the
fine figure of .9S5. The great Brown
OF Chicago leads all the pitchers with
perfect record in "A games Three
other men had perfect scores. but they
all pitched in less than 20 games.
Tenney of New York is easily the
leader of the FIRST basemen who have
taken part In anything like the full
number Of games. His average is $50.
Knabe OF Philadelphia tops the sec
ond sackers with 96s for over $50
games Devlin Of New York. who has
the unique distinction of being one OF
/ two men i'm the National League who
played i'm every game that his team
took part, l57. heads the dizzy corner
! guardians with .947. which is high
class for third basemen. or course the
wonderful Tinker Of Chicago. the great
est shortstop in the land today. is the
premier in that position with the not
able average of a5S Tinker shares
honors with Devlin in playing in every
game
OF the outheders. naming only men
who played In 100 or more games
Delehanty OF st Louis with 977 leads
the left field. Kane Of Cincinnati with
$50 the centerhelders. and Donlin of
New York the righthelders with 977
Reubach of Chicago had the high
est percentage of wins for tho pitch
ers with IA. Mathewson Of New York
is second with .77i The latter pitched
In As games and had twelve shutouts
Brown of Chicago is third with an
average Of 763
Evening journal., 1908-11-11
SOON CAN SHOOT
'BRER RABBIT
Season for Game in Delaware
Will Open on Monday
Next

The open season in this state for
quail, partridge. pheasant rabbit and
rcd squirrel begins on the fifteenth Of
this month. which is next Sunday. and
by following the requirements Of the
law in the hunting Of game. sportsmen
may be assured Of good sport while the
season lasts. The season is open until
December 81, with the exception of that
for red squirrel which continues until
January T.
Hunters should bear i'm mind that the
law at this time Of the season provides
a way that game should he sought. and
there are many restrictions that the
gunners will have to bear in mind If
they wish 10 steer clear Of the law. For
instance. although the open season be-
gins Sunday. il IS unlawful for any per
son within this state to hunt or pursue
with firearms or dog any bird or ami
NAL on Sunday. Again 1t is unlawful to
hunt while the ground is covered with
snow any partridge, quail or rabbit. or
have I'm his possession any bird or ami
mai that has been killed or taken at
such time.
Probably at no other season has there
been such plentifulness of game of Tho
sort mentioned above. Quail are re.
/ ported I'm large quantities and par.
tridges have been seen in many dis
tricts OF New Castle county. something
which hitherto has been unknown T.
any extent Rabbit in large number
are being seen daily in favorite burrow
ing places
Local sportsmen have been waitin
anxiously for the open season. and afte
Sunday there will probably be an exc
dus to the fields and woods to pursu
game.
In other states the laws are alread
open. the hunters in Pennsylvapia d
this time enjoying the sport and !
many States as we'll where game of III
sort mentioned is very plentiful
The Delaware Game Protective Assc
citation will take every precaution
see that the laws OF the State an
obeyed. Detectives will be employed
prevent any unlawful killing of gam
Past seasons have Witnessed several :
rests on charges Of violation Of Il
game laws
Evening journal., 1908-11-11
SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN
FARMERS OBJECT WHEN
HUNTERS DEMOLISH WALLS

Farmers in some parts Of Chester
county are entering a strenuous kick
against INSCRIPTIONS gunners coming
on their places, and the aforesaid far
mers have good reason to back up
their contention, too. These kicks are
coming from farmers who have made
use of the stones on their properties
by building them into dry walls for
fences. and just here lies the trouble
These walls furnish an excellent harbor
or Mr.. Cottontail in case he gets caught
out in a storm of No. 1 shot and
is not totally disabled.
After a rabbit has sought shelter in
one of these walls in such emergency
rather than hunt another a gunner viii
usually proceed to dig the SON "a
gun out" The wall is very easily torn
down and as the rabbit usually stays
near its base about three quarters Of
it has to be torn down before the
rascal" is located, and just about the
time that the hunter thinks he has the
rabbit in a tight place the cotton tail
moves on a few feet. which necessitates
new hole being dug in the wall. In
some instances many of the walls have
been completely demolished.
Evening journal., 1908-11-11
FIRE COMPANY'S
DRIVER IS INJURED

Benjamin L. Bowers, of No. 1914
Heald street. criver for the Independ-
ence Fire Company. was injured yes
terday when ne was thrown from q
wagon in q collision with car No. l6
of the Peoples Railway Company. al
Seventh and Pine strects
Bowers was driving one Of the engine
horses and he probably did not SEQ
the car approaching as he started to
cross the tracks. 1t was too late to
prevent an accident ana the impact
threw Bowers from the wagon. His
face and body were bruised ana the
wagon was damaged considerably. The
horse was not injured Bowers was
able to drive the animal back 10 the
E.c station and then went to his home.
Evening journal., 1908-11-11
few new PLAYS
In BASEBALL
Dan BrOutherS Says National
Game is Very Nearly
Perfect

NEW YORK. Nov. ii-The recent
demise of the season of 1908 provec
conclusNely that the game of base
ball is very nearly perfece The only
new play was that perpetrated by Fred.
Merkle on the Chicago Cubs. II is
pretty hard to tell which should take
the blame. That was wound up very
quickly. however. for hereafter man.
ayers will undoubtedly see that all
aspiring base runners touch second
whether the game is a cinch or MT.
With the exception Of the delayed
steal" there has been 10 new play in
baseball for the past ten years, ac-
cordiug to Dan Brouthers. the ve-eran
PLAYER and scout. The squeeze play
was said to be new wher Clark Griffith
first used It with the iIighlanders, but
Investigation shows that it was used
I'm the minor leagues scme time prior
to that. In fact, Dutch" Carter. the
famous Yale pitcher, declares that il
was used by the Yale team when he
was the leading pitcher for the coli
lesians.
The delayed steal is generally at
tributed To the inventive mind of Sam
my Strang, while he was a member or
the Giants Norman Elberfeld. of the
Highlanders, took advantage of it i'm.
mediately and many claim that he de-
vised the play. McGraw says, how
ever that Strang invented the play,
and most of the PLAYERS agree with
him.
The delayed steal is one of the most
surprising things in baseball. IL has
ALWAYS been customary for the runner
on first to start for second, on steal,
the minute the pitcher started to throw
to the plate. Strang discovered that
by waiting a minute before starting
the team would not be expecting the
steal and that nobody would covei
second Instead of starting with tie
pitchers arm he would, therefore, wait
until the catcher got the ball in his
hands. Then he would start for sec
ond. Neither shortstop nor second
baseman would cover. and while the
catcher was hesitating about where to
throw the ball the runner would arrive
safely on the bag. Even If the catcher
/ did throw the ball il was likely 10 80
to the field. as t''~ bag would be GOV.
cred too late.
The bunt. the double steal. the hi
and run. and all sciensshC plays oil ina
nature were used years ago. The old
/ Baltimore Club used them all and Johr
Ward insists that they we're in vogue
prior to Hanlon's management of the
Orioles
The spitball is only five years old
but il is not a play. Ii is a curve use,
by the pitcher and cannot be considerc'
AZ "A play.
Excepting the delayed steal Da'
Brouthers says that he has not see
new play in baseball for fiftee
years.
Evening journal., 1908-11-11
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CHILD'S DRESS.
Paris Pattern No. $3.50
An seams Allowed.

Made with the body and sleeves In
,ne this is a simple and becoming little
,rock for the small girl. The pattern
may be developed with high or low neck
and with full-length sleeves. or In flow
ing style. as Illustrated in the back view.
TWO box-plaits at the front and back
stitched to nearly the waist-iine, give
ample fullness to the skirt extension
which is finished with a deep hem. rhe
square neck and wristbands are trimmed
with insertions OF embroidery, or fancy
braid IN soft Persian colors. and the little
yoke is OF aii-over tucking. The frocK
Is adaptable to almost any material, cot
ton voile, nuns yelling, albatross OF
challis being very soft and becoming
The pattern is in 8 sizes-h to years
For child OF 5 years the dress requires
yards OF material q inches wide, "a
yards IS inches wide. or 2ss yards -
inches wide. each with q yard OF tucking
IS inches wide. OF y yard Of material q
inches wide, or x yard sc or AZ ineh,.s
wide for collar and yoke, AID IL yaras
Of Insertion.
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