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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-12-27

II one never tries for big
things one never will accom-
plish big things Some peo-
pie are satisfied 10 plod along,
take things an they come, and mover
try to get out OF the old rut. When
you do make the big supreme ef
fort TO put something over the plate
that IL out OF tho general run you
are considered a wise little Helny
If you succeed. Should you fail,
you will bo looked upon as a poor
hood. II all depends upon whether
you win.
Ketchel fell down against John.
son, and some OF the folks are
"sympathlzlng with him, others
trying to belittle him. and many
are saying he never should have
tried TO win the heavyweight title.
Fine consolation for a loser. He
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-12-27
FINISHING On TURN
MAY HAVE WON RACE
ST. YVES GETS POLE POSITION ON LAST LAP
OF 15-MIIE RACE AND BEATS MARSH BY
ASCANT TWO FEET-RACE WAS REMARK
ABLE
BY LAURENCE REoINeroN.

In my opinion tho difference In
running distance between the pole
and outside positions ON one turn
Of an eight-lap track made TIE dif-
rerepce of title and something
over $1,000 On cold cash 60 John u.
Marsh yesterday afternoon. when
be WIS beaten sc0nt foot and a
half by st Yves Ia one 81 the most
remarkable 10 mile races ever run
IN this or any other country by
h stupid blunder. the only excuse
for which was the improha hiiity OF
q neck and neck finish TO such a
long grind the finish line was fixed
lust around curve. instead pf at
the end OF 5hc straight away. and
BY hugginE the rail- On the last two
turns the Flying F'renchuan just
managed 70 hold sufficient lead 60
give him an undisputed victory Had
the tape been stretched whore Il
belonged at she end % the stretch,
the race would probably have re-
suited IN a dead heat an almost
unheard-of contingency over the
lS-mile route.
without Wishing 20 rob -. Yves
Of one i0ta IT credit FOR his grand
performance. I DO not believe that
the race settled the disputed gues-
ton OF supremacy between the two
men. The difference ~ few
inches at the end OF Is grucliug
miles may mean the difference be-
tween the winners and losers end
u the stake. but IL does nog mean
my real difference In stamina or
ability Had one man given out
ASS fsat
0thor finished strong. the difference
in staying power would have thrown
the balance strongly IN favor of the
winner. even II his win had been
q matter Of inches. but yesterday
both men crossed the line on the
fourth speed. and not one Of the
100 enthusiasts who brHvsd the cold
TO witness tho race can honestly say
that 81. Yves - "A better man than
Marsh az the distance Run the
race over again today. and the re-
suit might be reversed. Run II
third time tomorrow. and 81. Yves
might again be returned the win
ner.
Mud. That's AL
Track conditions could not have
bern more uufavorubic for a dis
lance race. The eight-lap oval ~
Dugdale's park was a bog. except
in the spots where u more nearly
resembled slippery sidewalk on
winters day. The runners
splashed ankle deep through mud
for lap after lap. plastertng their
legs and bodies with a casing ~
ICY slush that grew thicker and
heavier with every snile. The men
hung together like tandem bike
riders. and not once during the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-12-27
SHORT SPORT

3on cautiiien will manage shs
MINES polls club tn 1910
Catcher Spencer II The Red S1e
had bat che fielding error Ia gs
sslues inst seaaun
MIG Clarke had more passed balls
than any other catcher In tho Amer.
lean iunNue~ "a
bYEoft was taken nut ~ ninu
games last season and finished nine
games for other pitchers
Hlily I.ish may coach the Navy
base BAH team
Rube Wadfoii was the poorest
fielding pitcher In ihe American
league last SEASON. He had II err
fors in 30 chances
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-12-27

days. when that country wam n
wilderness. they hraved a thousand
dangers because there waa yellow
metal sown In the rocks aud the
creeks. Those Nho struck Il rich
and returned to the states wor.
heroes Those who failed and had
their health undermined we're look
I'd upou as poor unfortunates. who
might have spent their time 10 bet.
Yer advantage than hraYing the
dangers ~ the Northland. II ia ain
contingent upon whether YOU fail
or succeed.
II a person il 10 be punished bv
public reprimand for being amhl
hous. then pan the assassin 10 a
einder. he IL guilty beyond perad
venture. he had desire. perfect.
~ legitimate and commendable. 10
gain the highest honora 81 the ring.
u was his prerogativc. II should.
nj be said that be was not entitled
to try for the baubie. He was not
the public's psmpered darling. who
had been Landed and extolled be.
cause his name was Ketchsl. or DO.
cause he was born in Michigan aud
reared IN Montana.
Stanley a Real Fighter.
Admirers OF the real fighter had
warm spot for him because he
was real fighter. He Knocked
his men out That be was the vic.
tim Of ambitious effort and over
matched himself was not without
precedent Ketchel figured the time
vas ripe, reached for the title. aud
ran strange splinter into his
Finger but the splinter Isn't like.
IL 20 tester a victory or two and
the talent will forget about the time
he grabbed for the big prize and
got stitch IN HIS arm. He has
Eought close to go times aud lost
twice. once 10 papke and once 20
Johnson. With record like that
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top wave.
A game. ambitious. hard.hittlng
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even II no has two defeats chaiked
up against him. lie died fighting
both times, with hts face 10 the
enemy and his fists closed ready
for action. That is as far as any
human being can go-to die fight.
ing.
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BASKETBALL

The basketball team Of the local
Y. NJ G. A win hook up with the
Tacoma five on the local floor to-
night. The teams ara old time
rivals and red hot contest 10 OK
pected.
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HAS REFORMED TO
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4 tBy United Press.l
4 CHICAGO. Dec. ~ Jack
A Johnaon'n mother. whom the
4 black puRiiiat brought here
q from Galveston today, estnb-
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4 Jack bought and furnished for
4 her at cost 81 $1,000
= Johnson announced that he
a had reformed 20 far as Joy
4 rides were concerned iBs aaid
4 that ha intended % save his
a money IN the ruture and divide
a with hia mother
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-24

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Dec. 23.-As
Halley's comet approaches the sun
it means more than the passing of
a heavenly freak to Professor Per.
clval Lowell, director of the Lowell
observatory here.
Some day this earth will come to
an end and if there are people in
other planets they will see its fin
ish through their telescopes.
And after the end of the world,
what?
Professor Lowell and other as
tronomers, on or about May is
tractor here and see Halley's COM
ct do just what the world will do
the day before it comes to an end.
Halley's comet then will cross the
face of the sun.
According to Professor Lowell S
startling theories. the earth will
cross the face of the sun, some
time, and not only will cross it,
but will dive, like a baseball from
a bat, RIGHT INTO the sun itself.
Somewhere back of the feeble
little space we call our universe
there are the ghosts of worlds like
our own moving about as ghosts
do, with no fixed time of appear
ance. Every once in "a while one
of our big planets will start sud
denly from its path, tremble u lit
tie, and then start on again,
During the time it trcmbled one
of these ghost-like worlds was
passing it, far out Of the range of
the strongest tOlesCOpe.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-24
Carol

Such hustle ensued that YOU
might nave thought goose the
rarest of all birds; feathered
phenomenon, to which a black swan
was matter of course-and in
truth it was something very like
1t in that house. Mrs. Cratchit
made the gravy (ready beforehand
IN little saucepan) kissing hot;
Master Peter mashed the potatoes
with incredible vigor; Miss Belinda
sweetened up the apple sauce; Mar
that busted the hot plates; Bob
took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny
corner of the table; the two young
Cratchits set chairs for everybody
not forgetting themselves, and
mounting guard upon their posts,
crammed spoons into their mouths,
lest they should shrek for goose
before their turn came to be helped.
At last the dishes were set on,
and grace was said. 1t was sue
ceeded by GREATNESS pause, as
Mrs. Cratchit, looking slowly all
along the carving knife, prepared
to plunge it in the breast; but
when she did, and when the long
expected gush of stuffing issued
forth, one murmur of delight arose
all around the board, and even Tiny
Tim, excited by the two young
Cratchits, beat on the table with
the handle of his knife, and feebly
cried "Hurrah."
There never was such a goose
Bob said he didn't believe there
ever was such a goose cooked. It's
tenderness and flavor, size ana
cheapness, We're the themes of uni
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-24

versal admiration. Fixed out by
apple sauce and mashed potatoes,
1t was sufficient dinner for the
whole family; indeed, as Mrs.
Cratchit said with great delight
surveying one small atom of a
bone upon the dish. they hadn't
ate it all at last! Yet every one
had had enough, and the youngest
Cratchits, in particular, were steep
ed in sage and onion to the eye
brows! But now the plates were
being changed by Miss Belinda,
Mrs. Cratchit left the room-too
nervous to bear witnesses-to take
the pudding up and bring it in.
Suppose it should not be done
enough! Suppose it should break
in turning out! Suppose somebody
should have got over the wall of
the back yard and stolen it, while
they were merry with the goose
a supposition at which the two
young Cratchits became livid, All
sorts of horrors were supposed.
Halo. A great deal of steam!
The pudding was out of the copper.
A smell like washing day, That
was the cloth. A smell like an
eating house and a pastry cook s
next door to each other, with a
laundress's next to that. That was
the pudding! In half minute Mrs.
Cratchit entered--flushed but smil-
ing proudly-with the pudding, like
a speckled cannon ball, so hard
and firm, blazing in half or half-a-
quartern of ignited brandy, and Se-
digit with Christmas holly stuck
into the top.
Oh, a wonderful pudding, Bob
Cratchit said, and salmly, too, that
he regarded it as the greatest sue
cess achieved by Mrs. Cratchit
since their marriage. Mrs. Cratchlt
said that now the weight was off
her mind she would confess she
had her doubts about the quantity
of flour. Everybody had something
to say about it, but nobody said or
thought it was at all small pud-
ding for a large family. 1t would
have been flat heresy to do so. Any
Cratchit would have blushed to hint
at such thing.
AT last the dinner was all done,
the cloth was cleared, the hearth
swept, and the fire made up. The
compound in the jug being tasted,
and considered perfect, apples and
oranges were put upon the table,
and shovel full Of chestnuts on
the fire. Then all the Cratchit fam
lily drew round the hearth, in what
Bob called circle, meaning half
a one; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow
stood the family display of glass
Two tumblers and a custard cup
without a handle.
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-24
A Christmas
WORLDS GREATEST YULET1DE STORY RUNNING IN THE
PREss-IDEAL HOLIDAY READING
BY Charles Dickens

"What has ever got your pre-
cious father, them" said Mrs
Cratchit. And your brother, Tiny
Tim! And Martha warn't as latf
last Christmas Day by half al
hour" 30.
Here's Martha, mother" said 6
girl appearing as she spoke.
Here's Martha, mother. crlet
the two young Cratchits. "Hurrah
There's such a goose, Martial"
why, bless your heart alive, my
dear. how late you are!' said MRS
Cratchit, kissink her a dozen times
and taking off her shawl and bon
net for her with officious zeal
Wed a deal of work to finish
up last night" replied the girl, "anc
had to clear away this morning
mother"
well. never mind, so long as
you are come" said Mrs. Cratchit
sit We down before the fire, my
dear, and have warm, Lord bless
YET"
mo, no! There's father com
ing" cried the two young Cratchlts
who were everywhere at once
Hide. Martha, hide" .-.
SO Martha hid herself and In
came little Bob, the father, with
at least three foot of comforter eX
elusive of the fringe hanging down
before him. and his threadbare
clothes darned up and brushed, to
look seasonable; and Tiny Tim
upon his shoulder Alas for Tiny
Tim. he bore little crutch, and
had his limbs supported by an iron
| frame!
why, where's our Martha?
cried Bob Cratchit, looking round.
Not coming said Mrs. Cratchit
Not coming!" said Bob, with a
sudden declension in his high
spirits for he had been Tins blood
horse all the way from church, ano
had come home rampant. Not
coming upon Christmas day"
Martha didn't like to see him dis
appointed, if it were only in joke
so she came out prematurely from
behind the closet door, and ran into
his arms, while the two young
Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and
bore him off into the wash house
that he might hear the pudding
singing in the copper.
And how did little Tim behave?'
asked Mrs. Cratchit when she had
rallied Bob on his credulity, and
Bob had Rugged his daughter to his
hearts content.
"As good as gold" said Bob, "and
better. Somehow he gets thought.
full, sitting by himself so much, and
thinks the strangest things you
ever heard. He told me coming
home that he hoped the people saw
him in the church, because he was
a cripple and it might be pleasant
to them to remember upon Christ
mas day who made lame beggars
walk and blind men see"
BOb's voice was tremulOuS when
he told them this. and trembled
more when he said that Tiny Tim
was growing strong and hearty.
His active little crutch was heard
upon the floor, and back came Tiny
Tim before another word was spok-
en-, escorted by his brother and sis
ter to his stool beside the fire;
and while Bob, turning up his cuffs
as if, poor fellow, they were cap
able of being made more shabby
compounded some hot mixture in
jug with gin and lemons, and
stirred it round and round and put
il on the hob to simmer. Master
Peter and the two ubiquitous young
Cratchits went TO fetch the goose,
with which they soon returned in
high procession.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-24

! Nobody knows how fast these big
worlds move and nobody knows
whittier they are bound. They are
black and old-tremendous cold
and dead.
Some day one of these dead
the sun. and with an ever-increas-
ing speed will hurl itself into the
suns mass. The earth, like Halley's
comet, will soon feel the attraction
of this dead planet hurting
through the air with such terrific
speed. Slowly at first, but surely
| under the inflexible law of gravity,
our globe will turn from its own
path i nthe great universe, and
swinging in behind the stranger,
will dart straight for the sun.
But unlike the case of the comet,
we all will be shot like giants
cannon ball into the molten mass,
and perhaps clear through it, If
the latter, we will come out on the
ECther side black and dead, like the
ether ghosts of worlds that once
teemed with life and now threaten
us.
This, in brief, is Professor Low
ellis theory on the end of life. He
is not a yellow" astronomer, and
he has science to back him in this
new and startling view.
We cannot tell the time of our
planets end, he declares, but we
have an idea of what will happen
just before the earth turtles into
the sun, 1t will come, as the bible
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-24

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fOretells, ''in a moment; in the
twinkling of an eyue."
But if our planet-ghost. whick
| finally entices us to our death, is
as large as the ghosts which make
other planets. tremble, men like
Lowell will be able to see it 81
YEARS AWAY!
Twenty-seven years of terror
will ensue between its discovery
and the end of time. Children will
| be born into the maddened world
who will be grown men and women
with the day of their fate sealed to
the hour, the minute, and almost to
the second. Divine promise will
be mankind's only consolation
Wealth. piled up. will be worthless.
There will be reign of fear and
terror the like of which never has
come before, nor could it beb mag
ined now.
This end may not come in this
cycle, or in 1000 years from now,
Tut it's coming some time Pro-
fessor Lowell and many other star
students are sure of this.
Deatn VIII De painless, though.
There will be a sight in the sky
like that of a hundred suns at mid
night The moon will fade away,
and this great light the treacher-
Gus, burning ghost-planet. will lead
the earth on, by means of gravity,
into the sun with it.
So far there is no direct disturb
lnrR in tho rnalpo nf Snnnn tn onnSs
men like Professor Lowell to be-
lieVe our end is coming soon. but
the knowledge of how it is going
10 come will prove an unusual and
picturesque revelation.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-24
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-06-24
WEST CORINTH.

Mrs. Horsford and Mr.. Woods
people from the city's arrived in
town for the summer.
Rev. F. H. Perkins of Washing
ton preached here last Sunday even
ing. A good congregation was out to
hear him as he always has some
thing good to say.
A few from this place attended the
Childrens' Day exercises at the
meadow last Sunday and some at
tended at Vershire.
Charlie Smith of Moretown was
here few days recently and took
his brother, who has been working
here in the mill home with him to
remain few days.
F. E. Blake and two children Of
Bradford visited his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. F. Blake last Saturday
night and Sunday
Horace Thompson was in East
Barre last Saturday and brought his
daughter Lizzie home with him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-06-24
THETFORD.

Married at the NJ. e. parsonage,
at Union Village, by Rev. Newton
on June 9th, Herbert Hobbs of Lyme,
N. H., and Miss Jessie D. Water
man Of Thetford. They took the
evening train for White River juno
ton and the next morning started
for Portsmouth, Boston and other
places Congratulations.
Rev. VIM. Slade preached a SER
mon last Sunday to the Odd Fellows
at the Hill church. About forty
were present, making a fine appear
ance as they marched to and from
the church. Lunch was served at
Academy hall after which they had
their portraits taken from the Acad-
envy steps.
Mrs. Frank Bond, who has been
spending the winter at Cuba and
Florida has returned to her home.
tt was announced at the gradua-
ton exercises that the same board
Of teachers had been retained for
Thetford Academy as last term.