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effort, rose in the air and leaped back.
ward fully six feet, alighting on tiptoe
as lightly and as we'll poised as . bal.
let master. Sullivan rushed again,
and Corbett again willed himself out
of the way rather than leaped. 1t WIS
the swiftest, easiest footwork anybody
had ever seen in the ring. and the
crowd could not withhold a cheer Of
appreciation.
1t was not until the third round that
Corbett felt safe in replying to the
enemy's fire, and then he leaped only
half as far back as usual, crouched low
and drove his long. lean left arm
straight up in q piston.like blow that
made the first thud against Sullivan's
mouth, jarring his head back. putting
the lips and drawing blood. The en-
preston of hate and batiied fury in the
champions face at that moment would
have scared most men out of the ring;
its only effect ON COrbett was to in.
crease the width Of his grin. Now he
was convinced that he could hit Sulli.
van while Sullivan could not hit him.
The rest of the battle was q mere mat.
ter of care and endurance,
Barring accident the battle was al.
ready ended, yet every moment Of the
contest was full Of thrills; for again
and again Sullivan's blow came within
an inch Of destroying his hooking
young adversary. 1 was reminded of
the hairbreadth escapes Of the matador,
of the miraculous deliverance of Victor
Hugo's man who struggled on the roll
ing deck with the loose cannon, of
score or more Of near-tragedies.
But the end was at hand in the
twenty.first. Sullivan came out on
tottering legs, but he was on the az
gressive, still charging on the foe.
COrbett drove left and right into the
body and Sullivan's arm dropped
limp. Corbett turned loose a rapid
fire Of left and right hoOks-short,
round-arm blows-on the jaws.
Sullivan wavered. dropped, sprawled
on the ground. In five seconds he was
up, only to be sent down in a shorter
time. Five seconds later he was up
again, only to he battered down a
third time. He tried hard, but he
couldn't get up. Slowly the referees
rising and falling arm told offthe fatal
ten seconds. The greatest battle in
the history Of the ring was ended
William Inglis in Harper's Weekly.
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MR.. CUNiMINS AND LAFAYETTE
YOUNG.

Lafayette Young was appointed
senator from Iowa to succeed tempop.
arily the late Senator Dolliver.
Mr.. Young is distinguished pub.
licist and an orator of national repute.
He is also classed as regular repub.
lican.
For that reason, and before Mr..
Young has taken the oath of Office,
Senator Cummins has declared war
upon his colleague. He proclaims
that any member of the Cummins in.
surgent faction is more worthy to be
senator than Lafayette Young.
All will remember how Albert b.
Cummins, on the eve of the recent
election, with panic in his looks and
tears in his voice. stood on q public
platform here in Chicago, swallowed
his 80 called principles, and implored
his hearers to forget everything and
vote for any and every candidate
wearing any sort of republican label.
1t is quite in character for such a
moral coward before election to play
the blatant bully when the election is
over and he finds that his own hide,
however SCARED, is still on his bones.
The Cummins declaration of war
against all Iowa republicans unwilling
to be his henchmen and grovel at his
feet shows why the insurgent move
ment ia failing and was bound to fail.
Its chief, like Mr.. Cummins, have
no use for associates. They desire
only slaves. They do not aim to be
leaders, but masters. And the repub.
licans of most American states will
never suffer such an ignominy.
An American political party can
never be made of one despot and
herd of serfs. The plan may have
succeeded for the time in Wisconsin,
but Wisconsin is not the whole coun-
try. Mr.. Roosevelt learned the differ.
ence in New York.
In other states republicans feel that
they are first American citizens, and
that. above and before everything else.
they are free men.-Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
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A Historic SPOT.

LinlithSOw palace. On the shore Of
the beautiful sheet of water Of that
name in Scotland. is somewhat square
and heavy looking. IinlithgOw was
in Linlith=ow church James Nv. Of
Scotland was fOrewarned by IN appa
ritiOn Of the coming disaster ut FlOd-
den Field: in its streets the regent
Murray wsS shot: close by the town
Edward !. had two ribs broken by his
horse the night before Falkirk. and on
its lOch IL chancellor Of the exchequer.
bent Oh economy. issued instructions
that the royal swans should be Kept
down to dOzen.-ArgOnaut
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nary success comes more from the
manner of its operation than from the
nature Of the organization. The
Tammany leaders have learned in their
century IF experience just how far
they can 60 in giving favors to groups
IF people with large number IF votes
without antagonizing other and larger
groups. The disaster following the
Tweed experience of forty years ago
has made them cautious about attack.
ing the tax payers too openly. They
therefore have developed an elaborate
system of distributing official patron.
age and social and political assistance
among the submerged classes and the
immigrants that enables them to swing
an enormous number of votes at the
polls. This compact following gives
them control of the local democratic
organization nearly all of the time,
and through the old system of straight
party voting this puts them in control
of the city more times than the
thoughtful citizens of New York like
to contemplate. Since the Office of
mayor was made elective in 1884,
Tammany has had that place nearly
twO-thirds of the time.
The fire, it may be added, did not
even wipe out the building. The
tentacles of Tammany which reach
down into every block in the great
city were therefore not even scorched.
Journal.
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BATTLES WITH L0CUSTs.
IN 1880 an Army Was Arrayed Against
the Ravaqina Pests.

Since the days Of the pharaohs the
locust has been IN unmitigated plague.
Pliny relates that in many places in
Greece law obliged the inhabitants
to wage war against the insects three
times u year,. e., in their various
states Of egg, larvae and adult
In 1149 lOcusts stopped the army Of
Charles NIL. king Of Sweden. as it was
retreating from Bessarabia after its
defeat ut POltava. The king ut first
Imagined that he was being assailed
by terrific hailstOrm.
In Pennsylvania i'm 17SO the ravages
Of the locusts assumed such disastrous
proportions that the army had actually
to be called out to deal with the pests.
and whole regiments of soldiers were
employed gathering them up and put
ting them into sacks.
A weird. uncanny looking customer
IS the locust. The general color scheme
Of his body IS kind Of indefinite
green, relieved by pink legs AMI wings
Of a whitish color. Two huge. blank.
unmeanins eyes give an expression of
utter imbecility to the Insects cOunte-
nance.
To atone in a measure for their de-
structive prOclivities the lOcusts are etli-
Sle. The Arabs are particularly fond
II them. Camels, to which they are
given after being dried and roasted
between two layers of ashes, look upon
bOcusts as great delicacies.
The flavor resembles that Of crabs,
and in Bagdad they are consumed so
Us to affect the price of
Stories.
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Jack Sheppard rs q Text.

Jack Sheppard had a great hold upon
the imagination Of the people Of his
time. The fact that 200 900 people wit
messed his execution at Tyburn on
Nov. IS, 1924. upon the tree that bears
twelve times a yeare" is some witness
to his grim popularity. But one Of the
strangest tributes ever paid him was
the sermon preached upon him in a
London church.
"Oh. that ye were all like Jack Shep.
pard" began the preacher. to the stu
pefaction Of his congregation. He went
on to draw a parallel between things
OF the flesh and those Of the soul and
to point out that the genius shown in
housebreakinc might have been be-
slowed upon picking the locks Of the
heart with the nail Of repentance."-
London Standard.
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An Old Carrot on q Stormy Dav.

1 know no nobler forage ground for
a romantic. venturesome. mischievous
boy than the garnet Of an old family
mansion on day of storm. 1t is a
perfect field Of chivalry. The heavy
rafters and dashing rain, the piles Of
spare mattresses to carouse upon, the
big trunks to hide in. the old white
coats and hats hanging in obscure cor
ners like ghosts. are great! And it is
so far away from the old lady who
keeps rule in the nursery that there is
no possible risk Of a scOld!nS for twist
ing off the fringe Of a rug. There IS
no baby in the garnet to wake up.
There is no company" in the garrett
to be disturbed by the noisc. There is
no crochety old uncle or grandma.
with their everlasting Boys, boysr'
and then a look Of horror.-Donald G..
Mitchell.
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THE Willy THREE.

Mark Twain was firm believer in
the national movement for good roads.
A Hartford man recalled the other
day this experience of the famous hu-
norist:
81 once had thirty miles" Mark
Twain began-"to go by stage in Mis-.
sissippi. The roads were terrible, for
it was early spring. The passengers
consisted of five men and three women
three large, we'll developed women,
swathed IN shawls and wells, who kept
to themselves, talking in low tones on
the rear seat.
"Well, We hadn't gone a mile before
the stage got stuck two feet in the
black mud. Down jumped every man
of US, and for ten minutes We tugged
and jerked and pulled till We got the
stage out of the hole.
I'VE had hardly got our breath
back when the stage got stuck again.
and again We had to strain our very
hearts out to release her. In covering
fifteen miles We got stuck eight times;
and in going the whole thirty We lifted
that old stage out of the mud seventeen
times by actual count.
I'VE five passengers were wet, tired
and filthy when We reached our desti.
nation; and SO you can imagine our
feelings when we saw the three women
psssngers remove, as they dismount.
"a. heir wells, their shawls and their
VyiHk ), and 10 and beh 1ld-they were
+ trrte big, hearty, robust men.
} AS we stared at them with bullying
and ferocious eyes, one of them said:
Thanks for your labor, gents. We
knowed this road and prepared for it.
Will you lickery Human Life.
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Sure on One Point.

DO You believe that great wealth
has tendency to keep q man out Of
heaven:" queried the party who was
addicted to the conundrum habit
Il am not prepared to express an
"pinion on that subject" answered the
student Of human nature. but know
that great wealth has kept many q
nan out Of the penitentiary."- Chicago
News.
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Good at Arithmetic.

"FOr goodness sase. John. how long
lid you boil these eggs!'
"Just as long as you told me to, my
lear"
''lmpOssible. They're hard as bricks"
IL boiled them just twelve minutes"
''Twelve: Why. I told you that three
minutes was long enough for an egg"
''Yes. dear. but boiled four Of them
Toledo Blade
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In Musical Terms.

IN MUSICAL 0rm3.
Chief EditOr-LOOk here. Sharpe.
here's u fiddler been hanged for muir
der How shall I headline II? Musical
ton on One String" dO?-St Louis
Times
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CURIOUS BLUNDERS.
The Anaehronisms That Crowded q
Once Famous Poem,

The Anaehronisms That Crowded q
Once Famous Posm.,
The medieval romances are full of
blunders. making contemporaries of
men who were separated sometimes
BY hundreds. sometimes by thousands.
Of years. but as historical criticism
had not then being and the general
information Of the age was not su-
perior in any particular to that Of the
novelist their plans do not amount to
much from a literary point Of view.
Such an instance Is the case Of Arios-
to. who might be supposed to know
something at least Of the truth Of his
tory. but whose once famous poem.
Orlando Furioso." Is q tissue Of his
tOrical absurdities from beginning to
end
In this poem Charlemagne and his
peers are joined by Edward /. Of Eng
land. Richard. earl of Warwick; Clar-
ence and the Dukes Of York and
Gloucester; cannon are employed hun
dreds Of years before the time of
Monk Schwartz. and the Moors are
as established in Spain in
spite of the historic fact that 200 years
elapsed after the death Of Charlie
magne before they crossed from Afri-
CT. In one place Prester John. who
lived 400 years after Charlemagne.
and Constantine the Great, who died
five centuries before him. are intro
duced and hold familiar converse with
the great Charles. while in another
Saladin and Edward the Confessor are
Joined by the Black Prince.
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English as She 10 Spoke.
"Must you go:''
"Yes. The wife's sitting up for me.
and II ] miss the last train / shall
catch it."-IippincOtt's.
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A Steaiaht Tin.

"You can't see my husband. He Is
not ut home"
But. madam. I want to see him the
worst way"
well, If that's the way you want to
see him you'd better sit right there
on the steps until he comes from the
Post.
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grlmaced eNultlngly in Johns face,
and then, as he walked Oft, turned and
grinned mockingly while he uttered
some sneeripg phrase which, of course,
none of US outsiders could hear. That
moment, it seemed to me, witnessed
the most daring act of Corbett's life.
Surely it would have been safer to
have put his hand in a lions mouth
and twisted the lions tongue than to
take such Liberties with Sullivan, the
destroyer Of men. No other human
being had ever dared to think Of such
a thing, much less try it. Moreover.
when he returned to his corner he
pointed at Sullivan and made Jokes
about him that caused Bill Brady and
Delaney and the others to explode with
laughter.
Corbett's taunt was delivered with
the deliberate purpose ofjarriDg Sulli-
van offhis mental poise t"getting his
goat is the sporting phrase, and it
fully succeeded, for when the bell clan.
ged few moments later Sullivan dash
ed out of his corner furious with rage. /
The first physical encounter was >fas.
spectacle. Sullivan tore in,
head down and neck arched, more
han ever like q mad bull. As he
;ame close. Corbett, seemingly without
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-09-26

the car slightly and cutting and
bruising Mcfarland seriously.
The third accident happened on
the east road on Prospect Hill,
when Allen Kelsey, the 14-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank G.
Kelsey, who was coasting down
the hill in a toy wagon and col
lided with an auto delivery wagon
belonging to w. A. Shumaker, a
grocer. The youngsters head
was cut above the eye and his leg
badly lacerated. The injuries are
not serious.
Two Cars Collide.
The last accident occurred Sun
day night at 7 o'clock, when a big
auto owned by Ed Shyleen and
driven by James Barton, which
was going down Pacific avenue to
the dock with two women passen-
gers, collided near the CONNER
cial dock with a Pacific Car COM
pany's taxicab driven by Dave
Keith. Both women were thrown
from the car, but beyond a shak-
ing-up were not hurt. The women
proceeded to the boat.
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DaiWSborfSfor:Y

Rajah at the Zoo" continued Car
lotta. But, you see, dear, the
papa-man doesn't know how silly
he looks, because some other man
down town got the same dollar
he was after-and the papa-man
is so angry that the thinks he's a
tiger, you know"
The man turned a shameful red
and managed a sickly grin. The
Dutch Princess kept her lips part
ed in an understanding smile.
Now" the child went on, eff
the papa-man would play buck
horsey and hold-the-gates-high
and come-to-see with you and me,
he would soon be so happy that
he would not be angry any more
and he could get that dollar back
from the other old, bothered man
down town"
Wilhelmina, fitting backward,
allowed her drowsy Dutch eyes to
droop; but the man by the fire
ACTUALLY chuckled.
by George!" he muttered, "the
child's right" Then: Here,
you morality-prattler-prop up
1.-THE royal Wilhelmina and let's
have rip-roaring, foot-stamping,
ring-around-the-rosy game. Come
on-you and the Dutch Princess
all hands around nowhere we
go!
And when Her Royal Highness
of Holandin-Dolldom really slept
by the side of the wise little moth
er-child, and the fat, red papa-man
sat in the easy chair, painting from
his hour of riotous play, he really
found the solution of that bull.
bear A-B-and-C deal, so that mex
day he acquired the other men.
dollars right along.
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MAY HIDE DIVORCE
SUITS FROM THE
PUBLIC

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Ac-
ton by majority of the bench
of the supreme court is expected
here to bring about absolute Sc
crecy in all divorce proceedings.
There is already secrecy in all
cases alleging infidelity and sew
eral of the judges have refused to
hear oral arguments in the pre-
liminaries which shut the door to
all publicity in the cases.
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Feels Funny to be Told That
You're Dead When You're Not

OF course you don't know how
1t feels to be dead-but do YOU
know how it feels to be told that
you are dead, killed am hour be-
fore and not to take up time try
ing to prove that you are alive?
Bob Kenyon, AN automobile
driver of Tacoma, last Saturday
experienced the novelty of being
curtly informed over the tele-
phone that he was a dead one,
that his body at that very minute
was probably lying under twist
ed machine and that the man on
the other end of the wire would
be much obliged if some informa-
tion as to the details of Kenyon
fate should be forthcoming.
1t happened thus:
Kenyon was driving a machine
for Mrs. ]. l.. Carman when a re-
port came to one of the garages
that the Carman machine had up
set and that Kenyon had BEEN
killed. The rumor grew and
grew.
A telephone message was sent
to the Country club and the stew
ard asked for any information he
might have regarding an automo-
lille accident. Kenyon happened
to be ON hand and the steward
asked him to take the phone.
Hello, hello" said the voice ON
the other end.
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lstuff in this way if you'll only
hurry and tell the police about it
Half the time they haven't got, a
chance of getting the man or get
ting back the goods unless they're
told about it right off the jump.
But then a burglar in large
town where he's known has an
easier time. Almost every city has
some place known as a fence"
where burglars can get rid of their
junk and get good prices for it.
Lots of times it's some kind of a
low hockshop, where they'll take
stuff without asking questions and
keep it away from the inspector.
Then there are fences" in saloons,
resorts, dope joints, and cheap
jewelry stores. But if a burglar
isn't known in these joints he'll
have a hard time finding them.
The police know where most all
the fences" are, and although
they may search these kind of
places without finding anything,
if they're told about the burglary
soon enough, they can send stool
pigeons to watch them, and lots of
times you'll get your stuff back
this way.
It's always a good stunt, if your
loss is heavy enoug, to have cir
cular printed with a description of
the stuff missing on it. 1t doesn't
cost hardly anything to print them
and ley can be mailed to the
chiefs of police. There's chance
f getting your stuff back this way.
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-FOUR AUTO ACCIDENTS
HALF DOZEN INJURED

Four automobile accidents have
occurred since Saturday after
noon, in which nearly a dozen
people figured, but in spite of the
fact that five autos have been
badly mutilated but two people
are badly hurt, and in on case are
the injuries dangerous.
Saturday afternoon taxicab
driven by Charles Wright was
overturned on Puyallup avenue by
a defective street crossing and the
passengers of the car, Florence
Eddy, Elsie Isaacson, A. c. Mel
son and Dan Green were pinned
under the wreckage. , Miss Eddy
sustained a dislocated shoulder
and was taken to the Fannie
Paddock hospital by a passing
auto, but the others were only
scratched and bruised.
Goes Over Embankment.
The second accident occurred at
North Twenty-ninth and Union
avenue when l.. J. Mcfarland,
employed by Stone Bros, who
was learning to drive a car, ran
over an embankment, damaging
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what you make. Instead of saving
up enough money to get out of
town after pulling a job, a burg
lar generally uts things off until
he's broke. While he has money
it's always case of well, I'll
wait little while" Finally he's
"broke" and has to pull of a job.
He pulls it. Then here's his trou-
BILE. He's got jewelry and stuff
on his hands worth many times a
railroad ticket out of town, but he
is taking chances to sell it. Finally
he's up against it. He's got to raise
the cash. Chances are he takes a
ring or something to a pawnshop.
Here's where he strikes his snag.
In every town of any size at all
the police have got the hockshop
men lined up. There's a pawnshop
inspector in every burg almost. He
keeps his eye peeled for everything
that comes into the different places
and if he finds something which
was stolen the night before from
house, he right away
gets an idea of the map of the
man s face who hooked it, from the
owner of the store. Then they've
got you spotted, and if you haven't
got out of town in the meanwhile,
lust kiss yourself goodnight. |
You're a goner.
That takes it for granted, of
course, that the police were put
hep" to the burglary as soon as
he owner of the house found out
hat his place had been robbed. |
lots of people wait too long, and c
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WORKERS
ARM SEVERED
BY SAW

Victor Johnson, for the past 15
years an employee of the Old Town
Mill, fell on a saw this morning
and his arm was completely saw
ed off close to the shoulder. He
was removed at once to the Fannie
Paddock hospital. He will live.
The accident happened just be-
fore Z o'clock. Johnson was oil
ing the huge bandsaw when the
carriage on which he was standing
started forward and before John
son could recover himself he was
on the speeding saw.
He lives with his family at 1929
North Twenty-seventh street.
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fants' home and passing it off as
her own, thereby hoping to win her
husband back to her. She adopts
the urchin and her telegram brings
her husband back. The duped ia
theirs cry of Joy at beholding what
he supposes to be his own son is
held to be very funny on Broad
way.
There is also scream when the
Italian mother, from whom the
child has been taken, bursts into
the beautiful room and demands
her bambino. The trHsting ia
Tiers" indignation with her whom
he believes to be black hand kid
naper is very funny, indeed. AT
least, Broadway thinks 1t is.
Marguerite Clark plays the friy-
olous, deceitful, heartless wife
creditably. Walter Jones is fat
and amusing. and the whole COM
pany is capitally balanced.