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THE HOBO ENJOYS A ssET-DowN.,

IN the history Of British horse racing
there has not been recorded a season
= when as many women took active
part in the sport as during the past sum-
mer. American visitors to the various
English tracks recently were astounded
TO see shoulder to shoulder with the
men that surrounded the bookmakers'
stands many feminine members of Great
Britain's proudest families, while the
paddocks and fences that lined each
course were thronged with shop girls
and other women of the lower classes.
These latter appeared just as eager TO
risk their savings.
The attendance of women at the Eng
lish race meets has been growing steadily
for the past fifteen or twenty years. 1t
is to Queen Alexandra that British wom-
en- owe their now almost universal in
terest in the exciting sport.
Queen Alexandra, when Princess OF
Wales, and because of her consort's love
for racing, set the fashion by going to
the courses and following the events
with the keenest OF interest Now her
countrywomen treat horse racing with
all the seriousness of the men.
British women breed horses or take
an interest i'm their husbands stables.
They bet systematically, know all the
points of a fine animal, and lose hum
dreds of pounds or several pairs OF
gloves with the same calm.
This year the death of the king and
the abandonment of the social season
have induced more women than ever to
turn to the races as source of pleas
ure and excitement, and at women's
clubs, at theaters, on the streets, you
hear scraps of conversation between
women about winners and losers, of
sweepstakes and favorites.
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four years, but have no intention Oh
doing that.
.Tbe ability OF a dunn to keep his eyes
~,aa omen without blinking doesn
a,r;nish at all, but the hard. hxed SUIT
ing NJ a certain selected spot which ne
no. IN do for so long q time every Gay
,ust weakens the vision and takes the
life and vitality out of the lamps
a,,,, Won see. when he is set in his pose.
inst hicks out some minute object stralsnt
ahead to stare at, and he never removes
his eve focus from that object Wniie TIC
pose continues. 49, a,r,
trade a sort of an invisible film creeps
over the dums eyes and softens IN VIZ
the sharpness of his vision. bul even q
that the strain upon the eyes often Is 81
great that my weeps 1reauehtiy ,ee - nv
they were going to pop right out OF my
head when / finish making my maj pose
for the day or night. :
"Of course. the hardest work that
dunn can be called upon to do Is TO pose
alongside a sure-enough dummy In the
came ring as the dummy for the purpose
of irving to fool the bunch outside the
window / get double rates Tor tnat kihu
Of stuff; did, rather, for l won't pose
that way any more. The DUN VINO poses
alOngSlQe u real
double rates.
Last winter, for two months running
i'm Los Angeles, / did this kind OF posing
alongside a sure-enough stuffed inquire IN
a shop window. I made up In every
minute detail to resemble the dummy,
and it has a standing pose. at that, with
no chance to lean up against anything
and rest while working.
-
..The window shade would be raised. re-
vealing me standing beside the genuine
dummy, and 1t was my job to keep 'em
guessing out in front which was the live
dunn and which the stuffed one.
During the time did that posing there
was a great betting bee going On outside
that Los Angeles window. and. as often
as not, the fellows doing the betting took
the end of 1t that l was the sure-enough
dummy.
There wasn't any chance for me to
keep this pose longer than five minutes,
and then the shade was lowered and
had a ten-minute rest-up. I believe I'd
have been a rank, screechinD maniac II
I'd stuck to that job for just one more
month.
one of the hardest thing a posing dunn
has to do while working You see, the
bunch in front are forever trying to
break the dunn up in his pose, and they'll
do all sorts OF idiotically funny things
TO wiring smile out of the dunn and thus
crab his pose At the beginning that was
a game that / found it hard to beat,
but it's all a matter OF training
ION several occasions. all the same,
had to have the curtain pulled on me.
once, and only last year at that, I hol-
Tered right out in the middle of the pose,
and l couldn't have helped hollering IL
l knew I'd get a million for keeping
still.
.This happened while / was posing in
the window of Chicago department
store. My pose was that Of Robert EN-
met, the Irish patriot, standing on the
gall0ws.
well, / was getting away with the
pose something fine. even though there
were a lot Of funnyists out in front who
made II their business to stand and do
the Kidding thing in front Of my window
every day. But they didn't uncover any
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have any trouble beating EN- out Till the
big breakup swung along
"The breakup thing was pulled by one
Of the incest looking young women ever
clapped a lamp on. 1t was during the
lunch hour, when passersby were some
scarce. This nice looking and merry
faced girl sauntered up in front or my
window and studied me calmly for hve
minutes.
"While many others came along and
passed by, still she stood there stalking
me to that calm. cool examination. Finai-
ly. when she noticed that she was en-
tirely alone in front of the window she
glanced up and down the street In poth
directions with a sort OF mischieVouS
twinkle in her eye: and then sne turned
TO me and began to make the most eA-
cruciatingly funny distorted races az me
that I ever saw in my life. on or on the
stage. First shed look rtdiculously cross
eyed, then she'd puff out her pretty
cheeks and look like drum fsh Win
the delirium tremens, then she'd squeeze
her cute features into a bunch and make
herself look like q chimpanzee with the
hives.
"Aching TO throw something at her
right through the window-not sos 20
hurt her. OF course. but just SOS to make
her 70 away from there-I stood 1t for
"But when she deliberately stuck a
thumb at her pretty nose, and wiggled
her fingers at me like a small boy pun !,
ing that piece of defiance on another. IL
was all Off, believe me; quit right there.
and my method of quitting was quick and
spontaneous and sudden.
az didn't even have time TO tap on the
shade I Just broke into a roaring laugh
that must have been heard all over the
store. and then l just lay down in that
window, while the boy was pulling the
shade and laughed like a fool hyena TOT
Ave minutes. I caught a glimpse OF the
girl beating IL down the street. laughing
herself as lay in the window laughing.
sOn another occaSion-this was in De-
troit-I was doing Macbeth pose in the
window OF a big novelty house where they
were selling a lot of Scotch goods. Along
toward the wane Of the afternoon dead
swell old-fashioned dandy. with long
white side whiskers and a top hat and
Chesterfield .overcoat and red necktie,
and all that scenery, sstrolled up to the
window and looked me over for few
minutes Then he. too. did the fprtive
glance up and down the street TO see IL
anybody was zephy ring along 10 observe
him. Finding that he had the scene 10
himself for a minute or so, he began wav-
ing his arms and shaking his gold-headed
cane at me. all the time making muttering
movements with his lips. as IL he was
dead sore on me for picking his pocket or
something. ! stood that. badly as ! want
ed to Shrek over the funny spectacle the
dignified old glug was making or himseif,
hut when he began to stake me 10 an imi-
tation of Lord Dundreary. pulling those
long siders OF his and all that stuff, then
Topped for sure. / wasn't any more
Macbeth than a coon dog for about i've
minutes and while l rolled around could
see the mischievous old sport hiking down
the street laughing to himself 1T TO
kill" CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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From Lippincott's.

From Lippincofts
Many q charming actress is charming
wife. and many charming wife. is
ehASS>:e2 A0&roan.
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watching his chance with wary cycr. =
sought first this and that passsr TOT
nights lodging or a scanty meal
His efforts were successful; the nickeis
and dimes chinked into his pocket ana
soon he moved up street to l4th, ply
Ing his trade along the way. From theTe
he took his road TO Pennsylvania avenue
and thence worked a begging way 10 oth
street. The whole excursion cccupleo
about one hour: in that time he gather
ed i'm from the generosity OF the puolc
a dollar and twenty cents.
The hobo was not hobo. He was the
Rev Thomas Hubert-Jones, acting pas
tor of the Episcopal Church of the Epip-
hany on G. street and head e the Asso-
eiated Charities OF Washington.
II was his business he considered III
both his functions as pastor of Chris
tian church and superintendent of this
charitable organization to dig into the
truth OF ragged want In whatever shape
Il existed. and he had taken this-the
straightest way-of learning just now
much chance of starvation man STOOD
i'm the heart of the National Capital.
II wanted TO know the inside of Wash
ingtcn hoboism. learning IL as / mad
learned IL in other places. he said to a
Star representative. and the only way
was 10 get down among the hoboes. L
arrayed myself In rough garb and start
ed in TO see how close a man comes 10
starving here. | approached all kinds OF
people on this venture and | found the
heart of the public big one. or course
i am not an expert at begging. but with
even my inexperienced methods, | took
in through one short hour that night as
much as the ordinary day iaboier gets
for eight hours work.
The city man. with stomach well lined
with a recent comfortable dinner pauses
and donates TO the corner beggar nickel
or dime for fear that he may be overlook
ing some meritorously needy case, but ac-
cording to the authority Of Rev. Thomas
Hubert Jones, who as head of the As
ISOLATED Charities in Washington has
made this subject a life study, such
charity. instead of doing coed. works
positive evil These beggars, his many
experiences have taught him. are simply
professional buns. hoboes. tramps. call
them what you will. living in an easy
way upon the generosity of the public
and laughing In their sleeves at their
guilefess victims.
question engages wide attention. reach
ing all the way from the police of the
metropolis, worried with the chronic
yagabonds that clog the streets. to the
housewife on the farm that gives hand
OUT TO the passing tramp half in char
ity and half in fear They cover the
country from the busy corners OF Penn
syivania avenue to the lone reaches of
the western plains. ever on the move.
ever hungry and ever with some specious
excuse against turning a hand to earning
meal or bed.
.'Indiscriminate charity to the street.
corner begear." said Rev. Hubert-Jones.
works a wrong both on the poor and the
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FTEN. through the
mounting years. J
have desired to get
at the rationale. SO
to speak, of the
d u m s existence
and his job.
A dunn, as OF
course you know,
is a person. man
or woman. who
poses In a shop
window. or as part
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And because I've been sticking along
with the work for about a dozen years
I'm looked upon by the dunn gang as
remarkable dunn.
There isn't big city in the United
States in which l haven't dummed 1t. As
a rule, I do Palm Beach or some other
place in Florida or California in the win
ter Atlantic City in the spring and sum-
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e the ballyh0o In front OF pubic raree
show. as a dummy.
Dunn, one OF those delightfully."- obvious
contra ctions. is the name dummies have
bestowed upon themselves. Gust as. you
instantly perceive. the ''rummy'' OF the
other time now is the rum
The other evening i came upon a dunn.
diked In hot-looking evening clothes. con-
sidering the humid atmosphere, working
az part OF the attention attracting baIly-
hoo In front of the scenic show Gre
alton down the Boardwalk. The spike
tailed dunn was doing the stunt Of stand
ing perfectly still on a little platform for
Of men, women and children. hemmed
him In. and there was very audible di-
versfty OF opinion as TO whether the DUN
was a live one or just one of those Eden
Musee things. The diversity OF opinion
was excellently well based for several
reasons not the least Of which was that,
in SO far as the present writer could OBJ
serve, the dunn didn't wink his eyes once
Ing which he posed with an almost I'M
canny rigidity and impassivity.
-.
And so, when the dunn was taking a
half hour or to enjoy some long breaths
and luxuriate In the simple JOY Of wink
ing his highly penciled eyes. l pegged him
ard got him TO come over with some IL
formation about his quaint species.
1--WE been a dunn for about a dozen
years now" said the agreeable young
chap. who looked tired and droopy after
his long day OF inanimate ballyhooing.
but Ill have to be tagging the work in
side OF a year or so. I'm about all in.
You see. the dumS job Is a bad strain
upon the nerves, and it's murdersome
upon the eyes. AS a matter of fact. the
general strain of the work is so great that
most of the dums-the men. I mean-fall
for the rum thing sooner or later. In or
der TO combat the strain OF posing they
fall TO imagining that they've got to hit
UP the temporarily soothing internal
emolients TO rest 'em when they knock of
work: and that's about all. OF course:
about all for them. mean, when the rum
thing takes them.
Most Of the male dums, too. are cigar
cite fiends when they're on duty. Well.
Of course. yoa take q judicious and well
mixed combination OF booze and cigarettes
and it'll knock q lumberjack over II he
sticks around with u long enough, and
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Three Thousand Dollars Year As Beggar
S-HE of the Church Of the
and o of Washington
put these human dere-
uc federal state and munc
theb of public
Hubert hobsm in person. beating his
ngc in
stranded would fare in washington he
startling
would sal
a all had o
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the hobo. its greatest evidence 10 In the
speed with which one OF the craft can
shoot across the country In contest with
some other eminent hobo. To start from
a city withut a cent. beat his way by
train or boat 10 another city perhaps q
thousand miles distant while another
brother hum Is hurrying along the same
road 10 the same destination, Is the acme
of bum bliss.
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Mrs. Rupert Beckett. Mrs. Hall Walker.
Mrs. Leopold Rothschild and Mrs. Arthur
Sassoon are other leaders OF the smart
racing set, while Lady Anne Lambton.
Lady Jardine and Lady Duff Gordon are
hostesses who entertain for the racing
season without taking a great deal OF
interest i'm the sport themselves.
Lady de Battle (Mrs. Langtry) is a sys-
tematic racegoer and owns some Of the
finest horses in England.
Lady Essex and Lady Cooper are about
the only American women resident in
England who can be said TO belong to
the racing set. Lady Cooper is one OF
the hostesses for all the famous meet
ings. and she and Sir George unfailingly
attend the smaller meets.
Lady Essex is less enthusiastic as Q
horsewoman, but she attends meetings
regularly and takes her place In the rac-
ing set as a hostess.
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ful spread. A tramp will miss a freight
train for a set-down.
DR. Hubert-Jones knowledge of hobo
life is not gathered from reading theoret-
ical books under a drop-light In the COM
fort OF an easy chair. He got his coun-
try-wide information, as he got ms local
knowledge, right from the raw; he went
hoboing himself. He wanted the facts
Of hobo life. so he jumped blind bag
gage one night and hobOed 1t from Bal
tmore to Philadelphia. 1t was an ex-
perience full of excitement and cfnders
When he reached his destination he was
a graduate and was greeted by his broth
ers of the profession as a veteran: also
BY the police-and had hard work ex-
planning just why he was in that sort OF
business. Since then he has adventured
four times on the road In the capacity
OF expert hobo and has picked up a
most varied and remarkable amount OF
information.
s'The hobo gIories in his life," and the
minister had to smile at the look OF as
constituent on the face of his auditor.
NO profession holds members who feel
greater pride in IL than does the expert
hobo. The tramp who can swing on 10
a moving blind baggage with grace anu
ease while his companions tumble ciuHn
sily I'm the ditch feels a satisfacuon no.
SuTDaSSGu
VINO wins a noted case before the SUI
prene Court. or the skilled surge, surgeon
whose successful operation is s III
through the press. Add to TINS ms aun
itx in throwing his feet to an extent
where he canbeg enough in an hour 10 SUP and
ply a dozen hungry hobos win IooS az sra
bbaer for a day, and he would not cnahse
places with the proysrbia,h ssss Of ds
il is this which makes the TASK a,1 "a !.
stroying the whole craft so olmcu, =. !,
t sssDs1 feel an ambition in being able TO
travel and work living without IN S wtr $
mse g when he compels the stopping o.
a train to put him on CO.,
and these men," he conunueed: 60. the
rot travelling with the aimiess ioea .ne
nui credit them with. They alwa way
have an objective point When t napty II
r,a hobo camps that one will always nno
in the thiekss sbs depo 20 popns
Canning Ohe a trip and talking Of large ,; dis
tances and cities like a bunch OF miiiion
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THE utter disregard OF danger shown
by the hobo while travelling would win
him a medal Of honor in any military
campaign. Indeed, statistics show that
their profession is more dangerous than
that of the soldier in war. Last year
there were $4,000 Of them killed on the
railway trains of the United States-thirty
times as many men as were killed at the
first battle of Bull Run, But the hobo
doesn't mind that; death has no terrors.
il IL only work that he fears.
The origin OF the word hobo has never
been satisfactorily determined, but such
authorities as Jack London and Upton
Sinclair agree that ii is made up of the
salutation, How, bo,' the word DO being
a common slang form of hailing a COM
rade. From this the expression hobo
was contracted. In this same pride OF
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THE penniless pair have an audience
watching throughout the nation: for
though II is not heraided and bulietined
in the daily papers. the word has been
flashed through that mysterious hobo
means. and every tramp In the country
reads the course OF the race by cabalistic
signs on train sheds and water tanks.
The most historic OF these races was en-
gagged in by Jack London. from New York
to Seattle. 1900 miles away on the Pacific
coast. He and his contestant passed
each other time and time again across
the continent. their strenuous courses
being chronicled upon fences. back yards
and bridge trusses. All the tramp world
watched il with breathless interest. When
London finally reached the wharfs OF
Seattle he found a six-hour-old message
written i'm the technical language or tho
hobo. chalked on one of the pianks or the
piers, informing him that his rival had
concluded 10 take the steamer Just SAIL
ing for Japan.
What makes the hobo? The causes are
as many as the sea sands" CONCLUDED DIT.
Hubert-Jones. "A natural laziness, de-
sire to loaf instead OF work that COM
mences in finding how easy IL Is. and
ends by that pride In being able TO sub
sist on your fellow man without enort.
which. the hobo certainly feels, evidences
a sure superiority
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And there that penniless crew. glory
ing In their utter lack OF work and wealth.
will sagely determine their itinerary. And
they will make the trip. too, heading for
their destination with as much determine
ton AZ Peary for the pole Why they
should plan and take these journeys made
on the brakebeams. or tipSy tops of flying
trains. none but the hobo can under
stand But he Is welded 10 II for life.
And there comes an absolute necessity
for some national, compelling movement
that will gather in all this great class.
sweeping them up as with a broom. and.
placing them upon a farm with plenty Of
food and every mouthful obtained by
good. honest labor. keep them until the
wanderlust has been worked out Of them.
This with the aid OF universal hoboes'
gallery. whereby every tramp In the coun-
try could be spotted, would certainly pre-
vent any large number of recruits 10 the
army of buns. even II II did not wholly
reform the old offenders.
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o-o.cocdepce Of The Star.

ATLANTIC CITY. August 20. 1910.
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There is an established racing set in
England including a number of the
smartest women who are always to be
seen where races are held. In some cases
their husbands are prominent as horse
owners. but very often they are person.
ally interested in the sport.
Louise, Duchess of Devonshire, for
many years headed the list of ladies who
made racing a favorite pursuit, but since
the dukes death she has not been seen
on any race course, and her own horses
have been sold, except one or two old
favorites. which have been pensioned off
and are leading the simple life in the
fields OF one of the family estates.
Her daughters, Lady Derby and Lady
Gosford, are among the well known
members of the racing set. Lady Derby
attends all the important meetings of
the wear and most of the unimportant.
Lord Derby is one Of the stewards or
the Jockey Club. He has a racing box
at Newmarket and always rents one near
Ascot.
At Knowlsey Lord and Lady Derby
usually have parties staying with them
for the grand national week and also
for the autumn meeting. Last year King
George was the guest of honor at their
Mace for the grand national. Lord Der
nv has been selected by the present
ss=es to S-.se IN Ists hinge SsEsss al
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.
LEGAL.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL SToCkHolD-
ERS' MEETING.
o THE STOCKHOLDERS {

~ HE SJOSht1OILIho "
JAMES COAL &c ICE COMPANY;
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that
a special meeting OF the stockholders
OF the James Coal & Ice company
Utah corporation, is hereby cal'>d,
and will bo held at the law Offices OF
Joseph Chez, Esq. at Rooms 3OS-4Ol
First National Bank Building, Ogden.
Utah, on Thursday, the 10Th day OF
December, 1910, at A o'clock, p. M,
Of said day. Said meeting is called
for the purpose Of adopting or reject
Ing the following proposed amend
ment TO the Articles OF Incorporation
Of said James Coal g. Ice company,
as follows:
To amend Article VIII Of said AT
ticlcs of Incorporation by striking out
from said Article. the following words
and figures:
THE amount OF the authorized capl'
tai stock OF this corporation shall be
and Ia FIFTY THOUSAND (S50 ,000)
DOLLARS divided into FIFTY
THOUSAND 100000 shares of the
par value OF One (S100J Dollar each,
fully paid. and worcestershire.
(Which words and figures are set out
on lines /, 2. and OF sOid Article
And substituting 10 lieu thereof, the
following words and figures:
"The amount of the authorized cap
ital stock OF this corporation shall be
and Is (s100,000) ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS, divided into
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND GOO.
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000) shares OF tho par value of (S100)
One Dollar each. fully paid, and non
ossesSable."
The Intent and purpose OF said
amendment Is to increase the capital
stock Of said corporation from FIFTY
THOUSAND (S50.000) DOLLARS to
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND (S100-
000) DOLLARS and from FIFTY
THOUSAND (50,o00)) Shares to ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND (l00.000)
SHARES, OF the par value Of Ono
(Sl00) Dollar each fully paid, and
worcestershire.
This meeting IS called by authority
of the Board OF Directors.
Dated at Ogden, Utah. November
22nd. 1910,
JAMES COAL G ICE COMPANY,
By w. F. JAMES, President
BY d. B. ELLIS. Secretary.
Joseph Chez, Attorney.