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OF races at the track by means OF a tele-
scope and were telephoning the results
to their accomplices in the city. He
showed that about six minutes could be
used before the red board went up at the
track to get down bets in rooms near a
telephone centrally located. and the
scheme looked so good that he hooked
an up state farmer for a cool thousand;
but the rube squealed and our gentle
manly swindler had to live in Hoboken
for a month.
do you see this featherwei ght hurry
ing along with the big bundle? Know
him? Well, you ought to IL you've ever
been TO sporting events. He's a famous
little man who makes boxing gloves.
All OF the big pugilists have worn
a shop down town where boxers and ath-
letes congregate daily and the tanning
some people get there is a caution. The
little man has followed athletics all his
life. He's trained fighters. runners,
walkers and jumpers. He's fired the pistol
as starter at all sorts OF foot races and
trials OF speed among men. He's built
indoor tracks and prizerings and has
been referee and timekeeper at many
important mills.
aAnd let me tell you that he's good
natured, never loses his temper and has
a set Of boxing gloves or running shoes
in the bundle.
And there's just one more! The clean
cut horid faced person with the brown
mustache. the chap shaking hands so
cordially with the policeman He'll never
die OF lung trouble. for he's got a wonder
ful pair OF bellows No, he's not an opera
singer. but he's got a voice that Va louder
than any mans on earth. Ill bet. He
used to announce the result of each race
in the old betting rings. The book
makers refused to pay OF until they heard
his tremendous roar.
Il first heard him at Guttenburg in
1890 and he told me then that he'd never
lose this gift. He received a high salary
for the use of his lungs for many years,
but when q crimp was put in the racing
game recently and en- penses had to come
down the track managers replaced him
with an electric bell It was sad blow,
you can bet, and he'lf never forget il,
but some day he hopes he'll get the old
Job back. 30 he's taking care OF his won
derful voice and biding his time"
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TAXING SNOW RES.
\ Time When the Amateur PhOt OgraphrrS
Come Out In Numbers.

Snow may be bad for some lines of
business" said dealer In Photographic
supplies, -but it's good for ours.
Winter generally speaking is our dull
season. The amateur photographer
doesn't really begin to get busy until
the trees begin TO bud in the spring the
spring lures him as il does everybody
else and on all his outdoor trips he takes
his camera along. as to be sure he does
when ne goes on his summer vacation.
he takes many pictures then; summer
and the early fall mark the height and
culinination annually OF business in the
Photographic line. In later fall and winter
the amateur goes out less and naturally
takes fewer pictures.
Every year there are more and more
people travelling in winter. more and
more people going South and everywhere
IN the country and out OF IL and they all
take cameras and so there is now an in
creasing Photographic business in winter;
put stated as general proposition anna
teurs take fewer pictures in winter than
IN summer. But let a good snowfall
come, to make the country white and
beautiful, and the amateur photographer
get out In great numbers with their
cameras to take snow pictures.
Go where you will then in avenues
and drives where the snow is left lying
and sleighs are driven; where peopl.
are sliding down hill. or where beautiful
landscapes are to be found and you meet
the amateur photographer carrying along
with him his camera and taking snow pc
lures; and 40 while winter is with ns conn-
monty n duller season than summer yet
good heavy snowfall may bring az this
season quite lively revival,
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one or two kRkemonos on the walls, the
subjects dealing with the ideas OF i'm
mortality. eternity and loveliness in ns-
ture. Each guest WIS served with tea
end silently drained the cup. the host.
according to etiquette. the last OF all.
After a few moments the visitors asked
permission to examine the tea things and
the various articles were placed before
them with the kakemonos, wall pictures.
which are always the most exquisite works
OF art that the house contains. Criticisms
were made. beauties commented on and
possibly legends or stories relating thereto
were told. Then the bowl from which
he drank was presented to each guest.
-he host breaking the bowl that his own
lips have polluted The ceremony finished
the guests left except the lifelong friend
who stayed to the end. watching while
the host Invested himself OF his outer
robe. disclosing the immaculate white
death robe and the unsheathing and
pnnging OF the dagger
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a second direct attack. So. like kitten.
she crawls about the edge OF the inter-
vening article and finds
A light breaks upon her 1t ia the
American mirror her husband has prom
ised TO send as a present some time in
place of the Japanese copper oblong in
which she can only see her face.
Il see every one all over nothings,
myself" she exclaims ecstatically. and
the summer shower is over.
The twAve rise and gaze delightedly
at their own reflections, -all over MOTH
ings." turning and pirouetting like a
swarm of iridescent firefiies.
Nine. Toku after the programme
is over tells something about the tea
lore she has learned from Okakura-
Kakuzo, whose Book of Tea" the Japa-
nese woman asserts might be accepted
as n text book in any land where. there
are pupils desirous Of culture.
Il have been to many teas in America" Z"
she says oourteously. but this. l think.
is the loveliest of all. The American
women are 80 pretty and-so large, and
il is so warm here. and"
She waves her tiny hands expressively
at the facsimiles of temple decorations
copied from Nippon shrines.
did you know" she asks, that in
Japan we speak of a man who is rather
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down to the racetracks for years, but
he's always had oold feet.
Don't ever ask him his age, because
that is a delicate question. He likes to
think that he's still a young fellow and
will never grow old.
Here quiet looking man who knows
the racing game from A to g. He was a
turf critic more than twenty years ago.
but threw away his lead pencil to become
a judge at Guttenburg. Surrounded as
he was by unscrupulous persons at the
old Hill Top track. he was highly respected
FOR his honesty and square dealing. With
keen eye and quick judgment he was
able to detect sharp practice and he made
such record that he was soon taken up
by the big New York tracks.
Exercising the same vigilance he sus-
pended a crack jockey one day because
of a queer ride, but it seems that the SEN
tence did not meet with the approval of
the Jockeys employer. who was a power
full turf governor. SO in the course of a
short time this competent official found
himself out in the cold. and was COM
PEELED TO go back to the tracks in other
States.
He is one OF the best judges OF form
in America, can pick out winners at ex-
cellent prices, but he never bets a dollar.
He's a gold mine for interesting gossip
and is an expert on breeding being able
to tell you the pedigree OF every famous
racehorse that has been seen under colors
for thirty years back.
@Ah, here's another good subject, the
little fellow with eyeglasses climbing
out OF the big automobile. guess that's
his machine, for he's in the business now
adays; but he's been a leading sporting
man and fight enthusiast for many years
and still takes an interest in the game Of
fistianA.
Il remember when, under an assumed
name. he was the manager OF a great little
pugilist who hailed from Jersey. and who
finally took part in a battle for the feather
weight championship. This man bet a
wad on his protege and was ready to cry
when defeat came his way Later he
thought he saw q chance TO run some big
fights on the Jersey shore near Staten
Island. That was when the police were
beginning 70 shut down on the sport in
this town and people were hungry for
some sort OF action.
So our friend saw the right people over
IN Jersey, built an arena and arranged q
big match. Then he sent out a notice
that the place could be reached on the
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TO above when I say that no rhatter q, =,
beautifully the Americans may aoapt ala
use the Japanese ideas they will never be
sxAOtly JApanaso. NAyP Well. for in
stance" Mime. Toku points behind q
screen OF stained glass to some white
plum blossoms, beautiful are they not!
But the Japanese artist who follows the
creed of his cult does not use those bios
SONS when snow In on the ground. In
Japan IL you enter tea room in late VIM
ter you may perhaps nnd a slender spray
OF wild cherries in combination with a
budding camellia; it is an echo of depart
ing winter coupled with the prophecy Of
spring II you 60 TO a noon tea on some
very hot summer day you will enter the
tea room--the tokonoma--to find, pos
sibly. @ single lily in hanging vase
Dripping with dew. 1t seems to smile at
the vexations OF life.T
Nine Toku's voice is hushed = little ~
she spelks OF the tea ceremonial which
precedes the suicide. you think it
dreadful idea2 Whyp Is it not better
to die beautifully when the time comes
when you can no longer live beautifully
1t is too bad that Western ideas are gain-
ing such ground. We no longer suicide
artistically.
Then the guests we're invited to tea
room most exquisitely appointed. with
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what heavier in texture than those OF her
companions OF a tan brown shot with gold,
and the interweavings are OF lustrous
green. She has some rare jewels. bar
baric stones set heavily. Her figure is
petite and graceful not unlike the Jap
anese in its fineness and deiicacy.
The monologue she gives is charming
representation Of the Japanese point OF
view. 1t is entitled -Ohana Sans Rival, "
done by Nine. Mansfield Wilson, a we'll
known society woman of London and a
writer OF note as well. While reciting
she stands against a background formed
by a huge cheval glass. and in the fore
ground the group OF twelve girls bow in
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now fourteen years since she first
came to America. having in the in
terval made many trips She was the
first to introduce the japanese mono
logue here after several essays in panto-
mimic work, her L'Enfant Prologue
perhane the best known. Nine. Pillar
NORM is cosmopolitan by profession
Spanish by birth and Japanese by intui-
ton. as she explains The peculiar dia-
logue that she uses in her airy little sketch
of Oriental life has been cleaned from
many years association with cultivated
Japanese both in their own country and in
San Francisco.
Nine, Pillar NORM wears gown some
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often found thriving villages full fiftesn
miles distant from any known water.
How do they live? Do they take thirty
mile trip every time they want a drink?
Do they dig a well for common use taking
turns till they get down TO water? Or, as
natural born kentuckian, who never
drinks water at allS
ONO other thing. The prairie dog
worm must be subjected to epidemcs
more vast and complete in thor opera
tons than anything among human kind.
! have known "a region to bs alive with
them. Then they would completely dis
appear for several years. Then they would
begin TO come in again. As no one ever
seems TO have soen them migrating and
as there seems TO be no reason why they
should entirely desert a country in which
they have been doing well | can ouy.
think that there are epidemics whi~h
sweep OF whole porula tions of them.
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make floor mat OF yourself for him to
walk upon. You not make a samisen
OF your heart? Thenk you never make n
wife fit for the Merriam husband.
Woman. get out. You no love those blue
eyes like bits of 'Merican skies"
Ohdnd San turns and sees her rival, and
the decorous greeting. carefully rehearsed
word by word is forgotten. The pr.mi-
tive woman rises to the surface With a
wild scream OF rage she throws herself
forward. with eyes closed and nails out
stretched. They meet something cold
and hard and implacable. She looks
dazed and can only say in accents that
re LppealinE Il ump my no e."
She looks at the rival and the rival
looks back at her. She dares not make
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MAN WHO KNOWS EVERYBODY
A SPORTING "WHOS WHO" OF
THE CROWD IN BROADWAY.
The Comedian VINO won't Grow Old
Tuning or n Gun FIghter-The Polite
swindler- Episodes OF the Ring and
the Turf-Man With the Big Voice.


swindier-E Episodes Of the Ring and
Another stroll on Broadway last week
by the man who knows everybody pro-
vided additional information concerning
various persons more or less identified
with sport. He discoursed this way:
Il can tell you a few things about this
man coming along past the Metropolitan
Opera House. He has been a saloon
keeper in the vicinity Of Bryant Park for
many years and was at one time baoker
Of a champion prizehghter. They tell
me that in his younger days he was handy
with his fists and also carried a gun, also
that in a rough and tum Die scrap he was
an to the mustard.
MANY noted characters formerly put
their feet on the bar rail in his emporium
and Il was seldom that he didn't have
some kind OF game running on the upper
floor. He made money rapidly and got
into the sporting world with both feet.
backing many fighters and playing the
horses with a lavish hand; but one day
he found that he could not renew the lease
On his place and was forced to move
further north. Since then it has been a
hard struggle with him.
He's lost the old patronage, is out Of
the sporting game and is seldom heard OF;
bus you can pass pleasant evening il you
care 70 talk over old times with him.
The guy with the big tan overooat
and green hat you see coming out Of that
hotel is known everywhere as a time
honored comedian. When was a kid
I saw him In farce at the old Fourteenth
street Theatre. but he doesn't look day
older now. He's ali Of 90, but he's full
Of lie and is a real sport when it comes
60 ne money question. He's been mar
ried three or four times. owns a mine or
two In Nevada. has a $4,000 automobile
and never misses good fight.
He's tried to break the bank at Monte
Carlo and has been up against every kind
of brace game known to the fancy; but
itisAn odd iaot that he's never bet on the
ponies. Friends have tried to get him
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Rubber Streets.

From he Bulletin OF American Republics.
A new process for paving streets with
vulcanized rubber has just been invented
by Braz ilian and promises TO reyolu-
tionize the rubber trade in that country.
Vulcanin, as the compound is called.
10 mixture OF crushed stone or COARSE
sand with a vulcapizing medium. the
composition Of the latter being q secret
Of tho manufacturers go
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-29
Bear Goes Man Hunting.

The Vermont bear, few years
ago almost curiosity, is fast return
ing to his old standing, and today
the woods of the Green mountains
are literally full of them. They are
so plentiful that in some of the back
towns they are menace and women
and children entertain wholesome
and justified fear OF venturing out
after nightfall. An example of the
Vermont bruins returning conf
dcnce and audacity is found in the
following experience of two hunters:
While Fred May of Bolton and a
friend from Bethel were hunting
Tuesday afternoon they came upon a
large black bear and two cubs. The
old bear showed fight and May let
fly at her with charge of bird shot
then the men took to their heels AS
the bear was gaining on them they
discarded their guns and haversacks,
which were filled with gray squirrels,
and thankfully escaped with their
lives. A large number of hunters
will go out to round up the bears
and recover the abandoned property.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-29
TIMELY HINTS
FOR FARMERS
BIanketina the Horse.

The usefulness of horse can be
prolonged and his efficiency increased
by proper blanketing and grooming.
On arriving at the stable very warm
and sweating the horse should not be
blanketed until he has ceased to
steam, nor should he be left In a
draft. II blanketed at once little OPP
portunity is given for him to dry off.
the blanket will become damp and
the hair remain so all night. In case
the blanket is not used until the ami
NAL has ceased to steam and is some
what cooled, which he will be In a
quarter Of an hour, the hair Will be
dry and smooth the following morn
ing.
The use of the outdoor blanket is as
important as the use of the stable
blanket. If the horse Is allowed to
stand outdoors, either for short or
for a long time, he should be well
blanketed. If he is going to stop but
a short time the temptation not to
blanket the animal Is strong. The
horse cools off rapidly and may chill,
so that it is best to blanket II only for
a moment,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-29
West Point Cadetship.

Congressman Plumley, of the sec
ond Congressional district, has been
informed by the War Department
that he is permitted to recommend a
candidate for appointment to the
cadetship at the West Point Military
Academy for the coming January
examination.
The candidate must be over IL
and under % years of age, and he
must be not less than FIVE feet four
inches in height at the age of IL or
five feet FIVE inches in height at the
age of l8 and upward. The candi-
date is also required to be resident
Of the Second congressional district
There will be preliminary test
held at Norwich University, North
field, beginning Tuesday, Dec. 6, at
2 o'clock in the afternoon, and end
ing Wednesday, December Z, in
charge Of Prof. H. R. Roberts, and
all persons filing the specified re-
quirements mentioned above are at
liberty to take this examination,
which will consist of mental and
physical test. AS a result of this test
the names of one principal and two
alternates will be recommended to
the War Department
Anyone wishing to take this exam
ination will please signify their
intention to Prof. HI. r. Roberts,
North6eld, Vermont. who will be
pleased to furnish further informa-
tion in regard to this matter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-29
FEED GREEN BONE TO
FOWLS in WINTER
Excellent For Egg Production
and Breeding Pens.

I think there are too many poultry
men and women who are overlooking
this important subject, and they are
making a very great mistake when
they do, for they cannot possibly get
another food that will take the place
of green bone at double the price.
There is no other food that will
make hen lay as green bone VIII.
If you feed green bone to your hens In
the winter months you will get a 80
per cent better egg yield than you
would IL you had not fed it.
Some differ as to how much green
bone to feed a hen and when best to
feed 1t, writes a correspondent OF the
Poultry Tribune. Green bone Is best
fed at noon, and feed one ounce per
hen per day. If green bone is fed too
heavy you are liable to cause diarrhea,
and this might cause you more trouble
IL not watched closely. Remember that
you should not feed green bone today
and then skip two or three days and
then try to feed enough to make up
for the time lost. IL you practice this
You are sure to get into trouble. You
should feed the same every day and
as near the same time. as possible.
Aim to feed your fowls with as much
regularity as you possibly can and you
will find It will make big difference.
Again, IL you will feed green bone to
your breeding birds you viii ind that
the eggs will be more fertile and will
hatch stronger and healthier chickens.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-29
Proposed Rutland Montpelier
Road.

Civil Engineer r. P. Mccormack,
Of New York, and his corps of ten
assistants, have completed the survey
Of the route of the proposed Rutland
Montpelier railroad.
The towns through which the
route passes are Middlesex, More
town, Warren, Waitsfield, Granville,
Rochester, Stockbridge, Pittsfield,
Chittenden, Mendon, and Rutland
The toughest engineering problems
encountered were in Mendon gap
and in Granville.
The chief engineer said he had
made no estimate of the cost of the
road. He added, howe yer, that to
the best of his judgment, the railroad
would cost $4,000 to $4,000 a
mile. This would require capital
ization of So, ,ooo, 900.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-29
Green Timber Structure Grows
a Story.

Harold Mackubbic, farmer at
Loydminster, Manitoba. has a re-
markable barn. When building the
structure several years ago he was
short of money and timber was scarce.
He used green willow for the corner
posts and sides, setting them into
the ground in vertical position,
The following season he found
that the posts had roots and were
growing rapidly. That fall the floor
of the barn, which before had been
on the ground. was three feet above
the ground level. A year ago the
barn was on stills nine feet high, and
the owner put another story under
meath, making the original one story
barn two story structure.
The lower floor Is now two feet
from the ground. the willows are
growing rapidly. and the farmer looks
forward to the time when he can put
in third story. when, SO he says
he will convert the structure from a
barn into a dwelling and live in it
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-10-29
The Hunters Moon.

The Springfield Republican prints
the following in answer to the query
of correspondent
The October full moon is the
hunters" moon. though the term is
by no means so universally known
and used as harvest" moon Per-
haps it Is 80 called because hunting
is the natural relaxation of farming
folk after the crops are in. AT all
events, the October moon meets the
hunters needs better than the har-
vester's, because it rises little later,
leaving a gap of darkness after sun
set which would interfere with the
long days work Once up. it shines
brilliantly all night, and is a cheer
full companion to the hunter going
over rough ground after raccoons or
other game followed at night with
dogs.
There are many superstitions con
nected with the harvest moon and
the hunters moon, stimulated, no
doubt, by the striking appearance
which the autumnal full moon often
presents in northern countries as it
rises night after night through an
atmosphere thick with smoke and
haze. 1t is not always kept in mind
that the autumnal harvest moon and
hunters moon are peculiarly of
northern latitudes Near the equa-
tor they do not occur at all, and in
the souther hemisphere they come at
the spring equinox.
There is n common impression, too,
that in September and October the
moon is full for several nights in
succession. AS matter of fact, the
moon ia at the full only for the inap-
preciable heeting instant of time
when it is opposite the sun, and this
may come in the day time when the
moon is invisible
The essential feature of the har-
vest moon is that for several nights
in succession it rises at almost the
same hour. just as the sun is going
down, and the case is the same with
the hunters moon, but in less
degree. In September the moons
path is almost in linz with the eclip-
tic, which at sunset in this latitude
lis almost parallel with the horizon
So the harvest moon is recedinR
northerly, and on the second day
rises further north, but at almost the
same hour. In October the moons
path is not so nearly parallel, and
therefore as it moves north it also
has dipped further below the eastern
horizon. But for the hunters needs
it answers admirably.