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Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05
Why Bachelors Are

old school girl would scorn you wonder at
such sweet innocence in the midst OF a cold
cruel world That 10. just at first you do
TEen-oh. what a fall when you finally do
tumble!
Never shall forget the sweet insouciance
OF Hilda during one wonder month Of alb
sect devotion. She took all the Joy out Of a
humorous situation by having to have IL
explained 10 her two or three times before
she saw the point
i took her 20 a tennis tournament and
MADE all the spectators for yards about
hate Us by explaining the game and plays
90 that they couldn't hear the score called
The day was a complete failure for me.
When ! was compelled TO break an en-
gagement with Hilda because OF important
business duties, she could not understand
and was angry for q week at what she
/ termed my neglect.
A SRI IN her set accepted a clean,
healthy American chap in preference to a
wszzsHsa Cogat dc Somebody or other in
I tAis esuRtry fer the purpose OF discovering
/ baak aeseuats IN seven figures with silly
/ siri Attachments HildA. couldn't under
stsad how she could simply throw away
such prospect.
| "Nesaiess 20 say, found Il convsniently
necessary 20 be seegplsd with my business
meet OF the time, and Hilda, who liked TO
| hear things explained, found another man
/ " answer her sternai question.
This summer ran up 20 the mountains
| for n two weeks recess, and whom do you
thlak I ran aereEs? Hi!6A, And she was
/ learning 20 play cards Fine for some poor
devl who's Doing the teaching. ! thought
! q al the long line OF victims who had
/ filled In the years between, and felt so
rested I came back TO work the next day.
After the Girl Who Couldn't Under
stand ten hours in the office is mere
chnds play. I reckon Hilda viii go on
/ trumping aces TO the end OF her life, but
/ she won't trump my ace, thank fortune"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05
LOretta Looking CLASSIFIED Girl With OvershOt Ambition

! As proud of it as some other girl is Of her
undershot bulldog, you thrust it forward
as II II were a prize winner-your overshot
ambition. I mean.
But IL is not In life's big bench show
It does not win the prize. Those prizes, the
ones that life is dispensing. are mostly &C
quirsd in the ineonspicuous corners and on
the shadow-shrouded benches where moon
vines offer their white hearts for the in
spection of the celestial goddess keeping
her from peering with too Illuminating
beams 1t the man and the girl on the
bench seat
You get 50 used TO waving yourself and
your overshot ambition before the eyes OF
men that you think you are getting real
satisfaction out Of H. You are like a small
boy with a flag. He flaunts it all through
a glorious Fourth. II is pure Joy 20 him TO
dig the staff into the pit OF his young
/ stomach and feel the stick punch and poke
as the wind catches the streaming stripes
and spreads the starry field over his
ecstatic eyes. He revels in Il. You love the
/ opposition that your serene ability stirs.
It's like the punch of the fagstick. You
fix your eyes upon the future with its
cleaning stars Of promise. You scorn TO
feel the jabs and stabs Of the skeptic as
| pain. You disregard them You are OBJ
ssssed with your dream You are vanity
mad with the infatuation for yourself as
you see your grub present burst into your
butterfly future.
II is all in your mind, q dream, an over
shot ambition. And a day dawns when it
proves poor company. The small boy waves
his flag the day after the Fourth. but there
is no martial music in the air. He waves II
/ the next day; and he notices that the uni
forms that had flashed along the street are
no longer in evidence He waves it the
third day, and a rainstorm spatters the
/ gay banner. He waves II yet another day,
and some one laughs at him and tells him
the Fourth has passed.
/ Do you see the point. girl with the over
shot ambition? Your youth excuses your
/ conceit and gains indulgence for your
dreams But il passes. Meanwhile you
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05

The chap who conceived the question
mark as a symbol of woman surely knew
what he was about" declared the nan-of-
affairs. I took in one OF the ball games
this afternoon, and when tell you missed
evey play explaining the difference be-
tween foul and home run, or pitcher
and an outfielder, youll understand my
present stage Of mental and physical sx-
haustion- Never again! :"
These last exclamation points brought
such unholy chucklings Of great glee from
the Chronic Bachelor as called for some
sort OF an explanation. which was inn
meGiately forthcoming.
Let me warn you at the beginning. the
Question Girl is the real original clinging
vine 10 your willing, sturdy oak. and when
she asks you some question that a 6-year-
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05
. The Bee8 H0me Magazine Page x
Told by the Troubled Tourist

No will not take a portion Of broiled
bluefish. III take a half portion Of ham
and eggs. for I've had all the FISH
want for a year" declared the Troubled
Tourist rusfully.
Il thought my touring In ana around
your fair city would not be complete until
I had gone out 20 get some real deep sea
ashing. or. rather. was led into going
out for some deep sea fishing. Some good
friends Of mine persuaded me II was the
only thing 70 DO. and In a weak moment
yielded.
In order 70 thoroughly prepare for the
trip went downtown and bought a com
plete suit Of oilskins and seventeen diff
ferent kinds Of tackle that couldn't pos
sibly have any use for You see. I had
only been a creek fisherman back home
and hadn't tried at this deep sea game
They got me up at I o'clock In the
morning and started me out without any
breakfast When we got 20 the boat they
had picked out they found she didn't 60
out I'LL :. So we starved till the cook got
his fire going in the galley, and fried
some market fish.
Then we fixed UP our lines, which had
something less than a pound and q half
Of lead on apiece and demanded q pole
NAA NLcg NuNluu AGA uANa IL 4AN1
said nobody used poles while deep sea
fishing. That was all right, but when I
picked out a quiet spot by the boats ran
later on I wished poles we're fashienahlo,
for every hook within a mile Of me caught
in my coat and one amateur fisherman,
who stood on the deck above me, simply
could not miss my head with his Ginksr
Every time he dropped that pound and a
half chunk Of lead my bald head was
under II. He apoiogised, but that dian {
keep my head from looking like q waFty
golf ball before the day was ever,
1T seemed 20 me that every tina got
q bite they decided 20 move the boat, and
when aid catch a fish, after waiting about
four hours, they said II was no good, that
IL was . bergaii I was rather proud Of
that fish. but AZ everybody else seemed 20
be 30 sympGshetio about Il threw t-.s
thing back again. When heard the mar
who had been humping me in the head
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05

have thought yourself smart that you
have again and again wounded the self-love
Of others. Your flag-waving day passes.
Your overshot ambition does not justify it,
self in words. And you have not won a
prize.
Men crave what they have not. They
want tenderness. sweetness, a willingness
10 be satisfied with the admiration Of an
individual instead Of the acclaim OF the
mob You have nourished your overshot
ambition till you have convinced the man
who was attracted to you that you never
could be contented with him and his IN
ostentatious offerings. He never leads you
TO the perch seat screened by the sheltering
moon-vines.
He asks one Of those quiet little girls
whom you think Insignificant because they
are not snowy. And you sit holding your
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05

empty hands ana wonder why clever men
marry such FOOLS
And the answer is that clever women are
such abnermally short-sighted creatures
that they forget 10 remember that a man
trusts the testimony Of his eyes ana ears.
He sees how they act-as IL a mere man
and babies and housekeeping would bore
them 10 death. IL your overshot AMBITION
that disappoints you even IL you succeed in
realizing it-worth giving up so much &c
keep?
have never yet seen a woman who has
accomplished much without marriage but
that I have had the feeling that she could
have done more with IT, It may be siren.
uous treatment; but it teaches lot And
overshot ambitions close the door to that
knowledge too bitterly often. Beware of
yours.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05
mot to Return

NOT 70 return-there is no passage back;
Only In dreams we take the homeward
way.
Our feet can never more retraes the track
OF yesterday
There Is no iournsyiug BACKWARD 20 the
shore
From which we started In the dawning
light,
The grading fields shall welcome US no more
BY day or night
On other coasts our lAndfan Where the
dark
QbScures the WaIeTElde with vaporous
gray,
POrpisxsd and wsAried we shall dissmbArk
AT close OF day.
o love. II We went backward hand in hand
An would seem strange and allen We
must learn
That We have traiIed hithsr from a land
or no return.
st Louis Globe-Democrat.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05
What is Fear-and Why?

knew that I was going 70 be fired at on
the other hand, he was dreadfuny fright
ened when. while riding on an Arab steed
in forest. he suddenly found himself in
front OF an express train which had been
hidden by trees.
Fear, after all, is the individuals re-
action in the presence Of an untoward and
antipathstic environment; its essence 10 OF
self-pressrvation; il is in the last analysis,
a protection against destruction or death.
Il is by no means always q ridiculous
rnalady; nor is its manifestation always
puerile"
The pithiest observation which Mazarde
contributes to the discussion is that OF
Marshal Ney--ths bravest of the brave: A
coward is he who boasts that he never
was afraid.
Butter the size OF an egg usually means
one ounce.
-Four tablsspoonfuIs Of a liquid eonsti-
tute a wineglassfuL
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05
Silhouettes of the Sidewalk
Name and Address.

Drat that boy" his mother cries.
What a sleepy head!
Twice I've called, and still he LES,
Fast asleep in bed!
Things were not like that last week
II I called Up 20 him
He was up ere could speak
Ready for 4 swim
Yes, but school begins today!
Things are changed a bit.
He would rather run and play
Than go to school and sit
Before q sum that does not mean
The same amount both ways,
or learn the difference between
Inlets. seas and bays.
Jimmie did YOU brush your teeth
You've no time 20 lose
Is your neck clean underneath?
Have you shined your shoes?
Here, Just let me see your ears.
Wash them once again!
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05
Timing and Measuring.

In boiling chicken. fifteen minutes sAouid
be allowed 10 the pound. Broied chicken
requires fifteen 10 twenty minutes.
Twenty minutes Is required 20 boil prop
erly spaghetti or macaroni.
A good average time 20 allow for baking
loaf cake Is an hour 70 an hour and a
half. according 20 size.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05
Get your stormcoat, Father fears
That IT'S going 70 rain.

That IT'S going TO rain.
Breakfast has been waiting hours
And your coftee's cold!
Give your teacher these nice flowers
Take them, OF TN scold,
Here's your pencils, Here's your books,
For luncheon, here's a dime
Mind. no frowns nor surly looks
Quick. Be off on time"
Mother signs In fun relief
When he shuts the door
Hen reach school. tbs her belief
In five minutes more.
Fifteen minutes after that
He gives her quite a fright
What! Not gone Good gracious. Scat,
Leave that awful kite
Copyright, 1911. by the n. Y Herald Coz
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-05

He was a man OF wide and varied In
terests. a patron Of the fine arts and prssl-
dent Of the New York academy He was
strfkinsly handsome in appearance and one
Of the great leaders Of his time.
Copyright 1911 by the n Y Herald Coz
The evening world., 1911-09-04
GUN AND PRISONERS CLOTHING
IN COURT.

Sheriff GIN brought to the courtroom
both the gun and the blood-stained cloth
ing of the prisoner.
WAS 1t possible for YOU to identity
that gun?" mo. That was the only gun
found and everybody naturally con-
rluded hat was the gun with watch ny
wife was murdered"
Hill Carter, for the defense. then said
the defense desired to have Beattle get
into the ear and demonstrate TO the jury
how he claims the shot WAS fired end
how his wife was seated.
While the car was being sent FOR the
defense asked permission 10 recall
Charles NJ. Kestleberg to the stand to
ask one question. Prosecutor Wenden-
burg objected to breaking INTO Beattic's
examination. but Judge watson allowed
KS stlebPrg to take the stand.
'What was the number Of your carr"
asked Mr.. Smith. "Dli," said Mr.. kes-
tlebcrg,
Lee Paschal. use Of the boys who came
from the dance at Bonair IN the night
Of the murder and testified FOR the State,
was asked If he remembered the number
OF the car which he and the other boys
saw with the wOman on the left run
ming board. He said II was Dill"
Court adjourned for luncheon ct Ills
The evening world., 1911-09-04
GoTCh'S FALL IN Ia MINUTES
10 ia SECONDS.

An instant later Gotch's legs were en-.
t~Aned around the Russians and his
arms enclrcled the Lion" For n crotch
and body hold. II was all off in an
instant.
Hack was probably The most supplied
person ~ the crowd. but everyone was
surprised. 1t happened 50 quickly Mrs.
Gotch gave a scream that waN audible
all through the grands,and. She
couldn't realize her h~usbandN won the
fall so easily.
The time was IA minutes ~ Ia seconds.
Thu wrestlers began the second bout
IN the same manner as the nrst-by
pulling. head to head, and sparrlng FOR
an opening.
They started 10 wrestle Mt 3i1t., shRk-
ins hands, ms though Hack realized that
this would he the nnal fan, Hack Inn
mediately began butting Gotch. ln an
effort to outstrength him, but Gotch met
every play with an equal show OF
strength. Both men were rough, but
Gotch refused to shnke Off his smile.
Al 347 Gotch went behind the Russian
with a leg hold and downed him. In 2
sccond he had his fatal toe hold, which
Hack sought desperately to break.
Hack evidently was afraid that Gotci
would break his leg with the toe hole
and the Russian, after a brief show o
resistance, turned Jack ON his shoulders
The time was g minutes 81 Is seconds.
The evening world., 1911-09-04
RECORD
At CELTIC PARK,
MILE IN 4.20 I
Special TO The E,ening WORLDLY

especial To The Evening World
PARK. Sept. Abel r.
'Kiviat. who sports the winged fist, shat
tered the track record In the mile run
at the annual games OF the I. \. 4. G.
at Celtic Park this afternoon. while TO-
90 enthusiastically cheered the national
champions sterling performance. Klvlat
negotiated the distance in the slashing
time OF 4 minutes 20 Id seconds and fin
lshed second to William Taper OF the
West Enc a. 6. Iiiviat was fifth a,
the far turf when he uncorked a won
derful sprint and he passed all but
Taper. who managed to beat the irish
American crack by five yards. The an
nouncement OF the new mark was the
signal for a storm OF applause and
cheers.
Fourteen fence-breakers and young
men, trying to gam admission TO the
games without paying. We're rounded
mp by the detectives early in the after
moor and taken TO the City Jail.
TIE handicapping was too heavy FOR
Harry GIsslng. who ran for the first
time in the silks OF khe |. 4. A.. c. In
he half-mile handicap and he was not
placed. Gisslng. after a game effort,
finished sixth.
summary:
One-Mile Run Handicap-Won by Will
lam Taper, West End A. A. 100 YARDS
Abel X. klviat. |. A. A.. e.. (scratch).
second; NJ. Hughes, Ozanam A. A. 0W
YARDS. third. Time. Am. IS l-5s. This a
new track record.
150-Yard Run Handicap-Won by +.
Z. Hollaway. y. Y. \. G. &c YARDS; A,
T. Meyer, l. A. A. C. g l-2), second; A.
Pepis, l. A. A. c. &c YARDS, third. Time.
Ii l-5s.
ssO-yards handicap won by p. L.
Jones. Yonkers Y. NJ. C. A.. G5 yarLs)
j. Talent, Flatbush \. c. COS yards,.
second; Joseph Bromilow jr.. I. A. c.
as yards), third. Time, I'm. 81 3-5s.
One mile novice won by j. J. O'Con-
nell, National \. c.; John Powers. /. A.
A.. c.. second: Joseph NJ. Kearns, UNI
attached, third. Time, AM. IS los.
100 Metre Run. Scratch.-Flrst heat
won by Robert C%loughen. I. a. A. C.:
]. ]. Archer, A. a. A. C., second. Time,
II 1-5 seconds. ,
Second heat won by James NJ. Rosen-
berger. /. a. a. -; Hal Holland, un-
attached, second. Time, II seconds.
Timber Toppers Of the !. a. A. c.
made n clean sweep on the 100 yard high
hurdle event, Jack Eller showing the
way with his br Their Bob in the runner
up position. !. j. Lowell wa. third.
Big Jim ~Rosenberger of the Winged
Fist rganization broke the tape In the
tape in the final OF the IOO-metre run,
one OF the features OF the programme,
in the cracking time or II seconds,
Robert Cloughan was second three
yards behind.
Throwing tho Discus Handicap 100
foot llmiU-Won by j. II. Duncan, un-
attached (~scratch) with a throw Of ~
feet 10 l.. inches; Timothy ]. Ryan. I
A. A. c. go feep, second with q throw
Of ia feet 0 inches; A. j. sheridan, /. A
A. G. "a feet), third with D throw OF
100 feet , IL inches.
Running BroNd Jump handicap, 2
inches limib-Won by Ed Mccarthy,
Yonkers Y. NJ. Q. A, "a inchps), with n
Jump of Y feet "a inches: Charles
stale, Mohawk A, e. "a inchesl, sec
ond, with a jump Of Il feet l-2 inches;
w. G. Fielding, n. Y. n, C. rs inches),
third, with a jump OF u feet : inches,
The evening world., 1911-09-04

with the understanding that counse
We're TO confer about the demonstrate
with the car by the prisoner.
A conference OF the lawyers during
the recess decided that the reproduction
or Beattie's story OF the killing In the
blood-drenched auto was unnecessary
The great Grove that thronRed tn,
courthouse yard probably had some.
thing 10 do with this. The cross-ex.
animation by Prosecutor Wendenburs
then went on,
The evening world., 1911-09-04
WHY VT INV Nv WI W'VF'
WAS TOLD BY THEM HIS WIFE
WAS DEAD.

Can YOU recall how near the belt line
II was that you stopped?' mo, I re-
member. though, that tho car jumped
nearly two feet when 1t did cross the
belt llns tracks. There was one bad
.urn where ! had to let so OF my wife
10 use both hands for the turn. MIR.
Dwen and Or. Mercer helped me carry
my wife into the library. | asked II
should send for an ambulance or take
her to a hospital, but no said she was
dead. | remember asking n second time
II she were dead"
"Do you know where YOU coat WINS
found?' 'Dr. Mercer found It on the
footboard of the machine
Did you give Mr.. Owen ana the OIL
GERS all the Information possible " Il
told everybody lat | kno and said
ia show them e spot
when thev asked what o did with
the gun. what al yea say?' II said /
had put 1t into the rear Of the car. They
The evening world., 1911-09-04

lection. A legal argument ensued and
The question was stricken out.
When ala your relations with Beplas
Binford bogln2" asked WendenburE.
About n week after | met her"
When did you send her TO school,"
That fan. ia like to explain that.
] helped TO educate her. not for my
benefit. but to get her ont OF the way"
beattle was mixed up a bit by Wendcn-
burg on why he ''wanted her out Of tho
way"
Did she have such an influence on
o that YOU had to send her TO school
to get rid Of her?" NO; she never had
any influence over me"
'niow old was she when you ,rst had
anything to do with hero" ''ThIrteen' >,
The evening world., 1911-09-04
ALL GOTCH FROM THE START
OF THE CONTEST.

From the momen the two giant wrest-
lers stepped on the mat II was all
Gotch. They bulled head to head. even
as they did three years ago. or exactly
MINI minutes. and then Gotch, by "A
lightning movement, crotched the Lion
and got behind him. Hack was on the
defensive only a moment. however. and
r%egaining his feet. trlpped Gotch by
clever leg work.
But the champion allowed his opponent
to have the advantage less than thirty
seconds. BY a quick shift. he regalncd
his feat, Then they 'builed" again. with
Gotch the aggressor. Breast 10 breast
they surged backward and forward
across the mat.
Suddenly Gotch dived so quickly tina!
the eye could scarcely follow him. and
tie next instant Hack was underneath
him. lying fiat on his stomach. VIII the
champion clutchlng one OF his legs.
Gotch then tried for his famous toe
hold. white the crowd went mad with
delight. But Hack slipped out of the
champions grasp, ana again they faced
each other standing. Gotch began to
smile, seemingly as though he knew ne
had the match clnched. They paved
for head holds, with Gotch always the
aggressor, and then came a feint for a
half Nelson, followed by n grab for the
left leg which threw Hack to tho mat.
The evening world., 1911-09-04

Il minutes and 20 seconds, after a
pretty exhibition. During the interval
Fred. Beel OF Marshneld. Wis, the only
man who has thrown Gotch since he
entered the championship class, was
introduced. as was Henry Ordman OF
Minneapolis.
Joe Rodgers and Young Earle, heavy
weights, went On for the next prel,m-
mary. packcy Mcfarland was selected
TO referee, dlsplacing Walter Eckcrsall.
who oficiste1 in the first bout.
Joe Rodgers won the first fall with a
scissors and half Nelson, IN 8 minutes
and 70 seconds.
Postl and Young Sampson then came
on again, with Emil Theiry. Packcy Nc
Farland's manager. as referee. POST
won with a crotch and half Nelson, in
Is minutes and IS seconds.
The evening world., 1911-09-04
GREAT OVATION TO GOTCH
ovERFLoWS FIELD.

II lacked four minutes Of . O'Clock
when Gotch came from m aperture
In the grandstand, and walked slowly.
follO we'd by his trainers. to tho arena.
At sight Of him set up q shout that
was deafenine and continued for fully
Ave minutes. While n battalion of camera
men got busy. Meanwhile tho band
played Hal. Hail. the Gangs Al
Here" ard the crowd overlooked from
the bleachers into the field.
Gotch chose the northwest corner NJ
the ring. In his corner were Joe Rodg-
ers, Farmer Burns. Wcstergard and
l~lassan, the young Turk. Gotch sat
Ike a statue. while his seconds AMI
p trainers took their positions beside him.
He showed no sign Of nervousness a,
he stood up to b photographed.
4 moment later Chief of Police NJ.
Weeny and Assistant chief Frank
Schuettler walked up TO the arena and
announced that all bets had been de-
clared OF by order Of chief Mcwceny.
McWeeny announced that M rough tao
tics or 'gouging'' would be permitted.
AZ a& Hackenschmd, entered the
quilted square. lie also was greeted
with prolonged cheers, but II was clear
ly apparent that the sympathy OF the
crowd was with Gotch.
o.;o Iio;0 OF Denver was introduced
as tImekeeper for Hack and G. J. Car
roll OF Chicago for Gotch. Eck0rsall
was selected az timekeeper for the En-
pire Athletic club. Then followed a
bunch OF introdnctions. Johnny Cou-
Ion. Fred Welsh and others bowed nc
acknowledgements IN company with the
Marquis OF Queensbury, Last ed
Smith, the referee, was introduced.
In Hacks corner we've Koch, Amerl. |
Gus and DR.. Roller.
The announcer megaphoned that the
match would be the best two out OF
three falls. pin falls only to count.
ThAN hnunn u.rnatlInr ~ 4 4. |