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tall. clean shaven and loosely built
and looks more like an Anglo-Saxon
than a Frenchman. He has independ-
ent means. but is studying to be
civil engineer. He has played much
emily, but is no great talker.
After this season I retire from the
world OF tennis for few years" he
said, Next year I begin my military
service. which should have begun this
year but which I was allowed to post
pone. No. / don't train" he added. II
am like Decugis. / play tennis all the
time. So do all our best players. but
Canet Canet WORT practice.
Il am Partisan born" Colbert went
on; but I learned tennis chiefly at our
seaside places. Cabourg and Houlgate. on
private gravel courts. l won my first
singles. Then 1 was seventeen. / toinea
the Racing Club of France in 1908 and
the Tennis Club in 90, and Decugis
taught me lot
Gobert's alliance with Decugis at VIM
bledon last year, when they captured the
English doubles championship was In
the nature OF an accident, Gobert's for
mer chief distinction having been won
with Laurentz, while Decugis generally
has had Germot as partner.
4 X
In April, 1910. Colbert entered on a long
series of victories. both in England and
Europe. by beating Gordon Lowe in the
championship singles. In the same year
he ran Decugis into five sets in the
Coupe Menier and. playing for the first
time with IAurentz at Brussels second
tournament. won the doubles. The same
pair In October Of that year also cap
tured the International doubles. Colbert
also won the championship Of France in
1911. beating Laurentx, 81; Canet, 81.
and Decugis. 81. In challenge rounds.
Last year. too. he won the doubles cham
the Coupe du Stadt Francois. the dot
6les invitation" with LAurentx and the
French national singles. beating Decugis
in the final and Germot in the challenge
round. After this he won the doubles
championship at Wimbledon with De-
cugis. the North London championship
doubles and mixed, the Paris doubles
and mixed and represented France versus
Belgium and Paris versus London in 1911
Max Decugis, with swarthy clean
shaven. Ratchet face and hair parted in
the mathematical center, reminds one
OF nothing so much a. an American In
dian. His father 10 Paris green grocer.
months year or two ago by tho powers
that be In the French world Of tennis, be-
cause, the story goes, he spent his VIM
nings IN that seasons tennis tournaments
on the Riviera In buying vegetables.
Decugis. who II twenty-nine years old,
and holds, with his brilliant young
pupil. A. H. Colbert, the International
doubles championship and the covered
courts championship OF England, who
was six times lawn tennis champion Of
France. who won the championship Of
Europe in 1900 and that OF Germany in
1902. IL credited with having done more
to raise the standard OF play in France
than any other Frenchman. He 10 . great
advocate OF th4 volleying game and II
famous for his overhead smaahas. the
brilliant overhead work of the Leading
French players OF today being entirely
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singles. doubles and mixed; sapicourt
private matches, 1908. beat Gore, and 1909
beat Froitzseim, Wesseley, Monte Carlo.
1910, singles and mixed, and many other
European events up to last year, when.
with A. H. Colbert. I won the doubles
championship at Wimbledon, and, alone,
the International tournament at Rome,
and singles at Montreux.
4
''Yes," he went on. I'VE have entered
for the Davis cup. and personally should
be glad to try conclusions with an Amer
lean team. hope. however. that the
eliminating matches will be played in
England, for It Will be axpensive II we
have to go to the United States az well
as Australia In case we win from Eng
land. Our team for the eliminating
will be Colbert. Laurentz. our
wonderful boy player, and myself, but
Laurentz cannot go to Australia, and II
we play the Australians for the cup Ger
mot probably viii be our third man.
You know. suppose" Decugis went
on, that We have arranged . worlds
tennis championship, which Will always
DO played for In Paris. We are Inviting
the two. best players. Of every, country to
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Suspicious.

CON3DGMNQNG the extortion practiced
- BY q certain class Of lawyers, Fran
els l. Leland. tho banker who has given
@1,0o0O0O to the Metropolitan Museum.
said at dinner In New York:
II heard the other day OF an old man
who broke his arm by falling down an
open manhole. A shark lawyer sued
for him. and . verdict was returned for
$500 in his favor. But OF this sum ali
that the shark gave the old man was
q miserable 80 bill.
But-but Where's tho restr tho old
fellow asked.
Tho rest tho lawyer bfandiy an
gwered, has gone IN costa
Tho old man studied the SO blu. He
turned It over and over. Then he looked
UP and muttered:
Say mister. what's- the matter with
this? Amt It 9oodr"
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and proprietor Of the sporting paper.
Auteuil-Longchhmp. whose manager
1al stan young Laurentz is fitting
himself. by study, to join He began
playing tennis at fourteen. but first
took up the game seriously two years
de Paris. where, and at the Racing
Club. he met and at different times
vanquished Decugis Colbert, Canet and
Germot. Playing with Colbert for the
first time, he won the doubles at the
Brussels second tournament. 1910, and
also won the October International
doubles at the Lawn Tennis Club of
France. beating Rahe and Kleinschroth,
the German cracks. In the final by three
sets to none. The youngsters fame
became worldwide. however, only in
April. 1911, when, at Auteuil, he beat
A. F: Wilding in the final Of the
French covered-court open champion
ship. At the same meeting he won the
doubles championship with Colbert, and
last year also won several tournaments
including the international singles and
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Who, with DecuGis, helds the Engllsh
lawn tennis doubles championship,
and, alone, the covered courts lawn
tennis sing1es.
ent form and at his present age. the bril-
liant young Frenchman could not repeat
his victory over tho New Zealander with
any great regularity, but then It must be
meet Wilding. undoubtedly the best play
er In the world today in the Forthcoming
Davis matches. Wilding IL head and
shoulders above any man now playing in
ing. be reckoned as the superior Of the
best England can show at present.
-.
Against America, especially II the
matches were played in the United States
and the best available team could be put
into the field. the Frenchmen would have
a harder time. The writer believes that
Larned has gone back. Indeed, 1t would
years Of playing. Dixon took him to ffve
sets when the last English team visited
the United States, and both Decugis and
Laurentz are superior to Dixon. Lowe
took Mclaughlin to Ave sets on the same
ter than the Englishman. Beals Wright.
as well as Larned, has gone of in his
game and would have q hard struggle to
hold his own against any one of the
French trio. In doubles the Laurentz-
Colbert combination Is q stronger one
than the Gobert-Decugis partnership.
which last year proved too good for Eng
land. and would stand good chance of
winning from either Alexander or Hackett.
or Bundy and Mclaughlin.
Against Australasia frances chances
would be excellent. An three Ffenchmen
are better than either Heath or Dunlop.
and Laursnt& II he uaas the. trip. might
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due to his training. Incidentally Decugis
IS editor of Lawn Tennis, the Paris
monthly.
Asked how he kept himself in condition,
Decugis laughed and said:
Il don't do anything! I have no time
to skip every morning, as Wilding does.
/ don't smoke at all. but am not q rigid
teetotaler. don't need to keep In con-
dition for playing tennis, because I
always am playing tennis. I play out
doors all through the summer and in the
covered courts, Of which we have twenty
one In Paris. in October. November and
December. In January I go to the
Riviera, and travel all over Europe to
play, as well az to England. was born
In 1882 and learned tennis on the courts
of the Paris Racing Club in 1894. My
first tennis victories were gained In Eng
land. for ] won in doubles at Brighton
In 1897, and gained the boys champion
ship OF England when i was fifteen. I
won the French championship singles In
1903-4-7-9. and the doubles in 1929, the
French covered court championships
the championship OF Europe Ia 1901. the
championship, Of Germany in 1902;
Olympic games, Athens. 1900 sing1ea
DOUBLES and MIXED: Vienna, 1905, con-
tinsntaI chanac6onship. Budapest 1900
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MRS JArES A.LERoY,
.DELEGATE ED BIZ PRESIDENT
Tar T To SIGN HIS NAME
To LAND OFFICE PATENTS.

in the state of Washington at the pres
ent writing. Probably the biggest ono
was held adjacent to Fort SILL Okla in
1900, when 1o5,OO0 people appeared and
took chances in a drawing for 1oG)O
quarter sections Of land. Here was wit
messed one of the strange sights of the
new country, when Ell Reno. a town Of
o,OOO inhabitants, was host to 10000
visitors, and succeeded in providing beds
and food for them with no great incon-
venience.
There are duties innumerable in connec-
ton with the task of selling or giving
away an empire such as the United
States has owned and still owns. Aside
from the agricultural lands. there has
been the gold Of the Incas to be disposed
of, copper deposits such as the world knew
not of before. coal lands by the million
of acres. and forests primeval, with tim
Der beyond conception.
With all this wealth to be disposed Of,
the land Office has been the point of at
tack from the very time of Its creation.
In 1872, before the land office was estab-
lished. William Henry Harrison charged
that there was fraud in disposing of the
public lands and asked President Jeffer-
son to instigate an investigation. From
then until the time OF Ballenger and
Fred bennett, the present commissioner.
the land office has known few years when
1t has not suffered attack
The land Office q century ago boosted
six clerks. Today there are 500 clerks in
the one office and the entire force boasts
1900 individuals. These are scattered
from Florida, where there are attacks
upon the local disposition Of land. to
Alaska, where there are charges that
certain corporations are hogging the pub
lie domain. The Office takes in $1,000 UOO
q year and uses up 81 600. 600 In the course
OF Its activities. In the office in Wash
ington sits Mrs. James A. LIE Rev, who
has no other duty than to sign the name
OF the President of the United States to
land patents. She is the only person ON
earth who has that authority. In the
mountains and on the plains of the west
are stationed the field service agents.
who are the detectives of the frontier
who endeavor to prevent the undeserving
from securing the prize packages OF Tn
Gle sam Altogether about the Invest thing
that Uncle Sam is doing is getting rid Of
the farms and gold mines and copper
veins and coal deposits that belong to
MIN. He has been handling this live lob
for just q hundred years. come next Tues
day.
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great numbers of land warrants. many OF
which he never located. He did take pos
session of a section of land in Florida
and located other land in what is now the
city of New Orleans. Upon his return to
America fifty years after the war his New
Orleans lands had grown valuable, and he
was urged to take possession of them. He
found, however, Upon investigation, that
the lands had been settled and that GER
tain American citizens laid claim to the
title to them. Gen. Lafayette declined to
get into any controversy with any Amer
lean citizen, and freely signed a release
to his claim upon these lands, this release
being one Of the treasures of the land
Office
OF all her public domain the United
States has bestowed one-seventh gratui-
tously upon the soldiers Of her wars.
The most monstrous transactions in
lands that this government has ever en-
gagged in, however, have taken the form
of grants to various railroads. Altogether
this government has bestowed upon rail-
roads as an inducement to them to build
lines into undeveloped parts of the coun-
try 19O.OOOOOO acres. This is q region
equal to Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, New
York, Pennsylvania and the whole of New
than the is an area vastly
Among the first land grants that were
ever made to railroads were those that
gave the Illinois Central certain alternate
sections north and south, chiefly in ILL.,
-.
The Northern Pacific received in 1854
the largest single grant of land that was
ever made by the federal government.
This grant included every alternate Sec
ton for twenty miles on each side Of it's
lines in the states and forty miles
each side in the territories lying between
it's terminus on Lake Superior at one end
and at Portland, Ore, on the other Al
together this railroad secured title to
forty-five million acres of government
land. This tract would be equal in area
to New York. New Jersey. Vermont. Con-
necticut and Massachusetts. The South
ern Pacific secured similar grants in Cali
fornia, the Atlantic and Pacific through
Arizona and New Mexico, the Union Pa
ciflc and the Denver and Pacific through
Colorado and states adjacent. and other
roads in various other quarters.
No act in the history Of the land Office
has been SO typically a proposition for
the booming Of real estate as were these
grants to the railroads. Uncle Sam had
these vast tracts of unsettled country.
which, without settlers. were valueless.
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Second Place.

nR- HARVUY W. WILEY. &propos oe
- his rsGgna$ion, said b q washfng.
ton correspondent:
Il believe in enforcing tho pure food
laws In the interests Of the people. Put
the people nrst-that IL my theory. Don't
put the food manufacturer first and the
people second. DON'T. In enforcing the
food laws, give the people that painful
feeling Of second place which Hilary No
Masters experienced.
HILARY McAasters sat In the drawing
room awaiting his hAncee, when the lit
tie daughter Of the house entered
Were said the child, here il a candy
for you And she gave Hilary McMas-
ters . hard. white lozenge.
oh. what Q nice, white loxenger said
the young man. putting II in his mouth
and beginning to suck vigorously.
Yes. isn't It? ltsped the little girl It
was striped wiv pink once"
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EpWARp T1fFfN.
tIRSr COMMISSIONERS
Or The LAND OFFICE.

the most famous case that that court
has ever handled-the bred Scott deci-
sion.
Another famous commissioner was
1S45 to 1S47. This son OF Ireland and
first governor of Oregon had the dis
tinction of being United States senator
from three separate states, Illinois, Min
der general in the Mexican war and was
wounded upon two Mexican battleflelds.
He was the only man who ever defeated
the forces Of Stonewall Jackson in bat
tie, this event taking place at Kerns-
town, Va, in 1862.
Abraham Lincoln applied for the posi-
ton Of commissioner of the general land
Office in 1849, but was defeated for that
place by his personal friend. Justin But
terfield of Chicago. Walt Whitman, the
eral land Office, as was 'Marse Henry"
Watterson, the venerable editor.
4 X
Alexander Hamilton, who is famed as
the originator of the financial policy OF
the United States, probably deserves no
less credit for laying down its land pol
Icy. Before the creation of the land Of
fee Hamilton submitted to Congress a
survey Of the land situation and advices
as to its disposition. Practically every
thing that Hamilton recommended was
afterward written upon the statute books
and the policy of today is in reality the
policy of Hamilton. To Thomas Jeffer-
SON is due the plan and the beginning OF
the execution Of the methods Of survey
Of the public lands.
AS the real estate office of Uncle Sam
the land office has done considerab bic
volume of business in the last century
There are, in round numbers. 2,O0O,OOO.O 900
acres of land in continental United States
Practically all Of this outside Of the orig
fnal colonies became government land.
Three hundred million acres Of 1t have
been retained for governmental purposes,
such as national forests, parks and mil
itary reservations. A billion and q quar-
ter acres have been disposed Of in the
century. This means that this real estate
office has turned over two-thirds of the
land between Portland, Me-. and Port
land, Ore.
Not all the governments land business.
however, has been on the selling end.
All the vast area west Of the Ohio be-
longed to the Indians originally and was
gotten from them with their consent In
some sort Of transaction. Under the
scale Of prices paid to the Indians the
state Of Kansas would be worth about
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come to Paris and paying all expenses.
We now have had acceptances from every
country but the United States, and hope
personally that they will accept 1 be-
Heve American players, who are most
successful. on dire as you call It, will be
delighted with the 'Stadt Francois where
the matches will be played, and that
Mclaughlin would have a particularly
good chance. The Stadt Francois which
stands in the Pare Of st. Cloud, contains
some of the finest courts in the world
This years play for the championship
will begin June 2"
What real chance have these three men
Of winning the cup? The writer will tell
his own opinion as one familiar with the
games OF all the leading experts now
playing, and who has seen most OF the
big International contests Of the past ten
years Take their chances against Eng
land first
Decugis. on his present form. Is a bet
ter player than any man John Bull can
put in the field against him Gore despite
his age, Is still the best Of the British
pack, but he has not the endurance neces-
sary to emerge successfully from a Cruel
ing struggle on q hot July day against
player Of the caliber Of Decugis. Dixon
has reached the limit Of his gamc and
the same seems to hold true of A. J.
Lowe despite his comparative youth.
Colbert, although careless in his play
and inclined to be absurdly wild overhead
at critical moments in q big match, has
developed so rapidly during the past two
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FRENCH Experts Who
l Will Attempt to Van
quish the Best America and
England Can Put In the Field
and Then Wrest the Coveted
Trophy From Australasia
Their Chances Against Our
Best Men Discussed-W. H.
Laurentz, the Seventeen-year-
old French Youth, Who Has
a Championship Victory
Against A. F. Wilding, the
Greatest of Living Lawn Ten
mis- Players, to His Credit
Max Decugis, Son of a Paris
Greengrocer, Who Has Been
the Father" of Modern Lawn
Tennis in France-A. H. Co.
bert, Who, With Decugis,
Holds the Doubles Champion
ship of England.
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With communication arranged these lands
would have an always increasing value.
The federal government figured in exact
ly the wdy that the owner of a suburban
tract. would figure in ohering street car
company certain percentages Of his land
IT 1t would run tracks through that. SUBJ
division. The federal government has un-
questionably profited hugely by giving
away to railroad companies lands that
have since attained value of unnumbered
millions of dollars. The profits that the
railroads have gained through an en-
hancement in these land values are al
most beyond conception.
1t has happened here and there that
certain lands have been reserved for mill
tary purposes or Indian reservations or
for some such cause. until long after the
advance of civilization has passed them.
Then it has become desirable that these
lands should be thrown open to settlement.
Quite naturally all the world has wanted
pieces of this valuable land and the gov
eminent has not been able to accommo-
date all corners. In this connection the
most spectacular stunts ever put on by
these federal real estate agents have
been staged. In 1859 some valuable Okla
homa Indian lands were thrown open
and there was much confusion in their
allotment When the Cherokee Indians
were located on their reservation in Okla
hona they were guaranteed an outlet to
Mexico. A strip Of land was withdrawn
from settlement and it was over this strip
that these Indians We're spared the in
reference Of the whites that otherwise
& FOUNDED them.
Eventually the Indians became satisfied
and were willing to waive their rights to
this land. 1t was thrown open to settle
ment in 1893. This is the occasion of the
famous rush for homesteads, which will al
ways remain as one Of the most dramatic
chapters in the history of the west. No
prospective settler was allowed to enter
upon. the lands to be opened. They as
sembled at the nearest possible point and
were kept back OF an imaginary line by
guards. Finally. at the firing of signal
shot. the restrictions were removed, the
land was opened, and choice Of 1t be-
longed to him who first reached the de-
sired property. In this way the lands went
to the swiftest in a twenty-mile free-for-
all race, in which no conceivable manner
of speed or conveyance was barred.
Later monster land drawings were SUBJ
stituted. and these have taken place from
time to time in different sections of the
United States. One is about to take place
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Gor111ss FRED DEnEr AT HIS DESK The LAND OFFICE

was one Of the first purchasers Of land
from the government and bought that
tract upon which the city Of Cincinnati
was afterward located.
For eighty years after the public do
main was created 1t was regarded as
national asset and exploited for the sole
purpose of acquiring revenue. During
that period all the heart Of the Missis-
sippi valley was sold and settled. From
the standpoint Of sales the banner year
In the history Of the land Office was 1885.
In that year 10000. 600 acres were sold
and $2o,OOOOOO was the money received
In return. Most of the lands sold in that
year were in Michigan. Illinois. Indiana,
Mississippi and Alabama. The great
panic Of 1887 is attributed very largely
to the monster speculation in public lands
that had taken place in the year that
preceded 1t.
The dIllest year that Uncle Sans real
estate Office has ever known was in 1862,
the bad business being attributed to the
fact that the civil war was then being
fought. 1t was at about this time that
the policy of selling land for the simple
purpose OF getting revenue from it was
changed, and the present policy of using
it as means Of providing homes for peo-
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Logical Millinery.

<tDDoPLM say there IL no reason. no
logic. In Easter millinery. What .
falsehoodr'
The, speaker was George AIDE. The
occasion was an after-theater supper
in Chicago.
Hats. whether Easter or other.
wise." he continued. 'sofs full Of logic.
full Of reason. a httlsshoy said to his
father one day:
What's . wider0UpA1g Int. pAr
replied:
"A wide-awako -. NJ ,Don, n. o9
COURSE one x7tAAnf. r 49,,
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ILL the Davis lawn
tennis cup find q
new resting place
in France next
year? Can the three
men whom the
French lawn tennis
authorities have
nominated accom-
plish the task OF
wrestling the tro-
ply from Aus
tralasia = q task
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spring surprise and vanquish the re-
doubtable Brookes Unless WIIdinp
plays, and that looks improbable at this
writing. 1t IL believed that if France
reaches the final round the Davis cup
France. -
(OcpyzsAt, 1912. BY Curtis Bruwn.)