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fury. with a penchant for digging up
graft stories
.Once / was doing the legislature TOT
a syndicate OF western papers. said
woolley. one day Just after he had been
confirmed In his new position by the
Senate, land discovered vote-seliing
scheme by a country representative that
was so small as to be almost ludicrous.
Il couldn't find out what this member
was getting for the whole matter at Is
sue couldn't have been worth much over
2,ps After exhausting all my own
sources OF information. thought would
try the member myself. just to see how
guileless he would be on a little thing
like that l didn't dare ask him what
his price was. but die talk to him about
it..
..In little while he said to me:
"'Youny Teller, how much do you get
for a news item like that?'
oh / replied. this story ought to
be worth about s2o If can get IL COM
plete.'
:" How much? ne asked. eagerly.
""rwenty-five dollars
"'Go6h, I'd like to have your job.
lit isn't an easy one.' 1 said.
"'P'raps not, but ii pays bet.er'n
mine"
".Hov's thet?' l asked him.
Why. jnmpin' Jcshuaf he exclaimed,
as he banged n fist on table. You get
So Cor sell;n people what l done foz s..
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While these records are not In any way
extraordinary and i'm only few instances
compare with American records. 1t shows
that the oriental is proving himself an
apt pupil and is making earnest efforts
to take a creditable part In athletics.
The general organisation Of all school
athletics in the Philippines is in the
hands of the board Of education. 1t
supervises ell the games and track and
field meets. and makes all the rules gov
erning athletic contests. This supervision
is exercised through division superintend-
ents and school directors.
The following school organisations are
recognised by the bureau OF education:
An athletic club organized within .
school.
school district.
An athletic league: . provincial athletic
An athletic association interprovinciai
in character.
The details Of organization and the
conduct and management OF all meets 10
left to the proper authorities OF the attn
letic bodies.
The athletic meet that is held annually
in connection with the Philippine carni-
val at Manila and other general athletic
meets that are open to teams from all
sections are managed directly by the
general ONCE OF the board OF education.
The bureau Of education recognizes all
wholesome sports as desirable elements
in school athletics. Such games as base
ball, basket ball, volley ball, tennis and
the usual track and field events are par
ticularly emphasized by the board. II
is the hope Of the board to be able In
the near future to give athletic training
to each Of the nearly 100000 native pu-
pills who attend the public schools during
the school year.
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acquaintance he has neaVy ~ IT ~
ence, and is called upon TO 40 tv. ~
writing about Indians and Indian ama. nc'
Therefore he must have a swift Anu
curate and intelligent stenograpnei M !,
can imprison the tongue-twisting Ahuion
names in the stenographic notes.
Also. Scott Ferris dictation Is some
thing like the onrushing roar OF Trans
continental fiier, and the stenographel
who can take his correspondence - ~
SLOUGH.
Not many weeks ago Ferris NAG 20 EN-
ploy an extra stenographer to heip our
with the heavy mail. The man ne Sc
lected appeared to be prisht youns
chap. At any rate he bent 10 .ne .ssA
and took notes all day IN .ne lac y. Q
torrent Of Indian names. SOME VI .henl
were ten syllables long. ana otheIs are
almost unpronounceable in Ensnsh. mere
were more Indian names IN Ihat nIUrn-
inR's correspondence than Long1eHow
wrote in his 'Hiawatha," and the young
stenopranher never whimpered.
Apparently. 1t was the greatest snap
the Youth ever had He seemed to eat
those names like an exeprt from the bu-
reau Of efhnology in the Smithsonian In
stitution. When Ferris paused LOT Dreatn
the stenographer waited expectantiy for
more to come. When Ferris finished the
dctation. the young man sald ne would
go to lunch and return to typeWrite the
letters after he had tasted q DIT OF PIE
and milk.
Evidently he is eating yet. He never
returned. The Indian names had done
him up.
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which bears a brief treatise on athletic
courtesy. 1t reads as follows:
*
1T is expected that every person con-
nected with the bureau OF education will
do everything in his power to insure clean
and sentlemanly sport. Much OF the
value of athletics is lost when contests
are marked by exhibitions Of bad feeling
and discourteous conduct. The following
statements are recommended to the con-
sideration of all:
Il. The rules of the game are to be
regarded as mutual agreements, the spirit
or letter of which one should no sooner
try to evade or break than he would any
other agreement between gentlemen. The
stealing OF advantage in sport Is to be
regarded in the same way as stealing OF
any other kind.
-. Visiting teams are to be the hon
ored guests Of the home team. and all
their mutual relations are to be governed
by the spirit which is understood to guide
in such dealings
IS. No action is to be taken or course
of conduct pursued which would seem
ungentlemanly or dishonorable IL known
to ones opponent or to the public.
a No advantages are to be sought
over others, except those which are I'M
derstood to show superiority In the game.
.. Officers and opponents are to be
regarded and treated as honest in inten-
ton. When question arises where Off
GERS are apparently dishonest or incom-
petent, and the attitude OF the opponents
is questionable, the matter should be re-
ferred to proper authorities. where the
case will be adjusted and such disciplin-
AIRY action taken as may be necessary
IS. Decisions of officials are to be abid-
ed by, even when they seem to be unfair.
=. Intentionally or unfair means are
not to be practiced, even when they are
used by opponents.
g. Good points in others should be ap-
preciated and suitable recognition given
%. Cheer when you win. Cheer when
you lose. 1t is the proper and gentle
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Cui Bono?
= EVILS cAss LEDYARD said a

EVILS CASS LEDYARD said at the
IL Knickerbocker Club In New York:
1.-The old idea about the crookedness OF
lawyers is dying out"
True, true" a group OF lawyers Choir
used heartily.
Yes, the old idea about lawyers crook.
edness, as illustrated in the Winterson
anecdote, is a thing OF the past" re-
sumed Mr.. Ledyard.
"A book agent, you know. sought out
Winterson in his office and said:
81 have here. sir, a book that will
show you how to be your own lawyer
=. aHumph,' sneered Winterson. ''if the
book showed me how to be somebody
else's lawyer, might take Ii. But what's
the good Of teaching me how to bleed my
seIf?"
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positions" said

positions" said Secretary Redheld
that young man named Allen desired
a place in the Post Office Department
and applied to his congressman. He
was told he could get no place until q
vacancy arose. He waited for several
weeks and one day. when his money
was nearly exhausted. he went down to
a beach nearby. There were many peo-
pie bathing there and among them was
a man whom Allen recognized as a
clerk in the division in which he
sought for place.
This clerk ventured beyond his
depth and was drowned. When the
body was brought ashore Allen hur-
ried up to his congressman and ex-
claimed:
~ can have that job now! There is
a vacancy"
Where? said the congressman,
why, q clerk In that division was
drowned this afternoon
The congressman looked at him sad
ly. regret to inform YOU he said.
that yeu are too late; the place has
been tiled
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A GIRLS BASKET RA1L GAfIE AT The PHILIPPINE
MTERScHOLAST1e NEXT.

at bat. and times without number a
player went to bat. with men on bases.
cage and over-anxious to hit the ball.
and yet when the coach on the bench
signaled to let the ball pass the player
did SO even though he felt that IL allowed
to swing he could knock the ball to the
fartherest corner Of the field.
1.-The interscholastfc track and fleI0
meet. covering a period Of three days, de-
veloped competition in many of the events
keener than that of the open meet. The
most striking feature was the good form
displayed by the student athletes in al
most every event. Fine hurdling. cor
rect stride in the runs. perfect form in
the high jump and pole vault were ex-
hibited during the entire meet"
The interscholastic meet Of 1912 was re-
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manly thing to give a rousing cheer for
the successful opponents
40. A protest is a proper complaint,
made in gentlemanly. businesslike man
ner. 1t is based upon reason and fact'
and always receives consideration. I'm
reasonable complaints. loud talking ana
threatening demonstrations are entirely
out of place and should not be tolerated
In any athletic contest.
II. 1t is not considered gentlemanly
to gamble on the result OF athletic con-
tests and no betting of any kind VIII De
tolerated by the board of education In
connection with school sports.
'12 Teachers and pupils alike should DE
quick to obey requests to keep back of
the lines at all games and contests I'M
less they have duties that make their
presence within the lines necessary
1t is difficult to conceive a more COM
prehensive set Of rules to govern one
personal actions under any circumstances
than those outlined by the board OF
ed .cation for native population which
for centuries has had no set standard
by which to judge gentlemanly conduct
1t is undoubtedly due to the action of the
board in thus early instilling into the
native mind the need for right thought
and conduct that sports in the islands
are often far cleaner than they are
here at home. These rules might well
be posted as conspicuously as possible
in all school gymnaslums in the United
States
In this connection Ellwood S. Brown,
physical director of the Manila YM.C.A.,
had the following to say regarding the
interscholastic carnival this year in
March:
Three features stand out prominently
and are worthy of note and comment:
the fine craftsmanship of the student
athletes. the fact that in certain sports
Filipinos established international rating.
and the surprising and intelligent inter-
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Just as Easy!

III a n d s o m e.
Scott Ferris. said
by the democrats
to be the hand
soonest man that
ever sat in any leg
islature. c o m e 8
from Oklahoma
and represents a
district where he Is
known by his f1rst
name to 30 per
cent Of the popuia-
ton above the age
Of four.
With this wide
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One Way Out.

William Jennings
Bryan, before he
became Secretary Of
State. was standing
in the middle of the
street in a Nebraska
town. talking to a
newspaper CORE
spondent. The re-
porter was consid-
erably hampered In
his conversation by
a lively prairie wind
which kept blowing
off his hat.
II never saw any,
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THE scouts of the air, the eyes Of
the army in the sky are playing
an important part in every war OF
recent years and an even more impor.
tant part in the preparations for wars to
come
That Didier Mason failed to destroy a
Mexican gunboat lying in the harbor OF
Guaymas a few weeks ago by dropping
bombs on Its deck has been taken by
some editorial writer's to Indicate that the
value of the aircraft in war has beer
oyeresrimated. But Dider Mason evil
IDENTIFY was not provided with devices for
finding the range and discharging his
missiles with accuracy, and such devices
have been contrived by United States
Army experts and their value shown
Without doubt aircraft will yet be used
with terrible effect as weapons or offense,
Int even should this not be true they
have another purpose which more than
iustities such nations as Germany. France
england, Russia, Japan, Austria-ln short
nractically all military nations (save the
in this respect)-in building up what in
Europe has become known as 1.-The fifth
arm of defense" The great value of the
aircraft, in short. is in scoutlng--in re-
veaiing the position. strength and move
ments of the enemy. They thus speed
up the initial stages of warfare.
Recent wars have served to show how
valuable the air scouts may become in
the carrying on Of a campaign. Despite
the fact that Bulgaria secured many
worthless aeroplanes, as a result, it is
Of yxbic oh h,
ated gave valuable information. And at
one time nearly all of the twenty three
aeros assembled at Mustapha Pasha were
condemned as unserviceable and only
three of them succeeded in flying. More
over. under urgency to secure men In
haste many scamp aviators were employ
ed, some OF them receiving 500 day,
and when their services were needed they
declined to fly on one pretext or another.
1t is reported that five obsolete Bleriots
arrived at the Bulgarian headquarters
without motors or gasoline tanks. Yet
the planes that could fly did some valua-
BILE work.
October % the first Bulgarian aeroplane
flew over Adrianople, Bleriot piloted by
Lieut.. Petroff. For almost an hour it
circled over the besieged city and then
returned safely to headquarters During
the entire flight the Turks fired at the
airman with rifles. and although the
tanks of the machine showed bullet holes
its flight was not stopped nor was the
aviator injured. November L. the
machine of the Russian Effinoff was hit
by shrapnel when it was over Adrian
ople. Frequently, 1t was reported. the
aviators were careless or foolhardy and
they or their machines were hit unneces-
sarily. The machine of one aviator who
always flew at an elevation of less than
loo meters was never hit at ALL One
aviator was hit by hostile shell and
four lost their lives through faults of
their own or Of their machines.
Aeros We're used for an entirely new
purpose when they were sent to drop
messages and proclamations to the be-
sieged citizens of Adrianople.
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est shown in the games y the specta-
tors,
1T would be difficult indeed to ind
anywhere in the world athletes who &C
cept the ups and downs OF keen compe-
tition with better spirit than was dis.
played In the recent contests. In base Da!i
games particularly was this fact noted
and on many occasions in the open
ed adverse decisions with better grace
than was shown by their foreign com
petitors. This attitude is far reaching
in its influence and is one OF the most
e. flying things in connection with the
rapid growth Of athletics among students.
It means thct they are learning the les
sons of courtesy and self-control.
Base ball was the most interesting
of the sports and critical analysis OF
the games in the open tournament re-
veals some interesting facts. Among
the nine batters having the highest av-
erage percentage and going to bat at
least nine times were four Filipinos. four
Americans and one Japanese. The team
fielding averages gave the Japanese play
ers first, followed by the three American
teams and the Filipinos. This seems to
indicate that the Filipinos have been
coached in batting at the expense of
their fielding.
"A comparison OF the three groups in
dicates that at present the Japanese a-e
superior TO both Americans and Filipinos
in fielding; that the Filipinos are supe-
rior to the Japanese in batting and
general aggressive play; while the Amer
leans excel the Japanese in batting only,
and the Filipinos in both batting and
fielding. Another significant feature of
til, games was the rigid obedience to
orders exacted by the coaches in the
intarscholastc games. and particularly
in the championship games.
In these games the boys were eager
to distinguish themselves, particularly
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How can that be?' shouted Allen.
The man has just been drowned!
Yes know, answered the con-
gresham, but the place has been filled.
It was obtained by Il Massachusetts
man who saw the clerk go in swim
ming He made a correct guess that
the clerk could not swim and made his
application by telephone ten minutes
before the clerks body was brought to
Shore"
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Two Exaggerations

Robert w. Wool
ley. auditor for the
Interior Depart
nent. and special
investigator for the
Stanley steel trust
investigating COM
nitt tie 0 Of t h e
House in the Six
t US e con d Con-
gress, Is an old
tim e newspaper
correspondent with
a mass of expert
ences running back
a quarter of a CEN
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hara e. something awful! Every time
ask a question miss the answer because
7 hove ~ chase nv hat down the street
..you,re not a true Nebraskan. then.
nn....a Mr. Rrvan. If you were you
wo,,idn't chase your hat. You would just
wait for the next hat to come along and
grab it"
1ohn Iaeob Esch. representing the
seventh district of Wisconsin. has the
military bee in his bonnet. He has Or
ganized more military companies than
snv one ordinarily sees in parade, and
has string of martial titles that makes
him look like grand duke.
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In February the first oriental Olympiad
was held at Manila. The teams that COM
peted for the handsome prizes represent
ed Japan, China and the Philippines. The
long and careful training Of the Filipino
student early in the events demonstrated
the rapid strides that the latter has
made in mastering occidental sports. The
final score stood: Philippines. 137 points;
China. AZ points. and japan IL points. In
justice to Japan 1t must be borne In mind
that they had teams in only the track
and field events and base ball. China
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
Quick Work!

A story which is
going around the
Hobbies and cloak
rooms at the Capt.
tol in these days
of scant patron
age had its origin
at the National
Capital with Sec
rotary Redfield OF
the Department of
Commerce.
1T happened at
a time when there
was keen rivalry
for government
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OF course the records that were estab-
lished at the first Olympic games In the
orient are not up to the standard set at
the last olympic games last year at
Stockholm. AT that meet the greatest Of.
modern athletes competed and the rec
ords that were made are little less than
astounding Still for the time that thu
along occidental lines he has shown that
he can play the game and In very credit
able fashion.
The next oriental Olympiad will be held
at Shanghai In 1915. Many new records.
and some that will compare with those
made ut Stockholm are expected.
Here are the records established at the
Manila meet this year:
Event winner and nation. Reccrd
l0O-yard DASH Robillos, Philippines. 10 80 &C..
220-yard dash, Robilos, Philippines. .23 20 sec.
44o-ynrd run. Macairan. Philippines so Is sec.
Half-mile run, Summarizes, Phil
ippines OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. - min. 10 10 Sec
Half mile relay. Philippine
Mile relay, Philippine team . 8 min. SO sec.
Broad Jump Chan Yet, China. 10 n. liz in
High jump. Wen Hwen-tsang.
po Iein y.ui;. Ab.d philippines. 10 II. q. H.
Sp pines uo 10. lana. 81 n. "a. in.
l. mile run. inakagats. Japan. 8 min. Is sec.
Modified marathon. Inakagata.
lloyd high hurdles. Wen Hwsn-
Standing high jump. santos Phil
sta Aiding broad jump. TolentirO.
Discus p throw. Ylanan. phiiippine. 80 n. sls in.
Pentathlon, YlAEan, Philippines. 268 points
Decathlon. Pan Wen ping. China OBS points
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position, they were used very little. No
explanations were made to the aviators.
who were unable to understand why more
use was not made Of them.
The Bulgarian pilots were ordered out
Oh only one trifling expedition. possibly.
it has been suggested, because of their
lack of training, for the army filers were
given a haSty schooling.
AS for the Turks. they had eighteen or
twenty aeroplanes. but when the war
broke out they had only one monoplane
set up and ready for use. They used
their aeroS for reconnaissance at the bat
ties of Kirk KilliSSeh and at Saloniki. The
French aviator. Granel, in monoplane.
flew over the Bulgarian army for three
hours, as a result of which the war min
lister put more men and machines in the
service.
The French aviator Letort made n
Varder and made six reconnaissance
flights over the Greek positions, later
reaching karaferia, and he also made
known a surprise attack at Karaboum
The fall of saloniki made the aviators
isoners.
Servia concentrated it's aviatorS and
machines III such a hurry that they
could not expect any success. De-
cember 13 the Russian aviator Agaso-
now, with Lieut.. Jeugowwitch as a pas
senger, made the first flight over the city
OF Uskieb. The Servian army. on ac-
count of not receiving aeroplanes that
had been ordered. had but twenty in use.
and as a consequence unsatisfactory re-
suits were obtained from them.
X
At the outbreak of the war the Greek
army had ten aeros and two others or
dered, but had pilots for only five. They
later procured a hydroaeroplane. which
they called the Nautilus, and stationed
on the Island of Samos.
Despite very bad weather and very
poor ground in Macedonia and Epirus.
the aeros did good reconnaissance work
there. The first reconnaissance flight
was made by Lieut.. Kamberos. who few
from Larissa to Cosani, and brought back
very valuable information regarding the
position of the enemy. Noteworthy flights
were undertaken by Lieuts. Moutoussis
and Motaras, over the city Of Saloniki at
attitudes of 1850 meters and over. On
November 10 Lieuts. kamberos and NO
taras flew over Prereza several times and
provided good drawings of the place. On
December Ii Lieut.. Moutoussis flew over
Janina and landed at Amin Aga Han, 70
kilometers from Prereza de Threw
bombs that did damage to ana created
confusion among the Turks, who nred
continuously at him. but only damaged
ME machine, puttih6 WI
through his gasoline tank. Other valu-
able flights were made in this vicinity
Montenegro had but one competent nier
and one mechanic. Four Russians. who
had never before been heard or, were
hired. Later q we'll known pilot named
Effinof deserted the bulgarian army 10
Join the Montenegrins.
Very valuable work is attributed to the
airmen in Africa In Tripoli hand
grenades or bombs were dropped from
aeros, but as the aviators did not nave
any bomb ejecting devices or range nnd-
ers which are considered by our army
experts to be essential. 1t is assumed
that no serious damage was caused Any
success under the circumstances would
have been due to chance.
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[EIIi(21'i(><arl Athletics
~ Potent h<,t0r,a@a> n
mCiViliZin& th.Q,. z1{3

. longer Is K goo.
form for native
Filipinos to attend
cock fights on sun
day or any other
day. Pelota anu
Spanish foot ball
have ceased to be
popular. To play
pitch-penny ana
similar forms OF
anc;ent Filipino
games is TO class