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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-15

cere and sympathetic, that his unusual wealth not imagined by his wife. She looked upon him patronizngly a of only little than age trade success Mental weight and physical force seldom comprehend each other
 But Alexander Penvvith felt spite of his sons lusthood the boy did understand him. For that the senior dreamed dreams. He his beginning at the bottom and reaching heights that he himself could attain. To MT. Penwth track athletics, baseball, football only dominant end. It would need invincib1e physique to carry the boy past "Americants" the goal of his fathers arnbi ton.
 And because of his dreams because of his ambi- lions, because of his pians Alexander Penwth feared for his only every time the hafback strode upon the football field It takes but very little to disturb the balance of nature. Penwth had ploughed large eyed watched the chosen place the ball for the first kickoff, the father tremb1ed.
 The referees whistle blew stridently. This sharp sig nal announcing the beginning of the great smote the forty thousand into silence Instnctve1y every spectator crouched for the kickoff
 The kicker stepped back from the unconscious ball, and for culver of eyeIash deliberated. Would he dribb1e the ball. holding from bound in his lne and depend the prowess of advancing rushes9 Or would he kick it with his might, landing 1t the eneys goal possible? Was the play to be ofen sive or defensive? His first would prove the key to the Crimsons strategy. The intake of great breath was heard It sounded like gigantic sigh The kicker walked deliberately toward the ball. and then increased his gait canter. The spectators elon- gated. They stretched eager necks. Many cried Ah p for it mighty boot.
 High toward the Blue goal the ball whirled. Then, caught by the wind halted suddenly in the air and came down perpendiculary. But that stop in md-air gave the bounding Crimson taclders time.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-15

prowess Compared with the game about to be enacted before him. it wasn't prowess. It required neither age nor deterty merely the desire to play Now the game had grown like the college. It elaborate, a strain to every nerve strenuous and hazardous
 It did not take very keen observer to notice that the had passed into of intricate and danger. Already thirty deaths and two hundred accidents had occurred upon the gridron that This is inexcusabe penalty for game. It is un- necessary payment sport So A1exander Penwith thought, and he weakling and coward He had only the habit of estimating values Had he not been extraordinary business he would made an ideal judge.
 He man of plans. Hitherto he had been his While the boy and the mother were ath1eticaIy one the lad and his father had been at armed nett trality S might suppose. They talked little to- tion But the boy had silently measured the power behind his fathers taciturnity had with a com pretending droop of the eye1ids, wisdom as it came in homeopathic doses.
 As often happens with women of rasterful in tensy, while Mrs. Penwhh had correctly estimated her husbands character she had but knowledge of his power. Brought up in the old school where FosIon accompanied irTaption, she had little conpre- hension of silent force. But the with whom Mr. Pcnwh associated knew and respected the energy that made him their their superior He put the qualities into business that his boy put football and then added potent virtues of which the lad had never dreamed In the world of trade he was as re- sistiess his junior upon the gridiron He had forged out of nothing house whose name was vigor ous from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He was very rich although few suspected the extent of his holdings He simple and unostentatious, sim
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-15

around vaguely The surgeon redoubled his minstra- tions. faint color made hectic the players cheeks and purple inundated his lips. He made motion as if to rise held authoritatvely back by his captain. A cup put to his lips. These slowly changed to dull pink.
 Then Penwth shuddered Where am I7' he cried. 'FLet up" Captain Morgan appealed the surgeon by a look The doctor nodded The referee twiddling his whistle nervously, perp1exed, watched Pewith As sisted by two men, Penwith swayed to his feet. He looked around if seeking for recognitions His eyes huge of pupil and glassy of stare.
 Seeing their hero upon his feet the leaders of both the rival cheering sections waved their megaphones mad1y. They how1ed: "Now three times three for Penwith" !" But Captain Morgan, with one arm SUD- porting his dearest friend raised the other toward his breathless college The cheering leaders have profaned so1ernnity by their call for ap- plause. The silence became surcharged The eyes of a thousand of his were centered upon stag gering figure
 With a mighty wrench Penwith broke suddenly from his captains arm and started forward Something in their heros attitude arrested the cheering section of his college and caused every heart to the mouth. Only seated couple did not the tragic pantomine For, in the impetuosity of his solitary rush, Penwith suddenly to halt a look of be- wifderment and then of swept his face Awed by the strange action his dared not touch him. Then the ha1f-bac from the field his side of the stadium festooned in blue. He put his hands to his eyes like sailor peering at far-of smoke Then the boy stretched both arsand walked faltering groping staring terribly staring Another groan like great chorus from the boys who loved him. Cap tain Morgan grasped the swayng figure It had turned and was groping again. The groan became sob.
 What's that? Whats that" whispered Mrs Pen with For answer husband dug his fingers into her hard arm.
 "Let go| A thrilling voice penetrated the vast
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-15

Then the cheering section of the visiting university uttered great cry.
 "Penwith Penwith !! PemzUithi! <" Punctuating the and splitting it, distinctly heard the c1ashing of bodies cuirassed in leather. For, Penwth caught the ball the run, he was overwhelmed by human missiles who leaped upon him if shot from mortar Where had been the boased interference that should have protected the catcher? Swept like dande lion fluff in gale by the irresistible onslaught Every man jumped to his feet The uproc the Blue side suddenly way to death-like silence, while the epectant muteness of the Crimson "rooters" opposite broke into fanfare of clangor. The hero of thou sand scrinn1ages downed his tracks before he had advanced inch The shri whistle of the referee announced the miraculous fact that this play at an end Crimson men began piing off of the discom fted idol.
 groan went up from the Blue side. This sound of agony stled the e<utaton of the Crimson cheers For when the tackers had c1ambered their feet was noticed that man. clad in blue and buff, of mighty figure, yet looking strangely shrunken. lay tended upon his ffteen-yard line
 Penwithr P shot the terrified whisper from board to board Alexander Penwth forced his wife to her The two were henmed in by a solid wall of standing boys. They alone could
 My GodI" cried voice from below. "Only thirty seconds of play!"
 The emergency surgeon rushed to the boys side colored hurried with pail of water. Captain Morgan sat down and took the limp head into his lap. He sobbed like child. But Penwith did move.
 For three minutes-for three centuries-tte injured man lay 1feless. The spectators stared It for this they had comefor the possibility of accident for the lust of horror, that their own souls would not acknowledge. And when the horror came they repu- dated their innate savagery, and treabled the trag edy.
 Surrounded by stricken ring of comrades the half back lay The surgeon had made sllful examination There were no bones broken. The boys neck in tact Tt is only temporary" the surgeon explained, and looked impersonaly cheerful The gladiators was dripping with water. but his skin yet chalk and his eyes shut. The expression of the was aloof from the game that the lips of the watchers quvered spprehensivey Yes-the heart still beat ing; but when?
 The of the stricken boy uttered and then looked
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-15

REAT sp1otches of blue heclzed the east of the stadium. Like patches of living blood, solid masses of crimson on the west seemed ready to blur or to blot the few modest corn-fowers that had strayed there. The massive stadium was hang ing garden of human color. The sur
 mounting curves of co1onnades gave the only touch of impersona1 dignity in the reverberating excitement that preceded the historic struggle. These columns of Doric effect seemed to the imaginative eye em- b1ematic of that innate and eternal lust for violence which in the Cesarian age was heralded by bloody proclamations
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
CATCH OF ALASKA FURs
 WILL BREAK THE RECORD

Newspaper reports from Fair banks, published Jan. list, speaks oi the fur situation as follows:
 The fur season for the lower river country is looking bright, accord ing to F. c. Irons, game warden, who returned yesterday from Minto after a ten days tour of the wood camps, Indian villages and trading posts on the Tanana
 Particularly can this be said Of mink, lynx and fox, which are re ported to be very plentiful. The na- lives 10 came out from the small CT sldestreams of the Panama to at tend the pouatches and holiday feasts along the river say that the season will be a record-breaker, so far as catch Is concerned. Marten are not very plentiful this year. and only a few such furs have been brought to the traders SO far this winter.
 Game is scarce between here and Eenana, and very little has been killed, reports the game warden No violations of the game law were noticed on the trip of the territorial official
 One silver gray fox was reported Co have been trapped a short time ago farther down river than Minto, but Irons did not see the fur. He was told by the traders and trap pers that there are an exceedingly large number Of cross foxes this year.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
Education Failure.

Senator Robert La Owen of Oklaho ma. whose mother was a Cherokee Indian. stirred up some excitement down Oklahoma way iu one Of the drst lawsuits he ever tried.
 The opposing counsel SEW ht Co call owen a Uar
 Owen got up and addressed himself to the court in about this language.
 "InasmuCh as the court has done nothing to maintain Its own dignity and as am amply able to take care oi myself. | shall nke this stair Into my own hands,
 Then ne turned Co the lawyer across the table and remarked Co him In & loud voice that be was both a liar and a blackguard and that, furthermore, he could Just take that, and that, and thatl WbcrcupUn the opposing counsel Cell to the Huur as one man. Owen had used only his fist, but every rybody In the courtroom Hcd, not knowing when bullets might be in the air.
 After the affair was over the lawyer who had called owen a liar stood on the front steps Of the courthouse and observed Co couple of friends
 "I was never much tn favor of edu eating these Cherokee boys, anyhowF Washington Herald
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
THE DRUMMER WAS SAVED.
Despite tn, Dangers Of l4iS Life Saving
 Rubber Suit

Despite ths Dangers oi HiS Life Saving
 Rubber Suit
 ANOTHER one of the stories which A Frank Jones used to tell on him
 self Is repeated by Al Campbell, who knew the dead dramshop keeper very we'll
 aJones WIS born lu Wales" said Campbell, but when young man lived in Bucyrus. O They had vol upteer fire department there, and Jones was made chief
 "sThe citizens took such an interest iu us saId Jones In telling the story that they clipped ln and bought us Gre laddies new suits. Across the breast of each suit was the motto, "we Live to Save" and on mine above the motto was the word Chief In very large letters. reaching nearly the width of the motto.
 s'One day, Jones went on to hls usual droll way, the hotel caught nre. Now, when "the" hotel catches dre in small town U means something. This hotel was three stories high, and we believed t the largest In the known world, having seen none any larger.
 "'when the fire bell rang an of us ran home to get our new suits on be fore attempting Co fight such hre. When we reassembled, one by one, that hotel was certainly going some. In third story window was man who. so | learned later, travelled for a wholesale rubber house He said some thing about how he would Ike to be saved. but we could not understand him.
 This fellow got real mad and. go Ing back In his room, put on some kind of rubber suit. which he blew up Then he leaped from that awful tall building. three stories high He struck the ground and bounced back as high as the top Of the hotel
 "'Was he savedy generally asked the bystanders for whom the story was intended.
 "'FinaIly, said Jones but ] had Co empty a six shooter into that derned inflated suit before eventually got him down Co earth "-kansas City Journal
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04

Location notices, plaeer and quarb Cor sale by the Daily Alaskan. u
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
DON'T ExPEkniENT
You VIII Make No Mistake f You
 Follow This Advice

Follow This Advice.
 Never neglect your kidneys.
 IT you have pain in the back, urinary disorders, dizziness and nervousness, It's time to act md no time Co experiment. These afe frequently symptoms of kidpey trouble. and remedy which ts recommended for the Kidneys shodld be taken in time
 Doan's Kidney Pills are a good remedy Go use. It has acted effect lively in many cases in this vicinity
 Can Alaskan residents demand further proof than the following tes- limouial2
 K. c. Beaumont, sS5 c s., Eureka, Cal, says: For long time had a bad case of kidney and bladder trouble. The Kidney secret ions were too frequent iu passage and I suffered a great deal from backache that was especially severe at night. I applied plasters Co my back and used other remedies, but without receiving any noticeable benefit. Happening to see an ar ticle in the papers about Doans Kidney Pills. procured the rem sdy. I began using it and in a short time my Kidneys were restor- cd to a normal condition. I have used five boHes of Doan's Kidney Pills and can say that am cured. Az I did not take any other remedy at the same time, I give the full credit for my cure Co Doan's Kidney Pills"
 For sale by all dealers Price SO cents. -MIlburn Co.,, Buff fSlo, New York, sole agents for the Unitsd sts,ss.
 Remember the name-Doan's- and take no other
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
OLD SOURDOUGH GETS
 FIRST AUTOMOBILE RIDE

James Bender. Alaskan sour dough of the early vintage. had his first automobile ride, when he step ped off the train from Chatanika recently, where he was met by a number of old Fortymile friends with an automobile. the first that he had seen in real life. Before get ting into the horseless carriage, he looked 1t over and remarked that he thought it would break down before it would take him very far. The automobile was started up, and as it was nearing Che approach Co the Turner street bridge, some thing went wrong In it's vitals and Iocomotion stopped. Despite the et- forts of the chauffeur to remedy the defect. the car refused To budge. and James Bender, Alaokan oldtimer, had Co make his entrance into Fair banks on foot.
 Bender dates his residence on the Yukon to the spring of 1887, when he went tu the Fortymile country and started mining there He has not been out Of the yukon country and has not seen the outside since he first left Seattle for the then unknown North, twenty-three years aFn
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
Iohnnx Rsb,, conseIatien.

Ouartermaster General Edwin A Taylor of the United Sons of Confed- crate Veterans told at a Memorial day banquet ID Memphis this story;
 "A southerner," he said, sat 10 the lobby of a New York hotel discussing certain campaigns with a northerner.
 "'WeII,' the uortherner ended, with a laugh-'wen, we licked you, anyhow.
 "'Yes, you did,' the southerner ad- mltted, but It's plain from the size of your pension list that before we gave ln we crippled every blessed one of your "-WaShlngtou Star.
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
shor, and Co the Point.

A Kansas City young lady of few words went to 6 dentist to have both extracted.
 Pull itI' she said to the dentist
 "AIl right" replied the dentist Be applied the cocaine, adjusted hls for ceps. and out came the tooth.
 Want itY' he asked the young lady. holding the tooth before her,
 "Want itg she exclaimed Want itl What for1 Do you think I'm an EIkY"-Saturday Evening Post
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
THE MAIL ORDER PEOPLE

the only offenders who are blind to the interests othe eoO % The ro.reb,nt, are just as bad Many of them send Tor tsr printing while the time against maA od' ou'ne
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
GREAT CLEARANCE SALE

Sold at a loss! Malt Rainier, 20 cents per bottle, Especially prepar- cd for sick people and invalids, and excellent for nursing mothers Only two barrels left. After that, price will be 35 cents per bottle
 Peek Train Bar
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04

None better and purer than Gib- Rye, Rainier and olympia Beer Orders by phone promptly delivered
 The Mascot
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04

Food cooked as it should be at the White Pass Cafe" Only the best in the market Mrs. Orloff King, proprietress. t
The daily Alaskan., 1913-02-04
LOCAL BRIEFS
sKAewAY WEATHER REPORT

Results of the observation Rksn at Moore's Wharf at midnight last night 8 as follows.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-10
NOTHING WILL Be
DONE WITH 1HAW
TILL OCTOBER 70
Governor Felker Grants Postpone.
ment of Decision at Request
Of New York

Concord, N H.. Oct. 9.-Goyer-
nor Samuel D. Felker has formally
g-anted the request of William
Travcrs Jerome that decision on the
ertradition of Harry X. Thaw from
New Hampshire be- postponed uutn
after the Investigation now being
conducted byI New York authorities
is completed.
The extension of time is until
Monday, October 90. Counsel for
Thaw have rskcd and have been
granted a week after Mr. Joromc's
'ase is in for meeting any now
points that may be developed. It
s practically certain, therefore,
hat there will be no decisive move
n the Thaw case so far as New
hampshire is concerned before No
Verber /.
Mrs. Mary c, Thaw has joined her
on here for an indefinite stay.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-10
ADJUSTMENT OF
RATE IS SECURED
Traffic Department of Commercial
Club Again Demonstrates Use
tulness to Cairo Shoppers.

The Commercial Club traffic bu-
reau Of which f. NJ. Ducker is the
head has again been successful in Sc.
curing rate adjustment which az
fects Cairo shippers and in which
they will be interested.
The following is quoted from Mr.
Dueker's report III the matter:
Supplement No. l9 to &c. c. No
ASIA Issued October 4th, Efcc-
tive November 9th, Reduced rates
on handle stock, rough and rough
turned, from points n Mississippi to
Cairo.
Or complaint of a member of the
Commercial Club Traffic Bureau,
a large shipper Of this material, the
matter was taken up by the bureau
some months ago, resulting in fav-
orable and satisfactory rate to be-
come effective November 9th, 1913"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-10
FIRE PREVENTION
DAY OBSERVED
Cairo Schools Practice Fire Drill
And Pupils Are Instructed
In Case of Fire.

State fire prevention day, desig
mated for October 8 by Governo
Dunno. was observed in Cairo publ,
schools yesterday. At the variou.
buildings throughout the city fir,
drills were held aud the children
We're instructed in the ways an,
means Of fire prevention in thei
own homes as well as in publ,
buildings.
Superintendent Clendenen stated
last evening that the fire drill,
would he held in the various school.
as often as once a month or probabI,
more, the idea being to train tn,
children to be calm and controlled
in case of a con1agration and bt
marched out Of the building in q
body.
The day was observed generall,
all over the state according to thu
newspapers from other cities.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-10
LOCAL LODGE: WILL
GREET AND FETE
MOUNDS MEMBERS
Stafford Lodge l. O. 0. r. to Coafer
Degree Upon Candidates From
BeechWood Lodge.

Members OF Stafford lodge. No. 81
|. o. o. f will entertain the mem
hers Of BeeChwood lodge No. 949,
Mounds, and visiting Odd Fellows
Saturday evening, October t3, at
Stafford hall The second degree
viii be conferred on a class of can
didates for Becchwood lodge. by
The degree team of Stafford lodge
The degree will be illustrated by
stereopticon views All lodges in
the district are invited to send can
didates for the second degree.
At the close of the degree work
a number Of good talks viii be given
for the benefit of the order Re-
frcshmputs will be served and all
Odd Fellows are cordially invited to
attend the meeting
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-10-10
BATTLE WORDS
OCCUP|ESDAY At
TRIAL OF SULzfR
Possibility of a Vote Today But Court
May Adjourn Until
Tuesday.
MARSHALL FOR DEFENSE AND
PARKER FOR PROSECUTION

Albany, N. Y, Oct. 9---Fifts
thousand words of legal argument
In seathing denunciation if Governor
William Sulzer on one side and OF
his accusers on the other delivered
today by opposing counsels broaght
a verdict in the trial of the inpeach-
ed executive one day nearer.
Another day will be similarly oc,
cupied tomorrow at the end of which
the high court will 20 into execu-
tive sess on, it is expected, to deter
mine the procedure in deciding the
quit or innocense OF the. accused
Court probably will adjourn until
Tuesday. There is some talk to.
night, however, OF taking vote
Saturday.
The procedure to be adopted will
be the manner of deciding several
constitutional questions, the termi-
nation of which was reserved until
the end of the trial. These include
the impeachability of an act com
mitted by the governor before he
took the office, and tde question
whether the use OF campaign CON
tributions, given with or without re-
strictions, constitutes larceny.
Lewis Marshall for the defense
and Alton b. Parker for the assem-.
bly managers. occupied the session
of the court today, Marshall i'm
peachin the motives of those WHO
brought the charges against the gov
ernor as based on passion and
Parker dcnouncing the governor as
one whom the uneontradicted proof
which has been spread upon this
record shows was no longer 'ft to
be chief executive of this state" and
one for whom it was utterly impos
siole to regain the confld e of the
people" *,
The Governor knew" said Par
ker, that when he finds his state
ment of campaign contributions
placed before him that tho state
ment was untrue"
Marshall devoted several seethine
pages of his address to the testi.
mony Of Duncan W. Peek supcrin
tendent Of public schools, who swore
that Sulzer had asked him to deny
under oath that he had given him
$500 contribution Marshall de-
clared that his story was a "brazer
counterfeit and accused him OF
having strong motives for so testify
ing. because John A. Hennessy, tn,
governors special investigator, had
unea~thed Irregularities of a serious
nature in Peek's department.
He said Peek's testimony woul(
enable him to "aid in the destruction
of the man who has set in motion al
Investigation which threatened no
only the office which he held, bu
his very liberty"